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On Sunday, The Daily Princetonian caught up with one of Jurassic 5's four MCs, Chali 2na, on the basketball court of the Quadrangle Club.Jurassic 5, a hip-hop group from Los Angeles, headlined a series of concerts, jointly sponsored by USG and the Quadrangle Club, to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.The Daily Princetonian: Jurassic 5 have been performing for a long time ? what have been the best venues?Chali 2na: We have been performing all over the place.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

Tulane students adjust to campus

Tulane students adjust to campus

Days after the unexpected disaster of Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of students without a school, Tulane freshman Christina Montrois received a call of hope.Picking up the phone, Montrois' father heard, "Hi, this is President Tilghman, the president of Princeton University.""No, you're not!" he responded.That morning, as the extent of Hurricane Katrina's damage became undeniable, Montrois had faxed her academic information to Princeton ? one of several colleges that had offered to host displaced students for a semester.But it was hard to believe that President Tilghman was already calling to welcome Montrois to Princeton and express her sympathy for the disaster in New Orleans.Saturday, August 27, was move-in day and orientation for Tulane freshmen.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

CEE professor Smith saw threat to New Orleans

When the muddy waters of Lake Pontchartrain filled the streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Princeton professor James Smith was not surprised.Smith, a flood expert in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has told his students for years that the lower Mississippi River ? and New Orleans in particular ? were vulnerable to catastrophic flooding."We teach a course on 'Rivers and the Regional Environment,' and we always give two lectures on the lower Mississippi, which is one of the most controlled rivers in the world," said Smith, who co-teaches CEE 263 with Professor David Billington.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

Keep watching the skies: It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

In my home state of Florida, we have an expression that allows us to face threatening hurricanes with total equanimity: hunker down.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

Schaengold fights to found first dry club

As a Messianic Jew from an Indian reservation who believes in both sexual and alcoholic abstinence, David Schaengold '07 is used to being a minority.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

Donations approach $10,000

A series of benefit concerts and other fundraising activities organized by students last week raised about $9,500 for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, student leaders said Sunday.T-shirts sold at Sunday's performance by hip-hop group Jurassic 5 raised $2,500, while USG donation tables in Frist Campus Center collected about $1,000.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

UMCP selects architects

The University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) has announced the selection of architects and consultants to work on creating a facility on the new site.Six months after deciding to move from its Witherspoon Street site to a location off Route 1, UMCP has hired healthcare architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum and West Windsor firm Hillier Architecture to design a medical center that will incorporate current technology and allow for future innovations, the Princeton Packet reported."Technological advances occur so rapidly that it is difficult to project what technology will exist when the new hospital opens in five years," hospital spokesman Chris Johnson said.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

P-Unit battles Yale rappers

When Nate Domingue '06 and Robert Moore '06 heard the Yale student rap group 108 Tongues, the two Princeton hip-hop artists decided they were, according to Moore, "garbage.""[Their raps] were pretty weak, homemade, just very amaturely done," Domingue said.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

LGBT center to relocate to Frist

The LGBT center is scheduled to move in January from Dillon Court East to a more spacious three-room office in Frist Campus Center, an expansion that supporters say will help increase visibility for and give much-needed space to Princeton's LGBT community.Until this year, the office of LGBT Student Services Coordinator Debbie Bazarsky was located in West College, an environment that both students and administrators found cramped."With the arrival of Debbie Bazarsky as Director a few years ago, the LGBT center has flourished," President Tilghman said in an email.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Liberal magazines to merge

Two campus liberal publications ? The Progressive Review and The Idealistic Nation ? have merged to create The Princeton Progressive Nation, a new magazine that debuts today.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Ophelia, you're breaking my heart

Helllllllllll yeah, weather fans, it's time once again to step into the weather zone. I hope you all had good summers.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Forrest tapped for VP at U. Michigan

Stephen Forrest ? opto-electronics researcher, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton and former chair of the electrical engineering department ? has accepted the position of vice president of research at the University of Michigan.The University of Michigan's Board of Regents met yesterday to approve his Jan.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Frist filibuster protest honored

The Frist filibuster ? a symbolic protest against the "nuclear option" sponsored by Senator Bill Frist '74 earlier this year ? was named the Protest of the Year by Mother Jones Magazine, a nonprofit publication that focuses on social and political issues.The filibuster, which started April 26 and culminated 348 hours later with a visit to Capitol Hill, took place in front of the Frist Campus Center and involved students, faculty and politicians who read aloud from a variety of sources, including the U.S.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

PUDS extends menus, hours

Extended hours in the residential colleges, more varied menus and price changes at Frist Campus Center are some of the numerous changes Dining Services is introducing this fall.Ideas for improvement came from annual surveys and meetings with students, including focus groups with USG representatives.At the urging of students, particularly athletes, Forbes and Wilson dining halls will remain open until 8 p.m.In Frist, performing groups will be able to use the downstairs Gallery from 10:30 p.m.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Cafe engineered for E-Quad

Students working in the E-Quad will no longer need to walk as far as Frist to refuel. As part of a renovation plan to improve the E-Quad, a new cafe has opened in the northern lobby.The cafe will not accept meal points, but students will be able to charge purchases to their University accounts.Students and other visitors will be able to choose from a variety of breakfast items, sandwiches, salads, soups, desserts, coffee and other beverages."Given the E-Quad's distance from the rest of campus, putting a cafe there makes sense," electrical engineering student Safiyy Momen '07 said.Some students are concerned about the new cafe's operating hours, which are weekdays from 8 a.m.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

In Katrina's wake, alumni join together

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Princeton alumni across the country ? both those directly affected and others far from the devastation ? are contributing to recovery efforts.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

University rankings vary by criteria

Princeton once again topped U.S. News and World Report's undergraduate rankings for research universities this year, tying Harvard for first place.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Moore '06 knows when to Hold 'Em

First it was campus rap fans, then high schoolers with Ivy-League dreams; now, poker players will know the name of Robert Moore '06.Moore recently developed his Mooraculator software, which conveniently calculates Texas Hold 'Em odds in realtime, into a handheld version that is now being sold in Sharper Image stores across the country.It's just the latest in a number of ventures by Moore, an operations research and financial engineering major who is also responsible for the P-Unit rap video, an addictive student image website called whatsmyimage.com and an admissions advice site called YesLetter.com."Everything he touches seems to take off," said Adam Ludwig '06, one of the co-founders of YesLetter.com. "I've wondered myself sometimes if he's human."The deal with Sharper Image started when Moore sent a copy of a Daily Princetonian article highlighting his Mooraculator to Jim Lesser at JDL companies, where he had interned the summer after his freshman year."Jim has a dream job and makes money like you and I breathe," Moore said.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Project 55 internships added to '69 Fund

The Princeton Project 55 summer internship program will merge with the Class of 1969 Community Service Fund in an effort to streamline application and selection procedures for internships in the nonprofit and public service sectors, the 1969 Fund will announce this week.The decision to unite the two programs under the leadership of the Class of '69 Fund was announced in July, and aims to benefit both students and host institutions, said Seva Kramer, executive director of the Class of 1969 Fund."[Project 55 and the Class of 1969 Fund] often attract the same students for our programs, so we thought that consolidating would streamline the process and offer a larger pool of organizations," said Theresa Newhard, Public Interest Program Manager for Princeton Project 55.The expanded Class of '69 Fund will maintain its application procedure ? allowing students to search for and apply to a specific internship ? unlike Project 55, which offered applicants an internship based upon their profile."From the students, it was clear that they preferred our application format," Kramer said of the Class of '69 Fund.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

U. gives parents tenure extensions

Faculty members who are expecting or adopting a child will automatically be granted an extra year to pursue tenure under a new policy announced last month.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

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