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(05/03/15 2:55pm)
When board members of the Cap & Gown Club sought town approval to build an addition to the clubhouse six years agothat would cost around $5 million, town officials raised half-hearted concerns about a proposed tap room.
(01/11/15 8:44pm)
It’s hard being a student journalist at Princeton these days.I started my tenure as Editor-in-Chief a year ago discussing the University’s massive communications efforts to craft an ever-positive image of itself. I wrote then about the University’s SPIN program (initials which officially don’t stand for anything, I was later told), that groups over 150 administrators to discuss communications strategies, and I stressed that the purpose of The Daily Princetonian was to deconstruct spin and to present the news without an agenda. At the beginning of my tenure I promised to take a more aggressive approach to our reporting and to stress daily the differences between the University’s propaganda machine and an independent news organization.A year later, I have been surprised by the retaliation some of our writers have had to face not from angry administrators but from their peers, other students who did not appreciate stories that negatively portrayed certain aspects of student life on campus. While these consequences were mainly social -- being banned from an eating club or being asked to leave a small dorm party, for example -- others were serious yet highly improbable, such as threats of bodily harm or a conspiracy to plant drugs in the newsroom (I kid you not, I overheard the latter one day while walking to our newsroom at 48 University Place).We didn’t take any of this personally or seriously, of course. We are well aware that our job descriptions require us to write and actively pursue unpopular stories that will bring to light questionable behavior or wrongdoing. However, I was taken aback that most of the pushback against the paper this year came from other students rather than from the administration. As student journalists we deal each day with living among the small community that makes up the Princeton student body while reporting on it at the same time. As a result, it is inevitable that student journalists and story subjects will cross paths among multiple spheres of life on campus. Professional journalists don’t face these encounters as often, nor do they have to reconcile their affiliations with their town, city or country with the work they do in the same way that we have to reconcile our affiliations with Princeton and the ‘Prince.’Yet, the ‘Prince’ has in the undergraduate student body its most contentious critics, the same broad group of people who make up our staff. A vocal minority of the student body has come to expect a paper that, if it does not properly advocate for the interest of the students, at least presents a semblance of solidarity with its peers. In short, that we play nice when we discuss one of our own. One particular comment on a recent arrest story was symptomatic of this thinking, a student wrote: “It's amazing to see student publications more concerned with disgracing their student body than actually publishing thought provoking news.”Here at the ‘Prince,’ our reporters try to be journalists first, students second. Our stories are not attacks against our peers or attempts to disgrace them, but an attempt to provide prompt, relevant information to the University community even when the content of our stories may afflict some of our readers, such as those who are personally close to the story, those who feel we ought not to tarnish Princeton’s reputation or those who will not be portrayed in a positive light. In addition, we treat all of our sources like who they are: adults. We have no deference to our peers and we have no deference to administrators.In fact, writing stories about the administration -- where the extra layers separating us from our Nassau Hall sources mean our relationships never have to transcend the professional -- can sometimes be easier because there is a clear distinction between our journalism and our personal lives. However, it’s not that we have shied away from negative stories about the administration, our coverage of the University’s mental health policies comes to mind, for example.Just like we do not have an agenda with the administration, we do not have an agenda when we report on matters of student life. Nevertheless, having reached the end of my term, I want to remind you that before you take it out on a reporter for a story you have read, remember that the only person responsible for everything published in the ‘Prince’ this year was me.Marcelo Rochabrun, a history major from Lima, Peru, is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Princetonian. He can be reached at mrochabr@princeton.edu.
(04/29/14 1:47pm)
Evan Thomas, former editor-at-large at Newsweek who has taught journalism at the University for seven consecutive years, will be leaving Princeton at the end of the academic year. As a professor, he lived at the top of Blair Tower, and students and faculty alike say that he observed the Princeton student culture more closely than most. After Princeton, he will continue his writing career; he is currently working on a biography of President Richard Nixon. Before a farewell reception on Tuesday, Thomas spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his time here, student life at the University and the culture of busyness that, he says, dominates the student body.
(03/26/14 9:00pm)
The Daily Princetonian receives a number of letters to the editor from the University administration, usually in response to articles and editorials published in our paper. While we sincerely appreciate the feedback, commentary and dialogue, we are also concerned that a growing number of letters are not coming directly from their authors but are being sent to us via Princeton’s central Office of Communications.
(02/02/14 9:41pm)
There is a peculiar and obscure group on campus, even though, at around 200 members, it is almost as large as the full staff of The Daily Princetonian. The group is run by the Office of Communications -- the University’s central public relations office— and is aptly called SPIN. It seeks to brings together “a broad range of communicators … to discuss communication strategies,” according toa report filed late last yearto the Priorities Committee.They even have monthly meetings and subgroups, cleverly called SPINoffs.Their goal, as well as the purpose of spinning news on this campus, was summarized ina 2010 blog postby the Office of Athletic Communications. Spin means “to be as positive as possible about your own school,” the blog read.
(12/09/13 7:00pm)
No new cases of gastroenteritis on campus have been reported since Thursday, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Monday.
(12/05/13 9:31pm)
Alla Ryklin, a woman from West Windsor, was charged with two counts of computer criminal activity on Wednesday.
(12/05/13 8:34pm)
At least five individuals have come down with symptoms of foodborne illness apparently linked to the Ivy Club, a local health inspector confirmed Thursday.
(12/02/13 11:50am)
McCarter Theatre General Manager Thomas Muza, who also worked as Princeton Triangle Club’s accountant, has been charged with embezzling over $100,000 from Triangle, the N.J. State Attorney General’s Officeannounced Monday.
(11/19/13 10:30am)
The commercial success of Bexsero — the vaccine made by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis that will be offered to Princeton students in December and is not yet licensed for use in the United States — is crucial for the future of the company’s vaccine department, according to a review of financial disclosure forms.
(11/18/13 2:02pm)
A plan to import a meningitis vaccine not currently approved in the United States for use at Princeton has been in the works since the summer.
(10/20/13 8:21pm)
“Public Safety is receiving reports of possibility of shots fired in Nassau Hall,” a Princeton Police Department dispatcher saidaround 7:57 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, alerting all officers on duty.
(10/10/13 6:17pm)
A hammer and chisel that were used to repair a door have been identified as the likely source of the reported gunshot sounds on Tuesday evening at Nassau Hall, the University said Thursday.
(10/09/13 5:00pm)
Following a two-and-a-half hour shutdown as a result of unfounded reports of gunshots inside Nassau Hall on Tuesday night, the University’s main administrative building resumed normal operations Wednesday morning.
(10/08/13 9:21pm)
The University did not shut down campus during the incident. Events in buildings nearby were allowed to continue.
(10/01/13 1:27pm)
The number of criminal offenses reported on campus decreased for the fifth consecutive year to 44 cases in the 2012 calendar year, according to the University’s 2013Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, released by the Department of Public Safety last week.
(09/24/13 6:05pm)
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the case of the freshman charged with drug possession back to the Princeton Municipal Court, Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday.
(09/19/13 6:09pm)
The undergraduate student charged this month with possession of illegal drugs by the University’s Department of Public Safety was found to have ecstasy, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday.
(09/16/13 2:56pm)
The case of the undergraduate student charged with possession of illegal drugs by the University’s Department of Public Safety will be handled by Mercer County’s Prosecutor's Office, a representative from the local Princeton Municipal Court said Monday.Joseph Gauvreau ’17 faced a routine court date on Sept. 10, after which his case was transferred to the prosecutor's office because of the nature of the charges, according to the representative.Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office,said they had yet to receive the paperwork for the case but noted that it would likely be received later in the week.The alleged drug remains to be identified and the testing process could take weeks, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.He confirmed that the case has also been referred to the University’s Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, which will conduct a separate investigation of the incident.
(09/10/13 10:08pm)
An enrolled undergraduate student was arrested Sunday night by the University’s own Department of Public Safety after he was allegedly found in possession of illegal drugs in a room in Holder Hall.Public Safety has rarely arrested students for drug possession or any other offense, instead issuing what the University calls a judicial referral.