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University dedicates garden to alumni lost in Sept. 11 attacks

University dedicates garden to alumni lost in Sept. 11 attacks

Two years and two days after the tragic events of Sept. 11, President Tilghman and the Alumni Council dedicated a Memorial Garden in honor of 13 Princeton alumni who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks.Families and friends assembled Saturday afternoon and braved mud and drizzle to remember their loved ones.

NEWS | 09/14/2003

Students unfazed by price increases at Frist Campus Center food court

As Robert Brutus '05 ate his turkey hoagie in the Frist Campus Center Saturday afternoon, he felt his $5.40 lunch was overpriced, but he understood the need to make price increases."Frist is just like any other restaurant that you go to," Brutus said.

NEWS | 09/14/2003

Family of Fitzgerald's lover donates correspondence

"I only mark the hours that shine," writes Ginevra King, a striking young debutante from the elite Westover School in Connecticut and first love of F.

NEWS | 09/14/2003

New savings program may reduce final cost of college

The University is participating in a new college savings plan that may let parents save on tuition.The group introducing the Independent 529 Plan has made arrangements with 224 universities to give parents a rebate on tuition, depending on how much they invest in the plan.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

Available rooms surface for all wait-listed juniors this summer

Sometimes bad luck can change when you least expect it, as some juniors wait-listed after last year's room draw recently discovered.About 85 lucky members of the Class of '05 were assigned rooms during the summer in 1903 Hall ? one of the campus's more desirable dorms, with its courtyard lawn, ivy-covered walls and prime location.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

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

Students couldn't go to China -- so teachers brought China to the students

At the beginning of this summer's Princeton in Beijing program, it was hard for students to forget that they were not in Beijing.

NEWS | 09/11/2003

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

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

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

Two opposite tales divulge past of Wilson School suit

There is a camera on the ground floor of a green window-paned building eight miles south of the University.

NEWS | 09/10/2003

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

University observes 9/11 with song, speech, prayer

Though the University has not planned one large commemoration for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as in the past, there will be several opportunities for remembrance throughout today.An hour of music for meditation purposes will be held at the University Chapel today at both 8 a.m and 12:30 p.m.

NEWS | 09/10/2003

New global network facilitates Internet research

In the next few years, a project known as PlanetLab ? started in part by computer science professor Larry Peterson ? could revolutionize the Internet. The founders of the project, which the University now hosts, have called it one of the most "exciting" projects in the history of the Internet.PlanetLab comprises a patchwork of computers around the globe which forms a private network through the Internet.

NEWS | 09/10/2003

Wilson School group receives grant for bio-security research

The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded a $149,000 grant to a Wilson School research group, the Program on Science and Global Security last week.

NEWS | 09/10/2003

Wolfson's Miami museum displays eclectic artifacts

MIAMI BEACH ? As Mitchell "Micky" Wolfson Jr. '63 tells it, the 1989 addition to the Princeton Art Museum was conceived by two men in a hot tub."[Former University President] Bill Bowen GS 58 came down to Miami, and he absolutely seduced me right there in the jacuzzi," Wolfson said." 'Now Micky,' he said, 'It's time for you to pay your debt to Princeton.

NEWS | 09/10/2003

OIT acts to stop computer viruses

OIT has nearly contained several computer viruses that attacked University computers this summer, causing some confusion in the process.Three thousand CDs containing software to check for, remove and protect against the three most common worms have been distributed to students.

NEWS | 09/09/2003

Q&A: Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, founded the freshman seminar program and is the chair of the Council of the Humanities.

NEWS | 09/09/2003

Berlind Theatre opens to grand ovation at McCarter

The curtain rose earlier this week on the newest performance stage in Princeton.The McCarter Theater Center dedicated its recently finished Roger S.

NEWS | 09/09/2003

Music industry files 261 lawsuits in battle against piracy

The music recording industry filed 261 lawsuits in federal court on Monday seeking monetary damages from individual Internet file-sharers.The suits, announced and organized by the Recording Industry Association of America, are the latest tactics in an increasingly aggressive campaign to end the four-yearlong slide in CD sales that the group attributes to the increasing popularity of online file-sharing programs."Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said RIAA president Cary Sherman.

NEWS | 09/09/2003

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