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Honor Code reformed by USG and by student votes

Honor Code reformed by USG and by student votes

The Honor Code was changed in two votes last semester.The first change, by the USG and Honor Committee, made members of the Office of Undergraduate Students responisble for acting as procedural advisers to accused students and granted the dean of the college the authority to hear appeals.The second, by student referendum, let an accused student bring an advocate to the initial Honor Committee hearing.The Honor Code, last amended in 2000, is one of two disciplinary systems at the University.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

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 | 07/13/2003

Gender at center of discussion about Tilghman's appointments

For probably the next two decades the person President Tilghman introduced as the new admission dean in March will shape the Princeton student body.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

University reacts to alerts, protests, war with Iraq

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 | 07/13/2003

Coping with the intense reality of Princeton classes

The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Wisdom wielders

Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Psychology professor Daniel Kahneman took a Nobel last October for his research in behavior.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

B.S.E.'s get a mix of sleepless nights and cool projects

The very idea of engineering at Princeton is enough to send chills down the spines of many A.B. majors.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

University committee reports grade inflation on the increase

"Who could ever have imagined that we would reach a point where a student with a straight B average would rank 923 out of a graduating class of 1079 ? or where a student with a C average would rank 1078?"This question appears in bold text on the first page of a report sent to faculty members in late February after a University committee analyzed trends in grades given to undergraduates in the last three decades.The report, a copy of which was obtained by the 'Prince', warns that both grade inflation and grade compression ? narrowing of the range of grades given ? are ongoing trends that are not being reversed despite recent administration efforts to combat them."We could leave it alone, [but] is it responsible to let the trend line go up?" said Nancy Weiss Malkiel, dean of the college and member of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing, which authored the report.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

University to cut frosh parking beginning with incoming class

Beginning this fall with the Class of 2007, freshmen will no longer be granted campus parking permits because of space restraints."With consultation from the members of the Undergraduate Life Committee, it was decided that, effective this September, freshmen will not be permitted to bring cars on campus," said Laurel Harvey, director of the Office of Risk Management."Students with special needs, supported by medical documentation, may submit parking waiver requests to Maria Flores-Mills in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students," Harvey said.Freshmen who bring cars to campus will have to follow general guidelines for visitor parking.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

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 | 07/13/2003

New genomics institute features state-of-the-art research

Approaching the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory from Washington Road, one is met with a long, uniform facade of pale concrete.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

Certificate programs provide a unique opportunity to specialize

Each April, when sophomores declare their majors and choose certificates ? like minors at other universities ? the smaller certificate programs seem to come out of the woodwork.Certificate programs draw students from many different areas of academia.

NEWS | 07/13/2003

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

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