Care for a deep tissue massage performed by a licensed specialist, just steps away from your dorm room?
The University is investigating whether Verizon Wireless held an unauthorized contest for tickets to the Maroon 5 concert, hosted May 2 by Quadrangle Club in conjunction with the University, according to Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne.The agency that booked the concert, More Music Group, will investigate the claims on behalf of the University.
Michael Doran GS '97, a popular assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, has decided to remain at Princeton after the dean of the faculty's office responded favorably to a competing job offer extended to him by Brandeis University."I am free to tell you that I will be staying on at Princeton," he said in an e-mail Monday afternoon.NES department chair Andras Hamori confirmed that Doran decided to stay at the University after "Princeton responded generously to the Brandeis offer."In mid-March, Brandeis extended a job offer to Doran ? with tenure.Though officials there were unavailable to comment, Doran confirmed earlier that he was named a candidate for the directorship of the university's new $30 million Center for Middle East Studies.Brandeis' offer prompted Princeton's NES department to consider Doran for tenure and propose a counteroffer in order to retain him.Just under two weeks after the Brandeis offer, the department recommended Doran for tenure to the Committee of Three, the group responsible for final tenure recommendations.As of Tuesday, a final decision regarding Doran's tenure was still pending.
Philosophy graduate students expressed anger with Associate Dean of Student Affairs Joy Montero after Public Safety shut down their end-of-year party on the evening of Friday, April 30, on orders from her office.The disagreement between the students and Montero's office focused on whether Montero had approved the party."We have huge complaints with Public Safety and the office of F.
Considered by many to be one of today's most controversial film directors, three-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone is generally known for movies that explore the various facets of America's domestic landscape.
When Dan Semaya '04 first experimented with Apple Computer's new GarageBand software last January, it resonated with him so much that he decided to promote the contest, GarageBandFEST '04.Semaya, the University's campus representative for Apple Computer and president and founder of the Princeton Student Macintosh Users' Group, came up with the idea to award students for displaying originality and creativity while using the GarageBand program.
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.
