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RIAA sues over file-sharing site, but quickly settles

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

Photos from Class Day, 2003

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.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

Rapelye appointed dean of admission

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.

NEWS | 05/28/2003

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 | 05/28/2003

Fields Center director to step down in September

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.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

John Marburger III '62: Directing the world's largest patron of science

Budgets are what the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy is all about, according to its director, Dr. John H.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

Hargadon reflects, Rapelye prepares to step in

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.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

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