Two systems at the University deal with related disciplinary issues, the Honor System and the Committee on Discipline.
Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed downplayed the possibility of a moratorium on undercover police action on Prospect Avenue and would not commit to a stance on the proposed alcohol ordinance at a USG meeting held in the Frist Campus Center yesterday evening.USG president Pettus Randall '04 presented Reed with a resolution last night calling for a moratorium on undercover operations on the Street.
At the end of last night's USG Senate meeting, president Pettus Randall '04 said that USG senator Jonathan Chavkin '05 will petition for support for his proposed changes to the Honor Committee.In an interview after the meeting, Chavkin confirmed that he is preparing the petition."I'm waiting to get more student awareness, more discussion and just get a variety of perspectives," he said.There are two methods of changing the honor system constitution, Chavkin said.The Honor Committee itself can make changes, or reforms can be made through a student referendum, he said.For a student referendum to occur, a petition for changes must be signed by 200 students and then submitted to the chair of the USG's Undergraduate Elections Committee, Chavkin said.Three-quarters of students voting in the referendum must favor the proposal for the changes to be approved."There will be a referendum.
Worried about a perceived rise in excessive drinking by students, University officials asked the Student Safeguarding Agency to stop working as bouncers at the eating clubs, preferring that the clubs find groups unaffiliated with the University to provide security, the agency's manager said.The agency used to work regularly on Prospect Avenue but has not done so for more than a year, said manager Noah Kaye '03.Kaye said that the University was concerned that the agency's employees would not have the training to deal with an alcohol-related accident or illness."They're obviously pretty concerned about the safety risks at the street," he said.Because the office of the dean of student life oversees the student agencies, the University also wanted to avoid liability for the clubs actions, Kaye said."Given the legal problems that are going on out there, the University wants to maintain its distance from the clubs," he said."If somebody gets hurt, who was in charge for how they got hurt is going to be on the line," he added. AgreementThe administrators and the agency worked out an agreement whereby the agency would not work at the eating clubs, unless a class government or the University trustees sponsors the event, he said.Many of the agency's employees still work on Prospect Avenue, but through other management, Kaye said.The agency currently works primarily to provide security and monitor access to USG and athletic events, he said.
Jessica Munitz '03 and Daniel Stover '03 learned Friday that ReachOut 56 Fellowships ? an effort by the Class of 1956 to promote volunteerism for nonprofit organizations ? granted their proposals to pursue public service projects next year.Now in its second year, the fellowship program will award each winner $25,000 to allow him or her to focus exclusively on service work.Munitz, a religion major, will work at the University's International Institute for Sustained Dia-logue, focusing on extending the University's Sustained Dialogue program to other colleges.Sustained Dialogue, designed by Harold Saunders '52 H '02 is "a process to deal with deeply rooted human conflict," Munitz said.In the Sustained Dialogue system, group participants engage in discussion ? often of sensitive issues ? led by an impartial moderator.
The Princeton and Oxford debate teams met in Whig Senate Chamber last night for a debate entitled "Is England America's Tool in the War on Terror?"The montage of international concern and playground humor ? in which the debaters referenced the Notorious B.I.G.
Two days after comments concerning Asian-American self-segregation ? which some Asian students found offensive ? appeared on the gank.princeton.edu website, administrators and students are searching for the appropriate response.The message, which included the last names of several Asian students drawing into Spelman Hall, was posted to the website Tuesday evening and removed later that night.Niraj Bhatt '03, the site's administrator and a minority affairs adviser in Butler College, issued an apology on the website Wednesday. 'Constructive'More than 50 students crowded into the International Center last night for a forum sponsored by the Asian American Student Association on the controversy.
MBA means business, and the Minority Business Association is launching a comeback on campus after three years of inactivity.
Canada has a knack for coming up with sports. First it was hockey. Now, the Canadian sport of broomball has claimed the attention of people around the world, from Moscow to Japan to Taiwan ? to Princeton.Like hockey, broomball is played on ice, and the two games have similar rules.In professional leagues, padded sponge rubber shoes are used to maneuver on the ice, but on Baker Rink sneakers will do.The ball is fairly large ? somewhere between a soccer ball and a softball ? and is moved around with brooms of wood or aluminum, as per the rules of the United States Broomball Association.The USBA lists 38 colleges that play broomball competitively.
Last amended in 2000, the University honor system constitution may face further revision if the proposed amendments of class senator Johnny Chavkin '05 are successful.Chavkin said he is planning to collect signatures for a petition in support of his proposed changes to the Honor Committee.The committee investigates alleged violations of the Honor Code, which covers in-class examinations.
No speech, no podium ? Anthony Romero '87, the 6th executive director of the ACLU, made clear from the outset that the talk he gave in the Whig-Clio Senate chamber last night would be informal and "among friends." The approach launched students into an almost two-hour long forum focusing largely on civil liberties in America following Sept.
In an attempt to harness the speed of light for new applications, the Princeton Materials Institute may have created the world's largest quasi-crystal.A senior in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, Orion Crisafulli '03 has devoted his senior thesis to finding crystals useful for optical circuit technology.In a project entitled "Photonic Band-Gap Structures of Quasi-Crystals" Crisafulli and third-year physics graduate student Weining Man, are studying the optical properties of photonic quasi-crystals."In a nutshell, a photonic crystal is a material that's capable of conducting light in much the same way as a semiconductor material conducts electrons," Crisafulli said."With these materials, you can control the flow of light with more precision than most conventional optical fibers," he said.
University alumnus Andrew Dingwall '49 will long be remembered for his creative problem-solving and competitive spirit.
In his speech last night geared toward the University Catholic community, Roman Catholic theologian George Weigel said there is no reason to blame the recent sexual misconduct of Catholic priests on the vow of celibacy each takes at his ordination."To blame the crisis on celibacy is like blaming treason on the pledge of allegiance," he said.
Though cuts in the projected New Jersey state budget for fiscal year 2004 may affect the arts on campus, most other aspects of University life should remain unchanged.As a private institution that relies primarily on independent financing, Princeton is not among the many public state schools that will face heavy budget cuts due to Gov.
As national concern regarding the Middle East has grown, sparked by the Sept. 11 attacks and fueled by the possibility of war with Iraq, universities have encountered increased demand for scholars to bolster their Near Eastern studies departments.While Princeton professors have seen a marked increase in student interest in the region, the University has no plans to alter the Near Eastern Studies department, though it is in the process of hiring a specialist in Middle Eastern politics."This university has certainly not seen it to be necessary or in its interest to go in for expansion.
An organizer of the search engine gank.princeton.edu ? which operates off of the University network ? posted a message Tuesday drawing attention to possible self-segregation among Asian students and questioning the University's diversification efforts.The message included the last names of 21 Asian students from the Spelman room draw list and three rhetorical questions which offended many: "aZn self-segregation?
Funding for the arts is always the first to go when budget deficits loom large, but Princeton students are now saying, "No!"Student organizations are planning ways to oppose Gov.
Early this week, the United States, Britain and Spain introduced a resolution to the U.N. Security Council stating that Iraq had "failed to take the final opportunity to disarm." This resolution could clear the way for military action against that country.But on the other side of the table, Germany, France and Russia introduced a competing initiative calling for at least four months of continued weapons inspections.University faculty and students expressed a wide range of opinions on the possible war in interviews this week, from skepticism to full support.Uwe Reinhardt, a professor in the Wilson School, suggested that the debate within the United Nations might be an "orchestrated charade."The United States would not have been ready to attack Iraq until mid-March, he said, even if opposition within the United Nations had not prevented the council's backing military action.In a Feb.
In his mini-biography on the website of SUNY Stony Brook, whose Short Fiction Prize Ung Lee '02 won, the recent University graduate writes: "There are many people who have helped me along the way, and who I feel compelled to thank." The list includes his creative thesis adviser Joyce Carol Oates, his parents, his friends and his sister.
