2008 Princeton Summer Journal
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FEATURE ARTS SPORTS Exploring digitization ‘Mamma Mia!’ Trenton Thunder rolls and the Nothing can save this to 6-3 victory over future of books dancing queen Altoona Curve Page 2 Page 5 Page 12 The Princeton ummer J ournal sA Publication of The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program Monday, August 4, 2008 Founded in 2002 www.princeton.edu/sjp INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Expired medicine, baby food on Trenton store shelves This article was reported by and over-the-counter medica- stores across the city Wednes- lawful “to sell or offer to sell ed the Consumer Fraud Act. By the numbers the staff of the Summer Jour- tions for children and adults, day. These included Gerber to the public … any non-pre- The companies agreed to a nal and written by Jasmine a Summer Journal investiga- baby food six months past its scription drug, infant formula $650,000 settlement in June Number of stores Gray and Mariya Ilyas. tion has found. expiration and children’s mo- or baby food” that has passed of this year. 7 visited in Trenton Summer Journal report- tion sickness medicine that its expiration date. The New Last November, Duane Number of expired TRE nt O N – Some Trenton store ers found 191 expired items, expired in November 2007. Jersey Attorney General sued Reade agreed to pay a shelves hold long-expired some more than a year old, in New Jersey’s Consumer Rite Aid and Eckerd in 2006, $175,000 civil penalty and 191 products found products, including baby food seven convenience and drug Fraud Act states that it is un- alleging that they had violat- See EXPIRED page 10 TAKING ITS TOLL RISING COSTS More New Yorkers turn to food banks By Kara Macon food programs. Milwaukee, Wis. With the slumping econ- omy and the rising cost of NEW YORK – On 116th Street food in New York City and in Harlem last week, a line across the country, more and of middle-aged people, most- more people find themselves ly African-American men, turning to emergency food waited patiently for a meal of programs, according to a chicken, rice, salad and fresh study released recently by oranges. They stood outside City Hall and the Food Bank Community Kitchen, which for New York City. serves as a haven for some “Things are bad,” said of the city’s 3.1 million resi- Louie Smith Rico, a father dents who rely on emergency See FOOD page 8 ELECTION 2008 Voters speak out on Democratic platform By Dominique Stem them during a forum held Memphis, Tenn. at Medgar Evers College on Tuesday. BROOKL yn – New York del- More than 100 people egates preparing to head attended the event, which to the Democratic National was held in a warm audito- Convention in Denver later rium and titled “Listening to this month had a chance America.” Foremost among to hear directly from their their concerns were the econ- BRIAN ROKUS :: THE PRINCETON SUMMER JOURNAL constituents on the election omy and education. Many cab drivers in New York City are facing significant financial pressures because of rising gas prices. See story, page 2. issues most important to See DNC page 8 JOLT OF REALITY WOMEN IN ENGINEERING At 616 Few in numbers, women delve into engineering By Katie Zavadski vapors of liquid nitrogen in a She first worked in electrical Bhatt is working with field just three years after Brooklyn, N.Y. basement lab. She is part of engineering professor Claire Quantum Cascade Lasers, a former Harvard University Starbucks, a group of students research- Gmachl’s lab after her junior new type of semiconductor President Lawrence Summers Anjali Bhatt is a trail- ing lasers at the University’s year of high school, when she laser discovered in 1994. caused a stir by suggesting blazer. Mid-Infrared Technologies for e-mailed the professor asking “So far it seems that their that in science and engineer- it’s hasta Dressed in a brick-colored Health and the Environment to do research. Now she’s back best application is gas testing,” ing, “there are issues of in- Harvard T-shirt and wearing (MIRTHE) Institute over the in Gmachl’s lab, this time as said Bhatt, explaining that trinsic aptitude” that prevent her hair pulled back in a po- summer. part of the National Science they may be used to detect am- women from participating in barista nytail, Bhatt, 18, spends her Petite and engaging, Bhatt Foundation’s Research Experi- monia and carbon dioxide. the same numbers as men. By Lyne Lucien mornings peering through is enthusiastic about her work. ence for Undergraduates. Bhatt is breaking into this See WOMEN page 3 Boston, Mass. NEW YORK – With gas prices AN EQUESTRIAN QUESTION reaching record highs this summer, many Americans are putting a higher priority on filling up their gas tanks than their Starbucks coffee ActivistsBy Sabienne Brutus saddleif New York Cityup Council for- aA 2007fight audit by New cups. Brooklyn, N.Y. man Tony Avella has his York City Comptroller Wil- Last month, the Seattle- way. Avella has introduced liam Thompson Jr. exposed based chain announced that NEW YORK – The sound of legislation that would ban problems with the medical 616 U.S. stores would close. their hooves on the pave- the horse-drawn carriages, care of the horses and the Starbucks had 172,000 em- ment adds to the rhythm of citing a history of mistreat- cleanliness of their working ployees worldwide at the end the busy streets of New York ment and a series of deadly conditions. The report stated of September, about 12,000 City. They pull sophisticated accidents. that the horses did not have of whom will be affected by carriages with small bou- Last September, a car- consistent access to water the closings, according to The quets of red and pink flow- riage horse named Smoothie and were forced to stand in Seattle Times. ers and wear small, funny- died after a drum spooked their own manure. On Wednesday, Starbucks looking red hats. They draw him and he crashed into a In addition to these crit- reported a third quarter net smiles and invite caresses tree. In 2006, a horse named icisms, opponents of the loss of $6.7 million compared from passersby. Spotty was put down after carriage trade also say the to a net income of $158.3 They are the horses that bolting and running into a horses create everyday an- million for the same period carry families of tourists and car, seriously injuring the noyances. The perimeter of last year. couples in love around Cen- carriage driver. And Juliet, Central Park is often clogged Many, including Star- tral Park, providing a tour of a horse that had pulled car- with traffic as the carriage bucks’ customers, think the the city’s vast green oasis. riages for 17 years, collapsed horses weave in and out BRIAN ROKUS :: THE PRINCETON SUMMER JOURNAL closings echo nationwide But this seemingly pretty in front of a group of onlook- among cars, taxis and buses. An American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals See StarBUCKS page 9 scene may not last for long, ers and later died. See HORSES page 8 (ASPCA) officer speaks with a carriage driver near Central Park. Page 2 August 4, 2008 The Princeton Summer Journal ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AROUND TOWN A star dies, and a Gas prices fuel concern for cabbies By Andrew Boryga And many are. An alliance Jesus Quinones, a 63-year- “Sometimes that line used Bronx, N.Y. of New York City cab driv- old doorman, thinks this to stretch around the block,” ers is demanding a fare hike has already happened. He he said, explaining that the stargazer is born With gas prices climbing to make up for the spike in should know, since he has a line has significantly de- By Fabiola Vega :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: higher and higher – over gas prices. The problem is, prime first-hand view of the creased during the past year. Tustin, Calif. $4.00 in some parts of New with fares having already situation. Quinones works “I’ve seen this line for the past Supernova study York – you would expect cab increased twice since 2004, at a hotel across the street 30 years,” he added, “and now For most people, the chance drivers to be panicked about increasing prices even more from one of Penn Station’s is definitely the worst.” to travel to a mountaintop in breaks new ground the future. could chase away customers. cab lines. See CABS page 9 Chile and spend all night look- By Ashley McCarter ing at the stars sounds amaz- Somerville, Mass. ing, even romantic. Not so for astronomer Alicia Soderberg. Alicia Soderberg, 30, a post- She finds it sometimes tedious doctoral scientist in the as- – an activity filled with long trophysics department, has hours waiting for clouds to lift witnessed something that no and sleepless munching on one else has seen: the massive junk food. explosion of a star, or a super- Earlier this year, however, nova. Soderberg witnessed some- “I never expected to get so thing that even she found lucky. Supernovae – they are astounding. It changed her very rare,” said the blonde- career. haired Soderberg while sitting Soderberg saw a massive in her Princeton office. star explode, a once-in-a-life- To the naked eye, a supernova time event she looks like a shining can describe only light in the sky. The as “completely materials within accidental” and the star build up “incredibly lucky.” until it eventually She saw Superno- collapses inward. va 2008d, not as a At a certain point, dim spectacle in a the materials have distant galaxy, but to come out.