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A week after student protests shut down the Yale admissions office, Yale University President Richard Levin announced Thursday that he will eliminate the required family contribution from the financial aid package for undergraduate students from low-income families.Under the new financial aid program, families with an annual income of less than $45,000 will no longer be required to pay for any part of their children's education.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Slaughter '80 renews international focus

Slaughter '80 renews international focus

When the twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, foreign policy shot to the forefront of the American political consciousness.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Davall uses experience as Borough Police Chief in new role at DPS

There will be no early retirement for Charles Davall. After the former Chief of Police of the Borough Police Department retired from the force on January 31st, he joined Public Safety as the new Deputy Director of Operations."It's not much different than my old job," Davall said.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Legal fears lead to pBay renaming

The student auction service on the USG's Point website, formerly pBay, was renamed TigerTrade on Thursday after a University lawyer raised concerns about possible copyright violations.Clay Bavor '05, who launched the pBay website this week, received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon from University counsel Clayton Marsh '85.Marsh warned that legal consequences might result from use of the pBay name and logo.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Federico promoted by Borough Council to head police force

Early last month, the Princeton Borough Council appointed former Captain Anthony Federico as the new Chief of Police.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Ready, Set, Go

Legend has it that a Chinese emperor developed the board game Go 4,000 years ago to improve the intelligence of his dull-minded son.

NEWS | 03/03/2005

Budget aids public colleges

The state's annual budget, released this week by Acting Governor Richard Codey, aims to increase spending on higher education by nearly $50 million while cutting $600 million from the overall budget.While the increase will have a direct impact on public colleges and universities, it will likely have little to no effect on the University because it is a private institution."The governor has shown that he values higher education," said Paul Shelly, spokesman for the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities.The new budget reduces total state spending to $27.4 billion to reduce the $4 billion deficit.The University will receive an amount close to last year's $700,000, a figure based on the number of attending New Jersey residents, predicted Pam Hersh, director of Community and State Affairs at the University."As far as I understand, the proposed budget recommends about the same direct aid for the independent sector," said Hersh.Much of the swell in education funding is earmarked for employee benefits, to be shared among the state's 12 senior public institutions.

NEWS | 03/02/2005

New report criticizes Ivy hiring

Members of several graduate student unions delivered a report critical of race and gender equity in Ivy League faculty to the offices of President Tilghman and other Ivy League heads Tuesday.The report, titled "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League," argues that women and people of color are grossly underrepresented in Ivy League faculties and doctoral programs, suggesting that hiring disparities persist among underrepresented groups."The goal is to begin a dialogue about the fact that the Ivy League has remained an elitist institution," said Melissa Stuckey '00, one of the students who presented the report.

NEWS | 03/02/2005

Schiavo's brother pleads for right to life

A week after a Florida judge ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be removed, her brother said that allowing her to die would put the United States on the path to Holocaust-style cruelties."What is the difference between what happened 60 years ago and what's happening today?" Bobby Schindler asked Wednesday before a crowd in McCosh 10.

NEWS | 03/02/2005

March dedicated to caffeine awareness

Acting Governor Richard Codey declared March "National Caffeine Awareness Month," but coffee drinkers and energy drink junkies on campus question the likelihood that they will give up their drug.The awareness month is the result of advocacy efforts by the Caffeine Awareness Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to curtailing excessive caffeine consumption.

NEWS | 03/02/2005

Tauberer '04 takes Govtrack to Capitol Hill

In pursuit of the University's motto, "In the Nation's service," Josh Tauberer '04 will head to Washington, D.C.

NEWS | 03/02/2005

Look out eBay: USG launches 'pBay'

Taking a lead from Princeton's own Meg Whitman '77, who runs the popular online auction website eBay, Clay Bavor '05 has unveiled "pBay" ? an auction website for students to buy and sell items.The free service was launched Monday on Point, the USG's new student portal, which Bavor also created."The goal of pBay is to make it as easy as possible for people in the Princeton community to buy, sell and exchange stuff cheaply," he said.

NEWS | 03/01/2005

Bush adviser defends science policy

John Marburger III '62, a physicist and the top science adviser to President Bush, emphasized the need for fundamental research rather than politically popular applied science programs and responded to concerns over a decline in research funding to a large audience in Guyot 10 Tuesday.Marburger said Congress should invest in nanotechnology, biotechnology, security spending and the National Institute of Standards and Technology this year.Marburger spent much of his hour-long talk titled "Science and the Federal Budget" describing the process of prioritizing and funding the research of various government agencies.Allocating research money has become a more difficult task each year, Marburger said, citing evidence that the proposed 2006 budget will cut research funding but still be higher than historical averages."As a percentage of the total discretionary domestic budget, the non-defense R&D [Research and Development] has remained constant at about 11 percent over the last three or four decades," he said, showing a chart.In response to concerns from faculty members who had suffered funding cuts, Marburger suggested private research institutions were expanding faster than the government could expand funding."The opportunities [in research] have been expanding faster than the willingness of society to pay," Marburger said.Marburger said he hoped to see more public policy analysis of science research programs."We don't have anything like an economic model for science research in this country," he said.

NEWS | 03/01/2005

OIT looks to fight spyware

OIT is evaluating commercial spyware-blocking products in an effort to rid computers on campus of spyware ? unintentionally downloaded software that is often responsible for pop-ups and computer crashes."We'd like to have a product that will enable us to buy a copy of anti-spyware for every Windows user in the University," OIT security officer Anthony Scaturro said.

NEWS | 03/01/2005

Biologists criticize NIH focus

Seven University molecular biology faculty members are among 750 scientists who signed an open letter sent Monday to the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging him to allocate more money to research on basic infectious diseases instead of biodefense.The letter, cosigned by scientists at universities, hospitals and biotechnology companies across the countries, opposes recent fund reallocations from the study of common infectious diseases to biodefense research."The diversion of research funds from projects of high biodefense but low public-health importance represents a misdirection of NIH priorities and a crisis for NIH-supported microbiological research," the scientists wrote.They also said the peer-review process ? the traditionally accepted way of allocating resources ? is "threatened by the unintended consequences of the 2001-02 decision by the NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to prioritize research of high biodefense, but low public health significance."The 400-word letter, addressed to NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, will be published in the March 4 issue of Science magazine and is available on the magazine's website.The researchers who signed the letter have all served on the NIH Microbial Physiology and Genetics and NIH Bacteriology and Mycology Initial Review Groups or have received grants from the Initial Review Groups.Molecular biology professor Jeffry Stock was among the University faculty who signed the letter.

NEWS | 03/01/2005

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