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Columbia receives $400 million

Columbia receives $400 million

A year after insurance magnate Peter Lewis '55 donated $101 million to the University, Columbia has announced its largest-ever donation, nearly four times the size of Lewis'.Media entrepreneur John Kluge, a member of Columbia's class of 1938, has pledged to give his alma mater $400 million for financial aid upon his death, the school said yesterday.The gift is "the largest ever devoted exclusively to student aid and the fourth largest ever to any single institution of higher education in the United States," the Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday.Wendell Collins, communications director of the University's development office, said that Princeton was happy to learn of the donation."It's very significant," Collins said.

NEWS | 04/11/2007

Construction begins on building for ORFE and ITP

Construction is under way on a building that will bring the social science and engineering sectors of campus under one roof.Located between Mudd Library and Wallace Hall and scheduled for completion in August 2008, the new structure will house the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) department and the Center for Information Technology Policy (ITP).Director of Engineering Communications Steven Schultz said the building will provide much-needed space for the center's growing programs.

NEWS | 04/10/2007

Sophomore campaigns for Borough Council

As tensions between the University and the Borough mount over the proposed expansion of campus facilities, a student has declared his candidacy for the Princeton Borough Council.Joe Codega '09 has filed papers to run for the council, explaining he does not want to be "just a bystander in [his] community, but an active participant."As a Republican, however, Codega ? a classics major from Barrington, R.I.

NEWS | 04/10/2007

The revolving door of engineering

Courses in the six departments housed in the E-Quad are consistently considered among the toughest offered at the University.

NEWS | 04/10/2007

Vaswani says education is imperative for peaceful world

In welcoming the Hindu philosopher and humanitarian leader Dada Vaswani to the stage of Richardson Auditorium last night, Shashi Tharoor, former undersecretary general of the United Nations, spoke of the challenge ? and the necessity ? of achieving religious tolerance and eliminating fear and rage in an increasingly globalized world."It is time for all of us to make the world safe for diversity," Tharoor said.Tharoor's introduction set the stage for Vaswani's talk, titled "Peace or Perish: There is No Other Choice," which outlined the components of a peaceful world to an audience of more than 300 people.The 88-year-old native of India began his lecture by praying to a portrait of his guru and expressing his gratitude to all those who have helped and inspired him, including "the great Nobel laureate Albert Einstein.""A thrill passes through my entire frame at the thought that Albert Einstein perhaps stood [on this stage]," he said.Vaswani obtained a masters in physics before deciding to dedicate his life to spreading his spoken and written messages of peace and tolerance.In his lecture, Vaswani emphasized the impossibility of creating a peaceful world without the proper education of children."I think we have ignored children for a long time.

NEWS | 04/10/2007

Colleges pick grad students

Correction appendedAs the University anticipates drastic changes to take effect next year with the opening of Whitman College and the advent of the four-year residential college system, 60 graduate students are preparing for their roles in the new order.These "resident graduate students," or RGSes, will live among undergraduates in the residential colleges next year, planning weekly activities and socializing with their younger neighbors.Currently, graduate students serve as assistant masters and graduate fellows in each college, but they will be replaced next year by a full-time director of student life, who will live close to campus and oversee the residential college adviser (RCA) program."The idea [for the RGSes] initiated with the Four-Year College Program committee, composed of students, staff and faculty," Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler said in an email.

NEWS | 04/10/2007

Constitutional law scholar on no-fly list

One of the most prominent names on the Transportation Security Administration's 44,000-person no-fly list is that of constitutional law scholar and emeritus politics professor Walter Murphy.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

Class of 2010 plays Assassins for iPod, charity

Toting plastic water guns, 288 members of the Class of 2010 lurk around campus, attempting to claim their next victims.These "killers" are fighting for a humanitarian cause, however.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

Column sparks ire in Iceland

Economics professor Uwe Reinhardt's column in yesterday's Daily Princetonian has elicited both hostile and friendly attention in Iceland and from the Icelandic diaspora.In the column, "Bomb Iceland instead of Iran," Reinhardt facetiously proposed that the United States should attack Iceland rather than Iran in its next military intervention, arguing that Iceland and the United States would both benefit from the conflict.The column was covered in Morgunbladid, one of Iceland's major newspapers, and picked up by other papers, as well as by Icelandic radio shows and TV programs.Several Icelandic blogs linked to Reinhardt's piece on dailyprincetonian.com and more than 4,000 internet users in Iceland read the column.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

Lebanese presidential candidate faces challenges

While other Wilson School professors are focused on analyzing the 2008 U.S. presidential primaries, Chibli Mallat has his sights set on a presidential election half a world away.Mallat, a leading Middle Eastern human rights lawyer and a visiting senior research scholar at the Wilson School, is running for president of Lebanon, a country where an ongoing crisis threatens to derail the fall elections."I think there is a very great risk in the elections," Mallat said in his Bendheim Hall office, where he spends between three to four hours a day working on campaign-related issues.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

One year in the hot seat

Many students may not remember economics professor Ben Bernanke, but Fed-watchers know him as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

USG will link with student volunteers

The USG Senate met with representatives of the Pace Center, the Student Volunteers Council (SVC) and Community House yesterday to discuss the new campus initiative to give civic engagement more publicity and accessibility on campus.The groups' members hope to increase student participation by linking service organizations to the USG and creating liaisons within existing student groups.USG president Rob Biederman '08 said he wants to make civic engagement activities a "365-day-a-year commitment" on the Princeton campus.Visibility has been a problem for the Pace Center, the SVC and Community House, leaders of all three organizations have said.

NEWS | 04/09/2007

Alumnus says University trampled on rights

An alumnus has filed a lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court alleging that the University violated his right to free speech by failing to protect his efforts to protest prominent political speakers on campus.Bob Bloom '51, a "semiretired" New York-area lawyer, claims that he was "humiliated and silenced" by the security details of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice when he tried to demonstrate against their respective 2004 and 2005 visits.

NEWS | 04/08/2007

Easter eggs abound on campus

Giant white bunnies and multicolored chocolate eggs were common sights on campus this weekend, as students scrambled to take part in Easter egg hunts.USG president Rob Biederman '08 organized a campus-wide Easter egg hunt for University students "as a surprise because I think that was doubly cool," he said.Saturday morning, 613 eggs were scattered on campus, containing candy, certificates for free rentals from the USG's DVD service and tokens to win a video iPod.

NEWS | 04/08/2007

Passover feasts complicated by registration frustration

Observing Passover can be a difficult feat for students following the holiday's strict dietary restrictions, and the task can be made even more difficult by the regulations put in place by the Center for Jewish Life (CJL).Though dining halls and eating clubs offer matzah during the eight days of the holiday, the only option for students seeking to be fully observant of the holiday's strict dietary restrictions is to eat at the CJL.

NEWS | 04/08/2007

40 days and 40 nights of Lent

Some Christian students abstain from everyday indulgences during Lent, forgoing coffee, alcohol, cigarettes or candy for the 40 days and nights between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.

NEWS | 04/08/2007

University professors win six Guggenheim Fellowships

Six University faculty members have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year, up from two last year and down from seven in 2005, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday.

NEWS | 04/08/2007

UHS hikes birth control prices

The cost of birth control pills offered at University Health Services has skyrocketed in recent months, raising fears that women may switch to less effective methods or stop using contraception altogether.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

Thumbs Up

The Footnotes perform at an a cappella concert in Richardson Auditorium yesterday evening. All proceeds from ticket sales went to benefit a nonprofit medical clinic in Haiti.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

Where will Butler's furniture go?

Though they're barely 40 years old, the undesirable waffle-ceilinged, brick-walled dorms of the Butler College quad will be demolished this summer, to be replaced with more desirable dorms by the fall of 2009.But what about the hundreds of beds, desks and chairs etched with students' names and graduation years?

NEWS | 04/05/2007

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