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Facebook frustrates students' efforts to quit

Facebook frustrates students' efforts to quit

Think you can quit Facebook? Think again. Jane Dobkin ?10 decided to leave the popular networking site and deactivated her facebook.com account, but she still continued to receive friend requests and e-mails sent through the website, she said.

NEWS | 02/12/2008

Borough to fight moth problem

The Borough Council vowed to combat the gypsy moth at its meeting last night. Declaring the moth a ?public nuisance,? the Council voted to authorize ?all measures deemed necessary? to ?suppress this forest and shade-tree pest.?During the meeting the Council also approved the December police report, authorized new pay scales for Borough officials and heard a report from the Arts Council.Princeton?s crusade against the hungry moth will be coordinated with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture?s Gypsy Moth Suppression Program.

NEWS | 02/12/2008

Prize created to honor Adam ’07

Shortly before he died from a rare form of bone cancer, Alexander Adam ?07 joked that a prize should be created in his memory for ?the most creative freshman with the worst GPA,? his mother, Eleanor Adam, said.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

Conference to bring graphic design to U.

Students who find the University desperately lacking in graphic design opportunities should have their interest sated by UDesign, an upcoming conference that will highlight graphic design?s impact on our lives and will give students the opportunity to learn firsthand from field leaders.UDesign, which connotes both ?you design? and ?universities of design,? will focus on the influence of individuals and society on design and graphic design?s ability to transcend multiple disciplines.The conference, which will be held on March 1, is the first of its kind to take place on campus.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

Clicking for credit in the classroom

On the game show ?Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,? contestants stumped by their multiple-choice question can poll the audience to see how many people support each answer.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

CPUC looks at drinking, arts center

President Tilghman led the charge against binge drinking by discussing the formation of the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) at yesterday?s monthly meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

Muslims protest online images

Wikipedia.org, the popular online encyclopedia run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, has sparked heated reactions from Muslims who object to the site?s inclusion of images of the prophet Muhammad in an article bearing his name.?There have been complaints from Muslims saying ?it offends me personally? or ?it offends my religion,? ? Wikipedia spokesman Dan Rosenthal said.An online petition, which surfaced in early December 2007 and has since gathered more than 134,000 signatures, is requesting that Wikipedia remove images of the Prophet, citing the teaching in Islam that forbids images of the Prophet and all living creatures.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

News & Notes

Iranian government honors NES professorNear Eastern studies professor Michael Cook received a Farabi International Award last month from the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his contributions to the study of Islam.Cook received the award for his book ?Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought,? in which he discusses Islamic ethics relevant to today?s Sunni and Shi?ite populations.

NEWS | 02/11/2008

Panel says religious vote has shifted left

Though evangelical Christians

NEWS | 02/10/2008

Alums give Princeterns a taste of the real world

Michael Chou ?10 only spent one day at his internship, but not because he was fired. As part of the redesigned ?Princeternship? program, Chou shadowed Hal Stern ?84, vice president of Sun Microsystems, on a typical workday.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

Rehnquist's legacy scrutinized

A panel that included faculty from Notre Dame, Columbia, Yale and Princeton scrutinized the controversial tenure of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist at a discussion last Friday, as part of a conference on Rehnquist?s contributions to constitutional jurisprudence.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

With 217 bickering, Tower Club sets record

All but one eating club filled to capacity following Bicker and second-round sign-ins, signaling strong demand for club membership in the first year in which the four-year residential college system has been in place.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

USG postpones amendment vote

Correction appendedAmendments to the USG constitution proposed by USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 were tabled yesterday at the first meeting of the newly elected student body government after there was confusion about the wording of one of the amendments detailing the U-Council chair selection process.U-Councilors Sarah Langberg ?09 and Maria Salciccioli ?09 questioned the amendment in question, saying it would give the president more power in choosing U-Council chairs.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

Meteorologists gone wild! Part 1

NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 18 ? I was somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to kick in.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

Campus visit inspires inner-city students

On Friday morning, the long benches of Nassau Hall?s faculty room were filled with about 100 fifth graders from Bronx Public School 70, one of the largest public elementary schools in New York City.

NEWS | 02/10/2008

Lederman '08 wins Keasbey prize

Harvey Lederman ?08, a classics major and past recipient of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and the Haarlow Prize for coursework in humanistic studies, is the University?s sole recipient of a 2008 Keasbey Scholarship.

NEWS | 02/07/2008

Tornadoes hit students' hometowns

Shea Conaway ?10 was watching Super Tuesday coverage with a friend when news broke of the dozens of tornadoes ripping across the Southeastern United States.

NEWS | 02/07/2008

Opening doors in land of opportunity

While Lucas Baradello ?10 tackles Chinese and Arabic classes and plays for the club soccer team, he has also taken on a struggle that, in his opinion, transcends other academic and extracurricular activities: fighting the base conditions facing immigrant youth.Baradello is the co-founder and managing director of Juvenis, a California nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide internet-based educational and professional resources to disadvantaged immigrant youth.?It?s going to be the cleanest, [best]-organized, most useful scholarship, internship and information database using the latest web technologies,? he said.Baradello, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Argentina, started the organization with his brother Federico Baradello ?05 in 2004.

NEWS | 02/07/2008

IPOA president: Private military contractors are efficient, ethical

Private military contractors (PMCs) are efficient and specialized and have high ethical standards, Doug Brooks, founder and president of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), emphasized yesterday in the face of audience criticism regarding controversial PMC conduct in Iraq.

NEWS | 02/07/2008

Study: Wiretaps make us less safe

Responding to a recent federal law that increased the government?s wiretapping abilities, a study co-authored by computer science professor Jennifer Rexford ?91 concluded that more wiretapping can actually make Americans less safe.The study suggests that data collected from wiretapping could be hacked by terrorists or abused by government agents.?They can tap into an infrastructure the government essentially built for them,? Rexford said in an interview.

NEWS | 02/07/2008

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