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Russell Eckenrod '01 is facing a tough decision. In a few months, he, along with many of his classmates, will have to sign on the dotted line and choose between public service, consulting and law school.Eckenrod says he is inclined to seek employment in the public sector, working for the government, a special interest group or a nonprofit organization.

NEWS | 10/16/2000

Faculty, students respond to attack on U.S. ship off Yemen coast

Faculty, students respond to attack on U.S. ship off Yemen coast

As news of the supposed terrorist bombing of a U.S. ship in Yemen on Thursday sent Princetonians racing to their televisions and computers, history professor Jeremy Adelman had a sobering suggestion.In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, he recalled, many Americans were quick to conclude that the attack was the work of a Middle Eastern terrorist."Well, guess what?" Adelman said.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

Fiery Nader unleashes pointed attacks

Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader '55 last night gave the Princeton community an hour-long social commentary ? and the audience loved every bit of it."It's nice to be back," Nader said.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

Nader forces some to reconsider their views about two-party politics and upcoming presidential election

Many of the students who attended Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader '55's speech last night went to the event to see a man whom many have come to view as a curiosity ? an almost sure loser in next month's election.But a substantial number of the students who listened to the presidential hopeful's passionate speech said late last night that their experience was something of an education.Brett Chevalier '02, an independent voter from Massachusetts, said Nader's words were far more moving than she had expected."I thought what he said was very powerful.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

Shein '04 set to argue for abortion rights

When Erica Shein '04 received her absentee ballot this year, she noticed that the meanings of various ballot initiatives were clouded in a haze of confusing ? yet innocuous ? political jargon.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

The Computer Science Gender Gap

Princeton prepared Erin Mulder '98 to work in a male-dominated field. Two years ago, Mulder was one of only six women to graduate from the computer science department in a class of 38 majors.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

Borough unlikely to decide on alcohol ordinance in near future

Princeton Borough officials continued to slow the momentum of a possible alcohol ordinance at a public safety committee meeting Friday morning by tabling a decision to recommend the ordinance to the Borough Council.The possible ordinance is the product of a state law, which allows municipalities to adopt measures granting police permission to cite underage drinkers on private property.

NEWS | 10/15/2000

University distributes regulations supplement

Seeking to clarify the University's plagiarism rules, the office of the Dean of the College is distributing a supplement to "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities."The 45-page booklet, titled "Academic Integrity at Princeton," is divided into 13 clearly labeled sections.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

Princeton to relocate tiger skeletons from natural history museum to Frist center

Of all the tigers at the Oct. 20 Frist Campus Center dedication, the most controversial will be two tiger skeletons now moving to the new building from an exhibit in Guyot Hall's Museum of Natural History.The Guyot exhibit, a gift from the Class of 1927, is titled "The Leaping Tiger and the Saber-Tooth: A Study in Comparative Anatomy," and contrasts the skeleton of a Bengal tiger with the 28,000-year-old skeleton of a Smilodon, or Saber-Tooth, tiger from which the Bengal evolved.The tigers' displacement follows the University's decision this summer to close and relocate the natural history museum ? a move that geosciences professors and alumni said indicated a lack of respect for the department.Geosciences professor emeritus William Bonini said the University hired Phil Fraley Productions ? a company renowned for mounting a $8.36-million Tyrannosaurus Rex called 'Sue' for The Field Museum in Chicago ? to move the skeletons.The tiger skeletons officially are "on loan" from the geosciences department for an indefinite period of time, Bonini said.When President Shapiro's office requested the tigers, faculty members in the geosciences department stipulated certain conditions for the move in a memorandum."The memorandum cites the fact that [the skeletons] are valuable, museum-quality items, and that because it's an exhibit in comparative anatomy, they should not be split," Bonini said, responding to the University's original request for only one of the tigers.Geosciences professor Lincoln Hollister said he worries, however, that moving the tiger skeletons ? coupled with the University's closing of the natural history collection ? suggests a lack of appreciation for the museum.The University closed the museum Sept.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

Models, actresses . . . and one dashing University professor

When Maxim needs a hot new model, it knows exactly where to look: the University's English Department.And that's just what the men's magazine did when it contacted professor John Fleming to pose as the centerpiece of the September issue's "Rebellious Behavior" photo series.The photo editorial opened with a shot of a decked-out and smoothly coifed Fleming seated at an East Pyne desk, surrounded by three pierced and tattooed youths in designer punk clothing.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

Firestone, Then the World

Prologue:Friends, it brings me great pain to blow open yet another under-reported campus scandal.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

The Professor vs. The Institute

Astrophysicist Piet Hut says the support he has received from colleagues across the country is overwhelming.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

'Partners in Science': Professors team up with local teachers

Members of the University community collaborated with the community at large last summer in the Partners in Science program, through which chemistry professors and graduate students worked with area high school science teachers in a research laboratory setting.Partners in Science ? co-directed by University chemistry professor Andrew Bocarsly and Jay Dubner of Columbia University ? is a joint program implemented by Princeton, Columbia, New York University, Rutgers University at Camden, Seton Hall University and Stevens Institute of Technology.The program's goal is to promote interaction between the research and educational communities of the science world.For eight weeks during the summer, Louis Gatto of Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, James Looney of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School and Paul Lucuski of McCorristin Catholic High School in Hamilton worked alongside Princeton professors and graduate students in Bocarsly's laboratory.Each teacher was paired with a professor and given a long-term research assignment that will span two summers, Bocarsly said.The assignments related to research on fuel cells ? which are a possible substitute for gasoline power in the future.The program, according to Bocarsly, was designed to emphasize the dynamic aspect of scientific discovery."We want [the teachers] to get excited," he said.

NEWS | 10/12/2000

Predicting the elections with 'political junkies' . . . online

John McIntyre '91 recently co-founded a political Website called realclearpolitics.com along with Thomas Bevan '91.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

Grad school alum wins Nobel Prize

James Heckman GS '71 was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics yesterday.Heckman and Daniel McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley received the award together, and will split the prize, which is worth $915,000 this year.Heckman, who has served as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1995, received his Ph.D.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

From Frist to Forbes, students express dissatisfaction with Bush-Gore debate

Students from across the political spectrum gathered at spots around campus to watch the presidential faceoff last night.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

NJDOT to release environmental assessment of Millstone Bypass area

After months of waiting, supporters and opponents of the controversial Millstone Bypass are hopeful that the New Jersey Department of Transportation will soon release an environmental assessment of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed area.The assessment ? which has been in the works for nearly two years ? is the preliminary step toward approving construction of the Millstone Bypass, a road designed to mitigate traffic problems on U.S.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

Israeli-Palestinian conflict weighs on the minds of Princetonians

As fighting between Israelis and Palestinians raged during the past week, hopes for a Middle East peace agreement have faded among both citizens of the divided region and world leaders.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

Bush, Gore tackle foreign policy issues in second presidential debate

Presidential hopefuls Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore sparred over several volatile foreign policy issues last night in their second nationally televised debate.In a 90-minute roundtable discussion at Wake Forest University, Bush set out to convince voters that he has the knowledge and maturity to be president, trying to appear especially statesmanlike during the opening segment on foreign policy.Meanwhile, Gore tried to tone down the attack-dog mentality he brought to the first debate.

NEWS | 10/11/2000

Eliot Spitzer '81 takes aim at gun makers

Though the cubicle where Eliot Spitzer '81 crafted his senior thesis will soon be uprooted, his opinions about complicated political issues ? first planted in the Wilson School ? are growing and strong.Prior to giving a talk yesterday titled "Gun Control: The New York Experience" in Bowl 6 of Robertson Hall, Spitzer took a tour of the building and sought out the small space where he first developed his fiery style.As New York's 63rd Attorney General, Spitzer has become a leading voice against gun-manufacturing companies ? exhibiting a willingness to cause controversy that he also displayed as president of the USG."We caused some trouble," Spitzer recalled with a glint of mischievous pride in his eyes as he sat cross-legged on a couch during an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian before the talk.Spitzer's 1998 election "was widely seen as promising a new era in the office of the Attorney General," said faculty chair of the Woodrow Wilson School undergraduate program Stan Katz when introducing Spitzer yesterday.In a political atmosphere that Spitzer said has in recent years transferred federal power into states' hands, the Democrat has decided to harness this traditionally Republican-backed decentralization in his fight for gun control."We're gonna use those powers and have a good time doing it," he said.Despite powerful opposition from the National Rifle Association, Spitzer said he believes the government can sway litigation over gun control.

NEWS | 10/10/2000

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