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MoMA opens after renovation, expansion

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MoMA opens after renovation, expansion

Daily life in New York City was ostensibly the same on Nov. 15. The Cup of Noodles advertisement in Times Square still smoked, and leering old men took drags from cigarettes on 7th Avenue.But there was one significant difference ? the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was returning to midtown after three-and-a-half-years in Queens.Barely more than a hour away from the University, the museum has offered a major culture destination to many University students.The day marked the Opening Press Review at the MoMA ? the unveiling of its revamped 53rd Street location.The museum opened to the public on Saturday.The new MoMA building was designed to be more conducive to viewing art, with more spacious interiors and cascading natural light.The museum's glass, granite and aluminum architecture gives the building a futuristic feel.

NEWS | 11/21/2004

Princeton Project releases national security report

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Princeton Project releases national security report

The Princeton Project on National Security released its first paper last Wednesday, "U.S. National Security Strategy: Lenses and Landmarks," by Richard Betts, the director of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.The Wilson School unveiled The Princeton Project on National Security in May in an ambitious attempt to develop a longterm national security strategy for the United States."We have over 200 of the leading thinkers in foreign policy involved with the project," Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said.

NEWS | 11/21/2004

USG discusses ban on smoking in dorm rooms

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USG discusses ban on smoking in dorm rooms

The USG discussed endorsing an Undergraduate Life Committee resolution to ban smoking in all residential areas during its Sunday meeting.Despite concerns of negative student responses, Undergraduate Life Committee Chair Juan Lessing '05 attempted to garner support for the resolution."Cigarette fires cause 30 percent of all fire deaths," Lessing said.

NEWS | 11/21/2004

E-Council presents awards to outstanding teachers

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E-Council presents awards to outstanding teachers

Students presented the Engineering Council "Excellence in Teaching" Awards on Friday to four professors and two graduate student teaching assistants to honor their dedication and enthusiasm in teaching undergraduates in spring 2004 classes."The E-Council Teaching Awards are the only entirely student-given teaching awards on campus," said Sarah Moore '06, chair of the Engineering Council Teaching Awards.The E-Council runs the nomination, voting and comments process in which undergraduate engineers can award top professors and teaching assistants, she said.Professor Alexander Smits of MAE 222/CEE 208: Mechanics of Fluid; professor Pablo Debenedetti of CHE 246: Thermodynamics; professor Hugo Simao of ORF 201: Computer Methods for Problem Solving; and professor Robert Dondero of COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems won the award.The award was also given to graduate students Dries Darius and Steve Mwenifumbo for ORF 335/ECO 335: Introduction to Financial Engineering and CEE 364: Materials in Civil Engineering, respectively.For the first time, the awards were presented by students who had taken the classes and nominated the instructors.Bob Moore '06 and Chris Wynnyk '06 presented their award to Dondero."I feel like I just won the World Series.

NEWS | 11/21/2004
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Robertson lawsuit most expensive in U. history

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Robertson lawsuit most expensive in U. history

The Robertson Foundation lawsuit has cost the University and the Robertson family more than $7 million in total, making the case the most expensive in the University's history.University General Counsel Peter McDonough said in an interview that the University has spent "an excess of $2 million" on the 27-month-old case.The Robertsons have spent over $5 million, according to a review of the tax forms of the Banbury Fund, the Robertson family's $41 million private foundation that has footed the plaintiff's bill, and interviews with William Robertson '72, the chief plaintiff and president of the Fund.Since the plaintiffs ? Robertson, his sisters Katherine Ernst and Anne Meier and cousin Robert Halligan ? sued in July 2002 for control of the Wilson School's $600 million endowment, both sides have devoted an increasing number of hours and lawyers to the case."Given the amount at stake, the number of depositions and number of lawyers involved, the costs of the case don't surprise me," said Tom Cunniff '89, an attorney at the local firm Fox Rothschild.Prior to the suit, McDonough said the most the University spent on a single case was roughly half a million dollars on the 1990 negligence suit of B.J.

NEWS | 11/18/2004

Squash players await approval for club team

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Squash players await approval for club team

Squash may soon be the 39th club sport offered at the University.The prospective team, organized by Luke Cohler '08, is still awaiting University approval.Cohler said he wanted to start the club because he enjoys the sport but does not consider himself "varsity material."Club Squash practices and matches could be easier to schedule than team sports that have to share fields."Princeton is unusual in that we have two squash courts, one for varsity and one for others," Cohler said.

NEWS | 11/17/2004

OIT still working on new e-mail server glitches

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OIT still working on new e-mail server glitches

Three weeks after OIT upgraded its email software, students are still reporting glitches and incompatibilities with their PCs.Some students still cannot send Microsoft Word attachments while using the browser Internet Explorer 6.1 with the new Sun ONE Messaging Server, said Dan Oberst, head of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services at OIT.OIT has been in close contact with Sun Microsystems, the makers of the new messaging system, and has received all but one final patch for the system.

NEWS | 11/17/2004

Miller attacks world slave trade

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Miller attacks world slave trade

The director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, John Miller, came to the University Wednesday to declare that slavery exists in the world today ? and must be fought.After projecting powerful images of the horrors of modern-day slavery from a U.N.-sponsored informational film, Miller said slavery has been on the rise in the past 30 to 40 years."We are talking about a premier human rights issue of the 21st century," he said to the half-full Dodds Auditorium in the Wilson School.In his lecture "The Tragedy of Modern-Day Slavery: Combating Trafficking in Persons," Miller discussed a U.S.

NEWS | 11/17/2004

Early apps increase by 10 percent

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Early apps increase by 10 percent

After a steep drop last year, the number of applications received for the University's early decision program nearly rebounded to previous levels, amounting to a "healthy increase" of 10 percent, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said Wednesday.As of today, the admission office had received exactly 2,000 early decision applications for the Class of 2009.

NEWS | 11/17/2004

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