'Roundtable Ethics' features University faculty members answering ethical and moral questions solicited from the community.
A preliminary hearing date for five University of Pennsylvania students accused of assaulting a Princeton debate panel member will not be decided until Dec.
After a long and heated discussion of the downtown redevelopment plan currently under consideration, the Borough Council last night approved a five-year agreement with the University that will lead to a fourfold increase in the University's voluntary annual contribution to the Borough over the next four years.Under the agreement, the University's contribution, a voluntary payment in lieu of taxes, will be $110,282 in 2002, will go up to $200,000 in 2003, and then will increase to $300,000 in 2004, $350,000 in 2005 and $400,000 in 2006, Councilman Roger Martindell said.
The construction underway at the Princeton Public Library, the new Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad vehicle racing down the street, the affordable housing programs that accommodate low-income people in the area ? all are funded in part by donations from the University.As the largest employer in Mercer County, the University pays $6.5 million in taxes ? some voluntary ? to Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, the two towns that the main campus straddles.
A lecture by John DiIulio, Jr., a former University professor and White House official embroiled in controversy over his critique of the Bush administration, was postponed Monday.
In a letter to President Tilghman last week, student activists formally expressed their support for outraged dining hall workers, who have challenged the University's commitment to job security.The controversy originated over a statement printed Oct.
A proposed alcohol ordinance that would allow police to enforce underage drinking laws on private property was not on the Princeton Borough Council agenda last night as intended.Mayor Marvin Reed said discussion of the ordinance has been postponed until February to allow more time for input and involvement of students, who are about to enter winter break and exam period.While nearby towns like Ewing, Lawrence and West Windsor passed the ordinance after only a few months of deliberation, the Princeton Borough Council has not officially discussed it before the full council.Since the New Jersey legislature passed a law in June 2000 that would make adoption of the ordinance possible, Borough officials have met with University representatives, eating club presidents and area alcohol abuse experts to find to best method for combating dangerous drinking.The current drinking laws prohibit underage alcohol consumption on public property and serving alcohol to minors, but police cannot arrest minors on private property.
The candidates for USG squared off at a forum last night in front of the Frist Campus Center display wall, focusing most of their attention on the seven-week moratorium for athletes and the need for more communication between the student body and its elected officials.By holding the forum in a more visible location than in past years, the USG succeeded in drawing a large crowd ? with about 150 students filling the area between the stairs and Cafe Vivian.The campaign for president is a battle between the old and the new.
At 4 p.m. yesterday, USG candidates were given the green light to campaign for positions on next year's executive board.
Two new groups have sprung up to remedy what they say is a lack of productive dialogue among people of different convictions on campus.Four graduate students founded the Rumi Club for Interfaith Dialogue in late September, and the club had its first event Nov.
Princeton engineers and evolutionary biologists are hard at work creating new technology that will track the smallest movements and interactions of - zebras?The Engineering School and the EEB department have collaborated to create a biological tracking device named ZebraNet that may well change the face of zoology.ZebraNet is a system in which zebras are fitted with collars containing a GPS chip, flash memory and a radio transceiver that can broadcast information from multiple zebras to scientists at a base station.
If the University were in Botswana, what proportion of the student body would be infected with HIV?
Marilyn Marks GS '86's life has taken her from the hallowed halls of the University's Wilson School to the intifada-ridden streets of Jerusalem in the late 1980s to the semitropical environs of Miami.
How much does it cost the University to train the Tigers, put jerseys on their backs and maintain campus pools, fields, tracks and arenas?
Some homosexual students come to the University only to return to the "closet" they may have left or hoped to leave while still in high school.
University of Pennsylvania Police on Wednesday named the five students arraigned for allegedly assaulting a Princeton debate team member Nov.
Since freshman year, and especially since becoming a history major, I have tried to prove the merits of classroom education to my father.
I remember the first time I sat down with a Course Offerings and began my scrupulous attack on those newspaper-thin pages: fall of freshmen year, on my brand-spanking-new shag carpet from Home Depot, while the hum of students bracing for the burgeoning academic year filtered through my gothic window.As I pored over every reading list and classroom requirement, my excitement grew.
The number of students requesting senior thesis research funding has increased nearly 50 percent over the past three years, causing some students to walk away with little money.In past years, 115 to 120 seniors generally requested money in the fall to fund their senior thesis work, said Richard Williams, associate dean of the college.
ART 371: American Art and Modernism (John Wilmerding) Wilmerding's lectures are not to be missed.
