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USG Senate supports moving polling location

USG Senate supports moving polling location

At its weekly Senate meeting last night, the USG passed a resolution voicing its support for moving the polling location for District 1 of Princeton Borough to a spot on the University campus.David Christie ?10 presented the resolution ? a joint venture betwen the College Democrats, College Republicans and P-Votes ? at the meeting and explained that ?basically what we?re trying to do is get more students to vote.??For 91.8 percent [of eligible voters] it would be more convenient to vote on campus,? he said.Christie presented 2007 statistics provided by the Princeton Borough Clerk showing that the Borough?s District 1 was composed of about 92 percent students, 4 percent University-affiliated voters and 4 percent non-University voters.

NEWS | 10/05/2008

University professors identify novel collective state of electrons

A recent discovery by professors at the University may change the understanding of the fundamental behavior of electrons and lead to significant developments in electronics.For the most part, electrons are solitary, whirling haphazardly through space as a complex hybrid of wave and particle.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Students come out for VP debate

Television screens lit up across campus Thursday night as students tuned in to the debate between vice presidential nominees Gov.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Tse: Plastic is versatile medium

Plastic as a medium in art has the inherent paradox of being temporal in use but permanent in substance, sculptor Shirley Tse said in a sparsely attended expose of her work Thursday afternoon at 185 Nassau St.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

One man, one voting machine

Computer science Professor Andrew Appel ?81 doesn?t keep a voting machine in his office, but there is one across the hall in a locked room for quick access.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Work begins on new hospital site

Construction of a hospital in Plainsboro to replace the current University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) will begin today.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Ehrlich: Campus Plan has problems

There are significant flaws in the University?s current plans to regulate traffic flow under the 10-year Campus Plan, Theodore Ehrlich, an employee of the transportation and infrastructure company DMJM Harris, said at a meeting of the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Thursday night.Three already-dangerous intersections would become even more problematic due to an increase in traffic, Ehrlich said.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Cottage tax status still undecided

The seven-year battle over Cottage Club?s tax-exempt status as a historical site is not any closer to resolution now that the New Jersey State Supreme Court has remanded the case to the Superior Court.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Anti-obesity drugs could halt viral infections

Defeating viruses such as the flu or HIV or even halting the spread of cancer may soon involve nothing more than taking a variety of existing anti-obesity drugs.Viruses increase cellular metabolism to reproduce themselves, and some existing anti-obesity drugs can block these metabolic changes and nearly halt viral reproduction in infected cells, according to research recently published by scientists from Princetonnd the University of Rochester Medical Center.?If you can prevent a virus from making copies, you have essentially stopped it,? said Bryson Bennett, a researcher from Princeton?s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

NEWS | 10/02/2008

Scholars urge United States to focus on internal stability

By showing initiative in combating global warming and addressing world food shortages, the United States can gain the cooperation of foreign nations, former White House National Security Adviser Nancy Soderberg and Middle East scholar Brian Katulis GS ?00 said in a joint lecture at the Wilson School on Wednesday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

Qureshi: U.S. violated Pakistan's sovereignty

Pakistan?s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, addressed such questions as how Pakistan will aid in the United States? ongoing fight against terrorism and rectify its domestic problems in a packed Dodds Auditorium on Wednesday night.?We are in a war against extremists,? Qureshi said of his country.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

Planting SEEDs for success

It was an overcast Saturday afternoon in September 1993, and as the sun peeked through the partly cloudy sky, 4-year-old Launice Smith sat in her mother?s lap at a football game outside of the recently closed Weatherless Elementary in Southeast Washington, D.C.A gunshot pierced the air.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

Newark mayor calls for American unity

The two integral aspects of true patriotism are love and courage to see the truth, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said during the first of three Toni Morrison Lectures Wednesday night in McCosh 50.The talk was titled ?The Past: A Testimony to the Impossible? and focused on race in American history.Booker discussed the racial segregation and discrimination his parents faced during their youth, both before and after college.Despite these challenges, Booker said, his parents encouraged him to appreciate both the good and the bad in America.Booker, a Democrat who has been described by the media as a post-racial politican and often compared to Sen.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

COMBO: Social class definitions disparate

The results of the Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey, released Tuesday, revealed that students? experiences at the University vary with their self-reported socioeconomic class.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

Coan ’09: McCain can’t handle economy

Students interested in becoming economics professors might want to consider Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as a pupil, at least according to the premise of a skit titled ?I Could Be McCain?s Econ 101 Teacher? that is being staged in front of Frist Campus Center every day this week.Written by James Coan ?09 and organized by a group of students composed largely of staff from the Princeton Progressive Nation (PPN), a left-of-center campus magazine, the demonstration targets the Republican presidential nominee for what the students see as his weakness on economic policy.The comedic performance ?questions Sen.

NEWS | 10/01/2008

Cannon club will now reopen in February 2010

Those waiting expectantly for Cannon Club to reopen in February 2009 can give up hope. In an interview Tuesday, Warren Crane ?62, president of the Dial Elm Cannon (DEC) Graduate Board, said that he plans for the club to open in February 2010, in time for the Class of 2012 to have the opportunity to be the first official members of Cannon since its doors closed in 1972.?We definitely want to announce that we won?t be taking any undergraduate members at the end of this semester for the spring semester of 2009,? Crane said.

NEWS | 09/30/2008

COMBO: Wealth divides undergraduate community

For the full PDF of the COMBO survey results, click here.The results of the Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey, which were not made public to the University community until now, indicate that there are dramatic differences in how students of different socioeconomic backgrounds evaluate their social and academic experiences at the University.The findings have been available to the USG and the University administration for nine months but were not posted on the USG website until late Tuesday night, after having been distributed to the USG Senate and The Daily Princetonian on Monday.The survey asked respondents to identify their perceived socioeconomic level and ask questions regarding participants? social activities and quality of life.

NEWS | 09/30/2008

Without Wilcox, dance groups search for space

Though Wilcox Hall?s dining facilities reopened last week, the building?s dance studio remains closed for construction, throwing the practice schedules of many campus dance troupes off track.These groups all scheduled their practice times in the studio last year before being informed of plans for the building?s renovation.The ongoing construction has therefore caused some frustration, particularly because the Wilcox studio, located directly above the dining hall, is one of the most utilized dance spaces on campus.Though it is not one of the three largest rehearsal spaces on campus, the studio was used by all dance groups to rehearse smaller pieces.?Having Wilcox closed has definitely affected the dance community as a whole,? diSiac president Perry Nagin ?09 said in an e-mail.She added that the decrease in the number of available rehearsal spaces ?puts every company in a difficult position since the space allotted to student dance groups is already so minimal that fighting for even fewer spots adds unnecessary tension.?Nagin said that the closing of the Wilcox studio has left diSiac with the following options for practice space: Dillon Gym?s group fitness room, multipurpose room and dance studio; the dance studio in Whitman College and the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau St.These spaces are shared by about 20 theater and dance companies, Nagin explained, and the free spaces in Dillon are not available until after group fitness classes are done.The dance studio in Whitman is not available until 4:30 p.m., and diSiac only has one rehearsal slot in Hagan, since the use of that space is allotted by the Program in Theater and Dance, Nagin added.Nagin said that diSiac did not use the Wilcox studio as often as other groups but that the renovation ?does affect us more ... in that the groups that used it more often are now in need of the space typically reserved for larger groups.?The closing of the Wilcox space, however, has been partially alleviated by the opening of the Whitman dance studio.?We have found [the Wilcox closing] a bit of an inconvenience, but it hasn?t been horrible,? Naacho co-president Maya Srinivasan ?10 said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 09/30/2008

Manning will not come to Princeton

Though rumors have been circulating on the internet recently that noted Civil War historian and Georgetown associate professor Chandra Manning may be joining the Princeton?s history department, Manning denied these rumors in an interview with The Daily Princetonian this week.?I know that over the summer there was some internet speculation,? Manning said in an interview Monday, ?but I?m actually very happy at Georgetown, and I?m planning on staying.?Manning, who received her doctorate from Harvard in 2002, was dubbed a ?rising star in the history of the Civil War? by The Boston Globe.

NEWS | 09/30/2008

Luke: Sexual relationships affect remittances in Africa

Gifts and monetary transfers to women in non-marital sex relationships negatively affect the amount of money that Kenyan migrant men send home to their families, Brown sociology professor Nancy Luke said in a talk in Wallace Hall on Tuesday.Titled ?Migrants? Competing Commitments: Sexual Partners in Urban Africa and Remittances to the Rural Origin,? it was the third lecture in the Office of Population Research?s Notestein seminar series.Luke discussed her research on the tendencies of migrant men to partake in transactional sex in Kisumu, Kenya?s third-largest city.

NEWS | 09/30/2008

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