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You booze, you lose? No, says new research

You booze, you lose? No, says new research

Binge drinking may have its benefits.High school binge drinkers, though they tend to have a harder time landing jobs, end up with a six percent higher earning potential than their non-drinking peers, according to a September report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.The findings, based on data gathered by the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), were reported by Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Pinka Chatterji and University of South Florida economics professor Jeffrey DeSimone.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Moon Dance

The WenQin Art Troupe, a student group from ZheJiang University in China, performs during the Cross-Pacific Cultural Exchange in Richardson Auditorium Tuesday night.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Ponnuru '95 speaks softly, sticks it to left

For someone with an Ann Coulter blurb on his book cover, Ramesh Ponnuru '95 is surprisingly soft-spoken.While Ponnuru ? a senior editor at the National Review, frequent newspaper contributor and conservative talking head ? might be more circumspect and cerebral than the average culture warrior, his words pack no less a punch.In his new book, "The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life," a work that has landed Ponnuru recent guest spots on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," he takes aim at abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and the American Left."The party of death started with abortion," he writes, "but its sickle has gone from threatening the unborn, to the elderly, to the disabled; it has swept from the maternity ward to the cloning laboratory to a generalized disregard for 'inconvenient' human life."The book, unsurprisingly, has turned Ponnuru into a darling of the right and a nuisance for the left.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Psychology professor wins Nobel, er ... Ig Nobel

Princeton has been shut out of the Nobel Prize races so far this year, but one professor recently won a related award of only slightly less distinction.Psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer won the Ig Nobel Literature Prize awarded last week at Harvard University for a series of experiments in which he proved that using long words to impress an audience actually makes you look less intelligent.The prizes are presented by Nobel laureates around the time the Nobel Prize winners are announced each year and are awarded to scholars who perform experiments that "make people laugh, and then make them think," according to the Annals of Improbable Research, the scientific humor journal that organizes the honors each year.Oppenheimer ? whose findings are published in the study "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long words Needlessly" ? became the first Princeton professor to receive an Ig Nobel."I initially had mixed feelings [about winning]," Oppenheimer said.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

Yale median GPA is 3.6, study finds

While Princeton students continue to spar with administrators over the two-year-old grade deflation policy, Yale's student newspaper released a poll last week suggesting that the median GPA at the New Haven rival lies between 3.6 and 3.7.The unscientific survey, sent to 400 randomly selected members of the Class of 2006, garnered 201 responses.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

OA encourages 'outdoor spirituality'

A dinner discussion at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday kicked off a collaboration between Outdoor Action and the Office of Religious Life to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality.Outdoor Spirituality ? a program founded by Outdoor Action (OA) director Rick Curtis '79, Presbyterian minister Peter Hazelrigg and Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush ? aims to reach out to students who are not directly involved with religious groups on campus.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Foreign students face challenges

"Do you live in a hut?"It's a question that Yolisa Nalule '10 deals with on a regular basis.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Pick-a-Prof reveals grading histories

Students at 180 colleges and universities around the country now have the option of shopping for courses like they shop for the latest electronic devices.Pick-a-Prof ? pickaprof.com ? allows students to view professors' grading histories, write course reviews and evaluate professors' responsiveness.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Ranking aside, Harvard name reigns supreme

Which is the best college in America?Old Nassau may be number one in the hearts of Princetonians and in the U.S.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

'The failure of our policy'

At 11:36 a.m. Monday Seoul time ? 10:36 p.m. Sunday in New York ? the North Korean government reportedly detonated a small nuclear weapon in Hamgyong Province.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Want a job? How about a Slinky?

Seniors ambled through Dillon Gym like kids in a candy store Friday, gathering loot from companies desperate to attract the best and brightest.More than 100 organizations ? ranging from investment banks to the CIA ? jostled for student attention at the General Interest Career Fair, offering not only pens and notepads but also Frisbees, t-shirts, Rubik's cubes, Nalgene bottles, Lindt chocolates, Slinkys, mouse pads, stress balls and playing cards, all emblazoned with corporate logos.As college seniors nationwide enjoy a boom in postgraduate employment, the knickknacks are an attempt by employers ? over 1,500 of whom are listed on Tiger Tracks ? to stand out and attract applicants who fit their recruiting profile.Last year, 68 percent of the Class of 2006 planned to enter the workplace, and only one quarter of them were still seeking a job at graduation.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Taking flak, Nassau Hall backs grading policy

Correction appendedAdministrators and a USG officer have challenged USG president Alex Lenahan '07's assertion that grade inflation may not have existed at the University.In an email sent to the student body last Wednesday, Lenahan cited a Princeton Alumni Weekly article reporting that each class's percentage of academic 1's and 2's ? the Admission Office's designation for the academically strongest applicants ? has been on the rise since 1993.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Rangel critiques welfare system

When Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.) took the podium in Dodds Auditorium on Friday afternoon it was to discuss welfare in America.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Class of '94 pals take on Google

Five years out of college, Steve Papa '94 and Peter Bell '94 wanted a beer can to remind them of Old Nassau.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Doherty, Stansell '71 named Radcliffe Institute fellows

Though no longer exclusively a women's organization, the Radcliffe Institute ? formerly Harvard adjunct Radcliffe College ? still draws prominent female academics, including two this year from Princeton.German and art and archaeology professor Brigid Doherty and history professor Christine Stansell '71 are among the 50 recipients of this year's 2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, which provides yearlong residencies to writers, artists, scientists and other scholars to pursue their work free from distraction.While at Radcliffe, Doherty plans to begin work on a book project entitled "Homesickness for Things," which will "provide new interpretations of the relations among persons, works of art and other objects in poetry and prose," according to her project description."I came to art history from a background that moved across disciplines from the beginning," Doherty said in an interview.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

A century old, still member owned

Every day dozens of students, parents, staff and tourists pass through the multilevel Princeton University Store.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Late meal still in limbo

The future of late meal remains unclear, even after dining services responded to student pressure by testing an earlier late dinner Wednesday and Thursday.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Home taping is killing meteorology

Not classy: Freshmen who, nearly a month into the semester, still have not grasped the subtle difference between "Reply" and "Reply All" when responding to course-wide emails.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

'Prison angel' urges kindness and belonging

An 80-year-old nun who gave up her life as a Beverly Hills socialite to take care of prisoners in Tijuana, Mexico, spoke on the virtues of belonging and kindness last night at the Frist Campus Center.Mother Antonia, whose real name is Mary Clarke, is a widowed divorcee who has made a prison cell her home for the past 30 years.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Sunstein blends social theories

Governments should influence individuals' actions while preserving their freedom of choice, prominent legal scholar Cass Sunstein argued in a lecture last night.The talk, titled "Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron," focused on merging two seemingly contradictory ideologies: libertarianism, which holds that governments should grant people complete freedom of choice; and paternalism, which advocates centralized government commands.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

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