Joseph Greenberg GS '77, who served in the University Registrar's Office for 27 years, died late Sunday night of complications from brain cancer.
Joseph Greenberg GS '77, who served in the University Registrar's Office for 27 years, died late Sunday night of complications from brain cancer.
As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.
The family of Bradley Zankel, a former student who died of brain cancer in June, will hold the Bradley Zankel Foundation's first fundraiser in New York City's Canal Room club on Thursday night.
Borough Council is expected to select Councilwoman Mildred Trotman to serve as mayor this week, filling the vacancy left by the death of Joseph O'Neill on Oct.
Writers who use big words to impress their readers may actually find that the strategy backfires, according to a study by psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer.The study, which will appear in the next issue of the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, showed that complex writing leads to a lower evaluation of the author's intelligence.Oppenheimer decided to investigate the effect of using long words needlessly because of his own experiences grading papers at Stanford and Princeton.
Writers who use big words to impress their readers may actually find that the strategy backfires, according to a study by psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer.The study, which will appear in the next issue of the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, showed that complex writing leads to a lower evaluation of the author's intelligence.Oppenheimer decided to investigate the effect of using long words needlessly because of his own experiences grading papers at Stanford and Princeton.
As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.
The family of Bradley Zankel, a former student who died of brain cancer in June, will hold the Bradley Zankel Foundation's first fundraiser in New York City's Canal Room club on Thursday night.
A poll conducted by Wilson School graduate students suggests that Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) leads Republican Doug Forrester by more than 10 points in the race for New Jersey governor, a larger margin than other recent polls have indicated.Students in WWS 507: Quantitative Analysis did most of the phone interviews of 776 randomly selected New Jersey voters over a two-week period in late October.
A poll conducted by Wilson School graduate students suggests that Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) leads Republican Doug Forrester by more than 10 points in the race for New Jersey governor, a larger margin than other recent polls have indicated.Students in WWS 507: Quantitative Analysis did most of the phone interviews of 776 randomly selected New Jersey voters over a two-week period in late October.
Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated last week by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated last week by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
Borough Council is expected to select Councilwoman Mildred Trotman to serve as mayor this week, filling the vacancy left by the death of Joseph O'Neill on Oct.
Firestone Curator of Manuscripts Don Skemer has organized an effort to digitize about 200 Islamic manuscripts and electronically catalog more than 10,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Rare Book Division's collection during the next four years.The collection, the largest in North America, ranges in age from the earliest Islamic texts in the ninth century to pieces written in the early 20th century during the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire."When I first arrived in the early '90s, I realized there were many manuscripts that had not been catalogued," Skemer said.
The University Channel expanded the Apple technology services it provides to subscribers Thursday by adding vodcasts ? shared videos to be watched using iTunes ? to the podcasts, or downloadable sound files, it already offers.Apple recently introduced vodcasting technology in conjunction with the video-enabled iPod as a way of sharing video files over iTunes.
The company that licenses the Blackboard course management system to Princeton expects regulatory approval of its acquisition of competitor WebCT by the end of the year.Blackboard's acquisition of competitor WebCT, announced Oct.
Students in a freshman seminar called the Princeton Laptop Orchestra ? otherwise known as PLOrk ? experimented with computer music performance and composition techniques in a special session Thursday.
Hype is the coin of the realm these days, and perhaps a malaise with no purer expression than the furor over "It," better known as the superfluous Segway.
Princeton resident Meryl James was arrested earlier this week and charged with prostitution and controlling a house of prostitution following a month-long investigation, Township police said Thursday.James, a 50-year-old single mother of three who calls herself a Swedish masseuse, operated out of her Griggs Farm apartment.The investigation was launched when police "got reports of unnecessary amounts of traffic coming and going at an apartment," Princeton Township Police Lt.
