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Anti-sex beds "not needed" for CMU Olympics

With the recent decision to move the Olympics to Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, many are asking questions about how CMU plans to prevent the infamous athlete orgies that occur during the games.

In the past, the International Olympic Committee has seen fit to implement cardboard beds that break …

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Anti-sex beds "not needed" for CMU Olympics

With the recent decision to move the Olympics to Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, many are asking questions about how CMU plans to prevent the infamous athlete orgies that occur during the games.

In the past, the International Olympic Committee has seen fit to implement cardboard beds that break …

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Two soda cans: Carnegie Cola (with a plaid can and a picture of Andrew Carnegie), and mellonade (with a lime green can, watermelon slices, and a picture of Andrew Mellon).
An image of water balloons flying toward Hunt Library, superimposed with letters spelling "WE GAZORCH...and so can you."
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A marriage certificate for README. The name is filled in using pasted bits of cut-up newspaper.
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A poem called "why the long face?" next to an incredibly stretched out picture of a man's face.

Waking up at 4 AM is very healthy, actually

If you’ve spent any time on the cut you’ve been hounded by upperclassmen who do buggy asking you how tall you are (not a catcall, for the record). You’re in CIT and not one of the lucky few under 5’ 2’’, you’ve been asked to be a mechanic. Now I’m …

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An advertisement containing formal-looking serif text and an image of a Tartan reporter in a suit whose head has been digitally altered to appear smushed. It reads: "Are you a reader of the Tartan? No? We're not surprised! Read The Tartan if you hate: asking questions; independently verified claims; proofread work; anything other than interviews; proper kerning; ...AND MORE!" followed by a quote "After all, just because someone said it, doesn't mean it's true" (attributed to "that guy over there")
A corrupted image of a silhouette of a woman dancing on a beach, with the sky blood red and fiery. Distorted text reads: "hot singles have abandoned us. Beautiful young babes in a distant land, ever longing for true connection. Ready to fuck, join now!"

Inventor Claims AI Powered Paperclip "DIFFERENT THAN CLIPPY"

Up-and-coming Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Fence introduced his new product WOOORD (stylized all lowercase) at the famed annual SouthWestEast World Tech Conference on Tuesday. Fence presented his novel assistive technology to a room packed with world leaders and the biggest names in artificial intelligence, neural computation, and autonomous agents.

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Untapped Niches in the U.S. Consumer Market

Dear reader, I have devoted countless hours over the course of years to rear these ideas; at this point, it is as if they were my children, as if I were giving you my children, and these are some of the finest idea children ever to have been brain birthed. …

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"Are you a small Asian woman? CMU wants YOU for buggy driving! Contact a buggy org and strap into a tin can today!"

Scotty Dog Cheating, Martha Is Speechless!

Once again, the cheating allegations cannot escape Scotty Dog who was seen leaving Schenley Park with Clifford the Big Red Dog in photos posted to X and Reddit by Paparazzi. However it seems these allegations are not just allegations as videos were taken of Clifford kissing Scotty Dog. Scotty Dog’s …

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Top 10 ways to die during Carnival

1. Buggy crashes: Is this one even close? Buggy is like having kids - ­it makes no sense at all when you actually think about it. It’s highly dangerous. The preparation takes up several months of your life, and leads to uncountable sleepless nights. And yet, we can’t seem to …

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Do you want to hear a joke?

Hey hey, I got a joke for you, right? You’re like, reading this magazine or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the Reader, whatever. This one’s like traveling, right? Like abroad? So, you know how you’re, like, traveling? Like, tr-traveling? Haha! You know, hehe, like, there’s, you know, wo- wo- [chuckling] there’s …

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A Miracle Christmas Gift: Nearly-Perfect Finals

Wednesday morning, students across CMU campus awoke to an incredible email resting in their inboxes: “You’re done with finals!”

Sent from a gibberish address, the messages contained only roughly-scanned notes written on sheet paper. In large looping cursive text and taped-on Polaroids, these letters told students that their last …

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Derealizating

Sometimes you don’t feel like a person. Sometimes you feel like you’re asleep and the people around you are guests on a podcast you forgot to turn off. There are a lot of words for this feeling, and most of them are long words starting with D: dissociation, disassociation, depersonalization, …

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CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Programmer forgets to specify; throws a birthday ksh • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea • REPORT: Tuition increase announced, will to be used for "absolutely nothing", admin says • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Statue of Liberty deported • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • "1929 will be my year" ­ says man who invested all his money into Wall Street • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Gelt still more real than crypto • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1 • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Demolition Company breaks up married couple • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos" • I met Santa Claus, she's black • Linguists invent new slur for couples • CMU kills suspected 122 cheater in targeted strike; 18 civilians dead • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Programmer forgets to specify; throws a birthday ksh. • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë. • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea. • REPORT: Tuition increase announced, will to be used for "absolutely nothing", admin says • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Statue of Liberty deported. • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • "1929 will be my year" ­ says man who invested all his money into Wall Street. • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it. • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1. • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list. • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Demolition Company breaks up married couple. • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos". • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • Linguists invent new slur for couples. • CMU kills suspected 122 cheater in targeted strike; 18 civilians dead. • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers.