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Suites big and small face prospect of proctor visits

Suites big and small face prospect of proctor visits

It's 11 o'clock on a Thursday night and the setting is a large, bi-level suite in Wilson. People are socializing, refreshments are flowing and everyone is generally having a good ? albeit raucous ? time.But then there's a sudden, persistent knocking on the door, followed by the infamous words, "Public Safety; open up." And, with incredible swiftness, the party is broken up by campus public safety officers.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Students to connect through web facebook

For students who make a hobby of poring over the University facebook, it is time to move on to bigger and better things.Princeton students will be able to sign up on www.thefacebook.com, a site featuring a database of student profiles from a growing list of schools, beginning Sunday, said Chris Hughes, a sophomore at Harvard and the site's press manager."It's an online community and social networking site for college students and alums," Hughes said.Students at Princeton will now be able create a profile for themselves, including their pictures, courses in which they're enrolled and other random facts.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams on art and life

As part of a new series, the 'Prince' will feature interviews with prominent people on campus. Pulitzer Prizewinning professor C.K.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Prof. Muldoon on Joyce and Stones

As part of a new series, the 'Prince' will feature interviews with prominent people on campus. Pulitzer Prizewinning creative writing professor Paul Muldoon is one of today's features.Prince: What is your favorite food?Muldoon: Heavens above!

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Senior theses integrate disciplines

Given a strenuous course load and a plethora of requirements, engineering students are not known to branch out of their fields.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Job prospects brighten for Class of 2004

As spring approaches ? along with thesis deadlines and final exams ? seniors must increasingly face the dreaded question: what to do after graduation?For some, like Caroline Yao '04 who received a job offer from Lehman Brothers after interning for them this past summer, the question is easily answered.

NEWS | 03/30/2004

Junior draw begins amid concerns

At 4:06 p.m. Friday, Ron Weissbard '06 will finally get to pick his room for next year ? that is, if any rooms are left.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

Local pollutants cloud Lake Carnegie

While the crew teams gear up to host races on Lake Carnegie, environmental concerns are brewing in and around Princeton's largest lake.The lake suffers from low oxygen content and a mercury level high enough to prompt an advisory on fish consumption, said Denise Patel, campus organizer for New Jersey Water Watch, an environmental activist group.Most of the northeastern seaboard has mercury-related problems in its waterways, but Patel said New Jersey's are the worst in the region."New Jersey has a lot of environmental problems stemming from its long legacy of industrial pollution to more recent problems related to overdevelopment," she said.In addition, New Jersey's status as the most densely populated state in the country only exacerbates the problem."Princeton happens to fall into an area that is being developed faster than any other part of the state," Patel said.Neighboring West Windsor Township has had the highest rate of development in the state in recent years, which can stress local waterways.However, Lake Carnegie's water quality problems are not due to large industrial plants but to other, more local environmental conditions."Lake Carnegie's large mercury and phosphorous load comes mainly from non-point sources such as litter, fertilizers, pesticides and oil and gas from cars," said Peter Jaffe, a civil and environmental engineering professor.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

University contributes new funding for downtown complex

Students who have recently ventured into town for some food at Halo Pub or Olives have probably noticed the construction zone at the corner of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

Controversial letters sent to Class of '94

Cut-and-pasted pornography and a forged University document are only two parts of a drama facing the Class of 1994 and the University after several illicit mailings were sent to members of the class.Several months ago, a letter was sent to the Class of 1994 containing pornographic representations of several of their classmates, said four members of the class.After a second mailing ? on letterhead from the University's Alumni Counsel office and purportedly signed by General Counsel Peter McDonough ? the University began an investigation to determine the "origin of the letters and the extent of the mailing," University Counsel Clayton Marsh '85 said.

NEWS | 03/29/2004

Three left in senior class trustee race

The three finalists for this year's young alumni trustee position are seniors Eli Goldsmith, Rishi Jaitly and Corey Sanders.

NEWS | 03/28/2004

Isenberg case reveals discord, controversy

There was a knock at the door. He thought he had ? once and for all ? made it.It was November 2002.

NEWS | 03/28/2004

Baehr '05 seeks freedom of academic ideas with new club

A prominent campus conservative, Evan Baehr '05, the former editor of The Tory, is starting a program he says tries to protect ideological minorities, promote a range of opinions and encourage intellectual inquiry.Baehr has established the Princeton chapter of Students for Academic Freedom, a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting a diversity of opinions in higher education.

NEWS | 03/28/2004

Pourakis' personality charms all

Last summer, Virginia Pourakis '05 received a large, cylindrical package with a return address listing the sender as former Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.

NEWS | 03/28/2004

Bush budget changes will not affect University

At a time when many college students across the country face the prospect of rising tuition, President George W.

NEWS | 03/25/2004

Penn appoints Mitchell as new vice president

University Vice Provost for Administration Joann Mitchell will serve as the next vice president and chief of staff for the University of Pennsylvania, officials there announced Thursday.

NEWS | 03/25/2004

Undergraduates return for graduate school

When George Reis '01 returned to the University last fall as a first-year doctoral student in the electrical engineering department, he noticed a few changes.

NEWS | 03/25/2004

Eisgruber files brief to resolve pledge case

When Francis Bellamy wrote the "Pledge to the Flag" in 1892, the now-ubiquitous wording was quite different than what children are familiar with today: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."The pledge, which underwent several major revisions ? including the addition of the phrase "under God" in 1954 ? now faces an ideologically-charged constitutional test at the Supreme Court.

NEWS | 03/25/2004

Wilson School to host annual colloquium

The second annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, to be held April 23 and 24, will address the significance of nongovernmental organizations in domestic and international relations across the globe.The event, titled "In the Service of All Nations?

NEWS | 03/25/2004

University researchers lead space tech developments with NASA's aid

If the space science community were the night sky, Princeton might just be the North Star. From the conception of space telescopes to rocket propulsion, the University has contributed seminal advancements to the study of space for decades.

NEWS | 03/24/2004

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