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Community House hosts Holiday Gift Bazaar

Community House hosts Holiday Gift Bazaar

Princetonians and community members alike swarmed Prospect Avenue's Fields Center this weekend. White gift bags marked those coming from Community House's First Annual Holiday Gift Bazaar, an event to benefit the organization's summer computer camp.The Fields Center, where the event was hosted, was transformed into a holiday wonderland.

NEWS | 11/14/2004

Disney film to feature University buildings

Blair Tower and DeNunzio Pool will appear in the Disney film "Annapolis," to be released in 2005 starring James Franco.The scenes featuring the University were shot on campus Oct.

NEWS | 11/14/2004

USG pushes for 22-hour study space

The USG is continuing its efforts to create a late-night study space in Chancellor Green, but the prospects for this project remain uncertain.In response to student demand for a 24-hour study area, USG President Matt Margolin '05 and Chair of the U-Council Amy Saltzman '05 suggested the idea last spring."Although there are computer clusters in some residential dorms available 24 hours a day, a lot of students want more common space available 24 hours," Saltzman said.The USG's renewed its efforts in October, when Margolin and Saltzman met with Mark Burstein, the new vice president for administration."[Burstein] wanted us to inform him about issues that needed addressing," Saltzman said, so she and Margolin took the opportunity to discuss the 24-hour study space.Margolin said he "hope[s] that Mr. Burstein will be able to change internal opinions [within the University administration] and extend students' options" now that he has been informed of students' desires for the study space.Burstein said he is still considering whether the plan ? which currently allows for a 22-hour rather than 24-hour study space ? is necessary."I think the administration is supportive of making sure students have adequate study space," he said.

NEWS | 11/14/2004

Forbes College holds spelling bee

The air in the Forbes Black Box Theater was strained, hushed and slightly sour as George Schwartz '07 took the stage late Friday night.

NEWS | 11/14/2004

Bioethics class visits neonatal facility

Inside the neonatal intensive care unit of a Metuchen hospital, a jungle of machines surrounded a two-hour old baby gasping shallowly.

NEWS | 11/14/2004

Rushdie discusses impact of urban life on literature

Award-winning writer Salman Rushdie drew a capacity audience in McCosh Hall Thursday afternoon for a lecture titled "The Novel and the City," part of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies' Urban Reflections Lecture Series.Rushdie spoke for an-hour-and-a-half, discussing his native Bombay and its influence on his writing.The author of eight novels, Rushdie attracted worldwide attention in 1989 when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni condemned his novel "The Satanic Verses" as sacrilegious and issued a fatwa ? a legal Islamic opinion on matters of religious belief ? against him.However, at the beginning of his talk, Rushdie cast the episode in a wryly humorous light.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

Frosh offered second chance to eat at clubs

Next week, the members of the Class of 2008 will be given another chance to sample dining at the eating clubs through "A Second Taste of Prospect," an event organized by the Inter-Club Council (ICC).The 351 spots offered to freshmen were filled up less than two hours after an email was sent, said Grant Gittlin '08, president of the freshman class.The popularity of "A Taste of Prospect," which occurred on Sept.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

Malkiel outlines plan for small departments

The University is now making clear the steps it plans to take to combat the trend of a large number of students concentrating in a small number of majors.Last spring, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel began implementing a program to diversify undergraduates' choices of majors.Politics, history, economics, English and the Wilson School consistently rank as the five most popular departments.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

McNamara criticizes nuclear policy

Robert McNamara, secretary of defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the escalation of the Vietnam War, condemned the nuclear policies of the United States and NATO in a Thursday lecture in Dodds Auditorium."What is shocking is that today, 15 years after the end of the Cold War, basic U.S.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

Campus speculates on impact of Arafat's death

The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stirred the minds and hearts of University professors and students interested in the Middle East.The 75-year-old leader died in Paris after a serious illness and his body arrived in Cairo for a memorial service Thursday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

Architecture school to honor Geddes for lasting contribution

On Saturday, the University's School of Architecture will honor one of its former deans and a leader in the field, Robert Geddes.

NEWS | 11/11/2004

Clarke speaks on Bush's foreign policy

Richard Clarke, a former adviser to President George W. Bush's National Security Council who made headlines with his staunch criticism of the administration's foreign policy, continued to impugn the country's foreign policy course at a lecture on campus Wednesday.Dodds Auditorium was filled to capacity and the event was simulcast in two locations within Robertson Hall.Clarke critiqued the current administration's policy in Iraq and called for a renewed focus on reconstruction.Dean of the Wilson School Anne-Marie Slaughter GS '80 introduced Clarke with an emphasis on his contribution to current political thought."If you don't know who Richard Clarke is . . . you obviously haven't read anything for the past six months," Slaughter said.Clarke said there is a difference between the War on Terror and the War in Iraq.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Tilghman to address stem cell symposium

New Jersey became the second state to allocate public funds for the development of stem cell research after Gov.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Coalition for Peace Action to host annual conference

The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action, a grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons and international peace, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with events this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Several events lead up to the 25th Annual Conference and Interfaith Service for Peace on Sunday in the University Chapel.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Student gamers ecstatic over release of 'Halo 2'

Campus video game enthusiasts were thrilled by Tuesday's release of Xbox's "Halo 2" ? the sequel to the bestselling Xbox first-person shooter "Halo," which has sold an estimated $149 million in copies since November 2001, according to the Associated Press."I was waiting for [Tuesday's] release for almost a year," Arjun Reddy '08 said.Microsoft estimated first day sales of "Halo 2" at 2.4 million copies, which places the game among the bestselling ever over a one-day period, according to the AP."'Halo' is a video game that takes over one's life.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

BC politics professor: 'New Deal unraveling'

Boston College political science professor Alan Wolfe discussed contemporary trends in American conservative thought during a Wednesday night lecture in McCosh Hall.Entitled "How Conservatives Came to Think Small," the lecture focused on the significance of contemporary conservative thinkers who sympathize with the Civil War-era South and favor a strict interpretation of the Constitution.He said these thinkers reject the trends toward equality and "national citizenship" initiated by the 13th through 15th amendments, and favor state rather than federal control of economic institutions.Wolfe began by talking about controversial former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, who favored a strict constructionist reading of the Constitution, and moved on to a discussion of conservative writers who follow in the tradition of 19th century South Carolina Senator John Calhoun.He said both men represent ideologies that are "important strain[s] in contemporary conservatism."He added that, with the recent reelection of a Republican White House and Congress, the U.S.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Study rooms' ethernet ports still inoperable

With the academic year well under way, ethernet ports in several study rooms in Forbes College, the Ellipse Dormitory and Witherspoon, Little and Buyers halls still do not work."We did some checking, and a number of data ports aren't working and have probably never been turned on," Director of Housing Tom Miller said."We're still trying to get the exact data on this, so we can figure out what the cost is going to be," Miller added.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Applicants undeterred by changes

As colder weather and falling leaves mark the changing of autumn into winter on campus, they also herald the annual slew of applications to the University from high school students throughout the United States and the world.Clutching a plastic U-Store shopping bag, Zoe Silverman, a prospective applicant to the Class of 2009 from Los Angeles, emerged from the University admissions office on Monday, enthused about her visit."It's one of the most beautiful campuses!" she said.Kalistyn Lemke, of Salinas, Calif., was just as keen on the University after taking an Orange Key campus tour."All the history is pretty exciting . . . [the campus] is gorgeous!" she said.The University attracts many applicants like Silverman and Lemke because of its academic reputation and its beautiful campus."I mean, it's a great school," Lemke said.Anna Phillips, a prospective student from Pennsylvania, also said she was impressed with the University's strong academic curriculum ? especially the Creative Writing Program.She cited Princeton's ability to attract distinguished faculty members, such as Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, as a motivation for applying."I don't necessarily need to take a class with these [professors] . . . but if [they] are drawn to the school, there is more of a culture that is focused on creative writing," Phillips said.

NEWS | 11/10/2004

Former Secretary of State Shultz '42 defends Bush actions

The University's Whig-Cliosophic Society presented former Secretary of State George Shultz '42 with the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service on Tuesday.Shultz addressed students in McCosh 10, urging them to seek "the road not taken" and remember that diplomacy achieves change most effectively when supported by strength.Shultz defended the Bush administration's doctrine of preemptive warfare and the United States' involvement in Iraq."If you attack ahead, you are highly reliant on intelligence and we know how hard it is to be accurate," he said.

NEWS | 11/09/2004

Sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer advocates condom availability

University students got a big treat in a small package Tuesday. Standing atop two stacked red crates, the four-foot-seven-inch world-renowned psychosexual therapist Ruth Westheimer spoke to students about sexual literacy.More popularly known as "Dr. Ruth," Westheimer discussed abortion, homosexuality and her experience as a therapist.During her speech, Westheimer said people should always stick to their moral values when making decisions about having sex.She said individuals should "not to be pressured by others into having sex just because 'everyone else is doing it.' It should be by choice."Respect for all sexual preferences, including homosexuality, should be a universal value, she added.Westheimer said she believes abortion should be legal, but "only be used in instances of contraceptive failures."She said condoms should be made available on campus ? they should be free and put in private places."They should be put in boys' and girls' bathrooms where there is privacy, not in places like the dining halls where people can see who's taking them," she said.Westheimer also interacted with students in a less formal setting at a special dinner following the event in Wu Dining Hall.The lecture was sponsored by the Women's Center and Class of 2005."We were really excited that she would be on campus," said Azalea Kim '05, senior class president.

NEWS | 11/09/2004

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