New Jersey's 12th District Congressman Rush Holt won his fourth consecutive election to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, defeating his Republican opponent Bill Spadea by a margin of over 50,000 votes out of about 275,000 cast.
Five teenagers. One car. Plenty of snacks. People squabbling over radio stations. Miles of highway.All these elements came together starting Monday night as a group of University students embarked on a road trip to Florida.But this was no ordinary road trip.
Students, faculty and other members of the University community gathered Tuesday at election parties across campus.The Wilson School, Center for Jewish Life (CJL) and Frist Campus Center had huge turnouts of people expressing similar sentiments ? support for Senator John Kerry over President Bush ? as the election unfolded.Daniel Tarullo, a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University, watched the election at the Shultz Dining Room in Robertson Hall.Tarullo served as President Clinton's personal representative to the G8 group of industrial nations from 1995 to 1998."I think what you're seeing is that people understand that this is arguably the most important election," said Tarullo.
With last night's early returns producing no clear winner in the presidential election, several University professors and alumni might still have a chance to serve in the White House ? a Kerry one ? during the next four years.Current faculty members speculated Tuesday that a President Kerry would tap several economics and Wilson School professors along with many alumni who served in the Clinton administration: For Kerry's foreign policy team, speculation focused on Richard Holbrooke GS '70, a former ambassador to the United Nations, and Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, an expert on international law. In economics, some professors predicted that Alan Blinder, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board during the Clinton Administration, and Alan Krueger and Uwe Reinhardt would be likely appointees. In the Judicial Branch, Elena Kagan '81, dean of Harvard Law School, could be tapped as a Supreme Court justice, according to reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post.Professors and alumni involved could not be reached or declined to comment. The foreign policy teamHolbrooke is perhaps the highest-profile alumnus mentioned for a post in a Kerry administration.
Voter participation was expected to be high Tuesday as various University groups tried to encourage students to get out and vote regardless of their political leanings.The USG, College Republicans and College Democrats spent the day trying to make the process of voting as easy as possible for any student looking to exercise their civic duty.Sign waving, button wearing, direction giving and phone calling were all employed to get students to the polls.The success of the USG's efforts could be measured by the number of students who showed up for free hoagies and directions to the polling locations."We had tons of people here earlier" said Amy Unterman '08, one of the USG volunteers outside of the U-Store."We had around 900 of these little sandwiches and now we're nearly out.
Tensions ran high mid-afternoon Tuesday at the Trinity Church Parish Home, voting site for Princeton Borough's District 1.According to Joshua Leinsdorf, an election official at the site, the district was in danger of running out of voting authorities ? documents which record voters as they arrive to vote.The district must have one voting authority for each voter before the voter is allowed to cast a ballot.Leinsdorf said the district has 1,250 active voters out of a roll of about 1,800 registered voters.He expected a turnout of well over 1,000 voters.
When the polls opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday at Jadwin Hall, several people were already waiting in line to vote.
In this year's national elections, Ralph Nader '55 is not the only Princeton alumnus running for a public office.On Tuesday night, Mitchell Daniels '71 ran successfully for the governorship of Indiana and Christopher "Kit" Bond '60 successfuly defended his senatorial seat in Missouri.Daniels, a Republican, defeated Democrat incumbent Joe Kernan by about nine points, 54 percent to 45 percent.
Students went to the polls Tuesday in full force, knowing the presidential election might not yield a clear victor.
Alan Hollinghurst ? at the University this semester as an Old Dominion Fellow and lecturer in the Humanities Council and the creative writing program ? was awarded this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel, "The Line of Beauty," on Oct.
When Edward Cone '39, professor of music emeritus, passed away Oct. 23, he left a legacy of almost four decades of musical instruction and profound changes to the way music is studied and played."He was a legend ? I can't tell you how many times students raved about him," said Scott Burnham, chair of the music department.Burnham never had the opportunity to teach with Cone, as he came to the University four years after Cone retired in 1989.
The University is stepping up efforts to encourage students to major in smaller academic departments.Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel's office released a slim booklet last week featuring testimonials from alumni in small departments like classics, geosciences and Slavic languages and literatures.The publication represents the most visible move yet in her effort to sway the hearts and minds of underclassmen ? and steer them away from popular majors like history, politics and economics."We want students to pursue their intellectual passions, not study what they think they have to study because it's practical or career-oriented," Malkiel said.At her direction, residential college deans have for the first time asked freshmen and sophomores to communicate their top three major choices via email.
The University donated 10 acres of land to South Brunswick Township on Oct. 29 in a joint effort with the State of New Jersey to turn 214 acres of undeveloped land into a nature preserve.The University intends to add a total of 134 acres to the tract, which will become part of the Mapleton Preserve at South Brunswick, an area between the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the village of Kingston.
As the countdown to election day comes to a close, many of the hundreds of University students who live in "swing" states are taking their right to vote very seriously and encouraging fellow residents to do the same.Pre-election polls show President George W.
Signs of political fervor were not readily apparent on the University campus Monday. Although today's election has been the subject of much talk and excitement, few if any students were actively campaigning on campus for either party.On Nassau St., neither of the two election-related tables set up in mid-afternoon were manned by University students.Karen Karniol-Tambour '06, communications director for the College Democrats, said in an email she knew of no major campaign events planned during the day Monday, however, the group held a major election meeting at 9 p.m.According to Karniol-Tambour, the meeting was planned to allow the group to facilitate "giving out Kerry gear, making signs, taking more volunteers . . . and getting excited."In an email sent to the College Democrats Monday morning, president Jay Saxon '05 wrote, "This is the most important election of our lives; do all you can to make it count!!"He also asked members to wear the group's "Who Wants Ass?" t-shirts on Election Day.Saxon said that while the group did not plan major events for Monday, they will be working hard Tuesday."We're saving our efforts for tomorrow," he said.He explained that the group will be working on "not only getting students out [to vote], but also [settling] the confusion about where to vote.""We've got a whole bunch of opportunities for the get-out-the-vote effort," he said.Evan Baehr '05, president of the College Republicans, said in an email that the group's main goal Monday was "calling registered Republicans and reminding them to vote.""We have calling stations and offices set up on Nassau St.
In 1915, a group of seniors donned white suits to protect their clothes from the beer they drank at the Nassau Inn.
Email service is now functioning normally, but for individuals using the University's online email service Webmail, problems may continue, according to the latest update from OIT.Problems include downloading Microsoft Word documents, using the address book feature and filtering junk mail, OIT officials said.Students barely had access to their email for several days last week after OIT upgraded the University's messaging software on Saturday, Oct.
Friends of Alan Ebersole '07 crowded into the Chancellor Green rotunda last night to remember an accomplished swimmer and beloved classmate whose life came to a sudden end Friday night when he drowned off the coast of Florida.Ebersole, 20, was spending Fall Break in Deerfield Beach training with the men's and women's swimming and diving teams.The native of Vicksburg, Miss., drowned after suffering a broken neck due to blunt neck trauma, according to the Broward Medical Examiner's Office.The exact conditions that led to his drowning remain unclear.
University email addresses for the Class of 2004 will not be closed until Dec. 1 instead of the former mid-October deadline.
