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Olive's grows on Witherspoon

A bustling lunch-hour throng swept into Olive's Deli & Bakery yesterday afternoon, ready to munch on spinach pies, stuffed grape leaves and the store's signature chocolate chip cookies.Though the building was packed with customers, it would have filled more quickly two weeks ago, before Olive's ? a favorite haunt of townies and students alike ? moved to a temporary location next door to its original store at 22 Witherspoon St.The space under construction will open in late March, when the two addresses will be merged into a larger Olive's designed to accommodate more customers, including a dinner crowd."We really have a mix of just everybody coming here ? people from the town, [University] staff and especially students," manager Georgiana Diskin said.The expansion is only the latest in a series of moves the Olive's management has made to improve business.

It's French to me

Wilson opens new studio for visual art

Wilson College unveiled its new visual arts studio Thursday ? an open space stocked with acrylics, inks and watercolors for students in search of self-expression.The studio space is located in Room 303 of Wilcox Hall and will be open four days a week.Wilson master Marguerite Browning said that while many of the preparations for the opening of the arts studio have taken place this semester, ideas for the space have been discussed since the fall of 2005."The idea for the art studio came from a student, Jessica Wey ['07], a Wilson RCA," Browning said.

Novelist Urquhart recalls Canada's bygone rural landscape at reading

Canadian writer Jane Urquhart read from her new book, "A Map of Glass," to a small gathering of fans in East Pyne last night.Following the reading, another Canadian novelist, Princeton resident Lauren Davis, interviewed Urquhart and led a discussion with the audience about the novel.Urquhart praised the University's creative writing program, which has an "incredible line up of teachers and a tremendous opportunity for students to become familiar with working authors," she said."We didn't have creative writing departments in Canada when I was an undergraduate."Urquhart's visit to the University was sponsored by the Program in Canadian Studies.She was born in rural Ontario and has written seven novels and three books of poetry.

Pride Alliance posters too loud for some

For the third consecutive Valentine's Day, Princeton students yesterday found bulletin boards, doors and lampposts across campus plastered with colorful posters depicting couples kissing beneath the printed phrase "Love = Love."Distributed by members of the Pride Alliance, the posters could be found in nearly every public area on campus, from Frist to Forbes.

Will cook for food: Eating without a club

Nick Lilly '07 walked into the kitchen near his room in Pyne Hall and noticed maggots on the counter.

Class of 2010 gets a Taste of Prospect

Avoiding dining hall dinners for a night, some members of the Class of 2010 hit the Street on Tuesday for "A Taste of Prospect," an event that allowed them to sample the cuisine at one of the clubs usually reserved for upperclassmen.First conceived in spring 2004, the initiative is meant to demystify the clubs' stereotypes and let freshmen get a flavor of the upperclass dining experience.

Ice causes car accident

A University staff member was hit by a car and seriously injured yesterday, after the first major accumulating snowfall of the year created icy conditions on roadways and campus walkways.Around 3 p.m.

USG crush website brings love online

When Meera Krishnan '07 checked her e-mail yesterday, she found herself reading an unusual message: an anonymous fellow Princetonian had a crush on her.Rather than being the victim of a stalker, however, Krishnan was merely a beneficiary of one of the USG's newest projects.

First 106 freshmen draw into Whitman

As the stone walls of Whitman College rise from land once used for tennis courts, some of its future residents are already lined up.The day after Dean's Date last month, 106 members of the Class of 2010 found out that they had been selected to live in the new four-year residential college, which will open its doors this fall.

Making a difference during a 'selfish period'

Six student leaders hurried around the Murray-Dodge common room yesterday afternoon, eating pizza while preparing for their open house.They laid out posters advertising their 50 yearly projects as students in search of volunteer opportunities trickled in.

Off on a tangent for Valentine's Day

A column by Z. Taylor Vinson '55 published in The Daily Princetonian for Valentine's Day on Friday, Feb.

USG solicits grading complaints

The USG is shifting its stance on the University's controversial grade deflation policy from trying to abolish the policy to ensuring that it is fairly and correctly implemented for all students."Ultimately, I would like it [grade deflation] to be overturned," USG president Rob Biederman '08 said.

Photographer was with the Times

The woman who followed Tower Club's pickups with a camera on Friday was a freelance photographer employed by The New York Times, a Times spokeswoman said in an e-mail yesterday.

A little cash on the side

Richmond Owusu '09 spends at least eight hours every week deep within the bowels of Firestone Library.

Students design new agency

One week after launching the Student Design Agency, managers Tiffany Wey '07 and Andy Chen '09 have received about 30 requests for T-shirt graphics, posters and web-design work.They created this student-run business to respond to the demand for graphic design among on-campus groups and to create a new graphic design center for University students.

A man, a bus and a cause: An alum's ride for gay rights

Bram Wispelwey '06 will climb on a bus next month and take a road trip with a purpose.Wispelwey will join 55 other young activists in the Soulforce Equality Ride, which will visit 32 colleges and universities that ban openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students from enrolling.

Anthropologist seeks methods to solve AIDS epidemic

Encouraging monogamy is an ineffective way to combat the spread of HIV, since people will have extramarital sex and put themselves at risk even if they are warned against doing so, public health anthropologist Jennifer Hirsch '88 said in a lecture yesterday in Wallace Hall."Unilateral monogamy is about as successful as unilateral disarmament," she said.Sponsored by the Wilson School's Princeton AIDS Initiative, Hirsch's lecture drew upon her research regarding intimacy and fidelity, which she uses to lobby for public health policy changes to fight the transmission of HIV."You cannot prevent heterosexual transmission [of HIV] by telling men not to have sex," she said yesterday.

Go the distance

Harvard's head, a child of Princeton

Drew Gilpin Faust, who was confirmed as Harvard's new leader on Sunday, has another presidential connection in the Ivy League: She's descended from two past presidents of Princeton.Among her ancestors, Faust counts the University's second president, Aaron Burr, Sr., and Jonathan Edwards, the University's third president.They are far from the only Tigers in Faust's family tree.