Happy New Year!

For the past seven years, members of the Carnegie Mellon University community have created new arrangements of "Auld Lang Syne" to honor the school's Scottish roots. Erik Pintar, who graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and an additional major in human-computer interaction , shared the joy of American Sign Language (ASL) through his Student College (StuCo) course called "Sign Language Through Pop Music." First taught in the spring of 2014, the course continues to be offered each semester. From renewed commitments to the Carnegie Mellon University community to out-of-this world experiences, Tartans used their resilience and their humanity to trek toward a new normal in 2021 . See some of the year's top stories. Erik Pintar graduated in 2016 but stays in touch with CMU via the ASL course he created. While ASL does not have a written component to it, below is an example of ASL Gloss, which is a simplified notational system to transcribe it into another language such as English, to show how Pintar approached the song. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, LOOK-BACK, LONG-AGO, BEST-FRIEND FORGET NEVER And never brought to mind? MEMORY ENDURE ALWAYS Should auld acquaintance be forgot, LONG-AGO CHERISH BEST-FRIEND And days o' lang syne! DAYS SINCE CELEBRATE TOGETHER For auld lang syne, my Dear, LONG-AGO SINCE DEARLY-BELOVED For auld lang syne, LONG-AGO SINCE BEST-FRIEND We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, CHEERS TOGETHER CELEBRATE TOGETHER For auld lang syne.