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After holding summer internships at the 85 Broads network, a global business community for women headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., five female University students helped found a company designed to create a similar network for college women.The result ? MarketClout ? will hold a launch party tonight at Quadrangle Club from 8 to 10 p.m.

NEWS | 11/09/2005

State not red or blue, but purple

State not red or blue, but purple

New Jersey, where Democrat Jon Corzine won the gubernatorial race on Tuesday, is commonly thought of as a 'blue state' but is more accurately rendered as a multihued patchwork of purple, according to a map released Wednesday by ORFE Department Chair Robert Vanderbei."It only took me 40 minutes to make it this morning since all the programs are already on my computer," Vanderbei said.After the 2000 presidential election, Vanderbei and his ORF 201 students, unsatisfied with familiar red-and-blue election maps, devised a computational model to create a more nuanced political picture of the United States.While standard maps color each state blue or red based on the party that wins more votes, Vanderbei divided the country into counties, each of which he assigned a shade of purple along a continuum from red to blue.Solid red denotes that 100 percent of the votes favored the Republican candidate; solid blue shows 100 percent of votes favoring the Democrat.Vanderbei said he did not foresee that his Purple America map would gain widespread recognition.

NEWS | 11/09/2005

Danner speaks on torture, media after Abu Ghraib

Journalist and professor Mark Danner spoke yesterday about "Torture, the Press and Human Rights After Abu Ghraib" in a lecture hosted by the Wilson School.

NEWS | 11/09/2005

Universal Studios president speaks

Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios, discussed his path to the top of one of the foremost companies in the entertainment business, along with exciting upcoming movies and the ins and outs of Hollywood, in a visit to campus Wednesday.Meyer offered his advice to a group of aspiring business leaders, many of whom plan to work hard in college and go to a top business school.

NEWS | 11/09/2005

Local eateries raise funds for storm cleanup

In cooperation with the Princeton chapter of the New Jersey Community Water Watch, four local restaurants are each donating a portion of their profits tonight to repairing environmental damage from recent hurricanes.The Ferry House, Ivy Garden, Massimo's Cafe and Moondoggie Cafe will each donate between 10 and 25 percent of tonight's profit to the Sierra Club Gulf Restoration Fund, which will use the funds in part to reduce the level of air pollutants.Water Watch's Princeton campus organizer, Lexi Gelperin, said that safeguarding the environment by rebuilding the Gulf Coast is a "major public health issue."Ferry House Event Coordinator Melissa Dill added that "It's still necessary to rebuild in the wake of all the devastation from the hurricanes."The fundraiser was planned by Megan Feldt '06 and Gelperin, who said they hope to raise $2,009 in honor of the Class of 2009.The Princeton chapter of the New Jersey Community Water Watch is a subsidiary of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group and promotes "raising awareness and motivation" to affect local environmental issues, Gelperin said.Water Watch's next planned event, scheduled for Nov.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Times columnist denounces Iraq war effort

Bad decisions have real consequences, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert told a packed McCosh 50 audience Tuesday night in a lecture titled, "The Consequences of Incompetence.""In most cases, the links between decision-making and the consequences are not adequately examined," he said.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Novelist Sittenfeld chronicles 'Prep' life

Curtis Sittenfeld, 30-year-old author of New York Times bestseller "Prep," talked to The Daily Princetonian about the intersection of her life and work, influential authors and her upcoming book "The Man of My Dreams." She will be reading excerpts from "Prep" today in McCosh 10 at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by The Nassau Literary Review and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Tilghman blasts intelligent design

President Tilghman spoke out Tuesday against the teaching of intelligent design and said that Darwin's theory of evolution is a fundamental part of the scientific canon at a day-long symposium on the perception of science in the general public.The event, held at Lewis-Thomas Laboratory and sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and the New York Academy of Sciences, was titled "Blurry Vision: Bridging the Gap Between Science and the Public."Tilghman opened the symposium by addressing the "dramatic need for conversation between science and society" and encouraging young scientists to think about the societal implications of their work."It is the best of times and worst of times," she said.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Alito thesis offers few new clues

The senior thesis of Samuel Alito '72, provided to the University's Mudd Manuscript Library by his adviser and released today, is a meticulous historical study of the Italian Constitutional Court that appears to provide few clues about how Alito might rule as a justice on the Supreme Court.The thesis, which he "researched in various sidewalk cafes in Rome and Bologna during the summer of 1971," according to Alito's yearbook entry, contains specific details of the political context of the court's early years, its power struggles with other Italian courts and its evolution regarding questions of the relationship between church and state.Unlike many modern-day Wilson School undergraduate senior theses, however, Alito's work does not contain any specific policy recommendations, for the Italian court or otherwise.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Alito thesis offers few new clues

The senior thesis of Samuel Alito '72, provided to the University's Mudd Manuscript Library by his adviser and released today, is a meticulous historical study of the Italian Constitutional Court that appears to provide few clues about how Alito might rule as a justice on the Supreme Court.The thesis, which he "researched in various sidewalk cafes in Rome and Bologna during the summer of 1971," according to Alito's yearbook entry, contains specific details of the political context of the court's early years, its power struggles with other Italian courts and its evolution regarding questions of the relationship between church and state.Unlike many modern-day Wilson School undergraduate senior theses, however, Alito's work does not contain any specific policy recommendations, for the Italian court or otherwise.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Local eateries raise funds for storm cleanup

In cooperation with the Princeton chapter of the New Jersey Community Water Watch, four local restaurants are each donating a portion of their profits tonight to repairing environmental damage from recent hurricanes.The Ferry House, Ivy Garden, Massimo's Cafe and Moondoggie Cafe will each donate between 10 and 25 percent of tonight's profit to the Sierra Club Gulf Restoration Fund, which will use the funds in part to reduce the level of air pollutants.Water Watch's Princeton campus organizer, Lexi Gelperin, said that safeguarding the environment by rebuilding the Gulf Coast is a "major public health issue."Ferry House Event Coordinator Melissa Dill added that "It's still necessary to rebuild in the wake of all the devastation from the hurricanes."The fundraiser was planned by Megan Feldt '06 and Gelperin, who said they hope to raise $2,009 in honor of the Class of 2009.The Princeton chapter of the New Jersey Community Water Watch is a subsidiary of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group and promotes "raising awareness and motivation" to affect local environmental issues, Gelperin said.Water Watch's next planned event, scheduled for Nov.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Novelist Sittenfeld chronicles 'Prep' life

Curtis Sittenfeld, 30-year-old author of New York Times bestseller "Prep," talked to The Daily Princetonian about the intersection of her life and work, influential authors and her upcoming book "The Man of My Dreams." She will be reading excerpts from "Prep" today in McCosh 10 at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by The Nassau Literary Review and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

With low draft number, Alito joined ROTC

Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, signed up for on-campus ROTC while a student at the University to avoid the possibility that he might be drafted for immediate service in Vietnam.Alito's number was low: 32, according to U.S.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Times columnist denounces Iraq war effort

Bad decisions have real consequences, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert told a packed McCosh 50 audience Tuesday night in a lecture titled, "The Consequences of Incompetence.""In most cases, the links between decision-making and the consequences are not adequately examined," he said.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Tilghman blasts intelligent design

President Tilghman spoke out Tuesday against the teaching of intelligent design and said that Darwin's theory of evolution is a fundamental part of the scientific canon at a day-long symposium on the perception of science in the general public.The event, held at Lewis-Thomas Laboratory and sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and the New York Academy of Sciences, was titled "Blurry Vision: Bridging the Gap Between Science and the Public."Tilghman opened the symposium by addressing the "dramatic need for conversation between science and society" and encouraging young scientists to think about the societal implications of their work."It is the best of times and worst of times," she said.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

With low draft number, Alito joined ROTC

Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, signed up for on-campus ROTC while a student at the University to avoid the possibility that he might be drafted for immediate service in Vietnam.Alito's number was low: 32, according to U.S.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Democrats win local, state races

Soon after the polls closed Tuesday in Princeton and across New Jersey, it became clear that Democrats were leading the day, winning decisive victories in local and statewide races.As an increasingly combative campaign drew to an end, Senator Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), the longtime frontrunner, lost much of the lead he'd held in polls throughout the campaign but still came out on top, winning more than 50 percent of votes statewide.Corzine had 53.5 percent of the vote, compared to Forrester's 43.2 percent, with 91 percent of precincts reporting.Borough and Township officials and others involved in local politics gathered in the Nassau Inn's Yankee Doodle Tap Room to tally election results from the Borough's 10 districts and the Township's 14 districts.After polls closed at 8 p.m., results began arriving in the wood-paneled room and were tallied on two large wall charts.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Scientists named AAAS fellows

Four University faculty and staff members were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this month in honor of their work in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistics.AAAS, founded in 1848 as a nonprofit organization, is now the world's largest scientific society.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Scientists named AAAS fellows

Four University faculty and staff members were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this month in honor of their work in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistics.AAAS, founded in 1848 as a nonprofit organization, is now the world's largest scientific society.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

Accused prostitute prepares for pretrial

A Princeton Township woman who was arrested for prostitution has been assigned a public defender in preparation for her pretrial date, scheduled for Dec.

NEWS | 11/08/2005

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