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U-link adds to online facebook craze

U-link adds to online facebook craze

While the thefacebook.com's popularity has been rising steadily since it was first introduced just a few months ago, a group of Princeton undergraduates have been developing a similar endeavor since early March.Michael Li '07, Ben DeLoache '07, Cindy Lee '04 and Reona Kumagai '06 began to develop a campus-wide, digital facebook prior to the arrival of thefacebook.com. The service, called "ULink," has over 230 registered users and can be accessed by all students with a Princeton NetID and password, at ulink.cs.princeton.edu.The four students thought of the idea towards the end of February.

NEWS | 04/27/2004

Honeymoons on Prospect

It is Thursday, April 22, and Jessica Leutzinger '04 arrives on time at McCosh 10 for a meeting about graduation tickets.

NEWS | 04/27/2004

Gould's research sheds light on structural changes in brain

Deep in the bowels of Green Hall, professors aren't the only ones making noise. The monkeys are just as loud.In elaborate cages packed with spinach and other greens, colorful obstacles and fruit-filled logs, a colony of 44 marmosets ? a type of New World monkey ? are living under intense scrutiny.What they, and other animals like them, have shown has overturned one of the central dogmas of neuroscience by disproving the idea that mammals are born with all the neurons they will ever have. Innovative studiesFor more than a decade, psychology professor Elizabeth Gould has conducted dozens of innovative studies in rats and monkeys, demonstrating that new neurons are constantly produced in the adult brains of mammals, including primates.Her work may have wide-reaching significance, from better understanding how we store memories and react to anxiety and stress to the possibility of repairing damaged brain parts.To get to this stage, though, it is necessary to start with monkeys.A group of small primates native to South America, marmosets have a characteristic that make them particularly interesting to study.

NEWS | 04/27/2004

University to allow on-campus vote drives

Following a change in University policy last week, the College Democrats and Republicans are now permitted to conduct voter registration drives in common areas on campus.

NEWS | 04/27/2004

Physics Nobel recipient recounts path to prize

What do you do with an eight-ounce, 23-karat Nobel Prize? Philip Anderson, professor emeritus of physics and 1977 Nobel Prize winner keeps his stored in a safety deposit box.Anderson, a theoretician in the field of solid-state physics, remembers the day he won the coveted prize for an idea called localization as if it were yesterday."In 1973 there were rumors that my name was being linked with the Nobel Prize," Anderson said, "and they were just rumors, I had no reason to believe them.

NEWS | 04/27/2004

University offers profs subsidized housing

As anthropologist Anne-Maria Makhulu pondered whether to accept an appointment with the University's Society of Fellows last year, Princeton's prestige, picturesque campus and distinguished faculty could not assuage her anxieties about a more mundane problem: the cost of living in the upscale suburbia of the Princeton area."We couldn't come to Princeton if we didn't get housing through the University," said Makhulu, a University of Chicago Ph.D.

NEWS | 04/26/2004

Miner, 77, leaves lasting legacy

Earl Miner, a popular emeritus professor of English and Japanese literature, died on April 17 at the age of 77 after an extended illness.

NEWS | 04/26/2004

Grade inflation plan passes

In an almost 2 to 1 decision, the faculty voted Monday to approve the anti-grade inflation proposals released earlier this month by the Committee on Examinations and Standing.

NEWS | 04/26/2004

Appel condemns seizure of Newman's Day shirts

Computer science professor Andrew Appel introduced a resolution at Monday's faculty meeting crticizing Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan's decision to confiscate nearly 400 Newman's Day shirts from a student dorm room Friday."Censorship of speech is repugnant to academic values," the resolution stated.

NEWS | 04/26/2004

Dobkin tells 'Prince' to "destroy" photos of vote

After the faculty overwhelmingly voted to keep Monday's vote on the grade inflation proposal public, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin approached a 'Prince' photographer and told him to "destroy" photos of the faculty voting.

NEWS | 04/26/2004

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NEWS | 04/25/2004

400 t-shirts confiscated in Public Safety bust

Public Safety officers entered a 1901 Hall room on Friday and confiscated nearly 400 Newman's Day shirts, University officials and students who were there said.Following the instructions of Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, two Public Safety officers entered the room around 3 p.m.

NEWS | 04/25/2004

GRADE INFLATION PROPOSAL PASSES, 156-84

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NEWS | 04/25/2004

Candy store to boast novelty sweets

The empty storefront at 140 Nassau St. will soon be transformed by a swirl of bold colors, bright lights, vibrant music and vintage '70s TV shows.Ricky's Candy, Cones and Chaos, an ice cream and candy shop, is scheduled to open the second or third week of June, in the location formally occupied by Sam Goody, owner Rick Barber said.Barber and business partner Charles Alario are still waiting for the final building permits.Barber, who formerly worked in merchandising at FAO Schwarz, said the store will be highly animated.

NEWS | 04/25/2004

3-on-3 tournament raises money for breast cancer

Dillon Gym echoed with the sounds of hip-hop and bouncing basketballs all Saturday night as 22 teams battled it out in Princeton's first Annual 3-on-3 Charity Streetball Tournament.The event, organized by the Black Men's Awareness Group (BMAG), featured a freestyle contest, three-point shootout, slam dunk contest, live disc jockey and free refreshments.

NEWS | 04/25/2004

Honor Committee amends code to consider intent

The Honor Committee on Sunday voted in a unanimous 9-0 decision to add a clause to the Honor Code Constitution that would give the body more discretion when ruling on student cases."In short the amendment would codify and thus require future Honor Committees to determine whether a student should have reasonably understood what he was doing was wrong," Honor Committee Chairman Eli Goldsmith '04 said.The Honor Code Constitution currently stipulates that on a first offense the committee can either suspend a student, or when there are extenuating circumstances put him on probation.The proposed amendment would define a student's unintentional violation of the Honor Code as an extenuating circumstance."As chairman, I've used the [extenuating circumstances] language before, but this change is to ensure that future committees will have to take intent into account," he said.Students who did not know they were violating the code could be sentenced to probation rather than mandatory suspension.

NEWS | 04/25/2004

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