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Eleven days out, students hit trail for candidates

Eleven days out, students hit trail for candidates

While only a small minority of students usually takes advantage of Fall Break for its original political purpose, this year will see more than the typical number of students on the campaign trail.Fall Break is especially important to student political involvement, as getting involved in a campaign may be difficult at other times of the year, College Democrats president Rob Weiss ?09 said.

NEWS | 10/23/2008

Liberals, libertarians find common ground

Though they have fundamentally different interpretations of liberty, liberals and libertarians agree on key issues such as national security, the economy and immigration, a panel of three liberals, three libertarians and two neutral commentators said during a discussion in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon.?We are ideological cousins sprung from common ancestry,? McGill political science professor and libertarian Jacob Levy GS ?99 said.Ideologically, the two groups agree on a sense of liberty, but they disagree about the specifics of what the term means, sociology professor Paul Starr said.Libertarians give the highest priorities to property rights, whereas liberals give greater weight to constitutional rights, Starr said.A second liberal panelist, The Nation?s Washington, D.C., editor Christopher Hayes, noted that the meaning of the term ?liberal? has changed as the political landscape in the United States has been torn apart and reformed over the past few years.?There are demographic changes in the liberal coalition,? Hayes explained.Hayes noted that the current administration?s handling of three issues have led to a liberal-libertarian alliance: the growth of the ?national security state,? immigration and economic policy.There is one significant factor, however, that differentiates liberals from libertarians, namely ?the role of government in creating and managing markets,? Wilson School professor Douglas Massey GS ?77 explained.Nevertheless, Massey said that he believes libertarians should naturally ally with liberals.

NEWS | 10/23/2008

One man’s trash is another man’s dinner

"I tell people I eat from the trash, and they think I?m crazy,? Alex Barnard ?09 said.Barnard follows the principles of freeganism.

NEWS | 10/23/2008

Looking forward to Dr. Mac-Dreamy

Watching an episode of ?Grey?s Anatomy? or ?Scrubs? gives the impression that today?s doctors-in-training and their supervisors devote about 98 percent of their time to styling their hair, sleeping with their coworkers, sleeping with their patients, talking to their coworkers about sleeping with their patients, talking to their patients about sleeping with their coworkers and admiring their coworkers? expertly styled hair.

NEWS | 10/23/2008

Ginsburg: Mutual respect unites nine

As one of the nine women out of the 500 students in the Harvard Law School class of 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to stand up for herself.

NEWS | 10/23/2008

Barnard sociologist: MLK's sermons convey love of black community

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?s rich and complex sermons convey his intense love of the black community, said Barnard sociologist Jonathan Rieder, who spoke Wednesday in front of a small audience in Lewis Library about his research on the powerful styles and themes of the preacher?s public and private words.Rieder, whose lecture was titled ? ?I?m Gonna Be a Negro Tonight?: Martin Luther King?s Preaching in the Black Pulpit,? said he gave the speech because ?I still find it fascinating to keep uncovering the richness which I always respected.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Naomi Wolf at Labyrinth: Get involved in nation's politics

A crowd of a few dozen listened to a conversation between bestselling author Naomi Wolf and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges about Wolf?s most recent book, ?Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries,? in the basement of Labyrinth Books on Wednesday evening.Wolf gained international attention after the publication of her first book, ?The Beauty Myth,? in 1990, becoming a public face for the third-wave feminist movement.After describing the United States? path to dictatorship and fascism in her sixth book, ?The End of America,? Wolf wrote a sequel, ?Give Me Liberty,? to re-examine the principles advocated by the founding fathers and to teach Americans how to best utilize the power endowed upon them by the democratic system.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Nassau Inn given permission to expand

The Regional Planning Board of Princeton approved a proposal on Thursday for a major expansion and renovation of the Nassau Inn, according to the Princeton Packet.The proposal, a revision of a 1998 plan, includes significant renovation of the existing Nassau Inn facilities, as well as the construction of a six-story addition along Hulfish Street and a three-story building at the site of the one-story Lindt Chocolate store on Palmer Square West.The Planning Board granted the Nassau Inn permission for the six-story structure, despite zoning restrictions that allow only five stories.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Police case vexes Borough

Several Borough Council members noted their frustration with the pace of the investigation in the cases involving three Princeton Borough Police Department officers at last week?s council meeting, citing the financial burden of keeping three officers on the Borough?s payroll in the interim.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Molecular biology professor tracks polling with algorithm

Molecular biology professor Sam Wang believes he will know the winner of the 2008 presidential election by 8:30 p.m.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Sarbanes '84 champions education

Rep. John Sarbanes '84 (D-Md.) grew up witnessing in his parents what he called "the best example of public service." A generation later, in 2006, the younger Sarbanes was elected to represent Maryland's 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives, the same district that his father, Paul Sarbanes '54, represented 30 years ago.This November, Sarbanes will run for re-election against Thomas Harris, a Republican running his first-ever campaign.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Lovely night, lackluster acting

You might wonder why McCarter Theatre would choose to produce a two-person play in the larger of its two theaters.

NEWS | 10/22/2008

Caplan: Beware Holocaust analogies

While it is common for analogies to be made between topics such as abortion or euthanasia and the Holocaust, the vast majority of such analogies are baseless, Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at Penn, explained in a talk at the Lewis-Thomas Laboratory on Tuesday.During his lecture, titled ?Bioethics & the Holocaust,? Caplan said that medical experimentation during World War II is often ignored in discussions of bioethics, though the field originated largely in response to Nazi doctors? atrocities during the war.Caplan said that many bioethics articles, however, reference the Nuremberg Code, rules governing medical research on humans developed specifically to prevent future instances of the barbaric experiments carried out on concentration camp prisoners.One reason the bioethics community often ignores the topic of the Holocaust is that it is hard to accept that doctors were so intimately associated with it, with some bioethicists suggesting that only ?fringe elements? were involved, Caplan said.On the contrary, ?collaboration between the medical community and the Nazi party was so intimate that if you took away all Nazi doctors, you would have virtually no doctors left,? Caplan said.

NEWS | 10/21/2008

Point, Webmail revamped

Correction appendedBoth the University Webmail system and the USG's Point website have been redeveloped in the past week to

NEWS | 10/21/2008

Tilghman named chair of association of universities

President Tilghman has been named chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the University announced Tuesday.The AAU is a nonprofit organization that represents the interests of public and private research universities in federal government relations, policy studies and public affairs.

NEWS | 10/21/2008

Felzenberg GS ’78 rates presidents using six criteria

The merit of a U.S. president can be measured based on a set of six criteria, Alvin Felzenberg GS ?78, a historian and veteran of two presidential administrations, explained in a lecture Tuesday afternoon in Aaron Burr Hall.In the lecture, titled ?What Makes for Greatness in a President,? Felzenberg noted that, as the legacies of almost all the presidents remain stagnant over time, there is a need for a more investigative evaluation of each man?s merit.?Let the political scientists into the act,? he said, explaining the need for a more rational rating system.

NEWS | 10/21/2008

University expects financial stability despite lower endowment returns

Despite the recent economic downturn, the University community has little reason to worry about its endowment and capital campaign money, Provost Christopher Eisgruber ?83 and Vice President for Development Brian McDonald ?83 said Tuesday.The endowment grew 5.6 percent in the last fiscal year, compared to 24.7 percent the year before.

NEWS | 10/21/2008

Fleischmann ’86 eschewed Wall Street

At a time when his classmates were flocking to Wall Street, Andy Fleischmann ?86 realized that he wasn?t interested in that career path.

NEWS | 10/21/2008

Google CEO Schmidt '76 to join Obama campaign

Google CEO Eric Schmidt ?76 will join presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on the campaign trail, making his debut at a panel discussion on the economy today in Florida.Schmidt has advised the campaign on technology and energy issues, supporting policies to improve technology in society, The Wall Street Journal reported.Though Google has a vested interest in issues being discussed in Congress, Schmidt told the Journal that he is supporting Obama in a personal capacity and that ?Google is officially neutral.?On Capitol Hill, congressmen are discussing measures that would limit companies? abilities to target specific consumers through online advertisements.

NEWS | 10/20/2008

Tigers walk for fitness

The Princeton Start! Walking Program held its second annual event last Friday featuring an information fair on healthy living and a one-mile fun walk.

NEWS | 10/20/2008

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