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Carrel culture brings levity to seniors' thesis deadlines

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

English professor Weiss dies of Parkinsons

Emeritus English and creative writing professor and acclaimed literary figure Theodore Weiss died at his home in Princeton last week at 86.

NEWS | 04/20/2003

Thesis explores fee-based music downloads

In a survey of Princeton students conducted by Yashih Wu '03 earlier this year, just under half of respondents said they would be willing to pay for a music downloading service instead of using a free service.However, Wu said student attitudes would probably change following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against four college students, including Dan Peng '05, for copyright infringement.

NEWS | 04/20/2003

Small certificate programs attract varied students

Small programs have been coming out of the woodwork recently. Advertisements for open houses abound in campus papers, on bulletin boards and in e-mails sent by residential colleges.

NEWS | 04/20/2003

RAs not to become alcohol enforcers

University administrators made clear late last week that there are no plans to make residential advisers primary enforcers of alcohol policy.

NEWS | 04/20/2003

Student musicians record an 'Ode to Fire Safety'

Following in the footsteps of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, two University students have chosen to use music to protest power of the music industry.About two weeks ago, after the news of the crackdown on the Wake file-sharing website within the University network, seniors Matt Gale and Sanjay Varma wrote a little ditty they call "Ode to Fire Safety.""We wrote it so that people would have something to listen to now that copyrighted music is not the thing to do," Gale said.Gale and Varma did not write the song specifically to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America ? which brought a suit against Wake owner Dan Peng '05 and students at other universities for facilitating copyright infringement.Gale and Varma were interviewed in a three-way telephone conversation.

NEWS | 04/17/2003

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