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Program helps disabled Elis

Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Program helps disabled Elis

Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Classes? No go, I’d rather sleep

In the busy haze of Princeton life, many students might ask: Who hasn?t missed a class? Beneath this reality, a variety of factors, some far removed from the quality of the course, impact students? decisions, while faculty members employ a growing number of techniques to ensure their weekly presence.Lack of sleep appears to be the prevailing student explanation for missing class, in addition to class size, department and quality of the course.Jahnabi Barooah ?11 said she recently missed her 9 a.m.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

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Digital orchestra wins MacArthur funding

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) has received an Innovation Award totaling $238,000 from the MacArthur Foundation?s Digital Media and Learning Competition.Co-founded by music professor Daniel Trueman GS ?99 and computer science professor Perry Cook in 2005, PLOrk is a musical performance group of 15 laptop-based instruments.The award money will allow the currently technologically limited PLOrk to become more portable, stylish and harmonious, Trueman said.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

The Daily Princetonian

U. to join worker rights group

The University will submit its application for membership in the Worker Right Consortium (WRC) within the next few days, said Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69, after years of debate by the Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

NEWS | 02/20/2008

The Daily Princetonian

French ambassador stresses diplomatic action

A new form of diplomatic action must be developed to fight terrorism, Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the United States, said yesterday in a lecture titled ?The Role of Diplomacy in Today?s World.?Diplomacy is needed ?more than ever? to solve world problems, Vimont said, explaining that ?military action has taken over ... diplomatic action.? He cited interventions in Kosovo in 1999 and post-Sept.

NEWS | 02/20/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Cannon Club’s opening set for February 2009

Cannon Club will reopen its doors next February, said Warren Crane ?62, president of the Dial Elm Cannon (DEC) Graduate Board.In an interview with The Daily Princetonian in January, Executive Vice President Mark Burstein confirmed that the club is currently slotted for a February 2009 launch.Crane had initially predicted that the club would open in time for Bicker this year.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

The Daily Princetonian

University publishes full campus plan

The University finalized the most comprehensive campus plan in its history yesterday, publishing the full details in a 180-page book and hosting an open house to discuss the plan.The book, entitled ?Princeton Campus Plan: The Next Ten Years and Beyond,? was published after the University released a 24-page brochure earlier this month.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Iraqi defense minister blames economic troubles on oil

Ali Allawi, a former Iraqi minister of trade, defense and finance, said that the mere presence of oil is one of the fundamental causes of the current economic crisis in Iraq in a lecture yesterday afternoon.?Iraq is cursed,? he said to an audience of students and community members in Aaron Burr Hall.Allawi began the talk, entitled ?Iraq: Economic Development and the Oil Curse,? by stating that ever since the discovery of oil in the Middle East, oil has poisoned Iraqi politics, dragged the rest of the world into the country?s internal affairs and created a disastrous economic experience, making it the most oil-dependent state in the world.Allawi served as both minister of trade and as minister of defense for the Iraqi Governing Council from 2003 to 2004, and was then appointed minister of finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Cannon Club’s opening set for February 2009

Cannon Club will reopen its doors next February, said Warren Crane ?62, president of the Dial Elm Cannon (DEC) Graduate Board.In an interview with The Daily Princetonian in January, Executive Vice President Mark Burstein confirmed that the club is currently slotted for a February 2009 launch.Crane had initially predicted that the club would open in time for Bicker this year.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Iraqi defense minister blames economic troubles on oil

Ali Allawi, a former Iraqi minister of trade, defense and finance, said that the mere presence of oil is one of the fundamental causes of the current economic crisis in Iraq in a lecture yesterday afternoon.?Iraq is cursed,? he said to an audience of students and community members in Aaron Burr Hall.Allawi began the talk, entitled ?Iraq: Economic Development and the Oil Curse,? by stating that ever since the discovery of oil in the Middle East, oil has poisoned Iraqi politics, dragged the rest of the world into the country?s internal affairs and created a disastrous economic experience, making it the most oil-dependent state in the world.Allawi served as both minister of trade and as minister of defense for the Iraqi Governing Council from 2003 to 2004, and was then appointed minister of finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

The Daily Princetonian

University publishes full campus plan

The University finalized the most comprehensive campus plan in its history yesterday, publishing the full details in a 180-page book and hosting an open house to discuss the plan.The book, entitled ?Princeton Campus Plan: The Next Ten Years and Beyond,? was published after the University released a 24-page brochure earlier this month.

NEWS | 02/19/2008