Originally published December 3 2005
Princeton forced to cut budget because of increasing energy costs
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Princeton University Provost Christopher Eisgruber reported to faculty members that the school would cut $3.7 million out of its annual budget in an effort to meet rising energy costs.
Rising energy costs have forced the University to cut spending by $3.7 million this year and are complicating energy conservation efforts, University Provost Christopher Eisgruber said at a faculty meeting Monday.
The meeting also included memorial resolutions for recently deceased professors Jeremiah Finch, Frederick Mote and George Reynolds GS '43.
Eisgruber said the budget situation was even more strained last year, when soaring energy prices and salaries for a larger-than-expected pool of new faculty members prompted $4 million cuts in spending elsewhere.
Additionally, in a January report, the Priorities Committee --- which deliberates on each year's operating budget --- recommended decreasing energy consumption and filling vacant housing units.
"The size of those changes [in energy costs] is going to create major constraints in what we can do," he said.
Nevertheless, President Tilghman said during the meeting that the University continues to weigh environmental concerns when making its spending decisions.
"We've been careful in new building projects to hire architects whose philosophy is a green philosophy," she said.
Earlier in the meeting, faculty members read and approved resolutions to memorialize Finch, Mote and Reynolds, all of whom passed away earlier this year.
English professor Thomas Roche spoke about Finch, an emeritus English professor and former Dean of the College who died in August at age 95.
East Asian Studies and history professor Martin Collcutt memorialized Mote, an emeritus East Asian Studies professor who died in February at age 82.
Emeritus physics professor Pierre Pirou� spoke about emeritus physics professor George Reynolds, who died in April at age 87.
Pirou� remembered Reynolds's dedication to the cutting-edge research he conducted in the fields of cosmic rays, high energy particle physics and biophysics.
"He was inspired by the adage that a good university researcher should write either the first or last paper on any subject," he said.
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