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USG representatives and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne were sitting around a table on Monday in the dining area of Frist Campus Center with trays of cookies when a student approached the group with a complaint: "P/D/F's shouldn't be before midterms." USG Senator Alex Lenahan '07 and U-Council representative Jeremy Johnson '07 smiled and recorded the grievance in a notebook.The student was one of dozens who stopped by the USG's Air Your Grievances Day, at which representatives encouraged students to voice concerns, complaints and suggestions for student government.The grievances ranged from concerns over grade inflation and the residential college system to "My preceptor sucks!" and "There are too many puddles on campus." Meanwhile, those at the table brainstormed ways to offer chartered bus rides for back-to-school dorm shopping.The list of complaints will be brought before the Senate, and members will decide which are feasible to address.By mid-afternoon, USG members had compiled a list of 37 grievances and suggestions.

NEWS | 11/21/2005

Candidates nominated for Borough Council

Candidates nominated for Borough Council

Three candidates for Borough Council were nominated by the Democratic Committee on Monday night.The Committee highly recommended Kevin Wilkes '83 but said that the other two candidates, Anne Waldron Neumann and Barbara Trelstad, would also be qualified for the post.The councilman will be chosen by the Borough Council next week and will fill the seat vacated by newly selected mayor Mildred Trotman.

NEWS | 11/21/2005

Miller '06 wins Rhodes Scholarship

English major and aspiring novelist Jeff Miller '06 is the University's sole Rhodes Scholar this year, one of 32 in the country.Miller learned the news in dramatic ? and excruciating ? fashion.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Inmates: checkmate

Every semester for the past three years, members of the Princeton Chess Club have met with burglars, kidnappers, rapists and murderers for a morning of chess.On Friday, Brandon Ashe GS '04, Sam Benen '07, Aaron Pixton '08, and Josh Weinstein '09 took on 61 inmates at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton and suffered only two losses.The event originated in 2000, when Doug Forrester, the Republican candidate in the recent New Jersey gubernatorial election and founder of BeneCard Services, a prescription drug distributor, invited Jude Acres, a chess player from New Orleans, to play 15 inmates of the New Jersey State Prison.In 2002, BeneCard sponsored the first of what has become a biannual chess match between Princeton students and the prisoners.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Same-sex marriage brief will go to student referendum

Students will vote in a referendum next month on whether the USG should endorse a brief supporting same-sex marriage.The decision to send the question to the student body for approval or rejection came following nearly 90 minutes of debate involving members of the USG, the Princeton Justice Project (PJP) and other students.The brief was brought before the USG by PJP president Thomas Bohnett '07, also a Daily Princetonian columnist, and Gay Family Rights project head Chris Lloyd '06.Debate during the meeting was heated and broad-reaching, with USG members discussing the merits of gay marriage and the institutional goal of student government.USG President Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 urged the group to act, saying, "We should not decide to do nothing.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

ROTC cadets do battle at simulated war zone in nearby Fort Dix

"Do you want to hold an M16?" Sgt. Danny Fisher asks from the driver's seat of the van as Megan Jaye '06 takes the sleek, black weapon into her hands.It's 9:30 a.m.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Early applications rise, but still trail Ivy peers

Applications for the University's binding early decision program for the Class of 2010 rose nine percent over the previous year's figure, amounting to the second-highest number of applications in the past decade, the Communications Office said Friday.The 2,230 applications received thus far by the Admission Office, however, fall short of rivals Harvard and Yale's figures and a recent Princeton high of 2,350 early decision applications for the Class of 2007.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye did not respond to requests seeking comment last week.Yale saw a 3.4 percent increase in the number of applicants to its non-binding early action program, rising to 4,065 from last year's 3,933, according to figures from the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

ROTC cadets do battle at simulated war zone in nearby Fort Dix

"Do you want to hold an M16?" Sgt. Danny Fisher asks from the driver's seat of the van as Megan Jaye '06 takes the sleek, black weapon into her hands.It's 9:30 a.m.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Inmates: checkmate

Every semester for the past three years, members of the Princeton Chess Club have met with burglars, kidnappers, rapists and murderers for a morning of chess.On Friday, Brandon Ashe GS '04, Sam Benen '07, Aaron Pixton '08, and Josh Weinstein '09 took on 61 inmates at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton and suffered only two losses.The event originated in 2000, when Doug Forrester, the Republican candidate in the recent New Jersey gubernatorial election and founder of BeneCard Services, a prescription drug distributor, invited Jude Acres, a chess player from New Orleans, to play 15 inmates of the New Jersey State Prison.In 2002, BeneCard sponsored the first of what has become a biannual chess match between Princeton students and the prisoners.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Same-sex marriage brief will go to student referendum

Students will vote in a referendum next month on whether the USG should endorse a brief supporting same-sex marriage.The decision to send the question to the student body for approval or rejection came following nearly 90 minutes of debate involving members of the USG, the Princeton Justice Project (PJP) and other students.The brief was brought before the USG by PJP president Thomas Bohnett '07, also a Daily Princetonian columnist, and Gay Family Rights project head Chris Lloyd '06.Debate during the meeting was heated and broad-reaching, with USG members discussing the merits of gay marriage and the institutional goal of student government.USG President Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 urged the group to act, saying, "We should not decide to do nothing.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Early applications rise, but still trail Ivy peers

Applications for the University's binding early decision program for the Class of 2010 rose nine percent over the previous year's figure, amounting to the second-highest number of applications in the past decade, the Communications Office said Friday.The 2,230 applications received thus far by the Admission Office, however, fall short of rivals Harvard and Yale's figures and a recent Princeton high of 2,350 early decision applications for the Class of 2007.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye did not respond to requests seeking comment last week.Yale saw a 3.4 percent increase in the number of applicants to its non-binding early action program, rising to 4,065 from last year's 3,933, according to figures from the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Almore selected for U-Council

The USG announced the appointment of Anna Almore '08 as the new U-Council member at a Senate meeting on Sunday.Almore was chosen from 60 applicants to fill the position formerly held by Dylan Stamer '06.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Miller '06 wins Rhodes Scholarship

English major and aspiring novelist Jeff Miller '06 is the University's sole Rhodes Scholar this year, one of 32 in the country.Miller learned the news in dramatic ? and excruciating ? fashion.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Almore selected for U-Council

The USG announced the appointment of Anna Almore '08 as the new U-Council member at a Senate meeting on Sunday.Almore was chosen from 60 applicants to fill the position formerly held by Dylan Stamer '06.

NEWS | 11/20/2005

Rally protests CIA torture tactics

About 25 University students, faculty and local residents gathered outside Frist Campus Center Thursday to protest what they called the inhumane treatment of prisoners by the U.S.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Alito '72 joined conservative alumni group

Clarification appendedEarlier this week, recently released documents drew attention for showing that, in a 1985 job application, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72 wrote that he is "particularly proud" of his work on cases arguing that "racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."Now, opponents to his nomination are using another piece of information from those documents to suggest he is far outside the mainstream in his political and social views: Near the end of his "Personal Qualifications Statement" for a high-level job in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, Alito wrote that he was "a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton University, a conservative alumni group."Interviews with several alumni who were students in the 1970s paint a picture of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) as a far-right organization funded by conservative alumni committed to turning back the clock on coeducation at the University.The group, which published a magazine in which students wrote nostalgically about the days before coeducation, was frowned upon by Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Philosophers contemplate state of belief

Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek discussed the concept of belief before a packed audience in McCosh 50 on Thursday night.The lecture was titled "The Ignorance of Chicken, or, Who Believes What Today."Zizek began the lecture by arguing that "nobody really believes today," most notably religious fundamentalists and atheists."It is as if to really believe you have to put up an atheist front," Zizek said.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Early Decision applications rise with '10

The number of applicants for the University's binding early decision program rose nine percent over the previous year's figure with the Class of 2010, amounting to the second-largest early decision applicant numbers since the Class of 2001, the Communications Office said today.The 2,230 applications received thus far by the Admission Office, however, fall short of rivals Harvard and Yale's figures and a recent Princeton high of 2,350 early decision applications for the Class of 2007.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye did not return requests seeking comment.Yale saw a 3.4 percent increase in the number of applicants received to its non-binding early action program, rising to 4,065 from last year's 3,933, according to figures from Friday's Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Rally protests CIA torture tactics

About 25 University students, faculty and local residents gathered outside Frist Campus Center Thursday to protest what they called the inhumane treatment of prisoners by the U.S.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

Alito '72 joined conservative alumni group

Clarification appendedEarlier this week, recently released documents drew attention for showing that, in a 1985 job application, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72 wrote that he is "particularly proud" of his work on cases arguing that "racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."Now, opponents to his nomination are using another piece of information from those documents to suggest he is far outside the mainstream in his political and social views: Near the end of his "Personal Qualifications Statement" for a high-level job in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, Alito wrote that he was "a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton University, a conservative alumni group."Interviews with several alumni who were students in the 1970s paint a picture of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) as a far-right organization funded by conservative alumni committed to turning back the clock on coeducation at the University.The group, which published a magazine in which students wrote nostalgically about the days before coeducation, was frowned upon by Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 11/17/2005

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