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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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UHS to provide same-sex benefits

One day after the New Jersey Senate's decision to legally recognize gay and lesbian domestic partners, the University announced Friday that the Student Health Plan will extend coverage for same-sex domestic partners.The University "felt it was the right thing to do," Associate Director of University Health Services Janet Finnie said.Only a small portion of the graduate and undergraduate student body will be affected by the change in Student Health Plan, but "for those it does effect, it [is] important."Finnie said the University's announcement was independent of the State Senate's vote.On Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

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Mulcare '04, Romero '04 win Mitchell scholarships

Robert Mulcare '04 and Cynthia Romero '04 are two of 12 college students nationwide to win the 2004-05 Mitchell Scholarship, a prestigious award funding one year of study at any college or university in Ireland or Northern Ireland, the U.S.-Ireland Alliance announced yesterday.Mulcare plans to earn a master's degree in economic policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Romero plans to work toward a master's degree in comparative ethnic conflict at Queen's University in Belfast.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

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$15,000 fund created for publications

The USG passed the Poe Field Resolution, and its Projects Board announced a new fund for publications at Friday's USG meeting, the last of the fall semester.Rishi Jaitly '04, co-chair of the Projects Board, announced at the meeting that $15,000 has been earmarked for publications on campus.The Wilson School, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students contributed to the publications fund, Jaitly said, offering $5,000, $6,000 and $4,000 respectively.The Wilson School designated its donation to be spent only on policy and political publications.Jaitly said the board initially sought these funds to show their recognition of the importance of publications on campus and their unique financial situation."[Publications] have . . . permanent costs, but limited revenue potential," Jaitly said.He also emphasized the same application standards will apply when the funding is made available with the start of the second semester."This isn't a free pot of money," Jaitly said.

NEWS | 01/11/2004

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2003 Wrap-up & Predictions for 2004

Sources say the Princeton University community made some New Year's resolutions this year. Looking back on the news from 2003, we have narrowed down the list of possible resolutions to the following: Dating honor codeLast year. Three changes were made to the Honor Code in the spring of 2003.

NEWS | 01/08/2004