]]>Police are currently investigating a reported bomb threat at the CVS Pharmacy on Nassau Street that occurred Friday evening. The Princeton Police Department responded at 7:55 p.m.
Ohio State University has agreed to strengthen its policies on sexual assault and sexual harassment, the Washington Post reported, ending the longest-running Title IX investigation conducted by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Two former University presidents — Harold Shapiro GS ’64 and Shirley Tilghman — as well as former Harvard University president Neil Rudenstine ’56 are all teaching freshman seminars this academic year. Shapiro, who served as president of the University from 1988 to 2001, is teaching FRS 159: Science, Technology, and Public Policy.
The University will not support undergraduate or graduate student travel to Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria or Sierra Leone due to the recent outbreak of Ebola in the region, and those who have recently traveled to the region must report to University Health Services.
The base compensations of the University’s two top chief investment executives, Andrew Golden and Jonathan Erickson, both went up by just over 5 percent last fiscal year, maintaining the executives' positions as the two highest-paid University employees. Golden’s base compensation was $737,476, while Erickson earned $608,976, according to the University’s most recent 990 form, a public document that includes financial details of nonprofit organizations. Golden’s cited bonus and incentive compensation stands at $1,214,274, a 48 percent increase from last year.
The service hours for Counseling and Psychological Services have been extended for Mondays and Wednesdays as of Sept.
]]>The University will pilot its own bike-sharingprogram beginning in the late fall, organized by the University’s transportation and parking department. The pilotbike-sharingprogram will consist of 10 bicycles available for rental at the new Dinky station.
By night, students drink. By day, they struggle through hangovers in precepts and in athletic practices, among other places. "You just kind of always hear people complaining about hangovers,” Brooks Powell’16 said.
Jin Liu was named the director of the new Princeton Center in Beijing and officially began her job working at the first administrative center abroad set up by the University in mid-July. The center was approved by the trustees of the University in April last year and is under the administrative oversight of Diana Davies, the University’s vice provost for international initiatives. Located on the campus of Tsinghua University, a top research university in China, the center offers assistance to faculty on their collaborations with different Chinese partner universities and helps students with logistical aspects of research and internships.
The Princeton Big Sibs project, a program through which members of the Class of 2016 mentor low-income students at City Invincible charter school in Camden, N.J., has been discontinued because City Invincible did not have its charter renewed.
The Program in Latin American Studies will begin offering a new study abroad program in Cuba starting in spring 2015 to students with an interest in Latin American culture, politics and history. The Office of International Programs website describes Princeton in Cuba as a semester-long program with a curriculum focusing on the “contemporary culture, political economy, history and anthropologyof Latin America.” The Wilson School originally offered a task force in Cuba, but the program is no longer offered.
Rossen Milanov, the music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, will also lead the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, The Star-Ledger reported. Beginning in the 2015-16 season, he will direct the CSO for the following four years before his contract ends.
A new smartphone app called Access Princeton was created to allow Princeton residents to report and track non-emergency incidents in the town such as downed trees, broken parking meters and potholes, according to The Times of Trenton. The app allows users to raise concerns and upload photos on the spot. Although the app is new, Access Princeton was a department created in August so users could call to report problems in lieu of filing reports on the town’s website and police department Facebook page.
An undergraduate student was arrested by the University’s Department of Public Safety and charged with possession of psilocybin and marijuana on August 26. Nicholas Horvath ’17 was arrested by DPS after an officer allegedly observed him in the Princeton Stadium just after midnight, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office and arrested after a brief foot pursuit. He was also charged with three disorderly persons offenses, including allegedly being in possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana, allegedly being under the influence of marijuana and allegedly being in possession of drug paraphernalia. Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound found in psychedelic mushrooms and its possession is an indictable offense in the state of New Jersey. Horvath declined to comment.
Students from the Class of 2018 represent 46 states, along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.
A working group of faculty and administrators led by Dean of the College Valerie Smith has issued a list of recommendations to improve academic achievement and create a more inclusive campus environment for students of all income levels, according to a recently published University press release. The committee of 11 representatives, originally launched by former University President emeritus Shirley Tilghman, recorded high levels of student satisfaction across all socioeconomic levels, commending the University’s admission policies and generous financial aid packages.
]]>The Office of Career Services launched HireTigers, a new career management website, to replace the former TigerTracks system on September 1.
A Princeton Municipal Court judge denied a request Monday afternoon to hold a probable cause hearing in the case of professor John Mulvey, who was arrested this summer for allegedly stealing several lawn signs promoting a local computer repair company. A probable cause hearing is convened to determine whether prosecution has enough evidence to bring the defendant to trial.
A University employee who is one of the only New Jersey residents with a medical marijuana permit will potentially continue working forthe University after a dispute in which he was reportedly told he would have to choose between medicating and his job.
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 welcomed the Class of 2018 at Opening Exercises on Sunday and used the frequently-drawn comparison between the University and Hogwarts to encourage incoming freshmen to find their adventures here just as Harry Potter found his adventures at Hogwarts. “You feel like you are at the outset not just of any story, but of an adventure, your adventure, your own version perhaps, of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Eisgruber said.
