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University installs new supercomputers

University installs new supercomputers

A yearlong effort to broaden the University's research infrastructure recently culminated in the implementation of three new supercomputers, placing the University at the forefront of computing research.Last fall, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, the engineering school and the genomics institute collaborated in a movement to sustain the research already taking place at Princeton and to encourage younger scholars to explore new scientific and computational frontiers.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Crime rate drops, well below peers'

Crime at Princeton declined in 2005, with fewer reported incidents of liquor law violations, burglary and aggravated assault than in 2004, according to the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) annual Campus Security Report.Though the figures for on-campus motor vehicle theft and sexual assault rose slightly, crime on campus overall remains far less of a problem at Princeton than at Yale or Harvard.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Chemical society honors two professors

The American Chemical Society (ACS) will honor University professors Emily Carter and William Russel this spring with awards for their career-long contributions to computer-based chemical research and colloid research, respectively.Carter will receive the 2007 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Panelists define a 'just society'

Three University professors and a visiting fellow elucidated the various definitions of social justice in a panel last night in Dodds Auditorium, sharing their visions for a more just future society.The event was the first of six in this October's Civic Awareness and Action Series.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Rivals tag Whig Hall with graffiti

Correction appendedWhig Hall was vandalized with graffiti Sunday night in an apparent attempt by Rutgers students to revive the school's once-contentious rivalry with Princeton.Public Safety officers discovered the writing on the western wall of the 113-year-old home to the University's debating society around midnight during a routine campus patrol.Scribbled in bright red spray paint, the message read, "WE WANT A GAME 1869 RUTGERS BB2," a reference to Rutgers' victory over Princeton in the first-ever intercollegiate football game.Facilities department workers cleaned the graffiti late Monday afternoon.University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said that Public Safety spotted the marks on Whig Hall before noticing students on Cannon Green in front of the building.The students, who Cliatt identified as Princetonians, were near the Revolutionary War cannon that has baited the Rutgers-Princeton rivalry for more than 150 years.Cliatt said the officers "encountered students respraying the cannon black ... to cover over the red sprayed there by Rutgers." The students said they had not witnessed anyone defacing Whig Hall or the cannon, and Public Safety could find no other witnesses.She added that Public Safety's investigation is ongoing, though the incident is "very straightforward," with no known witnesses.Whig Hall is home to the Whig-Cliosophic Society, an umbrella organization for student political groups including Princeton Model Congress and the International Relations Council.Whig-Clio computing coordinator George Lan '09 said he notified other society officers after spying the graffiti on his way to class from his dorm room in Blair Hall.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Roosevelt Institute plans for new year

The University chapter of the Roosevelt Institution has carved out a unique place for itself among the many political organizations already established at the University.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Princeton ranks in top 20 for gay-friendliness

Correction appendedGay? Fine by Princeton.Or at least according to national newsmagazine The Advocate, which recently ranked the University as one of the top 20 campuses in the nation for supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.The University of Pennsylvania was the only other Ivy League school to appear in the top 20, with Harvard notably absent from the top 100.The list is featured in "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students," a 389-page book that rates colleges based on 20 criteria ? including the strength of LGBT and allied student organizations, LGBT social activities and educational events and whether the campus police are trained on LGBT sensitivity ? that make up their "Gay Point Average," or GPA.Princeton garnered a GPA of 19 out of a possible 20 points, in large part because of the gay and lesbian programming offered by the University's new LGBT Center."There was a part of me that really believed we would make [the top 20]," Debbie Bazarsky, director of the LGBT Center, said.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Student brings renowned orators to hip hop symposium

Cold calling a former editor-in-chief of The Source, begging hip-hop artist Talib Kweli to set aside rehearsal time and dealing with Jay-Z's cancellation are just some of the challenges Michael Rudoy '07 has faced in organizing the first ever hip-hop symposium at Princeton.The symposium, which takes place Friday at 2 p.m.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

The high price of graduation

When Michael Hall, father of Cailey Hall '07, recently attempted to reserve a room at the Nassau Inn for graduation weekend, he was startled to discover that the rate was almost triple what he'd paid the three times he'd stayed there before."I was gobsmacked," he wrote in an email, referring to the price hike as "gouging of the worse sort.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Few admitted in fall Bicker

Clarification appendedTower, Cottage and Cap and Gown clubs accepted an unusually small fraction of Bicker candidates this year, with few spots open to a large number of junior and senior applicants.Tiger Inn did not hold fall Bicker and Ivy officers did not respond to requests for comment.Tower welcomed 15 new members out of an applicant pool of 45 at their pickups Tuesday night, club president Chris Berg '07 said."The higher turnout demonstrates there is more enthusiasm for the club this year," Berg said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

Referenda bill nears passage

The USG moved within one step of enacting a constitutional amendment to better define the propriety and relevancy of campus-wide referenda at last night's Senate meeting, approving the amendment nearly unanimously.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

Service emphasizes 'culture of life'

Princeton Pro-Life hosted the University's second interfaith "Respect Life Sunday" yesterday, an annual nationwide event intended to foster "a culture of life in our world," including advocacy against abortions and the use of embryonic stem cells."We realize that there are a lot of people that reach the pro-life position because of their faith, and we wanted to recognize and applaud those people," Tom Haine '08, the president of Princeton Pro-Life, said in an interview.He praised the ceremony for providing an edifying and constructive look at the faith behind the pro-life position."It's not a very controversial service, as far as they go," he said.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

Frosh gather for election info

Over 50 freshmen crammed into a USG conference room in Frist last night to learn about class government election procedures and munch on pizza.Several current USG officers explained the election rules to the large, diverse crowd of potential candidates."We love seeing all these people who are interested in running," USG president Alex Lenahan '07 said.He added that several freshmen had already emailed USG officers to ask about the campaign process.USG vice president Rob Biederman '08 presided over the informational meeting.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

A new kind of club

All of a sudden, out of nowhere, John was hit from behind by Mark. Armed with a laser gun, Mark had been crouching behind an open locker door, waiting for his target.Friday night scenes like this ? students sprinting through the Dillon Gym locker rooms late at night aiming laser guns at each other ? aren't uncommon now that the Colosseum Club has opened for the new school year.Steve Slovenski '09 started the club last winter as an alternative to the Street.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

Loquacious Karim bids 'Wa adieu

Wawa's Karim ended his five-year career as the garrulous late-night cashier on Saturday. The one-named campus celebrity ? whose last name is actually Groves ? assumes his next position as a daytime cashier at Wild Oats today.On Saturday evening, in what he called "one of the most candid interviews [he's] given in a while," Karim talked for an hour and a half about drunken students, the statue the University should erect in his honor and a mystery girl who makes him stop to catch his breath, while simultaneously ringing up a line of customers that rarely fell below seven people.Though he never advertised that he was working the last of his countless hours at the 'Wa, students who found out responded with shocked "No!"s and similar outbursts."Are you joking?" Louisa de Carvalho '09 said upon hearing the news.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

New group looks to cut University's carbon emissions

At a time when everything about Princeton seems to be growing ? the undergraduate student body, the number of residential colleges, its endowment ? one group of students wants to make sure that at least part of the University shrinks.Graduate students in the Wilson School have started a new campus organization dedicated to reducing the University's carbon footprint.

NEWS | 10/01/2006

Volcker '49 calls for robust U.N. reform

The United Nations has not done enough to reform its practices since the oil-for-food scandal, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker '49 told a Dodds Auditorium audience Thursday night.Volcker chaired an independent committee investigating the mid-1990s program, which allowed Iraq to sell its oil in exchange for food and medicine.Though the United Nations has devised an ethical code and new reporting standards, it has not embraced the extensive reforms the committee recommended to maintain the legitimacy of the body, Volker said.Volker was on campus to discuss the new book "Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the threat to the U.N.," for which he wrote the introduction.

NEWS | 09/28/2006

Students ponder a free Princeton

"So the administration, not too many days ago, they changed the situation. Now all can afford to go.

NEWS | 09/28/2006

'Threat of the first order'

With the world "on the cusp of a new era of nuclear danger," international governing bodies "in crisis" and the prospect of a worldwide disease epidemic posing "a national security threat of the first order," the United States must make dramatic policy changes to ensure Americans' safety, a report released Wednesday by the Wilson School's Princeton Project on National Security argues.The report, which enumerates several "major threats and challenges" facing the United States ? including the political situation in the Middle East, global terror, nuclear proliferation, the rise of China and East Asia and the risk of a global pandemic ? focuses largely on broad strategies and approaches.

NEWS | 09/28/2006

A few magnates short of a cartel

Beloved Free and Righteous Peoples of the World:Last week, in this space in The Daily Princetonian, the devil walked among us.

NEWS | 09/28/2006

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