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University shines spotlight on performance space

University shines spotlight on performance space

Representatives from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Provost met last week to hear the results of the Arts Review ordered by President Shapiro last spring.The review was a response to the Performing Arts Council's status report released in February 2000.Claudia Chouinard, an outside consultant from Results Group International, presented the status report."I believe the conclusions the consultant reached and the information she gathered will serve as the guidelines for the University's policies towards improving the performing arts for at least the next 10 years," Adam Friedman '01 ? recent winner of the Pyne Prize and a participant in the campus arts community ? said in an e-mail.Because the review was done by a third party, the University will have the chance to look at an unbiased evaluation of the status of arts on campus, Friedman said.He said two of Chouinard's principal recommendations were the formation of a separate office for the performing arts similar to the model used at Harvard University, and major adjustments to the policies governing Richardson Auditorium.Harvard's system is much more centralized than Princeton's and offers more assistance to performing arts groups.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

CIA professionals convene to analyze U.S. Cold War intelligence procedures

As former and current high ranking members of the intelligence community filled McCosh 50 for a conference this weekend, alumni and CIA professionals sifted through newly declassified materials.The conference was an opportunity for academics and the CIA to analyze the agency's ability to predict events in the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991."On the whole, I wanted to give a portrayal of the picture of the Soviet Union in the period and it's collapse," said keynote speaker and panelist James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and director of Central Intelligence.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

Napster to filter out songs identified as copyrighted

The latest Napster ruling may have been music to the record industry's ears, but it may be a painful cacophony to the approximately 57 million registered Napster users worldwide.Earlier this week, nearly a year after Metallica filed suit against Napster, the file-sharing service began filtering out copyrighted files from its library of songs.Titles and artists' names passed over the music-sharing network are now being screened through a list of copyrighted works.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Opening up a new window at Starbucks

The Princeton Starbucks, located at 100 Nassau Street, provides a welcome haven for coffee-craving students and late night study sessions.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Senior's chemistry research published in science journal Nature

As Joanna Slusky '01 spends her time trying to publish a year's amount of research between a thesis' black binding, a thinner, glossier publication with a nationally-recognized name hit news stands this week also baring her name.Slusky ? a chemistry major ? is the primary author of a paper published yesterday in the science journal Nature.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

18 years of studying and growing up together

Khalila Thomas '01 and Charlie Hammel '01 don't see each other so frequently anymore. Thomas, who is a chemical engineering major, spends most of her time at the E-Quad, while Hammel, a history concentrator with a certificate in medieval studies, slaves away in Firestone.But the two seniors know each other fairly well.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Conference to analyze Cold War Russia

The upper echelon of the United States intelligence community will mine through more than 18,000 pages of recently declassified material in a series of panel and lecture discussions in McCosh 50 this weekend.The conference, "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991," begins this morning.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Chu speaks on value of U.S. education

Before Tsu-Kai Chu began his speech yesterday in McCosh 46, each member of the small audience took a few seconds to introduce themselves.Among the audience were members of the University community, including graduate members of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars ? which organized the lecture ? a few undergraduates and professor Perry Link of the East Asian Studies department.This diverse group had come to hear Chu deliver a speech entitled "150 Years of Chinese Students in America" ? an examination of the history of Chinese students studying in America.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

GSG holds first popular elections

After an extensive petitioning campaign, the Graduate Student Government kicked off its first student-wide popular election yesterday.Though gaining approval from the GSG for a popular election has been a long process, a handful of concerned students are finally seeing their goal realized.Prior to this year, GSG officers were selected by an assembly consisting of representatives from each academic department, said former GSG assembly member Jason Brownlee."This kind of system is not truly representative because students serving as representatives have been able to serve without any regular accountability in the form of a school-wide election," Brownlee said.Last August, Brownlee ? with the help of current GSG Chair Lauren Hale and other GSG members ? obtained about 200 signatures on a petition for student body-wide GSG elections.The GSG assembly adopted the petition into its bylaws, with the stipulation that at least 10 percent of the graduate student body must vote in order for the new system to be implemented permanently, Hale said.Matt Fouse, running unopposed for GSG Chair, commented on the importance of a high level of participation in the election.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Browsing for 'good genes' and a perfect Ivy match

A good Ivy League man is hard to find. Thankfully, the Web gurus at www.GoodGenes.com are making the task a little easier.Good Genes, Inc. ? the self-acclaimed "introduction service for the Ivy League et al" according to one of the Website's eye-catching graphics ? is dedicated to helping alumni and faculty of prominent universities, including Princeton, who are tired of looking for companionship at the shallow end of the gene pool.As with other match-making sites, members of Good- Genes.com are privileged to a number of opportunities to seek and discover members of the opposite sex.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Losing everything but learning a lesson

Fifty-two minutes in Barcelona and my wallet was already gone. Not forgotten, not misplaced, but stolen.

NEWS | 03/07/2001

14,300 high schoolers vie for spot in '05

The University saw nearly a 5 percent increase in its volume of applications for admission this year ? one of the largest increases among Ivy League schools ? and 600 more applications than last year, Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon said."We have way too many, way more than we can accommodate," Hargadon said of the nearly 14,300 applications during a quick break from reading and discussing applications with the admissions committee.

NEWS | 03/07/2001

Common Cause chairman advocates campaign reform

Derek Bok, Harvard University president emeritus, said he spent "many happy hours watching Harvard trample the Princeton Tigers." He comes to campus today ? the home of men's basketball Ivy League champions ? with a less boastful, more serious purpose.Bok ? current chairman of the non-profit campaign reform advocacy group Common Cause ? will speak on campaign reform today at the University in a lecture entitled "Setting New Jersey's Campaign Reform Agenda in 2001." The event will be held at 4:30 in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.Bok said his work in the area of governmental reform has been a consuming interest of his for years.

NEWS | 03/07/2001

University addresses WROC's concerns

The University is prepared to address two issues ? the use of casual workers and wage levels ? raised by the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee during the past few months, according to a statement released yesterday by Vice President for Finance and Administration Richard Spies GS '72."This is not specifically in response to the rally, but in response to the issues WROC raised," said University spokesperson Marilyn Marks.

NEWS | 03/07/2001

ICC takes action against underage drinking

In a united effort to police underage drinking at the 'Street,' the Inter-Club Council agreed Sunday night to distribute wristbands to legal drinkers at the eating clubs, signalling the clubs' increasing push to regulate themselves."This will be our ongoing policy," ICC adviser Alice Teti '00 said.

NEWS | 03/07/2001

Solving the tangle of water's abnormal properties

For centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the chemical properties of water, the most ubiquitous substance on earth.

NEWS | 03/06/2001

University funds part of local school renovation

President Shapiro presented the Princeton Regional schools with a gift of $500,000 yesterday. The donation will go towards what will probably be the largest renovation project in the history of the school district.Of the more than $1.66 million the University has contributed to the Princeton community since June, this is the largest single donation.If its proposal is approved at an April 17 referendum, the Princeton Regional Board of Education plans to embark on a $78.2 million building project that will improve the facilities of all six of the district's schools.The University's gift will go directly toward the conversion of the current Princeton High School auditorium into a reading room for an expanded and modernized library."This extraordinary contribution on the part of Princeton University demonstrates the University's ongoing support of the Princeton Regional schools and the education of its children," Princeton Regional schools Superintendent Claire Sheff Kohn said.

NEWS | 03/06/2001

Ivy League Champs!

Princeton men's basketball's leading scorer for the game was the first to make a snip. Junior guard Ahmed El Nokali, who scored 14 points and committed only one turnover in 40 minutes of play, was as careful with the scissors as he was with the ball against Penn last night when he made the initial cut to bring down the net.After the rest of the team made their contribution to taking down the net at Jadwin Gym, senior center Nate Walton ? who has been the Tiger's leader this season ? fittingly made the final cut to the twine and placed it around his neck.Just as it took everyone to help take down the net, it was once again a total team effort by Princeton (16-10 overall, 11-3 Ivy Leauge) to resoundingly defeat the Quakers (12-17, 9-5), 68-52.

NEWS | 03/06/2001

Project seeks to promote equal justice

In addition to rallying for causes such as workers' rights and an end to sweatshop labor, University students will soon be able to take a closer look at justice and devise effective methods to invoke change.The Princeton Justice Project ? a new group on campus whose goal is to establish a program that will combine academic research and legal activism ? will hold its first organizational meeting tonight at 9:30 p.m.

NEWS | 03/06/2001

Report shows colleges relatively safe

A recent compilation of crime statistics from college campuses across the country by the U.S. Department of Education suggests that the average student is safer than the average citizen, but experts warn the data is unreliable.The department broke individual crime categories into per-student statistics and concluded that in most cases the occurrence of crime on campus was much lower than that for the nation.For instance, based on reported statistics from 1997, 1998 and 1999, the national rate of sex offenses was 14.8 per 100,000 students while the overall national rate was 32.7 per 100,000 people.Though these numbers seem to speak well of college campus safety, experts argue the statistics may be unsound and that the short-term study may be overvalued."The problem is the way [the department] calculated the rates," said Daniel Carter, vice president of Safety on Campus ? a non-profit organization in King of Prussia, PA, that acts as a campus crime watch dog and also provides victim assistance.Carter noted that the overall national crime rates and the national campus crime rates are not comparable because of a population variable.

NEWS | 03/06/2001

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