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Vanilla Ice to lead Dean's Date line-up

Vanilla Ice to lead Dean's Date line-up

Rapper Vanilla Ice is set to perform at Colonial Club on Dean's Date, Jan. 17, club officers announced at dinner Thursday night.Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, is best known for his 1990 hit single "Ice Ice Baby" and for starring in VH1's reality show, "The Surreal Life."Colonial officer Jessica Stahl '06 said that she was "ridiculously excited" as soon as she heard about the show and "wanted something that would galvanize the entire campus."Stahl added that even if people weren't excited about the music, they could "just be excited about the experience"

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Vanilla Ice to lead Dean's Date line-up

Rapper Vanilla Ice is set to perform at Colonial Club on Dean's Date, Jan. 17, club officers announced at dinner Thursday night.Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, is best known for his 1990 hit single "Ice Ice Baby" and for starring in VH1's reality show, "The Surreal Life."Colonial officer Jessica Stahl '06 said that she was "ridiculously excited" as soon as she heard about the show and "wanted something that would galvanize the entire campus."Stahl added that even if people weren't excited about the music, they could "just be excited about the experience"

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Early Decision applications rise with '10

The number of applicants for the University's binding early decision program rose nine percent over the previous year's figure with the Class of 2010, amounting to the second-largest early decision applicant numbers since the Class of 2001, the Communications Office said today.The 2,230 applications received thus far by the Admission Office, however, fall short of rivals Harvard and Yale's figures and a recent Princeton high of 2,350 early decision applications for the Class of 2007.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye did not return requests seeking comment.Yale saw a 3.4 percent increase in the number of applicants received to its non-binding early action program, rising to 4,065 from last year's 3,933, according to figures from Friday's Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Alumna takes helm at 'Nation'

Katrina vanden Heuvel '82 recently became the only female editor and publisher of a political weekly in the country.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Alumna takes helm at 'Nation'

Katrina vanden Heuvel '82 recently became the only female editor and publisher of a political weekly in the country.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Philosophers contemplate state of belief

Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek discussed the concept of belief before a packed audience in McCosh 50 on Thursday night.The lecture was titled "The Ignorance of Chicken, or, Who Believes What Today."Zizek began the lecture by arguing that "nobody really believes today," most notably religious fundamentalists and atheists."It is as if to really believe you have to put up an atheist front," Zizek said.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Gay marriage hurts society, Gallagher says

Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a coauthor of "The Case for Marriage," argued in a lecture Wednesday that legalizing same-sex marriages would result in the overall degeneration of society."Gay marriage is not some sideline issue," Gallagher said.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Two students struck by vehicles

Two University students were struck by vehicles in the span of about thirty minutes while crossing Washington Road on Wednesday evening during a period of heavy rainfall.Both students ? Phillip Kang '06 and Shirley Li '08 ? were taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton and released following treatment.The drivers, a 75-year-old Monmouth Junction resident and a 39-year-old Skillman resident, were charged with failure to yield to pedestrian at crosswalk.Kang was struck at 6:25 p.m.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Felten research adds to CD recall

Computer science professor Edward Felten and graduate student Alex Halderman '03 discovered a glitch on the Sony BMG website on Monday, at a time when the music giant is recalling millions of CDs that put users' computers at risk.This is only the latest in a series of problems for Sony BMG that Halderman called "the Sony soap opera." Felten and Halderman have been detailing the progression of events on Felten's blog, freedom-to-tinker.com.As a method of protecting against the illegal copying of music, Sony BMG placed hidden copyright protection software on many of its CDs.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Schools launch N.J. jobs database

In a move to encourage diversity among higher education faculty and staff, 28 New Jersey colleges introduced a joint employment database this week.The New Jersey Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), spearheaded by Princeton and Rutgers and accessible at www.njherc.org, provides listings of academic, administrative, staff and executive positions.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Two students struck by vehicles

Two University students were struck by vehicles in the span of about thirty minutes while crossing Washington Road on Wednesday evening during a period of heavy rainfall.Both students ? Phillip Kang '06 and Shirley Li '08 ? were taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton and released following treatment.The drivers, a 75-year-old Monmouth Junction resident and a 39-year-old Skillman resident, were charged with failure to yield to pedestrian at crosswalk.Kang was struck at 6:25 p.m.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Schools launch N.J. jobs database

In a move to encourage diversity among higher education faculty and staff, 28 New Jersey colleges introduced a joint employment database this week.The New Jersey Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), spearheaded by Princeton and Rutgers and accessible at www.njherc.org, provides listings of academic, administrative, staff and executive positions.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Perle faults post-invasion decisions

Defense analyst Richard Perle GS '68 criticized the postwar U.S. occupation of Iraq and expressed full confidence in Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's controversial deputy prime minister, in an extemporaneous speech in Whig Hall Wednesday afternoon.Perle, who chaired the bipartisan Defense Policy Board during the period leading up to the Iraq war, said he continues to trust Chalabi, who has been accused of supplying the United States with false intelligence prior to the war and of providing secret U.S.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Japanese feel they have apologized enough, professor argues

Ian Buruma, a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, spoke Wednesday about how Japanese nationalism has shaped Japan's attitude toward its history.Speaking to a full audience in Jones Hall 202, Buruma began by asserting that Japan has sufficiently apologized for its role in WWII.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Perle faults post-invasion decisions

Defense analyst Richard Perle GS '68 criticized the postwar U.S. occupation of Iraq and expressed full confidence in Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's controversial deputy prime minister, in an extemporaneous speech in Whig Hall Wednesday afternoon.Perle, who chaired the bipartisan Defense Policy Board during the period leading up to the Iraq war, said he continues to trust Chalabi, who has been accused of supplying the United States with false intelligence prior to the war and of providing secret U.S.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Japanese feel they have apologized enough, professor argues

Ian Buruma, a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, spoke Wednesday about how Japanese nationalism has shaped Japan's attitude toward its history.Speaking to a full audience in Jones Hall 202, Buruma began by asserting that Japan has sufficiently apologized for its role in WWII.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Felten research adds to CD recall

Computer science professor Edward Felten and graduate student Alex Halderman '03 discovered a glitch on the Sony BMG website on Monday, at a time when the music giant is recalling millions of CDs that put users' computers at risk.This is only the latest in a series of problems for Sony BMG that Halderman called "the Sony soap opera." Felten and Halderman have been detailing the progression of events on Felten's blog, freedom-to-tinker.com.As a method of protecting against the illegal copying of music, Sony BMG placed hidden copyright protection software on many of its CDs.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Gay marriage hurts society, Gallagher says

Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a coauthor of "The Case for Marriage," argued in a lecture Wednesday that legalizing same-sex marriages would result in the overall degeneration of society."Gay marriage is not some sideline issue," Gallagher said.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

NYU graduate students go on strike

A group of New York University graduate school students called a strike on Nov. 9, marked by picketing in front of Bobst Library in Washington Square and other academic buildings across campus, in an attempt to force the university to negotiate a new contract that would acknowledge their union.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

CEO denounces cruel treatment of animals

John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest retailer of organic produce, gave a lecture on animal cruelty and the potential vices of corporate capitalism in McCormick Hall on Tuesday afternoon.Speaking to more than 100 people, Mackey compared the public perception of the ethical standards of corporations and nonprofit organizations."Corporations are viewed as greedy, exploitative and negative for the public, while nonprofits are stereotyped as entirely the opposite," Mackey said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

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