More than 1,000 computers across campus crashed at the same time Monday night in a bizarre incident that has computer experts from Princeton to Chicago to Seattle scratching their heads.The problem affected computers that were on at 10:30 p.m.
Expressing a desire for the United Nations to focus on broader world issues as it moves into the next millennium, Stephen Gommersal, the United Kingdom's deputy permanent representative to the U.N.
So far this winter, there have been deadly tornadoes in Florida, ravenous floods in California and a vicious ice storm in Canada.It has taken the apparent cancellation of Nude Olympics, however, to convince most Princetonians that all is not right with the world.In a year in which El Ni
Princeton Borough Police arrested and charged four suspects in the attack that occurred early Sunday morning outside the Third World Center.
University holds Junior PromAfter a six-year dry spell, the University revitalized its tradition of an annual Junior Prom.
Apparently, hackers tampered with the University homepage yesterday and replaced the traditional campus images with their own.
If New Jersey native Red Mascara has his way, University students and Garden State residents alike will soon be proudly singing the tune "I'm From New Jersey" along with the more established patriotic odes "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Old Nassau."Mascara, a 75-year-old resident of Phillipsburg, N.J., has been staging a 38-year effort to get his song "I'm From New Jersey" adopted as the official state song.Mascara said he penned the "bright" ditty to express his state pride, perhaps counteracting Jersey detractors who term the state the "armpit of the nation."Mascara said not only is his tune written for New Jersey, but it can be adapted to any twoor three-syllable municipality like Princeton, Newark or Trenton.
Members of Dial, Elm, Cannon Club may be making their own meals next year if the DEC Graduate Board accepts one of several new meal plan alternatives currently being discussed.According to DEC president Gretchen Hultman '99, DEC members are evaluating several eating programs for next year, including one possibility that would entail making DEC a coop in which members would make their own meals, thus eliminating the need for a full kitchen staff.These fiscal considerations come after DEC's low turnout during Snicker and sign-in period last month, yielding only 20 new members."We are trying to look into (eating) options that take into account our low club membership," Hultman said.According to Hultman, DEC members met Sunday evening to discuss a new club policy enacted Feb.
The University will close Patton Hall for renovation next year to place an arch through the center of the building and refurbish dorm rooms.The arch will create a path that runs straight through campus, connecting Forbes to the soon-to-be-built Campus Center and McCosh Health Center.Undergraduate Life Committee chair Dana Berneman '99 said she supports construction of the arch.
Look out Kenneth Starr and Alan Ginsburg, Princeton has a new breed of lawyers on the way.On Feb.
While the University's endowment increased by more than 10 percent in the last fiscal year, that growth rate placed last among the 10 largest college endowments in the United States.Growth rates of the top 10 endowments spanned from Emory University's 41.8-percent increase to Princeton's 10.6 percent, according to The New York Times, which based its data on a survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.The average growth rate for the 25 colleges and universities with endowments of $1 billion or more was 21.9 percent, about double Princeton's growth rate, the Times reported.Despite its low ranking, the University maintained the fourth largest endowment in the nation, totaling almost $5 billion.Conditions were ripe for investments last fiscal year.
Responding to a call about kids playing in the stadium construction site, the dispatcher brought up a Web page.
Mathey College MAA Christopher Poindexter '99 was attacked and beaten outside the Third World Center at approximately 2:20 a.m.
Few, if any, Christians on campus will be participating in the national 40-day fast that began yesterday, and the University Campus Crusade for Christ is not encouraging them to do so.National CCC founder Bill Bright instituted the fast for the first time this year.
The Oprah Winfrey-Toni Morrison duo was not exactly paradise for neighbors of Lowrie House Saturday.Winfrey visited Princeton to interview Morrison, the Robert F.
His eyes seem to be the windows to his soul. Recounting the events of his life, he smiles at certain memories and his eyes twinkle with happiness.
Buoyed by her win yesterday against Texas beef companies in a "veggie libel" suit, talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey is coming to campus this weekend to tape portions of an upcoming show featuring author and creative writing professor Toni Morrison.Winfrey will host a taped discussion on Morrison's new book, "Paradise," with the 1993 Nobel Prizewinning author and 20 preselected viewers, said Audrey Pass, a spokeswoman for The Oprah Winfrey Show.The discussion will air as part of Winfrey's March 6 show, which will be televised live from Chicago, Pass added. Private tapingThe Princeton taping will not be open to the public, and officials refused to disclose where on campus or when this weekend it will take place."We don't want people to show up to the event," Pass said.
"This will probably be the biggest Asian invasion that this campus has seen in years," George Cheng '98, co-chair of the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association, said of the ITASA annual conference to be held on campus this weekend.Audrey Jean '99, co-chair of ITASA, said that she expects over 300 students from at least 34 different colleges and universities from as far as Canada and California.The conference, entitled "Tai-wanese Eyes-American Visions," consists of a variety of workshops, speakers and performances open to all University students with PUID."The workshops are about our identity within the Asian spectrum and within American society as a whole," Jean said. Wide appealShe explained that many of the workshops are held concurrently and appeal to a wide variety of students.
Maria Burnett-Gaudiani '98 and Taleeb Noormohamed '98 received this year's Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize Fellowship.
At Princeton, the Internet is not just for surfing anymore.The Internet is used not only in engineering and science classes, but also in liberal arts courses.
