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Digital orchestra wins MacArthur funding

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

Corzine hosts integration panel

In a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of New Jersey?s schools, students from high schools around the Garden State debated issues surrounding the racial integration of its public schools.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

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

Stanford gives large boost to aid

The University?s financial aid policy may no longer be the single ?strongest need-based financial aid program in the country? as advertised on the University?s financial aid website, Undergraduate Financial Aid Director Robin Moscato said in an interview.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

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

JuicyCampus gushes gossip

"C?mon. Give us the juice,? beckons juicycampus.com, a website that allows anyone with access to the internet to anonymously post comments about other people.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

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

Cease and Thesis't

Mitosis is (Spellman 1996)? hmmmm? mitosis? is?Oh, hello Weather Fans.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

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

Pollster Luntz says race between McCain, Obama, calls for integrity

Frank Luntz, a pollster, Fox News commentator and political consultant, said he believed Bill Clinton has ruined his wife?s political campaign, leaving the 2008 presidential campaign in the hands of Sen.

NEWS | 02/20/2008

Flu vaccine less effective, protects fewer students

The nearly 3,000 students who were vaccinated against influenza by the University this year may be less protected than they thought, since this year?s nationally distributed flu vaccine is unusually ineffective at protecting against the most common flu viruses.

NEWS | 02/20/2008

Study-abroad students lack housing choices

Before Keerthi Shetty ?09 went to study abroad at King?s College London in fall 2007, she participated in room draw and chose to live in a Spelman suite with three of her friends.

NEWS | 02/20/2008

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

Fidel Castro steps down as president

After ruling Cuba for almost half a century, Fidel Castro announced yesterday that he is resigning his position as president of the communist island country.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

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

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

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

eBay CEO Whitman '77 resigns, considers politics

After University trustee Meg Whitman ?77 revealed on Jan. 22 that she would step down from her post as CEO of eBay, Inc., at the end of March, reports began to circulate that Whitman planned to enter the realm of politics.?I believe 10 years is the most time just about any CEO should serve,? Whitman said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 02/19/2008

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

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

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