Professor Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and graduate student Pei Zhu went to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Students and community members will soon be able to enjoy their Panera Bread bagels, soups and salads in the sun outside the restaraunt.
By the end of the month, OIT will open its new high-performance computer cluster, known as a Beowulf cluster, which will support research in several departments.The cluster will serve faculty and students who run computationally intensive programs by offering processing time on its high-performance computers.The cluster will also allow OIT to provide departments that already have Beowulf clusters with trouble shooting and other support services, Curt Hillegas, OIT's manager of research and academic applications support, said.The new cluster will be composed of many PC's linked by an extremely fast network and will mimic a supercomputer, Hillegas explained."The Beowulf cluster takes standard, mass-produced parts and forms, in essence, a supercomputer," he said.Though it does not look like a typical desktop computer, it works the same way, he said.The Beowulf cluster, funded by OIT, is a minimal cost project, Hillegas said, noting that supercomputers usually cost millions of dollars."We are operating at a list price of only $180,000, and the University paid even less," he said.The Beowulf was formed out of a partnership between OIT and Dell Computer Corporation, who will begin installing the hardware and software Monday.The new cluster will allow OIT to better support the more than six Beowulf clusters already in place in various departments, Hillegas said.Chemistry Professor Kevin Leh-mann said OIT will be able to ensure that all components of Beowulf clusters across campus are working."Maintenance of these computers is a significant problem," Lehmann said.
Spurred by the Supreme Court's hearing of the University of Michigan affirmative action case on Tuesday, the USG took steps to engage the student body in a debate about an issue that affects current students and the future of higher education.USG President Pettus Randall '04 circulated an email last night to all undergraduates asking them to vote on a resolution in support of the Bakke decision and the University's current admissions.This referendum came about after the USG voted yesterday on U-Council Chair Joshua Anderson's '04 suggestion to involve the student body in a referendum, thereby making a collective statement to the larger world about its stance on affirmative action."We need to be an activist body," Randall said, "and focus on broader issues.
If Princeton Borough does not take action soon, it will see its 250 year-old African-American community forced out of its current location by rising property taxes, Democratic Mayoral candidate Joe O'Neill said.
Last night, the University issued a moratorium on school-sponsored travel to parts of Asia affected by the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.In response to advice from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, the University's Emergency Preparedness Task Force advised President Shirley Tilghman to discontinue funded trips abroad to China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi, director of communications Lauren Robinson-Brown '85 said."This actually happened pretty rapidly, but the situation regarding S.A.R.S.
Though plans are underway for a new campus Health and Wellness Center, the dream will likely not be reality for 7 to 10 years, University Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman said.Silverman first introduced the idea of the center in October, upon his arrival at the University after his appointment in August.
The Supreme Court issued a barrage of questions from the bench yesterday about the consitutionality of the University of Michigan's affirmative action policies.Yesterday's oral arguments for the two cases focused on the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school admission policies.White applicants who were rejected brought suit against the university because they alleged they were denied their equal protection rights.The University of Michigan undergraduate program uses a points-based admission policy that assigns a numerical benefit for minority status.
As the executive director of the National Association of Scholars, politics preceptor Bradford Wilson is at the helm of one of the leading organizations opposing the University of Michigan's race-based admission policies.Though not vocally against Princeton's own policies, Wilson finds himself arrayed against the University's support of affirmative action.Though the NAS filed briefs in the cases against the University of Michigan heard by the Supreme Court yesterday, the University filed a brief supporting it.
Students expecting to hear virulent anti-homosexual rhetoric or a hellfire-and-brimstone sermon during Rev.
After brokering a deal with the Princeton Borough Police, Cap and Gown, Colonial and Quadrangle eating clubs will enact stricter policies to curb underage drinking ? including a new wristband policy.The arrangement comes after a string of arrests by Borough Police of a number of club officers.
Marta Tienda, a Wilson School professor, voiced support for affirmative action in a talk yesterday.
Donald Rumsfeld '54, U.S. defense secretary and mastermind behind Operation Iraqi Freedom, has accepted the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's invitation to speak at the University April 6, said the organization's president Andrew Bruck '05.Rumsfeld will address the challenges of Title IX, a law that requires colleges and universities to provide equal opportunity for female athletes."It's just amazing," Bruck said.
Three University students were arrested early Friday morning for theft of a means of conveyance near Robertson Hall, police said.The students ? juniors Kenneth Chu and Timothy Egan, and sophomore Charles Wiggins ? were apprehended shortly after 6 a.m.
"Who could ever have imagined that we would reach a point where a student with a straight B average would rank 923 out of a graduating class of 1079 ? or where a student with a straight C average would rank 1078?"This question appears in bold text on the first page of a report sent to faculty members in late February after a University committee analyzed trends in undergraduate grades during the last three decades.The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Princetonian, warns that both grade inflation and grade compression continue, despite recent efforts to reverse these trends.
Gunter Pleuger, permanent German representative to the United Nations, said yesterday evening he does not believe the credibility of the United Nations has been undermined by the U.S.
"I was scared enough that I was in great shape, and I came back looking like a refugee," Jeremy Hubball '69 said, referring to his most memorable and taxing mountain climb ? Mt.
When the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments this morning in the two cases against the University of Michigan's race-conscious admission policies, some 40 University students will take to the streets of Washington, D.C.
Three Princeton students placed in the top 15 in the 2002 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, leading the University to a second-place finish out of 376 teams across the United States and Canada.The Putnam exam, dubbed by Time magazine "the most prestigious math contest in the world" and "a rite of passage for math cognoscenti," was taken in December by 3,349 students from 476 schools.The University's Marius Beceanu '04, Stefan Hornet '04 and Radu Mihaescu '03 each received $1,000 for finishing in the top 15 individually.
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin analyzed the international economy in a lecture Friday and said that the coming decade is unlikely to be as bullish as the last one.He argued that industrialized nations should significantly increase aid to developing countries, warned of continuing deficit spending and criticized the Bush administration's proposed tax cut.Rubin's lecture in McCosh 50 was the keynote address of a symposium organized by the Center for Economic Policy Studies.Rubin, who served as treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999, said that many Americans' attitudes toward the economy today were shaped by the "great bull market" of 1992-99.He said the success of the 1990s has led many Americans to be overly optimistic about continued economic growth.
