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(07/24/16 10:43pm)
CLEVELAND – After four nights of speeches, the 2016 Republican National Convention was gaveled to a close. Delegates formally nominated Donald Trump and Mike Pence for president and vice president, respectively.Pence accepted his nominationWednesdaywith Trump’s acceptance followingon Thursday. Speakers included Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92, former Republican candidate Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor and ex officio trustee of the University Chris Christie and members of Trump’s family.
(07/21/16 5:19am)
CLEVELAND—During a prime-time slot of the Republican National Convention’s third night, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 addressedthe delegates and conventioneers, framing his speech around freedom and adhering to the Constitution. Cruz spoke on the convention staged framed by images of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
(05/28/16 4:50pm)
Beginning May 18, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment celebrated its opening with a three-day symposium featuring energy industry leaders, policymakers and scientists.
(05/23/16 10:17pm)
Two air pellet guns — one of which was loaded —, a wooden replica sword and a bow and arrows were found in the dormitory of a University student in Little Hallon Sundayevening.The incident was documented as a weapon law violation, according to the Department of Public Safety daily crime log.On Sundayevening, the DPS received a report from a concerned student indicating that she thought another student might have weapons on campus,according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day.The undergraduate made the report after seeing a Facebook photo of another student, capturing the student in question standing in his dorm, holding what appeared to be his senior thesis and various weapons, Day explained.The student in the photo lives in Little Hall, according to Day. After receiving the report, Public Safety officers searched his room while he was off campus.The officers secured the multiple weapons found in the room, Day explained.Day further noted that both air pellet guns were rifle models and that the bow was a hunting model. The arrows were the kind typically used for target shooting, not for hunting, Day added.According to Day, the student’s case has been referred for University disciplinary review.According to Section 1.2.5 of Rights, Rules and Responsibilities, “the possession of weapons or the use or threatened use of weapons or objects capable of being used as weapons” is regarded as an extremely “serious offense.”Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky deferred comment to Day.
(05/23/16 3:13pm)
The United States Consul General in Shanghai Hanscom Smith GS'89 recently married his partner Lu Yingzong, also known as Eric Lu, in San Francisco recently while on vacation. The American consulate in Shanghai documented Smith’s vacation and website in Chinese on its official Weibo account.
(04/27/16 8:36pm)
A growing pile of more than a dozen seemingly abandoned bikes can be found near the Shea Rowing Center, home of the University’s crew teams.Some of the bikes in the pile appear fully functional and crew team members walk by them everyday. Many students are unaware of why the bikes remain.Amanda Haye ’19, a women's lightweight rower,said she heard rumors about the bikes’ origins, and that the bikes aren’t necessarily owned by crew members.“That’s a known thing that people steal bikes and don’t put them back,” she said. “Maybe that’s what it is. That’s what people think. I know that’s [what] people think, but I don’t know for sure.”Haye said there are bikes by the trees that accumulated as the year progressed.“They weren’t there constantly at the beginning of the year,” she said.Ellie Maag ’19, a women's openweight rower whose bike was stolen from the boathouse around October of last year, expressed surprise at the number of bikes that are abandoned.“I really don’t understand why they’re still there. You’d think someone would have stolen them by now. Some are half sunk into the ground and almost look like they’re trying to be garden décor or something,” she said.Jan Bernhard ’18, a men's heavyweight rower, said that most people on crew have bikes that are commonly purchased from Walmart. As a result, they are low quality and frequently break, he added. He said that sometimes if the bikes’ chains break, people can still use them to coast downhill toward the boathouse, but might not use the bike to go back uphill. Thus, some bikes are left behind.According to Bernhard and lightweight rower Oscar Holmes ’19, there was a cleanup earlier in the year of the seemingly abandoned bikes. Bernhard said he thinks this has only happened once during his time at the University.Rebecca Blevins ’19, a women's open weight rower, also heard that there was a cleanup effort earlier this year.According to Holmes, the cleanup was ordered by a coaching staff at the boat club.In an email sent to multiple crew teams in early March, Greg Hughes ’96, head coach of men's heavyweight crew, asked all bikes to be removed the next day as too many bikes were piling up.“All remaining bikes [after the cleanup] will be removed and disposed of,” Hughes wrote.Hughes did not respond to a request for comment. Kate Maxim, assistant coach for the women's openweight crew, deferred comment to the University Department of Public Safety.DPS deferred comment to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan.According to Pullan, Public Safety does not touch bikes unless there is evidence of a crime. She explained that DPS does not pick up abandoned bikes nor store them.“If it’s something abandoned, Transportation and Parking Services should get it. There’s certainly nothing more that Public Safety does,” she said.Public Safety had no knowledge of such a cleanup and deferred comment to the University’s Transportation & Parking Services.Michelle Ingram, manager for parking enforcement and responsible for bikes on campus, said that if a cleanup was done, Public Safety would have performed it. Ingram said that her department focuses almost entirely on the inner campus where authorized bike posts or ribbon racks are located. Ingram added that Transportation & Parking Services has a protocol for determining when bikes are abandoned.Signals of abandonment include twisted tires or missing handlebars, Ingram said. Transportation & Parking Services tag bikes that appear to be abandoned. After a designated wait period where no owner claims the bike, the Department collects the bike and holds them before donating the bikes.After determining whether or not a bike is abandoned, collecting and holding the bike for a period of 30 days, the Department donates the bikes to Bikes for the World and the Boys & Girls Club of Mercer County, according to Ingram.
(04/26/16 8:58pm)
The University’s Department of Public Safety sent a Campus Safety email alert to University affiliates on Tuesday afternoon about two incidents of individuals peering into residential windows on campus.
(04/18/16 5:55pm)
Seven University faculty, alumni, and affiliates have filed amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs in United States v. Texas, a Supreme Court case argued on Monday examining the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program.
(04/13/16 6:03pm)
Michael Oppenheimer, professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Wilson School, filed an amicus curiae brief on early April in defense of the Clean Power Plan, to be ruled on this June. He filed this brief in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit case, along with 20 other climate scientists invested in the issue.
(04/06/16 3:01pm)
The Office of Sustainability, aided by multiple undergraduate and graduate students, will launch the 2016 Farmer’s Market on April 13 with new sustainability guidelines.
(04/05/16 11:47am)
Since the Pride Week at the University expanded to Pride Month last year, the number of activities offered and number of participants during the month has grown.
(04/03/16 3:09pm)
University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 released a letter in response to an inquiryfrom several members of the U.S. Congress into the University’s endowment spending on Thursday.
(03/21/16 3:07pm)
The Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative released apetitionto the University on Sunday proposing that the University divest from coal and, eventually, all fossil fuels.
(03/20/16 10:04pm)
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Ross Haywood ’90 for a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Saturday.
(03/08/16 7:23pm)
Dickinson College Professor of philosophy Cripsin Sartwell recently accused University professor Alexander Nehamas GS ’71 of plagiarism and libel.
(03/02/16 4:41pm)
University faculty and alumni have written amicus curiae briefs for both sides of Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the first major case regarding abortion to come before the Supreme Court in years.The case was argued on Wednesday.
(03/01/16 7:57pm)
Three University researchers have recently been recruited by the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that enables anonymous communication over the internet.
(02/24/16 4:05pm)
University history professor Jan Tomasz Gross may lose his Order of Merit medal awarded by the Republic of Poland for claiming Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes, according to Ma?gorzata Sadurska, a member of the Polish presidential staff.
(02/17/16 2:55pm)
Several members of Congress recently sent a letter to 56 private colleges and universities with endowments over $1 billion including the University and the Princeton Theological Seminary to solicit information regarding how the institutions spend their endowments.
(02/16/16 3:10pm)
The Office of Sustainability chose three interns for the spring semester to design and implement projects to make Reunions more sustainable, according to Director of the Office of Sustainability Shana Weber.