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Brown selects Ivy's first black president

Brown selects Ivy's first black president

Two days ago, three Ivy League universities were searching for new presidents. Yesterday, Brown announced its search was complete, leaving Princeton and Harvard with one fewer candidate from which to choose.Smith President and former Princeton University Associate Provost Ruth Simmons was appointed by Brown yesterday to become that university's 18th president next year.Brown's selection committee chose Simmons after a nine-month search.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

WWS class plays host to New Jersey Sen. Torricelli

Democrat Robert Torricelli, in his second official day as New Jersey's senior Senator following Tuesday's election of Jon Corzine, visited campus yesterday hoping to learn as well as to teach.Small in stature and eager to vocalize his views on gun control and universal health care, Torricelli said that, as a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he enjoyed exchanging ideas with Princeton's Wilson School students.Torricelli ? speaking to students in economics professor Elizabeth Bogan's WWS 307: Economics and Public Policy ? said he visited the University to get feedback on pertinent political issues.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

Requiem for the Boli

In a country where the identity of the next president is uncertain, the news that Wawa Food Markets has discontinued the Boli was undoubtedly the second-biggest story of the last several weeks.A cold, foreboding sign stood on the deli counter at the Wa the week before Fall Break announcing the demise of the Boli, shocking and dismaying students throughout campus.Ever since, students have been left in a state of confusion, not knowing where to go to satisfy their late night cravings.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

Holt-Zimmer race in 12th District still up in the air

The fight for New Jersey's 12th District Congressional seat between Democratic incumbent Rush Holt and Republican challenger Dick Zimmer is still up for grabs and will remain undecided until tonight or Saturday at the earliest, Mercer County Superintendent of Elections Dulcy Ricciani said yesterday."By [tonight or Saturday], we will have verified provisional ballots," Ricciani said.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

Despite new Lawrence ordinance, Borough talks continue to stutter

In the aftermath of Lawrence Township's adoption of a controversial underage drinking ordinance Wednesday, the Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance met yesterday afternoon in town hall to raise questions about the impact such an ordinance would have if enacted in Princeton Borough and Township.Lawrence officials unanimously approved the state-sanctioned ordinance, which would empower police to cite underage drinkers on private property.Lawrence, where Rider University is located, became the second Mercer County municipality and the third college town in the state to pass such a measure.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

And on the eighth day, God created the Wa's holy Boli

In the beginning, there was Princeton. God looked upon Princeton. Princeton gazed back at God, and voiced its general satisfaction with the state of things.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

Vouching for the effectiveness of urban housing vouchers

Assistant economics and public policy professor Jeffrey Kling recently worked on Moving to Opportunity, a federal program to help families move from poor neighborhoods to more prosperous ones.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

A nation kept waiting for at least another day

More than 24 hours after results first started coming in, the nation remained in suspense last night, wondering who the next president might be.The day, unlike the night before, was without many surprises.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

Bob Dylan to headline Senior Week

Word of a big surprise is blowing in the wind across campus today, as the senior class officers have announced Bob Dylan will perform at Princeton on Nov.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

Representatives meet with students to discuss University president search

The three student representatives on the University's presidential search committee held their first discussion forum last night in the Frist Campus Center, seeking to learn more about what other students want in their next University president.The five students who attended the meeting, however, were disappointed that the search committee participants did not discuss the candidates that are being considered or the details of the selection process.USG president PJ Kim '01 explained that search committees in the past have had difficulty with issues of confidentiality, especially when considering administrators at other institutions."I think it is important to clarify . . . we can't really say that much about what we're thinking about," he said to the small group, adding that members are not allowed to discuss the committee's proceedings.The few students in attendance said they were expecting to learn more about the process during the meeting because it had been promoted to "provide students with an opportunity to learn more about the search," according to the presidential search committee's Website."I came here tonight to listen to what other students had to say and learn more about the process," said Dan Zauber '03.The coordinators of the meeting ? Lauren Hale GS, Lisa Lazarus '02 and Kim ? were to be joined by University Secretary and Vice President Thomas Wright '62, but he was not in attendance.The students, however, were able to discuss several issues that they believe the search committee should consider.

NEWS | 11/08/2000

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

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