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Judge places Brodherson '00 on six-month probation

The Daily Princetonian

Judge places Brodherson '00 on six-month probation

Marc Brodherson '00 was placed on conditional probation for six months yesterday after not offering a plea in response to a drug possession charge that had been reinstated recently.The municipal judge also fined Brodherson $500 during the hearing at Borough Hall.During the probation period, Brodherson cannot be found in possession of any controlled substances without facing jail time or additional fines, the judge said.In addition to the probation and fine, municipal prosecutor Marc Citron proposed a 30-day suspension of Brodherson's driver's license.

NEWS | 04/10/2000
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Wildcats accuse Penn singing group of lewd behavior

The Daily Princetonian

Wildcats accuse Penn singing group of lewd behavior

Members of the Princeton Wildcats, an all-female University a cappella group, were met with an unexpected reception while at the University of Pennsylvania last Thursday.During the group's performance at the annual spring show of the Pennsylvania Six-5000, several members of a Penn fraternity allegedly streaked the stage, according to Wildcats president Jessica Williams '01.The Penn Six-5000, an all-male a cappella group, invited the Wildcats to perform at the April 6 show ? titled "Busted Interface." The invitation was made after the Penn group performed at Princeton on March 25 with the Roaring 20, another Princeton a cappella group.In a draft of a letter Williams plans to send to Penn president Judith Rodin, Williams said the Wildcats "were slightly wary of accepting the invitation due to the tasteless antics of the Penn Six-5000 when they performed at Princeton the previous month."But the Wildcats, "in good faith," said Williams, decided to do the show in Penn's Irvine Auditorium anyway.

NEWS | 04/10/2000

Pushing the page past the limits, Williams wins poetry Pulitzer

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Pushing the page past the limits, Williams wins poetry Pulitzer

Humanities professor Charles Kenneth Williams is a man who understands that great writing obeys no limits.He spent more than 30 years crafting a single poem, and his students say publishers have had to make books wider and taller so the extra-long lines he wrote would not be broken in the wrong place.Yesterday, Williams was rewarded for his unique style of writing, receiving the poetry Pulitzer Prize for his collection titled "Repair.""It's great, just great," Williams said excitedly, after mentioning his plans for a celebration tomorrow with his family and friends."Repair" is a collection of poems on hurt and healing that addresses a range of topics including the Holocaust and American race relations.

NEWS | 04/10/2000

U-Council discusses goals for improving sweatshop conditions

The Daily Princetonian

U-Council discusses goals for improving sweatshop conditions

U-Council resource committee chair Jeffery Herbst recommended at a U-Council meeting yesterday the University continue efforts with the Fair Labor Association, rejecting anti-sweatshop student activists' requests that the University also join the more aggressive Worker Rights Consortium.The University joined the FLA last March to improve working conditions in factories producing University-licensed clothing."There are few issues more important to us than how the Princeton name is used," said Herbst, who is director of the African studies program.

NEWS | 04/10/2000

Overcoming competition, four professors take home Guggenheims

The Daily Princetonian

Overcoming competition, four professors take home Guggenheims

Four University professors won prestigious Guggenheim fellowships Friday, providing them with one-year stipends to research topics ranging from Jane Austen to Gregorian chant.Politics professor Jennifer Hochschild, music professor Peter Jeffery, English professor Claudia Johnson and comparative literature professor April Alliston were among 182 winners selected from a pool of 2,982 applicants.The awards, known as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows, were announced publicly in the New York Times yesterday.Hochschild said yesterday she will use the fellowship to finish her book "Madison's Constitution and Identity Politics." She said James Madison, who graduated from Princeton in 1771, designed the Constitution with "small and fluid factions that focus on economic interests" in mind.However, "politics has recently become more about identity politics," she said, referring to the tendency of politicians to categorize voters based on ethnicity or religious affiliation.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

All departments offer opportunities for majors, but how do small programs measure up to their larger counterparts?

The Daily Princetonian

All departments offer opportunities for majors, but how do small programs measure up to their larger counterparts?

Louis Turgel '01 could not make up his mind.It was spring of his sophomore year, and it was time to choose."It was a last-minute decision between Slavic or political economy," he said in an e-mail about his struggle to pick a major.Turgel chose Slavic languages and literature.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Spies expresses faculty, trustee concerns over Wythes report at USG meeting

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Spies expresses faculty, trustee concerns over Wythes report at USG meeting

Vice President for Finance and Administration Richard Spies GS '72 said at last night's USG senate meeting that faculty and trustees are concerned about strains on academics and student life that may result from the 500-student increase proposed by the Wythes committee.Spies ? who sported jeans, a plaid shirt and sneakers instead of his habitual, more formal garb ? said professors at a recent faculty committee meeting said they shared students' concerns about how a larger student body might negatively impact academic life at the University."It was very clear the faculty were nervous about this," Spies said.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Students present plans for future technological businesses in contest

The Daily Princetonian

Students present plans for future technological businesses in contest

The 13 teams of University students that competed Saturday in the Second Annual Business Plan Contest represent the latest additions to a rapidly developing world of high-technology entrepreneurship.The contest offered University students the opportunity to present business ideas to a panel of experienced venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in exchange for valuable advice and, for some, prize money, according to contest director Geraldine Alias '00.Brancusi Technologies, Inc. ? the winning entry created by Dirk Balfanz GS and Wenjia Fang GS ? is developing a software program to coordinate wireless transactions and purchases."Our software is enabling technology that will allow for engineering development in the wireless space," she said, adding that the prize carried a $5,000 award.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

CIT increases information access on campus with two computer kiosks

The Daily Princetonian

CIT increases information access on campus with two computer kiosks

As part of a larger initiative to provide students with increased access to computers, CIT recently placed computer kiosks in the student center hyphen and in the CIT building at 87 Prospect Ave."It is part of an overall project to increase the ubiquitous nature of computing on campus," CIT director Steven Sather said.Sather said the computers in the kiosks only access campus e-mail and University Internet addresses.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

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