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April is the cruellest month" wrote poet T.S. Eliot, and many Princeton seniors whose theses are due this month will agree. Still, those same seniors often find extraordinary satisfaction in the thesis, the capstone of their Princeton years. Following are a few cases in point. [>>more]
Play addresses school violence
The tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado had not
yet happened when Robert Sandberg began interviewing
middleschool kids for his play on school violence.
Two boys had not killed a teacher and
four classmates in a middle school in Arkansas, and a
first-grader had not shot a six-year-old classmate to death
in Michigan.
Nothing so dramatic was in Sandberg's
mind in 1997 -- just the sight of kids jumping and pounding
on each other when he went to pick up his seventh-grade son
from middle school. He set out to investigate, interviewing
children and teens in Princeton and Trenton. He wrote and
rewrote. Two years later, Sandberg had his play, In
Between, and the educational establishment, reeling from
a series of school shootings, was ready to view it.
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When Hekaemsaf, overseer of the royal ships, commissioned his Book of the Dead around 300 BCE, he probably expected the book's collection of hymns, prayers, spells, magical formulae and images would serve him well in the afterlifeas it had the Pharaohs for thousands of years. But never could he have imagined it would be preserved in cyberspace. [>>more]
Athletics
Baseball. The Tigers defeated
Connecticut on March 23 and St. Joseph's on March 25 and
split games against Delaware on March 26. (6-8 overall, 0-0
Ivy)
Fencing. Both the men and the
women finished fifth at the NCAA Championship at Stanford on
March 23 through 26. Freshman Eva Petschnigg won the women's
foil individual national championship, garnering the first
individual title for Princeton's women's program. (Men:
12-3, 4-0 Ivy; women: 15-2, 5-0 Ivy)
Lacrosse. The women beat Columbia
18-0 on March 22, scoring the first Princeton shutout in the
program's 27-year history. On March 25 the men defeated
Rutgers 15-5 and the women won against Penn State 19-8.
(Men: 3-1; 0-0 Ivy; women: 5-1, 1-0 Ivy )
Softball. Princeton defeated
Fairfield and Boston College on March 25 and Temple on March
26. (8-14, 0-0 Ivy)
Tennis. The men outplayed St.
John's on March 24 and Navy on March 25, and the women won
against Boston College on March 26. (Men: 10-5, 0-0 Ivy;
women: 9-2, 0-0 Ivy)
Water polo. The Tigers outplayed
Maryland, James Madison and George Washington on March 25
and Villanova on March 26. (14-3, 8-0 CWPA)
In the news
Scientists enlivened by the recent surge
in fuel prices are making strides in a decades-long quest to
bottle the fusion genie that powers the sun and stars. Where
others see the potential for an energy crisis, they detect a
silver lining, and the timing is critical. The future of
fusion energy research might be on the line.
The drive to develop an alternative
energy source that doesn't create byproducts linked to
global climate change, and is drawn from cheap, available
sources like seawater, is centered on a new scaled-down
[experimental] machine.
Though skeptics have questioned whether
fusion energy will ever be a practical power source,
scientists here at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
are determined to prove they can build one that is also
efficient.
After years of budget cuts and layoffs,
the lab, managed by Princeton University for the federal
Department of Energy, has received a 10 percent increase in
its annual budget, bringing it to $63 million and funding a
staff of 450. A similar budget increase for next year,
recommended by the Clinton administration, is moving through
Congress.
"There's a window of opportunity for us
to make an investment now, and Congress has seen it," said
Robert Goldston, a physicist and director of the lab. "The
question for the country is this: Do you want to fix the
roof while the sun is shining or do you want to
wait?"
"Fusion research getting a boost,"
by Kitta MacPherson,
msnbc.com/news, March 13
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