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News & Notes: Former Hun School teacher avoids prison in plea deal

News & Notes: Former Hun School teacher avoids prison in plea deal

Daily Princetonian Staff

Nolan Johnson, a former technical theater teacher at the Hun School of Princeton, admitted as part of a plea deal that he had sex with a female student last year, the Princeton Packet reportedon Thursday. Johnson pleaded guilty to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child at Mercer County Superior Court in Trenton. As part of the agreement, Johnson will receive a five-year suspended prison sentence, register as a sex offender and be on parole for the rest of his life.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

U. receives second highest number of applications in history for Class of 2019

Corinne Lowe

The Office of Admission has received and processed 26,976 applications for the Class of 2019 as of Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

Journalist wounded in Charlie Hebdo attack planned to teach at Princeton next year

Journalist wounded in Charlie Hebdo attack planned to teach at Princeton next year

Grant Golub

Philippe Lançon, an incoming visiting fellow in the Program in Latin American Studies for the 2015-16 school year, was critically injured in Wednesday’s attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

3 U. students launch app providing codes to women's bathrooms

3 U. students launch app providing codes to women's bathrooms

Linda Song

Victor Zhou ’18 and twin sisters Monica and Amanda Shi ’18 launched an app on the iTunes store called "GirlCode" after Winter Break.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

U. declines to join AAU sexual assault survey, will design survey of its own

Jacob Donnelly

The University will design its own sexual assault survey to comply with Title IX as opposed to using a survey designed by the Association of American Universities. The decision was made by University President Christopher Eisgruber "83 following the unanimous recommendation of the new Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct. As part of its resolution agreement with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the University is required to provide a“description of tools used for conducting a climate check” by Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

Harvard Law found in violation of Title IX for similar reasons to U.

Aana Bansal

Harvard Law School was found in noncompliance with Title IX for violating the same broad criteria as the University, according to aDec.

NEWS | 01/10/2015

Reporting of Princeton resident's arrest met with indifference*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Daily Princetonian's recent reporting of the arrest of John Smith, 54, a resident of Princeton, N.J., who did not attend the University, sparked no outrage on campus, according to a review of online comments posted on the paper's website. The reaction comes after waves of online commenters have publicly and pseudonymously decried the publication for running stories that single out University students by name as having been the unfortunate victims of an arrest. Smith was arrested by the University's Department of Public Safety earlier this week.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

U. to implement grade hyperinflation to compete with Harvard, Yale*

Nancy Malkiel

The University will soon begin the implementation of a hyperinflation policy in order to make up for ground lost during the "infamous" deflation decade, the University announced this week. “We eliminated grade deflation in October,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Gansa ’17 plans new campaign, partners with Monsanto to ensure riper fruit*

Johnny Appleseed

Will Gansa ’17 is already planning his campaign for the winter 2015 election. His supporters noted that he has modified and enlarged his platform from last December but said his campaign aims are simple: to represent the students and make his best efforts to address their needs —all of their needs. “Any way you want it, just the way you need it,” Gansa said in a video posted on his website. Gansa maintained his devotion to ripe fruit, waffle fries and bike reform, noting that the fruit in the dining halls is in an especially disgraceful state. “If Satan had offered Eve an apple and told her that it was from Wu dining hall, she would have shaken her head in disgust and we’d still be in the Garden of Eden,” he said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Eisgruber ’83, Mighty Max Movers move Dinky back to original location*

Eisgruber ’83, Mighty Max Movers move Dinky back to original location*

Newark Penn

The Dinky was moved back to its original location after the U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Creator of Christian wonder-drug Thrive+ sets out to cure the munchies next*

Nancy Spiderman

Brooks Powell ’16 has announced that in addition to Thrive+, he will now be marketing “Satiation+,” which will help eliminate the phenomenon of insatiable hunger known as the “munchies,” experienced by students who are drunk or on other substances. “People talk about the munchies sometimes,” Powell said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Streakers at Ivy Club ask for Grey Poupon*

Reginald C. Rockefeller VIII

Five males of approximately 20 years of age allegedly appeared naked during an Ivy Club dinner on Tuesday.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Tiger Inn to reopen as fratty bed and breakfast*

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Tiger Inn to reopen as fratty bed and breakfast*

Princeton Gossip

Tiger Inn will reopen next semester as a "fratty bed and breakfast" operated by Marriott International, which hopes to promote the club as the frattiest locale in the greater Trenton area. "U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Mulvey charged with stealing Cheng's USG campaign posters*

Mulvey charged with stealing Cheng's USG campaign posters*

Ella Cheng

Operations Research and Financial Engineering Department professor John Mulvey was allegedly recorded on video stealing posters for USG presidential candidate Ella Cheng ’16 last month in what appears to be a show of support for former joke candidate Will Gansa ’17. If found guilty, Mulvey could face a sentence of up to five years of hard labor as Cheng's personal assistant, assisting her in whatever endeavors, USG or otherwise, she should choose to pursue. Mulvey told University officials that the signs "were distracting to look at, and he didn’t feel that the USG had permission” to flout its uselessness in front of the entire student body, a police report reads.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Theft ring, 'Bling Ring of Princeton,' steals from U-Store*

Robin Hood

A gang of young thieves, who call themselves “The Bling Ring of Princeton,” has allegedly been taking petty items from the Princeton University Store, the Princeton Police Department reported in a press release.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

U. reveals administrators have operated cartel of silence*

Martin Mbugua

The University’s administrators have been operating a ‘cartel of silence’ for the past 10 years in which they deliberately obscure, defer and obfuscate facts for all news organizations, great and small, the University announced on Thursday.

NEWS | 01/07/2015

Honor code-inspired play 'The Jury and the Proxecutors' prompts threats*

Kim Jong-Un

Patrons of off-off-and a few more offs Broadway theaters in New York City report receiving unusual threats and the hacking of not-so-valuable financial information after they were planning to host dramatic productions of "The Jury and the Proxecutors," a play that satirically skewers Princeton’s Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline in action. The threats issued have been multifariously malignant.

NEWS | 01/07/2015

Student charged with multiple counts of drug possession; currently enrolled but banned from campus, U. says

Chitra Marti

A University student was arrested on Tuesday after attempting to retrieve a package from the Frist Campus Center mailroom that allegedly contained seven grams of ecstasy, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday. Julian Edgren ’16 was arrested shortly after 4 p.m.

NEWS | 01/07/2015

News and Notes: UMCPP loses funding for excessive number of infected patients

Ruby Shao

Over one-third of New Jersey hospitals, including the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro,will lose some federal funding because too many of their patients were infected during treatment, NJ Spotlight reported. Medicare payments will decrease by one percent for the federal fiscal year, which started on Oct.

NEWS | 01/06/2015

News & Notes: Sexual assault task force at Brown advises hiring of professional investigators

Jasmine Wang

The Task Force on Sexual Assault at Brown University advised the administration to hire professional investigators to explore and help resolve student complaints of sexual assault and misconduct on campus in areport that was published inDecember, according to the Providence Journal. The Task Forceoperates under Title IX of the United States Education Amendments of 1972. Some of the other recommendations that the task force published include streamlining the University's hearing process, establishing a discretionary fund to help provide resources for both parties involved and improving communication with students coming forward with sexual assault. The 55-page report published by the task force does not specify what role local law enforcement should play in the issue of sexual assault and the new changes that should take place on Brown’s campus, although it did advocate for the development of a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the police force in Providence as well as the attorney general of Rhode Island. In the past two years, Brown has had three cases of sexual assault that have received considerable publicity, the last of which included a student who tested positive for GHB, a date-rape drug, after reporting to the University the incident that allegedly occurred at a fraternity party. Brown is still currently investigating this case.

NEWS | 01/06/2015

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