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Frosh gather for election info

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

A look inside Princeton cribs

Two 100-pound mirrors, a 1961 Manet painting, a map outlining the French colonies in Africa and four New Yorker covers are Pam Testani's answer to the typical dorm-room fare of band posters and plastic crates.Steering clear of such supercenters as Bed Bath & Beyond, Marshalls and Target, the senior instead frequented The Annex and a New York flea market to furnish her room.In doing so, Testani has tapped into a nationwide trend of students trying to design the perfect dorm room."I went during freshman week and left my room at about 7 a.m.

NEWS | 09/28/2006

Yale endowment returns top peers

Outpacing recent performance by its peer institutions, Yale's endowment generated a 22.9 percent return last year, the university's investment office said Monday.Now valued at more than $18 billion, Yale's endowment is second in size only to Harvard's, which grew to $29.2 billion in the 2005-06 fiscal year ending June 30, according to numbers released by the Harvard Management Company last week.The Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), which manages the University's endowment, is expected to release its 2005-06 numbers after its board of directors meets on Oct.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

At town hall, worries about a divided campus

The four-year residential college system is set to debut next fall, but if last night's town hall meeting in Frist Campus Center was any indication, students still have plenty of questions and concerns.During the hour-long, poorly-attended meeting ? which boasted an audience of about 15, with the occasional additions of passersby attracted by the free Taco Bell and soda ? administrators and representatives from the USG fielded questions about how the approaching changes will affect campus life.Students expressed concern over whether the colleges will divide upperclassmen who join an eating club from those who draw into a four-year residential college.Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel noted that four-year colleges and eating clubs coexisted at the University in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though she admitted when further pressed that there was "very little interaction" between the clubs and colleges at the time.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

Spree for all

The freshman and sophomore classes did battle on Poe Field yesterday at Cane Spree. The annual tradition, which dates back to 1865, pits the two classes against each other in events including cane wrestling, soccer and rugby.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

In trial run next week, late meal to start at 8:30 p.m.

Students planning to catch late meal right after the dining hall closes have had to wait an extra hour this year.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

'Looking out for each other'

Diana Vall-Llobera '10, a native of Puerto Rico, is used to kissing people "hello." The American tradition of shaking hands strikes her as stiff and foreign ? and it's only one of the cultural differences she has encountered since coming to Princeton.To help students like Vall-Llobera adjust to life at the University, Accion Latina has launched a mentoring program for Hispanic students.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

'Freakonomics' author talks prostitution and altruism

Steve Levitt, coauthor of the bestselling book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," interspersed economics with anecdotes in a crowded lecture in McCosh 50 yesterday, discussing everything from the pricing of prostitutes to the altruism of the average person."I ask the ridiculous questions that no economist would ask," Levitt said.

NEWS | 09/27/2006

Conservative author promotes abstinence

Men and women should refrain from premarital sex, avoid pharmaceutical birth control even in wedlock and discourage peers who manifest same-sex attractions from acting on their inclinations, abstinence proponent and author Jason Evert told an audience of approximately 50 students and locals Tuesday night.In a talk titled "Sexual Propositions: Romance Without Regret," Evert ? the author of several books and a member of the lay apostolate organization Catholic Answers ? stressed the potential emotional damage, physical risks and denigration of women he said sex outside of marriage fosters.Dressed in an untucked button-down shirt and ambling in front of the audience stand-up comedian-style, Evert punctuated his promotion of traditional sexual mores with quips and anecdotes, frequently drawing laughter from the audience."Every guy in here has the desire to lust after girls, but he also has a deeper desire to love a woman," he said, arguing that men should practice self-control while women should dress modestly and avoid tempting male peers to objectify them."All guys have been lied to about what it means to be a man.

NEWS | 09/26/2006

Bank allows grads to defer

Prospective candidates applying to Teach for America (TFA) will no longer have to balance the desire to volunteer against the prospect of losing out on a more lucrative job offer, thanks to a new policy enacted by financial giant JP Morgan.In a partnership between the two organizations, students accepted to both JP Morgan and TFA will have the option to defer their finance jobs for two years to work at TFA.

NEWS | 09/26/2006

Door closes on pub for this year

"Miscommunication" between the University and the Borough Council late last year led the Pub Committee to indefinitely postpone plans for regular pub nights, Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson said yesterday.Plans for a permanent University pub have also been tabled for now, though discussions with the Borough will continue."We do not have a timeline for revisiting this idea, but it won't be this year," Dickerson said in an email.

NEWS | 09/26/2006

New program teaches more than English

Though he began his Princeton career taking Chinese "on a whim," Rory Truex '07 has taken his appreciation for the language beyond the classroom.Building off his experience in the Princeton-in-Beijing (PiB) and Princeton-in-Asia (PiA) programs, Truex inaugurated "Summer of Service," a new program in which 11 undergraduates taught at an English immersion program in rural Jishou, China, last summer."It's so easy to do so much good," Truex said.

NEWS | 09/26/2006

Living on prayer

Recognizing the need for religious leadership for Muslim students on campus, the Office of Religious Life (ORL) recently hired Khalid Latif as the University's first Muslim chaplain.Latif, 23, who grew up in Edison, N.J., graduated from New York University with degrees in political science and Islamic studies and completed a year of chaplaincy there, will offer spiritual guidance to students and promote interfaith programs on campus.He will be dividing his time between part-time chaplain positions at Princeton and NYU, as well as finishing his master's degree at the Hartford Theological Seminary, where he is getting certified in Islamic chaplaincy."I don't sleep, ever," he joked.

NEWS | 09/26/2006

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