Princeton firefighters, First Aid and Rescue Squad, Public Safety and Borough Police responded to a kitchen fire that interrupted Passover dinner at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday at about 6:50 p.m.According to Public Safety Lt.
To those who do not know them, sophomores Jonathan and Vanessa Wong appear to be dating. They walk together to class, they are both members of Charter Club and they even appear physically complementary.But the two are not sweethearts ? they are twins."We spend so much time together that the first assumption people make is that we're boyfriend and girlfriend," Jonathan said, adding that he sees his twin sister ? who lives two entryways away from him in Holder Hall ? many times each day.While the Wong twins view attending the same school as normal, twins at the University are far from ordinary.
A county judge set a $400,000 bail Monday for the man accused of shooting his wife in the parking lot of the Merwick Rehabilitation Unit on Oct.
Though writer Michael Lewis '82 worked at a high-profile investment bank after graduating from the University, he did not spend his college days preparing for 60-hour work weeks and dinners at the office.Instead, as an art history major, Lewis examined the works of famous artists and wrote his senior thesis on Donatello's use of antique and classical sources.And despite a prominent writing career that includes two books ? "Liar's Poker" and "The New New Thing" ? Lewis admits that he occasionally thinks about his thesis."I still have dreams about it," Lewis said.
Borough Police arrested one man and two juveniles early Sunday morning for allegedly stealing as many as nine coats from the Colonial Club coat room, Borough Police Lt.
Expanding her sphere of influence beyond Rockefeller College's freshmen and sophomores, Rockefeller College Director of Studies Carol Porter will be working with underclassmen from all residential colleges beginning next year as the new associate dean of the college.Porter, who will assume her new post July 1, will succeed Harold McCulloch.
When the three most recent USG presidents posed together for a picture at a party in Tower Club last semester, they contentedly joked about the scene being captured on film ? a multi-ethnic Mount Rushmore for 1990s Princeton.David Ascher '99 is Jewish and a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
After several eating clubs submitted written objections to an ordinance banning smoking in Princeton, the Regional Health Commission agreed during a meeting last week to consider an amendment that would exempt eating clubs and other private social clubs from the ban.But since that decision, some local business owners and opponents of the ban have raised questions about the validity of exempting private establishments while including public bars and restaurants.
Borough Fire Official William Drake said yesterday that the investigation of the March 23 fire at the Frist Campus Center has led him to all but conclude that the blaze was sparked by rooftop cigarette smoking by one or more contractors."We did find a lot of cigarette butts up there," he said.Drake added that his department initially believed the fire ? which destroyed insulation and roofing materials valued between $25,000 and $30,000 ? had been caused by cigarettes, and further investigations have supported these preliminary theories.
In addition to their highly publicized approval of the 500-student increase in the size of the student body, the University Board of Trustees recently offered eight professors the opportunity to call Princeton home ? permanently.At their April 15 meeting, the trustees bestowed the title of professor on Athanassoios Panagiotopoulos of the University of Maryland and Elizabeth Gould of the University psychology department.
Eric Bolesh, a senior at Harvard University, scanned his college options four years ago and saw the majors he expected to see.
Pushing baby carriages and holding the hands of shy toddlers, about 30 members of United Parents Protesting Singer and Not Dead Yet gathered outside FitzRandolph Gate on Saturday to demand that the University rescind its appointment of bioethicist Peter Singer.If the University refuses, organizers threatened to instigate a nationwide boycott of companies with ties to University trustees, including The Gap and Avon.The protesters took pains to distinguish themselves from previous demonstrators who drew comparisons between Singer and Hitler and chained themselves to University buildings.The predominantly female organizers stood outside University grounds peacefully from 11 a.m.
Last night the honor committee kicked off a period of revision and public self-examination by proposing an amendment to the honor code constitution meant to clarify its procedures.The amendment ? which the USG will vote on at its meeting during reading period ? resolves "simply a wording issue" in the constitution, according to committee clerk Justin Browne '01.The existing constitution dictates that a student suspected of an honor code violation choose a "defense adviser." This position can be filled by either of the two committee members investigating the allegation after those members decide ? following consultation with the committee chair ? there is sufficient evidence to hold a hearing.
As her two-day campus visit draws to a close, Janet Dickerson sits in the empty office that former Dean of Student Life Janina Montero left in December.
After a semester spent responding to University-imposed restrictions on the Debasement Bar and speculation over the possible location for a sixth residential college, graduate students have taken a proactive stance on another issue ? securing dental benefits for University employees.The charge has been led by Graduate Students for Local Activism ? a group that earlier this month held a rally in Firestone plaza during which 149 students, faculty and staff pledged their support for the dental benefits campaign.According to Karthick Ramakrishnan GS, the group's president, no University employees are granted dental care under their health benefits plans.
In preparation for today's course card deadline, many juniors spent part of the weekend choosing some of the last classes they will take during their Princeton careers.That already difficult decision may have been made even harder, however, when the course guide revealed the array of popular professors who will not be teaching next year.Senior professors at Princeton are required to spend five consecutive semesters on campus before they are eligible for leave, according to history department chair Philip Nord.
A University senior and a world-renowned research foundation might not appear to have much in common.
Four University electrical engineering graduate students were transported to Princeton Medical Center yesterday after being exposed to chlorobenzene solution while working in an E-Quad laboratory.According to Public Safety Sgt.
Deciding on a college often means lists of pros and cons, exhaustive campus visits and long conversations with guidance counselors.
Noah Rhys '93 is paid by NASA to dream up new ideas and technologies for space flight.And though he spends plenty of time pondering nuclear-powered spacecraft, one of the more difficult projects he is working on is developing right here on Earth.A propulsion research scientist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Rhys is trying to open a dialogue between two very different groups ? nuclear energy researchers and environmentalists."My involvement is trying to get research scientists to have conversations with the people who end up on the other side of the fence, literally, protesting space missions," Rhys said.NASA research is very vulnerable to negative public opinion, Rhys said.
