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Making friends with community youth

Making friends with community youth

With classes in full swing and ever-building workloads, most Princeton students would give up even their beloved tiger stripes for the carefree days of their childhood.It may be easier than they think.For just an hour a week, the Student Volunteers Council Big Brother / Big Sister Mentoring program provides University students with an opportunity to indulge in the storybooks, soccer games, Disney movies, bowling alleys and other lost treasures of youth with community children.

NEWS | 10/08/2001

Renowned artist Richard Serra to speak the language of sculpture

World-renowned sculptor Richard Serra, described by an art expert as "one of the most important artists of the 20th century," will speak today at 5 p.m.

NEWS | 10/08/2001

GICC focuses on risk reduction in face of pressure against underage drinking

With Borough officials increasingly targeting the eating clubs in an effort to reduce underage drinking at the University, the Graduate Inter-Club Council is focusing on ways to reduce the risk of students becoming dangerously intoxicated and ways to avoid legal entanglements.The GICC ? comprising trustees from each of the 11 clubs' graduate boards ? is just another player, along with Borough Police, the Borough Council, the undergraduate ICC and the University, in the ongoing process of regulating alcohol consumption on Prospect Avenue.The GICC, which is by far the least public of those bodies, has actively discussed several risk reduction options during the past year and has even considered measures as extreme as banning freshmen from the 'Street,' according to the minutes of the May 9 GICC meeting obtained by the 'Prince.'Club officials emphasized last week that the GICC is no longer considering a freshman ban, and is now discussing other alternatives."The [GICC's] major emphasis is on the statement of principles and the wristbands," said Dr. David A.

NEWS | 10/08/2001

Fling or forever?

A recent survey of more than 1,000 college women indicates that long-term relationships and short-term "hookups" are more prevalent than traditional dating.The survey, conducted by the Institute for American Values for the Independent Women's Forum, found that 40 percent of college women had engaged in "hookups" and 10 percent had hooked up more than six times.Hooking up was defined as any sexual contact ? ranging from kissing to sexual intercourse ? in which the participants expected no further contact.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

Campus groups hold rallies to address American response to terrorist attacks

Members of the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism stood on the steps of Whig Hall on Friday quoting Thomas Paine and singing "God Bless America." On Sunday evening members of the Princeton Peace Network gathered in Firestone Plaza quoting Martin Luther King Jr.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

New OIT program monitors students' printer use

University students and faculty printed 6,667,764 pages from OIT computer clusters last year.This fall OIT Student Computing Services manager Leila Shahbender has introduced a plan to tackle the problem of wasted paper.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

High school seniors introduced to Princeton humanities

In early September, 70 high school seniors received invitations from the Undergraduate Admissions Office ? but it wasn't the usual 'Yes!' letter.The University invited these students to campus for a weekend to discuss the art, literature, music and philosophy of Weimar Republic Berlin with Princeton professors.The program, which was first held last year, is the brainchild of Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon."In reading applications over the years, I've always been struck by how much more external support and encouragement there is for students interested in math and science than there is for students interested in the humanities," Hargadon said in an e-mail.Hargadon approached Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel last spring and Malkiel in turn approached history professor Anthony Grafton and German professor Michael Jennings to explore possibilities for a weekend symposium for high school seniors."I was ecstatic but a little confused.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

Princeton-in-Cuba recruits students for spring trip

Professor Robert Whitney of the University of New Brunswick, Canada, spoke to students interested in the Princeton-in-Cuba program late Thursday afternoon in a speech titled Society and Political Culture in Cuba Today: A Historian's Perspective, sponsored by the University's Latin American studies program.This was the third of four meetings for students interested in Princeton-in-Cuba.The program aims to enrich the educational experience of fieldwork during a student's undergraduate career, said director Kenneth Mills."We are inviting students of all levels toward information and experience, deeper knowledge and complex thinking, trial and error . . . in other words, field research."And it all started in a precept three years ago.Princeton-in-Cuba, a student-inspired initiative sponsored and supervised by the Program in Latin American Studies, is composed of approximately 12 to 15 students who visit Cuba to conduct field research.Before traveling to Cuba, the students regularly engage in faculty-led seminars and further hone their research plans.While in Cuba, students pursue fieldwork, conduct in-depth interviews, consult local libraries and archives and immerse themselves in the Latin American culture."Students will have interaction with the people there," said program associate director David Figueroa-Ortiz.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

University community reacts to U.S. bombings of Afghanistan

The Frist Campus Center television area was packed yesterday afternoon as University students watched the news of the U.S.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

Borough library to undergo $12 million reconstruction

In 1965, when the Princeton Public Library first opened, a need to reduce construction costs resulted in a building with more than a quarter less interior space than architectural plans and community needs had originally dictated.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

Challenging universities' decision-making

One month after Peter Berkowitz, currently a law professor at George Mason University, submitted a dossier for tenure in the government department at Harvard University in 1996, he wrote a negative book review in the New Republic.The book ? "Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in Politics, and What Should Be Done About It," written by Dennis Thompson, a senior professor in Berkowitz's department and an associate provost at Harvard, and Princeton politics professor Amy Gutmann ? looked at the public discussion of moral principles.What originated as a critical review of the book ended up influencing the decision that denied Berkowitz tenure and ultimately to Harvard breaking its own rules for evaluating tenure, Berkowitz supporters contend. In May 2000, a little more than three years after his initial request for tenure, Berkowitz filed suit against Harvard for breach of contract.

NEWS | 10/07/2001

Students question variety of job opportunities at annual Career Fair

As seniors prepare for the world outside of Princeton, finding a job is among most students' top priorities.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

The scientist in the corner office

Shirley Tilghman walked briskly through the doors of One Nassau Hall, a few minutes late for our appointment."Would you believe I was just teaching science?" she said, a bit harried as she made her way around her secretary's desk and into the president's office.It was July 18, only weeks into Tilghman's job as the 19th president of the University, and she had just returned from lecturing at a conference for high school biology teachers.With her cropped, grayish-brown hair slightly windswept, Tilghman casually sat down across from me at a conference table, her eyes wide and focused, and explained that despite her busy schedule, she had attended the conference out of an obligation to others as well as to herself.When the announcement was made that Shirley M.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

Gays, Boy Scouts and the right thing to do

Last September, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America, as a private organization, has the right to exclude gays from adult leadership positions.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

Rev. Breidenthal named Dean of Religious Life

On Thanksgiving Day of Rev. Thomas Breidenthal's second year as senior chaplain of Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, one of his students was killed in a car accident on the way to a wedding.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

More alumni confirmed dead in WTC attack

As the rubble in New York city is cleared away, family and friends of University alumni lost in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks continue to come to terms with last month's tragic events.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

Engineer explores structural reasons for WTC collapse

Noted structural engineer and visiting University lecturer, Dr. Charles Thornton, spoke yesterday about the engineering analysis of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

NEWS | 10/04/2001

Business plan contest opens in McCosh 64

When Dennis Specht, founder and chairman of the network software company dynamicsoft, speaks on campus tonight, part of his audience should be especially attentive.

NEWS | 10/03/2001

Henry's research fights cancer

No one would guess, upon first meeting her, that she is responsible for a cancer-fighting vitamin, soon to hit drug stores across the country.

NEWS | 10/03/2001

Gutmann restructures provost office; four promoted to fill new positions

University Provost Amy Gutmann announced the immediate promotion of three administrators to the position of vice provost and the appointment of one associate provost on Monday.Associate Dean of the Faculty Katherine Rhorer will serve as vice provost for academic programs.

NEWS | 10/03/2001

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