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At Hayden Planetarium, Tyson opens a window to the universe

At Hayden Planetarium, Tyson opens a window to the universe

NEW YORK ? On a small conference room floor littered with pictures of galaxies and office chairs with price tags still attached, a small group of University freshmen sat captivated by Neil de Grasse Tyson, the recently appointed director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.Amid his passionate criticisms about the inaccurate night sky in "Titanic" and the mathematically false presentation of the Drake Equation in "Contact," Tyson ? who doubles as a University astrophysics professor ? described the newly renovated $210-million Rose Center and the state-of-the-art Hayden Planetarium."Dr. Tyson was amazing," said Karen Mendelson '03, a member of the freshman seminar that visited the planetarium last week.

NEWS | 04/18/2000

Health commission may alter smoking ban

The Princeton Regional Health Commission last night approved for public consideration an amendment that would exempt Prospect Ave.

NEWS | 04/18/2000

Kamanda '03 becomes second-in-command

Olivier Kamanda '03 won the vice presidency of the Class of 2003 last night following a runoff race against Laura Dannen '03.

NEWS | 04/18/2000

If you come . . . they will build it

Laszlo Varga, donning a grease-spotted work coat, stood smiling with his hands on his hips. A physics professor was describing a teaching apparatus that he needed for a lab experiment.

NEWS | 04/18/2000

Finding 'answers' in Tibet, and returning to fight for his adopted culture

When Robert Thurman was a senior at Harvard, he was searching for answers that he could not find in Cambridge.So he went to India."When I was an undergrad, I started reading [about India]," Thurman said in an interview Saturday.

NEWS | 04/17/2000

Opening a school, and unlocking doors

Thirteen-year-old Nuwoe sat in a small classroom, his bright eyes intently focused on the assignment before him."Vivacious," he said haltingly, struggling to pronounce one of 10 words on his vocabulary list."Can you think of someone who is vivacious?" Nuwoe was asked."If it's one person, it's gotta be Mr. Dixon," the eighth-grader replied with an enthusiastic smile.

NEWS | 04/17/2000

Joining the fight against the IMF

Several University students joined thousands of demonstrators from across the country in Washington, D.C., this weekend, to protest world financial meetings in the nation's capital.Most of the students went with the Democratic Left, a campus group devoted to working for liberal causes.

NEWS | 04/17/2000

Metallica makes noise with lawsuit against universities, Napster

Heavy metal rock band Metallica has sued three universities and Napster ? whose software lets users trade music files on the Internet ? for allegedly encouraging students to pirate the band's music.The schools named in the suit ? which was filed in U.S.

NEWS | 04/17/2000

University invests in economist Krugman

The invisible hand recently guided a pivotal faculty acquisition for the University, bringing world-renowned economist Paul Krugman from the numbered halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Princeton's Bendheim Hall.Though Krugman said the University administration has "signed and sealed" his appointment to the economics department that begins next fall, he was not sure which classes he will teach."I am expecting to teach some intro classes, but a lot of it is really teaching classes they need me to fill," he said yesterday.Krugman said in the semesters to come he hopes to continue teaching the same broad range of classes he offered at MIT ? from graduate seminars in the field of international trade to introductory undergraduate courses such as ECO 101.Since 1992, Krugman's name has gained familiarity among people outside his field, partly because of his prominence as a candidate for top economic-advising slots in the Clinton administration.

NEWS | 04/17/2000

Board narrows list of possible sites for sixth residential college

The trustees have ruled out the Graduate College and Poe Field as possible locations for the sixth residential college proposed in the Wythes Committee Report, University Trustee Paul Wythes '55 said yesterday.The University hired an architectural planning firm to evaluate possible locations for the sixth college after the Wythes report was made public in January.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

Commission to delay vote and consider exemption of private clubs from smoking ban

The Princeton Regional Health Commission has delayed a vote on the smoking ordinance and is expected to introduce an amendment tomorrow exempting the University eating clubs and other private clubs from the ban."It's an amendment that intends to clarify between private and public facilities.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

Registrar experiences limited enrollment computer glitch

More than a week after course cards were mailed to students, the Registrar reported in a campus-wide e-mail Saturday that an estimated 100 limited enrollment bids may have been lost because of a computer glitch.Students who bid points on a limited enrollment course and were not admitted may have been affected by the glitch.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

Theses from Afar

A dozen books, a stack of photocopies, a Firestone carrel and several months of toil ? does this a thesis make?Absolutely not say more than 100 students each year.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

After three years of consideration, trustees approve Wythes plan

In a landmark vote Saturday, the University Board of Trustees unanimously approved the Wythes committee's recommendation to increase the size of the undergraduate student body by 500 students ? finalizing a decision that prompted almost three years of deliberation and elicited considerable campus debate.The increase will be phased in over four years, beginning in 2003 or 2004, once the necessary facilities and living spaces have been constructed, committee chair Paul Wythes '55 said."[The trustees] were very receptive," Wythes said of his committee's proposal.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

Reported vandalism, theft trips up 'A Walk Through Time' exhibit

While rain did not dampen the spirit of Communiversity, vandalism to four of the 90 panels from the "A Walk Through Time . . . from Stardust to Us" exhibit soured one part of the celebration.According to Public Safety Lt.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

A festival of faces: Communiversity weaves together cultures with family fun

Flags waving, skirts of elementary school folk dancers swishing and children with tigers painted on their faces laughing created a collage of music and color that shone brighter and sounded louder than the soft thud of rain drops falling from a grey sky."If Gene Kelly can sing and dance in the rain, we can do it here on Nassau," said Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand during her welcoming speech at Communiver-sity on Saturday, before leading the crowd in a verse of the high-spirited tune.Despite the rain, which forced the Arts Council's Art Park ? a series of arts and crafts stations for children ? inside the council's building on Witherspoon Street and deterred certain groups from performing, hundreds of people came out to celebrate town-gown unity."[The rain] hasn't seemed to dampen the spirits of the crowd," Arts Council of Princeton Executive Director Anne Reeves said.

NEWS | 04/16/2000

Princeton community, students prepare to Take Back the Night

Upon hearing earlier this year that her friend had been raped, Joann Sofis '00 decided she had to do something.To raise awareness about sexual assault at Princeton, she created the book "Stopping the Silence" ? a collection of four women's stories that will be distributed at Saturday's Take Back the Night march.Sofis said she was angry that her friend felt ashamed about being raped.

NEWS | 04/13/2000

Shops value students for more than their money

University students often venture into the town that lies beyond FitzRandolph Gate, whether to purchase shampoo or to treat themselves to an ice cream cone.

NEWS | 04/13/2000

From 'whazzaa' to 'got milk?' catch phrases catch on

WHAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!!If you're one of the 38 people on this campus who doesn't drink Budweiser, you might not know that this is how people say "hello" to each other nowadays.

NEWS | 04/13/2000

Library program turns middle schoolers into 'Young Curators'

When Bonnie Bernstein, outreach coordinator for the Cotsen's Children's Library, first envisioned the Young Curator's exhibit, she did not realize the widespread support network she would be able to harness."It was a real community project," Bernstein said of the exhibit, which chronicles the history of schools and was curated by Princeton-area elementary and middle school students.

NEWS | 04/13/2000

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