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Students debate Honor Code policy

Students debate Honor Code policy

Roughly 25 students met in McCosh 28 for one hour on Monday night to discuss concerns about the University’s honor system as the USG prepares to introduce a referendum that, if passed, would create an Honor Committee with 12 full members. Under the current system, nine full members and three alternates sit on the committee.

NEWS | 04/12/2010

Majority of USG races uncontested

The USG announced the candidates in the spring 2010 election on Monday morning. Only three races are contested in the election, in which students must elect class officers, U-Councilors and the USG social chair.

NEWS | 04/12/2010

Students find room draw rules confusing

For several students, the details of the room draw process have proved confusing due to unclear information provided by the Housing Department. Lisa DePaul, associate director for student housing, said in an e-mail that the majority of feedback she receives from students is positive.

NEWS | 04/12/2010

Cannon Club opening still set for spring 2011

Cannon Club is still scheduled to open in spring 2011, said Mercedes Naficy-D’Angelo ’84, secretary of the Dial, Elm and Cannon club graduate board. “We’d love for that to happen, though we hoped it would happen a little sooner,” she said on Sunday.

NEWS | 04/11/2010

Forbes celebrates 25 years as a residential college with day-long festivities on Saturday

For once, Forbes College was the place to be on a Saturday night. The residential college celebrated its 25th anniversary in style, honoring its guest, Steve Forbes ’70, with an afternoon reception that featured an ice sculpture of the Forbes shield and vast offerings of hors doeuvres and sparkling cider. A special dinner and a “Fire and Ice” semiformal followed the reception

NEWS | 04/11/2010

Majority of USG races uncontested

The USG announced the candidates in the spring 2010 election on Monday morning. Only three races are contested in the election, in which students must elect class officers, U-Councilors and the USG social chair.

NEWS | 04/11/2010

ODUS holds blog design event

Out of 185 links to student group websites on the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students’ student group directory, 53 prompt error messages or blank pages. Dozens more have not been updated this year.

NEWS | 04/11/2010

Kagan ’81 rumored to be top candidate for Supreme Court

United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 is rumored to be among the top three candidates to fill Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens’s seat on the bench, following his announcement on Friday that he will retire when the court’s term ends this summer.

NEWS | 04/11/2010

Ristuccia ’75 forges path to ministry

When Matt Ristuccia ’75 first arrived on campus, he was not passionate about Princeton. And he didn’t care much about religion. But by the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with both — along with his future wife.Now celebrating 25 years as the pastor of Westerly Road Church in Princeton Borough, Ristuccia reflected on his path to the ministry and his life since, an experience that he said has been deeply rewarding.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Researcher calls pornography detrimental to the male-female relationship

Pamela Paul might be opposed to porn, but she is not “anti-sex” or a “prude.” “Porn is not sex,” Paul said, but is “at root a negation of the human experience.” Drawing a comparison between Hostess cupcakes and homemade ones, she explained that because porn is “artificial,” it is “not as good” as actual sex.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

New director of fellowships announced

Deirdre Moloney will become the director of fellowship advising, effective July 1, the University announced on Friday afternoon.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Students build wall to protest Israeli policies

For eight hours on Thursday, students walking by the north lawn outside Frist Campus Center were greeted by a 16-foot wall made of wood and Styrofoam — a symbolic representation of the wall dividing the West Bank, which has sparked extensive disagreement and conflict.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Class day speaker not yet announced

Every year, the graduating class invites a star speaker to give a speech on Class Day, the day before Commencement. In recent years, seniors have learned who will address them before turning in their theses. But the identity of this year’s guest still remains a mystery.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Kreisler ’95 elicits laughs, political discussion at event

On a warm Thursday night, Jeff Kreisler ’95 managed to elicit near-constant laughter from a crowd of roughly 60 people in McCosh 10 during an event dubbed “Comedy Against Evil,” sponsored by the College Democrats.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Freshmen explore the art of motorcycle design

Instead of completing their science and technology distribution requirement with beakers and scales, 14 freshmen are disassembling and overhauling a 50-year-old motorcycle in FRS 108: Art and Science of Motorcycle Design.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: Educational program for minority students receives Shell grant

The W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute at Princeton University, a leadership program for minority high school students, received a $100,000 donation from Shell Oil Company on Monday, The Princeton Packet reported

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Alumni work on developing site to stream live concerts

After working at a consulting company during his first year out of college, Michael Rudoy ’07 decided that he “wanted to do something more entrepreneurial.”Talking with a representative of Live Nation, a major concert promoter, Rudoy learned that the company was looking to expand into online concerts. However, Rudoy explained, it “couldn’t figure out the best viewing environment for a concert.”

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: University ranked sixth most stressful in U.S.

Princeton is the sixth most stressful college in the United States, according to The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.The top five most stressful colleges are Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn, and Harvard, the website said.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University and Google Books move forward with digitization

Around 70 percent of the 1 million books that will eventually be included in the Google Books digital archive have already been digitized, University Librarian Karin Trainer said in an e-mail. The initiative for digitization began in early 2007, when the University Library and Google agreed to a six-year contract to make less than one-tenth of the University’s 11 million holdings — which include manuscripts and periodicals as well as books — available online through Google Book Search.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University plans more shelving in Firestone

As part of an ongoing renovation process that will take at least 10 years, the University plans to begin construction on the A- and C-floors of Firestone Library this summer to increase the amount of shelving space available for special collections.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

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