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Princeton resident Meryl James was arrested earlier this week and charged with prostitution and controlling a house of prostitution following a month-long investigation, Township police said Thursday.James, a 50-year-old single mother of three who calls herself a Swedish masseuse, operated out of her Griggs Farm apartment.The investigation was launched when police "got reports of unnecessary amounts of traffic coming and going at an apartment," Princeton Township Police Lt.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Eight-ball, corner pocket

Eight-ball, corner pocket

Hype is the coin of the realm these days, and perhaps a malaise with no purer expression than the furor over "It," better known as the superfluous Segway.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Southern Society kicks off with BBQ

For those who've been missing their home-cooked quail, the newly-founded Southern Society may have something to hit the spot.The club's first event, held last weekend, featured baked beans, sweet tea and 120 pounds of pork, and drew more than 200 people.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Blackboard merger may benefit users

The company that licenses the Blackboard course management system to Princeton expects regulatory approval of its acquisition of competitor WebCT by the end of the year.Blackboard's acquisition of competitor WebCT, announced Oct.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Administration solicits grad student feedback on plan

The second of two meetings regarding changes to the status of post-enrolled graduate students ? students who complete degree requirements but require extra time to work on dissertations ? was held Thursday.For the past three years, post-enrolled students have had Degree Candidacy Continuing (DCC) status.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Yale grad students file bias complaint

Yale responded Tuesday to a class action grievance by promising funding to a graduate student who charged that Yale was taking away her funding because of her nationality.The grievance was filed last week with the Yale University Dean of the Graduate School on behalf of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), a student group that sought for years to be officially recognized by Yale.Chinese students are "heavily recruited by Yale to work in labs and teach undergraduates, face discrimination and double standards from administrators, often resulting in loss of jobs, student status, and visas," the statement said.The grievance was filed after Han Xuemei, an ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student, said she had been asked to leave the university because she was in poor academic standing.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Overlooking waiver, some students default to University health plan

When Sarah Hammit '04 took a hard fall snowboarding in January of her senior year, the resulting concussion, cracked kneecap and sprained ankles were only the beginning of a problem that continues to disrupt her life today.She and her family never anticipated the bureaucratic nightmare that unfolded throughout the initial X-rays, an MRI, surgery and months of painful physical therapy.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Alito '72 nominated for Supreme Court seat

Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated Monday by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Alito '72 nominated for Supreme Court seat

Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated Monday by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Overlooking waiver, some students default to University health plan

When Sarah Hammit '04 took a hard fall snowboarding in January of her senior year, the resulting concussion, cracked kneecap and sprained ankles were only the beginning of a problem that continues to disrupt her life today.She and her family never anticipated the bureaucratic nightmare that unfolded throughout the initial X-rays, an MRI, surgery and months of painful physical therapy.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Yale grad students file bias complaint

Yale responded Tuesday to a class action grievance by promising funding to a graduate student who charged that Yale was taking away her funding because of her nationality.The grievance was filed last week with the Yale University Dean of the Graduate School on behalf of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), a student group that sought for years to be officially recognized by Yale.Chinese students are "heavily recruited by Yale to work in labs and teach undergraduates, face discrimination and double standards from administrators, often resulting in loss of jobs, student status, and visas," the statement said.The grievance was filed after Han Xuemei, an ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student, said she had been asked to leave the university because she was in poor academic standing.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Islamic manuscripts to be made available online

Firestone Curator of Manuscripts Don Skemer has organized an effort to digitize about 200 Islamic manuscripts and electronically catalog more than 10,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Rare Book Division's collection during the next four years.The collection, the largest in North America, ranges in age from the earliest Islamic texts in the ninth century to pieces written in the early 20th century during the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire."When I first arrived in the early '90s, I realized there were many manuscripts that had not been catalogued," Skemer said.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Nominee chaired conference recommending protection of privacy, gay rights

As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Nominee chaired conference recommending protection of privacy, gay rights

As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.

NEWS | 10/27/2005

Fall break trips to assist Katrina relief

Nineteen University students will travel to Louisiana and Alabama with the Student Volunteer Council (SVC) to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, doing everything from cleaning up trampled gardens to clearing debris from hurricane-ravaged streets.A month and a half after Katrina struck, much of the Gulf is still in need of repair.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Seniors Bush, Callaghan, Frist co-chair Class Day

This year's Class Day co-chairs are seniors Lauren Bush, Shaun Callaghan and Harrison Frist.Class Day, held the day before Commencement, is a student-organized event featuring remarks by a keynote speaker.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

RIAA sues two University students for music piracy

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched yet another round of litigation in its campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Bishop discusses role of church

Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and author and evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes met to discuss the issues facing Christian churches in modern America in a packed University Chapel on Wednesday evening.The public event, titled "Preachers, Profits and the Prophetic: The New Face of American Evangelicalism," was part of the "Conversation" lecture series organized by the Program in African-American Studies.Jakes is currently pastor of The Potter House, a multiracial, nondenominational church in Dallas with more than 30,000 members.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Professor wins prize for plasma physics

Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Professor wins prize for plasma physics

Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

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