More than 50 members of the University community gathered in the Frist Campus Center multipurpose room for lunch yesterday at the Ombuds Office Civility Forum.
The test results of a suspicious, oily, paint-like substance found in a letter sent to Robertson Hall could take up to a week to be announced, according to University Director of Communications Lauren Robinson-Brown '85."We can't do much more than wait," she said.
John Hodgson, by day the dean of Forbes College, is currently taking on the additional duty of temporary mailman.
People are used to bemoaning the problems in the news, or what we might call the ills ? social, political and economic ? paraded across screens and pages.
The Princeton Research Program in International Security presented a lecture last ngiht, the second in a series of lectures and discussions, as part of its analysis of the Sept.
Democrats Roger Martindell and Joseph O'Neill easily won the Borough Council election yesterday, beating out Republican challenger Michael Carnevale II and independent candidate Steven Abt '04.O'Neill led the count with 1,496 votes, followed by Martindell with 1,364, Carnevale with 955 and Abt with 248.Although Abt lost the general election, he received more votes than all the other candidates combined in District 1, which encompasses most of the University.
In Andrew Niccol's 1997 film "Gattaca," Ethan Hawke plays a man attempting to evade the scrutiny of authority in a world where one's every movement is tracked with DNA tests ? where the government knows everything you have done and everything you are likely to do in the future.Our world is not like that.
Robert Malley, who served as special assistant to the president for Arab-Israeli Affairs during the second Clinton term, spoke yesterday about the failure of recent attempts at reconciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
A Wilson School employee discovered a suspicious, oily, paint-like substance in a letter yesterday, prompting Borough Police to close Robertson Hall and call the Trenton fire department's hazardous materials team.University spokesman Marilyn Marks explained that the letter was sent from Canada and had no return address.
Jim McGreevey coasted to victory with a 16-point margin over Bret Schundler in the New Jersey gubernatorial race yesterday, carrying the Democratic party back to the State House in Trenton for the first time in eight years.McGreevey claimed victory in one of only two gubernatorial races in the country in an off-year election that was largely overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on Sept.
While millions of Americans are headed for the polls today to cast their vote for candidates ? from governors to congressmen to city councilmen ? there will be no punch marks or levers pulled for presidential candidates this year.One year after one of the most contested presidential elections in history, few Americans seem to remember the turmoil of Bush v.
Despite rumors earlier this year that the USG would not put on a fall concert, social chair West Owens '03 announced yesterday that Billy Joel, accompanied by classical pianist Richard Joo, will perform on Nov.
The University is offering free influenza vaccines to students, faculty and staff at a walk-in clinic this Thursday from 1 p.m.
It is an off-year election that has been largely overshadowed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the continuing anthrax scare, but New Jersey residents will cast their ballots today in a gubernatorial race in which both campaigns have attempted to retain their focus on mainstay plank issues."[The race] is absolutely based on issues; 62 percent of likely voters said they were basing their decisions on the issues while only 18 percent on leadership," said Monika McDermott, the associate director of the Star-Led-ger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll.A consensus in the polls shows Democrat Woodbridge mayor Jim McGreevey with a consistent double-digit lead on Republican candidate Bret Schundler.Despite McGree-vey's wide lead, the Schundler campaign is optimistic.
University students are expected to mingle at the ballot box with other Borough residents in today's election.
"With generosity of spirit and mutual respect," President Tilghman said at her installation several weeks ago, "we must listen carefully to one another, and speak with our minds and our hearts, guided by the principles we hold dear."Since Tilghman spoke those words, American and British forces have attacked sites in Afghanistan, domestic authorities have begun to cope with the losses of Sept.
A 51-year-old woman living in Mercer County, N.J., left a local hospital Oct. 28 after being treated for a case of skin anthrax.The woman remains the only non-postal worker to have contracted the bacteria in New Jersey.Though state health officials are withholding the victim's name, one official, who wished to remain anonymous, released information on the woman's hospital testing.A lesion that developed on the woman's forehead originally spurred her to undergo analysis.
As a rookie faculty member 30 years ago, economics professor Uwe Reinhardt thought he was a generous grader.
The University announced Tuesday that engineering school dean James Wei would resign at the end of the academic year.Wei cited his age and the length of his term as reasons for his resignation."Eleven years is enough, and I am age 71," he said in an e-mail.Wei said he will go on a sabbatical next year to finish a book on "molecular structure and properties" and then will return to the Univer-sity to teach and continue his research.Former President Harold Shapiro appointed Wei to his current position in 1991.
The University has resumed delivery of outside mail from the United States Postal Service. Service was temporarily suspended last week after the discovery of a single spore of anthrax prompted the closure of the main Princeton post office in West Windsor.University director of communications Lauren Robinson-Brown '85 said the University's mail normally flows through the now-closed facility."There's no reason to believe, unless there is a suspicious letter that meets the guidelines we have posted on the website, that any mail we receive has anthrax contamination," she said.
