Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ftudi llalfiiychi An innovation of ’87 was to make Fall Rush partially dry, partially wet, encouraging fraternities to recruit pledges at a variety of activities and events. Selling convenience to students, the H.B. Quick food stands were just the thing for before-class snacks. The focus for renovations in the Capital Campaign, student activities center Ski bo houses Scotland Yard, the campus nightclub. “I define innovation as finding new methods and approaches to solving old problems. At Carnegie Mellon ... we are interested in being the innovators for higher education.” President, Carnegie Mellon University Richard M. Cyert Innovation comes at unexpected times in different ways, for many reasons and with varying results. Since its creation in 1900, the school that began as Carnegie Technical Schools, transformed into Carnegie Institute of Technology, and finally developed into Carnegie-Mellon University, has been the epitome of innovation and change. Arthur Hammerschlag, former President of Carnegie Institute of Technology, saw the establishment in 1913 of the United States Government’s Bureau of Mines at a site adjoining CIT as % rtfuiually advantageous association that would “give students an unexcelled opportunity. ’’ In 1951, development of the Carnegie Plan, a program designed to give professional ability and social ti}yarenes$ along with the engineering skills, was ' troversy and criticism concerning the transition. The ideals of Margaret negie College—“to prepare women to ce in economic life, and also to take homemakers’’—ceased to exist as a national movement towards women’s the early 1970’s. Each of these transi-to build Carnegie Mellon’s reputation tor—a force in the future. Article by—Natalie Capone Layout by—Sara Rad Chm Cox Innovations 5

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