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Friends remember recently deceased Liao

Friends remember recently deceased Liao

Cheng Liao GS was so enthusiastic about his work in computer science that when a problem arose in a program, he could not wait one minute to fix it."I would sometimes ask him about some piece of software that wasn't quite doing what it was supposed to do," said computer science professor Jaswinder Singh, who worked with Liao at firstRain ? an Internet start-up specializing in infrastructure technology for wireless Internet."Soon, he'd be sitting at my desk, pulling up windows and hacking the code right there," Singh said.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Shapiro writes letter on behalf of grad student implicated in espionage case

Joshua Handler GS was reading the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, when he read that he was being connected with espionage."I was shocked," Handler said in an interview yesterday.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Red Hat trick: Linux develops a following

At the end of November, CIT presented its new "Hats" cluster of computer servers to University members.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Police evaluate effort to combat drinking

Borough Police officials are evaluating the legality and feasibility of their recently proposed effort to combat underage drinking in the eating clubs, Capt.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

In pursuit of perfection

Though many see the Honor Code as a sacred fixture of Princeton tradition, the 107-year-old document has not been immune to change.Recent proposals to change the Honor System follow a decade of increased discussion about the Honor Code and at least four modifications to the Honor System's constitution during the last seven years.Proposed changes ? which include adding faculty advisers, creating a defense advocate pool and expanding the jurisdiction of the code to out-of-class exams ? seem sweeping but may be just another step in a recent line of Honor Code reforms.In 1994, the committee extended the period for an accused student to prepare for his hearing from one day to seven days.Two years later, the guidelines for choosing a defense advocate were modified to include only current undergraduate students and exclude administrators, faculty and graduate students from serving in the position.In 1998, the committee added a clause stating that in the presence of "overwhelmingly convincing evidence," plausibility of method, rather than intent, is enough to convict a student of violating the code.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Presidential search committee forges ahead during weekend

During the presidential search committee's most recent meeting Saturday, the 18-member panel continued to discuss what characteristics would be desirable in the next University president, according to Paul Wythes '55, committee vice chair."We're just wrapping up the first phase ? gathering input from outside the immediate range of the Princeton community," Wythes said.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Harold Shapiro: The first five years

January 15, 1993 ? Since his 1988 inauguration, the tenure of Princeton's 18th president, Harold Shapiro GS '64, has been alternately turbulent and smooth.

NEWS | 01/14/2001

Architects of honor

A notochord is a primitive backbone in most low vertebrates. But at Princeton University it has played a much more significant role, igniting the most highly publicized court case involving the University's 107-year-old Honor System and perhaps initiating decades of future discussion and debate about the code.When Robert Clayton '82 answered question number 19 ? identifying the notochord on an amphioxus ? for a make-up lab practical exam, he says he never thought it would lead to questions of academic fraud or a controversial court battle that would last nearly six years."I was totally oblivious to anything else going on," he said in an interview earlier this week.Clayton's case ? the first time anyone challenged the Honor System in a court of law ? was not the first instance in which a student said he or she felt the Honor Committee's procedures were unfair.And it has not been the last."Ever since I became academics chair, students have come up to me who have been involved in different Honor Committee investigations and have spoken to me about what they thought could be fixed," said Jeff Gelfand '01, USG academics chair for the past two years.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

W.R.O.C. holds rally for University workers' rights

About 200 University students, workers and faculty members turned out yesterday for the kick-off event of the newly formed Workers' Rights Organizing Committee.W.R.O.C.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

200 protest ROTC on campus, petition Goheen to reject plan

January 12, 1972 ? Approximately 200 persons massed on Cannon Green for an anti-ROTC demonstration Monday and, after several speeches, submitted to President Goheen a petition protesting the proposed return of military training to the campus.The petition, whose signers were opposed to the return of ROTC "in any form," had 1,151 signatures, according to demonstration organizer Alexander W.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

Mildred Trotman to take helm at Borough Council for fourth time

Borough Council member Mildred Trotman will replace current Council president Roger Martindell as the board's leader, the Council decided Sunday.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

Cheng Liao GS dies of complications from illness

A sixth-year graduate student died Jan. 2 in his Plainsboro apartment from complications related to a flu-like illness, University officials said last night.Cheng Liao was a 27-year-old graduate student who was finishing his Ph.D.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

For Sowders, the campaign trail led back to Kentucky

When Travis Sowders '97 was a student at Princeton, he often stayed up late into the night, surfing the Web for anything he could find about politics."I would wake up at 4:30 in the morning sometimes, and he would be sitting at the computer pulling facts off the Internet about various political figures," said Josh Cohen '97, who roomed with Sowders during their junior and senior years."The funny thing is I still remember in 331 1901 Hall, I used to walk by him and he would call out a random political fact in the middle of the night.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

Police consider alcohol crackdown at the 'Street'

Borough Police officials are considering the use of undercover officers and aggressive investigation tactics to monitor and curtail underage drinking at eating clubs, Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 01/11/2001

Berkeley student charged in campus sexual assault

Andrew Han Chang ? a 21-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley and a West Windsor resident ? was charged with sexually assaulting a woman who was on campus visiting her cousin, Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

Sophs to inspect clubs Sunday; class Bicker meeting scheduled

January 10, 1958 ? Members of the Class of 1960 will make their first mass invasion of Prospect St.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

Colonial Club floods during break after sprinkler pipe bursts

A fire sprinkler pipe in the attic of Colonial Club froze and burst, causing approximately $15,000 in damages, Colonial Club house manager Collin Dretsch '01 said.The damage occurred on the east side of the building, flooding Colonial Club president Melissa Waage '01's room, where the sprinkler pipe burst.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

Off to greener pastures: Whitman says farewell

TRENTON ? New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman gave what is likely to be her final State of the State speech yesterday in the Trenton War Memorial.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

Balance of power

For 16 months during the early years of the Clinton administration, Wilson School professor Frank Von Hippel worked with the White House, advising the president on arms control and nuclear disarmament.But he doubts he will be invited back in the near future.And Von Hippel is not alone among those Princeton professors who consider themselves liberals.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

Green '01 receives Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of London

Seth Green '01 left the interview uncertain about his performance.An applicant for the Marshall Scholarship, Green felt the opportunity was a perfect fit for his future plans, but he doubted his interviewer would see that match.And so he prepared for the long and anxious wait before the final decision, not expecting to learn who would be awarded the scholarship for several weeks.But the day after his interview Green found out he had won the prestigious scholarship.

NEWS | 01/09/2001

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