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Oxman '67 named trustees chair

Oxman '67 named trustees chair

Nassau Hall will announce today that Stephen Oxman '67 has been chosen by the Board of Trustees as the new chair of their executive committee, making him the senior most member of the University's governing body other than the president.Oxman, a trustee since 2002, replaces Robert Rawson '66, who will step down July 1 after 13 years as chairman and 20 years on the board."I'm very pleased to take on this role," Oxman said in an interview.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

An evolving campus

To decide how Princeton undergraduates can best experience residential life, German professor Michael Jennings and two colleagues hit the road.Last summer, inside one of Harvard's 12 houses ? the residential hubs for sophomores, juniors and seniors ? Jennings entered a dining hall bathed in natural light and chose from small platters of food cooked within the last 10 minutes."These dining spaces and systems were just so different from Princeton's," Jennings said.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Full text of senior Bradford Lyman's speech

Presented unedited, as received from Lyman.Recently, I was talking to my father about Princeton.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Seniors weigh jobs, graduate school

While some seniors approached their post-graduation futures with rigid planning, Fairy Pardiwalla and Craig McFarland have found that flexibility is the key to preparing for the world after Princeton.A few months ago, Pardiwalla had her heart set on entering a Ph.D.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Class of 2009 draws 1,220

Out of the 1,807 students accepted for the Class of 2009, 67.6 percent have decided to enroll at the University, Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye will announce today.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Frist filibuster packs up, moves to Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? After 384 hours of continuous protest, the Frist filibuster culminated Thursday afternoon as politicians and national media gathered in the shadow of the U.S.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Professors, editors talk about the 'perfect' magazine

What makes a magazine perfect? To find out, students, professors and community members congregated in the rotunda of East Pyne Wednesday to hear prominent editors and writers discuss the importance of fostering small, intellectual publications.Chair of the Council of Humanities Tony Grafton organized and moderated the forum, named "The Perfect Little Magazine." He called it, "a conversation about the perfect little magazine ? what it is and what it could be."In his opening remarks, Grafton described journalism's recent move toward complete conglomeration as "pretty scary." He stressed the need for smaller, more specialized magazines, both nationally and on college campuses.For the first part of the event, four editors of small magazines spoke about what Grafton labeled "the magazines we have." After a break for dinner, a panel of four magazine contributors discussed "the magazines we don't have."The first round panel included creative writing professors Gabe Hudson and Joyce Carol Oates, as well Wendy Lesser, editor of literary magazine The Threepenny Review and a visiting professor last semester.The other panelists were Sina Najafi, the coeditor in chief of the art and culture quarterly Cabinet, and writers Adam Kirsch, Francine Prose, Judith Shulevitz and Lawrence Weschler.Contrary to the name of the forum, Lesser said little magazines should not strive for perfection."I think the whole point of these little magazines is not to be perfect ? to make lots of mistakes, to make an effort to do something different and new," she said.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Man arrested for stalking Bush '06

A Massachusetts man was arrested on campus last week for allegedly stalking presidential niece Lauren Bush '06, authorities said.Lucas Schloming, a 31-year-old Cambridge resident and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was arrested May 6 on federal stalking charges, Public Safety (DPS) Deputy Director of Operations Charles Davall said Saturday evening.Schloming allegedly sent several "threatening emails" to Bush and was later seen "acting suspiciously" and arrested at 58 Prospect Ave., formerly the Elm eating club, Davall said.In late April, Borough police were alerted that Bush was receiving "emails of a harassing nature" from Schloming, Lt.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Fire causes minor damage to Holder Hall

A fire caused minor damage on the east side of the Holder construction site near Nassau Presbyterian Church on Tuesday night.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

University reverses policy on faith groups

Nassau Hall has reversed its policy on the recognition of religious student groups after being contacted by an outside civil liberties organization that protested the treatment of one such group as an "ongoing injustice." Under the new policy, religious student groups with ties to faith organizations without established "campus ministries" will be considered for official student group status using the same criteria as other groups.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Melahn '07 triumphs in 'Assassins' game

Students were dropping like flies. An assassin stalked the campus ? but her weapon of choice was a shiny squirt gun, and her targets were members of the Class of 2007.With 15 "kills" to her credit and more than one daring escape, Laura Melahn '07 emerged victorious in the game of Last Man Standing ? better known as Assassins ? sponsored by the officers of the sophomore class in the final weeks of the semester.She found her victims while they strolled on Prospect Avenue or unloaded their laundry in Forbes.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Protest travels to Capitol Hill

The Frist filibuster ? which began two weeks ago with a handful of students, a single music stand and modest aspirations ? is headed to the steps of the Capitol.A group of about 50 Princeton students will arrive in Washington, D.C., this morning, transporting their around-the-clock filibuster from the north lawn of the Frist Campus Center to the reflecting pool just west of the Capitol building."We decided that we wanted some culminating event because we couldn't keep it going on forever," filibuster coordinator Peter Turner GS said Tuesday.Once in Washington, the students plan to stage a 24-hour protest filibuster aimed at convincing Senators to vote against a possible Senatorial rule change known as the "nuclear option."The nuclear option, which was proposed by Senator Bill Frist '74, would reduce the number of votes needed to end a filibuster from 60 to 51.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

NES's Doran rumored for National Security Council post

Michael Doran GS '97, an assistant professor in the Near Eastern Studies (NES) department, is the Bush administration's pick to head the Israel-Palestine desk at the National Security Council, according to a report Tuesday.Citing unnamed sources, JTA, a nonprofit Jewish news service, reported yesterday afternoon that the White House has chosen Doran to replace Elliot Abrams, who will be promoted to deputy national security advisor for global democratic strategy.Doran, who in the past has done extensive consulting work for the federal government, declined to comment on the JTA report and White House officials did not return calls.In interviews Tuesday evening, University faculty and Washington observers said that though they were aware of rumors surrounding a possible appointment, they were not aware that any decision had been made."Like everybody else, I've heard rumors," NES department chair Andras Hamori said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.Established in 1947, the National Security Council is the president's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with senior advisors and cabinet officials.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

Growing dreams

As Monday became Tuesday, the convenience store in Frist Campus Center buzzed with students fueling up with candy bars, Diet Coke and Red Bull.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

Faculty members Ikenberry, Slaughter '80 to join new blog

Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 will take her political commentary to a public forum beginning May 23 with her first weekly blog posting on TPMCafe.com, a website created by Joshua Marshall '91."The new generation gets their news in new ways," Slaughter said.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

Journalist Ridley challenges nature versus nurture theory

A prolific science journalist challenged conventional wisdom on human behavior determination in a lecture Tuesday before a large audience in McCosh 50."Genes are at the mercy of our experience," said Matt Ridley, who holds a D.Phil in zoology from Oxford.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

Felten leads file-sharing discussion

Those who engage in copyright infringement and the businesses that profit from it must be held legally responsible for their actions, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) director of legal affairs Dean Garfield '95 said during a debate on file-sharing Friday afternoon.Speaking to an often passionate and opinionated audience in the Friend Center, Garfield said that students need to become better educated about the consequences of illegally swapping music and movie files."Just because you can do it in your dorm room without anyone seeing what you're doing, doesn't mean that it isn't wrong, that it isn't illegal, and that it doesn't have an impact," he said.The debate, entitled "Fear-to-Peer: A Debate About File-sharing on Campus," was moderated by computer science professor Edward Felten.

NEWS | 05/08/2005

Former USG president Spitzer '81 plans run for N.Y. governor

Though he didn't know it, the political career of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer '81 began in the middle of his sophomore year, when he was elected USG president.

NEWS | 05/08/2005

Anatomy of a filibuster

"I know I'm drunk, but I still want to sign up," a student says to her friend, walking over to the blue "Frist Filibuster" support tent.It's 1:30 a.m.

NEWS | 05/08/2005

Engineers design self-driving truck

A silver GMC truck ? representing more than a year of work by 30 students and $12,000 in equipment ? slowly made its way across West Windsor fields Friday, watched by members of the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Then it crashed straight into a garbage can.The car in question ? "Prospect 11" ? is an autonomous vehicle competing in DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge, a race consisting of a 175-mile obstacle course over desert terrain.

NEWS | 05/08/2005

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