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State weighs amendments to death penalty procedures

State weighs amendments to death penalty procedures

LAWRENCEVILLE ? Nine University students joined community members and religious leaders for a public hearing on proposed changes to the state's lethal injection regulations in a full conference room Friday.Held by New Jersey's Department of Corrections (DOC), the hearing provided concerned citizens a chance to speak about the proposals before the DOC votes on whether to approve or change them.The first proposed amendment would allow media access to death row prisoners in the three days prior to execution.

NEWS | 02/06/2005

Cap, Tower top choices for Bicker

Following a record number of first-round sign-ins, Bicker brought even more new members to the Street this weekend.Cap and Gown Club had the biggest Bicker class this year, with roughly 180 students bickering.

NEWS | 02/06/2005

Making waves to help victims of disaster

Several campus organizations will help launch an effort to aid tsunami victims Monday by introducing Making Waves, a community-wide initiative to fold 150,000 origami waves, each in memory of an individual killed in the disaster."[The waves] help us remember, because you're folding individual objects to remember individuals," said Bonnie Bernstein, education and outreach coordinator of the Cotsen Children's Library.The initiative started when a young boy asked how to create a wave at the library's origami workshop immediately following the tsunami.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

Forbes vandalized in pickups

Several hallways in Forbes college were vandalized Sunday night as sign-in clubs picked up new sophomore members, prompting an investigation by the Residential College Disciplinary Board.A window was broken, garbage was strewn across the floor and silly string was used to spell "Q" on doors, according to Forbes director of studies Oliver Avens.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

Rapelye holds town hall meeting, '09 applications rise

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye discussed plans for expanding the University's applicant pool and provided new details on a research initiative to survey applicants' views of Princeton at a USG-sponsored town hall meeting Thursday night.She also announced that applications to the University's undergraduate program for the Class of 2009 climbed from Wednesday's count of 16,077 to 16,290.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

Drawing on success, thefacebook.com empire expands into other arenas

WirehogWhen DC++ was shut down in December, Princeton students lost one of the most widely used file-sharing programs on campus.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

Crime ring busted on Nassau St.

Princeton Borough Police arrested three Philadelphia residents suspected of credit card theft on campus and outside Starbucks on Nassau Street on Jan.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

The organist's next stop

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.

NEWS | 02/03/2005

Board reviews plans for Ivy, jazz club

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.

NEWS | 02/02/2005

University files new claims in suit

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.

NEWS | 02/02/2005

University presents plans to rebuild E-Quad

The University unveiled its plan for the construction of 200,000 square feet of new engineering buildings at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday.

NEWS | 02/02/2005

Physicists Peebles and Gunn win Crafoord Prize

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.

NEWS | 02/02/2005

Students build bio-circuits

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.

NEWS | 02/02/2005

Tilghman speaks out on Summers' remarks

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.

NEWS | 02/01/2005

Gehry's science project

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.

NEWS | 02/01/2005

Dorm smoking ban approved

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.

NEWS | 02/01/2005

Application numbers hit all-time high with Class of 2009

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.

NEWS | 02/01/2005

On break, serving the community

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.

NEWS | 02/01/2005

Students hired for mediation

During their years at Princeton, few students can avoid a messy roommate or neighbor who constantly turns up the bass.

NEWS | 01/31/2005

As raids continue, a community responds

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.

NEWS | 01/31/2005

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