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CPUC tackles club athletics

Campus recreation director David Leach responded to concerns about club and intramural sports and about funding for Dillon Gymnasium at yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, assuring attendees that work is being done to remedy the current shortfalls."I am hopeful that we will make some strides shortly and that we will continue to make those strides," Leach, also the University's associate athletics director, said.

NEWS | 12/11/2006

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Hail to the chiefs

After a day of deliberations, Kavita Saini '08 (l.) was elected the editor-in-chief of the 131st board of The Daily Princetonian on Friday afternoon.

NEWS | 12/10/2006

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U. reaches deal with music site

The University has reached a deal with the music downloading service Ruckus to provide free music to the entire student body, USG officials said.Reporters for The Daily Princetonian attempted to use the service last night and were successful in downloading and playing several songs.But Class of 2008 Senator Rohan Joshi, who has largely spearheaded the initiative, said that while student accounts for the service had been activated, speeds may be slower than expected pending installation of a local server."Download speeds won't be as fast as they could be when the cache server is finally installed on campus," he said last night.

NEWS | 12/10/2006

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Alum donates campus bridge

John Streicker '64 has donated funds for a new pedestrian bridge to be built across Washington Road at the southern part of campus.The bridge, to be named after Streicker, is scheduled for completion in 2010 and will be part of the University's burgeoning science complex.

NEWS | 12/10/2006

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Adviser spots stay in demand

Correction appended Applications for residential college adviser (RCA) and assistant RCA positions increased to a new record this year, with 216 students vying for 95 spots.Last year 206 students applied, compared to 175 the previous year.The application process shouldn't be significantly more selective than it has been in previous years, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students Hilary Herbold said.

NEWS | 12/10/2006

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Saudi envoy defends Iraq role

One day after the Iraq Study Group report chastised Saudi Arabia for being "passive and disengaged" in finding a way out of the conflict in Iraq, the kingdom's ambassador to the United States defended his government's policy and said it wants to work with Iraq's neighbors to find a solution to the ongoing war."Saudi Arabia has already been acting," Prince Turki al-Faisal said yesterday in an interview with The Daily Princetonian shortly before he delivered a lecture at the Wilson School.

NEWS | 12/07/2006

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Singer statement draws groups' ire

No stranger to criticism from the political right, philosophy professor Peter Singer came under friendly fire recently for comments he made in a documentary about scientific research on animals.Singer ? the author of "Animal Liberation," a work often credited with kick-starting the animal rights movement ? touched off the controversy when he said on camera that an Oxford neurosurgeon's Parkinson's research did not appear to be morally objectionable, even though it involved giving the debilitating disease to primates.In the documentary "Monkeys, Rats and Me: Animal Testing," which was screened late last month on BBC2, Tipu Aziz explained to Singer that his Parkinson's research has improved the lives of about 40,000 people and involved only about 100 monkeys, according to a story in The London Times."Well, I think if you put a case like that, clearly I would have to agree that was a justifiable experiment," Singer said in response.

NEWS | 12/07/2006

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Whelan '99 refutes view that smart women marry less

Conventional wisdom aside, high-achieving women are just as likely to get married as all other women, Christine Whelan '99, author of "Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women," said in a talk about her book at the U-Store Wednesday night.Whelan's findings counter the traditional notion that women with graduate degrees and high-earning jobs are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.

NEWS | 12/07/2006

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JFK speechwriter recalls Cuba crisis

Ted Sorensen, speechwriter and special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, recounted his role in the Cuban missile crisis and offered a spirited defense of the legacy of the slain president before a rapt audience in Dodds Auditorium yesterday.Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 introduced Sorensen and thanked him for crafting the now-famous call to government service: "Ask not what your country can do for you.

NEWS | 12/06/2006

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Adviser defends Mexican protestors

An adviser to the candidate who narrowly lost Mexico's presidential election this summer defended his party's unrelenting protests of election results at a speech Wednesday, alleging widespread voter fraud and calling for an end to government corruption.Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the Mexican Congress last Friday in an effort to prevent the swearing-in of Felipe Calderon.

NEWS | 12/06/2006

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Five Princetonians make early list for Harvard's top job

Five prominent administrators with close connections to Princeton are possible candidates for the Harvard presidency, according to a list of names produced by the school's presidential search committee.President Tilghman, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan '81, former vice provost Ruth Simmons (now president of Brown) and former provost Amy Gutmann (now president of the University of Pennsylvania) are all on the list, which includes the names of 30 potential presidents.The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 is also being considered.The Harvard search committee privately gave the list to the university's Board of Overseers on Sunday, and The Harvard Crimson published a partial list of 11 candidates on Tuesday. An individual with knowledge of the list confirmed the accuracy of the Crimson's list to The Daily Princetonian.A search to find a new leader for Harvard began after former president Larry Summers resigned in March following half a dozen major controversies, including his statement that differences in "intrinsic aptitude" between the sexes may explain why there are fewer women than men in top science and engineering academic posts.

NEWS | 12/06/2006