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LGBT prepares talks, Jeans Day in support of Awareness Week

The Princeton Pride Alliance, in conjunction with LGBT Student Services, is subsidizing and organizing a series of activities starting tonight for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Awareness Week to build awareness of and support for the gay, bisexual and transgender community.A number of other student organizations, including the USG and the Program in African-American Studies, are also co-sponsoring events, which will run through next Thursday.LGBT Student Service, Pride Alliance and the Frist Campus Center will be kicking off the events tonight with a speech by James Dale, the Boy Scout leader who was expelled because of his homosexuality.Other activities range from more social, bonding events, such as "First Fridays at Frist" and a BBQ Picnic on Sunday, to academic panels like Monday's discussion on African-American sexuality and Saturday's trip to New York city to return to the roots of the gay pride movement.Pride Alliance Publicity Chair Kevin Simmons '03 said, "The activities allow for different levels of involvement and center around providing a comfortable atmosphere for people to talk about homosexuality in their lives and the community."Awareness Week will be celebrated Tuesday with "Gay Jeans Day." All members of the University are invited to wear jeans to show their support and awareness of the gay community."Being gay shouldn't be anything strange or unusual.

NEWS | 10/03/2001

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Professor fights music industry

The road less traveled has been particularly long and rocky for University computer science professor Edward Felten.Since developing an innovative method of breaking the code intended to protect digital music files from being copied, Felten has been involved in a complicated legal battle with some of the record industry's most powerful forces who threatened to sue if he published his research.On Nov.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

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Campus crime swells in 2000

University Public Safety reported year 2000 crime statistics last week.With American patriotism surging in the wake of the terrorist attacks last month and University pride swelling with the installation of the academy's 19th president Shirley Tilghman, Princetonians are riding high on a wave of freedom and seem unconcerned with petty thefts and larcenies.But the increasing numbers in this year's crime report reveal it may be the campus' relative openness that allows these statistics to grow.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

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Public Safety plans to increase lockout staff with additional student workers

For several years, University Public Safety has used student workers to respond to the numerous lock-out calls it receives each day.Director of Public Safety Jerrold Witsil said that for as long as he has worked at the University ? 26 years ? his department has used student workers to help with lockouts at night.However, the use of students in this capacity might become more common this year.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

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Powering Princeton

Princeton is famous for scientific innovation, but few people know that the University runs one of the most efficient power plants in America.The plant, an unassuming structure just south of the MacMillan building on Elm Drive, was built just to power campus.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

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Borough, club officials consider solutions to binge drinking problem

If anything can be concluded from last night's American Whig-Cliosophic Society forum on a possible Borough ordinance concerning underage drinking, it is that controversy over campus drinking problems is far from dead.Representatives from the Borough government, Borough Police, eating clubs and counseling agencies all met for the first time in a formal setting to discuss the ordinance.

NEWS | 10/01/2001