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Revived African student group 'Akwaaba' welcomes newcomers

Revived African student group 'Akwaaba' welcomes newcomers

To welcome someone in the Twi dialect of Ashante, you would greet them with a friendly "Akwaaba," not coincidentally the name of a newly-revived African student group which held its first open meeting during a dinner discussion on Monday.The organization, originally founded in 1996 as a "home away from home" for African students, is being reintroduced largely through the efforts of two freshmen, Amaka Megwalu '06, whose parents live in Nigeria and New York, and Daniel Scher '06, a resident of South Africa.Megwalu said the group aims to bring Africans together for "solidarity and a place to feel at home," but also plans to involve non-Africans in discussions about issues affecting the continent.She emphasized that the group is open to the entire University community.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

Campus workers on military leave

While others watch the war in Iraq on CNN, a few members of the University and Borough community are experiencing wartime military duty firsthand.Two University employees ? whose names remain confidential for privacy reasons ? are currently on military leave, though one is expected back within 30 days, Human Resources representative Vikki Ridge said.Unlike many other municipalities and cities around the country, however, the Borough police and fire departments have not suffered a manpower shortage due to the war."Several people have already done their time," said Borough Police Lt.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

The road to peace is in communication

As the nation turned its attention to Iraq this past week, I arrived at the South Korean embassy in New York City looking for answers about the Pacific component of Bush's "axis of evil." In my interview with Ambassador Wonil Cho, the Counsel General of the Republic of Korea, I sought to investigate the unique relationship between North and South Korea for my Foreign Correspondence seminar term project.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

CJL summer trip to Israel still scheduled to proceed

Despite the current military action in the Middle East, plans for a mid-June trip to Israel led by Rabbi Diamond of the Center for Jewish Life are still on."We won't go until the middle of June, but if it is like this we won't go," Diamond said.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

Water flows again in renovated pool at Wilson School

Those enjoying the warm spring weather this week may have discovered a new place to bask in the sun ? the newly renovated, tree-lined Scudder Plaza and redesigned Wilson School fountain.Work at the neighboring Robertson Hall necessitated rebuilding the plaza, Grounds Manager Jim Consolloy said, but the University took the opportunity to work creatively with the space."[The changes] have really opened up the area," Consolloy said.

NEWS | 03/25/2003

Wilson School defends use of endowment

Princeton lawyers filed a statement on Mar. 14 reiterating that the University did not misuse the Wilson School's $550 million endowment as members of the Robertson Foundation have alleged.The University had filed a motion to dismiss the allegations on Nov.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

New anti-war group holds 'die-in'

Members of Princeton Students United for Peace staged a die-in yesterday on the lawn in front of the Frist Campus Center to protest the war in Iraq.Five students lay on sheets splashed with red paint, holding up signs with images of a soldier and his fiancée, a wounded Iraqi child, Arlington Cemetery and a scene of New York City meant to signify possible retaliation.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

Maurice Cohill Jr. '51: Pioneering research in juvenile justice

After Maurice Cohill Jr. '51 performed his usual humorous monologue as "Princeton Charlie" at a football game in 1950, Ed Sullivan asked him to appear on his show.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

As last page is reached, book on WWII alumni to leave Frist

"Alma Mater keeps in eternal memory her sons who laid down their lives for their country." Engrained on each page of the Princeton Alumni WWII Book is this inscription, a promise to alumni who died during the Second World War.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

CPUC describes dangers of piracy

The University must address copyright infringement concerns immediately after receiving an official complaint against a user of the campus network, said Rita Saltz, OIT security expert, yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.Colleges and universities are hotbeds of piracy, said Clayton Marsh '85, a University lawyer, and the entertainment industry has begun to take more aggressive measures against individual violators of copyright law.According to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the University is a service provider and not liable for violations of the law.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

Six days in, professors debate ramifications of war with Iraq

"These are frightening times," Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, dean of the Wilson School, told an overcapacity audience at Dodds Auditorium yesterday.

NEWS | 03/24/2003

LeMenager named dean in office of campus life

Stephen LeMenager, removed from the University admissions office last summer after breaching a Yale University admissions website, has been appointed new director of planning and administration for campus life.LeMenager has been a University administrator since 1983, spending 18 years in the admissions office and rising to the position of Director of Admission.LeMenager received much of the blame last summer when it was discovered staffers of the University admissions office had breached Yale University's admission website, the 'Prince' reported.He was removed from the office last August, and has since worked as senior director of special projects in the communications office, according to a University press release.LeMenager's new position, in the office of Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, will include financial planning, work on the 500-student increase recommended by the Wythes Committee, and planning for the campus health and wellness center, according to the press release.The University announced LeMenager's appointment on the University website during break.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

University to stay course as students return to class

No changes are planned in the University schedule because of the war with Iraq.University officials say, however, that they are strengthening security and disseminating emergency guidelines while health and religion officials stand ready to help members of the community in need.Students return to class today from Spring Break during a military conflict that has claimed several dozen allied lives in its first four days and revealed some of the worst ground fighting in a generation.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

College Roundup

Brown students stage walkout in protest of warPROVIDENCE, R.I. (U-WIRE) ? At noon on Thursday, cruise missiles pummeled the city of Baghdad, protestors gathered by the thousands worldwide and at Brown University, President Ruth Simmons walked unnoticed past several hundred students on her way to University Hall, newly barricaded by wire fences.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

Princetonians find time to talk about finding time

Princeton students last month found an email survey in their inboxes. The survey, which began by asking students to take a time out to fill in the circles, wanted to know how much time students spend on various activities out of the classroom.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

U.S. makes some gains, suffers setbacks in Iraq

(WASHINGTON POST) Against a backdrop of artillery fire and screaming jetplanes, U.S. Marines fought their most pitched battle of the five-day-old war in Iraq today when they captured two bridges critical to the U.S.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

USG, Carl A. Fields Center form Monthly Cultural Leaders Summit

The USG and Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding have established the Monthly Cultural Leaders Summit, a collection of representatives from various minority groups on campus.Its first meeting was held on March 7.Though in the past, both organizations have made similar efforts, this is the first time the two have worked together to form such a summit.The collaboration of the USG and the Fields Center will provide a greater incentive for multicultural student groups to send and continue sending representatives to the summit's meetings, William Robinson '04, Undergraduate Life Committee Chair, said."It would be run through the Fields Center," Robinson said.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

Three students arrested during anti-war protest on Nassau St.

Borough Police arrested and charged three University students with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway Thursday when they sat in the middle of Nassau Street bound to each other with piping to protest the war with Iraq.

NEWS | 03/23/2003

Greenstein talks Bush leadership

President Bush has matured into a leader with a vision and seems to grasp the international challenges posed by a war with Iraq, said a top analyst of the presidency at the Wilson School yesterday.Fred Greenstein, a Wilson School professor emeritus and leading scholar of presidential leadership, referred to Bush's recent prime time press conference and said, "With what was the length of his answers, what was the density of his responses, you could see someone who was far more up to speed than he was before."The lecture titled "Presidential Leadership Wartime: The Case of George W.

NEWS | 03/13/2003

OIT officials report success at restructuring technology services

Nineteen months after the Office of Computing and Information Technology was renamed the Office of Information Technology, and eight months after the complete restructuring of campus information technology services, administrators said they are pleased with the results of these changes.The Office of Computing and Information Technology was formed in 1986 under the leadership of Chief Information Officer Ira Fuchs as an attempt to unify technological services on campus.In September 2001, with new CIO Betty Leydon in charge, CIT was reborn as the Office of Information Technology, and in July 2002 OIT was significantly restructured to provide better services to the University."The focus during CIT was to provide great technology to campus.

NEWS | 03/13/2003

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