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Alums' community impact to be recognized with U. award

Alums' community impact to be recognized with U. award

Two alumni who have impacted their communities will receive Alumni Day awards in February, the University announced last week.John Rogers '80, of Chicago-based mutual fund firm Ariel Capital Management, will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award, while Lawrence Goldman GS '69, the president and CEO of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), will receive the James Madison Medal.Rogers is chairman, CEO and CIO of Ariel, which he founded in 1983.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

University redefines harassment policy

Professors and administrators approved revisions to the University's anti-harassment policy, defining nonsexual forms of harassment and describing the process for filing complaints during a faculty meeting yesterday.After the meeting, Vice President for Development Brian McDonald briefed faculty members on the $1.75 billion capital campaign that is scheduled to launch this Friday.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

Hsu GS '07 makes TV debut in a race around the world

Christina Hsu GS '07 finished her MPA at the Wilson School this spring and decided to put her education to good use in a race around the world for a $1 million prize.Hsu and her father, Ronald, competed in the 12th edition of CBS' "The Amazing Race," which premiered Sunday night to an American audience of more than 13 million, according to the network.On the show, 11 pairs of people navigate the globe performing a series of extreme or culturally significant tasks, all while rushing to avoid last place and elimination from the contest.Hsu, a longtime fan of the show, said she first began to "build a small dream" of appearing on the program several years ago.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

Borough, Township to hold elections today

Local residents and University students registered to vote in Princeton will head to polls around the campus periphery today to elect local, county and state officials.In Princeton Borough, incumbent Democratic Councilmen Andrew Koontz and Roger Martindell face challenges from Republicans Linda Sipprelle and Joseph Codega '09.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

Clubs' legal woes have lengthy history

Since the presidents of Cottage Club, Cloister Inn and Tiger Inn were charged last month with serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance, the campus has hummed with speculation about the Borough's motives for what many saw as an unprecedented crackdown on the Street.But the Borough has a long history of taking aim at underage alcohol use on Prospect Avenue through the legal system, and local officials described the latest round of charges as nothing new.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

Pakistani students on edge as campus discusses Musharraf's move

When Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a national state of emergency and suspended the country's constitution on Saturday, the instability hit close to home for Pakistani students at the University.Hamza Masood '10, who stayed in the United States over Fall Break, said he was disappointed to discover what had occurred in his country while he slept Saturday night.

NEWS | 11/05/2007

Art pieces relinquished to Italy

Correction appended The University Art Museum will give the Italian Culture Ministry legal title to eight of 15 disputed art pieces, the two organizations said last week.Museum representatives and Italian authorities signed an agreement on Oct.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Tigers on the run

In a spot reserved for them by the Class of 2004, Princeton alumni and students cheer on runners in The New York City Marathon on Sunday.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Jury indicts Hermandorfer '08

A University senior and his friend were indicted last Friday for allegedly assaulting a member of the Class of 2007 during Reunions in June.A Mercer County grand jury indicted Nicholas Hermandorfer '08 and Adam Fassnacht, a 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia, with third-degree assault and fourth-degree retaliation against a witness.Hermandorfer and Fassnacht allegedly beat Robert Anderson '07 without provocation, breaking his nose, cheekbone and orbital socket.Borough Police charged the two with aggravated assault.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Website glitches delay Ivy League online Risk tournament

The administrators of gocrosscampus.com declared the Ivy League Championship Tournament "indefinitely paused until further notice" last Saturday, suspending what had become an intense game complete with spies and mass emails to more than 1,200 University students and alumni, as well as thousands more participants across the Ivy League.The contest is an online version of Risk ? the popular board game in which players compete with each other for global dominance ? where Ivy League students battle for control of the Northeast United States.The website has been slow and users have had trouble logging on throughout the tournament.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Tilghman among Glamour honorees

President Tilghman is among 21 recipients of Glamour magazine's 2007 Women of the Year award. She and her fellow honorees will be featured in a photo portfolio in the publication's Nov.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Rapelye to tour states with Harvard, U.Va. deans

Princeton, Harvard and the University of Virginia seem like an unlikely trio, but admission deans from the three institutions are now on tour together, visiting 19 cities across the country over the course of 15 days to tell applicants and their families about the financial feasibility of attending an elite college.The undergraduate admissions offices of all three universities ended their early application processes ? binding Early Decision at Princeton and Virginia, non-binding Early Action at Harvard ? last year.

NEWS | 11/04/2007

Natalie Portman touts microlending to assist poor

Greeted with applause, cheers and whistles that echoed off the ceiling of a packed McCosh 50, actress Natalie Portman spoke last night about helping the "poorest of the poor" through microlending.Politics professor Evan Lieberman, who introduced Portman, described microlending as "giving loans to individuals and groups of people who want to build small businesses.""Historically, the poorest people in the poorest countries have no opportunity to realize their dreams," he said.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

Caveat eater

Justine Chaney '10 did not know what was wrong."For about eight months I got mysterious, blistering headaches nearly every day," Chaney said of her freshman year experience.She went to a specialist in food allergies and was injected with about 200 distinct substances to test her reactions.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

W.G. LXXXI: Full Throttle

Top Five References Not to Use When Hitting on Freshmen, Otherwise the Only Dating You Will Be Doing Is Yourself: 5.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

Hermandorfer '08 indicted in assault of recent grad

A grand jury today indicted Nicholas Hermandorfer '08 and a friend with aggravated assault in the beating of a University student that happened during Reunions on June 1.Over the summer, Hermandorfer and recent University of Virginia graduate Adam Fassnacht turned down a plea deal offered by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office that would have resulted in probation.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

U. disavows ties to Horowitz's program

Princeton is participating in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week this week, at least according to conservative pundit David Horowitz's website, "Terrorist Awareness." But that's news to the University.The site, which Horowitz developed to publicize his controversial week-long initiative, lists Princeton among the 200 participating colleges and universities.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

Princeton scores small wins with summary judgments

The University can claim a number of small victories in its high-profile battle with the Robertson family after Mercer County Superior Court Judge Neil Shuster released rulings on seven motions for partial summary judgment.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

Wildfires threaten students' families

Firefighters are just beginning to gain control over the wildfires which have raged through Southern California over the past five days, burning nearly 500,000 acres of land and displacing as many people.For Princeton students who call Southern California home, the wildfires have added a great deal of fear to an already stressful midterm week.Megan Leahy '11, a student from the San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo, has lived in the same house for her entire life and has experienced threats of wildfire before, but she has never "experienced anything close to the destruction that has apparently taken place at home," she said in an email.Her parents called her Monday morning to say they were evacuating their home and "taking some valuables and sentimental belongings with them but leaving most behind."That same afternoon, Leahy learned from a friend that her home and most of her neighborhood had been destroyed by the flames.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

An exchange program you can walk to

When a Westminster Choir College freshman died from a heroin overdose last week, many students were as shocked to learn that there is another undergraduate college in Princeton as they were by the death.Westminster is a music conservatory serving about 400 students training to become professional musicians.

NEWS | 10/25/2007

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