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Lebanese presidential candidate faces challenges

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yoshino: diversity, civil rights linked

An "explosion" of American diversity has influenced the legal debate over which civil liberties are protected by the 14th Amendment, Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino told a crowd of about 90 students, professors and community members in Dodds Auditorium yesterday.In a lecture entitled "The New Equal Protection," Yoshino argued that an increase in national diversity has caused courts to change the way they protect civil liberties.With arguments taken in part from his recently published book, "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights," Yoshino contended that the old strategy of expanding civil liberties through a constitutional "equal protection" argument ? which subjected discrimination against groups such as racial minorities to "heightened scrutiny" ? is "exhausted" and experiencing a backlash.The courts are now avoiding "group-based identity politics," employing a universal rights argument instead, he said.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

Residents fear University's expansion

University administrators clashed with Borough officials and residents last night in a heated public work session held to discuss the University's plans for expansion and address possible conflicts with the greater Princeton Community Master Plan.Led by University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee '69, the University contingent met with members of the Princeton Planning Board.Citing the board's belief that Princeton "is not simply a college town and is not a town for one institution," chair of the Master Plan Subcommittee Marvin Reed said it is vital that the greater Princeton community and the multiple educational institutions that inhabit it ? including the University, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Institute for Advanced Study ? grow together cooperatively."It's an interesting community because it has one of the great universities but isn't a college town," Durkee said in an interview after the meeting.Chief among the Planning Board's concerns are proposed changes to the Dinky station, traffic flow issues, the impact of the University on the economic viability of businesses on Nassau Street and the overall continued expansion of the University. The Dinky, the Wawa, the Arts NeighborhoodThe Dinky station will be relocated 460 feet south, or approximately an extra two-minute's walk, said Neil Kittredge of Byer Blinder Belle, the consultancy firm advising the University on the project."The Dinky station is very important to the health, welfare and ability of this community to travel to any other part of the world," Reed said.Though the Dinky will be relocated southward, "we hope to significantly improve the amenities for those who use the Dinky station," Durkee said.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

For first time, math team wins Putnam

A math department team consisting of Ana Caraiani '07, Andrei Negut '08 and Aaron Pixton '08 placed first in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, marking the first time a team from Princeton has taken the top prize in the contest's 68-year history.The University team received the competition's highest honors, finishing first out of 507 other university teams.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

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

The best medicine

Three months since leaving the Senate, Bill Frist '74 still struggles to tear himself away from the political scene.Though he said he planned to take a sabbatical from public life and announced in November that he would not seek the 2008 Republican nomination for president, after 12 years in the Senate, including four as majority leader, the Tennessee native is still very much engaged in the work of a statesman.In a wide-ranging interview, Frist recalled his years on Capitol Hill, voiced concern over the level of partisanship in Washington and spoke passionately about his medical work in Africa, calling it "a currency for peace."Frist's time in the Senate was marked by significant victories and major controversies.

NEWS | 04/05/2007

Dining Services offers burgers from greener pastures

Giving new meaning to the idiom, "you are what you eat," Dining Services has begun offering better quality hamburgers in dining halls on Wednesdays.Made from organic grass-fed beef, the new burgers are the product of cows reared on grass rather than grain.

NEWS | 04/04/2007

Yalies arrested for burning flag

Three Yale students were arrested after burning an American flag hanging from the front porch of a private home early Tuesday morning.Senior Hyder Akbar and freshmen Nikolaos Angelopoulos and Farhad Anklesaria were arrested on charges that included reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, arson and breach of peace, the New Haven Register reported yesterday.Both Angelopoulos and Anklesaria are foreign citizens, from Greece and Britain, respectively.

NEWS | 04/04/2007

Underclassmen say disciplinary process unfair

Some students fear that underclassmen charged with minor infractions face disadvantages during the disciplinary process compared to their older classmates, two members of the USG told the Residential College Disciplinary Board (RCDB) during a meeting last Friday."For a long time students have felt that the process could be improved," Class of 2007 president Jim Williamson said in an interview.The meeting ? organized for USG officers to tell administrators about student suggestions for reform of the disciplinary process ? focused on the way students are notified of infractions, the role of the residential college directors of studies and how the board handles alleged misconduct by Public Safety.The RCDB, made up of the directors of studies and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Hilary Herbold, deals with underclass infractions resulting in probation or campus service.

NEWS | 04/04/2007

Anti-abortion speaker sparks heated debate

A lecture about abortion stirred heated debate yesterday, as Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council (FRC) delivered a fiery condemnation of what she described as the practice's shaky legal basis and its grave consequences for women.Though the lecture was advertised under the title "How Abortion Harms Women," Yoest, vice president for communications for the nonprofit Christian think tank and lobbying group, said a more accurate name was "The Politics of Abortion: Moving Toward a Post-Roe America.""I believe Roe v.

NEWS | 04/04/2007

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