Yesterday, Death Penalty Awareness Week began with a lecture by Ray Krone, the hundredth innocent man exonerated from death row after a wrongful conviction.Krone was found guilty of murdering a waitress at a bar in Phoenix in 1992.
People around the world took a moment yesterday to think about the environment in observation of Earth Day, but through a recent University program, environmental action is a yearlong activity.The University has begun moving toward the use of more environmentally-friendly products and is looking into implementing these changes on a wider scale.
Juniors Anthony Miller, Ruth Tennen and Michael Tibbetts and sophomore Darsh Ranjan have won the Barry M.
Emeritus English and creative writing professor and acclaimed literary figure Theodore Weiss died at his home in Princeton last week at 86.
In a survey of Princeton students conducted by Yashih Wu '03 earlier this year, just under half of respondents said they would be willing to pay for a music downloading service instead of using a free service.However, Wu said student attitudes would probably change following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against four college students, including Dan Peng '05, for copyright infringement.
Small programs have been coming out of the woodwork recently. Advertisements for open houses abound in campus papers, on bulletin boards and in e-mails sent by residential colleges.
University administrators made clear late last week that there are no plans to make residential advisers primary enforcers of alcohol policy.
Following in the footsteps of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, two University students have chosen to use music to protest power of the music industry.About two weeks ago, after the news of the crackdown on the Wake file-sharing website within the University network, seniors Matt Gale and Sanjay Varma wrote a little ditty they call "Ode to Fire Safety.""We wrote it so that people would have something to listen to now that copyrighted music is not the thing to do," Gale said.Gale and Varma did not write the song specifically to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America ? which brought a suit against Wake owner Dan Peng '05 and students at other universities for facilitating copyright infringement.Gale and Varma were interviewed in a three-way telephone conversation.
Though a majority of University students have supported the war in Iraq, some faculty members are vocal opponents of the conflict.
The Princeton Center for Complex Materials, which in the decade since its inception has established itself as one of the foremost centers for materials science research, was awarded a six-year, $17.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation last October.PCCM, the fifth-largest center of its kind, was founded through an NSF grant in 1994 and has twice since successfully renewed the funding."Not only do we have fantastic faculty, but we also have fantastic students," said Ravindra Bhatt, director of PCCM.
Several incumbent class government officers lost their posts in this spring's elections as the USG reported a strong voter turnout among sophomores and freshmen.The outcomes of the runoff elections for USG social chair, junior class president, sophomore class president and vice-president were released by the USG yesterday.In the races for president of the sophomore and junior classes, both incumbents lost.
The Center of International Studies Undergraduate Fellows Program sponsored the International Career Forum yesterday, bringing together graduate students in the Woodrow Wilson School to speak to undergraduates.About a dozen Wilson School graduate students shared career insights at the forum, including five panelists who were selected to represent a wide range of international backgrounds, such as the Peace Corps, the Foreign Service, Doctors Without Borders and numerous other nongovernmental organizations."It was a chance to put undergraduates in touch with graduate students on campus," Career Forum chair Richelle Blanchard '04 said.
Third Eye Blind will be getting their "punk asses off the street" and into Dillon Gym Friday April 25 for the USG's spring concert, just before seniors end their "semi-charmed kind of life" here and "graduate."Doors will open at 9 p.m.
Although the meeting that could lead to league-wide reform of the seven-week athletic moratorium remains months away, athletics officials have come to a loose consensus on the changes they will propose later this academic year.Gary Walters '67, the University's athletic director, said that officials have reached a broad framework for compromise that, as its centerpiece, would restrict practice to four days a week between the traditional and nontraditional seasons.
This week, the University Store made showing Tiger spirit a little more cheeky.Thong underwear in orange, black, light blue and gray is now displayed among other, less invasive women's fashion items such as sweatshirts, lycra workout wear and Clinique makeup.Virginia France, the U-Store marketing director, said the new intimates have been selling very well in all colors, especially orange.
Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer.
David Botstein, the incoming director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrated Genomics, has been named winner of the 2003 Genetics Prize by the Peter Gruber Foundation.
The undergraduate student body registered strong support for three of the four changes to the Honor Code proposed by class senator Jonathan Chavkin '05 in student referenda this weekend, but the USG announced yesterday that only one garnered the 75 percent necessary to pass.
Last night a capacity crowd gathered in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall to hear a panel with professors Cornel West GS '80, Jeffrey Herbst and Abdellah Hammoudi and lecturer Erica Cosgrove talk about the impact of the war in Iraq.The discussion sponsored by the Global Issues Forum quickly took an antiwar tone when West led off the ten minute panelist speeches.West spoke about the idealistic underpinnings of American imperialism.
"The classic qualities of the republic are very much needed in 21st century America because of the revolutionary age we live in," said presidential candidate and former senator Gary Hart, D-Colo., yesterday in a lecture entitled "Restoration of the Republic" in Dodds Auditorium.As people begin to lose control of their political lives because of what Hart called the "global and information revolution," more local and personal community governments will be necessary, he said.Thomas Jefferson, who first developed the idea of community government, felt that the founders "left something out," as they struggled to create a large-scale republic and a federation of states, Hart said.Of the three major components of classic republican government ? civic virtue, popular sovereignty and resistance to corruption ? the last two are absent from current politics, Hart said.Civic virtue, he said, is now a quaint term, rarely used by the government.
