At 7:30 in the morning, the University is quiet ? except for the ambitious runner or student who wants breakfast before an 8:30 class.But Katy Glenn '05 is already up.
The Tilghman administration envisions the four-year residential college system integrating every undergraduate, according to a recent self-study of the plans to set up the system.The plan highlights how the administration hopes that upperclassmen who choose not to join an eating club, as well as those who choose to join clubs, will have a place in the colleges.
To establish a campus-based forum for incidents of discrimination, Sustained Dialogue launched a website titled, "Shades of Princeton" last Thursday.The website, shadesofprinceton.org, encourages members of the University community to anonymously submit or comment on any incident of discrimination, including cases of race, religion, size and class."The main goal of the website is to create awareness on race relations and use that as a source of momentum to effect a change," Brian Kirk '06, a Sustained Dialogue director, said.One of the biggest problems in tackling the issue of race relations on campus, according to Kirk, is making people aware that a problem exists.
Peter Singer is best known as one of the most controversial philosophers of our time. He became the Ira W.
The USG unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday requiring the Honor Committee to consider whether a student "should have reasonably understood that his or her actions were in violation of the Honor Code" when determining penalties for cheating.The amendment, which took effect immediately, lists reasonable knowledge of the code as an extenuating circumstance, which may reduce a punishment from suspension to probation."I think there are many cases in which students for whatever reason may break the rules without knowing they're doing it, and unless its written in the constitution, you have to be punished," Shaun Callaghan '06, USG vice president, said."I think this institutionalizes some type of fairness for people who are unaware of a certain regulation or rule they were violating, and it gives flexibility to the Honor Committee."Ignorance of the Honor Code will not be a legitimate excuse, but the committee will consider instances such as when a student did not know he was violating a teacher's policy on an exam. Censure optionThe amendment also allows the committee to suspend a student "with censure." The words would appear on the offending student's transcript to mark a particularly serious offense.The censure option allows the committee to penalize students who have committed an offense more serious than those that usually merit a one-year suspension, but not severe enough to deserve a two-year suspension. 'Intent'The amendment was prompted by a failed undergraduate-wide referendum last year that would have required the Honor Committee to consider a student's intention when determining penalties.Some students were opposed to the referendum's use of the word "intent," arguing that the Honor Committee could not determine a student's true intent."We thought with the word 'intent' we'd be having to get into the heads of the students," Honor Committee Chairman Eli Goldsmith '04 said, emphasizing that intent could not be determined by concrete evidence.
The University received a subpoena Wednesday ordering it to disclose the names of three community members being sued by the recording industry for copyright infringement.
An average of 140 students apply to medical school from the University each year. About 90 percent of them get in, almost twice the national average, according to the University's Health Professions Advising (HPA) office.But next year's premeds will have to do without the current director of HPA, Jane Cary, who has spent the past eight years guiding University students through the intensive application process.Cary originally came to Princeton from Amherst College when her husband Michael was appointed headmaster of the nearby Lawrenceville School.
Public Safety and Borough Police reported Sunday that two assaults had occurred in the immediate vicinities of Colonial and Tower clubs Saturday night.In its Sunday police blotter, Public Safety reported that a University student had been assaulted at Tower Club on Saturday night.Further investigation by Public Safety revealed that the conflict was between a bouncer and student member of the club."At first, the University student had reported that he had been assaulted by a non-student," said Duncan Harrison, acting associate director of operations for Public Safety.
The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed the second of three planned reports on the state of health and wellness on campus Monday.University Vice President Robert Durkee '69 summarized the findings of the task force and afterwards fielded audience questions."Mainly, University Health Services and Dillon Gym are straining at the seams, and it will only increase when the University adds more students in a couple years," Durkee said.He explained that the issues of concern for the task force were nutrition, the condition of Dillon facilities, McCosh Health Center and the Student Health Plan.Univeristy Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman reported difficulties treating serious mental conditions."Our old structure was designed to assess developmental problems, like mild depression," Silverman said.
Several years after receiving a drastic facelift, the Princeton Garden Theatre has bloomed into a modern venue that attracts University students and the Princeton community alike.
A midnight run around Princeton's campus led four sophomore roommates to compete in the New Jersey Shore Marathon on April 25.Roommates Tim Tran '06, Ian Macqueen '06, Paul Nelson '06 and Tyler Brown '06 crossed the finish line of their first marathon within a second of each other, with a time of 4:40:41.
Borough, Township and hospital officials plan to expand and possibly relocate the University Medical Center at Princeton, formerly known as Princeton Medical Center."It will be necessary to replace the current acute care hospital to accommodate increased demands in service, new technology and new ways to provide care," said Barry Rabner, president and chief executive officer of the Princeton Health Care System.While reviewing its health services last year, the PHCS judged the hospital's current facilities on Witherspoon Street to be insufficient for future health care needs.
A parked UPS truck next to Patton Hall rolled backward into part of the Whitman College construction site Friday evening, getting lodged between a hill and a fence.
The rising costs of textbooks is currently being countered by a coalition of students and faculty ? including several University professors ? led by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG).These include the publisher-added "bells and whistles," unnecessary textbook supplements such as CD-ROMS that drive up costs.
The University's Task Force on Health and Well-Being released its second report Friday, noting "the importance of better communication" to inform students about the resources available to them.The 24-page report, which presented additional findings and identified the committee's summer agenda, also recommended "greater synergy in addressing issues that cross office or departmental boundaries."The new document builds on a January report, which provided background information, some initial findings and recommendations and outlined a work plan for the spring.The task force's "most ambitious undertaking" this spring, according to the report, has been a series of focus group discussions with undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff and retirees.
Most students can probably remember getting excited about trains when they were younger. A kid is almost guaranteed to smile, whether riding a train or simply watching one pass.On Thursday, the Dinky drew a similar reaction even among battle-hardened commuters.From Thursday through this morning, New Jersey Transit tested a prototype rail car, known as a diesel multiple unit (DMU), on the Dinky line from Princeton to Princeton Junction.New Jersey Transit hopes to receive a federal grant to introduce the new model to some of its lines, according to Jeffrey Marinoff, second vice chair for the South Jersey Transit Advisory Committee.The DMU has been designed to be more attractive and comfortable than the current Dinky."This car is great for an area like Princeton," said Arthur Rader, director of sales for Colorado Railcar, which manufactures the prototype.
The University on Thursday returned the Newman's Day T-shirts confiscated from Taylor Bright '05 a week ago."I went in today for a second meeting [with Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan], and I got the t-shirts back and a letter which explained why they confiscated them," Bright said.In the letter given to Bright, Deignan wrote, "My actions were driven, first and foremost, by concern that the T-shirts were designed to be used as paraphernalia for a dangerous drinking activity that has led to the hospitalization of students in the past."Deignan also explained in the letter that she confiscated the T-shirts because of the concerns raised by Paul Newman's lawyers about the use of his name in conjunction with a "binge drinking event."Newman has campaigned against substance abuse ever since his son's death in 1978 due to a drug overdose.Therefore, Newman "may well regard the use of his own name to promote a binge-drinking event as a 'false light' portrayal that deliberately distorts his views in a way that is not only deeply distressing but also legally accountable," Deignan wrote in the letter.Bright said he will investigate "whether 'false light' portrayal is an actual concern," and if it is, he will distribute the shirts to interested alumni and students.
Retired Firestone Library curator Alfred Bush recently discovered a diary written by one of Albert Einstein's closest friends which chronicles the famed scientist's musings and everyday activities during the last years of his life.In the diary, Johanna Fantova, a map curator at Firestone Library in 1953, describes Einstein's opinions on everything from current events and politics to music and physics."Fantova's manuscript concerning Albert Einstein and their friendship is full of human interest," Don Skemer, University curator of manuscripts, said."This material will be of interest to the many Einstein researchers around the world, as well as to people here and in Germany who are interested in the life and times of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers," Skemer added. Fantova and EinsteinFantova met Einstein in 1929 in Berlin and renewed the friendship in the United States during World War II, according to Gillett Griffin, curator of the University's pre-Columbian art collection and mutual friend of Einstein and Fantova.Fantova's manuscript reveals that the two often spoke on the telephone, went sailing on Lake Carnegie and saw films together."Fantova kept a diary of Einstein at the same time I was going to Einstein's house for dinners," said Griffin, who still possesses the cushion Einstein sat on in his sailing boat.Fantova compiled notes from her conversations into a 62-page manuscript written in German, with more than 200 diary entries.According to Griffin, Einstein realized Fantova was recording their conversations and also gave her an important scientific manuscript on unified field theory, knowing that Fantova could sell the works in the future."He knew Fantova was poor and sent her poems and a scientific manuscript as an insurance for her financial security," Griffin said.Fantova hesitated for many years to take notes on her conversations with Einstein but was convinced in the last years of his life that "these monologues were of great interest as historical documents, since they illuminate the man and his era," she wrote. ConversationsIn Fantova's accounts, much of Einstein's ruminations were devoted to the political affairs of the day.
A resident of the Stanworth apartment complex, which houses some faculty, was arrested Saturday following an investigation by Princeton Borough Police into alleged credit card fraud.Randy Baadhio, 38, was charged with credit card fraud, forgery, identity theft and theft by deception.The investigation began when A1 Limousine, which was conducting business with Baadhio and suspected him of fraudulent credit card use, alerted University Public Safety of their suspicions.Baadhio acquired at least seven credit cards under different identities and may have used them to obtain between $2,000 and $4,000, Borough Police Lt.
