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Discuss “Building influence through visibility”

When you see a story about a Carnegie Mellon student organization on the news, it’s not typically for something laudable. As the title of one fall 2005 KDKA broadcast (“CMU showing XXX movies on campus”) shows, much of our image within the media is steeped in controversy.

While snafus wind up on the nightly news, much of the good gets passed over. Carnegie Mellon’s chapter of Amnesty International recently held a soccer tournament to benefit Doctors Without Borders, and the organization Circle K is entirely dedicated to community service. Yet even people who watch the local news do not hear about them.

The reality is that no one is going to promote student organizations for them, and they must take up this charge more vociferously...

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