Halle Berry says Princeton changed her life."If you haven't heard, I was in a car accident this year," the Emmy award-winning starlet said Friday night in McCosh 50.
A report issued by the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday indicates Princeton's Palmer Physics Laboratory ? now the site of Frist Campus Center ? was slated for DOE cleanup after possible involvement in nuclear weapons research for the U.S.
PJ Kim '01 said last night he would devote his remaining semester as USG president to giving the administration a set of specific recommendations for improving student life.The combined report of five student committees ? designated the health services, athletics, student groups, performing groups and human relations committees ? will be presented to the administration after fall break, he said at last night's USG meeting.The project, called the Student Life Initiative, reflects Kim's longstanding desire to present students' opinions to the administration as a blueprint for change even after his term ends.After the report is released, Kim said, the USG will "take this out to the community, to the trustees and the administration to make sure that even though we can't see these recommendations implemented, we can at least set the stage."Also at the meeting, Kim congratulated USG student groups liaison Aime Scott '01 for organizing the Princeton Leadership Summit, a meeting of more than 200 student leaders Saturday.
The University's fund-raising champion, construction mogul and figurehead enters the dark waiting area of One Nassau Hall on Saturday as if nothing has changed.
Standardized tests used to be, well, standard. Everyone taking the test would receive the same questions in a written exam and have a specified time to answer them as accurately as he or she could.But in this digital age ? where America Online has replaced the U.S.
Officials from many of the universities cited in a Department of Energy study released last week said in interviews Friday their institutions had never had any involvement in nuclear weapons testing.Every Ivy League institution except Dartmouth College was listed in the study as a possible site of nuclear weapons testing.
Though President Shapiro's announcement of his resignation was the paramount event of this month's University Board of Trustees meeting, the board also installed six new members and held committee meetings to discuss its goals for the year."The announcement by President Shapiro sort of overshadowed everything else," said Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62, who is also secretary of the board.Wright said he is optimistic about the six new trustees, who include former USG president Spencer Merriweather '00 and e-Bay CEO Meg Whitman '77.
Students reported 30 more thefts in 1999 than they did in 1998, according to Public Safety's annual campus crime statistics, which will be released today.The reported thefts totalled 369 in 1999.
The U.S. Department of Energy yesterday named the University among more than 550 companies and research sites nationwide that may have secretly processed radioactive or toxic materials for the U.S.
New Jersey resident Abby Stocking says her state has the worst water quality in the nation. But she is working to change that, and University students may soon be part of her effort.Stocking is an organizer for New Jersey Community Water Watch, a group run by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group and funded by AmeriCorps.
Act The First: BetrayalImagine my shock when I awoke one morning to find myself back in Princeton.
Jason Sanders '01's phone has been ringing since Freshman Week. But though he gets more telephone calls than the average student, he's not "The Big Man on Campus" or even USG President PJ Kim '01.Sanders is the victim of the University's telephone extension change, which switched the first three digits of students' telephone numbers from 258 to 986.
During the summer, University officials made arrangements for every student to have his or her own blackboard, but they didn't have to buy a single chalk eraser.A new online service ? accessible from all the University's CourseInfo Webpages and unique for every student ? contains links to all courses in which a student is currently enrolled, messages from professors about upcoming assignments and even a picture of the student.My Blackboard is a feature of CourseInfo v4.0, a program that the University installed during the summer and used to create Websites for all this semester's undergraduate courses, approximately 950 in number.The new sites ? constructed at the request of Provost Jeremiah Ostriker ? all contain general course information compiled from the Office of the Registrar."It was a big project, a big undertaking," said Serge Goldstein, the CIT director of academic services.The week before classes began, Ostriker sent a memo to all University faculty encouraging them to develop their default CourseInfo Websites and incorporate them into their course curricula whenever possible.While this is the first time the University has provided Websites for every course, the CourseInfo service itself is not new to Princeton.
New Jersey Green Party spokesman Nissim Almeleh, in an interview yesterday, condemned the use of insecticide spraying to check the spread of the West Nile virus.He said the organization considers spraying to be even more harmful than the virus-carrying mosquitoes themselves.The party believes the pesticides are extremely toxic and capable of impairing the human immune and endocrine systems, especially in children, Almeleh explained.Green Party officials announced Wednesday that they also opposed plans for aerial spraying of pesticides in New York City, citing environmental and personal safety concerns.Almeleh said insecticide spraying should be avoided if at all possible.
Anand Ahuja '02 and Maxene Mulford are unusual business partners.Ahuja, an operations research and financial engineering major, and Mulford, a mother, writer and creative-writing teacher living in Stamford, Conn., teamed up three years ago to start Uniquely U ? a college essay consulting business that has already enjoyed great success.Three years ago, when Ahuja was applying to colleges, he asked his neighbor, Mulford, to read his college application essays.
Following the Princeton Regional Health Commission's recent decision to push for state legislation that would allow municipalities to enact ordinances banning smoking, both supporters and opponents of the local proposed smoking ban are mobilized for a fight.
Responding to a request that it ban Napster use on its network, the University sent a letter to lawyers for Dr. Dre and Metallica on Wednesday stating that Princeton has decided not to ban use of the online music service, General Counsel Howard Ende said yesterday.Earlier this month, lawyers for the two music groups ? two of Napster's major critics ? sent letters to the presidents of approximately 20 universities across the nation, asking them to decide whether they would prohibit Napster use by today.The University's response explains that Princeton is "committed to the broadest possible use of systems" and therefore "will not block legal uses of the entire network," Ende said.According to Howard King, lead attorney for Dr. Dre and Metallica, the artists' letter was sent to many of the nation's most prestigious institutions ? including Princeton, Harvard and Columbia universities, MIT and UCLA.However, only about half the schools had responded by yesterday afternoon, he said.
Bryce Rogow '02 spent almost a month in small villages in Peru this summer as part of a medical expedition with a group of doctors.
"I'm a Jamaican." When I spent last summer at Duke, the first replies to that statement ranged from, "Do they speak English?" to more enlightened questions such as, "Do you have any weed?" (I don't, by the way.) So, you would think that, for someone who has spent her life correcting the stereotypes placed upon her by an ivory-towered world, I would know better than to reduce people ? strangers especially ? to stereotypical packages, Rastafarian stamped and sealed.
Americans this summer watched the contestants on CBS's "Survivor" eat rats, form alliances, endure hunger and bug bites, and do whatever it would take to be the one contestant on the island who would go home with $1 million.Akshay Mahajan, '03, was also a survivor this summer.But he did not have to spend months on a deserted island in the South China Sea ? just four days on a school bus.
