For probably the next two decades the person President Tilghman introduced as the new admission dean late last month will shape the Princeton student body.
Many Princeton students are concerned about bias in American media coverage of the war in Iraq. Several students said they trust the media to provide a largely accurate account but express general dissatisfaction with the range of opinions provided in newspapers and on television."The coverage is not openly biased," Paulo Quiros '06 said, "but it doesn't do a good job of showing opinions against the war."Several students attending an informal USG discussion Thursday night on American media and the war, hosted by Camille Coates, Class of 2006 senator, said they were doubtful that there was a commitment to publishing the full spectrum of perspectives."The concern I express is that whenever a reporter says something negative about the war they'll get kicked out," Wamiq Chowdhury '06 said.Few others said they think that reporting has been fair and unbiased."It seems to transcend politics a lot because of what's at stake," said USG Executive Secretary Shaun Callaghan '06 of the alleged bias in support of the war.Students said they looked to many news sources for information about the war, but specifically mentioned The New York Times newspaper and online edition, as well as CNN and BBC as the most trusted sources.The 24-hour television news broadcasts have irritated many students."After the first few days the war coverage got so monotonous.
If President Tilghman were up for reelection by the students, she would be on a run for her money.
The Ivy Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting the use of race in college admissions policies at their spring conference held this weekend at the University.
Amherst College announced Friday that Anthony Marx GS '90 will serve as its 18th president.Marx, a politics professor at Columbia University, also devotes much of his time outside the lecture hall to community service.
Three University students recently learned that their academic achievements are being rewarded with scholarships for graduate study.Robert Accordino '03 said he was doubly surprised when he learned he had received both a Fulbright Scholarship to Australia and the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.Accordino, a psychology major receiving certificates in theater and musical performance, said he plans to use the scholarship to continue his study of autism at Oxford University in England and at Queensland College in Australia.Incorporating his interests in music and psychology, Accordino's thesis project involved a "receptive music therapy" project, which he worked on at the Eden School for Autism.Accordino said he hopes research shines light on a disease about which little is known."In doing the research, you can advocate for those with autism," he said.
Elena Kagan '81 was named yesterday as Harvard University's new law school dean.Harvard president Lawrence Summers said Kagan will take the helm on June 30."I am honored and thrilled to become the next dean of Harvard Law School," Kagan said in a statement.
The Recording Industry Association of America sued Dan Peng '05 yesterday for what could be tens of millions of dollars, alleging that he illegally made copyrighted music available for download from his computer and facilitated the transfer of copyrighted music over the network through his website, wake.princeton.edu.The RIAA also filed suits yesterday against three other college students running similar websites at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Michigan Technological University.
Some members in the University community are feeling the effects of a moratorium the University placed on travel to Asia yesterday as a precaution against the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.The University's most notable enterprise in the area, Princeton-in-Asia, has been affected only slightly."We are only affiliated with the University, so we are independent of the University for the most part in terms of decision-making," said Princeton-in-Asia program director Ginny Parker.
Several students said at a panel discussion last night that the term "self-segregation" does not accurately reflect social life on campus and said that racial separation is not caused by any particular segment of the student body.The forum titled "Social Life, 'Self'-Segregation, and the Princeton Campus," was organized by the Carl A.
The 'Prince' polled 135 randomly-chosen undergraduates by phone Tuesday and Wednesday nights between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Princeton has long been known as the most conservative of the Ivy League schools, and prevailing Princeton student opinion on the war in Iraq supports the claim.
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.
