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Professor discusses dangers of anthrax, difficulties of production

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 have withdrawn from the program following the events of Sept.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

Candidates debate town-gown relations at forum

The four candidates for the Princeton Borough Council spoke to approximately 25 students in a nearly empty Frist 302 last night.

NEWS | 10/21/2001

Dean of Graduate School to step down

Dean of the Graduate School John Wilson announced that he is planning to resign from his position this June at the end of the academic year.Wilson has been dean since 1994 and has been a faculty member of the religion department since 1960.

NEWS | 10/18/2001

WROC holds rally advocating wage increases for University's lowest-paid employees

Over 200 University students, faculty and employees attended the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee rally yesterday to advocate fair wage increases for the University's lowest-paid workers.Last year, WROC was successful in lobbying the University to allocate $1.5 million to raise salaries of these workers to 101 percent of market rates, reduce outsourcing of labor to independent companies and reduce hiring of temporary workers.This year, WROC has new goals.According to Vincent Lloyd '03, an organizer of WROC, yesterday's rally was held to support a cost of living adjustment to protect worker salaries from inflation and protest the University's system of allocating raises through what WROC calls biased pay-for-performance reviews.

NEWS | 10/18/2001

Borough Council candidates discuss ideas, viability of alcohol ordinance

With the Princeton Borough Council election only weeks away, the USG will hold a forum for the four candidates to speak to students and community members Sunday night in Frist 302 at 8 p.m.USG campus and community affairs chair Nina Langsam '03 said each candidate will make a short statement.

NEWS | 10/18/2001

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