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The University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) has announced the selection of architects and consultants to work on creating a facility on the new site.Six months after deciding to move from its Witherspoon Street site to a location off Route 1, UMCP has hired healthcare architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum and West Windsor firm Hillier Architecture to design a medical center that will incorporate current technology and allow for future innovations, the Princeton Packet reported."Technological advances occur so rapidly that it is difficult to project what technology will exist when the new hospital opens in five years," hospital spokesman Chris Johnson said.

NEWS | 09/18/2005

P-Unit battles Yale rappers

P-Unit battles Yale rappers

When Nate Domingue '06 and Robert Moore '06 heard the Yale student rap group 108 Tongues, the two Princeton hip-hop artists decided they were, according to Moore, "garbage.""[Their raps] were pretty weak, homemade, just very amaturely done," Domingue said.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

LGBT center to relocate to Frist

The LGBT center is scheduled to move in January from Dillon Court East to a more spacious three-room office in Frist Campus Center, an expansion that supporters say will help increase visibility for and give much-needed space to Princeton's LGBT community.Until this year, the office of LGBT Student Services Coordinator Debbie Bazarsky was located in West College, an environment that both students and administrators found cramped."With the arrival of Debbie Bazarsky as Director a few years ago, the LGBT center has flourished," President Tilghman said in an email.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Liberal magazines to merge

Two campus liberal publications ? The Progressive Review and The Idealistic Nation ? have merged to create The Princeton Progressive Nation, a new magazine that debuts today.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Ophelia, you're breaking my heart

Helllllllllll yeah, weather fans, it's time once again to step into the weather zone. I hope you all had good summers.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Forrest tapped for VP at U. Michigan

Stephen Forrest ? opto-electronics researcher, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton and former chair of the electrical engineering department ? has accepted the position of vice president of research at the University of Michigan.The University of Michigan's Board of Regents met yesterday to approve his Jan.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

Frist filibuster protest honored

The Frist filibuster ? a symbolic protest against the "nuclear option" sponsored by Senator Bill Frist '74 earlier this year ? was named the Protest of the Year by Mother Jones Magazine, a nonprofit publication that focuses on social and political issues.The filibuster, which started April 26 and culminated 348 hours later with a visit to Capitol Hill, took place in front of the Frist Campus Center and involved students, faculty and politicians who read aloud from a variety of sources, including the U.S.

NEWS | 09/15/2005

PUDS extends menus, hours

Extended hours in the residential colleges, more varied menus and price changes at Frist Campus Center are some of the numerous changes Dining Services is introducing this fall.Ideas for improvement came from annual surveys and meetings with students, including focus groups with USG representatives.At the urging of students, particularly athletes, Forbes and Wilson dining halls will remain open until 8 p.m.In Frist, performing groups will be able to use the downstairs Gallery from 10:30 p.m.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Cafe engineered for E-Quad

Students working in the E-Quad will no longer need to walk as far as Frist to refuel. As part of a renovation plan to improve the E-Quad, a new cafe has opened in the northern lobby.The cafe will not accept meal points, but students will be able to charge purchases to their University accounts.Students and other visitors will be able to choose from a variety of breakfast items, sandwiches, salads, soups, desserts, coffee and other beverages."Given the E-Quad's distance from the rest of campus, putting a cafe there makes sense," electrical engineering student Safiyy Momen '07 said.Some students are concerned about the new cafe's operating hours, which are weekdays from 8 a.m.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

In Katrina's wake, alumni join together

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Princeton alumni across the country ? both those directly affected and others far from the devastation ? are contributing to recovery efforts.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

University rankings vary by criteria

Princeton once again topped U.S. News and World Report's undergraduate rankings for research universities this year, tying Harvard for first place.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Moore '06 knows when to Hold 'Em

First it was campus rap fans, then high schoolers with Ivy-League dreams; now, poker players will know the name of Robert Moore '06.Moore recently developed his Mooraculator software, which conveniently calculates Texas Hold 'Em odds in realtime, into a handheld version that is now being sold in Sharper Image stores across the country.It's just the latest in a number of ventures by Moore, an operations research and financial engineering major who is also responsible for the P-Unit rap video, an addictive student image website called whatsmyimage.com and an admissions advice site called YesLetter.com."Everything he touches seems to take off," said Adam Ludwig '06, one of the co-founders of YesLetter.com. "I've wondered myself sometimes if he's human."The deal with Sharper Image started when Moore sent a copy of a Daily Princetonian article highlighting his Mooraculator to Jim Lesser at JDL companies, where he had interned the summer after his freshman year."Jim has a dream job and makes money like you and I breathe," Moore said.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Project 55 internships added to '69 Fund

The Princeton Project 55 summer internship program will merge with the Class of 1969 Community Service Fund in an effort to streamline application and selection procedures for internships in the nonprofit and public service sectors, the 1969 Fund will announce this week.The decision to unite the two programs under the leadership of the Class of '69 Fund was announced in July, and aims to benefit both students and host institutions, said Seva Kramer, executive director of the Class of 1969 Fund."[Project 55 and the Class of 1969 Fund] often attract the same students for our programs, so we thought that consolidating would streamline the process and offer a larger pool of organizations," said Theresa Newhard, Public Interest Program Manager for Princeton Project 55.The expanded Class of '69 Fund will maintain its application procedure ? allowing students to search for and apply to a specific internship ? unlike Project 55, which offered applicants an internship based upon their profile."From the students, it was clear that they preferred our application format," Kramer said of the Class of '69 Fund.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

U. gives parents tenure extensions

Faculty members who are expecting or adopting a child will automatically be granted an extra year to pursue tenure under a new policy announced last month.

NEWS | 09/14/2005

Oxman '67 named chairman of trustees' executive committee

The Board of Trustees has chosen Stephen Oxman '67 as the new chair of its executive committee, making him the highest-ranking member of the University's governing body after President Tilghman.Oxman, a trustee since 2002, replaces Robert Rawson '66, who stepped down on 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 before the announcement of his appointment in June.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

Khazrai GS '92 remembered as devoted teacher

Students and faculty of the Near Eastern Studies department will feel the absence of a gifted and beloved teacher as they begin the new year.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

U-Store offers digital textbooks through pilot program

Students lamenting the high prices and sheer weight of textbooks now have an alternative. A leading textbook wholesaler chose Princeton as one of 10 universities to test the Universal Digital Textbook program, giving students the option of purchasing a digital textbook in place of a hard copy.MBS Textbook Exchange, a Missouri-based company, has made digital versions available for 10 textbooks carried at the U-Store.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

Frosh trip leader injured

A senior Outdoor Action leader was airlifted to a spinal cord injury center in Philadelphia Sunday after sustaining injuries on the last day of his trip.Steven Anderson '06 is "alert, stable and receiving all necessary and appropriate medical treatment," University Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman said.Anderson was hospitalized Friday morning after fellow students on the OA trip notified authorities of a water-related accident.He was "fully conscious and receiving care when taken to the hospital," Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan said Friday in an email to the student body.The University has not released more details out of respect for Anderson and his family, who traveled immediately to his bedside.Trip participants returned to campus Friday and met with Silverman, OA coordinator Rick Curtis and the deans of Rockefeller and Mathey colleges, who offered counseling."Our concern is that students feel supported," University spokesperson Cass Cliatt '96 said.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

University reaches out to storm victims

After Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans and ravaged much of the Gulf Coast last month, University administrators, faculty and students responded with wide-ranging initiatives to help those affected by the storm.As the extent of the damage gradually became clear in the days after the hurricane came ashore, the University announced it would open its doors to displaced students.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

Campus Club may reopen dry

After Campus Club's board of trustees decided last month to close the club this fall, members hoping to keep Campus open are joining with students who want to create an alcohol-free eating club.

NEWS | 09/13/2005

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