Of the 60 burglary incidents in 2001, 28 occurred in dormitories, according to Public Safety's recently released crime statistics report.
For Dan Renberg '86, it's not always easy to keep up with his Princeton classmates. Even after he was appointed to the board of directors of Export-Import Bank of the United States by Bill Clinton in 1999, his mother still wanted to know why Renberg had not been named 'Time' man of the year, like Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos '86."There's nothing quite like having the 'Time' man of the year in your class and having a Jewish mother," he said.Magazine cover or not, people all over the world recognize Renberg's name as the head of Ex-Im Bank, an independent government agency dedicated to bringing U.S.
Elections results for the Class of 2006 were announced yesterday evening, but four of the class's five seats have yet to be decided.
Sustained Dialogue's kick-off retreat this year drew students and faculty members of many backgrounds, cultures and races to Frist on Saturday morning.Since its inception five years ago, the group's goal has been to create dialogue on campus about race relations.
As the University's campaign to improve network security finishes its first phase today, technology officials said a University member has been referred for possible disciplinary action for cracking about 36 accounts.After warning undergraduates to change their passwords from their social security numbers for the past few weeks, OIT will lock the accounts of students who have not changed their passwords by this afternoon, said Steven Sather, OIT's support director.Most students have complied, however, with only 250 undergraduates not changing the e-mail, academic records or UNIX passwords from the default ? the last eight digits of the social security number.
The blood shortage around the nation has worsened in recent months as a result of new federal restrictions on donor blood, created to prevent the transmission of mad cow disease, health officials said.The Princeton Medical Center has been forced to turn away about five to 10 donors per month because of the legislation, translating to an estimated 10-percent drop in donations, said Rao Andavolu, director of PMC's blood bank.The decrease in donations has neared 20 percent in New York and New Jersey.
The Ivy and Cap and Gown clubs admitted 27 students during fall Bicker sessions, held this past week.
A mother danced with her toddler-age daughter bouncing on her hip, and it did not take long before the little girl's brother was also on his feet, laughing and hopping up and down in time to the New Orleans-style piece played by the New Legacy Jazz Band.The Palmer Square green was covered with people of all ages, out to enjoy the weather, delicious food and music of JazzFeast 2002.If the many children in attendance were not dancing or tumbling on the grass, they were munching on the caramel apples sold by the Camber's Cafe food booth or sitting with their families on picnic blankets.Most of them held red balloons, which combined with the green grass and trees to create a mosaic of color.There were not enough lawn chairs to go around.
A group of about 10 students from Montgomery High School gathered outside the Starbucks on Nassau Street Saturday to protest the store's use of genetically-engineered products in food and beverages.The students also protested the coffee chain's refusal to brew Fair Trade coffee or provide a living wage for their coffee producers.The students were part of a nationwide protest against Starbucks organized by the Organic Consumers Association ? a group that promotes the selling of organic products ? that ran from Sept.
Theri Pickens '05 always gets the best parking spots on campus ? right in front of Frist Campus Center and McCosh Hall.
The sun was shining and a light wind was blowing when the first rider turned off Washington onto the long driveway on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center at 9:05 a.m.
NEW YORK ? Bernard Lewis, a noted Princeton scholar on the Middle East, said that prolonging an attack on Iraq would only make matters more dangerous for the United States."There is greater danger in inaction," he said Saturday at the New Yorker magazine festival.Lewis said Saddam Hussein is more dangerous now than he was five years ago and more dangerous than he was in the Persian Gulf war, referring to Iraq's attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.In response to whether the United States should go it alone and attack Iraq with or without an international coalition of support, Lewis said the United Nations was an inadequate organization."I don't share your respect for the UN," he said.
Wendy Kopp '89's senior thesis project, Teach for America, is enjoying its highest success rate in its 12-year history ? but that success has not reached close to home.TFA, a national corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teaching in urban and rural public schools, received a record-setting 14,000 applications this year for its team of teachers, but only 22 came from the University.
Mercury was stolen from six thermostats in building six of Spelman Hall this summer, in what University officials have described as an unsolved act of vandalism."In six of the eight suites in one entry of Spelman, when our tradesmen were going to adjust thermostats, the units did not click on," said Bill Traubel, director of grounds and building maintenance.
Mubarak Awad, founder and director of Nonviolence International, set out last night to speak about adopting nonviolent strategies for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Expect to pay more for tickets for Dave Matthews concerts in the near future, predicted Alan Krueger, the world's first and foremost professor of Rockonomics, the study of the economics of ticket prices at a lecture Monday sponsored by the Wilson School.Krueger, who holds a joint appointment in the economics department and the Wilson School, noted a trend of rising ticket prices in recent years at a lecture "Rockonomics: The Economics of Ticket Pricing."Incorrectly priced tickets, new technology, more intricate and eccentric stage sets and pyrotechnics all contribute to elevating production costs, which in turn lead to higher ticket prices, explained Krueger, the Bendheim professor of economics.He analyzed the reasons for the discrepancy between the actual and the market price of tickets, why some bands charged more than others, and the reasons behind the recent price growth trend.The availability of free music over the Internet has led to a decline in record sales, which in turn has forced bands to raise ticket prices, he said.If correct, this would help to account for the price growth from 1996 to 2001 of pop and rock concert tickets by 74 percent while with less heavily pirated music, such as jazz and blues, the ticket prices grew only by 24 percent for the same period of time, Krueger explained.For music concerts, ticket prices, on average, increased by 62 percent while the cost of living rose by nearly 13 percent over the last six years.Krueger explained that if the demand to hear the best is higher, then the rewards for the best should also rise ? and higher band recognition has usually meant higher ticket prices.The increased demand for name bands has come as the price of consumer audio equipment has fallen by a third over the last two decades, making people more knowledgeable about bands playing.
The number of alcohol-related arrests and referrals to a dean for disciplinary action rose signifcantly last year ? according to Public Safety's annual compilation of crime statistics.
Even public officials can get distracted. So learned Borough mayor Marvin Reed as his car collided with an SUV on April 6th and skidded over a curb and into a traffic light.The cause of the accident?
University insurance rates more than doubled this year, sharply cutting into a budget already hurt by a weak economy, University treasurer Christopher McCrudden said this week.University insurance policies have gone up by $700,000 since last year and "will undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on the budget," McCrudden said.The University had expected an increase this year but did not anticipate rates going up as much as they did, now making them the largest single expense for the University, he said.The University will now have to cut costs or increase income to pay the higher rates, he said.Insurance rates nationwide increased considerably during the last year largely because of Sept.
Having only met three weeks ago, the freshman class set itself to electing its officers last night, as the candidates for the positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and social chair gave speeches delineating their various positions.This year's race for freshman class president comprised nine eager politicians.
