Actor Danny Glover - most famous for his role in the Lethal Weapon movie series - spoke against the death penalty in a packed McCosh 50 last night.Glover said in many cases innocent men are sentenced to death.
Borough Police issued a warning yesterday afternoon to members of a Philadelphia-area church involved in what police are calling an anti-abortion demonstration at the University.The demonstration, in part an anti-abortion protest, took place on the west side of Washington Road at McCosh Walk for about five hours before police intervened."There were five or six people holding up different posters," said by-stander Archer Batchellor '05.
Princeton Borough Council is considering the implementation of a phone alert system that will spread information quickly among local residents in the event of an emergency.The system would be used in situations where important news or instructions must be disseminated to residents in a short period of time."In terms of getting information out to people, it's a great tool," said Princeton Borough Police Chief Charles Davall, who is directing emergency management planning in the Borough.
The state of entrepreneurship in the 21st century, from globalization to the dominance of intellectual capital, will be the topic of discussion tonight at 7 p.m.
Taliban forces withdrew from the Afghan capital of Kabul in the past two days under intense military pressure from the Northern Alliance, which the United States has supported through air bombings and special ground forces.The Taliban reportedly rushed south to the stronghold city of Kandahar, and yesterday reports said the Taliban was also considering leaving that city to fight a guerrilla war on the southern outskirts of Afghanistan.
As discoveries of anthrax spores shut down post offices and slowed mail delivery throughout the nation, admissions offices at many universities, including at Princeton, have decided to be flexible with their deadlines.
As part of the investigation into the recent anthrax mailings ? a national search that has focused on the greater Trenton area ? officials from the FBI have questioned molecular biologists at Princeton.A spokeswoman for the FBI explained that agents have been visiting many laboratories in the Trenton area as part of their investigation.In Princeton itself, both BASF Agro-Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb operate research facilities.
The University will withdraw next month from the Alliance for Life-Long Learning ? of which it is a founding member ? to pursue an independent long-distance education venture.
This past summer, sociology professor and Wilson College master Miguel Centeno helped establish the Princeton University Preparatory Program, a mentoring program linking area high school students to University community members.
Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea.
Nearly one year after Election Day 2000 and two months after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, President Bush is experiencing the longest successive rally around a president since presidential approval rating polling was first conducted."Now for the seventh successive week he has been between 86 and 90 percent," politics professor Fred Greenstein said as he opened his "consumer reports" analysis of the Bush presidency in Dodds auditorium yesterday afternoon."This is a man, the 43rd President, about whom grave reservations have been or were raised before September 11," Greenstein said.
A recently published study that sought to more accurately pinpoint size, location and number of asteroids asserts there is a decreased probability of an asteroid colliding catastrophically with Earth in the next 100 years.Using data provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ? of which the University is a member ? researchers have found that there are approximately 700,000 asteroids large enough to destroy Earth, as compared with a previous estimate of two million.
In light of the events of Sept. 11, psychology department chair Joan Girgus and researcher Gilda Paul have decided to conduct a study analyzing "how college students are feeling in the wake of the tragedies."On Nov.
The inauguration of a new University president has traditionally signaled an administrative transition period campus-wide.
With the computer's increasing importance in today's workplace, technology institutes such as DeVry are attracting more students than ever.This trend is no surprise.
Frank Gehry will soon be joining the ranks of I. M. Pei and Robert Venturi '47 GS '50 in the list of famous architects who have designed buildings on campus, thanks to a $60 million gift from Peter Lewis '55.Lewis' donation will fund the construction of a new science library, which will be designed by Gehry.
University officials announced yesterday that a suspicious letter found in Robertson Hall did not contain anthrax.
University professors Peter Brown and Alexander Nehamas were among the first five recipients of the Andrew Mellon Foundation's new Distinguished Achievement Awards for scholars in the humanities.The Distinguished Achievement Awards provide up to as much as $1.5 million over three years for deep and extensive research in the humanities by the recipient, and more broadly, their institution and field of specialty."The awards are intended for those who have made major contributions to their own disciplines, whose influence may well have extended more broadly to other fields and whose current work promises to make significant new advances through both teaching and research," according to the foundation's website.The University will administer the funds, which go toward paying for salaries, research expenditures and support for researchers collaborating with the recipients.Brown, the Philip and Beu-lah Rollins Pro-fessor of History, said he was "absolutely stunned" upon learning he had won the fellowship.
When Eric Weisbard '88 arrived at Princeton in 1983, he was interested in Russian and perceived himself to be a Wilson School major.That all changed when, a couple of weeks into school, his friend handed him a tape with "The Velvet Underground" on one side and Lou Reed on the other."It was the idea that there was music this good," Weisbard recal-led about the epiphany that changed the direction of his life.As a freshman, he lived in Holder Hall just above the basement studios of WPRB, Princeton's radio station.
The alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, does not consider the fight against America to be an end, but instead a tactic ? a means of achieving a larger goal ? according to professor Michael Doran of the Department of Near Eastern Studies.Doran, who spoke yesterday to a capacity audience in McCosh 28, articulated that bin Laden's real goal is to spread his radical vision of Islam to Muslims around the world."He believes that the existing order in the Middle East is corrupt and run by apostates," Doran said.
