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Students lobby for N.J. fiscal change

Students lobby for N.J. fiscal change

Freshmen Grace Huang and Caitlin Sullivan will lobby town councils in New Jersey to reform fiscal policies between now and Election Day.Their objective is to end so-called pay-to-play, a monetary practice where tax dollars ? including money spent on college tuition ? are exchanged for lucrative government contracts at the taxpayer's expense.Sullivan and Huang are part of a student lobby group composed of 13 students from Middlesex County College, Rutgers and Princeton.

NEWS | 10/21/2003

Princeton Theological Seminary

Can't it just be a miracle?Where does man stop questioning and let faith take over?What did the wall of Jericho look like?These questions may seem inappropriate in the average University classroom, where separation between church and state is held sacred.

NEWS | 10/21/2003

Advocate urges post-9/11 female empowerment

Women's rights advocate Theresa Loar called for greater efforts to promote women's involvement in global politics in a lecture yesterday in Robertson Hall."Networks of intolerance and despair and greed need to be countered by networks striving for justice and equality and opportunity," Loar said.

NEWS | 10/21/2003

Healthcare advice accessible at drgreene.com

In 1995, frustrated by the amount of attention he was able to afford his patients, pediatrician Alan Greene '81 set out to make medical history.

NEWS | 10/21/2003

Multiple unlocked bikes stolen this weekend, on and off campus

Three University students lost bicycles to theft on Friday in an unusual burst of crime, Public Safety officials said yesterday."Our safe atmosphere here kind of lulls us into innocence, and we leave our bike unlocked and unsecure, and then it's gone," Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said.

NEWS | 10/20/2003

Armed forces 'dominate' U.S. foreign policy

The U.S. military's increasing role as a major tool in American foreign policy has created new policy concerns for the country, Dana Priest, a reporter and military intelligence writer for The Washington Post, said in a lecture yesterday."The US military dominates our foreign policy in a way that would surprise most people," Priest said, adding that the issue is more apparent under the Bush administration.Priest has covered military operations in Panama, Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo.Priest said the military's enhanced role in diplomacy and peacekeeping have put strains on traditional military structure."I found, not surprisingly, a mismatch between the mission and the training and culture," Priest said, describing her experience with a regiment assigned to peacekeeping duties in Kosovo."In 10 years of nation building, the army has refused to come up with training for these situations," Priest said, agreeing with an Army general who told her development of such training is "just too hard.""In peacekeeping, the dynamic tends to be 'just don't get into trouble' because no one knows what success is anyway," Priest said.Priest discussed the possibility of multilateral, international forces playing a greater role in future peacekeeping missions."I definitely think the military will support someone else doing nation building," she said.Priest also described the growth of military special forces teams, which she said she first learned about while reporting on an unrelated story at an Army secretary's briefing.

NEWS | 10/20/2003

Ibish criticizes administration's Iraq policy

Hussein Ibish, Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, blasted the Bush administration for what he called a "neo-conservative" doctrine that led to the "total mismanagement" of the Iraqi situation in a lecture in the Frist Campus Center this weekend.Ibish said "an incredible burden has been placed" on the United States by "the superimposition of a preexisting . . . vision of how to use American power in the world."Ibish described the ADC as a "national grassroots organization" dedicated to the civil rights of Arabs in the United States and the Middle East.

NEWS | 10/20/2003

OIT monitors hits on Google feature

The University's Office of Information Technology is not Big Brother, but it has been watching you.Every institution that registers with the Google search engine can view daily results called "traffic reports" that pool the day's most popular search keywords, and the University has been using these reports while redesigning Princeton's webpage."It's simple," Dwight Bashore, University web specialist with the Office of Information Technology, said.

NEWS | 10/20/2003

Faculty, staff ranks 20th in gifts to Dean

Affiliates of Princeton University have given a total of $12,415 to support 2004 presidential candidate and former governor of Vermont Howard Dean, placing University members as one of the top 20 groups of contributors to the campaign.Those in the Princeton ZIP code 08540 have donated $126,020 to the Dean campaign, the second highest contribution of all ZIP codes in the nation, according to third quarter finance reports candidates filed with the Federal Election Commission last week.Princeton has joined a list of 450 university communities who have contributed a combined sum of $852,205 to Dean's $25.3 million total, trailing contributions from the retired sector of $1,779,489 and from lawyers and law firms, which have contributed $966,232.It is unknown whether much of the contributions from the Princeton University come from faculty, administrators or students.So far, there are 66 "Princetonians" registered with Princetonfordean.com, which states the campaign's goal to register a total of 500.Opinions vary as to why Howard Dean has garnered so much support in the area."Princeton University and Princeton New Jersey are centers of political liberalism," Fred Greenstein, a former University politics professor, said in an email.

NEWS | 10/19/2003

Basketball player charged by police

Andre Logan '04 ? forward on the men's basketball team ? was charged with burglary and criminal mischief by Borough Police at roughly 1 a.m.

NEWS | 10/19/2003

Kamal '07 publishes Indian philosophy novel

While most eighth graders were playing video games and listening to rap, Ritu Kamal '07 began work on her innovative philosophical novel, "Panch Kanya: a Novel Experience in Indian Philosophy."By the time she was 16, Kamal's work had grown into a 508 page text, dealing with all six systems of Indian philosophy through narration, dialogue and fictional correspondence.Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of her achievement, however, is that she wrote Panch Kanya in her second language, English.Coming to Princeton this fall was her first trip abroad.

NEWS | 10/19/2003

Activist speaks on repression in Myanmar

Maureen Aung-Thwin, director of the Burma Project, spoke last week on the current state of affairs in Burma ? the country also called Myanmar that borders China ? and the repression of democracy there by its ruling military dictatorship.The Burma Project aims to bring democracy to the country through education and political action.

NEWS | 10/19/2003

ACLU board member criticizes breadth of Patriot Act

Grayson Barber, a member of the ACLU Board of Directors, argued at the University Wednesday that the USA Patriot Act ? enacted by Congress after Sept.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

Hundreds come to Frist to watch Yankees best Boston in ALCS

No, the screams you heard last night were not those of your friends going out their minds studying or the usual Thursday night crowd returning from the Street.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

Cole talks on lasting effects of Princeton anthrax scare

At the corner of Nassau Street and Bank Street, there once were three mailboxes. Today, there are just two ? one was removed after anthrax was detected in it almost a year after the anthrax attack in 2001.Leonard Cole, author of the new book "The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story," speaking last night at the U-Store, discussed his work and emphasized the impact of the incident on the Princeton area.Two of the survivors of inhalation anthrax, Norma Wallace and Jyotsna Patel, both former postal workers at the Hamilton facility, also attended the talk.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

PACT organizes shuttle to Race for the Cure

Many members of the University community will be participating in the 10th annual New Jersey Race for the Cure ? a day of races to raise money for the cure for cancer ? on Sunday.The University student group Princeton Against Cancer Together has been active in organizing Princeton support for the event.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

Terrorism expert explores 'terror in the name of God'

Back in the 1990s, Jessica Stern, a senior official on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council, worried that a madman would get hold of a nuclear weapon from the former Soviet Union and detonate it in an American city.The worry was so great that Hollywood made a movie about it, 1997's feature "The Peacemaker," starring Nicole Kidman, whose character is based on her, and George Clooney.Stern, a lecturer at Harvard and one of the country's foremost terrorism experts, is still worried about a madman killing hundreds of thousands with a weapon of mass destruction.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

Engineers say an E-Quad cafe would be good, too

The Engineering Quadrangle opened in 1962, and ever since B.S.E. students have had to schedule their meals around problem sessions and labs because the E-Quad has no cafeteria of its own and is a substantial trek from on-campus eateries.While that may change in the not-too-distant future with the planned E-Quad cafe, engineering undergraduates say that food and engineering should have been together from the start."It's the farthest place on campus without food," said Matt Wolf '05, an ORFE student, while working on a problem set in room E-224.The Carl Icahn Genomics Laboratory, completed in June, features a cafe in its main atrium.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

West Windsor eyes alcohol ordinance

An ordinance allowing police to cite private property owners for underage drinking ? similar to the Princeton Borough's proposed alcohol ordinance ? is set to come before the West Windsor Township Council.The goal is to stop high school students from drinking alcohol when their parents are gone, said Jackie Alberts, vice president of the West Windsor council."Basically they're trying to solve the problem of the empty house party," she said.Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed said the Borough Council here is not influenced by the decisions of nearby towns, including decisions on similar alcohol ordinances."We've been watching Princeton," he said.West Windsor Township's police chief and a representative of the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office presented the case for an ordinance at a meeting Tuesday.In November 2002, the Prosecutor's Office pushed the Princeton Borough's proposed alcohol ordinance at a meeting of the town's Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance.

NEWS | 10/16/2003

Lobbyists sue over military recruiting law

"Do schools get to decide what lessons they teach about equality, or does the government get to tell them?"With this question, E.

NEWS | 10/15/2003

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