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Black Student Union plans new mentoring program

Black Student Union plans new mentoring program

The Black Student Union is planning a new Leadership and Mentoring Program, which will match freshmen with upper class mentors."The ultimate goal is to help incoming black students get better acclimated to the Princeton community," said Brandon Nicholson '05, one of the program's organizers.Freshmen who sign up for the program will meet weekly with their mentors.They will also gather several times monthly with a family group consisting of five mentor-mentee pairs."We want to help build a welcoming community," said Brittani Kirkpatrick '05, also a program organizer.Nicholson said the program hopes to "prepare and inform freshmen so they can be more involved" in student government and other campus organizations and activities.LAMP seeks "as much and as broad a representation as possible," Nicholson added.Though the program stems from the BSU, both BSU members and nonmembers served on the committee to develop it, and though it is intended for black mentees, mentors of all races are welcome."We're not seeing this as a BSU thing, or a black student thing.

NEWS | 04/24/2003

3EB drummer Hargreaves talks about fame before Dillon concert

Life is good for 31-year-old Third Eye Blind drummer Brad Hargreaves. Together with lead singer Stephan Jenkins, bassist Arion Salazar and guitarist Tony Fredianelli, Hargreaves will take the stage tonight as the headlining act of the USG Spring Concert.Hargreaves said the old days of staying in Motel Six and sharing rooms are finished.

NEWS | 04/24/2003

Alternative golf invades Prospect Ave. Saturday

"Everything's a target," Rob Peterson, inventor of the AlmostGolf ball, said yesterday.

NEWS | 04/24/2003

Health services to rely on 'usual' staff for Newman's Day check-ins

Between Easter and Houseparties, University students have another date marked on their calendars.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

Judge schedules June hearing for Robertson suit

The judge hearing the Robertson Foundation suit yesterday set June 4 as the date to hear arguments about whether the case should proceed.In a two-hour hearing at the New Jersey State Superior Court yesterday, Judge Neil Shuster also said he will rule within a week on three petitions University lawyers made for increased confidentiality in the case and a delay in further evidence gathering.Relatives of Charles '26 and Marie Robertson, who donated the $35 million in 1961 to set up a foundation in their name to fund the Wilson School, sued the University, the foundation, President Tilghman and three University-appointed foundation trustees in July.The relatives allege that University officials were trying to transfer control of the foundation's now $550 million endowment to the University's investment company, trying to commingle the foundation's endowment with the University's and failing to attract students who become government officials in international affairs.The University had asked the court to throw out the case in December, but a decision was delayed when Judge Shuster was hurt in a car accident.Today, the Robertson Foundation will meet in Princeton for its annual board meeting, though it has had regular meetings throughout the year.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

Carrel culture brings levity to seniors' thesis deadlines

Despite the dread associated with thesis writing in the carrels of Firestone Library, some seniors have come up with creative ways to survive life in the multi-storey dungeon.Seniors Mark Harlan, Ben Miller and friends set up a put-put golf course among the stacks to cheer themselves up."We had a lot of distractions to lighten the mood in Firestone," Harlan said.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

Local SARS cases heighten anxiety

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome hysteria continued to mount throughout Mercer County yesterday as news spread of two suspected SARS cases ? a 68-year-old woman who had recently traveled to Asia and a Seton Hall University student thought to have been infected by a campus visitor.But recent reports have shown that the SARS patient did not infect the Seton Hall student."To date, casual contact with a SARS patient at school, other institutions, or at public gatherings has not resulted in reported transmission," Seton Hall health services reported.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

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A weekly look at recent science and technology research conducted at Princeton. Can Computers Get fAsTer?DNA-powered molecular computers are slowly but surely winding their way up the computational ladder.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

Clubs experiment with alcohol alternatives

Alcohol is not the only ticket to a good time on the Street lately, as eating clubs have launched efforts to incorporate more alcohol-free events into their weekend calendars.This semester, Quadrangle Club has organized three dry events, all of which have been well-received, said president Corey Sanders '04.These alcohol-free events include a spring party co-organized with the International Students at Princeton and a party featuring Jin, a well-known Asian rapper who has appeared on MTV.

NEWS | 04/23/2003

Q&A: Jeff Nunokawa

Jeff Nunokawa, a professor of English at the University, recently wrote "Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire" which is set to be released in June.

NEWS | 04/22/2003

Alcohol ordinance tabled in unanimous council vote

The Borough Council took the proposed alcohol ordinance off the table at their meeting last night but said they expected University students and administrators to continue efforts to curb excessive drinking at the University.The council voted unanimously to remove the ordinance from its immediate agenda but indicated the ordinance could be reconsidered at any point.

NEWS | 04/22/2003

Basketball forward Logan '04 may consider transfer to Yale

The Times of Trenton reported yesterday that oft-injured junior forward Andre Logan of the men's basketball team is transferring to Yale University.

NEWS | 04/22/2003

Students protest Isenberg's tenure denial

When history professor Andrew Isenberg was denied tenure a few weeks ago despite support from his department, several of his students began a campaign to protest the decision.Isenberg, who is a recipient of the 2001 President's Distinguished Teaching Award and a faculty member since 1997, teaches the history of the American West.

NEWS | 04/22/2003

N.J. secretary of state talks service, basketball

"I was caught in the crossroads of my life," New Jersey Secretary of State Regena Thomas said.

NEWS | 04/22/2003

Lesley McElhattan '95

Lesley Carlin McElhattan '95 was exploring her grandmother's attic one day when she discovered an old 1940s etiquette manual."It was just the funniest thing," McElhattan said.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

Death penalty flag display upended

Public Safety is investigating allegations that two men overturned parts of a campus anti-death penalty group's flag display outside Frist Campus Center early yesterday morning.The obstruction of the flags is part of a trend, some students charge, of suppressing political debate on campus, and now these students are asking for a campus wide inquiry and are planning a letter campaign.Melanie Wachtell '04 of the Princeton Coalition Against Capital Punishment made the allegations yesterday afternoon, saying she witnessed two men upending flags just after midnight yesterday morning.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

FBI criticized for slow clean-up process of post office facilities

The nearby Hamilton, N.J. postal plant that was contaminated and closed by anthrax spores nearly 18 months ago announced on April 10 that it is nearing the end of its cleaning process, but New Jersey Democratic Rep.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

Hundredth exonerated speaks on death penalty

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.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

University introduces new eco-friendly programs

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.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

Students awarded Goldwater prize for science, math

Juniors Anthony Miller, Ruth Tennen and Michael Tibbetts and sophomore Darsh Ranjan have won the Barry M.

NEWS | 04/21/2003

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