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Bloomberg shows high radon levels

Bloomberg shows high radon levels

The University?s yearlong effort to measure radon levels in residential buildings on campus revealed that certain buildings have concentrations of the gas that are significantly higher than amounts recommended by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines.After the University took steps to better ventilate sites in which high radon concentrations were found, subsequent testing in these areas yielded radon levels consistent with federal guidelines, according to a University statement.Radon gas is produced by decaying uranium in the soil, University health physicist Sue Dupre explained.

NEWS | 03/23/2008

Around the Ivies

Harvard Law to fund year for future public servantsHarvard Law School announced March 18 that starting with its Class of 2011 it will fund the third year?s tuition for all students who pledge to work five years in the public sector after graduation.?I want all of our students to have the ability to make public service their first choice after law school,? law school dean Elena Kagan ?81 said in a statement.

NEWS | 03/23/2008

Alumnus donates Picasso work to U.

The University Art Museum announced on March 14 its acquisition of Pablo Picasso?s ?Tete d?homme et nu assis? ? Man?s Head and Seated Nude ? through a donation from Gregory Callimanopulos ?57.

NEWS | 03/23/2008

Students give back to community over break

Dispersing all across the country from New York to Los Angeles, from New Orleans to Arizona, participants in the Pace Center?s Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips tackled social problems hands-on and put into practice the University?s unofficial motto ?Princeton in the Nation?s Service.?Chelsea Craigie ?09, the coordinator for the Breakout Princeton trips, said in an e-mail that ?because the most common reason for not being involved on campus is not enough time during the average week,? the trips aimed to capitalize on the free time that spring break affords students.

NEWS | 03/23/2008

Will Scharf '08 will sue Borough

The Princeton Borough Municipal Court has dismissed all charges against former Charter Club president Will Scharf ?08, according to a statement provided to The Daily Princetonian by Scharf?s lawyer, Rocco Cipparone.Scharf now intends to file a civil suit against Princeton Borough and its police department for ?false arrest, malicious prosecution, and federal civil rights claims,? according to the statement.Scharf, who is also the former Interclub Council chair, had been charged with serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance following an episode that occurred at Charter on Dec.

NEWS | 03/17/2008

New tower to boost signal

An AT&T antenna atop Fine Hall is in the final stages of construction and is scheduled for completion next week.?The antenna has been put up with the intent to improve the phone service on campus and in the Princeton community,? University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appleget said.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

Weather Guy #1 Club Gold

Much like the Bud Bowl, the machinations of the horny are a significant source of lulz. Some post profiles on eharmony.com, unaware that the mathematical framework behind the 37 dimensions of compatibility actually describes string theory, which explains why 92 percent of matches are with the Higgs Boson.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

Decades ago, Spitzer ’81 stirred rebels

What do Eliot Spitzer ?81, the-soon-to-be-ex-governor of New York, and a political group whose stated goal was to liberate Antarctica have in common?

NEWS | 03/13/2008

University changes plans for room draw

The University has added another portion of Little Hall to Mathey College and has taken a step back from its plans to merge part of Spelman Halls into Whitman College after reversing a decision that would have made Wright Hall part of Whitman.University administrators had originally announced plans to incorporate both Spelman 7 and 8 into Whitman at a meeting with campus leaders in late January.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

March 14: Wilson School accepts 58 percent of applicants

Paperwork filled out, recommendations obtained and transcripts submitted, sophomores who have been waiting to hear whether they have been admitted to the Wilson School flocked to their mailboxes today. Of the 154 students who applied to the program, 90 were accepted, which has been the standard Wilson School class size for the last decade. ?We had quite a range of people,? Wilson School professor and faculty chair Stanley Katz said.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

New program seeks facilities managers

Students interested in getting part of their room costs covered will have the opportunity to work in part-time custodial jobs next fall.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

Have your pi and eat it too

Applied math professor Ingrid Daubechies first learned about pi as a young child, when her father told her to go around the house and measure the circumference and diameter of every circle she could find.?It made an incredibly strong impression on me,? Daubechies said.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

Rising food costs won’t impact residential dining

In spite of soaring food prices worldwide, Dining Services Director Stu Orefice says that Princeton students will not be seriously affected.According to a recent estimate by the United Nations, world food prices have increased by 37 percent in the past year, and studies by The Economist found a 75 percent increase since 2005.?The students will not be affected by any price increases until the summer or fall semester,? Orefice said.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

March 14: Whitman '77 to co-lead McCain campaign

Recently retired CEO of eBay, Inc., and University trustee Meg Whitman ?77 joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on his bid for the White House as the national co-chair of the campaign. ?America needs John McCain?s courageous leadership,? Whitman said in a campaign statement today.

NEWS | 03/13/2008

Slideshow: Graduate Student Government Elections Results

Election results for the Graduate Student Government were verified by the elections managers last evening.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Searching for that rara avis

Wandering for 30 minutes through a residential neighborhood in Panama, holding a large antenna aloft and listening intently for the quiet hum of a bird's heart rate on a static radio, Margaret Kearns '09 finally spotted a gold-collared manakin.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Charter cuts shared meal plan numbers

The number of shared meal plans offered at Charter Club will decrease from 30 to 17 after the administration requested that the club pay the University three times the amount it did last year per shared meal plan.Charter will offer five of those plans to rising juniors and 12 to rising seniors.The nine other eating clubs, however, will not substantially alter their financial contracts with the University.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Volker: NATO forces United States and Europe to face global issues together

NATO faces the challenge of combining European and American alliances to deal with global problems, said Kurt Volker, principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs for the State Department, before a crowd of students, professors and community members in Robertson Hall yesterday afternoon.He noted that the United States must work cooperatively with its European allies in NATO because "we are only effective at dealing with [other countries] if we deal with them together."Volker, who worked under NATO's former secretary general Lord George Robertson for several years, has been nominated by President Bush to represent the United States on the NATO Council as a permanent representative.NATO members "are countries that have democracy, human rights, market economies [and] peaceful negotiations," he explained.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Spitzer '81 resigns as N.Y. Gov.

In the end, the self-proclaimed ?steamroller? was felled by an adversary no one anticipated: himself.With his wife by his side, New York Gov.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Freshman organizes youth conference

This July, 20 Iraqi and 15 American teenagers will meet in Jordan to discuss the ongoing conflict in Iraq as part of the Youth Initiative for Progress in Iraq (YIPI) conference, which is partially run by University students and has received funding from several University departments.The event is modeled after ?Initiative for Peace: Focus on Kashmir,? a meeting between Indian and Pakistani teens in which participants talked about the conflict in the Pakistani province of Kashmir that Astrid Stuth ?11 helped organize while attending the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

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