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D-Bar beats the Street for grads

D-Bar beats the Street for grads

While the Street lay largely dormant last Friday night ? generally the quietest of the weekend ? "Forever Young" was blaring to a packed crowd at that other ubiquitous Princeton drinking hole, the D-Bar.The D-Bar, or the Debasement Bar, so called because of its location in the basement of the Graduate College, is a nonprofit, student-run operation that provides a much-needed relaxation zone for graduate students every night from 10 p.m.

NEWS | 03/10/2004

Township's new public library to feature more than books

The Princeton Public Library will move into its new home ? at the corner of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets, where its old structure was located ? on April 1.The library, currently housed in temporary quarters at the Princeton Shopping Center, will reopen within a new three-story building featuring state-of-the-art amenities and significantly more space than the old library."Before, we had a first-rate library in a second-rate building.

NEWS | 03/10/2004

Eating club members' e-mail lists create online forums

What could be a better use of a Princeton student's time than reading the fleeting and sometimes unusual thoughts of one's fellow eating club members?

NEWS | 03/10/2004

OIT plans to add wireless connections on campus

In today's technology-driven world, being "wired" is no longer necessarily a good thing.Instead, universities are working to make the switch from wired computer communications to wireless ones that allow students to surf the Internet and check email without having to plug their computers into an Ethernet jack.The University's wireless services are similar to most universities inside and outside the Ivy League, offering partial wireless coverage across campus."Princeton is about in the middle when looking at our progress at creating a 'wireless campus,'" OIT Director of Support Services Steven Sather, said in an email.

NEWS | 03/09/2004

Princeton beats rival Penn in overtime game

PHILADELPHIA ? Head coach John Thompson '88 turned to the crowd and pumped his fist in the final seconds of overtime, summing up the perfect end to a near-perfect Ivy season.Thompson had every reason to celebrate.

NEWS | 03/09/2004

Bloom takes third in Maxim contest

Vail Bloom '04 has suddenly become a celebrity after placing third in Maxim magazine's Hometown Hotties contest.

NEWS | 03/09/2004

New novel speaks of identity, otherness

"I guess if you put a gun to my head, I'd say he writes about The Problem With Being Sort of Himself," Chang-rae Lee recited, "namely, the terribly conflicted and complicated state of being Asian and American and thoughtful and male."This is the voice of the protagonist Jerry ? describing the literary voice of his daughter's Korean fianc

NEWS | 03/09/2004

Students suffer from sleep deprivation during midterm week

Students at Princeton are subject to a fast-paced life. The academic pressures, in addition to athletic and extracurricular commitments Tigers face while balancing a social life, often manifest themselves in a large number of sleep-deprived students.During midterm week this problem becomes more apparent because students have to attend classes and practices while turning in papers, attending review sessions and taking exams.

NEWS | 03/09/2004

Rockman draws new spot at N.Y. fashion institute

To most University students, the name Adam Rockman is a familiar one. He's the man they love to hate ? the evil mastermind responsible for sticking you in that 100-square-foot double last year and the reason your email account is always over-quota.

NEWS | 03/09/2004

International grad apps down across U.S.

The Graduate School suffered a 26 percent decline in applications from international students this year, following a nationwide trend.

NEWS | 03/08/2004

Purim celebration draws diverse crowd

"Well it's alright, it's okay, the Jewish folk are here to stay. We can eat any dish, matzoh balls, gefilte fish." Set to the tune of the Bee Gee's "Stayin' Alive" and sung by students in a wacky assortment of clothing, the lyrics filled a packed Center for Jewish Life during the Purim celebration Saturday night.This interpretive retelling of the story of Purim, organized by former CJL president Marc Grinberg '05 with selections from the "Disco Purim Songsheet," was just one part of the Purim Pre-game Party hosted by the CJL.Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from the clutches of the evil Hamen by the virtuous Queen Esther.

NEWS | 03/08/2004

University inspires Waldron's second murder mystery in series

Could Princeton really be harboring a killer? This is the question posed once again by Ann Waldron in the recently-published "Death of a Princeton President," the second volume in her "Princeton Murders" series.In the series, Waldron writes of a Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative reporter coming to the University to teach "Literature of Fact," a popular humanities class."The Princeton Murders: Big Crime on Campus," the first novel in the series, was published in January 2003 and topped the U-Store's bestseller list last year.Though Waldron was quick to point out that "the characters [in the novel] are completely imaginary," she said she tried "to make it very accurate as far as the campus is concerned." She explained that she drew on her campus experience for descriptions.As a former senior administrator in the University's Office of Communications, Waldron also took classes for three years through the program in continuing education: "I took exams and turned in papers," she said.

NEWS | 03/08/2004

Students discuss threat of North Korean nuclear armaments

While stories about the Middle East have dominated international headlines the past year, the Korean Peninsula is not to be overlooked.

NEWS | 03/08/2004

Kennerly '04 misses chance to perform in Broadway's 'Rent'

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of fame became 15 when Princeton's Broadway hopeful lost her bid for a spot on "Rent."Though Aliza Kennerly '04 did not win the "Wanna Be in 'Rent' " casting search and the chance to appear in the Broadway show, she had the votes of her seven-year-old niece and six-year-old nephew.

NEWS | 03/07/2004

Soames leaves for USC, weakening philosophy dept.

Philosophy professor Scott Soames will be leaving next fall to teach at the University of Southern California.The announcement of his departure, after a 24-year career at the University, comes as one of a series of setbacks for the department this year, following professor Beatrice Longuenesse and lecturer Mark Greenberg's decisions to leave next fall.Soames, 58, specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytical philosophy.

NEWS | 03/07/2004

Men's hoops tournament-bound again

When the final buzzer sounded at the end of the men's basketball team's win Saturday night, the Tigers looked more like a team that had just won a visit to the dentist than one that had just clinched a trip to the NCAA tournament.But don't think the Tigers weren't thrilled.

NEWS | 03/07/2004

Meningitis exposure leads to no contractions

After a visitor was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis following a stay on campus, University Health Services has taken steps to guarantee the ailment does not spread to those at the University.Though the visitor ? a Boston resident and the younger sister of a University student and Ivy Club member ? did not display symptoms while on campus from Feb.

NEWS | 03/07/2004

Mind over matter: Jahn delves into engineering anomalies

Can the human mind influence random processes generated by a computer? For the past 25 years, researchers at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, under the direction of professor emeritus Robert Jahn '51, have sought the answer to this question.Their research suggests that the role of consciousness is not completely passive in physical reality.

NEWS | 03/04/2004

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