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New Jersey to vote on death penalty repeal

New Jersey to vote on death penalty repeal

State lawmakers will vote in mid-December on the issue of abolishing the death penalty. If passed, the measure would reduce the state's severest punishment to life-imprisonment without parole, making New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court allowed states to reinstate capital punishment in 1976.The measure has been supported by Gov.

NEWS | 11/12/2007

Finding their way south

At seven on a brisk September morning last year, ecology professor Martin Wikelski piloted a small aircraft tracking white-crowned sparrows through southern New Jersey.On the ground, postdoctoral researcher Richard Holland and his team followed close behind in two vehicles that looked like something out of a "Star Wars" movie, equipped with antennae and tracking apparatuses.Now, more than a year later, their research has shed new light on the more sophisticated navigation ability of adult birds.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

Mormonism threatens Romney's presidential nomination, panel says

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may face an uphill battle as he seeks his party's nomination since he must win over a heavily evangelical conservative base that distrusts his Mormon religion, speakers at a panel held Saturday said.Titled "Mitt, Mormonism, and the Media," the panel examined how the media portrays Mormonism to the American public, and how that portrayal may affect the former Massachusetts governor's quest for his party's nomination.The major controversy discussed by the four presenters ? Time magazine editor Amy Sullivan, documentary maker Helen Whitney, political theorist Russell Fox and Trinity College religion scholar Mark Silk ? was the influence of anti-Mormon conservative Christians who will be reluctant to select him as their party's nominee.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

Alumni recall lax booze rules

As students debated over the weekend the stricter enforcement policies that the University announced to RCAs last week, alumni reminisced about longer leashes and laxer rules regarding drinking during their times at Princeton."When I was at Princeton, there were kegs everywhere.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

Budget, Ivy Council on USG agenda

Academic advising, a recent Ivy Council conference, the USG budget and upcoming events headlined last night's USG meeting.USG academics chair Sarah Breslow '08 updated the gathering on several projects that were publicized this weekend in a school-wide email, including "Take Your Professor to Lunch Week" and efforts to reform academic advising.This week, dining halls and eating clubs will allow students to bring their professors to lunch for free.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

PALS-ing around

Volunteers play a game with local children in Murray-Dodge Hall at the Korean American Students Association's annual Princeton's Adopted Little Siblings (PALS) day on Saturday.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

Celebrate the arts

President Tilghman and Peter Lewis '55 offer remarks at "A Celebration of the Arts at Princeton" on Friday.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

Rep. Saxton to retire after completing current term

Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), who represents New Jersey's Third Congressional District, announced Friday that he would retire after finishing his current term.Saxton, 64, a Republican whose district includes Burlington, Camden and Ocean counties, has served in Congress for 23 years.He cited various health conditions, including his recent treatment for prostate cancer, as reasons for his retirement.

NEWS | 11/11/2007

U. kicks off $1.75 billion campaign

The University launches its $1.75 billion capital campaign today, kicking off five years of concentrated fundraising led by President Tilghman and a committee of alumni.Tilghman staged a press conference in Maclean House yesterday to officially announce the campaign.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

Students wary of stricter policy

Students' reactions to the University's heightened efforts to deter underage drinking varied, but many expressed concerns about the changes.First reported in yesterday's Daily Princetonian, the revised policies increase the involvement of Public Safety officers and RCAs in enforcing drinking rules.A team of two Public Safety officers has already begun actively patrolling dorms on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights looking for possible violations, rather than responding only to calls as they did in the past.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

Campus groups go pint for pint in blood race

This year, two campus groups are vying to see who can draw the most blood.The Red Cross Club, led by president Meaghan Petersack '08, and Princeton Blood Donors (PBD), founded by Hannibal Person '08, are both soliciting donations in what Person described as a "friendly competition."Petersack's group is hosting the first of its semiannual blood drives next Thursday and Friday, hoping to collect 300 pints from donors, which would put the group on track to best the 505 total pints it collected last year from University students, faculty and staff."We hope to beat our last year numbers," Petersack said.Those numbers, in turn, more than doubled the number of pints the Red Cross Club collected the previous year.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

With no early applicants, U. will draw heavily on waitlist

With the elimination of Early Decision for the Class of 2012, the University is entering uncharted territory as it reviews this year's batch of applicants.The Admission Office has seen rapid growth in the number of regular decision candidates in recent times, with the applicant pool growing from 13,000 to almost 19,000 over the past four years.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

Out of Africa, into the seminar room

For the past two weeks, former Sen. Bill Frist '74 (R-Tenn.) has kept to his typical schedule: trips to Egypt, Spain and Morocco, speeches in Tennessee and Michigan, two lectures at Princeton and meetings with seven graduate and undergraduate students.Frist, a cardiothoracic surgeon who served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007, is spending the year as a visiting professor at the Wilson School.This semester, he is co-teaching a graduate-level seminar on the political economy of health systems with economics and Wilson School professor Uwe Reinhardt.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

New campaign is first ever with a goal over $1 billion

Tonight's launch of "Aspire: A Plan for Princeton" will mark the public start of the University's fourth and largest formal capital campaign in its 261-year history.Each of the last three University presidents ? Harold Shapiro GS '64, William Bowen GS '58 and Robert Goheen '40 ? have conducted major fundraising campaigns during their tenures, urging alumni and others to give to the University.President Tilghman's five-year, $1.75 billion effort is far larger than Princeton's first fundraising campaign, launched by Goheen in 1959.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

Hey man, nice shot (of cold air)

Weather Pals, it's been a busy week. With the Writer's Guild on strike since Monday, the nation is already experiencing crippling banter shortages, with zany antics down 31percent and the snappiness of American comebacks off a whopping 77 percent.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

News and Notes

University ranks sixth in the worldPrinceton is the sixth-best university in the world, according to the 2007 World University Rankings, printed yesterday in The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).Princeton ranked below Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Imperial College London.The University has ranked first, tied with or above Harvard and Yale, in the U.S.

NEWS | 11/08/2007

University tightens alcohol enforcement policy

The University has revised some of its policies regarding enforcing alcohol laws on campus, expanding the reach of Public Safety officers and residential college advisers (RCAs) in dormitories.Public Safety officers began implementing one of the new policies just before Fall Break by patrolling dorm hallways on weekend nights in search of unruly parties.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

N.J. voters turn down stem cell borrowing

New Jersey voters rejected a ballot referendum during state elections Tuesday that would have approved the borrowing of $450 million to support stem cell research.Fifty-four percent of voters rejected the referendum, which would have provided funding for research using embryonic stem cells over the next 10 years.This is the first instance in 17 years that voters in New Jersey have rejected a statewide ballot question, called a "public question," according to The New York Times.The defeat of the referendum will likely have an impact on University research programs, which have benefited greatly from stem cell research funding since then-Gov.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

Mixed-race individuals suffer from a lack of societal options

"I hate to break the news to you, but not all [mixed-race people are] so cute," Carmen Van Kreckhove said last night at the start of "Cute but Confused: Myths and Realities of Mixed Race Identity," a lecture on the misconceptions about people of more than one racial background.Van Kreckhove, co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that facilitates discussions on race and racism, addressed issues of racism against multiracial people during yesterday's presentation before a large audience in Frist 302.Of Chinese and Belgian ancestry, Van Kreckhove presented several myths and stereotypes about multiracial people.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

Shoot 'em up

Ralph Schaefer '09 sits down in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room for a flu vaccination during the three-day annual FluFest.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

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