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USG funds UFO, helps manage debt

USG funds UFO, helps manage debt

Every week, the University Film Organization brings big-name movies to campus. At the end of last year, however, the cost of obtaining film copyrights began to strain the organization's funds.To save the student-run UFO from collapse, the USG incorporated it into its charter.Now a subcommittee of the USG social committee, the UFO has an annual budget of about $35,000, said Mike Kimberly '03, former USG treasurer.

NEWS | 02/24/2003

Town residents allegedly block deer control program

Princeton Township government has accused residents Tamara Gund and Susan Ferry of interfering with a new birth control program to curb the deer population.The New Jersey State Fish and Game Council approved the program on Saturday as part of a revised plan for culling deer in Princeton.Township officials allege that Gund and Ferry have interfered with the program by stocking large bins of grain in their backyards from which up to 17 deer can eat at one time.

NEWS | 02/24/2003

Duffy '88 to be headmaster of Lawrenceville School

University Trustee Elizabeth "Liz" Duffy '88, the newly appointed head of the prestigious Lawrenceville School, swears she has a terrible memory.

NEWS | 02/24/2003

Princeton pro-life group kicks off advocacy week

The Princeton Pro-Life student group sponsored a panel discussion on abortion last night featuring four speakers, each representing a different pro-life argument.

NEWS | 02/24/2003

Projects Board revises title to reflect advising role

Last night the USG announced a new Student Group Projects Board designed to finance campus events and activities as well as advise students interested in organizing such activities or brand new student groups.The meeting also delved into student life issues, including the addition of faculty members to the Honor Committee, a new guide to life as an independent upperclassman and informal discussion groups in Caf

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Disabilities committee issues report on campus

The University Disability Issues Committee issued its first report approximately a week ago and is now awaiting administrative responses to its recommendations.In its report, the UDIC, headed by David Mann-Podrasky '05, examined all aspects of campus and identified problem areas for disabled students.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Sophomore year roommates honored with Pyne Prize

Friends since their first few days on campus, seniors Dan Hantman and Chris Wendell were brought together again Saturday when the two were awarded the Pyne Honor Prize ? the University's highest general award for an undergraduate."It makes it very special to share the award with Dan.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Charges dropped for Penn students

A Philadelphia Municipal Court dropped all charges Friday against three of five University of Pennsylvania students accused of assaulting a Princeton debate member attending a Penn tournament in November, the Associated Press reported.The court also reduced the charges of the other two students to misdemeanors and offered them the chance to complete a period of probation after which their criminal records will be deleted, the AP reported.The students ? freshmen David Hochfelder and Philip Balderston, sophomores Thomas Bispham and Tavraj Banga and senior Steven Stolk ? faced charges ranging from criminal conspiracy to aggravated assault.They continue to face charges through Penn's Office of Student Conduct.The misdemeanor charges remaining against Hochfelder and Bispham are making terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, conspiracy and simple assault, Cohen said, according to an AP report.The two remaining defendants will return to court on March 7, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. ConfidentialityThe case, like all others at the Office of Student Conduct, must remain confidential, a Penn official said.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Harvard to amend course registration procedure

Though the "shopping period" system may be a time-honored tradition in Cambridge, Harvard University faculty would prefer a more organized process that echoes Princeton's preregistration system.Earlier this month, 1,250 Harvard students petitioned the proposed change to their course registration process that is set to go into effect this fall."It was important that administrators know that students were concerned about the change," said Harvard sophomore Nicholas F.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Frist receives awards while students protest selection

Amid rain drops and protestors' cries, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist '74 accepted both the University's Woodrow Wilson Award and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award on Saturday.Frist received the Wilson Award in front of about 1,700 alumni, parents and students who had gathered for the University's annual Alumni and Parents Day.In his award speech, Frist addressed his most pressing concerns as leader of the Senate and described his roles in Congress as both leader and visionary."[My biggest challenge] is to compel the United States Congress to stretch our horizons . . . to address what is to me a very obvious growing imbalance between the policies on the one hand and the inevitable, immutable demographic shift caused by the aging of America's population," Frist said.In terms of specific policy goals, Frist added that Medicare reform and AIDS research were top on his list.Medicare, Frist said, will be in need of dire reform as the baby boomers reach old age.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Shapiro, Tilghman among speakers at bioethics forum

Princeton's third biennial bioethics conference, intended to promote discussion on bioethical issues, went awry when a participant strayed from his topic to insult a fellow speaker."Redefining Life: What It Means to Be Human" was held over the weekend, featuring a series of distinguished speakers, including President Tilghman, President Emeritus Harold Shapiro GS '64 and philosopher Michael Tooley.On Friday and Saturday, students from Princeton and 13 other universities attended lectures and engaged in discussions about the boundaries of human life.Each session paired two speakers in a point-counterpoint discussion.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

University chess team takes on prison inmates

Chess team members Brandon Ashe '04 and Ian Prevost '05 spent Friday afternoon competing with 32 New Jersey State Prison inmates at a game of strategy and skill.

NEWS | 02/23/2003

Proposed alcohol ordinance similar to TCNJ, Rider U.

Students at The College of New Jersey and Rider University might think twice about consuming alcohol if they're underage.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

Basketball star Gloger declared ineligible to play

University officials released a statement yesterday afternoon declaring junior forward Spencer Gloger of the men's basketball team academically ineligible for competition.Gloger is no longer enrolled at Princeton and will not be allowed to return to school until the spring of next year ? the middle of the 2003-2004 season."Spencer has been declared academically ineligible," head coach John Thompson '88 said in the statement.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

Avril fans fooled by faux 'Prince'

While the shaggy-haired Fabled guitarist Tim Skerpon '03 may be a bona fide "rocker boy," he is not Avril Lavigne's famed "sk8r boy" as last month's joke issue of the 'Prince' reported.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

U.N. official Doyle discusses goals for new millennium

Wilson School professor Michael Doyle, on public service leave as U.N. assistant secretary general, gave an update yesterday on the United Nation's goals for the new millennium.Doyle, who focuses on U.N.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

Penn students face municipal court

Five University of Pennsylvania students who allegedly assaulted a member of the Princeton debate panel are scheduled to appear before a Philadelphia municipal court today at a preliminary hearing.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

University sponsors Third Biennial Bioethics Forum

A man stands poised, looking up above, neatly esconsed within a colorful DNA double-helix. This quintessential image of biology and its relation to human life appears on the conference packet for the Princeton Bioethics Forum's Third Biennial Intercollegiate Conference this weekend, entitled "Redefining Life: What it means to be Human."Princeton will showcase several of its faculty members and alumni and members of other schools who have already lent their voices to the expanding topic of bioethics.Lee Silver, a professor in the Wilson School and in the molecular biology department, and Glen McPhee, who earned his Ph.D.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

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