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Student aversion toward Friday classes fails to faze professors

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

China undergrad to defer first year after visa denials

Jiewu@ would have been her e-mail address. And she would have called 257 Forbes College home. But Wu Jie, a Chinese student who gained international recognition as the first female winner of the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad, was not able to join her fellow freshmen for orientation week."If not for the series of nightmarish events," Wu wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian last week.

NEWS | 09/09/2003

Tilghman makes Lowrie House her personal home

The house at 83 Stockton St. is set back about 150 feet from the busy Rt. 206 thoroughfare. That's the way its primary resident, University President Shirley Tilghman, likes it.Since Tilghman assumed the University's highest post nearly two years ago and moved into the school's most prestigious off-campus address, she has worked hard to make it less of "another institutional building" and more of a home for her and her two children.The yellow sandstone house, the official residence of the president since 1968, was given to the University by Barbara Armour Lowrie in 1960 in memory of her husband, Walter Lowrie 1890.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Honor Code reformed by USG and by student votes

The Honor Code was changed in two votes last semester.The first change, by the USG and Honor Committee, made members of the Office of Undergraduate Students responisble for acting as procedural advisers to accused students and granted the dean of the college the authority to hear appeals.The second, by student referendum, let an accused student bring an advocate to the initial Honor Committee hearing.The Honor Code, last amended in 2000, is one of two disciplinary systems at the University.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Rapelye appointed dean of admission

The University announced on March 27 that the dean of admissions at Wellesley College, Janet Lavin Rapelye, will replace Fred Hargadon as Princeton admission dean.Rapelye ? who has headed admissions at the all-women's school near Boston for 12 years after admission work at Bowdoin, Williams and Stanford ? is the first female admission dean at Princeton.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Gender at center of discussion about Tilghman's appointments

For probably the next two decades the person President Tilghman introduced as the new admission dean in March will shape the Princeton student body.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

University reacts to alerts, protests, war with Iraq

Throughout the months leading up to the war with Iraq and during the war, the University remained subdued, acknowledging changes in the national alert level and accommodating campus discussion and protest.There were no great flareups.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Coping with the intense reality of Princeton classes

The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Wisdom wielders

Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Psychology professor Daniel Kahneman took a Nobel last October for his research in behavior.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

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