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Dwyer reflects on life as a journalist in Iraq conflict

Dwyer reflects on life as a journalist in Iraq conflict

Jim Dwyer, a New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient, spoke Monday about his career as a journalist and his experiences as an embedded reporter in Iraq in the first Rockefeller College Master's dinner.Dwyer, a biology major and premed student at Fordham University, became interested in journalism through a twist of fate.

NEWS | 11/11/2003

Trustees sign statement supporting policy in Iraq

Last week several Princeton trustees and prominent alumni signed their names to an advertisement urging President Bush to "stay the course" in Iraq and the war on terrorism.The statement, which was signed by about 50 prominent individuals, was published in The New York Times and The Washington Post."We are doing this just as Americans or as individuals participating in the American process of trying to do our part and our bit in our democracy," said Dennis Keller '63, a University trustee who signed the statement.The advertisement was not affiliated with any institution; however, a few Princeton alumni were active in asking others to support it, according to Wilbur Gantz '59, one of the signatories."I look on this as something that's not likely to change the course of history, but it's likely to make a statement and an expression of support," Gantz said.The advertisement read, "We believe history has demonstrated the necessity of a worldwide, unrelenting fight against terror in all its forms.

NEWS | 11/11/2003

Former Archbishop of Canterbury talks of Islam, West

The rift between Islam and the Western world calls for dialogue, friendship and compromise, said Lord George Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Church.

NEWS | 11/10/2003

Campus Episcopalians varied on consecration of gay bishop

With the appointment of an openly gay bishop in their church, Episcopal students on campus are expressing a mixture of enthusiasm and concern for the future unity of the denomination worldwide.The Rev.

NEWS | 11/10/2003

Poll says extracurriculars affect student priorities

Katye Chung '05 spends about eight hours each week at the University art museum archiving photos and preparing for new exhibits.

NEWS | 11/10/2003

University eyes shrinking most popular majors

At yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced that the University was investigating methods of scaling back enrollment in the five biggest majors ? most of them social sciences ? while revitalizing the University's other 30 departments.The inquiry stems from a report presented to the CPUC last semester that found 46 percent of all undergraduates concentrate in one of what Malkiel characterized as the big five departments: politics, English, history, economics and the Wilson School.One reason for the concentration is that many students ? 70 percent of all undergraduates, according to a recent study ? end up choosing a different major than the one they indicated on their University application, Malkiel said."It's a good thing that students are changing their minds...the problem is too [many] minds are changing in one direction," Malkiel said.While 900 students in the classes of 2000 through 2003 anticipated majoring in the natural sciences, only 493 actually did.

NEWS | 11/10/2003

Daily Princetonian Poll

The Daily Princetonian polled 213 undergraduate students last week about the eating clubs, academics versus activities and politics.The poll was conducted by phone last Tuesday through Thursday between 7:45 and 10:15 p.m.The following questions were asked of students.

NEWS | 11/09/2003

Bicker and sign-in eating clubs have equal support

Princeton students equally support bicker and sign-in eating clubs, a poll conducted by The Daily Princetonian last week shows.The telephone poll asked students whether they prefer hanging out in sign-in or bicker clubs, or both, and how they felt about the Bicker system.Roughly one-third of students think Bicker is a bad system, one-third think it is a good system and one-third had no opinion.Five percent of students polled said Bicker is a very good system.

NEWS | 11/09/2003

Town-gown gathers to protest Israel security wall

More than 30 students, professors and community members held a vigil in front of Fitz-Randolph gate last night to protest the security wall Israel is building around the West Bank.Holding signs reading "Break Down the Apartheid Cage" and "Wall=Prison," the activists called for Israel to stop building the wall and withdraw from the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

NEWS | 11/09/2003

Prince poll discovers students disapprove of President Bush

A Daily Princetonian poll conducted last week found a majority of undergraduates disapprove of President Bush's performance as U.S.

NEWS | 11/09/2003

University looks at harassment policy

The sexual harassment and assault awareness, response and education office (SHARE) has proposed three new statements clarifying the University's sexual harassment and stalking policies.The Council of the Princeton University Community is reviewing the proposals before including them in next year's "Rights, Rules and Responsibilities" book.The three proposed changes were drafted by Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis, director of the SHARE office."We aren't promising anything that is not already provided in the current handbook," Bryant-Davis said.

NEWS | 11/09/2003

Volunteer Day kicks off with community activities

The well-known Princeton motto "Princeton in the Nation's Service and in the Service of all Nations" will become a reality tomorrow as members of the Princeton community come together for the first annual Campus Volunteer Day.The event will focus on outdoor activities, and the entire University community is encouraged to participate.Sasa Olessi Montano, director of the Pace Center for Community Service and one of the event coordinators, said she hopes to "start something new that will continue to expand as a Princeton tradition."While a similar event took place two years ago under the umbrella of the Office of Community and State Affairs, this is the first year the Pace Center has planned CVD.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Prospect Garden displays a perennial masterpiece

Amidst the peace and serenity that envelop Prospect Garden, there is rarely an unoccupied moment in this distinctive space.A focal point of the Princeton campus for decades, the Garden welcomes visitors strolling along the paths, prospective students tentatively glancing at the well-tended flower beds and newly married couples carefully positioning themselves for photos next to the fountain.However, it is the students now sitting on the benches, reading on the grass and pausing on the paths that give John Wisniewski most pleasure.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Fines issued for hazardous waste

Princeton, along with five other New Jersey colleges and universities, was recently issued hefty fines by the U.S.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Carnegie law expert probes democracy by force in Iraq

Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace addressed the legitimacy of the imposition of democracy by force in a lecture in Dodds Auditorium yesterday afternoon.The Iraq debate is the "deepest, most emotional debate about American foreign policy since the Vietnam War," said Carothers, the director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment.He summarized the arguments of skeptics and supporters of United States intervention in Iraq, focusing on the debate over whether the ousting of a dictatorship and the institution of democracy provided a justifiable rationale for war.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Black sororities divide University administration wary of Greek life

Aside from the Greek letters in their names, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta Phi Beta have little in common with other fraternities and sororities.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Guiding visitors through the world of art

Kathy Sartarelli, a docent archivist and tour guide at the Princeton University Art Museum, has found unique ways to bring the beauty and importance of art out of impenetrable glass cases and into the consciousness of visitors.This past Thursday during a tour for a College of New Jersey group, she wielded a Chinese calligraphy brush and began to mimic the graceful inscription of an ancient Chinese scroll.Discussing Buddhist figurines, she brought current events into play by displaying 2002 news clippings of a Buddhist statue torn down by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

TV hosts Donahue, Poznir blast media coverage of war with Iraq

Phil Donahue and Vladimir Poznir, former hosts of popular television news programs in the United States and Russia, discussed yesterday the U.S.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

Tibetan musicologist discusses native culture, documentary

Ngawang Choephel spoke in chops, stopping mid-sentence and using a quiet but resolute voice as he reflected upon his six years of imprisonment by the Chinese.

NEWS | 11/06/2003

PRINCO to advise WWS endowment

The lawsuit filed against the University by the Robertson family, which is trying to regain control of the $550 million behind the Wilson School, grew more tense yesterday.The University members of the Robertson Foundation, which controls the endowment, outvoted the family in a decision to give the University investment office more say in how to manage the assets.The Robertson family members portrayed the 4-3 vote as another example of the University taking control of the Foundation's assets and commingling the endowment with the University's.But the University said the move had been recommended after a review of 10 other potential investment advisers and was in the Foundation's interest.The Robertson board resolution said the Princeton University Investment Company, PRINCO, would be retained "to advise the investment committee and manage the assets of the Robertson Foundation subject to the continued oversight of the investment committee and the Robertson Foundation board," according to Douglas Eakeley, the University's lawyer in the case.That $550 million began as a $30 million foundation set up in 1961 by Charles '26 and Marie Robertson to expand the school's graduate program.Today's development comes on the first day of a court-ordered mediation between the University and the Robertsons, who also allege in the lawsuit that the University has irresponsibly used Foundation assets and has failed to send enough students into government service, as the Foundation's charter requires.The University has denied the allegations, saying it acted within its rights at all times and that between 40 and 50 percent of graduate students enter the public sector.In September Judge Neil Shuster of Mercer County Superior Court set a trial date of October 2005 after rejecting a University procedural request to toss the case out.

NEWS | 11/05/2003

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