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Fire on 'Dinky' line delays evening travel

Fire on 'Dinky' line delays evening travel

At approximately 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night a small fire broke out on the Princeton Shuttle Line ? on which the "Dinky" operates ? a representative from the Princeton Fire Department said."[The fire] occurred on the older, extra-wide section of the bridge crossing Lake Carnegie and involved about 10 railroad ties," said Pat McAvenia, the Princeton Fire Department Deputy Chief.Officials emphasized that the tracks themselves were not damaged.The West Windsor Fire Department first received a dispatch regarding the fire at 8:35 p.m.

NEWS | 02/21/2002

Trustees to focus on Whitman college, administrative turnover

The University Board of Trustees' executive committee will meet today to discuss the search for new administrators and the planning of Whitman College, the sixth residential college.No final decision on these issues will be made until the full board of trustees meets later this spring."The meeting will be mostly housekeeping," said University Vice President and Secretary Tom Wright '62."It would be an opportunity for the members of the executive committee to ask questions of the president and the provost," he said.Today the executive committee will hear the progress made by the search committees which have been working to find new deans for the Wilson School, the School of Engineering, the Graduate School and the School of Architecture.The board commissioned an architect to explore the feasibility of the planned construction of Whitman College, taking into consideration the 500-student increase in the student body.The committee will discuss the progress of the study, but the results will not be released until later this spring, Wright said.The college, which was planned to accommodate the increase in student enrollment called for by the Wythes report, is named for Meg Whitman '77, the CEO of eBay Inc.Whitman, who is also a University trustee, recently announced a $30 million gift to support construction of the new college.With the opening of Whitman College, there will be a total of six residential colleges in operation.

NEWS | 02/21/2002

Growing up Princeton

Like so many Princeton students, Anne Braveman '03 has a class banner on her wall. A closer look, however, shows that it is no average banner.

NEWS | 02/21/2002

Perfecting the art of ordering a 'Wawich'

'Wa runs have officially entered the 21st century. Following a decision that will drastically improve the lives of hungry night owls, Wawa markets across five states are implementing machines that take sandwich orders, minimizing customer-employee interaction.

NEWS | 02/21/2002

Numbers reveal unbalanced male to female ratio of elected club officers

The University president: female. The University provost: female. The USG president: also female.In recent elections, however, the eating clubs have chosen an overwhelming majority of males for their undergraduate officer boards.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

Inside West College: Deputy Registrar Robert Bromfield

If Robert Bromfield achieves his goals as deputy registrar, you may never meet him, due to his busy schedule.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

FBI dismisses Rosenberg's allegations of anthrax conspiracy

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist currently investigating last autumn's anthrax attacks, drew national attention with her speech, which she delivered at the Wilson School on Monday.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

Checkmate: Chess team places first in tournament

Imagine writing a final exam, an exam that stretches on for six hours, with someone sitting across the table the entire time, watching every move and just waiting for a mistake.This is a good approximation of eight University students' experience at the U.S.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

WWS program sees continued interest

The Wilson School received 158 applications for its undergraduate concentration program this year, representing a slight increase from last year's number.This year's application deadline ? Monday at 5 p.m.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

Eisgruber '83 contends U.S. government must respect rights of accused terrorists

University professor Christopher Eisgruber '83, director of the Wilson School's Program in Law and Public Affairs, gave a lecture yesterday on the rights of accused terrorists before a capacity crowd in Bowl One of Robertson Hall.In the lecture, titled "What Rights do Terrorists Have?" he evaluated the Bush administration's position on the legal status of accused terrorists.A well-known constitutional theorist, Eisgruber examined the legality of the Executive Order issued by Bush last November mandating that accused terrorists could be tried before military tribunals instead of civilian courts."Although terrorists are undoubtedly horrible people who commit horrible acts," said Eisgruber, "[constitutional rights] are not normally reserved for nice people."Though the Bush administration has argued that terrorists simply do not "deserve all the legal niceties available to ordinary citizens," Eisgruber said the courts have typically upheld the constitutional rights of non-citizens.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

The horse race, the handover and my evolution as a Hong Konger

My parents and I came to Hong Kong as immigrants from Mainland China when I was two years old. Like most other immigrants, my parents hoped to make a good living in this capitalistic, British-ruled colony, since the rest of China was under communist rule.Not surprisingly, I grew up feeling different from my peers.

NEWS | 02/20/2002

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

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