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Charges dropped for Penn students

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

EPA head Whitman defends Bush environmental policy

Eli Goldsmith, president of the Class of 2004, was working for a catalog company two summers ago when he took an order from a Christine T.

NEWS | 02/20/2003

Citations

From country parasite to city parasiteWhat if some quintessentially-Princeton squirrels were introduced into the Harvard campus?

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Tory sponsors lecture by 'Dangerous Conservative'

"You hear a lot about diversity on campuses today, but college faculties tend to look like the United Nations and think like a San Francisco coffee house," said Daniel Flynn, author of the book "Why the Left Hates America", in a lecture yesterday in McCosh 50.The lecture, the first in The Princeton Tory magazine's spring series, addressed what Flynn claims to be a rise of anti-American sentiment both throughout the nation and, in particular, on college campuses.Flynn has sparked controversy on college campuses throughout the country, including a book burning at the University of California-Berkeley."Conservatives basically have no voice in higher education," Flynn said.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Outdoor Action to revamp structure, plan more trips

The Outdoor Action program has expanded its management structure to increase efficiency, allow for more student leadership opportunities and boost OA's presence on campus throughout the year.The organization has added the position of Program Coordinator to work directly with Rick Curtis, director of the Outdoor Action Program, and to oversee other specialized student coordinators.The new structure will relieve Curtis of some of his former responsibilities by assigning them to students."Some of the major goals are to give students more ownership and authority in terms of operating the program," said Curtis, who believes that time and human resources rather than funding are the greatest limiting factors in developing the program.The new positions include Website Manager, Community Manager, Events and Publicity Manager, Paddling Manager and Backpacking Manager.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Allard '07 captures second place in Jeopardy tournament

Tyler Allard '07.Who is one of the recent contestants on "Teen Jeopardy" and a newly accepted freshman to the University?Allard, 17, took second place on the award winning game show, which aired last week.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Student-built robots make leaps and bounds

While most engineering students spent reading period cramming for exams, the students in MAE 321 were busy building search and rescue robots.Students in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering class logged many hours of research and labor to produce the robots Canyonero,Johnny 5, The Stinky, Squirrel Brand, Walter and Wangdoodlerest.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Student DWI rate returns to normal

DWI violations among students have not increased since an unusually large streak of four arrests in September.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

University to reform guide for minorities

Harvard University recently published a 322-page encyclopedic guide of useful and humorous information about black life on the Cambridge campus.

NEWS | 02/19/2003

Students react to Rep. Rangel's call for a draft

With possible war on the horizon and New York Representative Charles B. Rangel at work on a bill calling for a draft, University students remain unconcerned about being called into military service.Rangel, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, spoke at Harvard University last Monday to gauge the support level for a draft including college students.On the Princeton campus, there has been little talk of a possible draft ? most students asked had never heard of Rangel's bill.

NEWS | 02/18/2003

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