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Twenty years later, still shaking things up

One day almost four decades ago, Nancy Weiss walked through the doors of Princeton's history department intent on doing something no other woman had done before: getting a job as a professor there.As a Harvard doctoral candidate, she had the credentials for the post, but her gender made her an anomaly among the applicant pool."It isn't that we have a policy against hiring women," then-history department chair Lawrence Stone told the young woman seated in his office.

A farewell from the 131st board

As the 131st Managing Board's time at the helm of the The Daily Princetonian comes to an end today, we're talking about the things we're not going to miss about being editors: staying up late, canceling on our friends and family, editing a story that needs lots and lots of work.But that's just so that we don't have to think about all the things that we're going to miss: Late nights spent gossiping once the paper's done and we're procrastinating on our schoolwork.

New Year's spammer fills inboxes with cheer

A strange email showed up in students' inboxes on New Year's Day. Under the subject line "happy 2008" was a simple message ? "Have a happy new year" ? and a link to a youtube.com video.It was Joseph Perla '09's way of wishing the campus holiday cheer.

Professors vote for Obama with wallets

All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees.Sen.

Hungry?

Students stuffed their faces in a pie-eating contest as part of Whitman College's carnival-themed dinner Wednesday evening.

Professor may face charges in Poland

History professor Jan Gross is under investigation in his native Poland for slandering the Polish government ? a crime punishable with a prison sentence of up to three years ? after claiming in a new book that anti-Semitism was prevalent in the country after World War II.Gross is being investigated by the Krakow Prosecutor's Office for allegedly violating Statute 132, which prohibits "publicly accusing the Polish nation of organizing or being responsible for Nazi or communist crimes." The conservative League of Polish Families party pushed the statute through in 2006.Gross' book, "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz" was released in the United States in 2006 and published in Polish on Jan.

Steven Holl to design arts neighborhood academic buildings

The University has chosen Steven Holl Architects and BNIM Architects to design the academic buildings of the new arts and transportation neighborhood set to open in five to six years.Steven Holl Architects will design several buildings to house the Program in Theater and Dance, parts of the Department of Music, the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts.

Apps up 6 percent for Class of 2012

The University received a record number of undergraduate applications for the fourth year in a row, with 20,118 students applying for admission to the Class of 2012."In a transition year when we changed to a single application deadline, we have increased the number of applications and the quality of our pool, which exceeded our expectations," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in a statement.This year's figure marks a 6 percent increase over last year's 18,942 applicants for the Class of 2011 and a 22 percent increase from the number of applicants for the Class of 2009.This year is the first round of applications since the University ended its early admissions program in September 2006.

Township will not charge Nava

Francisco Nava '09 will not be charged with filing a false police report and most likely will not face prosecution for sending harassing emails, officials from Public Safety and Princeton Township Police said yesterday.Nava claimed that he was attacked in an empty lot in the Township on Dec.

Sweating the small stuff

Rob Biederman '08 likes surprises and last-minute organization. Less than an hour before he sent a school-wide email promising an iPod Touch to the winner of a Dean's Date scavenger hunt, he had not yet settled on what items the winner would have to collect.The scavenger hunt was typical of Biederman.

After Harvard, Yale boosts aid

Correction appendedYale announced this week that it will change its undergraduate financial aid policy for all students this fall.

Dean's Delight

News and Notes

N.J. to give electoral votes electors to winner of popular voteNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation last Sunday that will give New Jersey's 15 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in the 2008 presidential election.New Jersey follows Maryland as the second state to enter into a compact that would diminish the Electoral College's constitutional power to choose the president.

Frats battle for USG control

Fraternities across campus have started to jockey for positions in the 2009 student government. The past year of authoritarian rule under the Alpha Epsilon Pi political machine has proven that Greek rule is cool on campus, or at least a possibility.Though President Tilghman continues to deny the presence of Greek life at Princeton, the four-year-old Jewish fraternity has seized the top three executive roles in the USG.

Nava '09 sees UFO, converts to Scientology

A month after he drew national attention for claiming he had been threatened for his beliefs and subsequently assaulted with an Orangina bottle, Francisco Nava '09 has reported a still more traumatic experience: alien abduction.Nava claims the kidnapping occurred around 7 p.m.

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Robertson case settled, assets split in half

In order to end rising legal costs, the University and Robertson family have decided to settle. All assets , including Robertson Hall were split.

The hidden cost of healthy eating

Leif Mandible '09 knew it had gone too far.The realization hit him with a pang as he stepped over pools of vomit flecked with tomato seeds, saw his unconscious friends sprawled on the floor with leaves of half-chewed romaine lettuce dangling from their slackened mouths, inhaled the overpowering odor of balsamic vinaigrette that hung rank in the air.The campus salad-eating scene, of which he himself was a part, had gone from fun and daring to downright dangerous."I realized that they ? we ? were doing something we could very well regret in the near future," Mandible said, describing the epiphany that came to him at 2 a.m.

News and Notes

'Prince' wins prize for toleranceThe Daily Princetonian ?? which last year pissed off the University, the nation and the world with the Asian-mocking column "Princeton University is racist against me, I mean, nonwhites" by Lian Ji, a rejected applicant for the Class of 2010 ?? has been awarded the Princeton Prize in Race Relations.

Besting Harvard and Yale, U. to go free

Taking a dramatic step toward once again besting Harvard and Yale, the University is to announce today that it is literally going free, eliminating tuition, room and board costs for all undergraduates beginning in the fall semester."Eliminating all expenses of undergraduate study is the greatest thing we could do to attract students from diverse backgrounds to Princeton," President Tilghman said yesterday in an interview.