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Borough Police bust Stanhope Hall drug ring, find passed out proctors

Borough Police bust Stanhope Hall drug ring, find passed out proctors

Borough Police raided Stanhope Hall early yesterday morning after receiving a tip from an anonymous Tory staff writer that there was evidence of widespread drug abuse in the building that houses Public Safety's main office.According to the police report, the caller described a "cloud of marijuana smoke" that was "billowing" from several ground-level windows in the building.The police were greeted by several visibly intoxicated proctors, one of whom was obviously delusional.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Registrar website loses transcripts

The University is expected to announce today that a significant number of transcripts ordered through the registrar's website in December were never sent because of a computer glitch, an official in the registrar's office said, putting seniors' graduate school and fellowship applications at risk.The official, who asked to have his name withheld, said the problem began Dec.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Margolin takes presidency with speech of year's goals

Matt Margolin '05 was coronated yesterday, officially taking the reins of power from outgoing USG president Pettus Randall '04 in a ceremony in Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Students excited over coming of Condom Fest

Health Services is planning a series of new initiatives for February, beginning with Condom Fest the first Saturday of the new term. Nurses"Our nurses have been identifying a significantly higher proportion of pregnancies among undergraduates, and we are concerned," said Daniel Silverman, director of Health Services whose email address, silvermd@princeton.edu, notes his qualification. Childbearing"Although statistics show that when a child is the result of the copulation of two alumni, levels of contributions to the University tend to be high, we don't think childbearing is another task already busy undergraduates need here at Princeton." Flu FestCondom Fest will be held in the multipurpose room of Frist Campus Center, following in the footsteps of Flu Fest, with a range of delights including pina coladas, bananas and edible contraceptives.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Dean's Date marred by rejected papers, injuries, disappointment

Yesterday was Dean's Date, which meant for students turning in a paper at the last moment. As has been the tradition, students ran past McCosh Hall, but this year not everything went according to plan.Two students were injured and sent to McCosh Infirmary yesterday.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Amazon CEO Bezos '86 to donate $8 million to Whitman College

Jeff Bezos '86, CEO of Amazon.com, has pledged $8 million to Whitman College, making the top two donors to the planned college both dot-com executives."I couldn't be happier to give back to Princeton," Bezos said in an interview yesterday.University administrators were equally happy to have secured additional funding for the $110 million project.Bezos and eBay CEO Meg Whitman '77, for whom the college is named, share more than being the college's sponsors.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Clarifications

ClarificationsThe Tuesday and Thursday issues of the 'Prince' . . . well, we forgot about them this month.There was a misplaced apostrophe in yesterday's 'Prince': "(singing) If it's a contraction, it's IT-apostrophe-S, but if it's possessive, it's just IT-S . . . scalawag."An article about the Tory in yesterday's 'Prince' incorrectly stated that membership of the Tory was open to all races.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Marshall winners make plans for Oxford studies

"I called my parents five minutes after I got the phone call, and I wasn't very coherent. I was like, 'I . . . uuh . . . got the scholarship.' But they thought I was crying, so they tried to console me, until I finally made it clear I had won.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

UHS to provide same-sex benefits

One day after the New Jersey Senate's decision to legally recognize gay and lesbian domestic partners, the University announced Friday that the Student Health Plan will extend coverage for same-sex domestic partners.The University "felt it was the right thing to do," Associate Director of University Health Services Janet Finnie said.Only a small portion of the graduate and undergraduate student body will be affected by the change in Student Health Plan, but "for those it does effect, it [is] important."Finnie said the University's announcement was independent of the State Senate's vote.On Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

Mulcare '04, Romero '04 win Mitchell scholarships

Robert Mulcare '04 and Cynthia Romero '04 are two of 12 college students nationwide to win the 2004-05 Mitchell Scholarship, a prestigious award funding one year of study at any college or university in Ireland or Northern Ireland, the U.S.-Ireland Alliance announced yesterday.Mulcare plans to earn a master's degree in economic policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Romero plans to work toward a master's degree in comparative ethnic conflict at Queen's University in Belfast.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

$15,000 fund created for publications

The USG passed the Poe Field Resolution, and its Projects Board announced a new fund for publications at Friday's USG meeting, the last of the fall semester.Rishi Jaitly '04, co-chair of the Projects Board, announced at the meeting that $15,000 has been earmarked for publications on campus.The Wilson School, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students contributed to the publications fund, Jaitly said, offering $5,000, $6,000 and $4,000 respectively.The Wilson School designated its donation to be spent only on policy and political publications.Jaitly said the board initially sought these funds to show their recognition of the importance of publications on campus and their unique financial situation."[Publications] have . . . permanent costs, but limited revenue potential," Jaitly said.He also emphasized the same application standards will apply when the funding is made available with the start of the second semester."This isn't a free pot of money," Jaitly said.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

Rap group 'Word Is Born' shares intellectual style

People in the music industry from artist to songwriters to executives have banded together against Internet-music sharers, initiating court prosecution and sharing service shutdowns.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

2003 Wrap-up & Predictions for 2004

Sources say the Princeton University community made some New Year's resolutions this year. Looking back on the news from 2003, we have narrowed down the list of possible resolutions to the following: Dating honor codeLast year. Three changes were made to the Honor Code in the spring of 2003.

NEWS | 01/08/2004

O'Brien '65 returns as president, role model to former alma mater

John O'Brien '65's life has come full circle. Forty-two years after graduating from the Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania, he has returned to the school to take the helm as president.Founded in 1909 by Milton Hershey, of Hershey's Chocolate fame, the boarding school provides needy children with free education from preschool through high school.O'Brien entered the school, which was then an orphanage for boys, when he was three and stayed there through twelfth grade."I had not been outside of the Hershey area too much when I went to look at schools," O'Brien said of his college search, during which he was recruited for his athletic and academic skills."Princeton had the most authentic people, the most real people and that is why I chose it over Harvard, Cornell and the other schools I was accepted to," he said.

NEWS | 01/08/2004

Browning named master of Wilson

Linguistics professor Marguerite Browning has been chosen to succeed Professor Miguel Centeno as master of Wilson College.

NEWS | 01/08/2004

The Saddam Predicament: University community members weigh the issues

On Dec. 14, 2003, one thing became quite clear in the normally uncertain land of Iraq: "We got him."Speaking of the capture of Saddam Hussein in a small hole by a farmhouse, Paul Bremer, the U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2004

Mad cow scare unlikely to affect dining services, clubs

Though a mad cow disease scare in Washington State has caused Japan and Russia to suspend importation of U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2004

Wright '62 leaves University 30 years later than planned

If Shirley Tilghman were in your introductory French class, you would most likely notice. But when Tom Wright '62 took Spanish 101 last fall, instructor Alberto Galindo had no idea he was teaching the University's vice president and secretary."Someone had told me he worked in the president's office, but no one told me that he was the vice president," said Galindo, who learned of Wright's position only after he searched online late in the semester.Wright is a behind-the-scenes guy ? even he downplays his role.

NEWS | 01/06/2004

Renowned scholar Ikenberry to join Wilson School

One of the nation's top international relations scholars, Georgetown University professor John Ikenberry, has agreed to join the faculty of the Wilson School, dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 announced Monday.The move comes as part of an ongoing effort to reinvigorate the school's international studies program, Slaughter said."Jeff Herbst, chair of the politics department, and I, are working hard to rebuild the IR [international relations] subfield," Slaughter said in an email.The hiring of Ikenberry and of Tom Christensen, an East Asia specialist lured from MIT last year, were "important steps in that direction," Slaughter said.Ikenberry did not respond to phone messages, but Slaughter said he would teach undergraduate courses on international relations, likely including the introductory survey course."I am absolutely delighted that Professor Ikenberry has accepted our offer," Slaughter said.

NEWS | 01/06/2004

University admits half of '08 early

The University accepted 581 of the 1,815 early decision applicants to the Class of 2008, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.

NEWS | 01/06/2004

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