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Watching contentious debate, an amicable party

Watching contentious debate, an amicable party

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama made their partisan and ideological differences clear during the first debate of the presidential campaign on Wednesday night. Romney wore a red tie, and Obama wore a blue one. They each laid out a distinct vision of the role of the federal government. On numerous occasions, moderator Jim Lehrer asked them explicitly if there was a stark difference between the two of them on a certain issue, and they generally agreed differences do exist.

NEWS | 10/03/2012

Following overshoot, U. to decrease class size slightly for next three years

In response to the over-enrollment of the Class of 2016 by 49 students, the University will reduce the target class size of the Classes of 2017, 2018 and 2019 by 18 students each compared to this year's freshman class to create classes of 1,290 freshmen.

NEWS | 10/03/2012

Rescue crews called to Lake Carnegie

Three rescue boats and two divers were deployed in Lake Carnegie, near the Harrison Street bridge, after a report of a person in the water on Tuesday night. Nothing had been found by the time the operation was fully called off around 8:30 p.m. The search ended out of safety concerns for the rescuers as the weather deteriorated, police said.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Gill ’09 raises $1.6 million in Calif. race

Ricky Gill ’09, the 25-year-old, record-breaking fundraiser who is running for Congress in California’s Central Valley, is slowly gaining momentum as the congressional race enters its final month.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Wilson School ready to expand

Wilson School professors said that the department is well-prepared to handle potentially increased enrollment, despite questions about how the termination of its selective admission process will affect the number of students that join the department.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Your 18-year-old preceptor

Last month, hundreds of 18-year-olds walked onto the University’s campus, ready to begin a new stage of their education. One such student, however, did not join the freshmen for the opening exercises or the Pre-Rade: Dakota Killpack GS had come to begin his Ph.D. And those other 18-year-olds might be some of his students.Killpack, a music student who will turn 19 at the end of this month, is already well-known in the local community. He began taking college courses at a local community college at the age of 9 in Colorado, until his family moved to New Jersey so he could pursue an associate’s degree at Middlesex County College. In May 2008, when he was 14, Killpack received an associate’s degree from the Mathematics-Science Transfer Program at MCC and enrolled in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in September of that same year.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Theft, prostitution and invasion of privacy cases remain unresolved

The three individuals charged with crimes that allegedly took place on the University campus last week were all initially scheduled to appear at Princeton Borough Municipal Court on Monday, though only one made the court appearance.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

News & Notes: Borough, Township finally decide on name of new town: ‘Princeton’

Princeton Borough and Princeton Township announced Monday night at a joint Borough and Township meeting that the new municipality formed by the merger of the two would simply be called “Princeton,” ending months of speculation.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

New FML site continues familiar tradition

When Elon Packin ’15 accidentally went to Whitman College’s Fisher Hall rather than the economics department’s Fisher Hall for his precept, he posted about it on the old Princeton FML.“It got a lot of negative feedback,” Packin said. “So I never posted again.”Today, Packin said he does not read the webpage very often, but he added that he noticed that it lost a lot of popularity after the site’s crash in May.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Search suspended in Lake Carnegie after man reportedly spotted in water

Three rescue boats and two divers were deployed in Lake Carnegie, near the Harrison Street bridge, after a report of a person in the water on Tuesday night. Nothing had been found by the time the operation was fully called off around 8:30 p.m. The search ended as the weather deteriorated and out of safety concerns for the rescuers, police said.A passerby called Princeton Township Police at 4:55 p.m. reporting they had seen a person in the water near the Harrison Street bridge, Township Police Sergeant Michael Cifelli said at the scene. The caller reported the person was a white man with long hair wearing dark clothing.

NEWS | 10/02/2012

Internet, collaboration complicate academic integrity policies, CPUC says

The Council of the Princeton University Community noted challenges posed to the University’s academic integrity guidelines by the Internet and student collaboration at its meeting Monday afternoon. The discussion came one month after Harvard announced its investigation of 125 students for allegedly engaging in unauthorized collaboration on a take-home final exam.

NEWS | 10/01/2012

In small class, nowhere to hide

It might be easy for students surfing Facebook or shopping online to remain undetected in large lecture halls with hundreds of people, but for students in the University’s handful of three-, four- and five-person classes, it’s hard to hide even a few pages of unfinished reading.

NEWS | 10/01/2012

News & Notes: Bridge Year financial backing increases with new donation

A $4-million gift by a University alumni couple will pay for at least four students to participate in the Bridge Year Program each year, the University announced Monday.

NEWS | 10/01/2012

Campus crime hits new low

Drug violations and forcible sex offenses have increased during the 2011 calendar year despite overall reports of crime on campus decreasing for the third year in a row, according to the latest Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released by the Department of Public Safety on Friday. This was the second straight year that drug violations and forced sex offenses increased.

NEWS | 10/01/2012

Deaton may win economics Nobel Prize

Economics professor Angus Deaton is a favorite to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on what makes people happy, according to analyst predictions released by Thompson Reuters last month. The award will be announced in the early hours of Monday, Oct. 15.

NEWS | 10/01/2012

News & Notes: Harvard senior from Princeton area dies in accident

Philip Streich, a Harvard senior who grew up in Princeton, N.J., died last Tuesday. Streich, who was on leave from Harvard, died in an accident on his family farm in Platteville, Wis.A memorial service in honor of Streich will be held in Princeton.

NEWS | 09/30/2012

After Harvard scandal, CPUC to discuss honor code

The University will discuss its academic integrity rules and Honor Code at the first meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community today.

NEWS | 09/30/2012

Increased cost of sushi rankles Princeton students

At the start of this semester, students encountered a sharp $2 increase in the price of several popular sushi selections at Frist. Near the beginning of the term, 15 of the 20 sushi options available were priced above the credit designated for both late meal and late dinner, requiring students to pay the overcharge out-of-pocket.While the sushi meals sold in the Food Gallery are priced by Dining Services, the products themselves are produced by a third-party vendor, Advanced Fresh Concepts Franchise Corp. Executive Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice declined to be interviewed, deferring comment to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

NEWS | 09/30/2012

Tower Bicker numbers jump by 75 percent

Fifty more students bickered this fall than last fall, an increase primarily due to the larger number of students bickering Tower Club and to the addition of Cannon Club to the fall Bicker mix. A total of 137 students bickered Tower, Cannon, Cap & Gown and Ivy clubs.Tower received more than double the number of bickerees that any other club received this fall and accepted roughly twice the amount of any other selective club. Of the 66 juniors and seniors who bickered, 21 gained admission to the club, according to Tower president Jamie Joseph ’13.

NEWS | 09/30/2012

In wake of protests, study abroad programs threatened

Three weeks ago, Colin Valentine ’14 went snorkeling at a friend’s diving resort in Aqaba, Jordan. When he got out of the water, the first thing he saw was a newscast on Al Arabiya — a Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel — broadcasting the news of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that left the American ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

NEWS | 09/30/2012

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