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Terrace, Charter lead sign-ins

As cow bells sounded through the night, and upperclassmen's chants echoed through quads and arches, the six sign-in eating clubs made their way around campus last night, picking up their new members.The first-round sign-in process ended last night, marked by many undergraduates gravitating toward one of two clubs ? Charter Club or Terrace Club.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

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Clubs reportedly cutting widely in early sessions

With four days of Bicker gone, rumors are flyng around Commons faster than some of the waiters.Essentially, in the all the tension, the sophomores' main question is quote, "Where am I going to get a bid?"Despite the rumors, however, the only people who really know what is going on are the members of the sophomore Bicker committee, and they are as usual keeping all information close to their vests.Michael E.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

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Crash course?

When Beth Lowenstein was accepted by the Teach for America program to teach special education in Baltimore's inner city, she expected her new job to be the beginning of a career in teaching.But Lowenstein, a 1993 graduate of Connecticut College, soon found herself juggling myriad tasks and responsibilities that would have easily overwhelmed a veteran educator.Alone, teaching a special education class at an unfamiliar school, Lowenstein scrambled to keep up."I was definitely struggling.

NEWS | 01/21/2001

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Sealed with a kiss

Undergraduates who go to the Frist Campus Center or Dod Hall to pick up packages usually have to tell the mailroom workers their room numbers and then give their names.

NEWS | 01/21/2001

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Network bouncers

Late at night and on the weekends, when most members of the University staff are resting or sleeping, CIT networking manager Peter Olenick sits at his home computer, standing guard.As head of the University's ad hoc network security team, one of Olenick's duties is to watch the network traffic graphs for irregularities that might indicate a network attack.While he was monitoring the graphs earlier this month, Olenick noticed a sudden spike in network traffic ? a telltale sign that a denial of service (DoS) attack was taking place.

NEWS | 01/21/2001

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Proctors' orders

Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser announced yesterday an ambitious plan to deploy Public Safety officers behind eating club taps during all hours when the clubs are distributing beer.Weiser's announcement comes in the wake of Borough Police's first string of arrests made early yesterday morning in connection with its Operation: Take the Beast out of the 'Street' campaign.At about 1:30 a.m., undercover Borough Police officers stormed Charter Club and cited 47 members for underage drinking."We had heard that Charter Club was the wildest club on the 'Street,' so it only made sense to start there," Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 01/18/2001

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Elvis sings to stunned C Floor scholars

January 22, 1990 ? The King is back ? and helping Princeton students beat their exam blues.Bleary-eyed studiers watched in amazement as Elvis materialized behind a stack of mystical magazines in the Firestone library C Floor ? and began crooning their favorite hits from a golden career that was cut tragically short by too many fast times.

NEWS | 01/18/2001

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Sweatshop found in 2-D

Amanda Fulmer '01 and David Tannenbaum '01 ? the best-known leaders of Princeton's progressive movement ? have been running a sweatshop in the basement of the University's vegetarian co-op for the last two years, according to a report made public by administrators yesterday."Everyone knows you can't have rallies without lots and lots of posters," a defensive Fulmer said during an interview.

NEWS | 01/18/2001