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Lohman enters intervention program

Lohman enters intervention program

Michael Lohman, the former mathematics graduate student accused in April of committing dozens of sexual offenses against Asian women on campus, entered a pretrial intervention program Wednesday, avoiding a possible criminal conviction."Michael is remorseful about everything that happened," Lohman's lawyer, Kevin Main, said in an interview today.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

University to grant automatic tenure extension to parents

Faculty members who are expecting or adopting a child will automatically be granted an extra year to pursue tenure, under a new policy announced this week.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Chase addresses seniors at Class Day

You might find the text of Chevy Chase's keynote address on the edge of a bathtub ? or somewhere else in his home.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Admissions, calendar to be reviewed

The undergraduate admissions process and academic year will be examined next fall as administrators consider making changes that would align Princeton more closely with its peers.The academic calendar will be reviewed by the Committee for the Course of Study, which oversees changes to the curriculum.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

RIAA sues another Princeton student

School's out, but the music industry isn't taking a break from litigation. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits last week against 91 students at 33 colleges, including Princeton.This latest series of lawsuits includes one suit filed against a Princeton student, University spokesman Eric Quinones said in an email Wednesday.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Tiger Beer to be served at Reunions

Each spring, alumni fill orange and black plastic cups with beer from thousands of kegs planted firmly in the grass beneath Reunions tents.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Oxman '67 named trustees chair

Nassau Hall will announce today that Stephen Oxman '67 has been chosen by the Board of Trustees as the new chair of their executive committee, making him the senior most member of the University's governing body other than the president.Oxman, a trustee since 2002, replaces Robert Rawson '66, who will step down July 1 after 13 years as chairman and 20 years on the board."I'm very pleased to take on this role," Oxman said in an interview.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

An evolving campus

To decide how Princeton undergraduates can best experience residential life, German professor Michael Jennings and two colleagues hit the road.Last summer, inside one of Harvard's 12 houses ? the residential hubs for sophomores, juniors and seniors ? Jennings entered a dining hall bathed in natural light and chose from small platters of food cooked within the last 10 minutes."These dining spaces and systems were just so different from Princeton's," Jennings said.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Full text of senior Bradford Lyman's speech

Presented unedited, as received from Lyman.Recently, I was talking to my father about Princeton.

NEWS | 05/25/2005

Seniors weigh jobs, graduate school

While some seniors approached their post-graduation futures with rigid planning, Fairy Pardiwalla and Craig McFarland have found that flexibility is the key to preparing for the world after Princeton.A few months ago, Pardiwalla had her heart set on entering a Ph.D.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Class of 2009 draws 1,220

Out of the 1,807 students accepted for the Class of 2009, 67.6 percent have decided to enroll at the University, Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye will announce today.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Frist filibuster packs up, moves to Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? After 384 hours of continuous protest, the Frist filibuster culminated Thursday afternoon as politicians and national media gathered in the shadow of the U.S.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Professors, editors talk about the 'perfect' magazine

What makes a magazine perfect? To find out, students, professors and community members congregated in the rotunda of East Pyne Wednesday to hear prominent editors and writers discuss the importance of fostering small, intellectual publications.Chair of the Council of Humanities Tony Grafton organized and moderated the forum, named "The Perfect Little Magazine." He called it, "a conversation about the perfect little magazine ? what it is and what it could be."In his opening remarks, Grafton described journalism's recent move toward complete conglomeration as "pretty scary." He stressed the need for smaller, more specialized magazines, both nationally and on college campuses.For the first part of the event, four editors of small magazines spoke about what Grafton labeled "the magazines we have." After a break for dinner, a panel of four magazine contributors discussed "the magazines we don't have."The first round panel included creative writing professors Gabe Hudson and Joyce Carol Oates, as well Wendy Lesser, editor of literary magazine The Threepenny Review and a visiting professor last semester.The other panelists were Sina Najafi, the coeditor in chief of the art and culture quarterly Cabinet, and writers Adam Kirsch, Francine Prose, Judith Shulevitz and Lawrence Weschler.Contrary to the name of the forum, Lesser said little magazines should not strive for perfection."I think the whole point of these little magazines is not to be perfect ? to make lots of mistakes, to make an effort to do something different and new," she said.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Man arrested for stalking Bush '06

A Massachusetts man was arrested on campus last week for allegedly stalking presidential niece Lauren Bush '06, authorities said.Lucas Schloming, a 31-year-old Cambridge resident and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was arrested May 6 on federal stalking charges, Public Safety (DPS) Deputy Director of Operations Charles Davall said Saturday evening.Schloming allegedly sent several "threatening emails" to Bush and was later seen "acting suspiciously" and arrested at 58 Prospect Ave., formerly the Elm eating club, Davall said.In late April, Borough police were alerted that Bush was receiving "emails of a harassing nature" from Schloming, Lt.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Fire causes minor damage to Holder Hall

A fire caused minor damage on the east side of the Holder construction site near Nassau Presbyterian Church on Tuesday night.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

University reverses policy on faith groups

Nassau Hall has reversed its policy on the recognition of religious student groups after being contacted by an outside civil liberties organization that protested the treatment of one such group as an "ongoing injustice." Under the new policy, religious student groups with ties to faith organizations without established "campus ministries" will be considered for official student group status using the same criteria as other groups.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Melahn '07 triumphs in 'Assassins' game

Students were dropping like flies. An assassin stalked the campus ? but her weapon of choice was a shiny squirt gun, and her targets were members of the Class of 2007.With 15 "kills" to her credit and more than one daring escape, Laura Melahn '07 emerged victorious in the game of Last Man Standing ? better known as Assassins ? sponsored by the officers of the sophomore class in the final weeks of the semester.She found her victims while they strolled on Prospect Avenue or unloaded their laundry in Forbes.

NEWS | 05/12/2005

Protest travels to Capitol Hill

The Frist filibuster ? which began two weeks ago with a handful of students, a single music stand and modest aspirations ? is headed to the steps of the Capitol.A group of about 50 Princeton students will arrive in Washington, D.C., this morning, transporting their around-the-clock filibuster from the north lawn of the Frist Campus Center to the reflecting pool just west of the Capitol building."We decided that we wanted some culminating event because we couldn't keep it going on forever," filibuster coordinator Peter Turner GS said Tuesday.Once in Washington, the students plan to stage a 24-hour protest filibuster aimed at convincing Senators to vote against a possible Senatorial rule change known as the "nuclear option."The nuclear option, which was proposed by Senator Bill Frist '74, would reduce the number of votes needed to end a filibuster from 60 to 51.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

NES's Doran rumored for National Security Council post

Michael Doran GS '97, an assistant professor in the Near Eastern Studies (NES) department, is the Bush administration's pick to head the Israel-Palestine desk at the National Security Council, according to a report Tuesday.Citing unnamed sources, JTA, a nonprofit Jewish news service, reported yesterday afternoon that the White House has chosen Doran to replace Elliot Abrams, who will be promoted to deputy national security advisor for global democratic strategy.Doran, who in the past has done extensive consulting work for the federal government, declined to comment on the JTA report and White House officials did not return calls.In interviews Tuesday evening, University faculty and Washington observers said that though they were aware of rumors surrounding a possible appointment, they were not aware that any decision had been made."Like everybody else, I've heard rumors," NES department chair Andras Hamori said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.Established in 1947, the National Security Council is the president's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with senior advisors and cabinet officials.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

Growing dreams

As Monday became Tuesday, the convenience store in Frist Campus Center buzzed with students fueling up with candy bars, Diet Coke and Red Bull.

NEWS | 05/10/2005

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