News

Calif. recall on hold over ballots, students concerned

Calif. recall on hold over ballots, students concerned

The East Coast may have faced Hurricane Isabel last week, but for the last few months the West Coast has witnessed a whirlwind of a different sort: the California recall election.If the vote were to succeed, it would be only the second gubernatorial recall in the nation's history.Gov.

NEWS | 09/22/2003

George Whitesides '96: Inspiring kids to look at the stars

Every once in a while, a Princeton alumnus has the chance to leave a major impact in the world. George Whitesides graduated from the University in 1996 and already he has helped found a worldwide program that is inspiring kids to reach for the stars, literally.In 2001 Whitesides helped start an organization called Permission to Dream.

NEWS | 09/22/2003

NES enrollment slows after two years of growth for department

More than two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the surge in student interest in the Near Eastern studies department has started to slow down.In the academic year after the Sept.

NEWS | 09/22/2003

ORFE becomes engineers' top choice as major

With 37 percent of employed 2003 graduates working in financial services, it's not surprising that this year there are more students majoring in Operations Research and Financial Engineering than in any other department in the engineering school.And the number of majors is steadily increasing.

NEWS | 09/22/2003

USG discusses elections and voting policy, LGBT concerns

In a retreat Saturday afternoon in Whig Hall, USG officers set goals for the upcoming semester, including addressing LGBT concerns and improving elections and voting.USG president Pettus Randall '04 said he hopes to continue responding to student concerns."We want to continue our roles as activists looking for the big issues on campus and trying to combat those issues," he said.

NEWS | 09/21/2003

Bradley '65 champions integrity

Bill Bradley '65 drew on his wide variety of life experiences as he encouraged students to uphold standards of integrity at an assembly on Cannon Green last night.In his speech, Bradley encouraged students to start by defining their own codes of honor."I say never give up and never sell out.

NEWS | 09/21/2003

CIA limits internships since 9/11

Each fall CIA recruiters and web site announce summer internships for qualified undergraduates. But since Sept.

NEWS | 09/21/2003

Durkee '69 to replace Wright '62 as vice president, secretary

Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62 will step down from his position at the end of December, concluding 31 years of service marked by involvement in myriad aspects of the University.Robert Durkee '69 has been tapped to take on most of Wright's responsibilities ? which include administrative support for the Board of Trustees and staffing for the president's office ? in addition to his current role as vice president for public affairs."I'm delighted to have this opportunity to work more closely with President Tilghman and the University," Durkee said.Wright currently oversees the general counsel and the vice president for campus life, but beginning next year those offices will report directly to Tilghman."He has served as the senior adviser to three presidents with extraordinary intelligence and judgment," Tilghman said.

NEWS | 09/21/2003

Scholars discuss Italian Renaissance

They saw Florence. They saw Rome. They saw Renaissance underpants.On Friday, 230 scholars from across the globe ? and a handful of students ? gathered at the Department of Art and Archaeology's Italian Renaissance City Symposium in McCosh 50 to discuss how art, architecture, sewers and breechesmake up cultural notions of civic identity."Those were some of the best images I've ever seen projected on a slide," history professor Anthony Grafton joked, "sewers really matter ? so do underpants."Grafton was speaking at one of the first lectures of the symposium, "Home from Home: Microcosms of Italian Cities in the Oltremare" delivered by Deborah Howard, chair of the art history department at Cambridge University.Howard's lecture focused on the Italian presence outside of Italy, specifically in the Mediterranean, a presence facilitated through trade during the Renaissance period."Arab words infiltrated the everyday language," Howard said in her sprightly British pitch.

NEWS | 09/21/2003

Campus let down after week of awaiting Isabel

Curiously, University students were disappointed yesterday to find themselves not under the weather.Many were excited about the prospect of Hurricane Isabel hitting Princeton, and were let down when that was not the case."I was very excited about [the storm] and had kind of a childish attitude about it," Galina Barakova '04 said.The University recommended yesterday that students take precautions against Hurricane Isabel as Gov.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Bradley '65 to speak at integrity assembly

Bill Bradley '65 will address the University community on Sunday at a new assembly addressing the importance of integrity.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

I spy with my Google eye . . . on you

I became Google-eyed (adj.) after I Googled (v.) all my friends' names in a bout of Google-mania (n.).Everybody does it.Google ? a search engine run by CEO Eric Schmidt '76 ? lets users get the low down on their friends, enemies and everybody in between.Just pop in a name, and get all the web pages mentioning that person."Now, if you can't remember your college years because of everything you consumed," Schmidt says, "Google remembers all of it for your friends."Type "Shirley Tilghman" and get some 2,000 results, starting with the University president's resume.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Israeli minister combats anti-Israel college views

Human rights activist and Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky continued his five-day tour of 13 American universities with a visit to campus yesterday, fighting what he characterizes as a new breed of anti-Semitism ? hatred toward Israel.He is enlisting the support of college students to help change the view that Palestinians are the only victims in the Mideast crisis.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Edwards campaign reaches Nassau Inn

Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina took his presidential campaign to Princeton last night, where he met his daughter, Catharine Edwards '04, and about 70 students at the Nassau Inn.Greeting many students by name, Edwards gradually worked his way to the front of the small room to switch off the microphone and await his daughter, who introduced the senator simply as "my dad.""I'm here campaigning," Sen.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Solicitors call University members for personal info

Yesterday at 10:40 a.m., a male student reported to University Public Safety that he was telephoned by solicitors who asked for his date of birth, social security number, parents' names and mother's maiden name, according to an email to the student body from the Department of Public Safety.Public Safety also reported that other members of the University were contacted as well.One of those, a senior who was contacted yesterday evening, said a woman with "a heavy Caribbean accent" called him and first asked for information that was public knowledge ? his name, date of birth and telephone number.When she began asking for other information, such as his parents' names and his annual income, he responded that he was uncomfortable giving that information.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Female student flashed while running on tow path

A female undergraduate was flashed twice by a man while she was running on the towpath around Lake Carnegie at about 5 p.m.

NEWS | 09/18/2003

Starving bacteria seek food together

When they're starving, they're social. And when they're social, they're slimy. Bacteria are the centerpiece of new research that has disclosed some of the methodology behind the social organization of bacteria.The research was conducted in the labs of physics professor Robert Austin and molecular biology professor Jeffry Stock.Contrary to the past assumption that bacteria disperse randomly and then cluster, this research suggests that the bacteria "can actively find each other," said Peter Wolanin, a postdoctoral researcher in Stock's lab.Emil Yuzbashyan, a graduate student theorist, observed that when he placed E.

NEWS | 09/17/2003

University prepares for threat of Hurricane Isabel

While many students lounged in the sun yesterday, Princeton administrators prepared for the arrival of a major storm.Though she has lost strength during the last few days, Hurricane Isabel is scheduled to plow through North Carolina this afternoon.

NEWS | 09/17/2003

Budget talks include 'rape kits' funding

University Health Services moved a step closer yesterday to being able to examine students for evidence of sexual assault at a budget meeting discussing "high priority needs" for campus life.In the 2004-2005 budget, Health Services will request money for the first time for nurses and equipment to conduct "rape kits" on campus, in which a sexually assaulted student is examined to collect evidence that can be used in court, University officials said."Health Services has identified many critical unmet needs," said Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, who met with Provost Amy Gutmann yesterday to discuss funding priorities.

NEWS | 09/17/2003

Mitchell to lead Butler through construction, expansion

English Professor Lee Mitchell recently became master of Butler College and is excited to lead it through the major transformation of the residential college system due to take place during the next few years."Butler is unquestionably the best college in the University, and I'm privileged to work with students in an intellectual and social world outside the classroom," he said.A major task Mitchell will face is successfully transitioning Butler from its two-year underclassmen structure to a four-year college plan.

NEWS | 09/17/2003

Most Popular