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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The following is a link to an online slide show in memory of Class Day (June 2, 2003): http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/classday2003/ Editor's Note: This breaking story was appended to the Reunions issue of The Daily Princetonian's online edition at 10:56 PM on June 11th.
The University announced on March 27 that the dean of admissions at Wellesley College, Janet Lavin Rapelye, will replace Fred Hargadon as Princeton admission dean.Rapelye ? who has headed admissions at the all-women's school near Boston for 12 years after admission work at Bowdoin, Williams and Stanford ? is the first female admission dean at Princeton.
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.
Heddye Ducree will retire as the director of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding this summer after serving for nine years."I'm really going to miss her.
Budgets are what the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy is all about, according to its director, Dr. John H.
As Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon retires this year, his replacement, current Wellesley admission dean Janet Rapelye, faces many challenging new assignments.Perhaps the largest is that Princeton's admissions department handles nearly four times the number of applications as Wellesley, an all-female school.But Rapelye says she is looking forward to the new challenges, especially the University's plans to expand its class size as it implements the Wythes Plan, which calls for a 500-student increase in the student body over several years."I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to doing that ? what a dream for an admissions officer," she said.The administrative turnover comes at a crucial point in college admissions.
Students who save files to their "H: drive" may not be aware their documents could be visible to anyone with access to the University network.For students before the Class of 2006, all "H:" shared drives are set to let other students to view their contents by default.
The USG voted last night in its final meeting of the academic year to better define the role of class government officers.Other items on the agenda of the meeting included the seven-week athletic moratorium, the problem of homophobia on campus and the role of LGBTQ and suggestions regarding USG activities for next semester.Junior Class President Eli Goldsmith said revising the USG Constitution corrects inaccuracies, raises expectations for class governments and clarifies the difference between the role of class government and the USG Senate and U-Council.Class governments, whose duties had not been previously defined, are now explicitly expected to create "substantive, class-specific programs" and plan "social events designed to foster the unity of the class," the revision reads.Particularly in freshman elections, "a lot of people . . . have campaign platforms based on policy issues and that is not what class government is all about," Goldsmith said.The revision underscores that setting campus-wide policy has always been delegated to the USG Senate.
Though Adam Rockman, coordinator of undergraduate housing, has said that no students are "left out in the cold" after room draw, some 117 wait-listed rising juniors wonder which dorm they will call home next year.Several factors, including dormitory renovations and fewer vacancies because of a drop in foreign study, will make housing tight for next year, and those wait listed students may receive a housing assignment as late as August.The wait list, Rockman said, is on the "higher side of average." However, in Rockman's six years at the University, the wait list has ranged from 90 to 130 students."In my time here, and as far back as anyone can remember, we have never not been able to offer a housing assignment to everyone," Rockman said.
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