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Heated debate ends abortion forum

Heated debate ends abortion forum

University professors and pro-choice advocates Peter Singer and Lee Silver went head to head last night with two pro-life noteworthies ? Princeton professor Russ Nieli and Dan Robinson, a Georgetown University professor ? in a debate on the legalization of abortion.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Students found campus Black Student Union

Salih Eissa '03 has been thinking about ways to coordinate and organize the black community at the University since last summer.Eissa said he felt existing organizations ? such as the National Council of Negro Women, the Black Men's Awareness Group and AKWAABA ? were forced to focus too much time on planning, which drove them away from their individual goals.Hoping to improve the organization of the black community and strengthen ties with the rest of the University community, Eissa founded the Black Student Union last month."The union provides other organizations the time to focus on their issues," Eissa said.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Luce technology professorship search begins

A University faculty committee is preparing to fill the Henry R. Luce Professorship in Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture, a permanent tenured faculty chair funded by a Luce Foundation grant.Though the University provides many opportunities for the study of the specific technical underpinnings of computers, the Internet and neuroscience, there is little opportunity to explore their impact on the human experience, according to an announcement from the University's Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.The Luce professor will investigate how these technologies change culture and history.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Real Networks plans to offer online music subscription service

Real Networks, along with three major record labels, has announced that it will make music available online for consumers to download.The joint venture, to be called MusicNet, will charge users a monthly subscription fee.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Tuition increase rock-bottom in Ivy League

As 2001-2002 financial projections have trickled in from all corners of the Ivy League, Princeton has come in at the bottom of one category ? expected increases in tuition costs next year.The University's 3.0 percent projection is well below that of other Ivies.The University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University are projecting the highest rates of tuition increase in the Ivy League, with 4.9 and 4.8 percent increases respectively.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Classical studies 101: The nude athletic competition

Students bemoaning the ban of the Nude Olympics now have an alternative.Enter Ancient Greece ? Spring Break style, where college students compete in a pentathlon just as the ancient Greeks did ? au naturale.The sixth annual nude College Greek Athletic Meet will be held Sunday on the grounds of the Tallahassee Bare-Devils nudist camp in Monticello, Fla.

NEWS | 04/05/2001

Princeton Americorps chapter brings service to community

This Saturday is designated by the University as community service day, but some Princetonians have already completed many community service projects around the area this year.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

Li GS '88 held captive in China

Li Shaomin GS '88 was detained by the Chinese government while travelling with a U.S. passport in the country, according to former University professor Arthur Waldron, a friend of Li.Li has remained captive since Feb.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

Service to be held in memory of MLK's death

When former USG president PJ Kim '01 became involved in a rally in Nov. 1999 to help protest a series of discriminatory incidents against Korean Americans in Palisades Park, N.J., he was inspired by the words of Martin Luther King Jr.King's legacy would later give Kim the idea of holding an event on campus in memory of the fallen civil rights leader.The second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

University graduate programs score high in latest U.S. News rankings

The numbers are in. The 2002 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings were released earlier this month, with three Princeton departments among the top five nationwide, and an additional three departments rated in the top 10.Princeton's top-ranking graduate programs are history (number one, tied with Yale for first and retaining the number-one position from last year), economics (number two, tied with Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, and moving up two positions from 2001) and the Wilson School (number four, tied with University of California, Berkeley, and falling one spot from last year).Other programs in the top ten include English (number six, tied with Cornell, moving up one place from 2001), politics (number six, no change in the past year) and sociology (number nine, retaining its position from last year). The psychology department fell two positions, from number nine in 2001 to number eleven this year.Math and science rankings have not been updated since 1999.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

A summer riding on a big (garbage) truck

I have to admit I was less than thrilled when I first found out that the summer job my mom had gotten for me was riding on a garbage truck in the middle of the night.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

A melting pot: Cultures showcased at Frist for the 2001 International Festival

Yes, 400 pieces of sushi for the reception on Thursday."Listening to Paula Chow, director of the University's International Center, orchestrate the last-minute details for this week's International Festival, one observes the development of an event that, like so many things, started small.In 1974, before the IC was even in existence, Chow organized a small gathering of faculty and students, providing attendees the opportunity to celebrate their diverse international backgrounds.

NEWS | 04/04/2001

Ressa speaks at APAHM inauguration

Yesterday marked the kickoff of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Opening ceremonies took place at the Third World Center last night featuring guest speaker PJ Kim and visiting humanities professor Maria Ressa as keynote speaker.Ressa spoke about Asian-American identity and her experiences as a Filipino immigrant."What's Asian-American?" she said.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

University to address residential college advising with new directors of studies

New directors of studies are being hired as part of an initiative put forward by the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the residential colleges in an effort to improve advising in the residential colleges.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

Wilkinson to discuss ACLU and free speech

A 132,000-page FBI file. One year in prison under dubious circumstances. Thirty-eight years of government surveillance.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

A Transcontinental Course

Princeton geosciences professor Lincoln Hollister splits his time between the comfortable confines of his Guyot Hall office and the mountain ranges and freezing winds of British Columbia, where he teaches Canadian high school students about the geology of the land on which they live.According to Hollister ? a world-renowned expert on the formation of mountains ? his students from north of the boarder ask, "Don't you have rocks in New Jersey?"To these questions he replies: Not rocks like these.And so he makes the 3,000-mile trip to the other coast every year. Hollister began his research on the west coast of Canada in the early 1990s as part of an interdisciplinary research project called ACCRETE.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

Lecture to explore poems and culture

The beaming smile and laughter-creased face of Elizabeth Wojtusik on the Favorite Poem Project website tells it all.Undeniable emotion emanates even more as the Humarock, Mass., teaching consultant recites Robert Frost's "Out Out" aloud on video, testifying to poetry's powerful vocal art and personal connections.And that is exactly what Robert Pinsky, three-term Poet Laureate of the United States and mastermind behind the Favorite Poem Project, intended.These are also themes that Pinsky ? who currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, edits for the on-line journal Slate and contributes to The NewsHours with Jim Lehrer ? will evoke at this week's Tanner Lecture series, an annual event committed to advancing human values-related scholarly and scientific learning.Speaking on "American Culture and the Voice of Poetry," the award-winning poet will explore a variety of issues to appeal to many students and faculty.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

DEC alumni buy Cannon Club facility

The alumni graduate board of Dial, Elm and Cannon Club officially exercised their option to repurchase Notestein Hall ? former home of Cannon Club ? and the surrounding land last week and intend to reopen the former eating club facility, according to University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62."They sent us a certified letter [to complete the repurchase]," Wright said.

NEWS | 04/03/2001

Breaking the glass

For Courtney Weiner '01, the decision to attend law school after her graduation from college came before she even graduated from kindergarten.

NEWS | 04/02/2001

Shapiro supports stem cell research

President Shapiro recently joined with key leaders of 111 other academic institutions to advocate sustained federal funding for biomedical stem cell research."I have spent quite a lot of time thinking and working on this issue," said Shapiro, who chaired the President's National Bioethics Advisory Commission in 1999.The group of college and university leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson on March 26.

NEWS | 04/02/2001

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