Starting spring semester, the burden of grade deflation will be lifted from professors and placed on students.
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.
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.
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.
Night, the USG post-Dean’s Date after party, revelers guzzled 400 cases of the alcoholic, caffeinated colorfully-canned drank.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Suzanne Keller, Princeton’s first female tenured faculty member and an emeritus sociology professor, died of a stroke Dec. 9 at age 83.
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.
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.
The eating clubs will soon decide whether to adopt an alternative member selection process, based on recommendations issued last May by the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 said.
Extensive lobbying by President Barack Obama proved insufficient for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. The DREAM Act would allow young immigrants who do not have legal status to become permanent residents after two years of college or military service.
