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Energy costs result in cuts

The Daily Princetonian

Energy costs result in cuts

Rising energy costs have forced the University to cut spending by $3.7 million this year and are complicating energy conservation efforts, University Provost Christopher Eisgruber said at a faculty meeting Monday.The meeting also included memorial resolutions for recently deceased professors Jeremiah Finch, Frederick Mote and George Reynolds GS '43.Eisgruber said the budget situation was even more strained last year, when soaring energy prices and salaries for a larger-than-expected pool of new faculty members prompted $4 million cuts in spending elsewhere.

NEWS | 11/07/2005

Nominee's missing thesis recovered

The Daily Princetonian

Nominee's missing thesis recovered

Correction appendedThe senior thesis of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72, which along with some 300 others was lost during the 1970s, resurfaced Monday when Alito's thesis adviser provided a copy to the University.Walter Murphy, the McCormick Professor in Jurisprudence Emeritus, sent a copy of the thesis to the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.

NEWS | 11/07/2005
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Nominee led conference recommending privacy, gay rights

The Daily Princetonian

Nominee led conference recommending privacy, gay rights

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

Simple writing best, study finds

The Daily Princetonian

Simple writing best, study finds

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

Simple writing best, study finds

The Daily Princetonian

Simple writing best, study finds

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

Nominee led conference recommending privacy, gay rights

The Daily Princetonian

Nominee led conference recommending privacy, gay rights

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

Poll says Corzine leads by 10 points

The Daily Princetonian

Poll says Corzine leads by 10 points

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

Poll says Corzine leads by 10 points

The Daily Princetonian

Poll says Corzine leads by 10 points

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2005

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