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Campus EarthWeek activities raise environmental awareness

Campus EarthWeek activities raise environmental awareness

Although today is officially Earth Day, campus organizations began activities and events to increase student awareness of environmental issues more than a week ago with the University celebration of EarthWeek.EarthWeek began last weekend with a conference called "Approaches to Environment-alism," co-sponsored by Princeton Environmental Action and the Princeton Conservation Society, which held several lectures and discussions about the environment and conservationism."We have more events, and a greater variety of events, than we have in years past," said S.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

Student arrested for stealing injured person's golf cart

A University student was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing a golf cart issued to an injured student, according to a Princeton Borough Police Department press release.Marcus Ford-Bey '04 was caught driving a Textron E-Z-GO electric-powered golf cart at 2 a.m.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

USG Spring comedy show elicits varying reactions among students

More than 1,000 people crowded into Dillon Gym on Thursday for a comedy show sponsored by the USG.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

IAS among investors stuck in muddled Enron partnership

Many institutions and individual investors did not expect their investments in the once-stable energy company Enron to disappear.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

West caps mass exodus of Harvard professors out of Cambridge

Cornel West. K. Anthony Appiah. Carol Gilligan. Jeffrey Sachs.All are defecting to other institutions in what appears to be a mass departure by Harvard's star professors.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Economics professor Bernanke meets Bush for possible appointment to Fed

Economics department chair and professor Ben Bernanke met Wednesday with President Bush at the White House, Bernake confirmed yesterday.The meeting indicates that he is a top candidate for one of the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.Reuters has reported Bernanke and Federal Reserve staffer Donald Kohn are the front-runners for the positions.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Allen GS '88 named new architecture dean

Stan Allen GS '88, a practicing architect and faculty member at Columbia University, has been selected as the new dean of the architecture school, the University announced yesterday.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Going to the top

University students demonstrate in front of Nassau Hall yesterday. The protest, calling for divestment, began in front of the Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

When help is not enough, students fail to look within

In September 1987, Laurence Myers '89 slit his wrists and stabbed himself in the abdomen and chest.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Families seek answers to Flight 93 crash, encounter media scrum

Some sought answers, some sought closure, some sought a story.About 70 relatives of those aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed Sept.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Families of victims to hear 9/11 flight tapes

In a reversal of its original position, the FBI will allow families of the Flight 93 victims to listen to the salvaged cockpit voice recording in a Princeton hotel today.The flight crashed in Shanksville, Pa.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

USG candidate forum draws 21 students for U-Council seats

Issues ranging from precept reform to the accessibility of career services were raised at last night's USG candidates' forum.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Ultimate gamble: Riding horses competitively is like rolling dice

My life in the world of competitive horseback riding ? English hunters, jumpers and equitation ? up to my 18th year had been a lot like a lottery.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Mohr and Morgan ready to 'take off the roof' at show tonight in Dillon

In anticipation of tonight's comedy show, the 'Prince' caught up with Tracy Morgan and Jay Mohr.Mohr called on his cell phone in the middle of walking his dog, Shirley, on the sands of California's Seal Beach where he and his wife, model and actress Nicole Chamberlain, rent a home they call their "decompression chamber."The day before, Morgan's agent patched him through on a conference call from New York City.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Despite rumors, new writing program to continue next year

Freshman writing seminars will continue in full force next year, said writing program director Kerry Walk, despite rumors that have circulated among the freshman and sophomore classes.Student reactions to the new seminars have been mixed.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Four Republicans file to run against Torricelli for Senate seat

Four Republicans are competing for the chance to run against incumbent Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) in the general election.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Mirbagheri '04 brings energy to USG vice presidency

Dressed in a white, V-neck short-sleeve shirt with a beige skirt, open-toed white sandals and long black hair, USG vice president Sonya Mirbagheri '04 looks like any other college student.But when Mirbagheri went to Iran ? she is the younger of two daughters of Iranian expatriates who fled the country following the 1979 Iranian revolution ? she wore a long sleeve shirt and long pants and covered her hair with a head scarf, hiding all except her face in conformance with the dress code required of women.Calling her experiences "eye-opening," Mirbagheri said it was like encountering a "different world" where people live under a fundamentalist government that imposes strict ways of life but where people "love to hear anything you have to say and share."Given her background, Mirbagheri, just accepted to the Wilson School, said she plans to focus on foreign policy in the Middle East and "somehow emphasize culture" in policy making.She is interested in international law and foreign policy and plans to "eventually" go to law school, she said.Mirbagheri was born and raised in Dallas, Tex.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

McCarter expansion project to open new performance, practice spaces

McCarter Theatre is growing up, and out, thanks to The Next Stage Campaign, a multimillion-dollar expansion project.Workers have recently begun constructing the steel frame for McCarter's addition, which will feature a new theater, rehearsal halls and classrooms that will benefit the University and community alike.Construction of the Berlind Theatre, a second performance space, is one of the plan's most noteworthy features. For student useBuilt for Princeton student group productions and outside acts, the theater is expected to accommodate 350 people.The addition will also include two rehearsal halls and several classrooms available to undergraduates in the University's theater and dance program.The final $14.1 million construction cost has almost doubled the amount originally announced.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

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