WirehogWhen DC++ was shut down in December, Princeton students lost one of the most widely used file-sharing programs on campus.
Princeton Borough Police arrested three Philadelphia residents suspected of credit card theft on campus and outside Starbucks on Nassau Street on Jan.
Eric Plutz first fell in love with the control lights, switches and pipes of the organ at age 12 while visiting the Paramount Music Palace in Indianapolis with his family."The organist was like the Wizard of Oz," Plutz said.
Princeton Township's Site Plan Review Advisory Board met Monday night to review proposals for Ivy Club's planned expansion and for a new restaurant and jazz club, marking the next step toward the approval of both projects ? and the potential expansion of entertainment options both on and off the Street.Stephen Distler, the principal of developer JAT Holdings, presented his proposal for Aston's Restaurant and Bar, a jazz club he hopes to build on the site of Mike's Tavern on Bayard Lane.
The University filed a request for declaratory judgments on Wednesday, the latest development in the case of the two-year-old lawsuit brought by the Robertson family.
The University unveiled its plan for the construction of 200,000 square feet of new engineering buildings at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday.
Physics professor James Peebles and astronomy professor James Gunn have been awarded this year's Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced January 27th.The professors will share the $500,000 award with Cambridge University professor Sir Martin Rees for their "contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences website.The prize was established in 1980 to support research in scientific fields not considered by the Nobel Prize, which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences also awards.
Four University students presented their designs for biological machines last November at MIT in a federally funded, 10-week competition in the developing field of synthetic biology.The 2004 Synthetic Biology Competition Jamboree marked the end of a contest between students from five schools ? Boston University, Caltech, MIT, Princeton and the University of Texas at Austin ? to "design and build a genetically encoded finite state machine."In other words, students designed basic processors with biological materials.
In her first public remarks since the incident, President Tilghman, the only Ivy League president who is a female scientist, criticized Harvard President Lawrence Summers' comments about women in science, saying they ignore the "enormous progress" women have made during the last 25 years.Tilghman, an outspoken critic of the gender imbalance in science, said there was an "absence of good social science research that would support the view that innate differences between genders explain their differential inclusion in science and engineering."Summers touched off a firestorm of criticism at Princeton and around the country for suggesting that "innate differences" between men and women might in part explain the lack of women in top science faculties.After protests by prominent female scientists and women's rights groups, Summers pledged last week to strengthen recruitment and support of women faculty at Harvard.He appointed Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, to set up task forces to determine how to better support women faculty.
Just beside fine tower at the corner of Washington Road and Ivy Lane, a library is rising from the ground.Construction on the new science library, a glass-and-steel structure that may redefine campus architecture, is proceeding on schedule and slated for completion in the spring of 2007, project officials say.Last week, the University named Skanska USA to manage the construction, a $50-million contract for the company."There's nothing else like it in the world," said Skanska USA spokesperson Caroline Buquet.The Peter B.
Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson approved a ban on smoking in undergraduate dormitories Tuesday after months of discussion with student leaders.The proposal was submitted to Dickerson last fall by the Undergraduate Life Committee (ULC), a subcommittee of the USG.
Applications for undergraduate admission hit an all-time high this year, increasing 17 percent from last year's unusually low figure and two percent from the previous record."Frankly, it's a step that came more quickly than I thought it would," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview yesterday.
A group of 14 students chose hammers and nails over beaches and bathing suits last week when they traveled to the Cherokee Nation, a Native American reservation in Oklahoma, for Intersession.The group, coordinated by the Student Volunteer Council (SVC), spent the week reinforcing and weatherproofing an elderly Cherokee couple's house, break trip leader Karen Wolfgang '06 said.
During their years at Princeton, few students can avoid a messy roommate or neighbor who constantly turns up the bass.
In the wake of another arrest of an area immigrant, a Latino advocacy group raised more than $3,000 in a fundraiser Friday to support immigrants' issues.The event, organized by the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, attracted more than 100 people.The money will help jumpstart an immigration information hotline and establish a database of attorneys to whom callers can turn for assistance, according to Maria Juego, chair of the fund."Anyone can call the hotline if they have a fear of imminent arrests or enforcement actions," Juega said.Just two days earlier, Sergio Valdez, a longtime employee of McCaffrey's supermarket in Princeton, was arrested at work in the latest in a series of raids.Valdez had begun the process of obtaining legal status with the sponsorship of his employer, Juega said."He had an order of deportation and was attempting to file for asylum," she said.Valdez was taken to a detention center in Elizabeth.Concern has been rising in the local Hispanic community after arrests of illegal immigrants in four cities in the last month.
Wilson School lecturer Mickey Edwards was named director of a new Aspen Institute fellowship to educate young elected officials and reduce partisanship.The Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership will sponsor 24 officials in a two-year program designed to increase civility in public discourse and promote cooperation across party lines.Though the fellowship will primarily target politicians in local and state government, politicians from all levels of government will be eligible to participate.Edwards, who served as a member of Congress for 16 years, said he looks forward to boosting enthusiasm for public office and reducing partisanship."We will be on the lookout for young leaders who are thoughtful, reflective and not knee-jerk," he said.
The University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) will move from its current Witherspoon Street site within the next five years, following a unanimous vote by the trustees that oversee the hospital.The trustees of the Princeton HealthCare System (PCHS), which owns and runs UMCP, made the decision Jan.
As part of an ongoing effort to conserve open space in New Jersey, the University recently donated 127 acres of land in Plainsboro and South Brunswick.The donation is a part of a five-year collaborative effort between the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Plainsboro Township, South Brunswick Township and the University to preserve a total of 187 acres of open space.The donated property lies within the state-designated Princeton Nurseries Historic District and adjacent to the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park.
Gliding across the gym floor in one another's arms, five brightly-clad couples narrowly avoided collision.
Professor Robert George and political commentator George F. Will '66 were named two of the four winners of the Bradley Prize last week, an honor bestowed annually on public intellectuals and academics by the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation, a prominent conservative group.George and Will, who will receive $250,000 each, were chosen from more than 100 nominees by a committee made up of conservative heavyweights such as Thomas Rhodes, president of the National Review, a leading national opinion journal; Charles Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and past winner of the prize; Robert Bork, a renowned legal scholar; and Jean Kirkpatrick, a Regan foreign policy adviser.Michael Grebe, the foundation's president, noted that the winners were being recognized for their achievement with regard to the foundation's purpose, described on its website as "strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it."Grebe described George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, as a "brilliant scholar." He particularly noted George's contributions in the areas of natural law ? a theory that posits that the standards that govern human behavior are, in some sense, derived from the nature of humans ? and constitutional philosophy, along with his service in government as a member of President Bush's bioethics council.Grebe also singled out George's leadership of the University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
