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Peer schools offer aid to community college students

Peer schools offer aid to community college students

Eight prominent state universities and private schools unveiled plans Monday to launch programs aimed at helping motivated low-income community college students pursue undergraduate degrees at selective four-year schools.Five private schools ? Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Bucknell, Cornell and the University of Southern California ? as well as three public universities ? Michigan, North Carolina and California-Berkeley ? have joined the initiative to admit a total of 1,100 transfer students from two-year community colleges over the next four years.The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, established to provide scholarships to students in need of financial assistance, will team with these schools to award grants totaling $6.78 million.Princeton currently does not offer transfer admissions.

NEWS | 03/08/2006

Professor receives prestigious physics honor

Giacinto Scoles, the Donner Professor of Science and a member of the University's chemistry department, is one of two recipients of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the oldest and most prestigious science awards in the world.The 182-year-old award, which honors scientists who have benefited humanity or launched new fields, will be presented in Philadelphia on April 27."Of course I am happy about it," Scoles said.

NEWS | 03/08/2006

'Campus Events' guy e-mails to quasi-fame

"Hey, you're the e-mail guy!" students yell at Ezegozie Eze '09.It may not be first-name recognition, but it's not bad for a freshman.A member of Wilson College, Eze is the man behind the weekly student activities e-mail, the compilation that condenses seven days' worth of activities into a single resource for the entire undergraduate body.The service, which went on a brief hiatus last year, has been revived through Eze's enthusiasm."Welcome back!

NEWS | 03/08/2006

Cottage leader resigns his post

Cottage Club president Will Griffeth '07 resigned his post Tuesday, saying he could no longer perform his club duties.Griffeth, who had assumed the post just three weeks ago, said in an e-mail message last night that "I am not taking place in the discussions to determine the future leadership of the club, but I have utmost confidence that it will be capably and responsibly led in 2006."Gavin Fabian '07, who previously served as Cottage vice president, was named the club's president Wednesday evening."He was the man for the job and he would have done a great job," Fabian said of Griffeth in an interview last night.Griffeth resigned as president because of disciplinary action stemming from an incident that occurred during Cottage's pickups on Feb.

NEWS | 03/08/2006

Professor receives prestigious physics honor

Giacinto Scoles, the Donner Professor of Science and a member of the University's chemistry department, is one of two recipients of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the oldest and most prestigious science awards in the world.The 182-year-old award, which honors scientists who have benefited humanity or launched new fields, will be presented in Philadelphia on April 27."Of course I am happy about it," Scoles said.

NEWS | 03/08/2006

Public Safety admits use of Facebook

Students may wish to think twice before posting pictures on facebook.com, as it now appears that Public Safety is using the popular social networking site to track potentially illicit activities.The Daily Princetonian has learned of two incidents in which Public Safety appears to have consulted Facebook before approaching students about information posted on the site.Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall, who denied that his department uses the site last month, admitted that one of these incidents was true but would not comment on the other.

NEWS | 03/08/2006

ULC weighs pluses, minuses of proposed Internet TV

After a test run of Internet TV, the Undergraduate Life Committee gave mostly positive reviews to the idea of making TV channels and movies accessible on student computers.The Undergraduate Life Committee (ULC) met yesterday afternoon with the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and representatives from Video Furnace, the company providing the technology for Internet TV, to discuss the potential benefits and downfalls of the Video Furnace system.Undergraduate Life Chair Caroline Chopko '07 said the purpose of the meeting was for OIT to gauge whether students would use the new system and what functions they would want."[Internet TV] has pluses and minuses," USG Vice President Rob Biederman '08 said in an interview.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

Panel urges dialogue beyond 'culture wars'

Classroom discussion should challenge preexisting notions and stretch students' intellectual comfort zones, religion professors Cornel West GS '80, Eddie Glaude GS '97 and Jeffrey Stout GS '76 argued in a panel discussion last night in McCosh 10."If the students are not in some sense unsettled and unnerved, then I know I'm not doing my job," West said to the more than 100 students and community members who attended the discussion on the place of religion and civic values within academia.Responding to questions about the role of the educator in a secular classroom and the extent that religious ideas should be presented in the classroom, the panelists strove to define the boundaries and obligations of intellectual instruction."How can you get the discussion past the culture war zone?

NEWS | 03/07/2006

UN rep faults West on Sudan

Juan Mendez, special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said Tuesday night that the international community must be more forceful in bringing an end to genocide in Darfur.In his address in Robertson Hall, Mendez identified four specific ways in which the international community must improve.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

ULC weighs pluses, minuses of proposed Internet TV

After a test run of Internet TV, the Undergraduate Life Committee gave mostly positive reviews to the idea of making TV channels and movies accessible on student computers.The Undergraduate Life Committee (ULC) met yesterday afternoon with the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and representatives from Video Furnace, the company providing the technology for Internet TV, to discuss the potential benefits and downfalls of the Video Furnace system.Undergraduate Life Chair Caroline Chopko '07 said the purpose of the meeting was for OIT to gauge whether students would use the new system and what functions they would want."[Internet TV] has pluses and minuses," USG Vice President Rob Biederman '08 said in an interview.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

University to buy back old grad college plot

The original home of the graduate school on Bayard Lane may soon be reincorporated into the University as additional housing for faculty, staff and graduate students, if a pending land sale is realized.When the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) completes its relocation to nearby Plainsboro in 2010, it will leave behind several vacant properties near campus, including the Merwick Rehab Hospital at 79 Bayard Lane.Because of the site's proximity to campus and its historical background ? the University owned the land at the beginning of the century ? UMCP plans to sell the property back to the University, which has earmarked it as a potential new housing development.The rehabilitation function served by the Merwick site will be assimilated into the UMCP's new $350 million Plainsboro location, Princeton HealthCare System spokeswoman Carol Norris said.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

University to buy back old grad college plot

The original home of the graduate school on Bayard Lane may soon be reincorporated into the University as additional housing for faculty, staff and graduate students, if a pending land sale is realized.When the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) completes its relocation to nearby Plainsboro in 2010, it will leave behind several vacant properties near campus, including the Merwick Rehab Hospital at 79 Bayard Lane.Because of the site's proximity to campus and its historical background ? the University owned the land at the beginning of the century ? UMCP plans to sell the property back to the University, which has earmarked it as a potential new housing development.The rehabilitation function served by the Merwick site will be assimilated into the UMCP's new $350 million Plainsboro location, Princeton HealthCare System spokeswoman Carol Norris said.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

UN rep faults West on Sudan

Juan Mendez, special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said Tuesday night that the international community must be more forceful in bringing an end to genocide in Darfur.In his address in Robertson Hall, Mendez identified four specific ways in which the international community must improve.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

Room draw tests frosh friendships

As Thursday's deadline for the 2006 room draw approaches, some freshmen cannot wait to secure new roommates, while others are anxious to repeat this year's living experience."I'm only drawing with one person I'm living with," said Neil Katuna '09.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

Panel urges dialogue beyond 'culture wars'

Classroom discussion should challenge preexisting notions and stretch students' intellectual comfort zones, religion professors Cornel West GS '80, Eddie Glaude GS '97 and Jeffrey Stout GS '76 argued in a panel discussion last night in McCosh 10."If the students are not in some sense unsettled and unnerved, then I know I'm not doing my job," West said to the more than 100 students and community members who attended the discussion on the place of religion and civic values within academia.Responding to questions about the role of the educator in a secular classroom and the extent that religious ideas should be presented in the classroom, the panelists strove to define the boundaries and obligations of intellectual instruction."How can you get the discussion past the culture war zone?

NEWS | 03/07/2006

Room draw tests frosh friendships

As Thursday's deadline for the 2006 room draw approaches, some freshmen cannot wait to secure new roommates, while others are anxious to repeat this year's living experience."I'm only drawing with one person I'm living with," said Neil Katuna '09.

NEWS | 03/07/2006

Court backs military recruiters

In a blow to law schools and gay rights advocates, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling yesterday, voting unanimously to uphold a law that requires colleges that accept federal funds to allow military recruiters access to their campuses.The law schools had sued the federal government over objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military.The court's decision yesterday in Rumsfeld v.

NEWS | 03/06/2006

After assaults, University seeks solutions

In the wake of several sexual assaults on campus this year, University representatives and leaders of eating clubs are taking steps to address what one official described as a campus culture that "isn't working against the problem" of sexual violence.Since October, there have been four reported criminal incidents of a sexual nature on campus, including a groping in a women's bathroom in Frist Campus Center and aggravated sexual contact at an eating club.

NEWS | 03/06/2006

OIT looks to add Internet television

Students may soon be able to watch real time episodes of their favorite television shows for free on the University network without even leaving their computers.The Office of Information Technology (OIT), in collaboration with Video Furnace, is working to complement the University's current analog television system with Internet TV.If the system receives support and financial backing, students would have access to certain movies and a subset of live TV channels selected by the USG.The Undergraduate Life Committee (ULC), members of the USG and David Hopkins, manager of the New Media Center at OIT, will meet today to discuss the possible implementation of the system."The project is being run by the Undergraduate Life Committee," Rob Biederman '08, vice president of the USG, said.

NEWS | 03/06/2006

Group petitions University for 'fair trade' food

If Princeton Against Protectionism gets its way, food at residential dining halls may still taste the same.

NEWS | 03/06/2006

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