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University Public Safety reported year 2000 crime statistics last week.With American patriotism surging in the wake of the terrorist attacks last month and University pride swelling with the installation of the academy's 19th president Shirley Tilghman, Princetonians are riding high on a wave of freedom and seem unconcerned with petty thefts and larcenies.But the increasing numbers in this year's crime report reveal it may be the campus' relative openness that allows these statistics to grow.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

Public Safety plans to increase lockout staff with additional student workers

Public Safety plans to increase lockout staff with additional student workers

For several years, University Public Safety has used student workers to respond to the numerous lock-out calls it receives each day.Director of Public Safety Jerrold Witsil said that for as long as he has worked at the University ? 26 years ? his department has used student workers to help with lockouts at night.However, the use of students in this capacity might become more common this year.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

Powering Princeton

Princeton is famous for scientific innovation, but few people know that the University runs one of the most efficient power plants in America.The plant, an unassuming structure just south of the MacMillan building on Elm Drive, was built just to power campus.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

USG sponsors student voter registration drive

As next month's elections draw near, the heat is beginning to turn up on Steven Abt '04's run for Princeton Borough Council.

NEWS | 10/02/2001

'Princeton Future' meeting examines needs of neighborhood

In their daily travels to and from classes, practices and meetings, Princeton students cannot help but encounter a myriad of construction projects in various quarters of the Princeton campus.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

Wilson School dean to retire from position

Wilson School Dean Michael Rothschild announced yesterday that he will step down this summer, after six years as head of the School of Public and International Affairs.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

A Changing Princeton

Twelve-year-old Janet bounded through the aisles of the public library on Witherspoon Street. She muttered to herself in Spanish.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

Borough, club officials consider solutions to binge drinking problem

If anything can be concluded from last night's American Whig-Cliosophic Society forum on a possible Borough ordinance concerning underage drinking, it is that controversy over campus drinking problems is far from dead.Representatives from the Borough government, Borough Police, eating clubs and counseling agencies all met for the first time in a formal setting to discuss the ordinance.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

Graduate school alum discusses five-month detention in China

For Li Shaomin GS '88, a brief passport check by an immigration officer in Shenzhen, China, turned into a five-month journey through the Chinese legal system.Li discussed the Chinese legal system and his "participatory observation" of it with a crowd of more than 200 in a speech at the Frist Campus Center last night.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

Professors alter teaching plans to incorporate terrorist attacks

Wilson School visiting professor Christopher Wren had not originally planned to broach the topic of terrorism in his class, HUM/WWS 447: Politics and the Media: Covering International Intrigue, until four or five weeks into the semester.After the horrific events of Sept.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Tilghman installed as 19th president in stately ceremony, evening gala

In a ceremony on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, molecular biology professor and former director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Shirley M.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Princetonians help launch foundation

Four years ago, armed with nothing more than a table and a phone, Justine Stamen set out to fulfill her dream.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Harvard Law School professor to begin week of lectures

A new student group, the Ideas in Action will kick off this afternoon a series of lectures concerning justice in America.This afternoon's speaker, Randall Kennedy '77, a Harvard Law School professor and a specialist on race and the law, will speak in McCosh 50 at 4:30 p.m.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Mary Chapin Carpenter to perform at installation

Grammy Award-winner and honorary member of the Princeton Class of 1949 Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform on campus today as part of the celebration to commemorate the installation of Shirley M.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Discovering Shirley Caldwell

When it came time for Shirley Caldwell to think about college scholarships, she decided to apply for only one.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Graduate students without football tickets express ambivalence over role on campus

When the Princeton football team takes the field tomorrow night under the lights for the home opener of the Ivy League season, the stadium will be packed with students, alumni and faculty.However, missing among those orange-and-black-clad fans will be many graduate students.Unlike University undergraduates, graduate students do not receive complimentary tickets to athletic events ? like tomorrow's game ? or to other social events on campus.Tickets to such events are not complimentary for graduate students because there is no comparable fee to the undergraduate student fee which provides financial support."I'm not sure how many [graduate students] are affected by this," said Matt Fouse GS, president of the Graduate Student Government, "but I think they would like to be involved."Though some graduate students will make their way between the prowling tigers guarding Princeton Stadium because the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni will give away free tickets at its annual tailgating party, Fouse said he sees this as part of a bigger problem."Little things [like free tickets] add up," Fouse said.Other graduate students do not hold this view."Graduate students are a community of very interesting people who do not have a lot time on our hands," said Elliot Ratzman, a graduate student in the religion department.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

University to install Tilghman

Shirley M. Tilghman will be formally installed as the 19th president of the University today at 3:30 p.m.The administration expects that over 1,000 students will attend the ceremony, based on its online RSVP service.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

The ultimate experience: Rogow '02 recounts summer fighting the 'gators

What would it take to get you to submerge yourself in a swimming pool with a 9.5-foot alligator, capture the animal, haul it out of the water and wrestle it on the nearby sand?For Bryce Rogow '02, it was a wage of eight dollars an hour, guaranteed free insurance for any personal injuries during the activity and the promise of adventure.This summer, Rogow ? a native South Floridian ? spent four months at a mock Seminole Indian village in Hollywood, Florida, at a tourist attraction for deepwater alligator wrestling."I'd seen alligator shows since I was a child and always wanted to try it," Rogow said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Learning and meeting people from around the world

After an eight-hour flight, a two-hour bus ride and hauling my bag up the stairs, I was exhausted.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

Report gauges impact of aid

During an annual report presentation to the faculty on the status of undergraduate admissions last week, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said last week that the University's change in financial aid policy last January greatly affected the composition of the Class of 2005.Malkiel noted that 46 percent of the freshman class is receiving financial aid ? the highest percentage of all the Ivy League schools and a significant jump from the 40 percent of the Class of 2004 receiving financial aid.Malkiel also said there was an increase in the racial diversity of the freshman class.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

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