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When he was 16-years old, future VH1 Behind the Music subject Joel Rosenman '63 had no clue which college to go to."I knew nothing about colleges; I didn't go to visit them," he said, admitting the sole reason he chose Princeton was that "the coolest kid in the senior class ahead of mine wanted to go."With his landscaping venture ? a lawnmowing business ? then in full gear, Rosenman was not so sure he actually needed to go to college.

NEWS | 03/26/2001

University appoints Betty Leydon V.P. for information technology

University appoints Betty Leydon V.P. for information technology

Imagine a school devoid of computers, e-mail and the Internet, and one with dormitories lacking telephones or voice mail services.

NEWS | 03/26/2001

After Oscar victory, Crowe flies to campus today to begin film

Fending off Steve Martin's jokes at the 73rd Academy Awards Sunday night, Russell Crowe ? while he wasn't receiving the Oscar for best actor ? may have been looking forward to his long-anticipated movie shoot that begins on campus today.Leading the news both for his accomplishments and beefed-up security after an alleged kidnapping threat, Crowe's visit to the University may bring more than the usual movie entourage."We would not have signed off on their production if we thought there was a viable threat," said University Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser.

NEWS | 03/26/2001

Public safety committee to consider alcohol ordinance on Friday

Princeton Borough's public safety committee is scheduled to meet Friday to discuss a proposed ordinance that would allow police enforcement of underage drinking laws on private propertyUnder the ordinance, unsupervised minors found drinking alcohol on private property could be arrested by Borough Police and subjected to fines as well as other forms of punishment.Though supporters of the ordinance claim it does not target the eating clubs on Prospect Avenue, its passage has picked up speed in response to alcohol-related incidents that occurred on the 'Street' since November, many of which involved students under 21 years of age.Councilman David Goldfarb, who requested in January that the public safety committee reevaluate the proposal at the end of March, believes that the eating club incidents illustrate a need for the community to take over and "try something else" to eliminate further alcohol-related problems."What happens on campus is the school's responsibility, but what happens on Prospect Avenue is more ours," he said.Goldfarb said that recent precautions taken by the eating clubs to discourage underage drinking would not necessarily influence the opinions of the council.

NEWS | 03/26/2001

Testing the Limits

Debate and open discussion have long been the hallmarks of liberal educations at colleges and universities ? most notably discussions in their campus newspapers.

NEWS | 03/26/2001

Prospects 2001 receives 17 submissions in contest

The prospects for Prospect Avenue soon may be brighter as students venture to address the future of the 'Street.' The new student group ? Prospects 2001 ? has some ideas.This past semester, architecture student Steve Caputo '01 founded the organization in search of innovative ideas.

NEWS | 03/25/2001

Sharpshooters kill 322 deer in Township's population control plan

Despite the heated debate surrounding the issue, White Buffalo ? the group hired to rein in the unchecked deer population in Princeton Township ? has completed this year's phase of the five-year plan just as silently as it carried out its sharpshooting techniques.Aiming to cut back on deer-car collisions as well as to balance the deer population at an environmentally sustainable level, Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand affirmed that the sharpshooters "met or exceeded the goal we had," noting that 322 deer were killed in all.Only antlerless deer were targeted, comprised of young males and females, with a higher percentage of does killed to forestall further growth of the population.The deer population was slated to triple if these does had not been killed, according to Marchand.Citing ethical and safety concerns, several groups have protested the systematic shootings, pushing for other forms of population control, such as immunocontraception recently used to combat similar problems in Canada.Marchand emphasized the merits of the sharp shooting procedure, however, citing that more than 12,000 tons of meat were collected from the deer carcasses and donated to area food kitchens that "were very happy to receive the high protein meat that doesn't usually come their way."Marchand, however, was quick to add that the decision to hire the sharp shooters arose after other attempts to curb the problem during the past 10 years had failed.Reduced speed limits along Princeton roads, signs warning of dangerous deer crossings and increased lighting have been implemented to protect drivers and animals.

NEWS | 03/25/2001

Crowe movie filming to begin this week

Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Rita Ryack will jet across the country in the next few days as the Hollywood heavyweights, who attended the Oscars ceremony last night in Los Angeles, head to Princeton to begin shooting "A Beautiful Mind" later this week.The crew for the movie plans to film on campus tomorrow through Friday in Henry Hall courtyard, Blair Arch, Holder Hall and Jones Hall, according to Visitors and Conference Services Director Eric Hamblin.

NEWS | 03/25/2001

University to release Lindbergh document collection this week

With the recent death of Anne Lindbergh, the collection of letters and documents that she and her husband Charles gave to the University are set to be released March 29.The documents were given to the University in 1941, and the six boxes of material were to be released only after both of the Lindberghs passed away."There's nothing in the papers that actually solves any mysteries," University trustee and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the 1998 biography "Lindbergh," A.

NEWS | 03/25/2001

$8.5 billion: Raising and spending the Princeton endowment

It may have started small, but now it's a full grown tiger. Beginning as a

NEWS | 03/25/2001

Fire damages Witherspoon room

A small fire broke out in a student's room on the fifth floor of Witherspoon Hall shortly before 2 p.m.

NEWS | 03/25/2001

It's a wrap: 'A Beautiful Mind' casting near-complete

While Russell Crowe and Ed Harris battle for best actor at next week's Academy Awards, the University is preparing to close a deal with Universal Pictures that would put the pair side by side on the silver screen for "A Beautiful Mind," Director of Visitors and Conference Services Eric Hamblin said.Though the filming is set to begin March 26, the studio has yet to sign a contract with the University.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Late meal policy irks students

Many students say they believe the University is unnecessarily squeezing students' wallets with its strict policies on late meals.Though administrators hoped the Frist Campus Center would become a focal point of undergraduate life, underclassmen ? all of whom must purchase Department of Dining Services meal plans ? are forced to pay out of pocket to eat meals at Frist during normal breakfast, lunch and dinner hours.Students may transfer their dining contract meals to purchase food at Frist only during special "late meal hours" ? from 9:45 to 11:05 a.m.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

The presidential meal

When they enter the front door of the Bagel Bakery on Nassau Street, most customers are unsure what they would like to have.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

University faculty, officials reflect on school shootings

When David Freund, a professor in Princeton's history department, was watching TV coverage of last week's shooting at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., he said he was just as concerned with the questions the reporters asked as he was with the answers their teary-eyed student interviewees gave."They asked a lot of questions like 'How does this make you feel?' [and] 'What does this make you think?' " he said.The national media covers shootings at suburban schools as human interest stories, said Freund.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Remembering Wallace Hayes

Mechanical engineering professor Wallace Hayes' high school nickname was "The Professor." Once, after winning a spelling bee, he was asked, as a joke, to spell 'professor.'He managed to spell it incorrectly.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Death masks: What lurks in Firestone

If you find yourself deathly afraid of entering Firestone Library, there may be a good reason.Among the rows of carrels and books of Firestone Library hide a collection of death masks ? plaster molds made of people's faces soon after their deaths.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Study finds MIT, Harvard have highest rates of student suicide

In a recent Boston Globe study, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was cited as having the highest suicide rate out of 12 universities surveyed during the past decade.The survey compared the number of undergraduate suicides per 100,000 students on the 12 different campuses since 1990.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Interpreting one's real self: The genre left out

The further I am along in my school career, the more I begin to question whether the integration of academic and personal life will ever happen for me.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Recent grads develop revolutionary software

When Conor Madigan '00 and Matthew Moskewicz '00 began working on electrical engineering professor Sharad Malik's research team last year, they did not expect to develop technology that would make companies like Intel drool.But that is exactly what these recent graduates ? then seniors ? did when they designed software that examines computer chips in just hours when competing software takes months."I am hugely proud of them," Malik said.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

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