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From physics to engineering to music, Soros Fellows excel

From physics to engineering to music, Soros Fellows excel

Luis Garcia '00 came to the United States with his family when he was seven years old. He knew little about the vast differences between his native Guatemala and the land he would soon call home, only that after a very long trip, he had arrived in a new place.Now Garcia will be attending graduate school in mechanical engineering at half the cost, thanks to his Guatemalan heritage and a career of achievement in engineering, math and science.Garcia and Tamar Friedmann GS, a second-year graduate student in the physics department, were each selected to receive prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.Thirty Soros Fellowships ? which provide a maintenance grant of $20,000 and one-half of the tuition cost of graduate study at any institution of higher education in the United States for two years ? are awarded each year to immigrants or children of immigrants to the United States, according to a statement issued by director of the Soros Fellowships Warren F.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Time after time, students lose track of the calendar

The other day at brunch, someone was talking about what she had decided to give up for Lent. When she left the table, I leaned over to one of the people I was eating with and said sheepishly, "This is going to sound really stupid but, when is Easter anyway?"When he didn't know, we posed the question to a few more people at the table and were met consistently with blank stares and shrugs.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Census officials will visit campus to count students

With the 2000 census underway, the U.S. Census Bureau has sent out forms to all American households, aired commercials urging people to respond and tried to account for every detail ? down to the last college student.To ensure that college students who live on campus are not overlooked, the bureau will be sending representatives this spring to every college in the nation to tally the students who live on campus, census bureau representative Carl Anthony Money said.According to Acting Registrar Joseph Greenberg, the census bureau has not yet contacted the University, but he expects that it will do so soon.College students represent something of a gray area between dependent children and independent adults.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Former University professor awarded Toynbee prize for work in history

Renowned social and cultural historian of sixteenthand seventeenth-century Europe Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at the University, has been named the 1999-2000 Toynbee prize recipient.Davis taught in the University history department from 1978 until 1996.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Students make the grade in mathematics competition

Imagine a cold, wintery Saturday morning. Imagine waking up early and trudging through the snow to the basement of the Jadwin physics building to take a three-hour mathematics exam.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Wisdom wooed

For psychology professor Marcia Johnson, articulating why she is leaving Princeton is no easy task.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Students take fun to new heights

Carl Zhang '03"We met down at the OA climbing wall. Paul [Hooper '03] has more experience than I do.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Let's talk about sex . . . and the '60s revolution

David Allyn was a lecturer in the history department from 1996 to 1999. His book, "Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered History," was released this month.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

Professor refurbishes telescope to investigate stellar mysteries

Since 1971, the telescope in FitzRandolph Observatory has seen little use. The equipment simply gathered dust, used by only the occasional amateur stargazer.But beginning last summer, a team of University students and faculty headed up by physics professor David Wilkinson began a massive effort to change the dilapidated telescope into a state-of-the-art instrument that could help bring mankind one step closer to contact with extraterrestrial life.Wilkinson's project was prompted by an experiment coordinated by Harvard University professor Paul Horowitz to detect and catalog unexplained polarized light pulses observed in the night sky.Horowitz and Wilkinson had first met years before when Horowitz was still a graduate student at Harvard.

NEWS | 03/29/2000

For Princeton, A Money-Back Guarantee

John Little '80 was working on a project at the computer science building in the spring of 1977 when a 13-year-old boy took him across Olden Street to demonstrate the newest computer technology ? the Internet's predecessor, the Advanced Research Project Agency's Net, which is also known as the Arpanet.Dialing up on a primitive machine and using a simple modem, Little was amazed at their ability to access several government-run information resources.As soon as Little realized what he was seeing, he knew that the technology would some day change the world.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

Forbes declares support for Bush

MANVILLE, N.J. ? Steve Forbes '70 endorsed former Republican presidential opponent George W.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

'Bane of existence,' senior theses represent traditional rite of passage

For most seniors at colleges and universities across the country, spring is a time to savor the college experience before diving headfirst into the 'real world.' But for Princeton seniors, spring is marked by countless late nights in Firestone carrels as they struggle to polish their senior theses.Hyped up on coffee and Wa Bolis at 4 a.m.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

University shifts responsibility for discipline appeals process to deans

Students received a campus-wide e-mail Monday informing them of recent changes to Rights, Rules, Responsibilities that, beginning April 1, will affect the composition of the disciplinary committee and the process through which students can appeal its rulings.The present language of the process calls for students who are appealing committee decisions to take up their complaints with President Shapiro, who has the authority to decide to either uphold, lessen or increase the penalty.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

Ivy League administrators defend price-tag increases after Williams opts to freeze tuition

Despite recently announcing the smallest annual percent increases in tuition in three decades, Ivy League officials are finding themselves placed on the defensive about the costs of attending their institutions.Since Princeton announced a 3.3-percent tuition increase to $32,626 in late January, all of the Ivy schools except Columbia University have announced tuition and fee charges for the upcoming year.For each of the colleges, next year's rate of increase is the lowest in recent history.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

Branker '80 keeps the beat as jazz professor, composer

There is a jazz term that professor Tony Branker '80 defined for his students during a recent class that describes the creation of a brand-new melody over an existing harmonic foundation.Like that technique, Branker adds a dose of his own animation and energy to the academic syllabus of MUS 209/AAS 209: Introduction to Jazz."Clap along.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

Lack of Vision

When the USG launched its Visions of Princeton survey in February, USG president PJ Kim was a man in search of a vision on some of the most important issues his administration was facing.But even after extensive advertising and a decision to extend the survey period to more than 3 weeks, only about 600 students filled out the online poll ? leaving Kim, who had planned to use the survey to set his agenda, without clear goals or direction for his presidency."Our goal [for responses] was over 1,000," USG vice president Spence Miller '02 said.

NEWS | 03/28/2000

The Moral Mentor

Anders Chen '01 kept forgetting. He knew that people were starving somewhere around the world, that they lived without houses or clothes or doctors or books and that children died in swaths every day from malnutrition.He knew this.

NEWS | 03/27/2000

Firefighters rush to Holder Hall after light bulb explodes in dorm room

Firefighters and Public Safety responded to smoky conditions in a second-floor room on the east side of Holder Hall yesterday after a light bulb exploded in a lamp that short-circuited, according to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser.Smoke detectors were triggered by smoke from the explosion at 11:41 a.m.

NEWS | 03/27/2000

Bomb threat closes East Pyne for 6 hours

East Pyne was evacuated for six hours yesterday after an anonymous caller informed Public Safety that a bomb supposedly had been placed in Chancellor Green Cafe.The anonymous call was made at 9:34 a.m.

NEWS | 03/27/2000

Internet pioneer amasses millions

While most of his classmates wrote LIT 141 papers, Jared Schutz '96 wrote business plans. And while classmates were busy learning how to find their classes, he was finding investors for his Chicago-based Internet service provider, which he co-founded and later sold for $23 million.Several companies and hundreds of million dollars later, Schutz ? the former 'Bluemountain.com wiz' ? is still busy, serving as chairman of three other Internet-based companies across the country.He will speak on the subject of the Internet economy in a speech today at the University.In an interview yesterday, Schutz dismissed his technological success as luck, saying that as investors' interest in the Internet grew, he was "fortunate to be in the right place at the right time."Schutz, who said he never took a computer science course while at the University, explained that he thinks of himself as "more of a business guy than an Internet guy."He recalled that he has always been interested in two things ? computers and politics.

NEWS | 03/27/2000

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