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Budget tops $900 million with money for new staff

Budget tops $900 million with money for new staff

The University Board of Trustees met from Jan. 23-24 and, following the recommendations of the Priorities Committee, approved a $900 million operating budget for the 2004-05 academic year, including slightly more than $2 million in new spending for a range of campus needs.

NEWS | 02/01/2004

Tigers take on New Hampshire primary

MANCHESTER, N.H. ? While none of the seven contenders for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination hail from Princeton, University students and alumni are providing full-time support as wives, daughters, campaign staffers and volunteers determined to convince voters that their favorite will be the most likely to defeat President Bush in the general election this November.

NEWS | 02/01/2004

University buildings present difficulties for disabled

David Mann-Podrasky '05 enrolled in five classes last semester, but he was forced to sit through part of a sixth.A quadriplegic since a swimming accident at age 14, Mann-Podrasky uses a wheelchair.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

U-2 increases food selection as Frist sales rise, Wawa reopens

It is a little after 2 a.m. on Dean's Date and one place outside study rooms is clearly hopping: U-2, the U-Store's convenience store.At this time last year, U-2 would have been closing for the night.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

One-click voting: Will your vote count?

A little over half of Americans vote for President, less than a third for members of Congress ? most say it's because their vote doesn't matter.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

A glimpse within the new 'ellipse' Poe Field dorm

Sophomores or juniors awakened by jackhammers and cement mixers working on the "ellipse" dormitory next to Poe Field over the last two years might feel happier about the construction this spring, when the brand-new rooms become available for upperclass room draw.Though the 220-bed dorm will not be officially completed until September move-in, floor plans will be available online from the housing department before room draw, said George Olexa, assistant director of physical planning.Olexa gave The Daily Princetonian a tour of the $27 million building, which is on schedule and on budget, though still in need of extensive interior work.The ellipse dorm ? named for the shallow curve it forms, along with Scully and the Carl Icahn Laboratory, against Poe Field ? features 15 four-room, four-person suites as well as many single rooms and singles connected by a bathroom, as in Scully.But unlike Scully, the ground floor suites will be accessed by entryways like those in the Gothic dorms, the single rooms will be larger by an average of 30 square feet and all rooms will feature hardwood flooring.The architecture is more ornamented than in Scully."I love the roofline.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

Stomach bug hits Colonial members

At least 18 students who ate at Colonial Club went to McCosh Infirmary Wednesday night for acute gastric enteritis.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

Provost Gutmann named Penn president, eyes undergrads, endowment

January 22, 2004Provost Amy Gutmann, who has been President Tilghman's second-in-command for two-and-a-half years, will leave the University on June 30 to become the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania, capping a 28-year Princeton career.Tilghman will scramble to find a replacement to serve as her chief academic and budget officer as Gutmann finalizes her work here and makes plans for Penn.Gutmann's priorities for Penn include raising the profile of its undergraduate college and growing its endowment, which is a third the size of Princeton's despite Penn enrollment being five times as large, she said.Because of Penn's strong graduate schools, "the undergraduate college can tend to be overshadowed," Gutmann said today in an interview in her Nassau Hall office.

NEWS | 01/18/2004

Report finds 'deficiencies' in University health service

An interim report issued by the recently appointed Task Force on Health and Wellbeing has found "significant deficiencies and ample room for improvement" in campus health services.The task force noted that greater information and counseling about nutrition is needed for students so they can make healthier food choices.

NEWS | 01/15/2004

Students to campaign in snowy New Hampshire

When Julia Friedlander '06 traveled to Manchester, N.H., last October to spend a weekend campaigning for Gen.

NEWS | 01/15/2004

Fountains of Wayne to play at McCarter

The band Fountains of Wayne, best known for its hit single "Stacy's Mom," is coming to McCarter Theatre on Feb.

NEWS | 01/15/2004

Anxious weeks for sophs as Bicker, sign-in approach

In the midst of a stressful week of finals, sophomores are studying, writing papers, taking exams and contemplating their meal options for the next two years.

NEWS | 01/15/2004

Vitale '04 wins Sachs award to study theology at Oxford

Vincent Vitale '04 has won the 2004 Daniel Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, enabling him to study for the next two years at Oxford University.Vitale, an A.B.

NEWS | 01/15/2004

Borough Police bust Stanhope Hall drug ring, find passed out proctors

Borough Police raided Stanhope Hall early yesterday morning after receiving a tip from an anonymous Tory staff writer that there was evidence of widespread drug abuse in the building that houses Public Safety's main office.According to the police report, the caller described a "cloud of marijuana smoke" that was "billowing" from several ground-level windows in the building.The police were greeted by several visibly intoxicated proctors, one of whom was obviously delusional.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Registrar website loses transcripts

The University is expected to announce today that a significant number of transcripts ordered through the registrar's website in December were never sent because of a computer glitch, an official in the registrar's office said, putting seniors' graduate school and fellowship applications at risk.The official, who asked to have his name withheld, said the problem began Dec.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Margolin takes presidency with speech of year's goals

Matt Margolin '05 was coronated yesterday, officially taking the reins of power from outgoing USG president Pettus Randall '04 in a ceremony in Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Students excited over coming of Condom Fest

Health Services is planning a series of new initiatives for February, beginning with Condom Fest the first Saturday of the new term. Nurses"Our nurses have been identifying a significantly higher proportion of pregnancies among undergraduates, and we are concerned," said Daniel Silverman, director of Health Services whose email address, silvermd@princeton.edu, notes his qualification. Childbearing"Although statistics show that when a child is the result of the copulation of two alumni, levels of contributions to the University tend to be high, we don't think childbearing is another task already busy undergraduates need here at Princeton." Flu FestCondom Fest will be held in the multipurpose room of Frist Campus Center, following in the footsteps of Flu Fest, with a range of delights including pina coladas, bananas and edible contraceptives.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Dean's Date marred by rejected papers, injuries, disappointment

Yesterday was Dean's Date, which meant for students turning in a paper at the last moment. As has been the tradition, students ran past McCosh Hall, but this year not everything went according to plan.Two students were injured and sent to McCosh Infirmary yesterday.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Amazon CEO Bezos '86 to donate $8 million to Whitman College

Jeff Bezos '86, CEO of Amazon.com, has pledged $8 million to Whitman College, making the top two donors to the planned college both dot-com executives."I couldn't be happier to give back to Princeton," Bezos said in an interview yesterday.University administrators were equally happy to have secured additional funding for the $110 million project.Bezos and eBay CEO Meg Whitman '77, for whom the college is named, share more than being the college's sponsors.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

Clarifications

ClarificationsThe Tuesday and Thursday issues of the 'Prince' . . . well, we forgot about them this month.There was a misplaced apostrophe in yesterday's 'Prince': "(singing) If it's a contraction, it's IT-apostrophe-S, but if it's possessive, it's just IT-S . . . scalawag."An article about the Tory in yesterday's 'Prince' incorrectly stated that membership of the Tory was open to all races.

NEWS | 01/13/2004

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