'Twas the night before deadline and in old Princeton town, the seniors were typing, all hunkered down.
Dr. Daniel Silverman has been the University's chief medical officer and executive director of health services since August.
It only took University students a few hours to react to charges of copyright infringement against sophomore Dan Peng.By Thursday afternoon, campus network search engines Wake, Gank, Sleep and pTunes were all absent from their normal locations, and students who had previously shared thousands of songs and hundreds of movies had removed their collections from public view.If the Recording Industry Association of America intended to scare students into compliance with copyright law, it seems their effort may have succeeded."The RIAA really wants to send a frightening message," wrote David Dobkin, chair of the computer science department, in an email.
When this year's Pulitzer prizes were awarded yesterday afternoon, the University community was well represented with two alumni, one current faculty member and one former professor taking home the honor.Paul Muldoon, humanities professor, won the prize for poetry for his collection of works, "Moy Sand and Gravel.""Moy Sand and Gravel" is Muldoon's 25th volume of poetry and includes verse set in places like present-day New Jersey and Ireland as Muldoon knew it while growing up in the 1950s."I think it is richly deserved," said professor Edmund White, also director of the creative writing program."He is a real man of letters . . . In his work he shows a fascinating blend of Irish and American themes and speech."Muldoon joins an already distinguished group of professors in the University's creative writing program as the fourth to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
University students overwhelmingly voted to support the USG resolution in favor of using race as a factor in admission decisions, the issue currently before the Supreme Court.
God may not attend Princeton, but many students say that He does indeed have a place here. Despite academia's somewhat secular nature and the challenges presented by a busy college lifestyle, students have continued the religious practices they observed before college with the support of small religious communities distributed across campus.Rena Lauer '05 said that compared to other universities, the tight-knit community of orthodox Jews at Princeton has afforded her the opportunity to be a leader in several arenas."It's very easy to slip through the cracks and not have a voice in your community," she said of religious life elsewhere.The abundance of opportunities to play an active and influential role in the Jewish community was one of the main reasons Lauer chose to come to the University, she said.
For probably the next two decades the person President Tilghman introduced as the new admission dean late last month will shape the Princeton student body.
Many Princeton students are concerned about bias in American media coverage of the war in Iraq. Several students said they trust the media to provide a largely accurate account but express general dissatisfaction with the range of opinions provided in newspapers and on television."The coverage is not openly biased," Paulo Quiros '06 said, "but it doesn't do a good job of showing opinions against the war."Several students attending an informal USG discussion Thursday night on American media and the war, hosted by Camille Coates, Class of 2006 senator, said they were doubtful that there was a commitment to publishing the full spectrum of perspectives."The concern I express is that whenever a reporter says something negative about the war they'll get kicked out," Wamiq Chowdhury '06 said.Few others said they think that reporting has been fair and unbiased."It seems to transcend politics a lot because of what's at stake," said USG Executive Secretary Shaun Callaghan '06 of the alleged bias in support of the war.Students said they looked to many news sources for information about the war, but specifically mentioned The New York Times newspaper and online edition, as well as CNN and BBC as the most trusted sources.The 24-hour television news broadcasts have irritated many students."After the first few days the war coverage got so monotonous.
If President Tilghman were up for reelection by the students, she would be on a run for her money.
The Ivy Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting the use of race in college admissions policies at their spring conference held this weekend at the University.
Amherst College announced Friday that Anthony Marx GS '90 will serve as its 18th president.Marx, a politics professor at Columbia University, also devotes much of his time outside the lecture hall to community service.
Three University students recently learned that their academic achievements are being rewarded with scholarships for graduate study.Robert Accordino '03 said he was doubly surprised when he learned he had received both a Fulbright Scholarship to Australia and the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.Accordino, a psychology major receiving certificates in theater and musical performance, said he plans to use the scholarship to continue his study of autism at Oxford University in England and at Queensland College in Australia.Incorporating his interests in music and psychology, Accordino's thesis project involved a "receptive music therapy" project, which he worked on at the Eden School for Autism.Accordino said he hopes research shines light on a disease about which little is known."In doing the research, you can advocate for those with autism," he said.
Elena Kagan '81 was named yesterday as Harvard University's new law school dean.Harvard president Lawrence Summers said Kagan will take the helm on June 30."I am honored and thrilled to become the next dean of Harvard Law School," Kagan said in a statement.
The Recording Industry Association of America sued Dan Peng '05 yesterday for what could be tens of millions of dollars, alleging that he illegally made copyrighted music available for download from his computer and facilitated the transfer of copyrighted music over the network through his website, wake.princeton.edu.The RIAA also filed suits yesterday against three other college students running similar websites at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Michigan Technological University.
Some members in the University community are feeling the effects of a moratorium the University placed on travel to Asia yesterday as a precaution against the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.The University's most notable enterprise in the area, Princeton-in-Asia, has been affected only slightly."We are only affiliated with the University, so we are independent of the University for the most part in terms of decision-making," said Princeton-in-Asia program director Ginny Parker.
Several students said at a panel discussion last night that the term "self-segregation" does not accurately reflect social life on campus and said that racial separation is not caused by any particular segment of the student body.The forum titled "Social Life, 'Self'-Segregation, and the Princeton Campus," was organized by the Carl A.
The 'Prince' polled 135 randomly-chosen undergraduates by phone Tuesday and Wednesday nights between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Princeton has long been known as the most conservative of the Ivy League schools, and prevailing Princeton student opinion on the war in Iraq supports the claim.
Professor Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and graduate student Pei Zhu went to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Students and community members will soon be able to enjoy their Panera Bread bagels, soups and salads in the sun outside the restaraunt.
