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Newark mayoral race headlines N.J. politics as Republican primary nears

The Daily Princetonian

Newark mayoral race headlines N.J. politics as Republican primary nears

Sharpe James emerged victorious yesterday from a hotly contested race against politician newcomer Cory Booker to win an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of Newark.Booker, a member of the Newark City Council, vowed to run for mayor again in four years.With 99 percent of precincts reporting, James had 28,363 votes, or 53 percent, and Booker had 24,869 votes, or 46 percent.Though the media has focused on the contested Newark race, New Jersey politicians are also preparing for statewide elections.

NEWS | 05/14/2002

FRS 146 explores solutions to AIDS epidemic in South Africa

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FRS 146 explores solutions to AIDS epidemic in South Africa

During the first meeting of our freshman seminar, Dr. Jem Spectar told us why he was there in that classroom teaching us about the "International Politics of AIDS in Africa."Spectar has dedicated his life to stopping the spread of AIDS in Africa, but not by lobbying politicians on Capitol Hill or providing people with anti-retroviral drugs from an African clinic.His less conventional, more thoughtful approach, is integral to spawning the world-wide realization that solving the AIDS epidemic is a global obligation.

NEWS | 05/14/2002
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University to offer financial aid forms, application sections online

The Daily Princetonian

University to offer financial aid forms, application sections online

Internet technologies are playing a growing role in University functions, and future applicants may soon be able to submit some forms online.Part of the college application, financial aid forms and student billing information are all planned to be transformed into web services, said Tim Hogan, OIT information specialist.As web services, these forms could be filled out and sent in electronically over the Internet, without the use of paper forms.

NEWS | 05/12/2002

Arson suspected in recent dumpster fires

The Daily Princetonian

Arson suspected in recent dumpster fires

A wave of dumpster fires seemingly caused by arson has struck campus during the past two months, including three incidents in the last five days, said Barry Weiser, Public Safety crime prevention specialist.The fires have occurred most frequently around Spelman Hall and the "junior slums" dormitories."At this time, there is what is perceived to be a problem with dumpster fires," University Fire Marshall Bob Gregory said.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

Bush taps Bernanke for Federal Reserve

The Daily Princetonian

Bush taps Bernanke for Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke, chair of the University's economics department, will today move one step closer to the desk of Alan Greenspan.The White House is expected to announce officially today that Bernanke has been nominated for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, senior White House officials said yesterday.President Bush has decided to nominate Bernanke to one of two vacant positions on the seven-member board.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Professors make annual trip to study Galapagos finches' beaks

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Professors make annual trip to study Galapagos finches' beaks

Peter and Rosemary Grant would fare well on "Survivor."Living alone on a small, uninhabited island, communicating with the mainland only by radio and relying on a national park service's monthly delivery of drinking water have become second nature for this husband-and-wife research team.Since 1973, the University ecology and evolutionary biology professors have made a yearly trip to Daphne Major in the Galapagos Islands, staying anywhere from six weeks to six months each time.Part of the archipelago originally made famous by Charles Darwin, Daphne Major provided the Grants an ideal location for tracking evolutionary patterns in native animal populations.With the help of the Darwin Research Station and the Galapagos National Parks authority, they gathered data with relatively few obstacles or interruptions.Their resulting study, recently published in the journal Science, is "one of the true classics of evolutionary biology," John Burke, an Indiana University professor, said in the article.Over three decades, the Grants focused their study on two indigenous species, the cactus finch and the ground finch."They were already famous in evolutionary biology before we started our work, and they seemed to us the most suitable group of birds for our ecological and evolutionary studies," Peter Grant said in an e-mail from Switzerland.They found that the average beak size of the ground finch changed slightly according to food availability.In 1977, a major drought hit the island, and many small-seeded plants were killed.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Fourteen years of darts on Wall Street lead Malkiel to reassert stock theory

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Fourteen years of darts on Wall Street lead Malkiel to reassert stock theory

Journalists are not monkeys, but they are pretty close. For the last 14 years, Wall Street Journal reporters have thrown darts at NASDAQ stock listings, choosing stocks to compete against the picks of professional investors.The test is an extension of University economics professor Burton Malkiel GS '64's book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street."The book states, "A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by the experts."The Journal accorded Malkiel the honor of throwing the first dart and, 142 contests later, the experiment concluded last month.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Student conservative groups decry liberalism, political apathy on campus

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Student conservative groups decry liberalism, political apathy on campus

Though the University's long history gives it an air of traditionalism that contributes to the school's somewhat conservative reputation, conservative groups on campus disagree with the notion that Princeton is a conservative school.Peter Hegseth '03, publisher of the Princeton Tory, a conservative newsmagazine that prints several times each semester, said compared to the opinions of the average American, the views of University students are very liberal."Compared to a Harvard or a Brown, we have a conservative student body," he said, adding, however, that the leftist movements at those schools have become "very radicalized."Allison Ball '04, president of the College Republicans, agreed."Obviously a lot of the student body is liberal, and obviously a lot of the student body is apathetic about politics," she said, noting that the College Republicans have between 25 and 30 active members with an e-mail list of several hundred names.Another group, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, which was founded in response to the attacks of Sept.

NEWS | 05/05/2002

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