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At SpeakOut event, students urged to take sexual assault seriously

At SpeakOut event, students urged to take sexual assault seriously

The University and its members don’t adequately recognize the seriousness of sexual crimes, Princeton students and victims of recent sexual assaults told a crowd of roughly 25 students gathered outside 1879 Arch on Friday evening.

NEWS | 11/22/2009

U-Store hit with $133K loss in fiscal year 2009

The U-Store, which recently extended its hours of operation to 4 a.m., reported a net loss of $133,829 for the fiscal year ending in June.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

In police force, dearth of alumni

Princeton in the nation’s Service” may be the University’s unofficial motto, but the widespread enthusiasm for service among Princetonians does not extend to state law enforcement. Alumni participation in this profession has been sparse, with only a handful of active police officers listed on TigerNet, Princeton’s alumni database.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Students fined $640 for painting rooms

When Sierra Schelegle ’11 checked her student bill this fall, she was surprised to find a $640 charge for “painted walls.” She was confused, since no such charge had been included in her fire inspection notice.Schelegle is one of several undergraduates who expressed confusion about the University's rules against students painting their dorm rooms, though administrators insist there has been no change in policy.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

UHS administers 860 of 2,000 H1N1 vaccines

University Health Services saw a lower than expected student turnout at the Nov. 16 H1N1 vaccine clinic, administering only 860 vaccines of the available 2,000. “We are concerned that eligible students are not taking advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated for H1N1 flu,” UHS Executive Director John Kolligian said.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Freshman seminar placement determined by algorithm

More than 1,200 total applications were received for the 75 freshman seminars offered this year, after freshmen submitted applications for the spring seminars last week.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Spreading goodwill, spoke by spoke

Last year, Lorne Applebaum GS saw a flyer on campus for a bike co-op that led him to a tiny room in the basement of Forbes College. One year later, Applebaum is a volunteer with the co-op, since renamed Cyclab, which has become a spot for students and community members to share their knowledge of and enthusiasm for the bicycle.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

U. eschews hiring outside financial consultants

Despite the growing trend among colleges of hiring outside management consultants to help trim their budgets, the University has no plans to take that action for financial counsel, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn

A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwish was cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event’s sponsors, Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, withdrew their sponsorship, citing her criticism of Islam.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

Weidmann looks at Afghan election fraud

Wilson School postdoctoral researcher Nils Weidmann has uncovered substantial evidence of voter fraud in last August’s presidential election in Afghanistan. And he didn’t have to interview a single Afghan voter.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

University names new Public Safety director

Paul Ominsky, the director of public safety at Mount Holyoke, Smith and Hampshire, has been named Princeton’s next Public Safety director.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

News & Notes: Center for African American Studies announces summer internships

The University announced this week that the Center for African American Studies is launching an internship program this summer for students interested in working on issues of race and public policy.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Amazon CEO Bezos '86 to speak at Baccalaureate

Jeff Bezos ’86, founder and CEO of the online retail giant Amazon.com, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on May 30, Class of 2010 president Aditya Panda announced Tuesday in an e-mail to all seniors. Bezos, a former Quadrangle Club member, graduated summa cum laude from the University as a concentrator in computer science and electrical engineering. After college, he worked in finance for several years before founding Amazon.com in 1994.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

USG handbook inconsistent with constitution

USG officials distributed an elections handbook at their meeting Sunday evening that is inconsistent with both the current USG constitution and the bylaws of the Council of the Princeton University Community. The inconsistencies relate to the election of class senators and U-Councilors.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Princeton in Africa opens to other schools’ alumni

The Princeton in Africa Program has begun accepting applications from students from any nonprofit college or university in the United States, breaking with its established precedent of only taking Princeton alumni.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Yale early apps drop 5.2 percent

Early admission applications to Yale dropped 5.2 percent from last year, from 5,556 applications in 2008 to 5,265 this fall, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel announced on Monday.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

News & Notes: Herbst ’83 to become Colgate president

Colgate University announced this week that Jeffrey Herbst ’83 will be its next president, starting in the summer of 2010. Herbst will succeed interim president Lyle Roelofs.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Tiger in the nude

Stereotypical images of Princeton students often include pastel lawn dresses, collared polo shirts and neatly pressed khakis. But one Princeton sophomore, featured nude on the cover of the first official issue of Diamond magazine, is challenging those stereotypes.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Not-so-safe sex: STIs at Princeton

Though the University dropped from 29th to 61st on the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card this year, the rates of STIs among students on campus are on par with those at other colleges and universities in the United States, based on the fall 2008 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) II and data provided by UHS to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 11/16/2009

Admins: Data suggest law, medical school admissions unaffected by deflation

Princeton graduates continue to be successful in gaining admission to the most selective law schools and medical schools, despite the University’s grading policy, administrators said at the Monday meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

NEWS | 11/16/2009

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