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Abracadabra!

Students attend a workshop taught by roving magicians in Wilson College on Friday. The David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project sponsored their visit.

NEWS | 10/14/2007

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Graduate students more involved in UG life through program

Princeton graduate students: antisocial or untapped resource? Forty-four percent of the almost 600 undergrads polled in a 2005 Point survey said, "If they weren't my TAs, I wouldn't talk to them." The residential colleges' new Resident Graduate Student program aims to change that.Resident Graduate Students, or RGSs, were selected by application and are meant to enrich undergraduate life by becoming part of the residential college community.

NEWS | 10/11/2007

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Goosed!

A witch, a prince, a wolf and a fairy godmother star in a new comedy presented by the TIKI players, Theatre Intime's new children's theater troupe.

NEWS | 10/11/2007

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You Deride 2007

For obvious reasons, the California recall election was a trash cultural goldmine. With stringent qualification standards replaced by the "Hobo Criterion" (does the prospective candidate gots change?), the election became an irresistible magnet for Z-list celebrities, the emotionally needy and the generally illucid.

NEWS | 10/11/2007

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Grad students say housing is isolating and scattered

Even as the opening of the four-year residential colleges fueled hopes for a greater sense of community among undergraduates, some graduate students have voiced concerns that their housing options fail to foster connections with their peers.Some members of the Graduate Student Government (GSG) said the dispersed nature of graduate housing makes it more difficult for graduate students to interact with each other.

NEWS | 10/11/2007

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Scholar traces roots of Christian media

Decades before evangelical leader Pat Robertson began broadcasting his gospel to legions of avid fans, the "Cold War Christian Right" was spreading its message through the radio waves, media scholar Heather Hendershot said in a lecture in Betts Auditorium yesterday.Hendershot, a media studies professor at Queens College in New York and Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton, cited the example of the Rev.

NEWS | 10/10/2007

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Walking the Line

The Princeton community is experiencing an increase in slackers.Three or four days a week, they can be found in front of Foulke Hall, traversing inch-wide nylon webbing lines between two trees 20 to 30 feet apart.A small, dedicated contingent and some others have set up an informal group that take a nice day, a few trees and nylon webbing and make it into what Denali Barron '09 calls "a social, mildly athletic activity" ? slacklining.Slackliners walk across and perform tricks on a band of nylon webbing strung between two anchors.

NEWS | 10/10/2007

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Crotty '94 to take charge of study abroad program

Margaret Crotty '94 went on a foreign exchange trip to France as a high school sophomore and hasn't looked back.Next week she will become president and CEO of AFS Intercultural Programs, a nonprofit that organizes exchange trips for high school students, and be responsible for sending high schoolers on exchanges just like the one she had."She has a lot of relevant background," said Kimberly Ritrievi '80, chair of the AFS board of directors.

NEWS | 10/10/2007

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State voters see govt. as corrupt

New Jerseyans think their government has grown increasingly corrupt during the past four years, a poll released Sunday suggests.Conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in conjunction with Gannett New Jersey, the poll found that 60 percent of New Jersey residents believe there is "a lot" of corruption in their state.

NEWS | 10/10/2007

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Former NARAL member speaks of anti-abortion conversion

A former "card-carrying member" of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) who once had an abortion described her transformation into a "pro-life feminist" in a lecture yesterday in McCosh Hall.Karen Shablin, a speaker for Feminists for Life of America's college outreach program, advocated more resources for pregnant women so they will not have to resort to abortion like she did.

NEWS | 10/09/2007

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Teaching old cards new tricks

While most of his classmates are slumbering soundly, Seth Priebatsch '11 wakes up at 5 a.m. to call his production team on the other side of the world.Priebatsch heads a seven-month-old global business, called PostcardTech that enables customers to send interactive postcards containing mini-CDs.

NEWS | 10/09/2007

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Fallen alumni immortalized in stars

Last year, like so many other students in first-floor rooms, Bola Olayinka '09 and her roommates regularly climbed through the window to get into their Little Hall suite.But though they used the window frequently, they never paid much attention to the bronze star beneath the sill."I climbed in the window often so I ... knew it was there," Olayinka said.

NEWS | 10/09/2007

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Council discusses alcohol, planning

Correction appendedThe Princeton Borough Council reviewed local crime and disorder statistics for August and September, as well as discussing rent control and the construction of a plant-shaded walkway at its meeting last night.Borough Police Lieutenant Sharon Papp presented the police report from August and noted that University-related alcohol violations were especially high in September.

NEWS | 10/09/2007

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