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USG election process confuses voters

USG election process confuses voters

Correction AppendedSeveral members of the USG expressed confusion at last night?s USG Senate meeting about changes in the election process for U-Councilors, concerned that neither they nor the student body was informed of the change before voting began yesterday at noon.?I was a little surprised when I logged on to vote,? U-Councilor Maria Salciccioli ?09 said.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

Freshman charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault

A freshman male has been charged by the Princeton Borough Police with kidnapping, aggravated assault, endangerment of an injured victim and making terroristic threats, The Times of Trenton reported on Saturday.The Times article, which covered the defendant?s bail hearing in Trenton on Friday, reported that Mercer County Superior Court judge Thomas Kelly has banned the defendant, Malik Little, 19, from University premises and cut his bail in half to $200,000 but refused to reduce it to the $20,000 requested by the defense.Little was no longer enrolled at the University as of April 10, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ?96 said in an interview, adding that Public Safety ?is fully aware that Mr. Little is not permitted on campus.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

Students 'Take Back the Night'

More than 100 students gathered on the Frist South Lawn on Friday night to raise awareness about sexual violence and show support for victims of sexual assault as part of the annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) vigil.Katie Koestner, the keynote speaker, called on the crowd to ?name the problem, shatter the silence and take a stand.? Koestner, who was raped in college, founded the Katie Koestner Initiative for a World Without Rape, hosted by Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources, and Education (SHARE) and Students Against Domestic Violence.Koestner delivered a similar speech as part of TBTN in 2006.Director of the Women?s Center Amada Sandoval GS ?00 explained that Princeton is no stranger to the issue, noting that Princeton?s ?bucolic environment lulls us into a false sense of security.??There is probably a victim of sexual assault in every room [with] more than four people in it,? Sandoval said.To complement several speakers, TBTN featured performances by the Roaring 20, Katherine Sanden ?09 and BodyHype.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

Campus recreation survey puts Dillon on agenda

Correction appendedSixty-two percent of students believe that the University should dedicate resources to a significant renovation of Dillon Gym even if other major development projects are delayed as a result, according to the USG?s campus recreation survey, the results of which were released at last night?s USG Senate meeting.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

McColly bridges AIDS activism, LGBT awareness and yoga's healing powers

When most guest speakers ask audience members to turn off their cellular phones, Michael McColly asked his audience members to put their forks down, close their eyes and meditate.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

University holds service to honor Goheen

For all he did for the University during his time in Nassau Hall from 1957 to 1972, former University president Robert Goheen ?40 may have left an even greater impression on those who were privileged enough to develop personal friendships with him.?[Goheen] would not have wanted to be remembered ... for such ?tangibles? as buildings built and dollars raised,? former University president William Bowen GS ?58 said, eulogizing Goheen at the official memorial service at the University Chapel yesterday afternoon.Bowen was among the masses of Goheen?s admirers who filed into the pews, where the rich notes of Duke Ellington were followed by the inspiring text of the Prayer of St.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

University calendar reform still out of reach

Though consensus on academic calendar reform at the University is hard to come by, Harvard has already finalized its revamped calendar, leaving Princeton the only school in the Ivy League to hold fall term exams after winter break. University administrators tabled calendar reform last November after circulating a survey asking students to choose one of several calendar options.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Human rights campaign brings torch to Princeton

Two weeks after widespread political protests inspired by the Olympic torch relay in Beijing, Princeton received a torch of its own.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

News & Notes | April 25

The former president of the Phi Kappa Tau (PKT) fraternity at Rider University has settled a civil suit filed by the family of Gary DeVercelly, who died of alcohol poisoning at a PKT party in March 2007.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Panel outlines domestic socioeconomic problems

Princeton religion and African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, visiting politics fellow Nadia Urbinati and Columbia law school professor Patricia Williams addressed the left wing?s view of the coming presidential election last night in Dodds Auditorium.The Pace Center coordinator for civic engagement learning and moderator of the discussion, Andrew Seligsohn, opened the lecture by expressing his surprise at the duration of the Democratic primary.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Top N.J. McCain aide forsees win

New Jersey State Senator Bill Baroni thinks Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has a great shot at winning over Garden State voters come November, arguing yesterday afternoon at a talk sponsored by the College Republicans that the bitterly divided Democratic Party will continue to work in McCain's favor.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Butler construction on schedule

Students can already see the foundations of the four new Butler College buildings that will rise between Bloomberg and Wu halls.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Composing while Computing

"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung," Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849. Music professor Dmitri Tymoczko now begs to differ: According to his research, there's an entire world of complex geometric poetry underlying the language of music. Tymoczko, together with music professors Ian Quinn and Clifton Callender of Yale and Florida State universities, respectively, has found a way to literally illustrate the close connections between music and mathematical topology.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

No sleep till Princeton

Weather Fans, I?ve noticed many of you taking advantage of the winning combination of warm weather and post-thesis/junior paper bliss recently.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

Borough Police: Assailants were gang members

The Borough Police has released the names of three gang-affiliated men charged with aggravated assault in connection with an altercation at the Wilson College BlackBox on Friday, April 18. Princeton residents Vonzell Kelley, 20, and John Hayes, 20, as well as Lawrence resident Bernadino Guervil, 21, were all charged with aggravated assault and each held on $25,000 bail.

NEWS | 04/23/2008

Armstrong: Minorities, women overrepresented on M.D. TV

The ethnically diverse array of doctors who star on television shows like ?Scrubs? and ?Grey?s Anatomy? does not accurately portray the population of doctors in the real world, according to a study presented by sociology professor Elizabeth Armstrong to a small group of students at an intimate dinner discussion in the Wilson private dining room yesterday evening.Armstrong?s study looked at 50 years of primetime television shows involving either ?medical settings or ... medical characters as primary characters? and attempted to ?compile a census? of this population and compare it with the real world population of physicians.By the 1990s, 13 percent of recurring physician characters on primetime network television were minorities, and 26 percent were women, Armstrong said.

NEWS | 04/23/2008

Cousins: Architecture teaching flawed

Mark Cousins, a British architectural writer and theorist, criticized the way architectural history is taught at a talk last night in Betts Auditorium, arguing that courses should expose students more profoundly to older forms of architecture to inspire their creativity.

NEWS | 04/23/2008

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