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Clubs, University prepare to announce new meal plans

Clubs, University prepare to announce new meal plans

Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein fielded questions Monday about the upcoming four-year residential college system, explaining the logistics of room draw and social activities at the colleges and announcing that further details regarding shared meal plans with the eating clubs will be revealed before winter break.The Council of the Princeton University Community meeting was a continuation of a series of 10 student forums that Burstein and Malkiel have held with students this fall."The conversations that we've had with undergraduates have been clearly fruitful," Malkiel said, emphasizing that students have raised issues the administration had not thought about in the past.Whitman College is scheduled to open next fall, and Mathey College will become a four-year college at that time.

NEWS | 11/13/2006

Engineers help those in need

For the second straight year, the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders brought the necessities of life to some of the world's poorest communities.

NEWS | 11/13/2006

Wilson School gift to fund task forces

The Wilson School has received a gift from Beth Heller '78, a graduate of the school, and her husband William Heller, intended to fund task forces and policy conferences concerned with natural resources and international relations.These subjects are of particular interest for Heller who, along with her husband, works in renewable energy and has spent much of her life traveling and living abroad.

NEWS | 11/13/2006

At budget meeting, University priorities on the table

Students and staff urged the University to reconsider salary policies, increase funding for global warming initiatives and provide a stipend for international students during winter break at last night's open meeting of the University's Priorities Committee (PriCom).The annual meeting was meant to let PriCom, which reviews the University's operating budget and makes recommendations to President Tilghman, give an account of the budget so that community members ? fewer than 10 of whom showed up ? can voice their opinions.Associate Provost for Finance Steven Gill, a two-decade veteran of PriCom, said the meeting, which was held in McCosh 28, had "middle to low turnout."Significantly, this is the first year the University's projected operating budget has exceeded $1 billion.PriCom's purview includes tuition fees, salaries and the budget for campus renovations, and it has representatives from faculty, administrators, undergraduate students and graduate students.

NEWS | 11/13/2006

After victory, campus plans for first bonfire in 12 years

On Thursday, the University will end a 12-year drought, not with water but with fire. Princeton will hold a bonfire Thursday night at 9 p.m.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

ORL dean elected Episcopalian bishop

Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal was elected bishop of the Episcopalian Diocese of Southern Ohio Saturday morning, capping a four-year career marked by enhanced cooperation among campus religious groups.Breidenthal's consecration will occur next April in Columbus, Ohio.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

Robertsons launch site to shape public opinion

Continuing a tit-for-tat feud that has played out in the courts and in the press for the last four years, the Robertson family today launched a website to publicize its arguments in its multi-million dollar lawsuit against the University.The site, robertsonvprinceton.org, is intended to give voice to the Robertsons' point of view, counterbalancing the information on the case published on the University website, as well as news articles and commentaries on the case, a family representative said."There's a critical mass of information about [the case] out there, but none of it is coming directly from the Robertsons," family spokesman Herb Berkowitz said yesterday.The site will include background on the case, the Robertson Foundation and the Robertson family, as well as a question-and-answer section and links to legal documents and news articles published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other papers.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

USG scrutinizes calendar options

The USG discussed at length but failed to reach any consensus on the University's recent proposals for overhauling the academic calendar in a meeting Sunday night.The meeting comes less than a week after The Daily Princetonian published drafts of two new calendars that Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel proposed last month to academic department chairs and program directors.The first plan, called Calendar B, includes a midterm week free of classes, Fall Break integrated into Thanksgiving and Dean's Date in the middle of exam week instead of before it.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

Down 14 points at the half, Tigers roar to beat Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 11 ? Senior quarterback Jeff Terrell has been waiting 364 long days for a second chance, and Princeton students have been waiting 12 long years for a bonfire.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

Rejected applicant alleges bias against Asians

Yale freshman Jian Li has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Princeton for rejecting his application for admission, claiming the University discriminated against him because he is Asian.The complaint, which was filed with the U.S.

NEWS | 11/12/2006

A history of courage under fire

More than any scholarship program or unofficial motto, the memorial atrium in Nassau Hall attests to Princeton's service to the nation.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

Dissatisfied with status quo, more young people flock to polls

Young voter turnout rose 25 percent in this year's midterm elections compared to those in 2002, according to an analysis by Young Voter Strategies, a nonpartisan research group at The George Washington University.Turnout among voters aged 18 to 29 grew to 10 million this year from 8 million in 2002.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

Ladies in red

Triangle Club members kicked off the dress rehearsal of their new show, "Heist Almighty," which opens today at McCarter.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

New studio shines TV spotlight on faculty experts

When Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360" recently, speaking about the dangers of a nuclear North Korea, she spoke not from CNN's studios in New York but from the basement of Robertson Hall.There, in room 032, is a new, fully functional, $20,000 television studio, a space that will allow networks to conduct remote live or prerecorded interviews with Princeton academic experts and, the University hopes, will shine the national media spotlight on Old Nassau."It's quite a trek for faculty to go to New York or down to Washington for an interview, and the networks are hesitant to send a crew to campus," Steven Barnes, Wilson School assistant dean for external affairs, said of the studio, which went live Oct.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

Pakistan is a U.S. ally, prime minister says

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said yesterday that his country is "misunderstood" and has been unfairly represented as a breeding ground for radical Islamist terrorists.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

Death penalty foe stresses activism

Author and activist Sister Helen Prejean shared stories from her 25-year crusade against the death penalty last night, urging the audience to be proactive in bringing an end to the "inhumane" practice."You have a chance to be the first state to abolish the death penalty," Prejean said, noting that New Jersey has placed a temporary moratorium on the practice and that legislators are considering a bill that would replace the death penalty with life without parole."You must be an active participant in shaping social policy that does not give the government the right to kill people."Prejean, who rose to fame after writing "Dead Man Walking" in 1993, handed out protest literature at the end of the lecture, asking the 150 students and community members in McCosh 10 to sign the sheets and send them to Gov.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

November?

Sunny skies and temperatures well into the 60s gave English preceptor Nadia Ellis the chance to hold precepts outside.

NEWS | 11/09/2006

Rumsfeld resigns

Donald Rumsfeld '54 himself became a casualty of the war in Iraq yesterday, forced to resign his post as secretary of defense after he and President Bush concluded that a "fresh perspective" is required to guide the military.The announcement came just one day after the Republicans took what the president described as a "thumping" in Tuesday's midterm elections.

NEWS | 11/08/2006

Planning event lures with cheese, eclairs

Nearly 900 students, faculty, staff and local residents bustled through the usually hushed Chancellor Green Rotunda yesterday, getting a comprehensive view of the University's plans for campus development over the next decade.The event, called "Planning in Progress," featured eye-catching visual displays detailing the various aspects of campus development that have been identified and evaluated over the past year by the consulting firm Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP. A detailed displayProminently displayed in the center of the rotunda was a large three-dimensional campus model, with planned buildings, athletic field improvements, landscape projects and reforestation areas marked out in various colors.Each niche on both levels of the octogonal rotunda was dedicated to specific themes, including transportation, landscape and campus neighborhoods, such as natural sciences or athletics.Posters spanning the walls of the rotunda succinctly summarized the project and challenges and issues pertaining to each theme, while University officials, consultants, architects and engineers from the various firms responded to the comments and questions of community members."This is a chance for the on-campus and town community to see how we're working on these issues," Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee '69 said.One issue that each of the displays dealt with was the effort to achieve a more environmentally friendly campus.

NEWS | 11/08/2006

Malkiel proposes new calendar

The University has presented two plans to overhaul the current academic calendar to academic department chairs and program directors for their review.

NEWS | 11/08/2006

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