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Voting in USG elections began Sunday amid a flurry of campaigning, controversy in the presidential race and minor technical difficulties.Freddy Flaxman '07 withdrew from the presidential race Friday after the USG sharply rebuked him for violating election rules and rejected a subsequent appeal.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

Students tossed snowballs and built snowmen Sunday in celebration of the academic year's first snowfall."Our snowman is going to be the best and largest snowman on the entire Princeton campus," said Anna Offit '08 as she packed snow onto a five-foot-tall snowman behind Witherspoon Hall along with Samantha Lomeli '08.Not far away, Jon Essenburg '08 was busy building a snowman of his own on a bench outside of Buyers Hall.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Student paper inspires service partnership

Most students would probably rather forget about the papers they wrote for their freshmen writing seminars.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Tulane students to return home

Waking Sunday morning to the season's first snowfall, a group of students hurried to build a giant snowman, pausing from time to time to throw snowballs at each other.For Princetonians accustomed to winter weather, the scene is a familiar one.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Scholars talk about NAFTA

"NAFTA and Beyond," a conference sponsored by University programs ranging from the Center for Migration and Development to the Center for Human Values, highlighted the impact of free trade on the developing world in discussions this weekend.Lectures and papers were generally focused on ways to fine-tune the North American Free Trade Agreement 11 years after its implementation."We wanted to bring together a group of acclaimed sociologists, economists, and anthropologists to discuss these topics of globalization," said sociology professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, who helped to organize the conference.Of the 23 speakers at the conference, 15 came from other universities, including some in Ecuador and Mexico, according to Nancy Doolan, who administers the Center for Migration and Development.Conference participants said an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of globalization was important."They have brought together such a diversity of people," said Gary Gereffi, a globalization scholar at Duke University who spoke at the conference.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Tulane students to return home

Waking Sunday morning to the season's first snowfall, a group of students hurried to build a giant snowman, pausing from time to time to throw snowballs at each other.For Princetonians accustomed to winter weather, the scene is a familiar one.

NEWS | 12/04/2005

Debaters take on referendum

Correction appendedWhig-Clio hosted a debate Thursday afternoon on this weekend's referendum on whether the USG should sign on to a Princeton Justice Project amicus brief supporting same-sex marriage.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Second gay marriage question added to ballot

Correction appendedAfter more than three hours of debate at a special meeting Thursday night, the USG Senate voted to add a second question on gay marriage to the referendum, but chose not to rescind or change the text of the original referendum.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Holt vies for seat held by Corzine

Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), who represents Princeton's district in Congress, has added his name to a long list of candidates lobbying New Jersey governor-elect Jon Corzine for an appointment to Corzine's now-vacant seat in the U.S.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Holt vies for seat held by Corzine

Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), who represents Princeton's district in Congress, has added his name to a long list of candidates lobbying New Jersey governor-elect Jon Corzine for an appointment to Corzine's now-vacant seat in the U.S.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Second gay marriage question added to ballot

Correction appendedAfter more than three hours of debate at a special meeting Thursday night, the USG Senate voted to add a second question on gay marriage to the referendum, but chose not to rescind or change the text of the original referendum.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Diaz '06 crowned Miss New York

Adriana Diaz '06 walked away from the Miss New York USA 2006 pageant on Sunday with a silver tiara, a bouquet of red roses and the unmistakable look of a first-place winner.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Mideast diplomat accepts new post

A former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt will be the first holder of the S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East policy studies, the Wilson School announced Wednesday.Daniel C.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

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

Debaters take on referendum

Correction appendedWhig-Clio hosted a debate Thursday afternoon on this weekend's referendum on whether the USG should sign on to a Princeton Justice Project amicus brief supporting same-sex marriage.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

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

Branker '80 receives Fulbright to teach music

When current music professor Anthony D.J. Branker '80 first arrived at the University as an undergraduate, he headed for Fine Tower instead of the music practice room.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Mideast diplomat accepts new post

A former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt will be the first holder of the S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East policy studies, the Wilson School announced Wednesday.Daniel C.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

Snow means snow

Before today's forecast, I'd like to first say happy birthday to Myrtle McGee of New Bethel, Ala.

NEWS | 12/01/2005

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

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