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Sophomore's film suggests cultural differences impede Asians' success

Sophomore's film suggests cultural differences impede Asians' success

"They're everywhere, you know, those Asians."The bold white words flashed on a screen in the Wilson Blackbox Theater last night, a provocative opening to a film intended to spark dialogue about the interplay and tension between Asian and American cultures.The movie ? titled "Those Asians" and written, produced and directed by Rudy Lee '09 ? made its Princeton premiere last night, followed by a discussion among the audience of almost 50 people.

NEWS | 03/27/2007

Niehaus '77 funds center for globalization

The Wilson School's three-year-old Center for Globalization and Governance got a naming sponsor yesterday with the announcement of the Niehaus family's donation of a "substantial gift" to endow the center.Though the center was created in 2004, the gift from Robert Niehaus '77 and his wife Kate expands the center's offerings to include undergraduate policy task forces and a postdoctoral fellowship program for the study of international political economies, with a focus on the Middle East."Kate and I are thrilled to be able to support an initiative that is equally critical to Princeton students' international experience and Princeton's leadership in the forefront of global policy," Niehaus said in a statement.

NEWS | 03/27/2007

Friedberg says multiple mistakes lower chances of success in Iraq

Correction appendedFour years after invading Iraq, the United States faces dwindling chances for success in a mission that has been marked by mistakes, a former Bush administration adviser argued during a panel discussion yesterday."The problem was not so much a failure of planning but a failure of imagination," said Wilson School professor Aaron Friedberg, a former deputy assistant for national security affairs to Vice President Dick Cheney.

NEWS | 03/27/2007

Structure of LSAT revised

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) recently altered the content and increased the security measures of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) following extensive research, according to its website.Students and The Princeton Review said the changes will hardly modify scores or the test-taking experience, however."I can't imagine that the changes will substantially affect most students' scores," Princeton Pre-Law Society president Aaron Spolin '08 said.The writing and reading comprehension sections were adjusted.

NEWS | 03/26/2007

Blix blasts Iraq war, calls for nuclear disarmament

Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix spoke about the "inconvenient truths" of disarmament to a standing-room-only crowd in Dodds Auditorium yesterday."Without the right diagnosis, how can you apply the right therapy?

NEWS | 03/26/2007

Robertsons say University deliberately conceals information

The University's recent $800,000 reimbursement to the Robertson Foundation prompted a spate of media coverage in papers statewide, with news releases from both sides.

NEWS | 03/26/2007

Anti-rape posters plastered in bathrooms

Posters encouraging students to "Be a friend, not a bystander" are being plastered across campus bathroom walls this week as part of a campaign to educate students about sexual harassment at Princeton.The posters, created by SpeakOut, aim to draw attention to the issue of campus rape and contain both national and Princeton-specific information, including details of whom to contact in the event of assault, how to react if assaulted, national statistics regarding assaults and tips to avoid assault on campus."We're trying to raise awareness among students," SpeakOut president Sarah Erickson '07 said.

NEWS | 03/26/2007

Picoult '87 discusses writing influences

Jodi Picoult '87 has lived with an Amish family, visited death row, learned Lakota Sioux and gone on ghost hunts with paranormal researchers; all for the sake of the story.Picoult, author of 14 popular novels, including several bestsellers, described her development as a writer and her research methods yesterday before a small crowd of University and community members in the James Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau St."I've been waiting a long time to be asked to come back to Princeton," said Picoult.As an undergraduate in the creative writing department, Picoult attributed much of her success to travel writer and former creative writing professor Mary Morris.

NEWS | 03/26/2007

Campus gets free Times web exclusives

Campus fans of Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, Nicholas Kristof and other New York Times columnists now have free access to the columns and the other previously for-pay content from the paper's TimesSelect service.The new policy, which went into effect on March 13, is available to any user whose email address ends in ".edu." The university membership is identical to that of a paid TimesSelect user, providing access to more than 20 oped and news columnists ? including Dowd, Brooks and Wilson School professor Paul Krugman ? as well access to the Times' online archives, special Select-only features and previews of the Times magazine.The move to provide free content to university users stems from a desire "to encourage readership and open dialogue with our columnists," Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty said.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

Gaming convention attracts players for all-night fantasy role-playing

Princetonians with vivid imaginations and a penchant for fantasy indulged their interests during a 46-hour role-playing marathon the weekend before spring break.Their activities were part of the 32nd annual PrinceCon, a three-day convention featuring fantasy role-playing game sessions.During the event, players created character personas, which they role-played in a fantasy universe throughout the weekend's activities.Aaron Mulder '97, an alumnus who participated in the convention, described the weekend as a series of "tabletop" game sessions played using pencils, paper and dice to control the actions of players' characters.Mulder also developed PrinceCon software, which is used to track participants during the convention.Organized by the Princeton Simulation Games Union (SGU), the overall tournament was made up of several small game sessions, each of which involving five to eight people and lasting from four to eight hours, SGU president Owen Schaefer '08 explained.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

U. refuses to grant Chabad chaplaincy

Following the University's denial of a request from the Jewish organization Chabad for a chaplaincy position in the Office of Religious Life, a group of students has started a petition asking President Tilghman to reconsider the decision."Chabad will continue to be on campus, regardless of what the University decides," Chabad student board president Arthur Ewenczyk '09 said.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

Good times, bad times

When Madeline Lu '09 checked the room draw list posted by the Housing Office on Friday, she "screamed obscenities."Lu's draw group has a slot in the mid-afternoon of the 12th and final day of upperclass room draw."We were trying to get a quad," she said.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

Head coach Scott '87 resigns

On the heels of a 2-12 Ivy League season that represented a low point in the storied history of Princeton basketball, Joe Scott '87 unexpectedly resigned as head coach of the men's team last week.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

Friedman '07 gets Labouisse Prize

While her fellow seniors begin consulting jobs and pursue graduate degrees next year, Maital Friedman '07 will be living in Mbale, Uganda, working to provide textbooks to children in the surrounding villages.Funding for Friedman's efforts comes after the University awarded her the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, a $25,000 fellowship that helps graduates pursue public service projects in developing countries.

NEWS | 03/25/2007

From Somalia to the Senate, advocating aid

When Abass Mohamed '09 urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to send more food aid to refugee camps yesterday, he spoke not only as a concerned student, but also as a former Somalian refugee."Refugees are a different category of people," Mohamed said in an interview before he testified.

NEWS | 03/15/2007

University to podcast lecture content

Students with iPod headphones and a bounce in their step are usually jamming to favorite tunes, but now they might be swinging to the rhythm of a campus lecture by Ralph Nader '55 or Afghan President Hamid Karzai.Princeton has made audio recordings of public lectures like theirs available in podcast form on its WebMedia site.

NEWS | 03/15/2007

OIT continues to address printing waste through e-mail

Last semester, students and faculty printed 3,616,921 pages from University clusters, and as the number of pages printed has steadily risen over the last few years, the University's Office of Information Technology (OIT) has taken steps to curb excessive printing.Last week, 104 students, including Sam Clendon '07, received an email from OIT informing them of their excessive use of printing facilities.

NEWS | 03/15/2007

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