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Experienced construction supervisor appointed University housing director

Experienced construction supervisor appointed University housing director

The University has appointed Andrew Kane as its new housing director. Kane, who started his job this week, comes to Princeton after serving in the same capacity at Cornell's Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City for six years.He joins the University after former Director of Housing Tom Miller's retirement in July.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Gates urges students to participate in 'golden age' of technology

Bill Gates urged students to pursue careers in computers and technology during a speech in Richardson Auditorium on Friday, painting a picture of a future in which software enables people to communicate and collaborate at the speed of thought."There are great dreams about what software can do," he said.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Students to send supplies abroad

Medicine for All People, a club established this spring, plans to ship medical supplies donated by U.S.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Professors' own books best fit some courses

Though some students may raise their eyebrows when professors assign books they have written, both students and professors appreciate the benefits.Humanities professors say their books are a good basis for discussion, while professors in sciences and math say writing their own textbooks allows them to control the structure and difficulty of their courses."Overall, they are not getting rich [assigning their own book]," Princeton University Press salesman Timothy Wilkins said.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Step into the No Spin Zone

Like the insufferable Natalee Holloway coverage on the Fox News Channel, this week's rain just wouldn't stop.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Gates urges students to participate in 'golden age' of technology

Bill Gates urged students to pursue careers in computers and technology during a speech in Richardson Auditorium on Friday, painting a picture of a future in which software enables people to communicate and collaborate at the speed of thought."There are great dreams about what software can do," he said.

NEWS | 10/13/2005

Whig-Clio hosts Borough Council debate

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will host a debate among the three candidates running for the Princeton Borough Council tonight at 9 p.m.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

Students form new political group

Student activists are no longer congregating in front of Frist Campus Center, but the spirit of public involvement that inspired last year's filibuster is now being channeled into a new student-run organization.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

Students campaign for GOP in Township

With the New Jersey gubernatorial election less than a month away, the College Republicans have stepped up their efforts to elect two G.O.P.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

SASA, USG fundraise for Pakistan quake victims

The South Asian Students Association (SASA) is working with the USG to coordinate a relief effort in response to the this week's deadly earthquake in Pakistan.On Tuesday, the groups set up a fundraising booth in Frist Campus Center to collect donations and sell T-shirts, pins and other accessories.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

Teacher, writer discusses career

Judging from his curriculum vitae ? 19 books and hundreds of essays in print, a masters and doctorate in English from Princeton, another masters degree from Cambridge ? Sam Pickering GS '70 '85 has entered the rarefied league of academic and literary greats.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

For Le Gall '07, physical challenges are way of life

A half-hour past sunrise on an ordinary morning, Yann Le Gall '07 is already four miles into his daily run.

NEWS | 10/12/2005

Engineers Without Borders improves sanitation in Peruvian village

In August, nine Princeton students arrived in the mountain town of Huamanzaña, Peru, with an armful of engineering plans.They departed a month later with the hope that their presence had permanently changed the way of life in that community.This was no ordinary study-abroad excursion, but rather the inaugural trip of Princeton Engineers Without Borders (EWB).Founded in spring 2004, the Princeton chapter of this national organization seeks to "take technologies that are sustainable, culturally sensitive and maintainable and introduce them into disadvantaged communities anywhere around the world," chapter president Sebastien Douville '06 said.One such community was Huamanzaña, which had no sanitation system and a very limited source of clean water.

NEWS | 10/11/2005

Princeton a hacker target, Symantec survey finds

Princeton had the second-highest percentage of computers controlled by hackers among cities worldwide between Aug.

NEWS | 10/11/2005

Goldman Sachs gives PUPP grant

The Goldman Sachs Foundation announced a $475,000 award to the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) on Oct.

NEWS | 10/11/2005

Yale map heist stirs University concern

Following a foiled theft of maps from the Beinecke Rare Book library at Yale, Princeton librarians said they are committed to preventing similar crimes here but declined to specify whether anything might be missing from University collections.The thwarted heist, by map dealer E.

NEWS | 10/11/2005

NJ101 educates student voters

Princeton Votes 2005 (P-Votes) hosted an event Friday to familiarize University students, faculty and the local community with key issues in N.J.

NEWS | 10/10/2005

NEH chair warns of 'American amnesia'

Speaking about what he called "the threat of American amnesia," National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman Bruce Cole delivered a lecture Monday, arguing that too many Americans are forgetting their nation's past, a problem that will have repercussions in the future.In his lecture titled "American Ideals and National Memory," Cole discussed the benefits that come from the study of the humanities, especially history."Without our memory, we have no bearings," Cole said.

NEWS | 10/10/2005

Despite University's warning, 104 accept sororities' bids

The three on-campus sororities concluded formal rush Friday, offering bids to 104 of the 150 students who initially registered, Panhellic Association President Emily Somerville '06 said.Twenty-three students dropped rush and the remaining 23 did not receive a bid from a sorority or the sorority of their choice, Somerville said.Neither sororities nor fraternities are officially recognized by the University, which for the second year in a row sent letters to incoming freshmen and their parents discouraging participation in Greek organizations.This year there were fewer participating sororities because the on-campus chapter of Delta Delta Delta lost its charter last spring.Rush began Oct.

NEWS | 10/10/2005

The mathematician and musician

Few professors would be caught wearing jeans and a Hawaiian T-shirt. But Manjul Bhargava GS '98 of the math department isn't your typical professor.At age 30, Bhargava has already finished graduate school, won numerous prestigious awards, been named as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10," traveled the world on a Clay Fellowship, worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and received tenure.

NEWS | 10/10/2005

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