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Stanford unveils $4.3 billion campaign

The Daily Princetonian

Stanford unveils $4.3 billion campaign

Correction appendedStanford started the public phase of the largest-ever fundraising drive by an institution of higher education, president John Hennessy announced Tuesday.The five-year, $4.3-billion capital campaign campaign, billed as "The Stanford Challenge," edges out the $4-billion campaign announced by Columbia two weeks ago.Princeton is expected to announce a public capital campaign in the coming years.

NEWS | 10/11/2006
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Oates story draws ire from TCNJ

The Daily Princetonian

Oates story draws ire from TCNJ

Creative writing professor and noted author Joyce Carol Oates publicly apologized Tuesday to those upset by her recent New Yorker short story, "Landfill," a work of fiction that set off a small storm of controversy this week for its resemblance to fact."I'm certainly feeling very apologetic and deeply sorry that I inadvertently ... hurt the feelings of these people and just feel sorry about that," Oates said in an interview with The Times of Trenton."Landfill," which was published in the Oct.

NEWS | 10/11/2006

Cuban students seek Fidel's ouster

The Daily Princetonian

Cuban students seek Fidel's ouster

Cuban voices echoed off the blackboards in Frist 304 Wednesday night, expressing a collective hope that Fidel Castro's repressive regime will soon end.In a conference call with students from the University's chapter of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA), members of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement (CYDM) discussed the persecution and economic hardship that Cuban university students face."They have waited all their lives to speak up and express themselves," CAUSA member Ken Sinkovitz '07 explained.

NEWS | 10/11/2006

Out and proud

The Daily Princetonian

Out and proud

Students gather to celebrate "National Coming Out Day." All across campus, LGBT students and allies could be seen wearing jeans to express solidarity with members of the gay community.

NEWS | 10/11/2006

Sexuality is genetic, professor argues

The Daily Princetonian

Sexuality is genetic, professor argues

Homosexuality has a biological correlate even if the particular genes have not yet been confirmed, University of Illinois at Chicago psychiatry professor Brian Mustanski said Tuesday in his lecture, "Is there a gay gene?"Mustanski's address, which preceded today's official opening of the LGBT Center, presented results from a variety of studies ? including his own ? that point toward a genetic influence on homosexuality."Each older brother increased the odds [of homosexuality] by about 33 percent to 48 percent, which is a pretty large effect," Mustanski said, referring to earlier studies that examined the relationship between homosexuality and the number of older siblings.

NEWS | 10/11/2006

New U.S. law OKs torture, professor argues

The Daily Princetonian

New U.S. law OKs torture, professor argues

New legislation on military commissions "allows officials in the United States government to torture with impunity," visiting politics professor Jamie Mayerfeld told students in a discussion last night.Mayerfeld met with a small group of concerned University students to discuss the Military Commissions Act, which was passed by Congress on Sept.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

You booze, you lose? No, says new research

The Daily Princetonian

You booze, you lose? No, says new research

Binge drinking may have its benefits.High school binge drinkers, though they tend to have a harder time landing jobs, end up with a six percent higher earning potential than their non-drinking peers, according to a September report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.The findings, based on data gathered by the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), were reported by Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Pinka Chatterji and University of South Florida economics professor Jeffrey DeSimone.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Moon Dance

The Daily Princetonian

Moon Dance

The WenQin Art Troupe, a student group from ZheJiang University in China, performs during the Cross-Pacific Cultural Exchange in Richardson Auditorium Tuesday night.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Ponnuru '95 speaks softly, sticks it to left

The Daily Princetonian

Ponnuru '95 speaks softly, sticks it to left

For someone with an Ann Coulter blurb on his book cover, Ramesh Ponnuru '95 is surprisingly soft-spoken.While Ponnuru ? a senior editor at the National Review, frequent newspaper contributor and conservative talking head ? might be more circumspect and cerebral than the average culture warrior, his words pack no less a punch.In his new book, "The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life," a work that has landed Ponnuru recent guest spots on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," he takes aim at abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and the American Left."The party of death started with abortion," he writes, "but its sickle has gone from threatening the unborn, to the elderly, to the disabled; it has swept from the maternity ward to the cloning laboratory to a generalized disregard for 'inconvenient' human life."The book, unsurprisingly, has turned Ponnuru into a darling of the right and a nuisance for the left.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Psychology professor wins Nobel, er ... Ig Nobel

The Daily Princetonian

Psychology professor wins Nobel, er ... Ig Nobel

Princeton has been shut out of the Nobel Prize races so far this year, but one professor recently won a related award of only slightly less distinction.Psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer won the Ig Nobel Literature Prize awarded last week at Harvard University for a series of experiments in which he proved that using long words to impress an audience actually makes you look less intelligent.The prizes are presented by Nobel laureates around the time the Nobel Prize winners are announced each year and are awarded to scholars who perform experiments that "make people laugh, and then make them think," according to the Annals of Improbable Research, the scientific humor journal that organizes the honors each year.Oppenheimer ? whose findings are published in the study "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long words Needlessly" ? became the first Princeton professor to receive an Ig Nobel."I initially had mixed feelings [about winning]," Oppenheimer said.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Yale median GPA is 3.6, study finds

The Daily Princetonian

Yale median GPA is 3.6, study finds

While Princeton students continue to spar with administrators over the two-year-old grade deflation policy, Yale's student newspaper released a poll last week suggesting that the median GPA at the New Haven rival lies between 3.6 and 3.7.The unscientific survey, sent to 400 randomly selected members of the Class of 2006, garnered 201 responses.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

OA encourages 'outdoor spirituality'

The Daily Princetonian

OA encourages 'outdoor spirituality'

A dinner discussion at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday kicked off a collaboration between Outdoor Action and the Office of Religious Life to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality.Outdoor Spirituality ? a program founded by Outdoor Action (OA) director Rick Curtis '79, Presbyterian minister Peter Hazelrigg and Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush ? aims to reach out to students who are not directly involved with religious groups on campus.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Pick-a-Prof reveals grading histories

The Daily Princetonian

Pick-a-Prof reveals grading histories

Students at 180 colleges and universities around the country now have the option of shopping for courses like they shop for the latest electronic devices.Pick-a-Prof ? pickaprof.com ? allows students to view professors' grading histories, write course reviews and evaluate professors' responsiveness.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

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