Stories from the current online edition of The Princeton Spectator. en-us http://www.princetonspectator.com Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Interview/Baseball.Mixing.Business.And.Pleasure-1022082.shtml A room of forty or so students listening to - no drumroll, because that would be too corny, but this is still a big deal - the CFO and Executive Vice President of Major League Baseball. In the wake of sports frenzy, the steroids scandal and the abrupt end of NHL's season, Business Today, an on-campus organization that works to bring students into closer contact with executives and business leaders, brought Jonathan Mariner for an intimate seminar with Princetonians. Interview 9/12/05 CFO and Executive Vice President of Major League Baseball speaks to Princeton students JULIA SHNEYDERMAN http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Interview/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Color.Blind-1022075.shtml Orange might be the color of the Dutch royal family but their country's telecommunications operator KPN is just as attached to the color green - so much so that it is ready to go to court over it. KPN wants a rival mobile phone operator in neighboring Belgium to change the shade of green it uses on its logo. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Runaway.Barbie-1022077.shtml Maybe hot sauce is the cure for cold feet. "Jennifer's High Tailin' Hot Sauce," a nod to the saga of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, has sold briskly since its debut Wednesday. "I'm in the hot sauce business and this is the hottest thing I've got right now," said "Pappy" David Ryan, who runs Pappy's Peppers in Lawrenceville, Ga. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Condomania-1022078.shtml After spending more than $1.8 million for a temporary system to catch stray condoms slipping through a sewage treatment plant, a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District spokesman says officials are fairly confident a majority of condoms are now being caught before they can reach Lake Michigan. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/SuperSize.Me-1022072.shtml Thailand's health ministry warned size-obsessed men on Friday to avoid trying to enlarge their penises with liquid injections, saying it could cause deformities. The warning followed media reports that male teenagers in central Thailand had rushed to have their penises injected with olive oil or other liquids. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Winning.And.Resigning-1022073.shtml The deputy leader of the German state of Bremen resigned after pouring sparkling wine over the head of a homeless man in an apparent joke that went wrong. Peter Gloystein of the center-right Christian Democrats was caught on camera pouring a magnum of the wine over the head of stunned Bremen local Udo Oelschlaeger at the launch of German wine week. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Cant-Rap.No.More-1022074.shtml Radio personality "Crazy Cabbie" will spend a year in prison for tax evasion after boasting about it on the nationally syndicated "Howard Stern Show." The WXRK-FM disc jockey, whose given name is Lee Mroszak, pleaded guilty in December to not paying taxes for three years beginning in 2001. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Dogfight-1022076.shtml Police officers in India's Andhra Pradesh state have discovered what many have known for centuries -- dogs are man's best friend. Police in the turbulent region are using rice and meat to lure and befriend street dogs after the barking of one helped them fend off an attack by rebel fighters this week. Bullyrag 9/12/05 Katherine Lyn 'Online Director' http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Soft-Justice-1022079.shtml An impotent Italian man who kept his problem a secret from his wife until after their wedding must pay her damages for 'eroding' her right to have a family, Italy's Supreme Court has ruled. The woman, identified by the Italian media as Cristina S., was quick to get her marriage annulled in the 1990s after learning to her horror that her husband could not consummate it. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/Childs.Play-1022080.shtml Two young boys' apparent game of hide-and-seek prompted a massive search involving dozens of people, a helicopter, military planes and at least three K-9 units. The unidentified boys - both about 5 years old - were found hiding under a bed in their grandmother's Darkesville, West Virginia,-area home Thursday afternoon, about 90 minutes after they were reported missing. Bullyrag 9/12/05 http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Bullyrag/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Column/Frisbee.Golf-1022084.shtml Fore! A shout echoes across a quad in the middle of the night before a Frisbee glides over the grass, through the archway landing precisely on the picnic table on the other side. In another part of campus, another player is attempting to curve his Frisbee from the Abraham and Isaac statue through the Dickinson archway to hit the Mather sundial in the courtyard above. Column 9/12/05 A spotlight on this unique sport G.J. LIGELIS JR. http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Column/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Princeton/Princeton.Behind.The.Academics-1022081.shtml If you look around Princeton's campus on any given day, you will find a shocking number of giant holes. New construction projects are seemingly continuously being started as Shirley Tilghman's plan to create "academic neighborhoods" becomes a reality. Princeton 9/12/05 Departments bond over pizza parties, keg races and dinner parties LIZ INKELLIS http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Princeton/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/SpectatorViews/Editorial-1022070.shtml Princeton has one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country. There is not much debate about that subject. Just walk around Prospect Garden in the spring or go sit by the Woodrow Wilson School fountain under the blooming magnolias. From Blair Arch to the Friend Center, Princeton is home to a wide range of powerfully inspiring architecture. Spectator Views 9/12/05 G.J. Ligelis Jr. http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/SpectatorViews/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/SpectatorViews/Thesis.Debriefing-1022071.shtml If you had asked me in my still euphoric dancing-on-the-windowsill-at-Ivy state on Monday night how my thesis had gone, I would likely have emphasized, in no uncertain champagne-induced terms, I was DONE. Sure, I (along with the unreasonably- high-according-to-Dean Malkiel percentage of my fellow seniors that were turning in theses in the major departments of English, Politics, Woody Woo, and those particularly on top of their game in Economics and History) had been up for about 40 or so hours straight, but we nudged each other with our elbows if we started to doze off in the taproom, and insisted that this night of hugs from underclassmen, groups of senior girls jumping up and down to the Romanian pop song that has taken the street by storm, and endless games of Robo was what we had all been working for. Spectator Views 9/12/05 MEREDYTHE RYAN http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/SpectatorViews/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Masthead/The-New.Alcohol.Initiative-1022085.shtml Back in 1999, the University and its Trustees embarked on a concentrated effort to curb drinking at Princeton among its undergraduates. This effort was embodied in the Alcohol Initiative, a body familiar to most undergraduates by now. Six years later, the questions and solutions proposed by the task force at the time are ripe for a retrospective judgment on their successes and failures. Masthead 9/12/05 Weighing the effectiveness of the University's Alcohol Initiative-funded events CLELAND WELTON http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Masthead/ Other http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Masthead/Lets-Get.Ready-1022086.shtml A visitor to Princeton University could head out to Prospect Street on any given Thursday or Saturday night and would be struck by the veritable bacchanalia of self-indulgence available at any one of the eleven stately mansions that line either side. Masthead 9/12/05 Eating Clubs unite for community service effort tutoring underprivileged students PETER WHITE http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2005/09/12/Masthead/ Other