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Japanese feel they have apologized enough, professor argues

Japanese feel they have apologized enough, professor argues

Ian Buruma, a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, spoke Wednesday about how Japanese nationalism has shaped Japan's attitude toward its history.Speaking to a full audience in Jones Hall 202, Buruma began by asserting that Japan has sufficiently apologized for its role in WWII.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Perle faults post-invasion decisions

Defense analyst Richard Perle GS '68 criticized the postwar U.S. occupation of Iraq and expressed full confidence in Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's controversial deputy prime minister, in an extemporaneous speech in Whig Hall Wednesday afternoon.Perle, who chaired the bipartisan Defense Policy Board during the period leading up to the Iraq war, said he continues to trust Chalabi, who has been accused of supplying the United States with false intelligence prior to the war and of providing secret U.S.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Japanese feel they have apologized enough, professor argues

Ian Buruma, a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, spoke Wednesday about how Japanese nationalism has shaped Japan's attitude toward its history.Speaking to a full audience in Jones Hall 202, Buruma began by asserting that Japan has sufficiently apologized for its role in WWII.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Felten research adds to CD recall

Computer science professor Edward Felten and graduate student Alex Halderman '03 discovered a glitch on the Sony BMG website on Monday, at a time when the music giant is recalling millions of CDs that put users' computers at risk.This is only the latest in a series of problems for Sony BMG that Halderman called "the Sony soap opera." Felten and Halderman have been detailing the progression of events on Felten's blog, freedom-to-tinker.com.As a method of protecting against the illegal copying of music, Sony BMG placed hidden copyright protection software on many of its CDs.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

Gay marriage hurts society, Gallagher says

Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a coauthor of "The Case for Marriage," argued in a lecture Wednesday that legalizing same-sex marriages would result in the overall degeneration of society."Gay marriage is not some sideline issue," Gallagher said.

NEWS | 11/16/2005

NYU graduate students go on strike

A group of New York University graduate school students called a strike on Nov. 9, marked by picketing in front of Bobst Library in Washington Square and other academic buildings across campus, in an attempt to force the university to negotiate a new contract that would acknowledge their union.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

CEO denounces cruel treatment of animals

John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest retailer of organic produce, gave a lecture on animal cruelty and the potential vices of corporate capitalism in McCormick Hall on Tuesday afternoon.Speaking to more than 100 people, Mackey compared the public perception of the ethical standards of corporations and nonprofit organizations."Corporations are viewed as greedy, exploitative and negative for the public, while nonprofits are stereotyped as entirely the opposite," Mackey said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Fear of lawsuits shuts down i2hub

i2hub, a high-speed file-sharing network used by college students to download music and movies, has shut down, CNET.com reported Tuesday.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

CEO denounces cruel treatment of animals

John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest retailer of organic produce, gave a lecture on animal cruelty and the potential vices of corporate capitalism in McCormick Hall on Tuesday afternoon.Speaking to more than 100 people, Mackey compared the public perception of the ethical standards of corporations and nonprofit organizations."Corporations are viewed as greedy, exploitative and negative for the public, while nonprofits are stereotyped as entirely the opposite," Mackey said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Tilghman's salary up 6 percent, but low for Ivy League

President Tilghman's total financial compensation for the 2003-04 fiscal year was $564,619, roughly $30,000 greater than the year before but lower than the salaries of all but two Ivy League presidents, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week.Tilghman's salary is performance-based, said Stephen Oxman '67, chair of the executive committee of the University Board of Trustees and chair of the compensation committee."The compensation committee reviews [the president's] performance and her salary annually, and among other things, looks at salaries of people in comparable positions," he said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Tilghman's salary up 6 percent, but low for Ivy League

President Tilghman's total financial compensation for the 2003-04 fiscal year was $564,619, roughly $30,000 greater than the year before but lower than the salaries of all but two Ivy League presidents, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week.Tilghman's salary is performance-based, said Stephen Oxman '67, chair of the executive committee of the University Board of Trustees and chair of the compensation committee."The compensation committee reviews [the president's] performance and her salary annually, and among other things, looks at salaries of people in comparable positions," he said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Fear of lawsuits shuts down i2hub

i2hub, a high-speed file-sharing network used by college students to download music and movies, has shut down, CNET.com reported Tuesday.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

NYU graduate students go on strike

A group of New York University graduate school students called a strike on Nov. 9, marked by picketing in front of Bobst Library in Washington Square and other academic buildings across campus, in an attempt to force the university to negotiate a new contract that would acknowledge their union.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Neuroscience institute to be launched

Plans for a major new neuroscience institute are underway after the University Board of Trustees approved a wide-ranging proposal last week to expand Princeton's emphasis on the fast-growing field.Funding permitting, the administration hopes to break ground on a new neuroscience building, recruit more faculty and revamp the undergraduate and graduate curricula ? all with the goal of pushing the University to the forefront of neuroscience research.Leading the effort are molecular biology professor David Tank and psychology professor Jonathan Cohen.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Neuroscience institute to be launched

Plans for a major new neuroscience institute are underway after the University Board of Trustees approved a wide-ranging proposal last week to expand Princeton's emphasis on the fast-growing field.Funding permitting, the administration hopes to break ground on a new neuroscience building, recruit more faculty and revamp the undergraduate and graduate curricula ? all with the goal of pushing the University to the forefront of neuroscience research.Leading the effort are molecular biology professor David Tank and psychology professor Jonathan Cohen.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Gay marriage helps society, author says

Gay marriage should be legalized because it will remedy several social problems stemming from a disregard for marriage, writer Jonathan Rauch said Tuesday in a talk titled "Will Gay Marriage Help or Hurt America's Children?""Same-sex marriage is part of the solution to our marriage problem," he said.Speaking to a near-capacity crowd in Robertson Bowl 16, Rauch said gay marriage would make people take the institution of marriage more seriously and encourage single parents to remarry."My belief is that the cultural message that same-sex marriage will send is not that 'anything goes,' but that marriage goes," he said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Gay marriage helps society, author says

Gay marriage should be legalized because it will remedy several social problems stemming from a disregard for marriage, writer Jonathan Rauch said Tuesday in a talk titled "Will Gay Marriage Help or Hurt America's Children?""Same-sex marriage is part of the solution to our marriage problem," he said.Speaking to a near-capacity crowd in Robertson Bowl 16, Rauch said gay marriage would make people take the institution of marriage more seriously and encourage single parents to remarry."My belief is that the cultural message that same-sex marriage will send is not that 'anything goes,' but that marriage goes," he said.

NEWS | 11/15/2005

Physics students travel to California

Thirty-five current and prospective physics students flew out to Southern California this fall break for an all-expense-paid trip that included stargazing and a trip to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, along with Hollywood and Venice Beach.The trip, coordinated by physics professors Chiara Nappi and Ed Groth and cosponsored by the physics department and Caltech, allowed students to experience "an exciting application of the physics that they studied in the classroom and to show them the relations of the classroom to current research on gravity and gravitational motion," Nappi said.The group was mainly comprised of sophomores enrolled in a course on classical mechanics, though a mix of juniors, seniors and graduate student chaperones also attended."There were all levels of expertise and it was very exciting for sophomores to be on the same trip with older students," Nappi said.

NEWS | 11/14/2005

Srolovitz appointed Yeshiva dean

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor and department chair David Srolovitz was appointed dean of Yeshiva College on Nov.

NEWS | 11/14/2005

Keller reflects on decisions in the Judith Miller affair

Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, discussed the future of mainstream journalism Monday afternoon, at a time when his paper has been both the source and the subject of the news."Like most people at the Times, I am suffering from a serious case of Judy Miller fatigue," Keller told a capacity crowd in Dodds Auditorium, referring to the former Times reporter who last week resigned from the paper following scrutiny from colleagues and outside critics about her role in the Valerie Plame leak investigation.In his hour-long speech titled "America Media: Still the Fourth Estate?" Keller discussed the Miller GS '72 affair at length, both defending and criticitizing the Times' role in the affair.Keller said he was right to support Miller's refusal to testify initially in the CIA leak investigation, but that the paper should have been more critical of Miller's reporting, beginning with her now largely-discredited stories on alleged WMDs in Iraq."Newspapers are written and edited by human beings.

NEWS | 11/14/2005

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