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The Daily Princetonian

Brooks says conservative movement in crisis

New York Times columnist David Brooks challenged American conservatives to reinvigorate their movement by recalling Alexander Hamilton's vision of upward social mobility during Thursday night's keynote address for the James Madison Institute's conference, titled "The Conservative Movement."Brooks called Hamilton the original conservative, an individual who rose from a broken home and poverty to pen the Federalist Papers and engineer the United States' treasury system."Social mobility was at the heart of his philosophy.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Flaxman '07 drops out of presidential race

Freddy Flaxman '07 withdrew from the USG presidential race Friday after the USG sharply rebuked him for violating election rules and rejected a subsequent appeal.This marks the second consecutive year in which Flaxman has been reprimanded by USG elections managers for campaign conduct."[The] elections process [is] rife with injustice, unfairness, and corruption," Flaxman said in an email Friday afternoon to supporters announcing his withdrawal.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Brooks says conservative movement in crisis

New York Times columnist David Brooks challenged American conservatives to reinvigorate their movement by recalling Alexander Hamilton's vision of upward social mobility during Thursday night's keynote address for the James Madison Institute's conference, titled "The Conservative Movement."Brooks called Hamilton the original conservative, an individual who rose from a broken home and poverty to pen the Federalist Papers and engineer the United States' treasury system."Social mobility was at the heart of his philosophy.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Flaxman '07 drops out of presidential race

Freddy Flaxman '07 withdrew from the USG presidential race Friday after the USG sharply rebuked him for violating election rules and rejected a subsequent appeal.This marks the second consecutive year in which Flaxman has been reprimanded by USG elections managers for campaign conduct."[The] elections process [is] rife with injustice, unfairness, and corruption," Flaxman said in an email Friday afternoon to supporters announcing his withdrawal.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Team recounts efforts to make Prospect 11 a winner

No one believed that Princeton students would want to get dirt under their fingers, ORFE professor Alain Kornhauser GS '71 said at the beginning of a presentation on Wednesday about a project that proved such skepticism was undeserved.During "Prospect 11: The Making, Testing and Running of Princeton's Entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge," Kornhauser and his team of student engineers shared their experiences competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge.DARPA, a division of the Department of Defense, created the challenge as part of a project to design autonomous ground vehicles that could help save lives in warfare.

NEWS | 11/30/2005

The Daily Princetonian

'No recollection' of CAP, Alito says

Clarification appendedSamuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, said Wednesday that he has "no recollection" of being a member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a group that made headlines in recent weeks after critics said it has advocated far-right, anti-coeducational and anti-affirmative action views.Alito's statement was made in a document released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold confirmation hearings on his nomination in January.

NEWS | 11/30/2005