Since Rush Holt announced his retirement on Feb.
The Princeton Police Department is currently investigating an apparent suicide. While on patrol around6:30 a.m., officers found the body of a 23-year-old male resident on Spring Street.
Powdered eggs, first mistaken for a suspicious powder, prompted numerous emergency response agencies to the University’s Print & Mail Services facility in the Forrestal Campus on Tuesday. The suspicious substance was reported at 10:20 a.m.
Approximately 20 students were found responsible for plagiarism in COS 126: General Computer Science by the University's Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the 2012-13 academic year. The number represents an increase of more than twice the number of violations that occurred in any previous academic year, Fall 2013 COS 126 lead preceptor David Pritchard said. The spike coincides with massive increases in enrollment in recent years, and is consistent with a trend of increased cases of alleged plagiarism in introductory computer science courses across the country.
Two government whistleblowers, Cathy Harris and Thomas Tamm, discussed their experiences as whistleblowers and the consequences of their whistleblowing actions at a lecture on campus on Tuesday. Beatrice Edwards, executive director and international program director of the Government Accountability Project, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote government accountability by protecting whistleblowers and other activists,moderated the lecture.
Vivienne Chen ’14 and Natasha Japanwala ’14 won theMartin Dale Fellowship, which will allow them to pursue independent projects after graduation. The fellowship provides each student with a $33,000 grant, and was created by Martin Dale ’53.
Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the EnvironmentEmily Carter is joining two other female theoretical chemists in a call for the boycott of the 15thInternational Congress of Quantum Chemistry because its preliminary list of speakers did not include women. Laura Gagliardi, chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota, and Anna Krylov, chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, composed anopen letterwith Carter.
University administrators will soon present data on the peer academic advising system that was implemented across all residential colleges in the 2012-2013 academic year. The peer advising program had been extremely limited before the 2011-2012 school year, Dean of Wilson College Anne Caswell-Klein said.
Nine students were arrested in front of the White House at a youth protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline on Sunday. The students joined around 1,000 other participants to protest phase 4 of TransCanada's pathway for crude oil, which is still pending President Barack Obama's approval.If approved, the final leg of the pipeline would have a capacity of 830,000 barrels of oil per day and constitute 329 miles, according to the project’s website. The students were among 398 youths who were arrested and charged with infractions for strapping themselves to the White House fence and blocking sidewalk passages, according to Nikolaus Hofer ’17, who left for Washington, D.C.
Two arrests were made on campus last week by the Department of Public Safety, according to thedaily crime logspublished by DPS. The first of these arrests was made in front of the U-Store on University Place shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
The central question facing the Committee on Discipline one night last year — a question that would contribute to the eventual verdict in a student plagiarism case — focused on a time stamp. If the time stamp on the student’s computer science assignment was altered, it would indicate the student had plagiarized and then presented fabricated evidence to the Committee before the hearing. The issue of the time stamp came up toward the tail end of the four-and-a-half-hour long hearing, late at night on March 13, 2013.
The town of Princeton received salt shipments this week which will be used to keep roads from icing and facilitate snow plowing, the Princeton Packet reported last week. Mayor Liz Lempert announced that critical salt shipments had arrived after a 100-ton order was delayed for weeks due to transportation issues.
Women should work hard to find a husband, especially since they have a limited window in which they can have children, Susan Patton ’77 argues in her new book, “Marry Smart: Advice for Finding the One.” The book, set to be released next week, mostly rehashes the ideas expressed in a letterto the editor published by The Daily Princetonian last March.
A team of four University students finished in seventh place out of 52 teams at the Rotman International Trading Competition, the largest trading competition in the world. Teams from top universities in Italy, South Africa, Canada, Thailand, Egypt and the United States competed to maximize their profits in several rounds of simulated trading environments. The competition took place at the University of Toronto from Feb.
Mung Chiang, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was appointed director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education last Wednesday, the University announced. Chiang began his time at the University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2003, and has received many awards both for his teaching and for his research.
History professor Julian Zelizer said the political atmosphere between Latke Lovers and Hamentaschen Hubrists has become "more toxic, more poisonous and more rancorous"at the packed annual Latke-Hamentaschen Debate on Sunday afternoon. The debate involved the merits of two traditional Jewish foods: the latke and the hamentaschen.
A revised $4,000 funding request for the Ivy Policy Conference to be held on campus March 28-30 was approved at Sunday's USG Senate meeting with 19 votes in favor and three opposed to the proposal. The annual conference brings together representatives from all Ivy League universities to examine existing administrative policies and discuss improvements.
Paul Krugman, the economics professor known for his regular columns in The New York Times, will retire from his position at the University in June 2015. Krugman is currently an economics and Wilson School professor.
When the old Dinky station collapsed last September, Charles Jacobson ’16 was on his way to an interview with the Student Volunteer Council. Upon learning that the Dinky station had collapsed, he instantly ran to Dillon Gymnasium, where the fire squad car was parked, and went to the station to gear up and get into the truck.
