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Lewis maintains support for University

Lewis maintains support for University

University trustee and billionaire Peter Lewis '55, the biggest individual donor in the history of the school, has publicly broken with major recipients of his donations in the past ? but he says he remains impressed by Princeton.Lewis, who resigned from the board of the Guggenheim Museum earlier this year in a public fallout that made headlines across the country, is an auto insurance magnate who has given $117 million to the University."Princeton operates better than any other institution with which I've been involved," he said.

NEWS | 03/31/2005

Anscombe talk covers gender differences

The Anscombe Society sponsored its first event Wednesday night, a talk titled "Androgynous Feminism's War Against Women" led by Dr. Steven Rhoads '61.Rhoads, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, focused on medical and psychological data that points to biological differences between the sexes.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

Sorority pays for fire damage

A sorority has paid thousands of dollars to the Nottingham fire department after members caused damages to department's ballroom at an event earlier this month, police said.The sorority Pi Beta Phi ? which reserved the Nottingham Fire Company Ballroom for a March 3 formal ? paid $4,155 as compensation for a curtain that caught fire, damages to the floor and a case of stolen wine, according to Hamilton Police Detective Lieutenant James Kostoplis."They trashed the place," Kostoplis said.The formal event was cosponsored by the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, according to students at the event who asked not to be named.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

E-Council honors professors, TAs

Four professors and three teaching assistants were honored for their commitment to teaching on Wednesday at the Engineering Council's "Excellence in Teaching" Awards, held every semester since the Council's inception in 1988.The winners were selected by the undergraduate Council members from a pool of professors and TAs, based on nominations by students.This year's recipients include Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maria Klawe for MAT 104: Calculus, physics professor Joe Fowler for PHY 103: General Physics I, chemical engineering professor Sankaran Sundaresan for CHE 341: Mass, Momentum and Energy Transport, and electrical engineering professor Paul Prucnal for ELE 203: Electric Circuits.Awards were also given to grad students Ken Kroenlein for MAE 427: Fossil Fuel Energy, Zhe Wang for COS 318: Operating Systems and Chrysanthos Gounaris for CHE 442: Design, Synthesis, and Optimization of Chemical Processes.Reading from comments submitted by nominating students, Jessica Lee '08 said Fowler deserved the award for "sacrificing personal time to make sure we all received the help we needed" in "a class notorious for making or breaking engineers."Prucnal showed "Beavis and Butthead" clips to his early morning class to wake them up and help them remember the material."Dedication to his students shines through everything he does," read one nomination.Sundaresan's nominations included descriptions of his classroom behavior.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

Panel talks on women in science

President Tilghman emphasized the role of science in building a strong nation and focused on women's importance in this field in a panel discussion Wednesday night."We need to be tapping into the largest talent pool that we can, and this includes women," she said.Tilghman recounted her own childhood experiences with math and science ? growing up "in Canada, on the prairies, in the snow, just in love with numbers."She has been outspoken on the topic in recent months as fallout continues over the comments of Harvard President Larry Summers, including in a talk on women and science at Columbia last week.About 40 students and administrators gathered in the Rockefeller College common room on Wednesday night to participate in the discussion, which was titled "Women in the Sciences: A Panel on Gender Perceptions and Realities."Panelists and audience members deliberated for almost two hours on the importance of women in the sciences and other professional disciplines.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

Riis researches health, happiness

How do health and living conditions affect overall happiness? University Research Associate Jason Riis is exploring these and other possible predictors of happiness in his research for the Woodrow Wilson School's Center for Health and Well-Being.The results of Riis' investigation into the link between health and happiness, conducted at the University of Michigan in collaboration with other researchers, were published last month in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.The study compared the happiness levels of dialysis patients with end-stage kidney failure to those of healthy volunteers.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

Father Noh's best

While other three-year-olds were learning the alphabet and playing in sandboxes, Soraya Umewaka '06 was beginning to master a traditional Japanese art form that has been carried in her bloodline for 600 years.

NEWS | 03/30/2005

Shiau '05 creates stocks blog for investors

Brian Shiau '05 has created an online blog commenting on the status of various stocks which has received upwards of 20,000 hits, Shiau estimated, since he began posting in January."I wanted to create a medium where I could communicate things that I felt strongly about," Shiau said.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

JetBlue CEO finds success despite academic struggles

David Neeleman has been pictured on the cover of TIME magazine ? between Bin Laden and the Pope ? as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.But in a speech Tuesday at the Bendheim Center for Finance, the CEO of airliner JetBlue described himself as "just a dumb kid from Utah."Neeleman, who dropped out of Utah State University and was recently diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, said he did so poorly on the ACT in high school that "My guidance counselor called me in and told me that, on the English section, if I would have just answered C on each question, I would have done much better."But though he said that many people from prestigious institutions are successful, Neeleman added that the two are not necessarily correlated."There is not a huge connection between scholastic smarts and success," he said.JetBlue, one of only two successful sustained airline startups in the last 30 years, has certainly been a success.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

U. to install wireless in all dorms

All Princeton dorms will be equipped with wireless internet starting next fall, providing an additional service to the Ethernet network currently in all indoor spaces in the residential colleges, upperclass housing and graduate college."Students increasingly regard a wireless environment as an important part of their lifestyle, and many have told us that they would like to see wireless installed in Princeton's dormitories," Provost Chris Eisgruber '83 said in an email.All SCI computers purchased since the fall of 2002 have wireless capabilities, which will allow most students to take advantage of the new network.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

Witnessing justice

Six students and their teaching assistant grabbed sleeping bags, blankets and tarps from the Outdoor Action supply room and spent the night on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court Monday, hoping to secure spots inside the courtroom for a landmark technology case.The students drove to Washington, D.C., on Monday evening after spending four weeks discussing the MGM v.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

Prof. organizes Iran conference in Liechtenstein

Chief negotiators and experts from 12 nations attended a private diplomatic negotiation conference on Iran this month.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

Film explores reaction to Michael Moore

A controversial new documentary about protests against Michael Moore at Utah Valley State College will be shown tonight at 7:30 in McCosh 10.The film, "This Divided State," criticizes attempts to prevent Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, from speaking on Utah's campus, Director and Producer Steven Greenstreet said.Princeton is the third stop on the movie's 22-campus tour during March and April.Greenstreet said he went to Utah Valley State on a "filmmakers' intuition" when he learned Moore was planning to speak."It was amazing," he said.

NEWS | 03/29/2005

Doran: al Qaeda stresses long term

Al Qaeda is not so much focused on an immediate radical Islamic revolution in the Middle East as they are on laying the groundwork for such a revolution, Near Eastern Studies professor Michael Doran GS '97 told a packed Dodds Auditorium on Monday."They have a tremendous longterm view of things," Doran said.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

Dean Dobin to take post at Washington & Lee

Associate Dean of the College Howard "Hank" Dobin will be leaving the University for a position as Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., Washington and Lee announced last Friday.Dobin has served as associate dean since 1996, before which he was on the faculty of the English department at the University of Maryland.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

Truman, Gates scholars named

For James Williams '06 and Rebecca Jones '05, dedication to public service and advocacy is paying off in an unexpected way.Williams learned he had won the Harry S.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

Crowe alleges terrorist plot

Osama bin Laden has often been accused of disdaining Western culture. Now, someone has claimed that the terrorist mastermind plotted to do something about it ? by striking at the very heart of Hollywood.In one of the more bizarre terrorist plots alleged to date, Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, who was on campus in 2001 filming "A Beautiful Mind," recently claimed that he was the target of an al Qaeda kidnapping plot.The FBI was so concerned for the actor's safety in the face of the threat that they protected him for several years ? including the time he was in Princeton ? Crowe told GQ Australia, a local version of the popular men's magazine, in their March issue.An FBI official with knowledge of the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the threat against Crowe but said it was more "criminal" than "terrorist" in nature.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

Encountering AIDS 'face to face'

The traveling exhibit "FACE-TO-FACE: An Intimate Response to AIDS in South Africa," created by New York City photographer Ken Wong, opened in Frist Campus Center on Monday through the efforts of the Princeton AIDS Initiative and the Student Global AIDS Campaign.The display features two 12-by-12 foot panels with black and white sepia-toned portraits of HIV-positive South Africans and several smaller exhibits presenting stories and additional information about AIDS in South Africa.Wong created the exhibit after traveling to South Africa in 2003 with the support of the Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

Ben Folds picked for Spring Concert

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds will be rocking Princeton's campus April 22 at the sixth annual USG Spring Concert, the USG confirmed Monday.A few students discovered the news Sunday on the website of Filomath, which will open for Ben Folds at the event.It soon spread by word of mouth and was sent to the email list for Tower Club.The USG has not officially announced the concert because the contract has yet to be finalized, USG Social Chair Dan Pugliese '06 said.He said Ben Folds would have been able to withdraw if the concert had been publicized prior to the signing of the contract because the bands and the University had agreed that the information would not be publicized before the event."We did not want to violate our end of the agreement, just as we would not want the bands to violate their end of the agreement," Pugliese said.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

RIAA will serve new subpoenas

In its ongoing campaign against the illegal sharing of copyrighted music, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched another salvo targeting Princeton students.In recent days, the music industry association sent several "pre-subpoena" letters to Rita Saltz, the University's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) agent, identifying multiple students ? as many as 12, by some counts ? who have allegedly shared music files illegally.The students targeted were apparently using a file-sharing program called i2hub, which runs off the private Internet2 network accessible only to 206 member colleges and affiliated institutions.

NEWS | 03/28/2005

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