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News & Notes: Yale student busts dormitory burglar

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Yale student busts dormitory burglar

Daily Princetonian Staff

At 9 a.m. on Monday, 21-year-old Yale student William Genova allegedly found a burglar in his room unplugging his laptop, and chased him down barefoot, according to The Yale Daily News. Genova followed the burglar,Eleam Djamal, into the parking lot of the Marriott Hotel on Dwight Street in NewHaven and confronted him. At the Marriott, Genova got the attention of a police officer and saw a stolen laptop that wasn’t his in Djamal’s duffel bag.

NEWS | 11/12/2014

TI becomes vandalism target following alleged distribution of sex photo

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TI becomes vandalism target following alleged distribution of sex photo

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Tammy Tseng

The phrase “Rape Haven” was graffitied in black spray paint on the stone partition outside Tiger Inn at some point between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The graffiti was discovered this morning, according to a picture obtained by The Daily Princetonian that was taken at around 7 a.m.

NEWS | 11/12/2014
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News & Notes: No updates on police investigation into TI sex photo scandal

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: No updates on police investigation into TI sex photo scandal

Daily Princetonian Staff

No witnesses or victims have publicly come forward with information in regards to allegations that a Tiger Inn officer shared a picture of a female student performing oral sex on a male student on the club’s dance floor in late October, the Princeton Police Department said on Tuesday. The photograph had allegedly been distributed to the TI membership email distribution list. While the police's investigation has not uncovered new information, the University is currently conducting its own investigation into the matter.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

News & Notes: Yale begins construction of 2 residential colleges

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Yale begins construction of 2 residential colleges

Jacqueline Gufford

Yale has begun the construction of two residential colleges ahead of schedule, according to the Yale Daily News. Though the project is scheduled to break ground in February 2015, workers have been on site for at least the last three weeks, said a construction worker on conditions of anonymity given contractual constraints to the Yale Daily News. The project is funded by $500 million Yale received in donations, according to the Yale University website. A single alumnus, Charles B.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

ICE course planner likely to be phased out after the spring

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ICE course planner likely to be phased out after the spring

Linda Song

The Integrated Course Engine, the popular course planning TigerApp, will likely operate for one more semester before being superseded by Course Planner, the University-sanctioned course planning feature in the new student portal TigerHub. At last Sunday's weekly senate meeting, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed plans and negotiations to retain the TigerApp feature for spring course offerings. According to information technology chair Clement Lee ’17, he received confirmation that ICE will likely remain for spring 2015 before it will be officially retired by its original coder Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10. Choi built the TigerApp for a project for COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques.Choi could not be reached for comment. “We’ve contacted him with regards to any updates,” Lee said.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

No life-threatening injuries in bus crash on Route 206

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No life-threatening injuries in bus crash on Route 206

Chitra Marti

A bus crash on Route 206 on Tuesday afternoon resulted in no life-threatening injuries, the Princeton Police Department said. A 2011 BMW 328i, driven by Justin Thomas of Morris Plains, N.J., struck the front bumper of a Rick Bus Co. school bus while the two were traveling directly toward each other. The bus flipped over onto its right side and sustained damage to its left front side, while the BMW spun around and sustained serious front-end damage. The crash took place at 2:48 p.m. The bus contained a student, a teacher’s aid and the bus driver. Those traveling on the bus were transported to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro for medical care, while the driver of the colliding vehicle was transported by ambulance to Capital Health Systems at Fuld for medical care. All persons involved were alert and conscious upon the arrival of emergency personnel, and no one needed to be extricated from the vehicles, police said in a press release. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Serious Collision Unit and the PPD are currently investigating the incident.No summonses have been issued yet. In addition, Route 206 was closed to traffic for several hours between Lovers Lane and Province Line Road this afternoon.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

Princeton in search for Sanskrit lecturer in response to petition

The Daily Princetonian

Princeton in search for Sanskrit lecturer in response to petition

Jasmine Wang

The University is now looking to hire a three-year lecturer in Sanskrit to begin in fall 2015, according to its online employment postings. Religion Associate Professor Jonathan Gold, who will head the search committee for the new candidate, explained that the lecturer would ideally teach five courses over the course of each year, with two first-year Sanskrit courses, two second-year Sanskrit courses and an upper-level language or content course. However, Gold noted that these plans remain tentative and depend on the number of students who are qualified to take the more advanced level language courses. The University decided to make the hire after Vidushi Sharma ’17 started a petitionin late September to reintroduce Sanskrit to the University curriculum. The student body and administrative response to the petition have been encouraging, Sharma said. “I was pretty optimistic to begin with, and professors who supported the effort told me that the more students I could get, the better,” she noted. Although Gold noted that this petition was not the first attempt to establish a position for Sanskrit, he expressed appreciation for the student body’s enthusiasm. The search committee for the position, Gold explained, consists of various representatives from the classics, comparative literature and religion departments. He addedthat he was excited and optimistic for a very strong applicant pool. “We’re looking for dynamic and engaged language instructors with a deep and sophisticated research agenda in Sanskrit language, but also an interest in cutting-edge approaches to student learning,” Gold said. Funding for the position will come from the Council of the Humanities, the Program in South Asian Studies and the Dean of the Faculty, Gold said. Eric Huntington, a postdoctoral fellow in the religion department, said that the three-year length of the lectureship is a good starting point for the development of a cohort of students moving from beginner to advanced levels of Sanskrit. “This would presumably create more demand for a Sanskritist on campus.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

Robinson draws link between climate change and human rights abuse

The Daily Princetonian

Robinson draws link between climate change and human rights abuse

Jessica Li

Climate change is having an intensifying impact on human rights in developing countries,former President of the Republic of Ireland Mary Robinson said in a lecture on Tuesday. Noting the rapid deterioration of natural environments in Africa and numerous multinational conferences on combating climate change in the past two decades, Robinson said the audience, especially University students, should take immediate and personal responsibility for protecting the environment. Robinson served as the first female President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and is currently the Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Robinson said the year 2015 was critical to mitigating climate change because the United Nations will replace the current “millennium development goals” with a new set of “sustainable development goals,” which will be a blueprint that will guide every country. “There are extraordinary years of human history, and 2014 and 2015 are two years with the same magnitude in changing our lives as 1914 and 1945,” she said.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

News & Notes: Student in Forbes reports another invasion of privacy case

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Student in Forbes reports another invasion of privacy case

Daily Princetonian Staff

A student in Forbes College reported seeing someone outside the window while taking a shower in a shared bathroom on the first floor on Saturday, according to an email by Housing & Real Estate Services sent to Forbes College students on Sunday. According to the email, the person outside the bathroom might have been looking into the window while she was showering. The email said that the Department of Public Safety officers did not find a suspect and advised students to safeguard their privacy by keeping windows closed when using showers. On Sept.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

New strategic planning website, U. endowment discussed at CPUC meeting

The Daily Princetonian

New strategic planning website, U. endowment discussed at CPUC meeting

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A new University websiteoutlining the roles of strategic planning task forces and their preliminary reports will allow community members to stay informed about the planning process and provide input, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said during this month’s Council of the Princeton University Community meeting. Eisgruber launched the strategic planning process in January with the purpose of creating a flexible, iterative and dynamic framework for future decision-making by January 2016. The new website will be updated periodically and includes summaries of each task force and a list of its members. “There will be both formal and informal opportunities to comment on what the task forces are doing,” Eisgruber said, noting that the community can contact task force members directly or submit a comment to the website, which will be redirected to the appropriate correspondent. “You’re free to make it your homepage,” Eisgruber said, spurring laughter from the audience. The final strategic planning document will highlight the University’s priorities; identify challenges, opportunities and risks; and describe the University’s resource envelope, Eisgruber said. “[The document] is a way to evaluate choices rather than a statement of what the choices are and will be,” Eisgruber said, adding that he expects different task forces to operate on varying timelines. The task force recommendations do not automatically become part of the campus plan but are first vetted and judged against the University framework, Eisgruber explained. Task force members were chosen based on their expertise regarding the specific issue and include undergraduate and graduate students for projects such as graduate student housing, Eisgruber said. He also said the University will be paying close attention to the opportunity costs of various decisions, especially given the recent impact of the financial crisis. “We need to be thinking about what sorts of options we have and how the selection of one option or another option is going to constrain choices in the future,” Eisgruber said. He said that individual departments also engage in planning on a regular basis and that he expects additional task forces to be formed in the future as new issues arise. University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said the University is currently in a solid financial position with a market endowment value of $21 billion as of June 2014 and a very solid credit rating. “We have for quite some time had a very generous donor base,” Lee said.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

News and Notes: TigerTransit bus spills diesel fuel on Elm Drive and Chapel Drive

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News and Notes: TigerTransit bus spills diesel fuel on Elm Drive and Chapel Drive

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Department of Public Safety and firefighters responded to Elm Drive and Chapel Drive after a TigerTransit bus spilled diesel fuel on Monday. Chapel Drive was closed for two hours, while the circle at the end of Chapel Drive was closed for longer, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Chapel Drive was affected by the spill in its entirety, while Elm Drive was affected in the immediate vicinity of Edwards Hall. Around 12:20 p.m., the bus was towed away while cleanup was still in progress and vehicles were passing through one lane. Dirt had been poured over the oil spill while first responders awaited the arrival of a cleanup crew. As of 4:40 p.m., a cleanup crew accompanied by DPS officers was cleaning up the scene.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

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