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Discuss “CMU had an awfully anticlimactic Halloween”

In the spirit of academics at Carnegie Mellon, The Tartan is beginning this board editorial with a quiz:

1) Did CMU win the Homecoming football game?

a)?Yes

b)?No

c)?We have a football team?

2)?What was the final score?

a)?23?20

b)?10?17

c)?For real, we have a football team?

3) Did you participate in general merrymaking during Halloween?

a) Yes. I make a very attractive SpongeBob.

b)?No, I was too busy working on a program.

c)?When was Halloween?

The point of this quiz is not for The Tartan?s editorial board to encourage students to blow off work and party. But it?s important to point out that at most other schools, Homecoming and Halloween are unifying events that bring together much of the campus community. At Carnegie Mellon, these events...

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