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New site Unigo provides student reviews of colleges

New site Unigo provides student reviews of colleges

Harvard may have beaten Princeton out of the number one spot on the U.S. News & World Report?s Best Colleges list this year, but Princeton is making a comeback in a different way.Princeton is now the most viewed college on unigo.com, a free website launched in September designed to connect students to colleges.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Did my laptop write this itself?

Who would do better on your midterms: you or your laptop? Well, your laptop would have instant access to billions of pieces of useful information ? the dates of every Civil War battle, the conjugation of the German verb for ?to bleach,? the most stable conformational isomer of trans-1-ethyl-2-methylcyclohexane ? but only you would be able to walk to the exam room, turn over the test when it?s time to begin, read the questions and hold a pencil to write down the answers.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Pinning down support for Obama

Behind a door on Nassau Street covered with campaign posters is a group for supporters of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) who hope, with every stamp of a colorful design on a round metal button, to help usher their candidate into the White House.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Gardner '69 fund brings magicians to campus

Students entering Rocky dining hall for lunch Thursday had no idea that they?d be stepping into a scene out of ?Harry Potter,? as roving magicians sponsored by the David Gardner ?69 Magic Project performed their illusions for students in the dining hall and other places around campus.Lynn Shostack, Gardner?s wife, began the Magic Project shortly after Gardner?s death from muscular dystrophy in 2001.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Philly Mayor, 'Wire' producer: Crime still plaguing America's inner cities

Though statistics may show that crime rates are decreasing in many cities, problems in urban areas are not going away, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and David Simon said in a panel discussion Thursday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

BP renews University's carbon contract

BP announced this week that it would extend its research partnership with the University?s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) by five years.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Hypersonic air travel: coming to an airport near you

Hypersonic air travel for the masses may be on its way to becoming a reality, with the help of airflow-modeling work from a research team led by mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor Pino Martin.

NEWS | 10/16/2008

Holt: 'Drilling is only a sideshow,' invest in energy R&D

?The greatest insult to our planet and our world economy is the way we produce and use energy,? Rep.

NEWS | 10/15/2008

P-Votes registration drive nets nearly 500

An additional 478 Princetonians are now registered to vote around the country following a registration drive by P-Votes that ended earlier this week.

NEWS | 10/15/2008

John Luria named head of bridge-year program

John Luria has been named the new bridge-year program?s first director, a position he will assume in December, University officials announced last week.

NEWS | 10/15/2008

Antonenko explains long history of Georgian conflict

Though many Americans may have first heard of South Ossetia in August, this summer?s conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian region is a continuation of a decades-long conflict in the Caucasus, Oksana Antonenko, an expert on Georgian and South Ossetian relations, told a crowd of students, faculty and community members in Jones Hall on Wednesday afternoon.Antonenko, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who advises policymakers both in the United States and abroad about conflict resolution in the Caucasus, gave a detailed account of the events surrounding this summer?s war and outlined her proposals for strengthening relations in the region.?There was no turning back,? Antonenko said of the conflict.

NEWS | 10/15/2008

USG rules Bill Pang '12 overspent on campaign

In a closed-door executive session on Tuesday night, the USG Senate upheld its original decision to declare Austin Hollimon ?12 freshman class treasurer, rejecting an appeal by Bill Pang ?12 to overturn his disqualification.Though Pang received a majority of the votes in the runoff election, he was disqualified after an investigation revealed that he had exceeded campaign spending limits.?The margin was close,? senior elections manager Braeden Kepner-Kraus ?10 said in an interview Wednesday.

NEWS | 10/15/2008

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison reads from new book 'A Mercy'

Emotionally provocative scenes from Toni Morrison?s newest book, ?A Mercy,? silenced a packed Alexander Hall on Tuesday evening, as she illustrated to the assembled crowd the ubiquity of slavery in civilization?s history.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Materials science gets $20 million from government

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a nearly $20 million grant to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) that will provide funding for the center to continue its research for another six years.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Ramdas GS ’88 fights for global women’s rights

Twenty years ago, Kavita Ramdas GS ?88 was a Wilson School student chatting with professors over lunch.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

'Million Little Pieces' author Frey fills 'Slander' class with profanity

Expletives flew freely as controversial celebrity author James Frey joined English professor Sophie Gee in her class, ENG 231: Dirty Words: Satire, Slander and Society, on Tuesday morning.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Coll: Bin Laden shaped by family

Though Americans now view Osama bin Laden as the world?s most wanted terrorist, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Steve Coll reminded a crowd in Dodds Auditorim on Tuesday afternoon that the al-Qaeda leader comes from a charismatic and entrepreneurial family.By focusing on the bin Laden family story, Coll attempted to create a different lens from which to view Osama, since many tend to examine him in the light of the war in Afghanistan and international Islamist movements.Coll, author of ?The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century,? noted that Osama?s father, Muhammed Awad bin Laden, founded the company that would become the sole contractor of the Saudi Arabian royal family.Muhammed passed his ?charismatic genius? to his sons, Coll said.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Web update: USG upholds disqualification of Pang '12

The USG Senate, meeting in a private executive session late Tuesday night, rejected an appeal by Bill Pang ?12, who asked that the invalidation of his candidacy for Class of 2012 treasurer be overturned.Though Pang won more votes than runner-up Austin Hollimon ?12, he exceeded campaign spending limits.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Township to discuss billing of debt

After passing a resolution last week that would formalize debt-billing practices between Princeton Borough and the Township, the Borough Council is now waiting for the Township to respond, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi said at Tuesday night?s council meeting.The Township will discuss the billing practices at its next meeting, Bruschi said.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

Hypnotists can’t control you

Peter Hummon GS trained for three years to be a hypnotist. But when he tells people at parties that he?s a hypnotist, they often ?cover their eyes, change the subject, or dash across the room,? he said.

NEWS | 10/14/2008

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