House Representative Rush Holt (D-N.J.), who represents the twelfth district, introduced legislation in Congress which would make electronic voting more secure and accountable.
New Jersey is one of only a few states which provides affordable housing for its residents. A proposed set of rules, however, stands to have an adverse effect on the affordable housing obligations of towns such as Princeton that are dominated by a large academic institution.These types of communities do not generally abide by the stipulations made in the regulations.The new regulations set forth by the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) seek to avoid the negative impact that unplanned growth can have on a community.
An odd blue-green blanket is spread over Alexander Beach. The Wilson College quad, strewn with straw, resembles a barnyard.
The Security Police and Fire Professionals of America ? a union that includes Art Museum and Firestone Library staffers and non-sworn Public Safety officers ? concluded negotiations with the University administration Oct.
Three Harvard University students broke into a dorm room in Forbes College on Oct. 24, the day of the Princeton-Harvard football game, according to Princeton Borough Police.The students, who had been staying at Princeton for the weekend, were arrested the next day.Sophomore Tomas Vargas and Christopher P.
A long-planned review of the University's tenure system ? the mechanism by which select junior faculty are awarded a job for life ? has been put on hold indefinitely, President Tilghman said Thursday."We will not conduct the review this year, and we are still considering when the right time [to conduct it] would be," Tilghman, who has been planning such a review since her inauguration in 2001, said in an email.The review is being postponed in favor of other, more "urgent" priorities that require the attention of both the Dean of the Faculty and Provost ? the two senior administrators whose portfolios would include the review ? Tilghman said.She would not elaborate on the projects that are taking precedence over the review apart from saying, "We are still discussing these [issues] with the appropriate [department] chairs, and won't be ready to talk about them more generally for a few weeks."Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin said the composition of the senior administration also makes it less than logical to do a tenure review this year, saying, "just as it didn't make sense to do it in the first year of a new [Dean of the Faculty], it doesn't make sense to do it in the first year of a new Provost."Last year, in the aftermath of the Drew Isenberg controversy ? in which an assistant professor in the history department was denied tenure, to the dismay of many students ? Tilghman reaffirmed her commitment to a review of the system, saying that she wanted to conduct a review this year.At the time, Isenberg criticized the system as "intentionally opaque" and was joined by other junior faculty who described the system as rife with "secrecy."While calling for a more open system, junior faculty also highlighted the need for better mentoring by their tenured senior colleagues, allowing them to better understand the University's expectations of them.Last year, and again in her email message, Tilghman said she strongly supports the idea of a review, including one that seeks answers to junior faculty's concerns regarding the fairness of the process."I think one goal of the review should be to identify a system that allows our junior faculty the best opportunity to establish their scholarly and teaching credentials ? a fairness issue," she said.In an earlier interview, Provost Christopher Eisgruber '83 acknowledged the "humongous complexities" involved in the system and outlined what he thought were other questions that any review would have to address."On the one hand, you can look at our faculty and say the rate of [granting] tenure is low," Eisgruber said."On the other hand, you can look at the composition of our faculty and say, well, the proportion of tenured faculty is high."Tilghman also suggested that any review must consider the period of time granted to junior faculty to achieve tenure."There are fields in which our current length, five years, is considered sufficient time in which to make a well-informed judgment," she said, "and other fields where five years feels like a very short period"
Undergraduates have barely had access to their email since Saturday after OIT ran into trouble after upgrading the University's messaging software.Normal operations resumed this afternoon, but technology officials warned that the University's IMAP and Webmail servers might continue to experience problems."We believe there is still some instability occurring on the undergraduate email server," said Donna Tatro, manager of OIT's collaboration services group.OIT had announced a total shutdown of the IMAP system for most of Saturday to upgrade the Sun Microsystems Corp.-provided server software to the newest version, Sun ONE Messaging Server, on faster computers.
Evan Baehr '05 has created quite a buzz on campus as the lone Republican vying for a seat on the Borough Council.
Many students look forward to Fall Break as relaxation time after exams and studying, but some are foregoing vacation to hit the campaign trail next week in support of their favorite candidate.Princeton Votes, or P-Votes, was organized this year as an initiative to get students "campaigning in response to the November elections," said Carol Wang '07, coordinator of fall break campaigning for the group."We have about 40 students going on trips for fall break.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge visited Yale University on Monday for a private meeting with the presidents of several major universities.
A sophomore drowned late Friday night in Florida, where he was spending Fall Break training with the men's and women's swimming and diving teams.Alan Ebersole, 20, a Butler College resident from Vicksburg, Miss., drowned off the coast of Deerfield Beach, Fl., according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
Four years ago, professor Robert Vanderbei created a project for his ORF 201: Computer Methods and Problem Solving class in which they took data from the 2000 election and made a map of America.
Among the topics that Republican incumbent George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry have debated during the presidential campaign, embryonic stem cell research stands out as one of the most contentious.While the Bush administration stresses the immorality of destroying embryos for the purpose of biomedical research, the Kerry camp supports embryos' use in researching cures for debilitating diseases.With passions running high on both sides of the debate, some University professors have chosen to weigh in on the stem cell research controversy.Professor Roblin Meeks of the Princeton Writing Program, who teaches the writing seminar "The Culture Wars in Philosophical Context," said he supports embryonic stem cell research.Meeks, whose father suffered from polio, said that opponents of stem cell research too often paint the issue as "a stark contrast between supporting life and opposing life." This attitude, he said, ignores the need to improve the quality of life for people like his father."We need to take into account quality of life as much as a definitive notion of 'this is life' or 'this isn't life,'" he said.Meeks said his background in cognitive science leads to "optimism as to where science can take us," but he fears the Bush administration does not share this attitude."I think the Bush administration is very distrustful of science," he said.Peter Singer, professor at the Center for Human Values, agreed.
If there's anything the football team has learned over the past few seasons, head coach Roger Hughes joked Wednesday afternoon, it's how to react to a tough loss.The lesson will undoubtedly come in handy as Princeton (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) prepares to travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to face Cornell (1-5, 1-2) on Saturday."I told the team you can't do anything about that loss," Hughes said, referring to the 39-14 drubbing the Tigers received from Harvard last weekend.
With the November elections fast approaching, debate over Iraq, terrorism and the economy has in many ways dominated the rhetoric of presidential candidates George W.
"We haven't been a dominant team," Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said. "We've just been an extremely resiliant, mentally tough football team."Based upon the Crimson's performance during Saturday's 39-14 win against Princeton (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League), Murphy may be guilty of understatement.
With Election Day less than two weeks away, most Princeton students ? including international students ? have already decided how they intend to vote.Despite having no actual say in the matter, most foreign citizens on campus hold strong opinions on the upcoming presidential election ? and Sen.
Countless University students are closet addicts of sites like thefacebook.com. They surf the directory pages to look at people's pictures, read their witty and sometimes fantasized profiles, and maybe even check out their relationship statuses.But many of these students have not yet come across the extensive world of live journals."It's an even better stalker tool than thefacebook.com," Yvon Wang '08 joked in an email.
OIT will temporarily shut down the University's IMAP email and Webmail Saturday to make long-overdue updates.An email sent on Monday to all students explained that the outage will take place approximately between 7 a.m.
The University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) plans to build replacement facilities or relocate from its location on Witherspoon Street because of spatial constraints.The current building and the services provided within need to be expanded and updated to meet today's health care demands, Princeton Health Center President and CEO Barry Rabner said."The projections of the growth of the population in the areas we serve show a significant growth," Rabner said.
