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University team places second in national Putnam math contest

University team places second in national Putnam math contest

Three Princeton students placed in the top 15 in the 2002 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, leading the University to a second-place finish out of 376 teams across the United States and Canada.The Putnam exam, dubbed by Time magazine "the most prestigious math contest in the world" and "a rite of passage for math cognoscenti," was taken in December by 3,349 students from 476 schools.The University's Marius Beceanu '04, Stefan Hornet '04 and Radu Mihaescu '03 each received $1,000 for finishing in the top 15 individually.

NEWS | 03/30/2003

Rubin, former treasury secretary, discusses international economy

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin analyzed the international economy in a lecture Friday and said that the coming decade is unlikely to be as bullish as the last one.He argued that industrialized nations should significantly increase aid to developing countries, warned of continuing deficit spending and criticized the Bush administration's proposed tax cut.Rubin's lecture in McCosh 50 was the keynote address of a symposium organized by the Center for Economic Policy Studies.Rubin, who served as treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999, said that many Americans' attitudes toward the economy today were shaped by the "great bull market" of 1992-99.He said the success of the 1990s has led many Americans to be overly optimistic about continued economic growth.

NEWS | 03/30/2003

Kroll-Zaidi '03 awarded Sachs, plans to study film

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi '03 received a pleasant surprise while caught in the throes of January's reading period.

NEWS | 03/30/2003

USG amends Honor Code, debates political stance

The USG passed two amendments to the Honor Code, the first changes since 2000, at its meeting last night.The successful vote means an administrator will now serve as the procedural advisor and the University president will be largely removed from the appellate and penalty proceedings.Three of the 22 voting USG members opposed the amendments submitted by the Honor Committee, which were passed as a package.

NEWS | 03/30/2003

PCAT shows support for war opposite peace group

Rallying against the local antiwar protests that have occupied Palmer Square weekly for months, the Princeton Committee against Terrorism staged a counter demonstration Saturday.PCAT said members protested to demonstrate what they claim is a strong presence of a pro-war mentality on campus.

NEWS | 03/30/2003

Students, USG consider Honor Code amendments

The USG will vote Sunday on the Honor Committee's recommended reforms to the Honor Code in a decision that could shift procedural advising from students to administrators.The USG may also consider weighing in on another list of structural reforms proposed by Johnny Chavkin, Class of 2005 senator.

NEWS | 03/27/2003

Fake NetIDs loom in online directory

If you had typed the word "boss" into the online campus directory yesterday, you would have found two strange entries: "Pointy Haired Boss" and "Evil Pointy Haired Boss." Jack Undergraduate lives in 340 Henry Hall, according to the online and in-print directories, and what are "Orwelian Processor" and "Socrates Test"?Though "Orwelian Processor" and "Socrates Test" still remain, the other entries were removed from the online directory yesterday.

NEWS | 03/27/2003

Hargraves, leader in study of early Earth, plate tectonics, dies

Robert Hargraves, emeritus professor of geosciences and an expert in both earthly and extraterrestrial geology, died March 21 at Princeton Medical Center of complications from radiation treatment and chemotherapy.

NEWS | 03/27/2003

Seniors face binding decision about printing service for thesis

Spring is here, and it is time again for senior theses to get bound. As seniors run to Nassau St.

NEWS | 03/27/2003

Wellesley dean of admission to replace Hargadon in July

The University announced yesterday that the dean of admissions at Wellesley College, Janet Lavin Rapelye, will replace Fred Hargadon as Princeton admission dean.Rapelye, who has headed admissions at the all-women's school near Boston for 12 years after admission work at Bowdoin, Williams and Stanford, is the first female admission dean at Princeton.

NEWS | 03/27/2003

International student files compromised

When administrators at George Mason University attempted to access the school's records on a federal electronic database used to track foreign students, they pulled up the private record of a Princeton University student instead, according to an article recently published in the Washington Post.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Mandatory vaccine bill up for passage this summer

The Class of 2007 may have one more item on their to-do list when preparing for school this summer ? a mandatory meningitis vaccine.On March 10, the New Jersey State Assembly passed a bill that would require all students enrolling in institutions of higher education for the 2003-2004 school year to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis prior to matriculation.Statistically, meningitis is much more likely to strike college students, particularly freshmen. Implementation concernsUniversity administrators, however, hope the bill does not receive the governor's approval this fall.While the University does not oppose the substance of the bill, it does object to the proposed time frame of implementation, said Heather Ackley, coordinator of travel and immunization services.Since its approval by the Assembly, the bill has undergone some important changes.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Towey promotes the role of faith in public welfare

"The government can't love," said Jim Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, today at a lecture titled "Compassion, the U.S.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Former Zambian president urges more action on AIDS

Speaking yesterday in the midst of a war with Iraq, former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda challenged his audience to consider another battle: the fight against AIDS."There is another battle by which we need to rally behind," Kaunda said, "a battle that threatens the leaders of the world and humanity."AIDS is not an African problem but a problem across the world, Kaunda said during his lecture, "HIV/AIDS and Africa: Challenges Ahead."Currently the Balfour African president in residence at Boston University's African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC), Kaunda has devoted his life to fighting HIV and AIDS in Africa.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Conferences compete for feminist audience

One weekend will have to be big enough for two student-run women's activism groups.The Organization of Women Leaders and the National Council of Negro Women are hosting separate conferences on March 29.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

WROC hosts student-worker appreciation night

The Worker's Rights Organizing Committee held the University's first student-organized employee appreciation day yesterday, but the presentations by student leaders and workers suggested that the University does not appreciate workers enough.WROC's student leaders took the day as an opportunity to broadcast the results of a 92-question worker survey it conducted last April, which received responses from more than 400 of 600 unionized employees."We wanted to let everyone know what the results of the survey were," WROC president Kate Jordan '03 said.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Astrophysics professor receives million-dollar Dan David prize

Professor John Bahcall, a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study and a lecturer at the University, has been awarded the Dan David Prize for the Future of Cosmology and Astronomy for his longterm groundbreaking work in astrophysics.The prize, which includes a $1 million award, is "granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, and distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, and humanities that have made an outstanding contribution to humanity," according to the Dan David Prize website."I'm delighted," Bahcall said, "And my family is delighted."Though Bahcall has worked on a number of problems within the field of particle astrophysics, he said he believes the work that most directly prompted his receipt of the prize is his study of neutrinos' behavior in relation to the sun.Neutrinos, Bahcall explained, are special particles that have almost no mass.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

Forrest, Saville elected to National Academy of Engineering

Stephen Forrest, an electrical engineering professor, and Dudley Saville, a chemical engineering professor, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, joining 15 other University faculty members already in the Academy.Membership in the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest honors in the engineering field, and 77 new members were elected this year.

NEWS | 03/26/2003

OIT makes technology fun at Information Village Fair

At the end of the first day of the Office of Information Technology's Information Village Fair, the event's success could be measured in popcorn ? 600 boxes of it.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

Revived African student group 'Akwaaba' welcomes newcomers

To welcome someone in the Twi dialect of Ashante, you would greet them with a friendly "Akwaaba," not coincidentally the name of a newly-revived African student group which held its first open meeting during a dinner discussion on Monday.The organization, originally founded in 1996 as a "home away from home" for African students, is being reintroduced largely through the efforts of two freshmen, Amaka Megwalu '06, whose parents live in Nigeria and New York, and Daniel Scher '06, a resident of South Africa.Megwalu said the group aims to bring Africans together for "solidarity and a place to feel at home," but also plans to involve non-Africans in discussions about issues affecting the continent.She emphasized that the group is open to the entire University community.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

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