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University art museum returns tomb marble illegally exported from Italy

University art museum returns tomb marble illegally exported from Italy

The University Art Museum has lost one of its marbles.A portion of a 2nd century marble funerary monument that had been on view at the University Art Museum since 1985 was sent back to Italy in early July after curator Michael Padgett discovered the piece had been illegally exported from its home near Tibur, Italy.When Padgett noticed a photograph of the Italian excavation of the piece in an art and archeology journal in March 2000, he reported the dubious exportation to the Italian authorities in the United States, who asked the University to hand the piece over."[The picture] was proof that the piece had been in Italy, and we thought the Italians would want to know about it," he said.

NEWS | 09/16/2002

Wilkinson, leading big-bang physicist, dies of cancer at 67

A University physics professor and leading researcher of the remnants of the big bang, David Wilkinson died Sept.

NEWS | 09/16/2002

Yale inquiry prompts OIT security increase

Since learning that University admission officers had exploited a Yale University admission website's reliance on social security numbers as passwords, University technology officials have been working to fix a similar vulnerability in the campus system.Use of the network has skyrocketed in recent years, with students sending thousands of e-mails per day, checking their academic records online and storing files on the UNIX server.Before the University began acting this month, more than 90 percent of accounts were vulnerable.The problem centers on the default password for most new accounts: the last eight digits of the social security number.Data suggest few users change their passwords from the default.

NEWS | 09/15/2002

English, AAS professor Tate remembered for achievements

Claudia Tate, professor of English and African-American studies at the University, died of lung cancer on July 29.

NEWS | 09/15/2002

New WWS Dean Slaughter '80 brings world of experience back to Princeton

Some say, "Everything you will ever need to know you learn in kindergarten." While Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 was not formulating theories of international relations before the first grade ? such pursuits would come later, with years of study at Princeton, Oxford and Harvard Law School ? she had already formulated a good idea of what she wanted to do with her life."I knew I wanted to be a lawyer at age six," says Slaughter, who on Sept.

NEWS | 09/15/2002

Old news: Princeton ranked first, again

For the third straight year, US News and World Report confirms what most University students already know: Princeton is No.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

Equipment and scaffolds give way to buildings of future

It seems to be cropping up all over campus. You may have noticed the signs: the high-pitched beeping of trucks, the mechanical growls of construction cranes, the purr of jackhammers.Construction projects have been changing the face of campus for years, and this year is no different.Over the summer, crews finished renovations to Dod Hall; continued work on the genomics institute, a new dormitory, 185 Nassau St., McCarter Theatre, the art library and East Pyne, Green and Robertson halls; and broke ground on the Witherspoon Hall project.The construction on Dod included a full restoration of the dormitory and the addition of elevators, said Jon Hlafter '61, director of physical planning.In addition to replacing the parking area on the west side of Dod with a new pedestrian plaza and drop-off area, crews completed many landscaping projects including replacing walks in the Joline/Campbell courtyard with bluestone and cobblestone as part of a master plan to restore the campus's historic areas, Hlafter said.Crews also completed the Class of 1948 Plaza by West College over the summer."I think that a number of our grounds projects have been completed," Hlafter said.However, the building department has far to go.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

University diversifies board of trustees with nine appointments

The University announced the appointment of nine alumni to the board of trustees on June 19.The group of new trustees represents a varied collection of post-University experiences ranging from two politicians to a longtime Trenton community activist.Among those new trustees elected by the alumni body, current students and the sitting trustees are two African-American alumni, one of whom is female.The board appointed former Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine '56, Maryland Sen.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

Students face visa delays as new rules take effect

One year and one day after the United States suffered terrorist attacks that spurred a host of tighter immigration laws, three foreign University students missed their first day of classes yesterday because they had not received visas.One delayed student is a freshman from a Middle Eastern country, and the other is a visiting student from England with a Middle Eastern name, University officials said.A graduate student from China is also delayed, but his case seems unrelated, they said.Officials have kept the names of the students secret to avoid hurting their chances of getting the visa.It is unclear whether the students will arrive in time to take part in this year's classes.Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Marianne Waterbury, who runs University visa services, said the two undergraduates have had their visa requests approved but have not received them yet."Their local embassy is more than willing to give them the visas," she said.The student from China faces delays because of U.S.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

University to build additional housing for grads amid concerns over shortage

The University received the green light last week from local authorities to build new graduate student apartments as part of its efforts to alleviate the current housing shortage.The University's plan calls for seven structures to be built on a new roadway called Lawrence Drive, which will intersect Alexander Road near Basin Street.The construction will help alleviate the growing dearth of low-cost housing for graduate students, which became a hot issue last spring during the final meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.The buildings will eventually provide 206 new units of housing for roughly 225 graduate students.Although the University still faces a housing shortage, plans for the new apartments will chip away at what has become a major concern for the Graduate Student Government.The apartments will allow the University to house roughly 80 percent of the students.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

Three thousand miles away and still a Princetonian at heart

Princeton University doesn't seem all that important when you're 3,000 miles away. Sitting here in the room I grew up in, with the Michael Jordan poster collecting dust on top of my stereo and the hardcore band posters taped up ever-so-artistically to my wall, I don't really feel like I belong to Princeton.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

New leaders permit more trips for Outdoor, Community Action programs

This year's Outdoor Action and Community Action pre-frosh programs both had record numbers of trips, buoyed by a significant increase in student leaders.As a result, neither program put any applicants on the waitlist."A lot of people went through [OA] leader training last May," program director Rick Curtis '79 said.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

Course cards go the way of the abacus as Registrar initiates online registration

A new online registration program, Student Course Online Registration Engine, became available to undergraduate and graduate students Monday.

NEWS | 09/12/2002

Small decline in Annual Giving tied to Sept. 11th, economic downturn

Annual giving to the University by alumni, parents and friends fell this past fiscal year for the first time after eight consecutive years of gains.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

Summer journalism program draws minorities to campus

Looking around the room at an Ivy League newspaper editors conference at Brown in the spring of his senior year, Richard Just '01 noticed something.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

Engaging Princeton

Almost three years ago, Richard Just '01, soon to be the 124th 'Prince' editor-in-chief, had a vision for expanding the paper's intellectual scope beyond the occasional in-depth look at campus dynamics.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

WWS panel considers political, intellectual legacies of Sept. 11

It was not a memorial. It was not a commemoration or a remembrance per se. Instead, it was something that seemed a better fit for the University's heavily academic climate ? an intellectual discussion.The Wilson School held a panel yesterday afternoon titled "Legacies of Sept.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

Emergency crews respond after medical waste leak at PMC

On a day of heightened national concern, a truck leaking medicalwaste yesterday on Witherspoon St.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

Finding inspiration in a tropical paradise

The tropical humidity made the air so thick with moisture that my fingers stuck to each thin strand of the net, causing my task to be more difficult than I imagined.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

Class days switched for Jewish holiday

With the first Monday of classes coinciding with Yom Kippur, the registrar has switched Friday and Monday classes to accommodate the Jewish holiday.Classes will be on a normal schedule today, but tomorrow all students will head to the classes they would normally attend on Monday.The swap completes Monday when the usual Friday courses will be held.

NEWS | 09/11/2002

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