Unopposed USG presidential candidate Connor Diemand-Yauman ?10 is currently awaiting his day in court after having been charged in September with serving alcohol to a minor.
An error in the USG elections online ballot kept voters from submitting their ballots for roughly the first hour of voting, which began Sunday at noon.Voters who tried to select the sole candidate for academics chair found that they could not do so and hence could not submit their ballots.
Students, faculty and staff gathered Friday for a three-hour workshop on issues ranging from the University?s alcohol-related discipline process to social groups that impact high-risk drinking on campus.The open forum in Wu Hall was part of a series of events planned by the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC), formed last spring to tackle high-risk drinking on campus.?One reason for this workshop is that often people don?t know exactly what the policies are,? Wilson College Master Marguerite Browning said.
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In light of the passage of California?s Proposition 8, which eliminated gay marriage in the state, students and faculty gathered in Murray-Dodge on Friday to discuss Princeton?s response and plan further action.At the sparsely attended forum, titled ?University Community Forum: Prop 8 and LGBT Civil Rights,? participants discussed five possible actions to counter the proposition: fundraising to support LGBT organizations, submitting an amicus brief to the California Supreme Court, raising awareness on campus, organizing protests and gathering support via letter-writing, phone banks and petitions.One possible action, submitting an amicus brief, is on the USG elections ballot.
Psychology professor Anne Treisman has been selected as the winner of the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 has apologized for indicating that unopposed USG presidential candidate Connor Diemand-Yauman ?10 supports Michael Weinberg ?11 for USG vice president. ?I'd like to apologize for implying that, because Connor asked Mike to be on a ticket with him, that he supports him in the Vice Presidential race ? Connor is impartial,? Weinstein said in an e-mail sent Sunday morning to many of Weinstein?s supporters from his own campaign.
Members of the USG held a special Senate meeting Thursday evening to discuss one of the two referenda that will appear on the ballot in the upcoming USG election and decided that they will take no action to alter, append or dismiss the referenda.The referendum in question, sponsored by the Coalition for Intellectual Liberty (CIL), formally asks the University to refrain from taking positions on controversial issues.
The University performs no regular ethical review of its investments, Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) president Andrew Golden said after an investigation by campus radio station WPRB revealed that the University may have investment ties to Zimbabwe.
History professor Peter Brown will receive the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday.
USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 publicly endorsed vice presidential candidate Michael Weinberg ?11 early this morning in an e-mail to many of Weinstein?s supporters from his own campaign. In the e-mail, sent at 1 a.m., Weinstein said he would ?like to offer my absolute support for Mike Weinberg for USG Vice President? and invited recipients to contact Weinstein to ?help Mike?s campaign.? The e-mail made no mention of Nick DiBerardino ?11, the other candidate for vice president. The e-mail began with congratulations for unopposed USG presidential candidate Connor Diemand-Yauman ?10.
Joseph Fox ?93, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has identified a novel reaction that will allow for biomolecule tagging at different temporal points in the life of a protein at a rate thousands of times faster than preexisting methods.?The glory of the reaction is that it is significantly faster than other types of reactions in this class,? Fox explained.Fox? discovery comes in the wake of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to the scientists who discovered the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Fox? reaction, a variant on the Diels-Alder reaction, does not produce toxic byproducts and is potentially applicable to experiments that track the activity of proteins in live organisms.
While observers may note the historical value of campus architecture, Princeton?s flora has similarly historic roots.
Public Safety is currently investigating a bias incident involving a swastika drawn on a wall outside a sophomore girls? quad in Witherspoon Hall.Several whiteboards in the building also contained inappropriate pictures and messages, and some bathroom doors had been defaced with markers, public safety investigator Alvan Flanders said in an e-mail.Two student-age males not affiliated with the University students were also reported to have been in the area around the time the graffiti was discovered early Thursday morning.At about 1:30 a.m., two males knocked on Witherspoon RCA Maria Salciccioli ?09?s door, having been let into the building on false pretenses.?They made up a story about how they were locked out and [that] one guy?s girlfriend had cheated on him and they had to find her, and someone let them in,? said Salciccioli, who is also a blogger for The Daily Princetonian.
A month after votes were cast in the still-undecided U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and his challenger, political commentator and former comedian Al Franken (D), voters and analysts eagerly await the result of the razor-thin election.When the recount began last month, Coleman had an edge of just 215 votes out of almost 3 million cast.
As the financial crisis continues to impact the finances of institutions of higher education, Harvard?s endowment dropped by about $8 billion ? a 22 percent decrease ? in the first four months of the 2009 fiscal year, according to bloomberg.com.
Singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds joined the Nassoons, the University?s oldest a cappella group, to record his song ?Time? on Wednesday.
Roughly 70 students and faculty members gathered in Murray-Dodge on Wednesday night for an interfaith vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India last week.The vigil was preceded by a candlelight procession from the Frist South Lawn to Murray-Dodge, led by Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush.
There is no God, at least not in the Judeo-Christian sense, Peter Singer said Wednesday night in a debate titled ?Can There Be Morality Without God?? before a capacity audience in Richardson Auditorium.The debate, co-sponsored by Princeton Faith and Action, the Fixed Point Foundation and the Christian Union, featured Singer, the Princeton professor and controversial ethicist, and Dinesh D?Souza, a conservative writer and former policy analyst for Ronald Reagan.In his opening argument, Singer explained that he would not focus on his personal beliefs but would instead debate more generally.?We are not discussing any particular moral views held by any particular atheist,? he said.D?Souza, however, begged to differ.
