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Kagan ’81 rumored to be top candidate for Supreme Court

Kagan ’81 rumored to be top candidate for Supreme Court

United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 is rumored to be among the top three candidates to fill Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens’s seat on the bench, following his announcement on Friday that he will retire when the court’s term ends this summer.

NEWS | 04/11/2010

Ristuccia ’75 forges path to ministry

When Matt Ristuccia ’75 first arrived on campus, he was not passionate about Princeton. And he didn’t care much about religion. But by the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with both — along with his future wife.Now celebrating 25 years as the pastor of Westerly Road Church in Princeton Borough, Ristuccia reflected on his path to the ministry and his life since, an experience that he said has been deeply rewarding.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Researcher calls pornography detrimental to the male-female relationship

Pamela Paul might be opposed to porn, but she is not “anti-sex” or a “prude.” “Porn is not sex,” Paul said, but is “at root a negation of the human experience.” Drawing a comparison between Hostess cupcakes and homemade ones, she explained that because porn is “artificial,” it is “not as good” as actual sex.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

New director of fellowships announced

Deirdre Moloney will become the director of fellowship advising, effective July 1, the University announced on Friday afternoon.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Students build wall to protest Israeli policies

For eight hours on Thursday, students walking by the north lawn outside Frist Campus Center were greeted by a 16-foot wall made of wood and Styrofoam — a symbolic representation of the wall dividing the West Bank, which has sparked extensive disagreement and conflict.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Class day speaker not yet announced

Every year, the graduating class invites a star speaker to give a speech on Class Day, the day before Commencement. In recent years, seniors have learned who will address them before turning in their theses. But the identity of this year’s guest still remains a mystery.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Kreisler ’95 elicits laughs, political discussion at event

On a warm Thursday night, Jeff Kreisler ’95 managed to elicit near-constant laughter from a crowd of roughly 60 people in McCosh 10 during an event dubbed “Comedy Against Evil,” sponsored by the College Democrats.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Freshmen explore the art of motorcycle design

Instead of completing their science and technology distribution requirement with beakers and scales, 14 freshmen are disassembling and overhauling a 50-year-old motorcycle in FRS 108: Art and Science of Motorcycle Design.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: Educational program for minority students receives Shell grant

The W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute at Princeton University, a leadership program for minority high school students, received a $100,000 donation from Shell Oil Company on Monday, The Princeton Packet reported

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Alumni work on developing site to stream live concerts

After working at a consulting company during his first year out of college, Michael Rudoy ’07 decided that he “wanted to do something more entrepreneurial.”Talking with a representative of Live Nation, a major concert promoter, Rudoy learned that the company was looking to expand into online concerts. However, Rudoy explained, it “couldn’t figure out the best viewing environment for a concert.”

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: University ranked sixth most stressful in U.S.

Princeton is the sixth most stressful college in the United States, according to The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.The top five most stressful colleges are Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn, and Harvard, the website said.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University and Google Books move forward with digitization

Around 70 percent of the 1 million books that will eventually be included in the Google Books digital archive have already been digitized, University Librarian Karin Trainer said in an e-mail. The initiative for digitization began in early 2007, when the University Library and Google agreed to a six-year contract to make less than one-tenth of the University’s 11 million holdings — which include manuscripts and periodicals as well as books — available online through Google Book Search.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University plans more shelving in Firestone

As part of an ongoing renovation process that will take at least 10 years, the University plans to begin construction on the A- and C-floors of Firestone Library this summer to increase the amount of shelving space available for special collections.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Annual Giving tops $24 million

The University’s Annual Giving fundraising campaign is making good progress toward its goals of raising $46 million and reaching a 60 percent participation rate among undergraduate alumni.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Haitian ambassador speaks at University

Three months after an earthquake decimated his nation, Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, offered a message of hope.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Global Zero aims for elimination of nuclear arsenals

Though less than two months old, a newly formed student organization, Global Zero, is already fully committed to fulfilling its mission of sparking grassroots activism and raising questions about nuclear disarmament.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Dunlay ’11 wins Elmer Adler Prize for literature collection

Book collecting is a common pastime — but rather than just gathering dust, books can earn University students thousands of dollars. The Friends of the Princeton University Library annually awards several undergraduates the Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is open to undergraduates who collect any item generally found in a library. Candidates for the prize submit an essay describing their collection, along with a bibliography listing of all its pieces.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

A culture of doubt: Sexual assault reporting on campus

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that one in five college women is a victim of sexual assault. Yet few of these students choose to report incidents to their universities.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Duggal ’87 promotes use of organic LEDs as lighting source

Anil Duggal ’87 thinks that organic light-emitting diodes may be the brightest bulbs in the bunch. An advanced technology leader for electronic materials systems at General Electric’s Global Research Headquarters in Niskayuna, N.Y., Duggal has been at the forefront of the company’s research in organic LED technology since 1999.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

U. approves termination of 13 courses at faculty meeting

The University approved dropping eight English and five politics courses and adding two engineering courses at the faculty meeting on Monday.The cuts come at a time when the total number of courses offered by the University has decreased over the last few semesters. The faculty members also discussed a memorial resolution on the death of politics professor Stanley Kelley Jr., changes to the graduate school’s curriculum and faculty nominations to various committees during the meeting.

NEWS | 04/05/2010

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