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Students, faculty speak out on future of Elian Gonzalez

Students, faculty speak out on future of Elian Gonzalez

With six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's temporary U.S. residency set to expire tomorrow, the debate over the Cuban boy's future continues to rage across the country ? and the University campus is no exception.Many professors and students said they believe Gonzalez should be returned to Cuba for a variety of political and personal reasons ? primarily the rights of the boy's father."For good or for ill, we've always accepted the authority of biological parents, and I don't understand why we didn't do so six months ago," said sociology professor Miguel Centeno, who is a Cuban immigrant."The saddest thing is the stereotypical response of American culture.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Prosecutor reinstates drug charges against Brodherson '00

The Princeton municipal prosecutor has reinstated a drug-related charge against Marc Brodherson '00, whom police arrested last September after they searched his room to find the cause of his roommate's collapse, Emily Hornaday, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor's office, said Friday.Borough Police Lt.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Neysun Mahboubi '97 receives Soros Fellowship

For Neysun Mahboubi '97 ? a recent recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans ? liberty holds greater meaning than it does for most citizens.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Student interest takes off as skydiving club falls into place

ON BOARD A DEHAVALAND DH-6 ? Standing at the hatch of the airplane, cruising at 13,500 feet, Philadelphia is a mere speck and the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Proposed legislation may force University to install sprinklers

The University may be required by a New Jersey state initiative to install sprinkler systems in the more than 35 dormitories on campus, according to University spokesman Justin Harmon '78.Though the issue is still pending in the state assembly, a bill passed last month in the state senate would require all New Jersey colleges, universities and boarding schools to install sprinklers in their dormitories within two years.The impact of the bills under review in the assembly is uncertain, Harmon said.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Kim looks ahead to the impact of Visions survey

USG president PJ Kim '01 responded at a USG meeting last night to recent assertions in The Daily Princetonian that student responses to the online survey Visions of Princeton fell short of USG goals, leaving his administration without direction.About 600 students responded to the poll that the USG hoped would garner at least 1,000 responses, USG vice president Spence Miller '02 said.Though Kim previously had indicated he would base his agenda on the results of the project, he made statements to the contrary last night.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

University Ph.D. programs garner high rankings in U.S. News report

Several of Princeton's Ph.D. programs received top rankings in U.S. News and World Reports ratings of the nation's graduate schools and programs, released last week.The University's history, mathematics, public affairs, physics, architecture and economics departments all received top-three rankings in the survey."I'm delighted," chair of the history department Philip Nord said of the history Ph.D.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

String of false fire alarms strike the Graduate College

The University has responded to almost 40 false fire alarms sounded from pull stations in the Graduate College since the middle of February, according to Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser.The large number of false alarms has prompted Public Safety to place officers at the Graduate College to watch some of the more frequently used fire alarm pull stations, Weiser said."We had officers over there [Saturday] night," Public Safety Lt.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Graduate Students, Employees or Both?

Jeremy Billetdeaux goes to work five days a week. As a part-time instructor at Yale University, he watches students enter his French class unable to string multiple words together, and leave reading novels, writing essays and commenting on movies.He spends time outside of class, talking with them in his office or over coffee, analyzing their papers and generating grades.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

Hard 'core' requirements

For the average high school junior, touring 10 colleges during Spring Break can be a confusing experience.

NEWS | 04/02/2000

University seeks to expand prox functions with 'smart card'

Since last spring's proposal on possibly implementing "smart cards" ? a system in which one card would serve as a prox, ID, copy card, bank card and credit card ? the University has been moving cautiously toward a "one-card technology," according to Associate Treasurer John Yuncza.Though the debut of the new cards was originally planned for this fall, Yuncza said the pace of transition has been reduced to ensure that "the cards have the potential to deliver services to the University that are broad-based and state of the art."The current University prox and ID cards have magnetic strips that allow students to charge food and other selected items to their student accounts."Card technology has been identified as having potential for Princeton," Yuncza said.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

Let them eat cake

While there is nothing like Mom's chocolate-chip cookies, members of the University's newly revived baking club are connoisseurs when it comes to creating delicious treats that satisfy any sweet tooth.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

Interest in Class of '69 program explodes, as donations take off

Following its historic launch this year, the Princeton in Africa program has taken off with soaring student interest and unsolicited alumni donations.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

To Puerto Rico for Spring Break... with Grandma

Spring Break was two weeks ago, but a warm, sunny day here at Princeton can evoke for the traveler ? with a bit of imagination ? the tropical atmosphere of vacation.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

Looking for March Madness, Princeton style? Try Baker Rink

Well, the fire at the campus center was reasonably interesting, and Jon Stewart's show was quality stuff even to the humor-impaired.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

Alumnus to monitor NJ police force in bid to end racial profiling

Federal and New Jersey state officials announced Wednesday that former federal prosecutor Alberto Rivas '82 will be responsible for monitoring the operations of the New Jersey State Police following accusations of racial discrimination against the department.The reforms ? which were mandated in an agreement made with the U.S.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

Palmer House in business after two-year renovation

On the corner of Nassau Street and Bayard Lane stands Palmer House, the official guest home of the University.

NEWS | 03/30/2000

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

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