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Three professors honored by National Academy of Engineering

Three professors honored by National Academy of Engineering

Three members of the University's engineering faculty, C.K. Law, Bede Liu and Brian Kernighan, were elected to the National Academy of Engineers, one of the highest honors in the engineering community, the academy recently announced.Law, Kernighan and Liu now join the ranks of 11 other University faculty members elected to the organization."The election of these three outstanding professors highlights the distinction of our engineering faculty at Princeton," Dean of the Engineering School James Wei said."Since our engineering school is relatively small, we think it quite an achievement if just one of our faculty is elected in a particular year," he explained."To have three members of the faculty elected into this elite body in one year is unprecedented."Wei also highlighted some of the accomplishments of the recipients.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

OIT seeks solution to e-mail disruptions

Students, faculty and administrators attempting to check their e-mail in the past few weeks may have noticed problems logging onto the University's web-server.The problems, which have been occurring sporadically for several months, have increased drastically during the last ten days ? enough so that many students have intermittently lost access.Dan Oberst, director of the Office of Information Technology Enterprise Services, said peak usage, the times when problems are most frequent, occurs around 11 a.m., as faculty and students log on for the first time during the day, as well as following lunch.The problem may lie partly in the volume of mail during peak hours, he said.Currently, the University uses a SUN e-mail server, and OIT is working to install a second server.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Public library turns new page as demolition begins

Frequent visitors to the Princeton Public Library will find the building demolished this week, as planners prepare for its reconstruction.Though a short walk from the University campus, until now the facility played only a small role in most University students' lives, except for the few hundred cardholders who discovered some of the library's offerings.Now that the library has been temporarily moved to Princeton Shopping Center until its reopening in December 2003, University students are feeling the loss."I'd go there to study, because I knew that no one else [from the University] would be there," Diana Rosenblum '05 said.While most students hit the books at Firestone Library, local coffee shops or Frist Campus Center to escape the claustrophobia of their rooms, students like Rosenblum found the public library conducive to working because of its distance from University life.University students account for more than 500 of the library's cardholders, library director Leslie Burger said."The number of Princeton student cards holders has bumped up from last year because of the relaxed borrowing rules," she said.After the University donated half a million dollars to the public library fund, non-resident card fees were dropped for University students.Though 500 student cards pale in comparison to the total 21,000 that the library has issued, those University students and faculty who had visited the library at the corner of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets frequently used by the facility.Caroline James '05 said she often used the library for services not offered at some University libraries.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Economic slowdown affects students' career choices

Most people have heard the story of Chicken Little. In the story, she overreacts to an acorn falling on her head and predicts the sky is falling.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Panel to lead discussion on homophobia at 'Street'

In an effort to initiate discussion about the social climate of the 'Street,' the LGBT, Pride Alliance, OWL, SHARE, the Women's Center and the USG will sponsor a forum tonight on homophobia in the eating clubs.A forum on this issue has never been attempted before, but the event organizers hope that this discussion will force club members and officers to reevaluate the social environment and behavior at the eating clubs.The organizers hope the panel will provide a forum for a problem otherwise not discussed."I see this program as an opportunity to talk about something that is not talked about on this campus," LGBT adviser Debra Bazarsky said.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Police report initiations' safety

Borough Police Chief Charles Davall said he was pleased with the results of this year's Bicker pick-up and initiations weekend at last night's Borough Council meeting.During the discussion of the monthly police report, Davall said the annual festivity of nearly two weeks ago was "much better than in years past."Davall said the department had placed "a lot of officers out there in anticipation of problems." He said only one student was charged with an ordinance violation during the weekend and added that no students were taken to Princeton Medical Center by the Borough Police."The results were very good, very promising," he said.Davall said he had warned at least one eating club president there would be a significant police presence on Prospect Avenue for the weekend.He acknowledged the eating club presidents' role in the improvement during the past years."They really took the issue seriously," he said.Davall added that he planned to meet with the incoming presidents of all the eating clubs in the coming month to discuss alcohol-related issues.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Economics chair a possible successor to Fed chief Greenspan

The "green" in Greenspan may some day be on the desk of Ben Bernanke, chair of the University's economics department.

NEWS | 02/19/2002

Investigators explore new anthrax suspect

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg is the proponent of a new conspiracy theory. Rosenberg, a molecular biologist leading an independent investigation into last fall's anthrax attacks on behalf of the Federation of American Scientists, said in a speech yesterday that many U.S.

NEWS | 02/18/2002

Former University professor accused of inappropriate relations with student

Rockefeller University experienced its own bit of presidential scandal when its president, former Princeton University professor Arnold Levine, was accused of acting inappropriately with a female graduate student, the New York Times reported last week.Levine, a married man, resigned last week after admitting the incident ? which occurred last month ? to Rockefeller's trustees, according to the Times.Before becoming Rockefeller's president in 1998, Levine was the chair of Princeton's molecular biology department, which he founded in 1984.University professor of molecular biology and associate director of Lewis-Thomas Laboratories James Broach, Levine's friend and colleague since their working days together at SUNY Stony Brook twenty years ago, said Levine was the key person in the formation of the molecular biology department.

NEWS | 02/18/2002

Princeton Concerned Citizens protest deer control program with lawsuit

The attorneys of Princeton Concerned Citizens ? a group protesting the Princeton Township deer population control program ? held a press conference to rally support for their lawsuit yesterday afternoon.PCC's lawsuit represents more than 30 plaintiffs, accusing the township of animal cruelty and negligent public safety.Carl Mayer, one of the three attorneys spearheading the lawsuit, opened the conference by reviewing the lawsuit's progress."The citizens of Princeton have achieved something important," he said, explaining that the township has conceded to cease the deer killing for two of the five years originally planned for the program's duration.Mayer added that the township also agreed to kill only 300 deer instead of the 500 originally planned."We have already saved the lives of 200 animals," he continued, "but more work needs to be done."Mayer condemned the town for operating the program "in secrecy" and said it was for that reason that the PCC retained a private investigator to look into the project.PCC is also requesting that the township administer drug and alcohol tests to the White Buffalo, Inc., employees charged with controlling the local deer population.John Ciaccio, of A-Plus Investigations, Inc., said that an employee of White Buffalo ? the company hired by the township to kill the deer ? was observed transporting a bottle of "a very rare type of alcohol" from a liquor store to the large truck he was driving and then driving to the "slaughtering facility" on River Road."This is a dangerous mix," Ciaccio said, adding he was "concerned" by the driving habits of the White Buffalo employee.

NEWS | 02/18/2002

After 50 years, Robert Cronin '00 finishes his degree

In 1938, after his family emigrated to the United States from England, Robert "Pat" Cronin and his older brother Vincent attended boarding school in the Northeast.As the two neared high school graduation, their mother asked a newly acquired lady friend which were the best universities in the country.The woman replied, "My dear May, there are only three . . ."After his graduation ? although Vincent had chosen Harvard ? Cronin made his way to Princeton.

NEWS | 02/18/2002

Campus bookstore reports two incidents of theft in past week

The U-Store has been a target of theft twice in the last week, according to recently-released police reports.

NEWS | 02/18/2002

Tiger Food adds two new restaurants to attract more customers

Attributing a decline in business to increased competition this year, Tiger Food has decided to add two new restaurants to its list to attract more customers.The student agency that delivers food from local restaurants to students' rooms announced Friday that Kalluri Corner and Sakura Express have joined the list of restaurants it services.Kalluri, an Indian restaurant on Nassau Street, and Sakura, a Japanese restaurant on Witherspoon Street, doubled Tiger Food's offerings.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

Police investigate source of hate message found in office cellar

Public Safety officials and Princeton Township Police are investigating a hate message targeting African Americans and Jews discovered Wednesday afternoon in an University office building.A University employee found the message in a cellar room in the Office of the General Counsel at 120 Alexander St., University spokeswoman Marilyn Marks said.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

From beads to business

At an early age, Sasha Linney '02 decided that she did not like to wear what everyone else was wearing.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

Whitman '77 to deliver Baccalaureate address

Meg Whitman '77, president and CEO of the eBay Internet group, was chosen and agreed to speak at the Class of 2002 Baccalaureate service this June.Considered by the London Financial Times to be "arguably Silicon Valley's most influential woman" and lauded by the Chicago Sun-Times as "the richest woman CEO in the world," Whitman has gone far since her days at Old Nassau.Whitman majored in economics as an undergraduate and has served in high-level positions at Procter and Gamble, Walt Disney and Hasbro.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

Prospects2 solicits student input for construction of residential college

The relationship between the campus and the residential colleges is on the verge of change as the University prepares for the construction of a sixth residential college.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

USG Senate opens discussion of student alcohol abuse

At last night's USG Senate meeting, the discussion focused primarily on the role of the USG in resolving student issues and in preventing alcohol abuse among students.To provide an opportunity for students to express their opinions to USG, a table should be set up during busy hours in the Frist Campus Center, said Olivier Kamanda '03, systems manager and special projects coordinator.A debate about how the USG should combat binge drinking on campus ensued after the senate heard a report that listed statistics showing that athletic team captains and fraternity members are most likely to drink irresponsibly."The only way to change binge drinking is to make sure the students who other students look up to do not binge drink," U-Council Chair David Gail '03 said.He suggested that these "de facto" student leaders should be brought together to discuss the issue.USG President Nina Langsam '03 ended the meeting by asking USG senators to speak to at least 10 of their classmates about campus issues and bring their ideas.

NEWS | 02/17/2002

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