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Affirmative action cases spark campus dialogue

Affirmative action cases spark campus dialogue

What began as an isolated reaction against the University of Michigan's race-based admissions policy has resulted in a flurry of debate and policy change at academic institutions throughout the country, and at Princeton.White applicants rejected from Michigan brought a suit against the university last year claiming they were denied equal protection rights.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

For A.B.'s, requirements force a mixture of studies

If you thought you came to college to learn something practical, forget it. Princeton is one of the last bastions of the high-minded, esoteric and abstruse ? the liberal arts education.Come September, when you arrive at this small liberal arts university in central New Jersey, it will be time to begin your new life as an A.B., a candidate for Princeton's Bachelor of Arts degree.Ignore your calculator-toting roommates when they casually mention their courseload of "Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics" or "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids," ad nauseam.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Theses are the blinding light at the end of the tunnel

There was a run on Diet Coke and Starbucks Double Shots in April as members of the Class of 2003 churned out pages and put the final touches on the pi

NEWS | 07/13/2003

OIT opens Solutions Center

In an effort to consolidate technical support on campus, the Office of Information Technology opened the OIT Solutions Center on Wednesday.The service, located on the 100 level of Frist Campus Center, combines four areas of support that used to be spread out across campus.At one location, students, faculty and staff can now bring in malfunctioning laptops for repair, purchase hardware and software and sign up for phone services and Tiger TV.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Borough goes undercover to crack down on 'Street' alcohol, strikes deal with clubs

Efforts by Princeton Borough officials to curb underage drinking on the 'Street' escalated this year with police conducting undercover operations in the eating clubs and charging several club officers with alcohol-related offenses.Undercover investigations in November led to charges in February against the presidents of the Colonial and Quadrangle clubs as well as two Colonial officers.The Colonial and Quad presidents were each charged with three counts of making alcoholic beverages available to minors and one count of maintaining a nuisance, while the two Colonial officers were charged with serving alcohol to minors.The undercover investigations were prompted by a perceived tolerance for underage drinking at the eating clubs, several Borough officials said.Chief of Princeton Borough Police Charles Davall said that during meetings earlier in the fall, club officers had assured him that their security measures, including the use of wristbands, would prevent underage drinking at the clubs.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Question & Answer

Astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott is continuing in Albert Einstein's route of research in general relativity.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

RIAA sues over file-sharing site, but quickly settles

The national debate over file-sharing and online music theft hit the University personally this past term when the Recording Industry Association of America ? a trade group representing major record labels ? sued Daniel Peng '05 for what could have been billions of dollars.Peng had been operating a website on the campus network known as "Wake," which let users search for shared files.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Ivies pass athletic moratorium, but changes planned this year

In preparation for the June Ivy League presidents' meeting that could lead to league-wide reform of the seven-week athletic moratorium, athletics officials have come to a loose consensus on the changes they will propose later this academic year.Gary Walters '67, the University's athletic director, said that officials have reached a broad framework for compromise that, as its centerpiece, would restrict practice to four days a week between the traditional and nontraditional seasons.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Alcohol, money remain top issues for town/gown friction

Though the relationship between the Borough and the University is in some areas harmonious, two issues ? student alcohol abuse and the University's financial commitment to the Borough ? draw attention to the difficulties of having a wealthy, elite institution in a quiet town known for its affluent neighborhoods.Disagreement over how to curb some students' risky drinking habits has led to police investigations on the Street and the proposal of an alcohol enforcement ordinance.These high-profile events reflect a struggle over whether it is the University or the Borough that will interpret students' rights and protect them when they endanger themselves."The goal is to create a safe environment, where no one is served so much alcohol that they can die," said Charles Davall, Borough police chief.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

American embassy denies visa to Chinese member of Class of '07

A Chinese student who gained international recognition as the first female winner of the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad and who was slated to start freshman year at Princeton cannot enter the United States to study because her student visa application was rejected four times this summer by American officials in Beijing.University administrators said Wu Jie's visa applications were denied because consular officials in China believed Wu, who comes from a working-class family, would illegally stay in the U.S.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Tower, Colonial most selective eating clubs

MONDAY, February 10 ? The eating clubs welcomed their new members this weekend as Bicker and second-round sign-ins drew to a close.Tower Club, with 161 hopefuls, had the largest Bicker class.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

RIAA sues over file-sharing site, but settles suit

This past semester, the nationwide debate over file-sharing and online music theft hit the University in a personal way as the Recording Industry Association of America ? a trade group representing the interests of the major record labels ? sued sophomore Daniel Peng for what could have been billions of dollars.Peng had been operating a website known as "Wake" ? accessible at wake.princeton.edu ? which let campus network users search for shared files.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Tilghman makes Lowrie House her personal home

The house at 83 Stockton St. is set back about 150 feet from the busy Rt. 206 thoroughfare. That's the way its primary resident, University President Tilghman, likes it.Since Tilghman assumed the University's highest post nearly two years ago and moved into the school's most prestigious off-campus address, she has worked hard to make it less of "another institutional building" and more of a home for her and her two children.The yellow sandstone house, the official residence of the president since 1968, was given to the University by Barbara Armour Lowrie in 1960 in memory of her husband, Walter Lowrie, Class of 1890.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Updated: Empty bomb threat stirs empty campus

A woman from Long Branch, N.J., was arrested last Saturday, June 7, hours after she called in a bomb threat from the University campus and two days after calling in a similar threat against Monmouth University, police said.The woman, Geraldine M.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Borough goes undercover to crack down on 'Street' alcohol, strikes deal with clubs

Efforts by Princeton Borough officials to curb underage drinking on the 'Street' escalated this year with police conducting undercover operations in the eating clubs and charging several club officers with alcohol-related offenses.The undercover investigations, which occured in November, resulted in charges in February against the presidents of the Colonial and Quadrangle clubs as well as two Colonial officers.The Colonial and Quad presidents were each charged with three counts of making alcoholic beverages available to minors and one count of maintaining a nuisance, while the two Colonial officers were charged with serving alcohol to minors.The undercover investigations were prompted by a perceived tolerance for underage drinking at the eating clubs, some Borough officials said.Chief of Police Charles Davall said that during meetings earlier in the fall, club officers had assured him that their security measures, including the use of wristbands, would prevent underage drinking at the clubs.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Students satirize University fire policy, file sharing

Following in the footsteps of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, two University students have chosen to use music to protest power of the music industry.About two weeks ago, after the news of the crackdown on the Wake file-sharing website within the University network, seniors Matt Gale and Sanjay Varma wrote a little ditty they call "Ode to Fire Safety.""We wrote it so that people would have something to listen to now that copyrighted music is not the thing to do," Gale said.Gale and Varma did not write the song specifically to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America ? which brought a suit against Wake owner Dan Peng '05 and students at other universities for facilitating copyright infringement.Gale and Varma were interviewed in a three-way telephone conversation.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

University responds to Iraq war with alert notifications, protests

Throughout the months leading up to the war with Iraq and during the war, the University remained subdued, acknowledging changes in the national alert level and accommodating campus discussion and protest.There were no great flareups.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Colonial, Tower are Spring Bicker's most desired clubs

MONDAY, February 10 ? The eating clubs welcomed their new members this weekend as Bicker and second-round sign-ins drew to a close.Tower Club, with 161 hopefuls, had the largest Bicker class.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Campus Club to switch to Bicker in 2003–2004 year

Campus Club president Jonathan Chou '04 announced May 11 that the club will abandon this year's semi-selective sign-in process in favor of Bicker.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Honor Code reformed by USG, student votes

The Honor Code was amended twice last semester ? once by USG vote and once by student referendum ? changing the role of the procedural advisor, moving the authority over appeals to the dean of the college and allowing an accused student to bring a representative to the initial Honor Committee hearing.The Honor Code, which was last amended in 2000, is one of two disciplinary systems at the University.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

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