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How Princetonians voted, and why

How Princetonians voted, and why

America was closely divided in several of Tuesday's races, but according to a Daily Princetonian poll, Princeton undergraduates were far from evenly split in local and national elections.Betraying a Democratic leaning that many on campus might have predicted, 55 percent of the 1,151 students polled Monday night said they were planning to vote for Vice President Al Gore, as opposed to 26 percent who said they would vote for Texas Gov.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

Public Safety registers laptop computers in owner database

Public Safety will begin registering laptops on campus next week.The effort is designed to facilitate the return of laptops recovered by police or University officials, Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said yesterday.Public Safety will record the serial numbers of registered laptops in a database that can then be used to match any registered portable computer with its owner.Twelve laptops were reportedly stolen on campus last year, Weiser said.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

Holt's narrow lead leaves outcome unclear

Though incumbent Democratic Congressman Rush Holt appears to be the winner in Tuesday's election for New Jersey's 12th District seat, he has not accepted the victory, nor has challenger Dick Zimmer conceded defeat."One of us conceding or declaring victory doesn't change the numbers.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

Bob Dylan Philosophizes on Folk Songs Backstage

Thirty-six years to the day before Princeton's senior class announced that Bob Dylan would perform on campus during senior week, The Daily Princetonian ran a review of another Dylan performance - this one at McCarter Theatre - on an inside page of the paper.November 9, 1964 - "It doesn't matter whether the song has come down from a thousand years or you wrote it yesterday sitting on the toilet," explained the young man who had just enthralled a SRO audience Saturday night at McCarter.Bob Dylan, part folk singer, part philosopher and a near prophet to some members of this generation makes a startling appearance when he first walks on the stage with his jeans and high-heeled desert boots, harmonica and high standing hair.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

At Princeton, agony and suspense

Jocelyn Hain '01, nestled in an arm chair in front of a large television screen in the Frist Campus Center, had been watching the election coverage since dinner.As students gathered and the votes began to roll in, Hain remained perched on her chair intently the watching the television reports ? anxious and silent.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Zimmer reclaims seat he once held in close election

After four years out of public office, it appears Dick Zimmer will move back to Washington as residents of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District elected him to a fourth term in the House in a dead-heat race won by a margin of fewer than 800 votes.Zimmer ? a former lecturer at the Wilson School ? narrowly defeated the Democratic incumbent freshman representative Rush Holt by 731 votes in a race where nearly 280,000 residents went to the polls, according to preliminary counts.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Florida flip-flops and a nation is left guessing

It was nothing if not a nail-biter.In the closest presidential race in years, Election Day stretched into an appropriately long election night, and threatened to stretch even further as Vice President Al Gore at 3:50 a.m.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Corzine squeaks by Franks in bitterly contested Senate race

New Jersey's U.S. Senate race ended last night with a photo finish. Jon Corzine, propelled by more than $60 million in campaign spending, squeaked by Bob Franks in a 51- to 48-percent victory, despite a last-minute surge from Franks.Corzine spoke confidently at his acceptance speech, cheered on by an ebullient crowd.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Princeton students and residents turn out in force

In towns and cities across the country, Americans went to the polls in force yesterday. Princeton residents were no exception.The aura of the polling rooms in both the Trinity Church on Mercer Street and Jadwin Hall ? two locations where area residents gathered to vote ? was calm, quiet, focused and serious.The voting locations in the area were far from luxurious.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Princeton's Nader supporters gather to cheer on alumnus

In a room on the second floor of Terrace Club, Joe Conley GS and David Tannenbaum '01 sat at a table covered with green and white pins, posters and signs.Avid Green Party supporters, Conley and Tannenbaum may have appeared relaxed in their temporary Campus Greens Headquarters, but they are far from apathetic.They and the other leaders of the Campus Greens' campaign for Ralph Nader '55 spent much of yesterday orchestrating the group's final push to encourage students to get out to vote.And the work is not easy or glamorous.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Democrat Godfrey retains Township committee seat

Princeton Township Committee incumbent Leonard Godfrey seized the committee's one open seat in last night's election with a Democratic landslide victory over Republican Jack Marrero and Libertarian Thomas Abrams.Township Clerk Linda McDermott said Godfrey won by earning twice as many votes as the other two candidates put together.Godfrey said he expected the race to be closer than it actually was.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Incumbent Democrats successfully defend both contested Borough seats

The two Democratic incumbents held a firm grasp on their seats last night in the Princeton Borough Council election as 3,668 voters ? 62.9 percent of those registered ? turned out to the polls.Wendy Benchley and Margaret Karcher scored a Democratic sweep, each gaining more than twice as many votes as their most formidable challenger, Republican Rodney Fisk.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

A nation on edge, as race remains in limbo

Early Wednesday morning the presidential race, plagued all night by close calls and missed calls, stood at a stand still.The race came down to Florida, where a margin of just more than 500 voters appeared to turn the Sunshine State to Bush.Pundits were reexamining calls they had made earlier in the night, discussing the possibility of a recount and analyzing the slim margins that divided the candidates and decided the election.Reports surfaced that Gore had called Bush and recanted his earlier concession of the race.And there was no sign of either of the candidates.There were more than a few hiccups throughout the night.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Sturges Win Expected in Mayoralty Struggle

November 8, 1955 ? The absence of nation and statewide contests on the ballot is expected to hold participation in today's election to a minimum in most of the country's polling places.But in Princeton, the most openly fought mayoralty campaign in years should ? barring foul weather ? produce a large turnout.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Return of the Mac?

Stephanie Biederman '04 misses her Mac.A lifelong Apple computer user before arriving at the University, Biederman never thought she would make the switch to PCs, even though she knew there was more software available for Windows-based machines.Coming from a family of "Mac people," she said, "it would have been a sacrilege to even suggest that my family purchase an IBM."She said, however, "After some investigation I discovered that Princeton tends to go the IBM route," adding, "Princeton had a prejudice against Macs."She pointed to the Forbes cluster as an example.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

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