Correction appended Study abroad has been significantly less popular this fall, with the number of students overseas less than half the number that were abroad at this time last year.
From male auctions to rock concerts, eating clubs have come up with creative ways to raise money to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.Cap and Gown Club will be donating the $1,000 it won in a dodgeball tournament last spring, as well as supplies, to a school from the region struck by the hurricane."We're working on picking a recipient so we can arrange a donation of school supplies, books, or whatever they need," Cap President Matthew Klitus '06 said.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced in July that it will administer only computer-based MCAT exams after August 2006, cutting the test's length nearly in half.
Nicknamed the "paper machine" by Matthias Roth GS, chemistry professor Herschel Rabitz has collected an astounding 653 publications for nearly four decades of work in the fields of chemistry, physics, engineering and biology.Rabitz, predominantly a theoretician, seeks to push the boundaries of what we can control.He's working on "manipulating the motions of atoms and molecules using lasers to make the molecules dance.""We want them to dance to our tunes," Rabitz said.His ultimate goal is to pull apart atoms and use lasers as a "molecular pair of scissors."This problem has fascinated scientists for 40 years, Rabitz said, but they have primarily approached it through the limited approach of intensely focusing a single wavelength of laser ? red or blue, for example ? on a molecule.But that idea is too simple, he explained, because molecules move in complicated ways."You don't make a Beethoven sonata by playing one key of the piano because you're sensitive to the sounds.
Four years after the devastating Sept. 11 attacks, the World Trade Center is again in the news, this time over controversial plans to construct an International Freedom Center on the site.The idea has come under criticism from some victims' families for focusing too broadly on freedom, detracting from the heroes of that day.
The United States has been fighting an international war on terror for the past four years, but the official definition of what constitutes a terrorist act is debatable.
The United States' share of new publications in stem cell research is unexpectedly low and declining, according to a recent paper by Aaron Levine, a doctoral candidate in the Wilson School.
Despite millions of dollars in unexpected energy costs resulting from the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the University will not cut planned expenditures for the 2005-06 academic year, the University budget director said.Instead, the University will use endowment income to meet a projected budget shortfall, even as administrators consider energy conservation strategies to contain costs."Right now, there is no plan to make dramatic short-term cuts in the budget.
When the topic was NAFTA, Alexandra Connell '07 could ask students at the University of Guadalajara about deepening economic inequality.
The Institute for Advanced Study drew dramatically closer to its yearlong fundraising goal with a $25 million gift from billionaire software developer and Institute trustee Charles Simonyi, the Institute announced Friday.Simonyi, who made his fortune developing Excel and Word for Microsoft, said he wanted to lessen the Institute's reliance on what he characterized as "uncertain" government funding."With a total endowment of $400 million, [the Institute] has worked with 21 Nobel Prize winners and practically all Fields Medals winners," Simonyi said.
The images of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina inspired sympathy and horror in students who watched on TV, but they inspired Eugene Franco '08 to buy a plane ticket to Baton Rouge and take part in an enormous relief effort."I kind of felt compelled to do it because I'm from NYC, and after 9/11, the whole country sent donations and contributed expertise to the clean up effort and the rescue effort there," Franco said.
Seven universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, filed a legal brief last week opposing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in anticipation of an upcoming Supreme Court case on the controversial Solomon Amendment.Princeton, one of three Ivy League schools with a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, was not approached about participating in the brief because it lacks a law school, according to Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee '69.The case before the Court, Rumsfeld v.
Most students are still waiting to be notified if they have received tickets to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's speech on Friday, but undergraduates in the Wilson School have already been offered reserved tickets.The University has declined to release details about how many seats are available for other students, faculty and staff.Rice is scheduled to speak Friday to an audience of more than 3,500.To accommodate as many as possible, organizers of the Wilson School's 75th anniversary celebration have selected Jadwin Gymnasium for the speech.Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said the gym will allow the maximum number of people to attend."We have done everything possible to make this a University-wide event, consistent with our vision of the Woodrow Wilson School as Princeton's nexus with the world of public and international affairs," she said.Organizers chose Jadwin partly in response to the large unmet student demand for tickets to see Secretary of State Colin Powell, who spoke in Richardson Auditorium last year.More than 2,000 students and faculty requested tickets to hear Powell speak, but Richardson Auditorium seats about 850 people.
What you are about to read is The Truth. The reason you know it's the truth is the bipartite oath all who set foot inside The Daily Princetonian MegaDoppler 90000000+ Weather Center must swear: I promise to never lie to you, and I solemnly swear to use the word "awesome" at least once per column.That said, a story lost amid the hue and cry of Hurricane Rita was that of Scott Stevens, erstwhile meteorologist at KPVI Channel 6 in Pocatello, Idaho.
Rutgers University's football stadium was transformed into the Dalai Lama's open-air classroom yesterday morning, when a crowd of about 36,000 gathered to listen to the spiritual leader's lecture on "Peace, War and Reconciliation."Tibetan peace flags created by Rutgers students adorned the field's inner fences, and a large stage covered in flowers stood behind the end zone.The audience included 27 members of Princeton's Buddhist Students' Group (PBSG), who joined the public to listen to the voices of the Dalai Lama and his translator resonate over loud speakers.The Dalai Lama "was sitting up there casually ... as if he knew all of us already," PBSG leader Ian Petrow '07 said.
A joint project of the Wilson School and the Brookings Institute recently concluded that "children benefit from growing up with two married biological parents." The report appeared in the most recent issue of the journal "The Future of Children."The report cites occasions when the government discourages marriage through marriage penalties which, they argue, "are a result of policymakers' efforts to achieve the goal of progressivity ? giving greater tax and welfare benefits to those with lower income ? while trying to keep down program costs."Elisabeth Donahue, an associate editor of the journal and Wilson School lecturer, explained this phenomenon in more detail.She said that two unmarried individuals could be on welfare, but as a married couple, their pooled resources would make them ineligible for government support.This could lead to financial difficulties for the family and destabilize the marriage, worsening the wellbeing of their child, she said."All things being equal, kids in two-parent, married relationships do better," Donahue said.The report recommended that the government implement more policies to promote "stable, low-conflict, two-parent families."Though the U.S.
Editor's Note: Daily Princetonian weather personality Ryan Truchelut was unable to write today's weather column due to injuries sustained in a tragic collision with the Beautiful Truck.
Princeton's new assistant dean of the college may have come from a deanship at Yale, but Peter Quimby is not interested in making enemies.
The University will not offer TimesSelect, a new service from The New York Times that charges $49.95 per year for exclusive online access to certain columns, to students free of charge.TimesSelect includes columns in the oped, business, New York/region and sports sections, as well as the International Herald Tribune.Though NYTimes.com will remain accessible free of charge for home-delivery subscribers, Princeton students who currently have the newspaper delivered to their dorm rooms will be required to pay for complete access to archives and work by columnists such as economics professor Paul Krugman.Though Firestone Library offers hard copies of The New York Times, computers at Firestone will also have only limited access to the site."Widely read newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist do not provide institutional Web subscriptions," said Economics and Finance Librarian Bobray Bordelon.However, all articles, oped pieces and archival articles dating back to 1980 are still available through Lexis-Nexis Academic.Also, the majority of NYTimes.com, including all news, features, editorials, analysis and multimedia, will continue to be available to readers of the Web site.
A month after trustees announced their decision not to open Campus Club this fall, members of the eating club have been notified that due to continuing economic difficulties that have plagued the club for much of the last decade, the club will not reopen at all.Official confirmation from the club's leadership of the trustees' decision to shut down Campus was not available, but Campus Beverage Director Matthew Samberg '06 said, "As the situation stands right now, Campus Club will not be reopening."Alumni and other members declined to comment.Campus has struggled to attract members in recent years, while earning insufficient income to support the costs of keeping the club open.
