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Housing comes up short, placing some off campus

Housing comes up short, placing some off campus

While most sophomores dread drawing last for upperclass housing in fear of being left with an undesirable room, few realize they might not get upperclass housing at all.A bad draw time left Joe Looke '04, Josh Kaplan '04 and Thomas Hale '04 roomless until just one week before returning to campus.

NEWS | 09/23/2002

University professors find glass shells aid tiny organisms with photosynthesis

People may not want to live in glass houses, but single-celled organisms have found a use for their own glass shell.In their study recently published in the journal Science, University geosciences professors Allen Milligan and Francois Morel showed that the diatoms' natural but ornate glass coverings contain enzymes that accelerate the photosynthesis reaction, which is essential to the organisms' survival.More significantly, however, the study suggests these glass dwellings contribute enormously to the level of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere."We never knew if the glass could do anything [before]," Milligan said.

NEWS | 09/23/2002

Sailor Fortenbaugh '85 steers Manhattan Yacht Club, aids NYC

"Do what you do best."Following his University graduation, Michael Fortenbaugh '85 read these words ? spoken by fellow Princetonian Malcolm Forbes '41 ? in an article and took the message to heart.

NEWS | 09/23/2002

Airporter charges extra fee for oversized luggage

The Airporter shuttle has begun charging students as much as $24 ? the price of an extra ticket ? for bringing large suitcases aboard.Alan Glickman, the shuttle's CEO said the penalty, instituted in August, is necessary to keep students from filling the bus with luggage and displacing other passengers.Students returning from summer vacation with books, clothing and bedding said the policy takes advantage of their situation and complain that the penalty has been haphazardly enforced."The Airporter policies are progressively getting worse," Jane Shen '04 said.

NEWS | 09/23/2002

Bush lauds Forrester in Trenton, aiming to regain Senate majority

TRENTON ? President Bush brought national attention to the New Jersey Senate race yesterday, stopping in Trenton to speak at a fundraiser for Republican candidate Doug Forrester.His visit began at Trenton-Mercer Airport, where the University's College Republicans joined an enthusiastic mass of flag-waving school children, national guardsmen and war veterans in greeting him as he descended Air Force One.Bush's visit, however, was more than just a patriotic rally.

NEWS | 09/23/2002

Students attend U.N. summit on sustainable development

Just before the start of the academic year, two University students, Kelsey Jack '03 and Dana Graef '05, attended the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.The two primary goals of the summit were to improve the quality of life of people in poverty worldwide and to stop the destruction of the environment, according to the summit website.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

Changing current: Klawe adds eclectic style as first female engineering dean

"Meet the Dean." When the University of British Columbia extended that invitation to students last fall, Maria Klawe, UBC's former dean of science, unleashed quite a surprise on first-year students.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

Fields Center honors namesake with commemorative ceremony

Members from the all areas of the University community joined together Friday for the dedication of the Carl A.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

University considers creation of new AAS institute for research

Students and faculty may soon be able to take advantage of a University research center for African-American studies.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

First BSU meeting of year focuses on reparations

This past Saturday night, the Black Student Union held its first event of the year with a discussion on reparations for slavery that attracted about 50 students.The issue will be discussed at length on campus this year, leading up to a planned reparations conference this spring organized by the Princeton Justice Project.Early in the discussion, one of the group leaders asked those present to indicate by a show of hands whether they favored reparations for slavery.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

Trustees detail new four-year college system

The University moved a step closer this weekend to opening four-year residential colleges and began a discussion on how best to implement the new system that will take place this fall.A 21-member planning committee presented the board of trustees with recommendations for advising and staffing, programming, housing and dining in the new four-year colleges.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

Stanford professor appointed director of genomics institute

Renowned geneticist David Botstein was announced yesterday afternoon as the new director of the University's new genomics institute.Botstein will replace molecular biology professor James Broach, who has been the institute's interim director since the first director Shirley Tilghman became University president.Botstein, a genetics professor at Stanford University, will start July 1.

NEWS | 09/22/2002

Borough group maps development plans

Like the University, Princeton Borough is in a phase of development. Working to produce a cohesive vision for the Borough, the citizen-led group Princeton Future unveiled the results of a two-year community planning study Wednesday.The group's master plan will be turned over to the Princeton Regional Planning Board as a recommendation.The Borough is already occupied with several downtown development projects: renovations of the library ? which are underway ? creation of a parking garage and civic plaza complex and plans for townhouses on Paul Robeson Place.Focusing on a long-term plan, Princeton Future has held dozens of local meetings to gain input from different neighborhoods, said co-chair Robert Geddes, former dean of the University's school of architecture.The local meetings encouraged citizens to express "what they like about Princeton and what might change it for the better," said Yina Moore '79, Princeton Future neighborhood task force chair.After revising and compiling the data during the last year, the group presented its findings at a town hall meeting Wednesday.

NEWS | 09/19/2002

Performers celebrate music, spirituality at first Festival of Faiths

Last night, roughly 100 people came to experience the Festival of Faiths musical performance on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 09/19/2002

A place where everybody knows your name . . . or likes hooters

Hooterrific!It seems slightly out of place, standing unabashedly on the border between the buttoned-down civility of Princeton and the frayed blue collar nature of Lawrenceville.

NEWS | 09/19/2002

Marks GS '86 takes over as chief editor of Alumni Weekly

Marilyn Marks GS '86, former University spokeswoman, takes over today as the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly ? under a curtain of speculation that the University is exerting influence over the century-old magazine.Marks, who is the fourth editor in four years and second since the magazine became substantially subsidized by the University, takes the helm from Jane Chapman Martin '89, who has led the editorial staff since February 2000.Marks and Chapman Martin are similar in many ways.

NEWS | 09/19/2002

Ice cream shop owner plans to say 'Halo' to Witherspoon Street

Jerry Reilly knows ice cream.The owner of Halo Pub on Hulfish Street, Reilly has been in the business for 28 years.

NEWS | 09/19/2002

Students give Brother Stephen chicken wings to go at TCNJ

Maybe Brother Stephen didn't read the Book of Matthew on Monday, but if he did it might have had new meaning to him.Consider Matthew 23:37, selectively edited of course:"Thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee . . . with chickens . . . wings."Stephen White, a fundamentalist Christian preacher better known as Brother Stephen, was bombarded Monday with a hail of mulch, sod, syrup and even chicken wings when he preached at the College of New Jersey, according to various reports.White, who spreads his controversial version of Christianity on college campuses in the Philadelphia area, is infamous at the University for taunting students with his sincere conviction that most Princeton students are going to spend eternity rotting in hell.White was up to his old routine Monday at the College of New Jersey in nearby Ewing, reading from a Bible and calling students fornicators.But in addition to being verbally confronted by offended and argumentative students, White was assaulted with fried poultry."Kids were screaming, 'There's nothing to see here.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

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