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Charter cuts shared meal plan numbers

Charter cuts shared meal plan numbers

The number of shared meal plans offered at Charter Club will decrease from 30 to 17 after the administration requested that the club pay the University three times the amount it did last year per shared meal plan.Charter will offer five of those plans to rising juniors and 12 to rising seniors.The nine other eating clubs, however, will not substantially alter their financial contracts with the University.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Volker: NATO forces United States and Europe to face global issues together

NATO faces the challenge of combining European and American alliances to deal with global problems, said Kurt Volker, principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs for the State Department, before a crowd of students, professors and community members in Robertson Hall yesterday afternoon.He noted that the United States must work cooperatively with its European allies in NATO because "we are only effective at dealing with [other countries] if we deal with them together."Volker, who worked under NATO's former secretary general Lord George Robertson for several years, has been nominated by President Bush to represent the United States on the NATO Council as a permanent representative.NATO members "are countries that have democracy, human rights, market economies [and] peaceful negotiations," he explained.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Spitzer '81 resigns as N.Y. Gov.

In the end, the self-proclaimed ?steamroller? was felled by an adversary no one anticipated: himself.With his wife by his side, New York Gov.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

Freshman organizes youth conference

This July, 20 Iraqi and 15 American teenagers will meet in Jordan to discuss the ongoing conflict in Iraq as part of the Youth Initiative for Progress in Iraq (YIPI) conference, which is partially run by University students and has received funding from several University departments.The event is modeled after ?Initiative for Peace: Focus on Kashmir,? a meeting between Indian and Pakistani teens in which participants talked about the conflict in the Pakistani province of Kashmir that Astrid Stuth ?11 helped organize while attending the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.

NEWS | 03/12/2008

U. tops Ivies in contest to lower waste

The University is knee deep in bottles, cans and recycled paper as it enters the final month of Recyclemania, a nationwide endeavor on college campuses that encourages recycling, which this year runs from Jan.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

Council reviews COAH concerns

Members of the Borough Council reacted strongly to new regulations from the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) after a presentation by COAH Executive Director Lucy Voorhoeve at the Borough Council meeting last night.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

News & Notes

University Medical Center receives $25 million donation David and Patricia Atkinson, former residents of nearby West Windsor, pledged to donate $25 million to the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), the largest donation ever made to a New Jersey hospital.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

New probe data sheds light on dark matter

Data transmissions by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) provide multiple insights into the formation of the universe and its infancy, said several University researchers who were involved in designing and launching the satellite.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

Biederman, Gittlin and Petersack chosen as YAT finalists

The University announced last night that seniors Rob Biederman, Grant Gittlin and Meaghan Petersack are the three finalists in the running for the Class of 2008?s Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) position.The three seniors were chosen from a pool of 21 candidates by members of their class in an online primary election.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

Isikoff details challenges of investigative reporting

Michael Isikoff, an investigative reporter for Newsweek, discussed the secrecy of the current White House administration and the state of investigative journalism in front of a nearly full Dodds Auditorium yesterday.Isikoff, who authored ?Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter?s Story,? is known for his investigation of the Monica Lewinski story and his coverage of the war on terror.He spoke extensively on the problem of the secrecy surrounding the current Bush administration and actions he believes are unconstitutional.?This is an extremely secretive administration,? Isikoff said.

NEWS | 03/11/2008

N.Y. Republicans may move to impeach Spitzer '81

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) ?81 is still conferring with advisers and has not said that he will resign in the wake of the revelation that he was an alleged client of a prostitution ring.The delay in a final decision about his resignation is angering some state lawmakers.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

Singing folk tunes for friendship, relaxation

James Krendel-Clark ?11 thought he would take a break from studying to say hello to a group of familiar faces sitting on on the other side of the Murray-Dodge Cafe.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

Instability seen as a threat to PRC government

While China?s economy is booming, its leaders feel increasingly insecure and threatened, Susan Shirk, deputy assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, said in Dodds Auditorium yesterday during a lecture based on her recent book ?China: Fragile Superpower.??China?s leaders are very anxious about their hold on power inside China,? Shirk said.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

Spitzer ’81 may resign as governor

News that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) ?81 was involved in a prostitution ring rocked Albany, Wall Street and his alma mater as it became clear that the former New York attorney general, who made his name pushing for greater ethics in government and business, had committed an ethical lapse of his own.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

Carrel scribblings raise the spirits of gloomy seniors

Underclassmen tread softly past the blue sliding metal doors of the carrels nestled in the lower levels of Firestone Library, perhaps afraid that an overworked, overtired senior may emerge and pierce them with an icy glare.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

CPUC discusses COMBO study, Dillon Gym renovations

The socioeconomic background of Princeton undergraduates affects their reasons for choosing colleges, the level of knowledge they have regarding the University before entering and what activities they participate in during their four years on campus, according to a survey conducted by the USG in May 2007 that was presented at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Committee (CPUC) yesterday.Former USG president Rob Biederman ?08 discussed the results on behalf of the USG?s Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO). The survey, which captured responses from 30 percent of the undergraduate population, explored the differences in campus lifestyles of students based on socioeconomic factors.While the study?s results are not currently available in full, they are scheduled to be released to the public after COMBO discusses its recommendations with the University Board of Trustees in April.Biederman explained four reasons for conducting the survey, the first of which is that at every university, there are ?pretty clear differences across students based on the type of background they come from.?The second reason, Biederman said, is about visibility, since ?socioeconomic issues aren?t often discussed because one, they?re not that obvious from looking at someone typically and two, they make people somewhat uncomfortable because it?s something that in many cases people are trying to hide on either side.? Biederman explained that the survey will also provide ?data that was quantitative backup for the things we intuitively sort of noticed over four years, three years of college? as well as offering ?a baseline for comparison? to future classes.?We are hoping the future USGs will administer the survey every two or four years,? Biederman said.One key finding of the survey was that a person?s socioeconomic status affects his or her reasons for choosing a college.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

Trial date for Scharf ’08 pushed back - Updated 6:34 p.m. March 11

Editor's Note appendedPrinceton Borough Prosecutor Kenneth Lozier has asked the Borough Court to reschedule former Charter Club president Will Scharf '08's trial after witnesses were not present to testify at the hearing scheduled yesterday due to a clerical error.Kara Murphy '09, one of the two students involved in the incident that led to the charges against Scharf, did not receive a subpoena intended for her due to an error between the police department and the court clerk's office, Borough Police Lt.

NEWS | 03/10/2008

News & Notes | March 10

MIT unveils new financial aid planMIT has become the latest top-tier American university to dramatically revise its financial aid plan for middle-income families.The institution announced Friday that beginning next fall it will eliminate tuition for undergraduates whose families make less than $75,000 a year.

NEWS | 03/09/2008

Scalia sees narrow role for courts

Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia defended the Court?s role in the 2000 presidential recount in Florida and shared his views about the Court?s role in a liberal democracy before a packed audience in McCosh 50 on Friday night.Scalia also received the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service at the event, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Whig-Clio, which presented the award.Whig-Clio president Molly Alarcon ?10 asked Scalia several questions selected from a pool that had been submitted in advance by Whig-Clio members.Among the most controversial questions Scalia addressed was one from Forest Sebastian ?10 regarding the Supreme Court?s decision to stop the Florida vote recount in the 2000 presidential election.?Get over it, it?s eight years ago,? Scalia said.

NEWS | 03/09/2008

Google engineers lead puzzle challenge for student teams

Students braved Friday?s downpour and trekked out to Google Games ? an unconventional meeting for students interested in Google ? putting their teamwork and problem-solving skills to the test for one-and-a-half hours by working on six puzzles in groups.?Do we need pencils, paper?

NEWS | 03/09/2008

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