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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New USG reaches out for student involvement

At last night?s 2008 USG kickoff meeting, officers offered more than just hot chocolate and cookies to attract student attention.

Comptroller general urges healthcare reform

America will face dire consequences if it does not reform healthcare, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker warned students and community members Wednesday afternoon during a talk in Robertson Hall.

Congress reviews financial aid policies

GOP panel discusses candidates’ character

A panel of prominent conservative political commentators analyzed the uniqueness of the 2008 election before a packed audience in the largest lecture room in Aaron Burr Hall last night.

Nader '55 considers candidacy

While the Democratic and Republican primaries have been dominated by graduates of Columbia, Wellesley College and the United States Naval Academy, among others, Princeton alumnus Ralph Nader ?55, a three-time presidential candidate, is considering a campaign of his own.Nader has organized an exploratory committee to investigate whether a campaign as an independent would be feasible, a move that prospective candidates usually make before officially announcing their intent to run.Nader said in an interview

Wilson School lectures go online

In a high-tech application of the University?s motto, ?Princeton in the Nation?s Service and in the Service of all Nations,? the Wilson School has made a vast collection of public policy and international affairs lectures and event recordings available to the public through the creation of the University Channel (UChannel).Featuring content from youtube.com and podcasts, the UChannel is hosted at uc.princeton.edu and now documents more than 1,000 hours of material.

Schlosser: Girls raise boys’ grades

Contrary to some expectations, increasing the proportion of girls in the classroom may increase the academic attentiveness of normally unfocused boys and can lead to improved learning across entire classes, research from a former post-doctorate fellow at the University shows.Analia Schlosser, who completed her fellowship in labor economics in December and is now a professor at Tel Aviv University, worked with Victor Lavy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to demonstrate that primary-school students in classes made up of more than 55 to 60 percent females show higher test scores and matriculation-success rates and less anxiety about safety concerns, violence and disruption compared to students in male-dominated classes.Many scholars believe that having mixed-gender classes sometimes causes the boys in the class to show off to the girls and the girls to subdue their talent so as not to scare off the boys by seeming too smart.

Dartmouth pres. to retire in 2009

Dartmouth College President James Wright announced Monday that he will step down from his position in June 2009.Wright, 68, will retire after 11 years as Dartmouth?s 16th president.

Final 10-year campus plan released

The University has finalized its 10-year Campus Plan and released a brochure outlining its development goals through 2016.

MPAA admits to overstating infringement

For the past two years, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had claimed that the pirating of copyrighted movies on college campuses accounted for a staggering 44 percent of monetary losses to the movie industry.

Princeton campus voters choose Obama, McCain

Princeton voters bucked the trend in New Jersey Democratic primary yesterday, choosing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) over Sen.