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Let them eat cake

While there is nothing like Mom's chocolate-chip cookies, members of the University's newly revived baking club are connoisseurs when it comes to creating delicious treats that satisfy any sweet tooth.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

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From physics to engineering to music, Soros Fellows excel

Luis Garcia '00 came to the United States with his family when he was seven years old. He knew little about the vast differences between his native Guatemala and the land he would soon call home, only that after a very long trip, he had arrived in a new place.Now Garcia will be attending graduate school in mechanical engineering at half the cost, thanks to his Guatemalan heritage and a career of achievement in engineering, math and science.Garcia and Tamar Friedmann GS, a second-year graduate student in the physics department, were each selected to receive prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.Thirty Soros Fellowships ? which provide a maintenance grant of $20,000 and one-half of the tuition cost of graduate study at any institution of higher education in the United States for two years ? are awarded each year to immigrants or children of immigrants to the United States, according to a statement issued by director of the Soros Fellowships Warren F.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Time after time, students lose track of the calendar

The other day at brunch, someone was talking about what she had decided to give up for Lent. When she left the table, I leaned over to one of the people I was eating with and said sheepishly, "This is going to sound really stupid but, when is Easter anyway?"When he didn't know, we posed the question to a few more people at the table and were met consistently with blank stares and shrugs.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

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Census officials will visit campus to count students

With the 2000 census underway, the U.S. Census Bureau has sent out forms to all American households, aired commercials urging people to respond and tried to account for every detail ? down to the last college student.To ensure that college students who live on campus are not overlooked, the bureau will be sending representatives this spring to every college in the nation to tally the students who live on campus, census bureau representative Carl Anthony Money said.According to Acting Registrar Joseph Greenberg, the census bureau has not yet contacted the University, but he expects that it will do so soon.College students represent something of a gray area between dependent children and independent adults.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

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Wisdom wooed

For psychology professor Marcia Johnson, articulating why she is leaving Princeton is no easy task.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

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Professor refurbishes telescope to investigate stellar mysteries

Since 1971, the telescope in FitzRandolph Observatory has seen little use. The equipment simply gathered dust, used by only the occasional amateur stargazer.But beginning last summer, a team of University students and faculty headed up by physics professor David Wilkinson began a massive effort to change the dilapidated telescope into a state-of-the-art instrument that could help bring mankind one step closer to contact with extraterrestrial life.Wilkinson's project was prompted by an experiment coordinated by Harvard University professor Paul Horowitz to detect and catalog unexplained polarized light pulses observed in the night sky.Horowitz and Wilkinson had first met years before when Horowitz was still a graduate student at Harvard.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

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For Princeton, A Money-Back Guarantee

John Little '80 was working on a project at the computer science building in the spring of 1977 when a 13-year-old boy took him across Olden Street to demonstrate the newest computer technology ? the Internet's predecessor, the Advanced Research Project Agency's Net, which is also known as the Arpanet.Dialing up on a primitive machine and using a simple modem, Little was amazed at their ability to access several government-run information resources.As soon as Little realized what he was seeing, he knew that the technology would some day change the world.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

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'Bane of existence,' senior theses represent traditional rite of passage

For most seniors at colleges and universities across the country, spring is a time to savor the college experience before diving headfirst into the 'real world.' But for Princeton seniors, spring is marked by countless late nights in Firestone carrels as they struggle to polish their senior theses.Hyped up on coffee and Wa Bolis at 4 a.m.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

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University shifts responsibility for discipline appeals process to deans

Students received a campus-wide e-mail Monday informing them of recent changes to Rights, Rules, Responsibilities that, beginning April 1, will affect the composition of the disciplinary committee and the process through which students can appeal its rulings.The present language of the process calls for students who are appealing committee decisions to take up their complaints with President Shapiro, who has the authority to decide to either uphold, lessen or increase the penalty.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Ivy League administrators defend price-tag increases after Williams opts to freeze tuition

Despite recently announcing the smallest annual percent increases in tuition in three decades, Ivy League officials are finding themselves placed on the defensive about the costs of attending their institutions.Since Princeton announced a 3.3-percent tuition increase to $32,626 in late January, all of the Ivy schools except Columbia University have announced tuition and fee charges for the upcoming year.For each of the colleges, next year's rate of increase is the lowest in recent history.

NEWS | 03/28/2000