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Borough brings charges against alleged club thief

Borough brings charges against alleged club thief

The sophomore arrested at Cap & Gown Club last weekend was charged yesterday with theft and possession of false documents.A Cap member noticed Alex Pessala '09 of Westbury, N.Y., "going through coats" in the club's coatroom last Sunday morning around 2 a.m.According to a police report published yesterday, Pessala, who is not a member of Cap, had "various items which did not belong to him" on his person when Borough Police officers searched him, and he presented police with a fake driver's license for identification.A date has yet to be set for his arraignment.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

Princeton 2037 No. 1: Formulaic action

In the year 2037, the past is tomorrow's yesterday. President M. Bison rules the anarcho-syndicalist American Empire with an iron fist.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

University stays atop U.S. News rankings

For the eighth consecutive year, Princeton is first in U.S. News and World Report's college rankings.This is the eighth straight year the University has been atop the rankings and the second in a row that it has held the position alone, with Harvard at number two and Yale third.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

Reunions photos on The Prox

Check out The Prox for photos of the P-rade, the tents and the rest of the mayhem, madness and magic that is Reunions.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

PFARS response may bring police

When an intoxicated female student fell down and hit her head over Houseparties weekend, Public Safety found the situation serious enough to summon the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad (PFARS).When PFARS arrived on the scene at Frist Campus Center, however, they were accompanied by a Borough Police officer.The officer's arrival led to charges being filed against Colonial Club president Tommy Curry '08 for serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance after the student told the officer that she had been drinking at the club.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

Faculty plan and fundraise for neuroscience institute

Though still not finalized, plans are underway for the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to become a reality by 2011.First announced two years ago, the institute will cost an estimated $450 million with the construction of new facilities, the creation of endowed professorships and the expansion of the undergraduate certificate program as well as the graduate and postgraduate programs.The institute, part of the University's plan to update and expand its scientific departments, will be located in the new "science neighborhood" next to Poe Field, just south of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

Everclear to perform at fall Lawnparties

Alternative rock band Everclear will headline the fall Lawnparties concert on Sept. 23.The five-member band began recording in a Portland, Ore., basement 15 years ago and has been compared to Nirvana because of its frequent references to drugs.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

University celebrates 260th Commencement

Almost 2,000 newly minted graduates walked out FitzRandolph Gate at the University's 260th Commencement today after 1,127 undergraduate and 716 graduate members of the Class of 2007 were awarded degrees.About 7,000 spectators were in attendance to watch the ceremony, which included several speeches, the awarding of honorary degrees and the presentation of degrees to graduates.President Tilghman, whose speech was the traditional keynote address, urged the class to "serve this nation and all nations, and make the world a better place for us all.""I hope that you, the Class of 2007, will ... use your Princeton educations to lead well-considered lives in service to the common good," she said, adding that the success of their education could be measured retrospectively in 25 years.

NEWS | 05/17/2007

Rotaract school supplies drive to benefit African students

Armed with an extra backpack and a plane ticket in hand, Justin Karfo '09 will bring home more than just his clothes and laptop this summer.The Burkina Faso native will also take students' leftover school supplies to children at the Primary School of Ziou in Nahouri."I [will] be giving [the supplies] to people who wouldn't have gone to school otherwise," Karfo said.The Rotaract Club, an international service organization, is sponsoring a school supply drive to benefit Ziou's students.Karfo said that going to school in the village can be hard for some children because of the expenses associated with school supplies.The period between August and December is harvest time in the region, he said, and several factors, including a loss of manpower and the cost of additional school supplies, can be too much for some families to manage.Many parents, Karfo said, "don't want [their children] to go to school" if it will mean not only lost income but also additional expenditures on school supplies.In a country where the majority of the people rely on subsistence agriculture, 45 percent of the population lives under the poverty line.Though Karfo grew up in the nearby capital city of Ouagadougou, he said he has a history of doing service work for students at Ziou.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Bye to brick walls, ciao to waffle ceilings

A large crowd of students gathered yesterday in the Butler Quad to bid a fond farewell to brick walls and waffle ceilings.Immediately after Reunions, the five buildings that form the Butler Quad ? Lourie-Love, 1922, 1940, 1941 and 1942 Halls ? will be demolished to make room for the construction of new dormitories.Yesterday's Farewell to Butler Quad Party hosted live performances from the Sensemaya Afrobeat All-Stars, Spinglass and Funk Master General, bands that each have at least one member in Butler College.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Summer storage capacity decreases

Undergraduates will have a harder time storing their belongings over the summer this year.With the demolition of the Butler Quad and the renovation of parts of Forbes College, several on-campus storage spaces will no longer be available.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

MIT divests from Darfur

Following in the year-old footsteps of the University and other peer schools, MIT announced Monday that it will divest from companies that it believes are complicit in the mass death occurring in Darfur."MIT invests for the purpose of preserving the capital of MIT's endowment and earning a return on capital that is consistent with MIT's longterm investment horizon," a statement released by the school's news office read.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Former professor detained in Middle East

After months of virtual house arrest and detention in Iran, a former Princeton Near Eastern studies professor was arrested in Tehran last week on charges that could carry the death sentence.Haleh Esfandiari, who taught Persian classes at the University from 1980 to 1994, stands accused of "crimes against national security." She is under suspicion because of her affiliation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank where she directs the Middle East Program.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Crime around campus

Lot 16, April 2, 1:11 a.m.A Public Safety staff member reported observing three individuals looking in car windows in the parking lot.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

After outcry, ACS restores members

In the wake of complaints from scientists worldwide, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced Friday that it would reinstate chemists in Iran and Sudan whose memberships it had previously revoked on legal grounds.The organization had initially barred 36 Iranian members and its one Sudanese member on the grounds that their membership violated U.S.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Township and borough get MLUC grant

Princeton Borough and Township have received a $60,000 grant to study energy use and generation in local public buildings.Awarded by The College of New Jersey's Municipal Land Use Center (MLUC), the Building Livable Communities grant is expected to be used over a period of 18 months under the guidance of a steering committee of the Princeton Environmental Commission's Sustainable Princeton initiative.Part of the grant will be used to conduct an energy audit on Borough, Township and Princeton Regional School buildings to determine how to increase their energy efficiency.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

On the prowl for study spaces

As Dean's Date approaches, many students are ensconced in their favorite study spots. Some pick a table in Firestone's C-Floor atrium, while others commandeer a classroom in Frist Campus Center or lounge on the front lawn of an eating club.The most difficult challenge, students say, is finding a good spot in a popular study space or a place that is open late at night.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

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