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Colonial takes 71 more members than last year

Colonial takes 71 more members than last year

The total number of students placed into their first-choice eating club during the first round of sign-ins is almost 70 students higher than it was last year, according to data released to the club presidents by the Princeton Prospect Foundation on Saturday night. The significant increase is primarily the result of a dramatic rise in first-round sign-ins at Colonial Club. None of the clubs saw a drop in first-round interest, and a few saw modest increases.

NEWS | 01/30/2011

News & Notes: Whitman '77 named to board of Hewlett-Packard

Former eBay CEO and Princeton alumna Meg Whitman ’77 has joined Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors.

NEWS | 01/30/2011

News & Notes: Milberg '53 donates collection of Irish prose to University

Leonard Milberg ’53 has contributed his third donation of prose written by Irish writers to the University. Milberg’s previous donations of poetry and theater materials were made in 1994 and 2006, respectively.

NEWS | 01/30/2011

Web Update: Friends, family gather to remember Zeller GS

Every seat in the Garden Room of Prospect House was occupied Saturday afternoon as friends, family and members of the University community gathered to remember Bill Zeller GS, who passed away Jan. 5.

NEWS | 01/14/2011

The lasting memory of Charles Ryskamp

When Charles Ryskamp was appointed the director at New York City’s prestigious Pierpont Morgan Library in 1969, he did not leave his post as an English professor. When he then took over as director of the renowned Frick Collection art gallery in 1987, he continued to stay. So when he passed away last March, it was no surprise to those who knew him that Ryskamp included in his will a way to extend his 55-year affiliation with the University.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

Former Township police chief accused of stealing guns

The former chief of the Princeton Township Police Department struck a deal with the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office to conduct 40 hours of community service and pay restitution instead of facing criminal prosecution for allegedly stealing a police-owned antique M-16 assault rifle, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

Wilkes ’83: Building a better Borough

For 25 years, newly elected Borough Council president Kevin Wilkes ’83 stayed far away from politics. Watching his one-time supervisor, former state Sen. Harrison Williams, get convicted in 1981 for taking bribes in an FBI sting operation caused him to give up the field “like a young ideologue” suddenly disillusioned.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

Twenty-five years at the top: USG presidents

David Ascher ’99 needed to move quickly. Several academic departments had threatened to withdraw from the Honor Code because they believed students had been wrongfully exonerated of cheating accusations. And Ascher, then USG president, did not want this to become “the first blip” in the centuries-old agreement between the faculty and students.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

Kyllo ’14 dies in dorm room

Khristin Kyllo, a talented softball player known for her energetic and vivacious personality, died Thursday morning from natural causes. She was 18. Kyllo, a freshman from Vienna, Va., was found in her Forbes College dorm room by Public Safety officers, who responded to a call from a Forbes student around 8 a.m. Princeton Borough police and the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad also responded. Kyllo was found dead when Borough police arrived, police Capt. Nick Sutter said.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

Video: 2010 Dodge-Osborn Cup

The Daily Princetonian covers the 2010 Dodge-Osborn Cup.

NEWS | 01/13/2011

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

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