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Many college students wouldn’t think twice before feigning illness or computer malfunctions to explain to a professor why an assignment is late. But at the University of Virginia, that could get you expelled. At the other extreme, Yale has no honor code. With a disciplinary system administered by a combination of students, faculty and administrators who hand down punishments ranging from probation to expulsion, Princeton charts a middle course among peer institutions with its standards of integrity.

NEWS | 04/29/2009

Polls close, results expected Thursday morning

Polls close, results expected Thursday morning

Voting ended for the spring USG elections at noon Wednesday, but results will not be announced until today, USG senior elections manager Sophie Jin ’11 said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian late Wednesday evening.

NEWS | 04/29/2009

Ambassador Zhou calls for more U.S.-China cooperation

As the nations of the world wrestle with a deepening economic crisis and threats of terrorism and pandemic, it is “more important than ever” for China and the United States to view each other as allies, Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong said Wednesday afternoon.

NEWS | 04/29/2009

Tilghman explains continued concerns about Greek life

President Tilghman said in an interview last Wednesday that the administration continues to discourage incoming students from participating in Greek life on campus because she believes it restricts students’ social lives.

NEWS | 04/28/2009

New shop adds twist to ice cream scene

In a town that already had several popular and well-established ice cream shops, newcomer Twist — a do-it-yourself frozen yogurt joint on Nassau Street — has found an unlikely niche and is enjoying booming business in the face of a floundering local economy.

NEWS | 04/28/2009

Locals ask U. to contribute more in taxes

The current economic recession has taken its toll on the Princeton community, as local businesses are seeing declining revenues and some residents are expressing intentions to move out of the area because of high property taxes. PCTF members are asking the University to pay full property taxes, though much of the campus is tax-exempt under New Jersey state law.

NEWS | 04/28/2009

Doling Out Discipline

Michelle Wu and Jack Ackerman

At an institution that prides itself on upholding high standards of academic integrity, several students and faculty members said they believe the punishments doled out by the Honor Committee and the Committee on Discipline for academic violations are unnecessarily severe. Members of the committees, however, defended their punishments, explaining that their decisions are based largely on precedent and that they take into consideration a wide variety of factors when determining penalties.

NEWS | 04/28/2009

U. takes extra precautions as swine flu spreads

The University is taking precautionary measures to protect the campus community from swine flu following reports of five suspected cases in New Jersey. The University has decided to cease approving and funding undergraduate travel to Mexico because of the recent outbreak of swine flu in the country.

NEWS | 04/28/2009

U. hosts conference with Arab students

An international conference on the relationship between the United States and the Arab world concluded Monday as 15 visiting students from Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon departed campus after participating in the four-day event.

NEWS | 04/27/2009

Investigating Integrity

Michelle Wu and Jack Ackerman

Each day during Dead Week, some of the 14 faculty, staff and student members of the Committee on Discipline assemble in West College around a long oval table. The committee will hear cases and dole out punishments for infractions of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities."

NEWS | 04/27/2009

Staude '09 named class valedictorian

The faculty voted unanimously to approve the two students nominated by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing for this year's valedictorian and Latin salutatorian.

NEWS | 04/27/2009

A prefrosh look at Prospect

Though a small amount of information about the clubs is available through the University’s undergraduate admission website, students deciding whether to attend Princeton are often able to learn about the Street only by word of mouth. Consequently, parents and students eager to learn about Princeton’s social scene arrived at Colonial with a variety of preconceived notions about the clubs, and the panel of presidents attempted to dispel any misconceptions.

NEWS | 04/27/2009

Chou drops out of 2010 presidency race

Class of 2010 social chair Michael Chou announced he was dropping out of the race for class president — less than 45 hours after joining it — in an e-mail to supporters Friday night. He will resume his candidacy for vice president.

NEWS | 04/26/2009

Gym Class Heroes to perform at Lawnparties

Gym Class Heroes will highlight the 100th Lawnparties next Sunday, USG social chair Julia Jacobson '10 confirmed in an e-mail Sunday evening.

NEWS | 04/26/2009

Coming before the Committee

Michelle Wu and Jack Ackerman

Last January, Shafiq Kashmiri ’10 was working alone in his room on the final problem set for an upper-level engineering course when his phone rang. It was a classmate — someone who often struggled with work for the class — calling to ask for help with the assignment.

NEWS | 04/26/2009

Eight students win Spirit of Princeton prize

Eight students will be honored on May 6 as winners of the 2009 Spirit of Princeton Award, which is given in recognition of students’ positive contributions to campus life.

NEWS | 04/26/2009

U. walks lonely road with grading policy

On April 26, 2004, the University faculty voted 156-84 to institute a bold policy to curb rising grades. Five years later, no peer institutions have followed Princeton’s lead, despite Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel’s repeated attempts to encourage them to do so.

NEWS | 04/26/2009

Pace Center director retracts budget info

Just three days after releasing figures suggesting that the Pace Center would cut its programmatic budget by 82 percent, Pace Center Director Kiki Jamieson retracted the information in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian on Saturday, saying the center “does not yet have specific budget targets.”

NEWS | 04/26/2009

Pace Center to cut operating budget by 82 percent

The operating budget for the Pace Center, which oversees several campus civic engagement initiatives, will be cut by 82 percent over the course of the next two years in light of the economic recession.

NEWS | 04/23/2009

USG to distribute alcohol business cards

The USG will create and distribute “alcohol business cards” to inform students about the rules regarding drinking violations in an effort to ease tensions between the University community and Borough Police, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced at the USG meeting last Sunday night.

NEWS | 04/23/2009

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