Members of the USG met with administrators last week to discuss opening an establishment to sell alcoholic beverages to all members of the University community above drinking age ? including undergraduate students.
After years of complaints from students and sexual health staff that suitable facilities for collecting evidence of rape were too far away from the University, the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) became certified to perform sexual assault examinations late last year.UMCP recently announced plans to move from its current Witherspoon Street location, but officials say they do not believe it will affect the quality of care or the accessibility of rape kits.The hospital's new location has not yet been determined, though it will be in Princeton Borough or Township.
The USG adopted a "bill of rights" for mail services that suggests ways to revamp the mail system on campus at its meeting Sunday night.The bill is based on the concept of "one mailbox, one person, four years" and addresses issues such as individual mailboxes for students, a consistent four-year mailing address and package and publication delivery.The bill will be presented to Vice President for Administration Mark Burstein today."We're very optimistic that all this actually will happen as the administration has been very receptive to these ideas," said U-Councilor Becky Brown '06, who presented the bill Sunday.The bill proposes reforms to address six concerns.
Prospective applicants to Princeton's Class of 2010 are gearing up for the revamped SAT's debut this weekend, though the University will accept math and verbal scores from both the old and the new versions this fall."For juniors, we will accept the highest verbal and the highest math scores, whether for the old or new test," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.
President Tilghman was named to the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prestigious research institution based in Washington, D.C., at the Endowment's meeting on Jan.
Rising sophomores submitted contracts for substance-free housing last week, leaving plenty of rooms available for the Class of 2009.While some students chose substance-free to increase their chances of securing prime real estate, others said the rooms available did not influence their decision to sign the contract.Rockefeller College received 25 contracts for the 60 available beds in Buyers Hall, Forbes College received 58 contracts for about 70 beds on the first floor of the Main Inn, Butler College received 25 contracts for 100 beds in Lourie-Love Hall, Mathey College received 50 contracts for roughly 75 beds available in entryways six through nine of Blair Hall, and Wilson received 40 contracts for 140 beds offered in 1939 and Dodge-Osborne Halls.Substance-free beds that have not been taken will become available to rising sophomores in regular draw, with the stipulation that anyone who draws the rooms must sign a substance-free contract.Mathey College Master Antoine Kahn described his criteria for creating substance-free housing, which he said did not include finding exceptional rooms to entice students to draw substance-free."The first idea was to try to find a dorm where we could really make a coherent sub-free living space," Kahn said.
Hany Girgis, a fourth-year graduate student in the molecular biology department, works 12 hours a day.
A week after student protests shut down the Yale admissions office, Yale University President Richard Levin announced Thursday that he will eliminate the required family contribution from the financial aid package for undergraduate students from low-income families.Under the new financial aid program, families with an annual income of less than $45,000 will no longer be required to pay for any part of their children's education.
When the twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, foreign policy shot to the forefront of the American political consciousness.
There will be no early retirement for Charles Davall. After the former Chief of Police of the Borough Police Department retired from the force on January 31st, he joined Public Safety as the new Deputy Director of Operations."It's not much different than my old job," Davall said.
The student auction service on the USG's Point website, formerly pBay, was renamed TigerTrade on Thursday after a University lawyer raised concerns about possible copyright violations.Clay Bavor '05, who launched the pBay website this week, received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon from University counsel Clayton Marsh '85.Marsh warned that legal consequences might result from use of the pBay name and logo.
Early last month, the Princeton Borough Council appointed former Captain Anthony Federico as the new Chief of Police.
Legend has it that a Chinese emperor developed the board game Go 4,000 years ago to improve the intelligence of his dull-minded son.
The state's annual budget, released this week by Acting Governor Richard Codey, aims to increase spending on higher education by nearly $50 million while cutting $600 million from the overall budget.While the increase will have a direct impact on public colleges and universities, it will likely have little to no effect on the University because it is a private institution."The governor has shown that he values higher education," said Paul Shelly, spokesman for the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities.The new budget reduces total state spending to $27.4 billion to reduce the $4 billion deficit.The University will receive an amount close to last year's $700,000, a figure based on the number of attending New Jersey residents, predicted Pam Hersh, director of Community and State Affairs at the University."As far as I understand, the proposed budget recommends about the same direct aid for the independent sector," said Hersh.Much of the swell in education funding is earmarked for employee benefits, to be shared among the state's 12 senior public institutions.
Members of several graduate student unions delivered a report critical of race and gender equity in Ivy League faculty to the offices of President Tilghman and other Ivy League heads Tuesday.The report, titled "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League," argues that women and people of color are grossly underrepresented in Ivy League faculties and doctoral programs, suggesting that hiring disparities persist among underrepresented groups."The goal is to begin a dialogue about the fact that the Ivy League has remained an elitist institution," said Melissa Stuckey '00, one of the students who presented the report.
A week after a Florida judge ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be removed, her brother said that allowing her to die would put the United States on the path to Holocaust-style cruelties."What is the difference between what happened 60 years ago and what's happening today?" Bobby Schindler asked Wednesday before a crowd in McCosh 10.
Acting Governor Richard Codey declared March "National Caffeine Awareness Month," but coffee drinkers and energy drink junkies on campus question the likelihood that they will give up their drug.The awareness month is the result of advocacy efforts by the Caffeine Awareness Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to curtailing excessive caffeine consumption.
In pursuit of the University's motto, "In the Nation's service," Josh Tauberer '04 will head to Washington, D.C.
Taking a lead from Princeton's own Meg Whitman '77, who runs the popular online auction website eBay, Clay Bavor '05 has unveiled "pBay" ? an auction website for students to buy and sell items.The free service was launched Monday on Point, the USG's new student portal, which Bavor also created."The goal of pBay is to make it as easy as possible for people in the Princeton community to buy, sell and exchange stuff cheaply," he said.
John Marburger III '62, a physicist and the top science adviser to President Bush, emphasized the need for fundamental research rather than politically popular applied science programs and responded to concerns over a decline in research funding to a large audience in Guyot 10 Tuesday.Marburger said Congress should invest in nanotechnology, biotechnology, security spending and the National Institute of Standards and Technology this year.Marburger spent much of his hour-long talk titled "Science and the Federal Budget" describing the process of prioritizing and funding the research of various government agencies.Allocating research money has become a more difficult task each year, Marburger said, citing evidence that the proposed 2006 budget will cut research funding but still be higher than historical averages."As a percentage of the total discretionary domestic budget, the non-defense R&D [Research and Development] has remained constant at about 11 percent over the last three or four decades," he said, showing a chart.In response to concerns from faculty members who had suffered funding cuts, Marburger suggested private research institutions were expanding faster than the government could expand funding."The opportunities [in research] have been expanding faster than the willingness of society to pay," Marburger said.Marburger said he hoped to see more public policy analysis of science research programs."We don't have anything like an economic model for science research in this country," he said.
