A psychology concentrator circulated a petition last week calling on the University and other institutions to “increase the standard of treatment of lab animals.” This represents the latest incident of public outcry following allegations that University staffers mistreated primates and rats.
A three-car, rear-end accident on Washington Road left one person in the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
A 20-year veteran of the Borough police is suing the department under the state whistle-blower protection law, claiming that he was fired in an attempt to “silence him” for investigating another officer. Sgt. Kenneth Riley was placed under internal investigation and indicted by a grand jury in 2008. He was later fired.
Three people were hospitalized on Friday night after a 22-year-old local man, allegedly driving drunk, crashed into five cars on Bayard Lane near Nassau Street, police said.Moises Ortiz, of Lawrenceville, allegedly first drove his Ford Explorer into a Ford Thunderbird driven by a 77-year-old man, Borough police Lt. Robert Currier said.
Two volunteer rescuers from the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad — Michael Kenwood and Peter Simon — were directed to get closer to the abandoned sedan to see if it was occupied. At 5:01 a.m., the rescuers, tied together and wearing life vests, slowly shuffled into the water.In seconds, the rescue attempt took a tragic turn.
The Army microbiologist accused of mailing anthrax-laden letters from a mailbox in Princeton a decade ago did not, in fact, have the technical skill needed to manufacture the spores, a team of scientists asserted this week. This raises the possibility that one of the largest FBI investigations in history failed to identify co-conspirators or the right suspect.
The Department of Public Safety is urging community members to be on the lookout for a man accused of suspicious activity at Rider University and The College of New Jersey, according to a Campus Safety Alert issued Saturday morning.
Total reported campus crime has reached its lowest levels in over a decade, according to annual crime data for 2010 released by the Department of Public Safety at the end of last week.Most significantly, judicial referrals — cases that are sent to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students — for on-campus alcohol offenses fell 73 percent in the last three years. Public Safety issued 33 judicial referrals related to alcohol in 2010, a substantial decline from the 120 issued in 2007. In all but two cases in 2010, the referrals resulted from an incident in a dormitory. The cause of the decline is unclear.
The U.S. Intelligence Community has made “important progress” implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, but institutional culture and potential budget reductions pose growing challenges to the government’s intelligence efforts, said Christopher Kojm GS ’79, the commission’s former deputy executive director, in a lecture Monday afternoon.
Princeton Township police promoted five officers in June in the second round of promotions since the department’s leadership was implicated in a corruption probe at the end of last year.
