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Latino students want better representation in academia

Latino students want better representation in academia

A faculty and student panel discussed Latino issues Friday night, touching upon self-segregation, academics and representation at the University.Held at the Fields Center, the event drew almost 100 attendees who mingled over Latin-themed music and food before starting their discussion on the "Latino problem" at Princeton.

NEWS | 09/23/2007

Professor explains how we make decisions

Why do people play the lottery? Why do people think they're in the slowest line at the grocery store or the most congested traffic lane?It's because the human mind focuses on memorable things like lottery winners holding big checks on TV and not on less memorable things like lines that were quick to get through, Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert explained in a lecture last night.Gilbert told a McCosh 50 audience of several hundred students, faculty and community members "How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times," describing the thought processes behind making everyday decisions.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Everclear through Alexakis' eyes

Everclear lead singer Art Alexakis "never really wanted to be famous or a big rock star or anything like that." All he wanted was "to make a living from making my own music."But he got much more, including a Grammy nomination for 1997's "So Much for the Afterglow" and a dozen singles in the top 100.Alexakis, whose band performs at Lawnparties this Sunday, has overcome adversity in his life, and those past struggles are a "predominant theme" in the band's music, he said."I'm 45, and I've learned that life is pretty difficult," he said.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Whitman meant to last 150 years, architect says

Dimitri Porphyrios GS '74 was the chief architect of recently-completed Whitman College. He recently spoke with the Daily Princetonian's Brian No about the college's design and construction, and his next project, a new addition for Ivy Club. Have you seen the finished product?

NEWS | 09/20/2007

The swing of things

Students take advantage of free swing-dancing lessons sponsored by the Princeton Ballroom Dancing Club last night in Dillon Gym.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

A star chamber play

Dylan Alban '09 (l.) and Sam Zetumer '09 perform 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in Dod Courtyard on the first day of the Princeton Shakespeare Company's festival, which continues through the weekend.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Ctrl+Alt+Lawnparties: The Backslash

As gourmands of hip-hopera know, R. Kelly is fond of guns. From marital infidelity to can opening, there are few problems that Kels can't solve by pulling out his Beretta and counting to three.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Muldoon to be editor at New Yorker

Poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon will soon add yet another title to his already well-adorned resume.Muldoon will succeed Alice Quinn as poetry editor of the New Yorker sometime before the end of the year.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Garden of eating

As students headed indoors this week to attend lectures, seminars and precepts, a few brave souls traveled in the opposite direction to an empty lot at the corner of Alexander Road and University Place.The plot is set to be transformed into a 3,000-sq.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

University pays well, but professors can earn more

Professors and administrators aren't rolling in dough.Though President Tilghman earned $542,875 and Andrew Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), earned $1,140,324 in fiscal year 2005, they're not making nearly as much as they would in jobs of similar prominence and responsibility in the private sector.The University, as a nonprofit, is required to report the salaries of its officers and highest paid employees each year on its 990 tax form.After Tilghman and Golden, members of PRINCO, which manages the school's endowment, Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 and Genomics Institute Director David Botstein were the highest paid in 2005.Three managing directors of PRINCO earned between $550,166 and $629,899, while Slaughter took home $370,305 from the University in 2005.

NEWS | 09/20/2007

Taylor '07 dies in Va. residence

A onetime member of the Class of 2007 died unexpectedly this week, two years after he left the University at the end of his sophomore year.Austin Taylor passed away at his home, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said, but she could provide no details yesterday about the manner of his death except that it was "unexpected." As of last night, Taylor's parents had not yet decided how much information to release.The Rev.

NEWS | 09/19/2007

Does college make you worse at civics?

Princeton may enjoy a reputation for furnishing undergraduates with four years of rigorous academics, but when it comes to U.S.

NEWS | 09/19/2007

Search engines will soon index Facebook pages

Already under fire for allegedly loosening its privacy safeguards in recent months, facebook.com is facing further scrutiny after it announced plans to make some member information visible on web-based search engines such as Google.From its controversial news feed to recent talk of disclosing members' interests to advertisers, the popular networking site has recently sparked debate about its protection of user profiles, though that information remains far more restricted than on other networking sites like myspace.com.But Facebook administrators said the new policy ? which takes effect early next month and will make members' names, class years and profile pictures searchable by any internet user ? will not compromise users' privacy.

NEWS | 09/19/2007

Rumsfeld '54 provokes protests at Stanford

Stanford has recruited former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld '54 to join the Hoover Institution for one year as a visiting fellow.But nearly 2,000 Stanford faculty, students and community members have signed an online petition calling the decision to bring Rumsfeld, 75, to the conservative think tank "fundamentally incompatible with [Stanford's] ethical values." Some members of the university's Faculty Senate have called for a resolution in protest.Rumsfeld, who served as defense secretary twice, from 1975 to 1977 and then again from 2001 to 2006, is a polarizing figure, and debate on the Stanford campus seems polarized, too."We think he has distinguished himself for all the wrong things than what the university should stand for and what America should stand for," psychology professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo told The San Jose Mercury News.

NEWS | 09/19/2007

Bringing green to students' fridges

Local farmers selling organic fruit and grass-fed beef will transform the plaza outside Firestone Library into a makeshift market on Tuesdays this fall.The Greening Dining Group, a partnership between Princeton University Dining Services and Greening Princeton, has teamed up with several campus offices to organize the farmer's market in an effort to educate the University community on organic eating, local produce and environmental sustainability.Co-coordinators of the market Kathryn Andersen '08 and Ruthie Schwab '09 hired local farmers and vendors who use sustainable practices to sell their produce.

NEWS | 09/19/2007

Hazing charges dropped at Rider

The Mercer County prosecutor's office has dropped aggravated assault charges against two Rider University officials.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

Leach '64 accepts post at the Kennedy School

Less than a year after departing politics for academia, Wilson School visiting professor and former Iowa congressman Jim Leach '64 will take a leave of absence from the University to accept a post at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.Leach, who will serve as director of the school's Institute of Politics for the current academic year, cited the opportunity to help students enter the political scene and embark on service careers."The Institute of Politics is an engaging and dynamic place," he said in a statement, "and I am eager to begin working closely with students and staff, faculty and fellows to energize young people to embrace the challenges and opportunities of politics and public service."This semester was slated to be Leach's second of three semesters teaching at his alma mater. The longtime Iowa congressman ? who voted against the Iraq war and was known as one of Capitol Hill's most liberal Republicans ? was ousted from his House seat after the 2006 midterm elections, a casualty of public dissatisfaction with a foreign policy he himself had opposed.At Princeton, Leach was scheduled to teach a course on the international relations of East Asia, but the class was cancelled once it was clear that Leach would probably leave, interim Wilson School Dean Nolan McCarty said.McCarty said he does not blame Leach for his decision.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

Inspiring Oprah's charity

Sixteen years ago, a four-year-old girl and her father were walking down the street when they encountered a homeless man.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

A day with Petraeus GS '85

Like always, the din from the rotors of the Black Hawk was overwhelming. As though the whole picture were on mute, the rotorwash drowning out all other noise, I watched as Colonel Mike Meese GS '00, my professor for a Wilson School course last spring, climbed silently into the helicopter and buckled up across from me, followed by three more soldiers in bulky armor.Then Col.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

University to launch $1.75 billion campaign

The University will launch a five-year, $1.75 billion fundraising campaign Nov. 9, administrators and trustees confirmed yesterday.The campaign, the University's first since the completion of a $1.14 billion capital campaign in 2000, will support the major stated initiatives of President Tilghman's administration, including the creative and performing arts neighborhood, the engineering school, the neuroscience institute, financial aid, international outreach and campus life issues."All of us who have been involved in this see this as a tremendous opportunity to make Princeton an even better university than it is," Tilghman said in an interview.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

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