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News & Notes: Hummus referendum actually passed

News & Notes: Hummus referendum actually passed

The Sabra hummus referendum that garnered international media attention over the past two years actually passed in last fall’s election, the USG election triumvirate announced late Tuesday night after an audit. A total of three students voted against the referendum, while 8,666 hungry students voted in favor.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Alexander Beach awaits Snooki

Just a week after MTV’s announcement of “Jersey Shore: PrincetonU,” the University and USG have banded together to implement tight dress restrictions for undergraduates.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Students must deflate own grades

Starting spring semester, the burden of grade deflation will be lifted from professors and placed on students.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Committee on Committees launches task force on task forces

The University will undergo an “A-to-Z review of its policy on policies,” said Ellen Chances GS ’72, the secretary of the Committee on Committees, in announcing a Task Force on Task Forces on Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

News & Notes: University institutes breathing quota

The University announced on Tuesday that it would institute a quota limiting the parts per million (PPM) of carbon dioxide that could be released per student to 100 ppm per semester starting in the fall of 2012.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Durkee ’69: Proposal an actual change. Fo realz.

A radical new eating club selection process — the most drastic overhaul of Bicker since its inception in 1913 — will be instated next year, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 announced Tuesday morning.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Campus Club in need of epic cleanup after post-Dean’s Date Four Loko Four Ever Night

Night, the USG post-Dean’s Date after party, revelers guzzled 400 cases of the alcoholic, caffeinated colorfully-canned drank.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

RCAs to patrol halls with firearms

In an unconventional move to “protect student safety,” the University will partner with the Department of Homeland Security to issue firearms to RCAs, who already patrol (yes P-A-T-R-O-L) student residences on the weekends, the Department of Public Safety announced begrudgingly today.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

Students engage in mature conversation about blubber

Members of the Princeton Body Appreciation Society, a new student group, are kidnapping students from Frist Campus Center and force-feeding them butter as a part of their “Talk about Fat and We’ll Kill You and/or Frame You for a Bogus Honor Code Violation” Week.

NEWS | 01/11/2011

No change to club member selection process this year

Changes to the eating clubs’ member selection process will be deferred for one year, the University announced Tuesday morning. While the clubs generally supported the minor modifications, concern over lack of support from two clubs as well as the short amount of time between the announcement and the beginning of this year’s member selection process led to the delay.

NEWS | 01/10/2011

UNC passes resolution to increase transparency in grade reporting

Though many students feel that Princeton stands alone with its grade deflation policy, other colleges and universities have begun to talk seriously about similar plans.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

State-level politicians enter Dinky controversy

The University’s plan to move the Dinky station further south on campus and away from the town’s center as part of its proposed arts and transit neighborhood is beginning to draw attention from state-level politicians. Recent comments from Princeton residents James Simpson, the state transportation commissioner, and Reed Gusciora, the state General Assembly’s deputy majority leader, have taken the controversy surrounding the Dinky to a new level.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

U. plans review of SHARE

Following the departure of the program’s director, Suraiya Baluch, last October, University Health Services will conduct a review of Sexual Harrassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

Early entrepreneurship

The summer before his freshman year of high school, Tim Hwang ’14 went on a trip to Guatemala that was organized by his local church. The trip inspired him to get together with a group of friends and collect clothes for the homeless. Little did he know that his project would become one of the largest student-run non-profit organizations in the country.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

Yaroshefsky ’12: Still looking forward, 1 year later

Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 will be the first two-term USG president in 14 years. He said he faced major obstacles after winning the USG presidency last year as a sophomore, but as he prepares for his second term he takes that experience in stride.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

Jackson GS ’86 to lead new EPA emission regulation efforts

Lisa Jackson GS ’86, the first African-American Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is leading the EPA’s first steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Obama administration’s agenda to combat climate change. The EPA has announced regulations over new power plants and refineries in the past week and will announce regulations for existing facilities within the next year.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

Zeller GS, 27, dies in hospital

Bill Zeller, a fifth-year graduate student in the computer science department, died Wednesday night at age 27 as a result of injuries from a suicide attempt.Zeller was found in his University apartment by Public Safety officers at about 6 a.m. Sunday, shortly after he attempted to take his own life. Brain damage due to oxygen deprivation left Zeller in a coma at University Medical Center at Princeton until the evening of Jan. 5, when he was removed from life support.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

Keller, University's first tenured female professor, dies at 83

Suzanne Keller, Princeton’s first female tenured faculty member and an emeritus sociology professor, died of a stroke Dec. 9 at age 83.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

Lockout charges delayed until September

Students locked out of their rooms after hours will not face lockout charges next semester, Deputy Director of Housing Melissa Plaskonos said. Though the University had planned to implement a $30 fee for students calling Public Safety to unlock their rooms beginning in the spring semester, the change has been deferred until September.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

State task force calls University ‘jewel in the crown’ of higher education

New Jersey should seriously consider reorganizing, refunding and rethinking the state’s system of higher education, according to recommendations by the New Jersey Higher Education Task Force released Tuesday.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

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