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Students recognized for 'spirit'

Students recognized for 'spirit'

The Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors undergraduates who have positively contributed "to various facets of the University, including the arts, community service, student organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors," has been awarded to 10 students this year.A selection committee of students and administrators chose the winners from a pool of about 35 nominees.

NEWS | 04/30/2007

Professors look for signs of depression

Creative writing is an avenue for imagination and self-expression. In light of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's violent and dark fictional writings, however, his professors are facing accusations that they could have prevented the massacre by realizing that something was wrong with Cho.Now, creative writing professors on campuses nationwide are being challenged to be more active in looking for the warning signs of violence in student work.Over his years at Virginia Tech, Cho took several creative writing classes and authored works so gruesome that, in some cases, his fellow students refused to analyze them.

NEWS | 04/30/2007

Campus Club to reopen as study space

Campus Club will reopen in September 2008 as a social venue and study space for members of the University community, administrators said at yesterday's Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting.Members of the planning committee ? Lauren Barnett '08, Kellam Conover GS, former USG president Alex Lenahan '07 and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne ? said renovations making Campus wheelchair accessible will begin this summer.

NEWS | 04/30/2007

Residents rally against incidents of violence and racism in Princeton

A racially diverse crowd of at least 50 local residents marched through Princeton to protest racism and violence yesterday afternoon.The demonstrators, who carried signs reading "No racism, no violence, not in our town," marched from the Jewish Center on Nassau Street to the steps of Princeton Borough Hall, where they heard speeches from local political and religious leaders beneath the Princeton Battle Monument."The people who are here know that racism still exists, and racism exists in Princeton," said Linda Oppenheim, one of the rally's main organizers, in her introductory speech.Other speakers included Princeton Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman and the Rev.

NEWS | 04/29/2007

Certificates boost career possibilities

Economics majors who earn finance certificates and head to Wall Street are a dime a dozen, much like molecular biology majors who go to medical school.

NEWS | 04/29/2007

ROTC bids fond farewell to Armory

With a five-minute ceremony Friday afternoon, nearly 80 years of history came to an end.The ceremony marked the closing of the Armory, Princeton ROTC's longtime home on Washington Road.

NEWS | 04/29/2007

USG hosts discussion on health

Major student health issues including mental health and birth control were discussed last night at the USG Senate meeting, which hosted two representatives from University Health Services (UHS).University Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman and John Kolligian, director of mental health services, updated the USG about McCosh Health Center's services and recent initiatives.Commenting on the recent controversies over birth control, Silverman explained that the price hikes are the result of a change in national law and emphasized that the University did not have control over the decision.

NEWS | 04/29/2007

Thousands celebrate town-gown connection

Thousands of community members and University students flooded Nassau and Witherspoon Streets for the annual Communiversity festival on Saturday.Jointly sponsored by the Arts Council of Princeton and the University, the day-long affair featured over 160 artists, craftsmen, merchants and organizations.Attendees sampled international cuisine, listened to live music, viewed demonstrations, perused galleries and participated in arts and crafts activities.

NEWS | 04/29/2007

MIT admissions dean resigns amid scandal

After admitting to falsifying her academic credentials, MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones resigned yesterday."I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to MIT 28 years ago and did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since," she said in a statement posted on MIT's website.Throughout her time at MIT, Jones was believed to have received degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), when in fact none of the three institutions had conferred a degree on her, MIT Chancellor Phillip Clay explained in a statement.An RPI official confirmed that Jones had been a part-time student at the Troy, N.Y., school during the 1974-75 academic year, though she did not officially matriculate.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Padilla '06 receives one-year visa

A year after his status as an illegal immigrant triggered broader debate about the nation's immigration policy, Class of 2006 salutatorian Dan-el Padilla-Peralta has found at least a temporary solution to the difficulties raised by his lack of United States citizenship.Padilla has obtained a part-time job assisting his former Princeton thesis adviser with project research, and with it an H-1B visa, which allows specially trained foreigners to work in the United States for up to six years.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

The weather: Hot because it's fly

Mama, take this prox off me, I can't swipe it anymore. It's getting dark on Level C, And I'm knocking on Firestone's door..."? Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Firestone's Door," 1972.Oh, my little Langoliers, slaving away at independent work during weather as nice as last weekend's is as absurd as Flava Flav not knowing what time it is, the soul-sucking equivalent of backing up over a severe tire-damage strip.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Diversity of language offerings challenged

Students flipping through next year's course catalog this week may notice some unconventional names among language programs set to be offered in the fall.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Tiger Cubs

Wilson School faculty and employees brought their children to campus yesterday as part of the School's "Take Your Child to Work Day"

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Seniors get 'last chance' to hear famous professors

Seniors who missed out on classes with some of Princeton's most prominent professors have a final chance to learn from academic heavyweights like James McPherson and John Fleming GS '63 before they graduate.The opportunity comes as a newly reinstated program ? called the "Last Chance Lectures" ? allows seniors to register for talks by popular professors during their final, thesis-free days at Princeton.Fleming, a recently-retired English professor and this year's Baccalaureate speaker, began the series on Monday with a lecture about St.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Haine wins Class of 2008 presidency

Tom Haine '08 narrowly unseated three-year incumbent Grant Gittlin '08 in the runoff election yesterday for next year's senior class president.Haine earned 54.15 percent or 339 votes, to Gittlin's 287 votes or 45.85 percent.

NEWS | 04/26/2007

Paczynski dies of brain cancer

Astrophysical sciences professor Bohdan Paczynski, pioneer of a technique that led to the discovery of several planets outside Earth's solar system, died of brain cancer last week at the age of 67.Paczynski, who was born and educated in Poland and joined the Princeton faculty in 1982, was known by his colleagues and students as a brilliant scientist and inspirational teacher."He was one of the world's greatest astrophysicists, recognized as the world authority on stellar structure and evolution," astrophysics professor Bruce Draine said.

NEWS | 04/25/2007

TerraCycle faces Scotts Miracle-Gro lawsuit

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is suing TerraCycle, Inc. ? a local fertilizer company founded by two former Princeton students ? claiming that its product designs and advertising statements are too similar to those of Scotts Miracle-Gro.TerraCycle founders Tom Szaky '05 and Jon Beyer '05 deny the allegations from the fertilizer giant and plan to fight it necessary.

NEWS | 04/25/2007

Students choose smaller majors

Three years ago, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel pioneered the Major Choices initiative, designed to raise underclassmen's awareness of smaller departments.Nonetheless, this week hundreds of sophomores chose to major in economics, politics, history and the Wilson School ?? the four largest departments on campus.Since the 2004-05 academic year, Major Choices has ensured that "curriculum development funds have been and will be targeted to the support of initiatives in smaller departments to devise new courses or renovate existing courses to appeal more effectively to beginning students," Malkiel wrote in an email.Though she credits Major Choices for aiding in the growth of some smaller departments, departments are more skeptical of the initiative, questioning whether the initiative is responsible for the slight increases in some departments.Major Choices, Malkiel said, is not designed "to discourage students who are passionately interested in departments like History or Politics or Economics from pursuing studies in those fields."But the slight increase in enrollment in some smaller departments over the last two years has been accompanied by a slight decrease for certain larger ones.Malkiel emphasized the role of the Major Choices initiative in the rise of student concentrators in some small departments, citing "significant changes" in enrollment in the classics, art and archaeology, French and Italian, and psychology departments, among others.The classics department, for example, traditionally had 12 to 15 seniors each year, chair Dennis Feeney said.

NEWS | 04/25/2007

First online draw proves to be a success

Almost a month after the earliest round of room draw, the final draw group of six sophomores logged on the room draw website and completed the Housing Department's first-ever online room draw with a click of the submit button on their laptops.After decades of "chaotic" in-person room draw, as Housing Department director Andrew Kane called it in an interview, the online system consolidated the process of room selection, which started March 28."Room draw was a success by all the measures we might use," Kane wrote in a press release.

NEWS | 04/25/2007

Two punk rock, ska bands to perform at Lawnparties

Punk bands Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake will perform at Quadrangle Club for next weekend's Lawnparties, along with Welbilt, a rock band from Washington, D.C., which will open the show."This is going to be an exciting show," USG social chair Andrew Heyman '07, who was involved in choosing the band lineup, said.

NEWS | 04/25/2007

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