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Friedberg returns from government post

Friedberg returns from government post

After two years in the White House as deputy assistant for national security affairs and director of policy planning, Aaron Friedberg has returned to his joint post as a professor of politics and international affairs in the politics department and the Wilson School."I came back because I wanted to have the freedom to write about the things that most interest me and because I missed teaching," Friedberg said in an email.Friedberg began his government post in June 2003 on a National Service leave, which allows faculty members to serve in the government or in international organizations, and after one year was asked stay on until 2005.The transition back to Princeton has been "relatively painless," Friedberg said.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Festival to mark Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary

Two centuries after the birth of famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, his legacy lives on in children's fairytales and Disney movies such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid." In honor of Andersen's bicentenary next month, the Cotsen Children's Library will host an international conference to bring together scholars, actors and filmmakers in celebration of his achievements.Titled "Hidden But Not Forgotten: The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the Twentieth Century," the conference will feature presentations of numerous scholarly papers on Andersen's writings and legacy, as well as film screenings, theatrical renditions of Andersen's tales and live storytelling.Cotsen's celebration, scheduled for Nov.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Professors research diversity

A group of University professors has finished collecting data from the Campus Life in America Student Survey (CLASS), launched last year to explore the issue of racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Drinking Liberally at the Annex

Students and community members gathered in the basement of The Annex restaurant last Thursday for the third meeting of Drinking Liberally, one the newest political associations for both students and community members.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Gaming goes global

Paul Nelson '06 has been doing a great deal of file-sharing recently ? and the administration doesn't mind.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Lending a hand to victims of hurricane

Making his way through the halls of headquarters with a military bearing and brisk manner, Red Cross volunteer John Green looked like a man on a mission ? except for the slightly confused look on his face.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Community House lacks volunteers

An increase in the number of tutoring programs offered at Community House ? a student-run organization that reaches out to community youth and adults ? has led to a shortage of volunteers this fall, especially in the Big Brother program, which doesn't have enough male volunteers."The [Princeton] community is relying more heavily on volunteers than [on public school] teachers," Laura Collins '06, a Community House volunteer and chair of the Student Executive Board, said.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Suspect remains at large

A day after the attempted assault of a female undergraduate student in a Frist Campus Center bathroom Sunday night, little new information about the attack has been made available and the assailant is still at large.The Department of Public Safety continued to search for the assailant on and around campus Monday.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Lander '78 leads genomics research

When Eric Lander '78 graduated from Princeton with a degree in mathematics, he still believed in learning for its own sake.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Initiatives to be relaunched

Two popular Inter-Club Council (ICC) initiatives ? A Taste of Prospect and Prospect Initiative ? will be launched this month after slight delays.The ICC hopes that it will be ready to offer A Taste of Prospect, a program through which freshmen are invited to a random eating club for dinner, by mid-October."We were hoping to do it earlier this year, but we ran into some technical difficulties," said ICC President Jamal Motlagh '06, who is also the president of Quadrangle Club.Last year the event took place during the first full week of classes, but was repeated two months later because freshmen in Forbes College were accidentally excluded.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Smagorinsky, pioneer in field of meteorology, dies at 81

Joseph Smagorinsky, founder of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, died Sept.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Course guide to be redesigned

Though the USG hoped to deliver a newly revamped Student Course Guide this fall ? after hiring two students for the project ? most of the intended updates will not be completed until December, as the group looks for new designers for the task.The changes, funded by the USG, will bring the website's code up-to-date and make the SCG, an online resource that offers student-written reviews of course offerings, more user-friendly.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Petraeus says Iraqis need time

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus GS '85 '87, who served until recently as head of the U.S. military command responsible for training Iraqi military, spoke Saturday about the importance of setting up independent Iraqi security forces and emphasized that there is still much work to be done.Before a packed McCosh 50, Petraeus, who commanded both the Multinational Security Transition Command and the NATO training mission in Iraq, gave a presentation outlining the current situation in Iraq."Iraqi security forces are in the fight ? the Iraqi lead and Iraqi coalition force backup are the keys," he said.There are currently 115 Iraqi military battalions, Petraeus said, 16 of which emerged over the course of one year.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Assault attempted in Frist bathroom

An unknown man attempted to assault an undergraduate female student Sunday night in the women's bathroom on the 100-level of Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Students make calls for Corzine

Three students volunteered for the gubernatorial campaign of Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) Saturday, spending four hours in a Hamilton satellite office making phone calls in support of their candidate.Their work was a part of both the College Democrats' effort to assist the Corzine campaign and the Princeton in the Nation's Service (PINS) program taking place this month."We found it a lot of fun," said Willie Poor '07, volunteer coordinator for the College Democrats and a former Daily Princetonian photography editor.Though the volunteers were "basically glorified answering machines," Poor said the afternoon was "a blast.""Most of them were recent college grads digging their heels into the grassroots effort," he said.The opportunity is considered a part of PINS, an initiative designed to increase University student involvement in community service activities."We thought you couldn't do any partisan activity for PINS, but that turned out not to be true," Poor said, adding that the College Democrats plan to continue assisting the Corzine campaign, with or without PINS.Stephanie Burset '09, one of the students who volunteered Saturday, said she was initially worried that the volunteer work would amount to tedium."I was like, 'four hours of phone calls?

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Little new in Rice's speech

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Friday speech, billed as a "major foreign policy address," provided a strong defense of President Bush's policy in the Middle East but offered little in the way of a departure from the administration's previously stated position.The address "was an eloquent restatement of the Bush administration policy on Iraq and democracy," said international affairs professor John Ikenberry.Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, who has previously criticized the administration for its often unilateral approach, nevertheless applauded Rice's emphasis on multilateralism ? seemingly a departure from past rhetoric."She very clearly emphasized that we need to work through institutions with the support of our allies, which is not usually what we hear," Slaughter said, adding that she was also impressed by Rice's ability to marshal history in support of her argument.Joseph Nye '58, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, praised Rice's speech but took issue with the parts of the secretary's position."She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy," Nye said, but added, "She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

The day after tomorrow: Coming global superstorm?

While discharging the duties of Weather Guy duly invested in me by the Nevada Gaming Commission, I am occasionally asked to tender an opinion regarding the events depicted in "The Day After Tomorrow." Like all cinema, I subject "Tomorrow" to a desultory litmus test I call the "Armageddon" Criterion: Does this film contain a poignant and emotionally powerful farewell scene between Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on the surface of an asteroid?

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Rice: U.S. must not waver

Speaking to an audience of more than 3,000 students, faculty and alumni, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States must not waver in its current mission in the Middle East, emphasizing that Iraqi citizens are "on the path to success" but need the support of the international community."We have set out to help the people of the Middle East transform their societies," she said.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

USG blasts Nassau Hall for lack of consultation

The USG lashed out against the administration for not adequately informing them of developments regarding grade inflation, the four-year residential colleges and other issues at its meeting Sunday night.President Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 said the USG only found out about the recently released findings of the Faculty Committee on Grading when he was contacted for comment by an Associated Press reporter."We only found out that they were releasing the report from the AP the night before when the reporter asked me for a reaction," Joseph said.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Chertoff urges international cooperation

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said Saturday that the United States must engage international partners if it is to win the war on terror, echoing comments made on campus one day earlier by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."We have to operate with a new level of cooperation and commitment with members of the international community," Chertoff said at the closing address for the Wilson School's 75th anniversary kickoff weekend in Dodds Auditorium.The Homeland Security secretary's message ? along with that of his colleague Rice ? seemed to suggest a departure from the Bush administration's previous policy."My takeaway message from the weekend is that you're hearing a real shift," Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said in an interview after Chertoff's address.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

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