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Biederman leads 2-to-1 in early polls

Biederman leads 2-to-1 in early polls

USG vice president Rob Biederman '08 seemed poised to win the student government presidency last night, with close to half of students polled saying they have voted or plan to vote for him.Biederman commands 47 percent of the vote compared to fellow junior Grant Gittlin's 24 percent, according to an unscientific poll of 416 students conducted by The Daily Princetonian last night.Twenty-nine percent of voters, however, said they remain undecided between the two candidates.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

When in Romania ...

To honor Romania's Union Day, which marks the country's 1918 unification, Romanian students provided information about their country and samples of its cuisine to classmates in Frist on Friday.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

A prince of Morocco, now of Princeton

Prince Moulay Hicham Benabdallah '85, third in line to the throne of Morocco, is smart, urbane, charming, articulate and highly educated.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

Students alleviate boredom on blog

Can anonymity save Princetonians from ennui? Yes, if the popularity of boredatfirestone.com is any indication.The website ? an experimental blog where students converse simply, quickly, freely and completely anonymously ? has quickly taken off since its Oct.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

A visit to Christmas Past

The Ghost of Christmas Past reminds Scrooge of his past days as a schoolboy during McCarter Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol." The play, adapted from Charles Dickens' classic by David Thompson and directed by Michael Unger, runs until Dec.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

Discipline is an issue for voters

Correction appendedA majority of students said yesterday that the USG presidential candidates' disciplinary records are relevant to them as voters.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

Physics professor Smith GS '66 named first dean for research

In an effort to streamline fundraising and maintain the University's status as a major research institution, the Board of Trustees appointed physics professor A.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

U. closes in on agreement for free music downloads

The University is close to finalizing a contract with a music downloading service to provide free subscriptions to the entire Princeton student body, Class of 2008 senator Rohan Joshi said in an interview yesterday."There's no way the University can sit with giving out free CDs," said Joshi, who has spearheaded the project for the past year.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

U. looks at course guide expansion

As students continue to register for spring classes, one University official introduced a plan yesterday to elicit more reviews of professors and courses on the USG's Student Course Guide website.Peter Quimby, the associate dean of the college, said that in order to boost the number of evaluations on the site, a program could be set up to prevent students from seeing their final grade in a course until they had accessed the guide and either written a review or selected the "no comment" option.Quimby, along with site webmaster Joe Perla '09, spoke at the weekly USG meeting in Frist last night about recent improvements to the guide.

NEWS | 12/03/2006

Meryl Streep mixes humor, candor while reflecting on acting career

"I'm very honored and grateful to be invited here," Meryl Streep began her address in McCosh 50 last night, "to be the Belknap prisoner ... vis ... to be the Belknap pris ... visitor!""Oh my god," she said of her gaffe as the packed audience burst into laughter.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

Library opening delayed

Contracting troubles have forced the University to delay the opening of its new multimillion dollar science library.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

If I forecasted it

Like Ted Stevens earmarking $400 million for a Bridge to Terabithia, this week's weather has been completely inappropriate.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

More funds alotted for smaller deptartments

Since 2004, West College has inundated freshmen and sophomores with materials encouraging them to join smaller departments.With information sessions at Career Services and the residential colleges, increased attention to course design and the distribution of pamphlets describing successful alumni from small departments, administrators have enlarged some departments by as much as 60 percent.The University, though, has also put its money where its mouth is.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

USG hopefuls confront past indiscretions

USG presidential candidate Rob Biederman '08 was forced to explain his own disciplinary record yesterday, one day after opponent Grant Gittlin '08 admitted at a public forum that he was asked to move off campus after three disciplinary violations.Gittlin supporters suggested on Thursday that Biederman was not being forthright about his own run-ins with the University.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

Statement by Grant Gittlin '08

My quote in the Prince yesterday unintentionally implied that the administration does not take disciplinary actions seriously.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

Alum urges athletics as education

Athletics deserves as much intellectual inquiry as the liberal arts, Trinity College philosophy professor Drew Hyland '61 said in a lecture yesterday, asking the audience to imagine a world where wrestling vies with mathematics as a main school subject.Hyland, a former Princeton basketball player, addressed about 100 students and members of the Princeton Varsity Club in McCosh 10 at "The Sweatiest of the Liberal Arts: Athletics and Education." Making allusions to ancient Greece and current European educational models, he argued that the common view of sports as divorced from the academic sphere harms students' potential growth."By giving short shrift to the arts and physical education, we are cutting off from our children [their] core sensibilities," Hyland said.He began by describing the ancient Athenian view that the two foundations of a young person's education were the pursuits of the muses and those in the gymnasium.

NEWS | 11/30/2006

Conference examines dining options, grading

Student government delegates put sexual abuse, dining options, grading policy and other issues on the table when they gathered Nov.

NEWS | 11/29/2006

USG debate takes personal turn

USG presidential candidate Grant Gittlin '08 addressed questions about his disciplinary record and relationship with the administration at last night's pre-election presidential forum.The candidates ? both USG veterans ? staked out their priorities if elected and reviewed their service records, with both emphasizing the risks and opportunities in transitioning to the four-year college system.In response to an audience member's question, Gittlin, the three-term Class of 2008 president, admitted that he received three violations from the Committee on Discipline and was subsequently asked to move off-campus, where he now lives.Audience member Ruben Pope '07 asked Gittlin if he thought his history with the administration might impair his work as president of the student government."It's sort of suspect how someone can live off campus and expect to work with administrators," Pope said in an interview after the event.

NEWS | 11/29/2006

Amid charge of bias, Rapelye stands firm

"Anything that seems unfair is under scrutiny," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye told students yesterday in a rare roundtable discussion that ranged from allegations of discrimination to the implications of the University's elimination of Early Decision.Addressing the ongoing investigation into the University's admission policies for Asian-Americans, Rapelye told roughly 30 students in Frist 308 that "the numbers don't indicate [discrimination]," and "what we're doing is as fair as it can be."Last month, Yale freshman Jian Li filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, claiming that the University discriminated against him because he is Asian.

NEWS | 11/29/2006

Sophomores applaud new financial aid policy

As sophomores pondered their future social options yesterday over Frist chicken fingers and looming homework assignments, most applauded the University's recent expansion of financial aid as a much-needed effort to make eating clubs more accessible to all students."There were some friends of mine who weren't even considering eating clubs because of the financial issues," Laurissa Yee '09 said.

NEWS | 11/29/2006

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