<p>Princeton University
Department of Public Safety </p>
<p>Campus Safety Alert</p>
<p>This notice is to advise you of an incident that concerns the University community.</p>
<p>Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009
Incident: Criminal Sexual Contact</p>
<p>The Department of Public Safety is alerting community members of an incident that took place at approximately 3: 20 a.m. Sunday, April 19, 2009, on the lawn between Witherspoon Hall and Alexander Hall (Alexander Beach).</p>
<p>A female Princeton University student reported that she was grabbed by a male suspect who reached under her clothes to touch her. The suspect had first approached the female student and attempted to speak with her, then grabbed her, preventing her from leaving after she attempted to walk away from him. The suspect released the victim and walked towards West College after another student witnessed the incident and intervened by attempting to pull the female student away.</p>
<p>The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, between 23 and 26 years of age, approximately 5'11", medium build, lean face with big eyes, with dark short-cropped hair, and a thin moustache. The suspect was wearing a light blue or gray button-down shirt and jeans. The clothing was described as loose or baggy fitting.</p>
<p>The Department of Public Safety continues to investigate this incident, will increase foot patrols around the campus in the evening hours and asks that any community member who has relevant information contact the department by calling (609) 258-1000 or via a confidential tip line on our website: <a href="https://tipline.princeton.edu/%5B/url%5D">https://tipline.princeton.edu/</a>.</p>
<p>OMG I was there that day and out late too. That’s suspicious that the Princeton Preview people didn’t tell us about that…athough, I’m not surprised.</p>
<p>how many of these threads have you posted princeton gal!?</p>
<p>Four. Exactly four. Four separate threads to discuss the exact same issue. And that’s just on the Princeton boards. Perhaps she’s even posted it four times on every other board. She is obsessed with it. It’s more important than the economy, two wars, and global warming.</p>
<p>hahaaha wow… i mean i understand its an issue, but i really think one thread would suffice! Princeton Gal, do you go to princeton? Or are you a waitlistee like me, and you’re trying to get pre-frosh to turn down their offers? Because that really won’t work…</p>
<p>Incompetency of Public Safety Revealed (the multiple posts, btw, were because of a misposting in the wrong category at first. The second were to keep up to date with information. They weren’t a million crazy posts, just felt like I should keep it relevant, you know)?
Here is the issue at hand below. To all students looking at Princeton, it is VERY safe. But, when I was an incoming freshman, I was glad to learn about issues that I could be a part of changing for the better throughout my career. </p>
<p>the incompetence of the Princeton Public Safety and Administration revealed. A delay in notifying POLICE! Strike Two…
From the Trenton Times:
The reports have prompted investigations by campus and borough police, as well as two email warnings to the student population. The university said the email warnings, which contained details of the incidents, had been sent on Saturday morning and Sunday morning.</p>
<p>But borough police said their investigation started later than that by campus police, as they were not notified of the reports until Sunday afternoon.</p>
<p>“It’s unclear at this time why there was a delay,” Lt. Nick Sutter said. “We’re playing catch-up right now.”</p>
<p>If you are looking for “issues you could be a part of changing for the better throughout your career,” there is a world water crisis going on, people are dying in Darfur, folks in many countries have no human rights, and the best you can come up with is to complain that every student at Princeton doesn’t have their own personal Secret Service detail walking them everywhere they go at every hour of day or night? Yeesh! I mean, you began these hysterical screeds by mentioning that someone fell down and twisted their ankle and, heaven help us, no campus security person was standing right there besides them like a personal body guard. OMG! That’s what cell phones are for! </p>
<p>We were there all weekend long. We saw campus security vehicles all hours of day and night. We saw foot patrols all day and all night. </p>
<p>Please, take a Xanax and find a better outlet for your overreacting hysteria. Do it. Do it for the children. Save the whales.</p>
<p>Right, but this is a forum devoted to Princeton University, not Darfur.</p>
<p>Yes, and you’ve totally Bogarted the entire forum with one topic that appears to only be important to you. </p>
<p>Darfur just called. They want to know if they could have a line or two in one of the four threads you’ve got going about this one topic. What should I tell them?</p>
<p>So as not to waste space, see thread in other forum and also attend a logic class. Could soup kitchens also rent a line in the college forum about…COLLEGE?</p>
<p>Nice concerted efforted to use drug slang w bogarted. Make sure you throw that one out before you get here…</p>
<p>Yeah actually we have to give Princeton Gal a break. I was talking to a friend who goes to Princeton about the incident and she already knew about it because they email you the story for whatever reason.</p>
<p>^ yeah but people mostly thought that creating 4 threads was too much, including myself. I think this is an important story, however… it just doesn’t warrant 4 threads…</p>
<p>quite honestly PrincetonGal is probably SusieBra… haha ■■■■■■</p>
<p>haha ^ i was JUST thinking the same thing, after reading your response to SusieBra’s thread.</p>
<p>If you consider a post spam, then report it as such. </p>
<p>However, seems pretty relevant to the topic of “Princeton” to me. </p>
<p>Frankly, as a current college student at another institution, I think it’s refreshing to see posts about campus safety. This is an aspect of colleges that most people don’t think about when they’re applying. Some really cool colleges have some very dark secrets that you don’t want to find out midway through your first semester when it’s wayyy too late to turn back. </p>
<p>Fair enough, four posts (if there are four posts) may be a little excessive. But point made…probably won’t see anymore posts on the subject from that user.</p>
<p>^yeah she made about 4 different threads in the same forum.</p>
<p>Yeah thanks I’m not princetongal. you only get those messages if you to princeton and i don’t go to princeton- yes, it is true previous posts explain why i won’t be attending but nonetheless, i don’t get these emails and don’t go to princeton but will be attending upenn in the fall. and yes, i do agree that at this point, it is now excessive to post the news about the sexual attacks.</p>
<p>That is a Republican tactic we discuss all the time in my POL courses. Unwilling to come to terms with the big issue (campus safety) the conservative pundit aims for and spotlights a smaller side issue, or piece of rhetoric, so much so that it undermines the real issue at hand and becomes a purposeful discussion about nonsense.
Setting up straw men does nothing to solve the real problem. Yes, there were 4 posts, but that is neither here no there. But there were also TEN posts about the “number of posts” which serves to purposefully cloud the real issue.</p>
<p>Come on, you guys have read four posts of some kid complaining about how far the e quad it…let’s talk about the real issues</p>
<p>Princeton Gal, I suppose you’re a current student as well? I know things are different b/c you’re a girl and I’m a guy, but I mean… none of my friends really seemed alarmed by this development, which I find interesting. People I talked to either thought it was “creepy”, “stupid”, “weird”, or “funny”, but left it at that. </p>
<p>I’m not saying it’s wrong that you posted about this, but… the headline you chose WAS kinda sensationalistic. Like seriously, you would’ve thought that Public Safety was holed up eating donuts at 200 Elm Drive the day after some sketchy dude had forcibly “had his way” with some poor Princeton student when in fact it was mostly an attempted sexual assault and P Safety was (in retrospect) going around questioning people.</p>
<p>From 4th house:</p>
<p>If you are looking for “issues you could be a part of changing for the better throughout your career,” there is a world water crisis going on, people are dying in Darfur, folks in many countries have no human rights, and the best you can come up with is to complain that every student at Princeton doesn’t have their own personal Secret Service detail walking them everywhere they go at every hour of day or night? Yeesh! I mean, you began these hysterical screeds by mentioning that someone fell down and twisted their ankle and, heaven help us, no campus security person was standing right there besides them like a personal body guard. OMG! That’s what cell phones are for!</p>
<p>We were there all weekend long. We saw campus security vehicles all hours of day and night. We saw foot patrols all day and all night.</p>
<p>Please, take a Xanax and find a better outlet for your overreacting hysteria. Do it. Do it for the children. Save the whales. </p>
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<p>Brilliance. Do a locomotive someday for '91 at reunions …</p>