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First BSU meeting of year focuses on reparations

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

Summer construction, new stores to change face of downtown shopping

Students who have ventured outside the University's FitzRandolph Gate into Palmer Square since returning to campus might have noticed the arrivals and departures of several shops.Most notably, J.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

University students see change in forms of spammers' e-mails

Adie Ellis '04 gets about 30 spam e-mails per day.Late last spring she replied to a piece of junk mail asking to be removed from the list.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Finance program sees record enrollment

One hundred twenty-eight seniors are enrolled in the finance program this year, more than the number of seniors enrolled in the University's most popular major.But an even greater number want to be in the program, said Swati Bhatt, finance program representative.Many students decide they want to earn the certificate too late in their Princeton careers, and the complex array of prerequisites for entry into the program necessitates early and careful planning, she said.In response, the program has adopted more aggressive tactics to recruit students."We want to make students aware as early as possible" about the program and the related requirements, she said.Recently, Bhatt took the unusual step of forwarding an e-mail to the entire undergraduate class about a finance program information session.Before junior year, a certificate candidate is expected to have taken ECO 200: Statistics and Data Analysis for Economics, ECO 305: Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical approach and MAT 200: Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus for Economists.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Mystery stone structures to serve as models for sixth residential college

There is so much construction going on around campus that students tend to ignore the sight of cranes, trucks and cinderblocks.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Movie tickets offered for completion of alcohol education course

The University has acquired another weapon in the crusade against underage drinking ? an online course about the dangers of alcohol consumption.AlcoholEdu, developed at the University of Illinois in 1998, is a website that consists of video clips, questions and interactive case studies.The site was first promoted earlier this month in an e-mail to freshmen and sophomores from Daniel Silverman, director of health services."The trustees of the University are very interested in this program," said Lauren Robinson-Brown '85, director of communications.The promotion of AlcoholEdu is part of the University's multilateral campaign against underage drinking.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Troubadour Magazine awarded prize for online achievement

Troubadour Magazine, a literary travel journal founded last year by Jon Harris '02 and Dan Hafetz '02 was recently named a winner of the 2001 Mark of Excellence competition by The Society of Professional Journalists.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Would a war with Iraq be ethically justified?

'Roundtable Ethics' features University professors answering ethical and moral questions solicited from the community.

NEWS | 09/18/2002

Paw Points expand shopping options, students skeptical

Your Princeton ID card can now do more than just get you into your dorm. The University recently announced a new program called Paw Points, which allows students to use their ID cards for student agency services, photocopies in the libraries and purchases at the U-Store and participating off-campus merchants.Paw Points is a pre-paid, declining balance account tied to the ID card, said Stu Orefice, head of dining services.

NEWS | 09/17/2002

Third case of West Nile virus confirmed in Mercer County

The N.J. Department of Health reported Friday that a third case of West Nile virus infection had been confirmed in the state.All three New Jersey residents who have been infected live in Mercer County, which is home to the University.During the summer, the mosquito-borne illness swept across much of the country, with nearly 1,300 cases being reported nationwide.

NEWS | 09/17/2002

U.S. demands Iraq comply with U.N. resolutions, or else

Few doubt Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's propensity to cause trouble. Last week, President Bush issued an ultimatum to Iraq to comply with U.N.

NEWS | 09/17/2002

OIT to pursue limit on video, music uploads

You can take, but you should not give.That is the message students got this week about sharing music and video files online.In an e-mail Monday, OIT warned students against letting file-sharing programs on their computers upload more than one file at a time, though it never said students should not download files.The message said students who do not comply would be put on a slower part of the network because uploading takes up too much bandwidth.It did not cite security or copyright concerns as reasons for the new policy.

NEWS | 09/17/2002

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