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Students returning to shaken cities confront reality of terrorist attacks

Students returning to shaken cities confront reality of terrorist attacks

Vanessa Rodriguez '03 sat restlessly in her SUV waiting out the traffic to New York. It was not until she looked to her left to see the smoking southern tip of Manhattan that she fully grasped the transformation through which her home city had gone on Sept.

NEWS | 10/24/2001

Spergel awarded MacArthur Fellowship for astrophysics work

Since 1987, astrophysics professor and associate chair of the astrophysics department David Spergel has investigated elusive scientific phenomena, such as dark matter and the origins of the universe.

NEWS | 10/24/2001

Frist powder to be tested by Monday

It will be at least two more days before the University finds out whether a suspicious powder found on a keyboard in the Frist Campus Center Monday night contained anthrax.Meanwhile, some members of the University community and health professionals are questioning the University's response to the incident.Lauren Robinson-Brown, the University's director of communications, explained that the suspicious powder is now waiting to be tested for the presence of anthrax at a state facility.

NEWS | 10/24/2001

Promoting well-being through acupuncture

I wasn't afraid of the needles.That was what I told Charlotte, and it was the truth. Charlotte was a robust, beautiful blonde nun with blue eyeshadow and a southern drawl; she was a beacon of contented serenity.She was also a licensed acupuncturist, and on the day in question, she was about to pierce my tender flesh with half a dozen sharp needles.

NEWS | 10/24/2001

The uphill battle of campus handicap accessibility

It may seem that a door handle isn't a big deal. But David Podrasky '05 knows differently.Just like the rest of his freshman classmates, Podrasky tackles the challenges of navigating around a campus setting.

NEWS | 10/23/2001

Freshmen elect class president

The Class of 2005 leadership is now in place. Results in the runoff election were announced to the freshman class via e-mail yesterday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/23/2001

Professor discusses dangers of anthrax, difficulties of production

The recent national and local anthrax scares ? including the incidents of multiple letters containing anthrax postmarked in West Trenton and Monday night's scare at the Frist Campus Center ? have brought to light the ease with which the substance can be produced and used as an agent of bio-terrorism.It has also prompted a flurry of citizens and University students to seek more information about its effects.University molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler, a specialist in pathogens, said that producing small, or even large, quantities of anthrax is not very difficult."A person with some microbiology skills could grow it in a flask," Bassler said.

NEWS | 10/23/2001

Unexpected effects of new technology

Ed Tenner '65 majored in history and even went on to get his Ph.D in European history at the University of Chicago.

NEWS | 10/23/2001

Fewer schools to participate in Model Congress

When the Princeton Model Congress holds its annual conference this fall in Washington, D.C., fewer high school delegations will attend than usual.Five or six schools ? representing about 10 percent of the attending student population ? have withdrawn from the program following the events of Sept.

NEWS | 10/23/2001

University creates task force to handle health emergencies

The University Environmental Safety and Risk Management Committee recently created the Emergency Preparedness Task Force to review and update the University's policy of responding to emergencies on campus.According to director of environmental health and safety Garth Walters, one of seven staff members on EPTF, the task force was created to ensure the University is ready to handle emergencies that might surface."The world has changed since Sept.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

New wave of support spurs debate of Harvard ROTC

More than 30 years ago, at the height of the Vietnam War, Harvard University sent its Reserve Officer Training Corps program into exile.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

Officials strengthen sophomore class choices

During senior year, it's the thesis. During junior year, it's junior independent work. During freshman year, it's the freshman and writing seminars.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

Why did we fight . . .

In what remains a timely piece today, Whitney Seymour '45 wrote a column on the morality of war in his booklet 'Carpe Diem.' The following is the entirety of his essay.When most of us went off to war we were very young ? 20 or 21 years old on average.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

'Capre Diem': Remembering Princetonians who fought for freedom

September 11 may be a date that will be remembered by many after this year's events, but Dec. 7 was the original day of infamy in American history.On that faithful date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, precipitating the deaths of thousands at the U.S.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

Frist 100-level closed after suspicious substance discovered near computer

Parts of the Frist Campus Center were closed and evacuated last night due to an anthrax scare after a male University graduate student spotted a suspicious white substance on the 100-level of the building.At 9:00 p.m.

NEWS | 10/22/2001

National Review editor speaks in Whig Hall on two lines

Ramesh Ponnuru '95, a senior editor at National Review magazine, spoke last night in the Senate Chamber of Whig Hall about "Politics in Wartime."The talk was part of a speakers program organized by the University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society.In his speech, Ponnuru focused on how American politics has been affected both domestically and internationally by the Sept.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

Hamilton complex scrutinized by FBI after discovery of third anthrax letter

A third letter containing anthrax was postmarked in Trenton and processed in the Hamilton Township mail facility that handled the letters sent to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and Sen.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

Questioning American high schools: Are they adequately preparing students for college?

Each September, the incoming class gathers in Richardson Auditorium to be welcomed by University officials.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

Detwiler, Harbour in freshman runoff

Four of the five races for freshman class office will go into runoff elections as all but one candidate, who ran unopposed for secretary, failed to win a majority of the vote.A two-day runoff election to determine the president, vice president, treasurer and social chair began early Sunday and will end tonight at 11:59 p.m.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

Respected professor David Lewis taught philosophy with passion

Throughout his lifetime, University philosophy professor David Lewis incorporated his love of the discipline into every aspect of his existence.As a 16-year-old undergraduate at Swarthmore College in the 1950s, and later as a graduate student at Harvard University, Lewis began to explore such philosophical "hot topics" as causation, metaphysics, the philosophy of language and the idea of possible worlds.Lewis, 60, died last Sunday from complications from diabetes. While traveling on trains in various parts of the globe ? one of his favorite hobbies ? Lewis's mind would inevitably turn to philosophy, as the scenery raced by him.Even during the last year of his life, when illness caused him stay in the hospital, Lewis pondered philosophical concepts as he lay in bed.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

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