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Crime rate high for first weekend

More crime on campus was committed at the start of this year than last year, but the development is not disturbing, authorities said."It was the worst weekend in a long time," said Barry Weiser, Public Safety crime prevention specialist."I think it's [attributable] to the beginning of the school year.

NEWS | 09/15/2003

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Wilson School to partner more closely with NYU law

NEW YORK ? There is no law school at the University ? a fact that students and professors have alternatively boasted of and complained about for years.The University is, however, home to a law and public affairs program, but that wasn't enough for Michael Doyle, a prestigious international relations theorist who left the University in June for a joint appointment in Columbia's law and global affairs schools."It's not quite the same as a law school," he said in a recent interview in his office here.But the University's Wilson School and New York University's law school are trying to forge a closer partnership, involving joint courses, research opportunities and possibly faculty appointments.The effort began when Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, an international lawyer, became Wilson School dean in September 2002.

NEWS | 09/15/2003

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Under no-loan policy, record number of freshmen receive aid

As freshmen arrived on campus this year, the University announced that the Class of 2007 has 52 percent of the students receiving aid.The percentage of incoming freshmen receiving financial aid has steadily risen since 38 percent of the Class of 2001 received aid.The high number of financial aid recipients this year can partially be attributed to improvements in financial aid in the last several years, said Don Betterton, director of undergraduate financial aid since 1975.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

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OIT considers new anti-worm plans

After a summer plagued by the spread of numerous computer viruses across the University network, OIT is looking into taking new measures to protect campus machines, which may include the automated installation of security patches to each of the thousands of computers on the network.The plan would eliminate the need for individual users to visit Microsoft's website to download new patches as security flaws in the Windows operating system are discovered.As of yesterday afternoon ? a day after Wednesday's email from OIT asking the University community to install the latest Windows patch ? roughly half of students had updated their computers, The Daily Princetonian determined.The request came as the University was still recovering from the Stealther, Blaster and Welchia worms.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Student aversion toward Friday classes fails to faze professors

Many University students adore their three-day weekends that start with Thursday night partying on the Street and end late Sunday evening with last-minute papers and readings.But Princeton administrators and professors say adding more classes to Fridays could increase flexibility in scheduling, though they have no plans to add on Friday courses just yet."I feel Friday is an underutilized class time," said Associate Dean of the College Howard Dobin.Around the country, however, Friday classes are happening more often.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Two years later, University remembers Sept. 11 attacks

The United States is the world's superpower. But two years after Sept. 11, it still has a long way to go to resolve the issues brought up by the attacks, a panel of political experts concluded yesterday in front of a full audience in Dodds Auditorium.The panelists reflected on the subject ? "Two Years After 9/11: How Far Have We Come?" ? discussing the steps the United States should take to improve domestic and foreign security."[In 2002,] President Bush acknowledged that now America is most threatened not by invading states but by failing states," said Robert Orr '92, the executive director for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government."Never has this president been so right in what he said and never has he been so wrong in how he has implemented it," Orr added.Orr, who recently returned from an independent review of postwar Iraq at the request of Defense Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld '54, was joined on the panel by Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Wilson School dean; Christopher Eisgruber '83, a Wilson School professor specializing in law; and Christopher Kojm '79, deputy executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.The panel represented the intellectual part of the University's remembrance of the attacks.Orr spoke about faltering reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

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OIT blocks flaw in Frist e-mail kiosk

Students who used the new kiosk computers in the Frist Campus Center before yesterday afternoon may have left their email accounts vulnerable to prying eyes.Users who did not correctly log out of the kiosk computers remained fully connected to the email system, enabling others to read or send messages from the logged-in account.OIT officials were unaware of the problem until The Daily Princetonian contacted them yesterday morning.

NEWS | 09/10/2003