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'Obsessed with my iPod'

The Daily Princetonian

'Obsessed with my iPod'

The white earphones are unmistakable. They dangle from the person passing you on your way to class, the one exercising on the adjacent elliptical machine, and that kid studying behind you in Cafe Vivian.Princeton students, it seems, have embraced the iPod, a compact portable unit for downloading, storing and listening to music.

NEWS | 04/01/2004

University hires architect to redesign Butler as four-year college

The Daily Princetonian

University hires architect to redesign Butler as four-year college

The University decided in December 2003 that it would tear down most of Butler College's dormitory buildings rather than renovate them.Wu Hall, 1915 Hall and the yet-to-be completed Ellipse dormitory will continue to be part of Butler, University Architect Jon Hlafter GS '63 said.The trustees said, however, that they hope to blend the new buildings' styles with the remaining architecture of Butler, unlike the case of Whitman College, for which the trustees prescribed a collegiate Gothic style.Of the current buildings, the University plans to tear down Lourie-Love, 1922, 1940, 1941 and 1942 halls. Architecture firm selectedThe new buildings' architectural styles have not yet been determined, Hlafter added.

NEWS | 03/31/2004

Students not affected by closing of area stores

The Daily Princetonian

Students not affected by closing of area stores

The face of Nassau Street ? and the surrounding area ? has changed this school year with the closing of the Rusty Scupper and Sam Goody and the opening of a new location for the Carousel restaurant.However, these changes have had only limited effects on the dining and shopping patterns of most University students.The Rusty Scupper, a steak and seafood restaurant located on Alexander Street, closed its doors in January.

NEWS | 03/31/2004
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Professors partner with BP, Ford to explore CO2 emissions

The Daily Princetonian

Professors partner with BP, Ford to explore CO2 emissions

British Petroleum and Ford Motor Company, earlier this year, renewed their commitment of financial aid to the University in the Carbon Mitigation Investigation (CMI) ? a project aimed at researching the greenhouse effect and global warming.A large part of the project focuses on alternative ways to collect and store carbon dioxide gas, which is produced by the burning of fossil fuels.Currently, vast quantities of the gas are released into the atmosphere and strengthen the greenhouse effect ? an ecological phenomenon characterized by increasing global temperatures.It is an environmental problem that needs to be taken seriously, said Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and CMI's co-director.After internal and external reviews of CMI's progress over the past three years, the project, led by Socolow and Steve Pacala, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was awarded its second allocation of funds.Socolow said the industries have pledged $20 million to the University over the length of 10 years.

NEWS | 03/31/2004

Suites big and small face prospect of proctor visits

The Daily Princetonian

Suites big and small face prospect of proctor visits

It's 11 o'clock on a Thursday night and the setting is a large, bi-level suite in Wilson. People are socializing, refreshments are flowing and everyone is generally having a good ? albeit raucous ? time.But then there's a sudden, persistent knocking on the door, followed by the infamous words, "Public Safety; open up." And, with incredible swiftness, the party is broken up by campus public safety officers.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Students to connect through web facebook

The Daily Princetonian

Students to connect through web facebook

For students who make a hobby of poring over the University facebook, it is time to move on to bigger and better things.Princeton students will be able to sign up on www.thefacebook.com, a site featuring a database of student profiles from a growing list of schools, beginning Sunday, said Chris Hughes, a sophomore at Harvard and the site's press manager."It's an online community and social networking site for college students and alums," Hughes said.Students at Princeton will now be able create a profile for themselves, including their pictures, courses in which they're enrolled and other random facts.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Local pollutants cloud Lake Carnegie

The Daily Princetonian

Local pollutants cloud Lake Carnegie

While the crew teams gear up to host races on Lake Carnegie, environmental concerns are brewing in and around Princeton's largest lake.The lake suffers from low oxygen content and a mercury level high enough to prompt an advisory on fish consumption, said Denise Patel, campus organizer for New Jersey Water Watch, an environmental activist group.Most of the northeastern seaboard has mercury-related problems in its waterways, but Patel said New Jersey's are the worst in the region."New Jersey has a lot of environmental problems stemming from its long legacy of industrial pollution to more recent problems related to overdevelopment," she said.In addition, New Jersey's status as the most densely populated state in the country only exacerbates the problem."Princeton happens to fall into an area that is being developed faster than any other part of the state," Patel said.Neighboring West Windsor Township has had the highest rate of development in the state in recent years, which can stress local waterways.However, Lake Carnegie's water quality problems are not due to large industrial plants but to other, more local environmental conditions."Lake Carnegie's large mercury and phosphorous load comes mainly from non-point sources such as litter, fertilizers, pesticides and oil and gas from cars," said Peter Jaffe, a civil and environmental engineering professor.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

Controversial letters sent to Class of '94

The Daily Princetonian

Controversial letters sent to Class of '94

Cut-and-pasted pornography and a forged University document are only two parts of a drama facing the Class of 1994 and the University after several illicit mailings were sent to members of the class.Several months ago, a letter was sent to the Class of 1994 containing pornographic representations of several of their classmates, said four members of the class.After a second mailing ? on letterhead from the University's Alumni Counsel office and purportedly signed by General Counsel Peter McDonough ? the University began an investigation to determine the "origin of the letters and the extent of the mailing," University Counsel Clayton Marsh '85 said.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

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