More than 1,000 alumni flocked to campus with family and friends on Feb. 20 for Alumni Day, a fixture in the Princeton calendar since its inception in 1915.
Thousands of students apply every year for the opportunity to study engineering at Princeton. But roughly 40 students bypassed the application process altogether and began their first class Thursday night. The select few were eight-year-olds who spent an hour building cars out of Legos at the Princeton Public Library, under the mentorship of four undergraduate engineers.
Starting this June, some students may be able to legally smoke marijuana in New Jersey. The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, which was passed by the state legislature and signed by then-governor Jon Corzine (D) in January, will make New Jersey the 14th state in the nation and only the fourth on the East Coast to legalize marijuana for people with certain medical conditions.
Spongebob is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish for 12 hours,” Squidward the Octopus exclaimed in an episode of the animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Squidward clearly has not heard of John Dabiri ’01, who is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.
Spencer Reynolds ’92 arrived on campus in the fall of his freshman year planning to go to medical school. He soon lost interest in his academic path, however, when he realized that his real passion was for his ROTC training.
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Four male students have been charged with criminal attempted theft, criminal mischief and resisting arrest by flight after they allegedly tried to steal a parking meter on Prospect Avenue on Oct. 26.
A district court judge ruled on Oct. 28 to deny a motion made by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for a restraining order against the Maine ethics commission, which is currently investigating NOM’s finances.
Students who trudged through the snow to Labyrinth Books on Saturday were greeted by a sign that read, “Labyrinth will be closed due to weather and the town’s absurd parking policy.”
This September, some local grade schoolers will be learning more than the basics on their first day of class when the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) opens its doors — and debuts its Mandarin Chinese immersion program — to 170 students.
Though Princeton graduates are employed across the country and around the world, some alumni find careers by walking back through FitzRandolph Gate. A search of the TigerNet alumni directory revealed 683 Princetonians employed at their alma mater, many of whom work at the University in non-academic capacities.
President Tilghman ended a 255-year streak of male leadership when she became the University’s president in 2001. Last Friday, Alison Lahnston accomplished a similar feat when she was elected the first female president of the 120-year-old Nassau Club.
Members of the University community have raised doubts about the prudence of new biofuels guidelines issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Wednesday. The guidelines call for increased production and use of corn-based ethanol and other biofuels in an attempt to decrease the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
You won’t find Kimberly Bonner ’08 in Medford, N.J., her home listed on the TigerNet alumni directory. Bonner is stationed in Tanzania, waging a war against mosquitoes.
Bonner is one of the five inaugural undergraduate recipients of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) scholarship. The program places Princeton graduates in federal government jobs for two years and funds their two-year Master in Public Affairs (MPA) degrees at the Wilson School.
Do college students have curfews?” a curious sixth-grader asked a panel of five Princeton undergraduates Friday morning. The answer, “no,” came as a surprise to the middle schooler.
The panel discussion was part of several activities led by Students for Education Reform (SFER), a group of undergraduates that volunteered on a campus expedition which brought roughly 25 middle-school students from Global Neighborhood Secondary School (GNSS), in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhoods to campus.
Only two years after following in Princeton’s footsteps by instituting a no-loan financial-aid policy, Dartmouth announced last week that it will be reinstituting loans in the financial-aid packages of families with incomes higher than $75,000, starting with the Class of 2015.
Since December, China has banned roughly 16,000 websites based on the claim that they were of pornographic nature, according to the Shanghai Daily and official reports, as part of an effort to impose more stringent restrictions on online content.
Google has just released a service poised to challenge Facebook and Twitter’s supremacy over social media. It opens in Gmail, integrates directly with your contacts and launches you into a Google-sponsored world of social media feeds, followers and comments. It’s a fusion of the Twitterverse and Facebook’s newsfeed. And yet, in some fundamental ways, it’s totally new and different.
A sense of adventure, commitment to service and willingness to sacrifice corporate salaries are all characteristics that might come to mind when imagining the typical applicant to public-interest jobs. But data show that there is another trait the majority of these applicants share: a pair of X chromosomes.
With a Ph.D. in history from the University, a master’s degree in real estate finance from New York University and a book nearing publication, Sharon Rodgers GS ’08 is not your typical personal trainer. In fact, you’d be more inclined to believe that she works in Dickinson Hall than at Stephens Fitness Center in Dillon Gymnasium.
Michael Steele, chair of the Republican National Committee, spoke about the Republican Party and its relationship with black Americans in a conversation with Eddie Glaude, chair of the Center for African American Studies, on Monday.
The decrease in alcohol-related transports by Princeton Borough Police during pickups weekend this year featured prominently in Borough Police Chief Robert Dudeck’s monthly crime report, which he presented at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday evening.
In 74 countries around the world, Peace Corps volunteers support local development while promoting America’s image. Helping to lead the charge is a pack of tigers.
A Nassau Street mailbox has secured its place in the FBI’s books. Last Friday, the Amerithrax Task Force issued its final report on the 2001 anthrax scare last Friday, closing an investigation that lasted more than eight years. The task force, which included FBI special agents, U.S. postal inspectors and other law enforcement officials, alleged that Bruce Ivins committed the bioterrorist attacks.
Raising five children has taught Bill Dwight ’84 that lecturing kids about money is futile. So the computer science concentrator from Palo Alto, Calif. decided to devise a more interactive approach. He is now the CEO of FamZoo, a money management and education website that he launched as a subscription-based service last month after working on it for five years.
In a classroom of sleep-deprived undergraduates, Pat Donohue stands out. Donohue, who taught middle school for 34 years in New York, is one of the roughly 550 community auditors this semester.
Jake Nebel ’13 and David Chen ’13 have fairly typical part-time jobs for college students, but they don’t have typical commutes. Driving to weekend tournaments — like most assistant high school debate coaches — would be pretty difficult, considering that Nebel coaches for The Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, and Chen works for Palos Verdes High School near Los Angeles.
When a friend of Josh Miller ’12 was killed in a drive-by shooting his sophomore year of high school, Miller knew he wanted to do something — but he had no clue that the project would carry on into his years at Princeton.
For Princeton students with close connections to those affected, the aftershocks of the recent earthquake in Chile continue days later.
Borough Police charged four local teenagers last week in the theft of students’ laptops and iPods from Tiger Inn, Terrace Club and Frist Campus Center.
For 15 minutes on Wednesday evening, a crowd of 150 people gathered in Labyrinth Books to listen to a phone call.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, an inmate on Pennsylvania’s death row, spoke on the phone with African-American studies and religion professor Cornel West GS ‘80 and sociology professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly.
As chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner ’82 is normally a member of the audience as attorneys argue their cases in front of him. But on Wednesday afternoon, he was doing the talking when he delivered a lecture, called “The New Jersey Supreme Court: A Perspective from the Bench,” in Dodds Auditorium.
More than two years after it was first created, the Alcohol Coalition Committee’s (ACC) mission — to address high risk drinking on campus — is the same.
Director of Campus Life Initiatives Amy Campbell, the ACC co-chair, said, “High-risk drinking crosses all boundaries ... It doesn’t matter whether you’re a member of an eating club or participate in a fraternity or sorority or are in a residential college ... It’s a particular behavior we’re focused on.”
A team of academics and Wall Street economists — including Peter Hooper ’69 of Deutsche Bank and economics professor Mark Watson — have developed a new financial index which they unveiled at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum conference in New York City on Feb. 26.
The new index reveals that the economic recovery might not be as strong as some financial indicators suggest.
Mitch Daniels ’71, the popular Indiana governor who handily won reelection in 2008, has sparked speculation that he may run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, with recent comments that backtracked from earlier claims that he was not considering a run.
Students, professors and unions across 32 states organized protests and rallies on Thursday in response to recent budget cuts in public university systems.
With its move to a new office space at 36 University Place from its former accommodations on Nassau Street, the Office of Career Services set out to form closer connections with students.
Much of American military policy is terrorism, 81-year-old linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky argued before a crowd of roughly 450 audience members in McCosh 50 on Monday evening.
Graduating just eight months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with the economy in recession, Brian Danielewicz ’02 applied for 28 jobs through the Office of Career Services. “I landed four interviews and got zero job offers,” he recalled. Now an associate at US Renewables Group, a private equity fund, Danielewicz explained that he was able to use his personal network to locate additional opportunities and eventually secure his first job.
In the five years since the University implemented its new grading policy, no peer institution has adopted a similar policy, though this may change.
Stanford’s Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy has “been in dialogue” with Princeton administrators about its grading policies, according to a March 5 report in The Stanford Daily
The Robertson family announced on March 16 that it will use the nearly $60 million that it won in its landmark 2008 settlement with the University to establish a scholarship foundation for graduate students interested in government careers.
The Robertson Foundation for Government will fund fellows through graduate school, paying for tuition, room, board and research expenses.
When President Barack Obama signs a historic — albeit controversial — health care reform bill, he will complete a year-long legislative process and achieve the health care coverage expansion that has eluded many past presidents.
The Borough Council voted 5-1 to approve Reed Gusciora as the Borough’s new municipal prosecutor at its meeting on Tuesday. Gusciora will succeed Kenneth Lozier, who led the Borough’s unsuccessful prosecution of Charter Club for serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance in a trial last year.
The New Jersey legislature is considering a bill that would incorporate Princeton into one of New Jersey’s three innovation zones, which are designated geographic regions that offer tax bonuses and other benefits for local businesses within the zones. The bill would codify and make changes to the existing innovation zone program, which was established by an executive order issued in 2004.
Nick Karp ’84, who had sought the official endorsement of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization, withdrew from the Borough Council race last week. Karp was one of five candidates for the Democrats’ nomination, along with incumbent councilmen Andrew Koontz and Roger Martindell and challengers Jo Butler and Anne Neumann.
Three suspected New York City gang members led Borough police on a manhunt that lasted more than 12 hours, after one allegedly tried to cash a fake check on March 17, according to a police statement. Though two of the suspects were caught, a third remains at large.
Not all stuffed tigers that leave the U-Store end up forgotten in dorm rooms, collecting dust. One tiger, P.J., has explored the world, and has the Facebook album to prove it. As the mascot for Princeton Journeys — an alumni program combining education with travel — P.J. has been photographed with whale bones in Antarctica, waterfalls in Japan and the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru.
The Dinky train’s whistle could soon fall silent, ending a transportation tradition stretching back to the mid-19th century. The Princeton Borough and Township governments are considering a plan to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system.
Rep. Rush Holt — a Democrat who represents New Jersey’s 12th congressional district, which includes Princeton Borough and Princeton Township — will come up for reelection in November in what what is shaping up to be a difficult election cycle for Democrats nationwide. Though Holt won his 2008 election by 27 percentage points, the Republican Party’s likely challenger, Scott Sipprelle — who lives in Princeton Borough and set up his campaign headquarters on Alexander Road — poses a greater threat to take Holt’s seat than recent opponents, political analysts said.
In the wake of recent attention surrounding immigration reform laws, students at Princeton united to form DREAM Team, an organization dedicated to building support for immigration reform at the University. The group takes its name from the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bill currently before Congress that would enable children of illegal immigrants to earn permanent residency, provided that they earn a bachelor’s degree or serve in the armed forces for two years.
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New Jersey Transit has proposed cutting a weekday northbound train on the Northeast Corridor line that passes through Princeton Junction at 5:41 p.m. and collects passengers that take the 5:24 p.m. Dinky train from Princeton to Princeton Junction. The rush-hour train is one of four passing through Princeton Junction that is slated to be cut in May or June as part of a reduction in the state’s public transportation costs, following final approval later this month.
A 26-year-old Plainsboro resident drowned in the Delaware & Raritan Canal on Sunday afternoon after his canoe capsized directly south of campus.
Around 70 percent of the 1 million books that will eventually be included in the Google Books digital archive have already been digitized, University Librarian Karin Trainer said in an e-mail.
The initiative for digitization began in early 2007, when the University Library and Google agreed to a six-year contract to make less than one-tenth of the University’s 11 million holdings — which include manuscripts and periodicals as well as books — available online through Google Book Search.
The University’s Annual Giving fundraising campaign is making good progress toward its goals of raising $46 million and reaching a 60 percent participation rate among undergraduate alumni.
After working at a consulting company during his first year out of college, Michael Rudoy ’07 decided that he “wanted to do something more entrepreneurial.”
Talking with a representative of Live Nation, a major concert promoter, Rudoy learned that the company was looking to expand into online concerts. However, Rudoy explained, it “couldn’t figure out the best viewing environment for a concert.”
Princeton is the sixth most stressful college in the United States, according to The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.
The top five most stressful colleges are Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn, and Harvard, the website said.
When Matt Ristuccia ’75 first arrived on campus, he was not passionate about Princeton. And he didn’t care much about religion. But by the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with both — along with his future wife.
Now celebrating 25 years as the pastor of Westerly Road Church in Princeton Borough, Ristuccia reflected on his path to the ministry and his life since, an experience that he said has been deeply rewarding.
On April 16, 2006, Dan-el Padilla ’06 lost his relative anonymity. In a profile in The Wall Street Journal, readers across the campus — and around the world — read about his journey from homelessness and poverty to Latin salutatorian of the University. But Padilla’s arc was not just another rags-to-riches tale. The article also revealed that Padilla had entered the country without documentation. To the country, he was now an illegal immigrant, a term Padilla is loath to use.
The death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other Polish leaders in a plane crash on Saturday shocked University students, alumni and faculty members. Members of the University’s Polish community expressed apprehension about the future of the country.
Revenue for the Princeton University Press has risen by 19.4 percent as of last March, director Peter Dougherty said on Wednesday, putting the company on track for “the best year we have ever had financially.” Last February, revenue at the publisher was down 7–8 percent from the previous year.
The New Jersey Transit Board of Directors approved plans on Wednesday to raise fares and limit some services. Rail fares will increase by 25 percent as part of the new fare plan, which will take effect May 1.
Few artists make it to The New Yorker, but Henry Martin ’48 did nearly one better and started his career there.
Sixty years later, the prolific cartoonist has donated nearly 700 original drawings to the University, adding to a collection of Martin originals that already numbered in the thousands.
In his new book “Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” which was released on Tuesday, Peter Elkind ’80 profiles Eliot Spitzer ’81.
The University’s property tax payments to Princeton Borough and Princeton Township are expected to decrease in 2011. Borough Councilman David Goldfarb estimated that, assuming budgets hold constant for the next year, the University will pay $260,000 less in annual property taxes to the Borough and $191,000 less to the Township.
Walter Murphy, politics professor emeritus and a leading constitutional scholar, died of cancer on April 20 at age 80.
Every spring, Princetonians return in droves for their 25th reunion, donning orange-and-black class jackets, to reunite with classmates, march in the P-Rade and sing “Old Nassau.” But the highest-profile member of the Class of 1985 — First Lady Michelle Obama — will not join her classmates.
The Residences at Palmer Square will be the first new housing development in Princeton Borough in decades. But the majority of faculty and graduate students seeking off-campus housing will be priced out of the development’s 17 townhomes and 83 condominiums.
While many of his peers spend their time behind desks, Robert Marshall ’13 will be spending his summer tending a herd of cattle, renovating a cabin and working at an auto shop. Elizabeth Hopke ’10 will be working for her local county Parks and Recreation department in Williamsburg, Va., where she has worked every summer since she was 12 years old, and Brian Lesh ’12 will apprentice for an acoustic instrument shop learning to make basic repairs.
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano two weeks ago spewed clouds of ash 11,000 meters into the atmosphere above northern Europe, rendering trans-Atlantic air travel impossible for a week.
The largest peacetime disruption to air travel in history, the explosion cost the aviation industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Some members of the University community were among the passengers whose travel plans were disrupted by the roughly 100,000 cancelled flights.
An e-mail written by Stephanie Grace ’07 has sparked controversy across the country for suggesting that intelligence directly correlates with race.
As a freshman, Ravi Sangisetty ’03 did not strike friends as a natural candidate for Congress. Now he has tossed his hat into the ring as the sole Democrat in the race for Louisiana’s third congressional district and one of a handful of alumni running for Congress as first-time politicians.
When the U.S. men’s soccer team conducts its training camp in Princeton later this month to prepare for this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa, students will have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the squad.
Elena Kagan ’81 got drunk on election night in 1980. Standing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music with her vodka and tonic, she watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept.
Three decades later, Kagan is the first female solicitor general of the United States and one of the leading candidates for President Barack Obama’s nomination to fill the seat of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who is due to retire when the court’s term ends this summer.
Jennifer Cannistra ’01 wrote background memos as a health policy analyst in the White House’s Office of Health Reform.
After three decades in journalism, Douglas Pike ’71 has decided to embark on a different path. He announced his candidacy to represent Pennsylvania’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives on April 8, 2009.
After graduating with a law degree from New York University and co-founding an international consulting firm — OC Global Partners, LLC — Christopher Cox ’01 has set his sights on a different career: congressman.
The grandson of former president Richard Nixon, Cox is running in the Republican primary this September and hopes to represent New York’s first congressional district, on eastern Long Island.
The town of Princeton may be best known as home to the University, but a store just off of Nassau Street has garnered fame of its own. The Princeton Record Exchange, a local icon since Barry Weisfeld founded the shop in 1980, was rated the top record store in the country by GQ magazine in 2009.
Jenny Jin ’13 stopped by Twist last Monday to celebrate the end of classes, while Haley White ’12 went for a year’s-end gathering of the Pace Council for Civic Values. But they didn’t choose the Nassau Street shop just for its frozen yogurt: They were also boycotting, in reverse.
As part of a Carrotmob — a mob of people providing the incentivizing carrot of patronage — they were supporting Twist’s promise to spend 100 percent of that night’s revenue on environmentally friendly investments in the store.
In 1980, best-selling nonfiction writer Michael Lewis ’82 and his friend were almost arrested by Borough police for speeding in a golf cart. Driving down Washington Road in the middle of the night, Lewis and his friend aimed for the boat house, speeding so quickly that police cars couldn’t keep up — until they hit an uphill turn on Faculty Road. The two were caught by police officers and Public Safety and were assigned odd jobs on campus as punishment.
Though he left the University’s physics laboratory 12 years ago, Rush Holt’s connection to Princeton is still critical in his new career — as a congressman.
Employees of the University constitute his top group of campaign contributors, and students have been summer interns at his office. With a potentially contentious reelection campaign shaping up for 2010, Holt would benefit from further support from members of the University. Over his political career, he said, there have been “students and faculty and staff very involved in my campaigns as volunteers, canvassers and advisers.”
Several students used the summer to get their feet wet in the moviemaking industry, getting a front-row seat to the acting, marketing and behind-the-scenes wrangling that goes into every film.
Diane Kathryn Weeks ’75, an attorney from nearby Mendham known for her civic engagement and love for the University, passed away Sept. 6. She was 57 years old.
At many office buildings, mid-afternoon lethargy is fought with trips from the cubicle to the coffee maker. At Google, Joshua Newman ’11 learned, the battle is waged with Nerf guns.
When Nick Frey ’09 began building a bamboo bicycle for a group project in 2008, the professional cyclist thought he was channeling his passion into schoolwork. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was also launching a second career as a bicycle designer.
The New Jersey Department of Education announced on Monday its plans for allocating $268 million in federal education funds to school districts across the state, including $12 million for those in Mercer County.
Brandishing a number of large crowbars, Chip Crider GS ’79 criticized a recent proposal by Princeton Borough and Princeton Township to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system. “A BRT won’t work in Princeton because we don’t have the space for it and we don’t have the demand for it,” he said, using the crowbars to represent large transit systems like the BRT.
As the working group on campus social and residential life prepares to examine the role of fraternities and sororities on campus, the Cornell University administration has mandated a major overhaul of the school’s Greek system.
Under Cornell’s new rules, announced in August, Greek organizations must eliminate all activities involving alcohol from their recruitment and pledging activities, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. The new provisions also toughen penalties for hazing and state that all parties with alcohol should be closed to freshmen.
University economics professors Elizabeth Bogan and Gregory Chow, along with more than 300 other economists, signed an open letter to Congress in support of an extension to the tax cuts implemented in 2001 and 2003 under President George W. Bush’s administration.
New Jersey Transit may begin offering wireless Internet access on trains and at rail stations, according to a statement released earlier this month. The state’s train system is currently soliciting proposals from wireless service providers.
Biophysicist John Dabiri ’01 was named a MacArthur Fellow on Tuesday, an honor that comes with a no-strings-attached “genius grant” of $500,000 over five years. Dabiri was reached in California just hours after the announcement and talked with The Daily Princetonian about swimming with the jellyfish, making new discoveries and finding inspiration at Princeton.
Huamanzana is a tiny Peruvian village located an hour’s bus ride from the nearest major city. It has a population of 140 and boasts a single two-room schoolhouse for 40 kids in first through sixth grade. But this village’s residents are equipped with a piece of modern technology one might not expect to find in a place of its size: cell phones.
Mimi Omiecinski, founder of Princeton Tour Company, is a self-proclaimed “Princeton wannabe.” “I’m not a historian, and I didn’t grow up in Princeton, and I don’t have an Ivy League education, but I love to gush about Princeton,” she said.
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The plan to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system appeared to face a major setback at Thursday night’s meeting of the Princeton Regional Planning Board, after residents voiced near-universal opposition to the plan.
Six of the 38 current members of the University Board of Trustees and three trustees emeritus have donated a total of $156,800 to the California gubernatorial campaign of Republican Meg Whitman ’77, according to campaign finance records made available online by the California Secretary of State.
NEW BRUNSWICK — Roughly 15 undergraduates rode the train one stop north on Sunday evening, where they joined several hundred Rutgers University students and community members for a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyler Clementi.
Richard Kahlen-berg has strong words for preferential admission of alumni children: “fundamentally un-American.”
“The revolution was fought in large measure to rid ourselves of aristocracy and inherited privilege, so each individual would rise or fall on her own merits in the United States,” said Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. “The notion of providing a leg up in admissions to a group of students who ... are fairly advantaged to begin with is profoundly unjust.” Kahlenberg attended Harvard for college and law school as a legacy student and is the author of four books about education, equal opportunity and civil rights.
The Princeton Township Police Department, which has jurisdiction over part of campus, has been taken over by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office amid a criminal investigation of the department’s leadership.
Princeton has made an unexpected appearance in Delaware’s Senate race.
Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, came under scrutiny in recent weeks when political opponents and media outlets said she falsely implied that she pursued a master’s degree at the University.
In a little over three weeks, Rep. Rush Holt will face off against Republican challenger and Princeton venture capitalist Scott Sipprelle in the midterm elections. Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, is the five-term Democratic congressman for New Jersey’s 12th district, which stretches across five counties and includes Princeton and part of Trenton.
Daphne Oz ’08 is writing her way out of the shadow cast by her television star father, Dr. Oz.
When Gregg Berman GS ’94 decided to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University, he did not expect to then spend 16 years working in finance. But the skills he gained as a physicist helped him as he played a critical role in two federal regulatory agencies’ investigation into one of the wildest stock price swings in recent years.
Arizona may have recently come under national scrutiny for passing a law cracking down on illegal immigration, but an initiative in Princeton that has the opposite effect has attracted its own share of controversy.
A large crowd gathered under the tents outside the Princeton Public Library on Sunday afternoon, where they cheered, applauded and sang a collective “Happy Birthday” to the library, which was celebrating its 100-year anniversary with a cake shaped like a stack of children’s books.
Students looking to purchase organic coffee, artisan cheese and fresh bread from the Greening Princeton Farmers Market, which used to take place in Firestone Plaza on Tuesdays, will be disappointed to find that it no longer exists.
During the fall semester of his senior year, J.D. Walters ’09 found his interest in graduate school waning. Faced by the high cost of further education and the poor employment prospects for Ph.D. graduates in philosophy and theology, Walters turned to the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation.
The State Department issued a travel alert Oct. 3 that warned U.S. citizens of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Ten days later, some of the 55 undergraduates studying abroad in Europe and European students on campus have said that the alert has not significantly impacted their plans.
A federal district judge’s order immediately halting the military’s enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy raises questions about the future status of the Princeton ROTC program.
For many Princeton students, the SAT is a distant, unpleasant memory. But Andy Kaier ’12 sees the test as a business. Kaier is one of several students who have channeled their experience as successful Ivy League applicants into jobs in the college testing and admission consulting industry.
Growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, Natasha Japanwala ’14 lived just a block from a street where homeless people slept in rows. And while living conditions on her street were more comfortable, safety threats made simple things like riding a bicycle alone in her neighborhood unimaginable.
Fantasy author Sarah Beth Durst ’96 distinctly remembers the first time she visited Princeton. “When you go down Washington Road with all the elm trees over it, it felt like I was coming to another world,” Durst said. “That passageway was a transformative experience.”
The day that their classmates received their diplomas, Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 and Jonathan Schwartz ’10 skidded down a Swedish mountain on high-performance sleds in pursuit of $1 million.
Roughly 110 University students are expected to be among the thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington for the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” on Saturday.
The Princeton-based National Organization for Marriage supported efforts to unseat three Iowa State Supreme Court justices in last week’s midterm elections. In a 2009 ruling, the justices voted to overturn a 1998 law specifying that marriage must be between a man and woman.
Two high-profile panels addressed a crowded East Pyne 010 at Friday’s DREAM Act symposium. Students and University community members sat in aisles and stood in the back of the auditorium as panelists talked about the plight of illegal immigrant children and the act’s potential impact.
For several hours Sunday afternoon at Campus Club, more than 200 University students ran obstacle courses, did arts and crafts, and told stories to children during a carnival at the annual Princeton Down Syndrome Conference. Around 150 people with Down syndrome from more than 100 families participated.
Around 150 students from all eight Ivy League schools gathered on campus this weekend to participate in the 11th Ivy Council Leadership Summit, titled “Advancing Leadership: Navigating the Post-Crash Climate.”
In focused discussions, students, including 30 from Princeton, explored various economic, social and political problems facing the world. Speakers addressed ideas such as leadership and the American Dream.
Wilson School professor Alan Krueger had never seen anything like it before: In February 2009, with the country still reeling from the biggest financial crisis in a generation, the government faced immense political pressure to pass major economic legislation.
Lahiere’s restaurant served its last meal Saturday, closing its doors after 91 years of operation on Witherspoon Street. Owners Joe and Jill Christen sold the restaurant’s building almost a month ago to investment group ML Seven Witherspoon, evoking nostalgia and disappointment from many community members who patronized the restaurant.
Continuing a months-long attempt to buy out the company, billionaire investor Carl Icahn ’57 announced five nominees for the board of directors of Lions Gate Entertainment on Friday. Former University president Harold Shapiro GS ’64, now an economics and Wilson School professor, was among the nominees.
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office believes Emann, Lt. Michael Henderson and Cpl. Arthur Villaruz illegally sold Township property, though it is unclear what exactly the county believes the officers sold. All three were removed from their positions on Oct. 1, and police operations have been overseen by the prosecutor’s office.
Members of the University’s Korean community said that they hoped North Korea’s recent attack on a South Korean island will not escalate into a greater conflict.
On Nov. 23, North Korea fired artillery shells at Yeonpyeong Island, prompting South Korea to return fire. During the hour-long exchange, two South Korean soldiers and two civilians were killed and 18 more people were injured. The island is located two miles from the Northern Limit Line, a maritime boundary that North Korea does not recognize.
Anthony Monaco ’81, pro-vice chancellor for planning and resources at University of Oxford, will become the 13th president of Tufts University in summer 2011, Tufts announced Tuesday.
Eric Salazar ’11 is slated to appear Saturday on a FOX television special about young adults who overcome adversity. Though depression never fully disappears, Salazar said that he now has a much better perspective on life.
Randall finished among the final four contestants on the CWTV show “America’s Next Top Model.” With no previous modeling experience, she worked with Tyra Banks and other renowned names in the fashion industry.
Following the highly publicized leak of classified U.S. diplomatic cables Sunday, University scholars have added their voices to the chorus of those saying that the release poses risks to American diplomacy efforts.
Members of the Princeton Borough Council discussed concerns about the Princeton public pool and bicyclist safety at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
While numerous Princeton students have experienced life abroad, Josh Shulman ’13 is one of the few who have written a book about it. Shulman, who is 25 and speaks four languages, published a 70-page guide to Japan, titled “All-You-Can Japan: Getting the Most Bang for Your Yen,” in November.
Chelsea Traynor, a 21-year-old Rutgers University student from Concord, Calif., was killed Thursday morning while riding her bicycle on the New Brunswick campus. Traynor was crossing an intersection when she was struck by a pickup truck driven by Roger Hoden, a 40-year-old man from South River, N.J.
As a sophomore at the University, Richard Bagger ’82 took the bus to Trenton to work as an entry-level legislative aide to a state assemblyman. After stints in law school, the state legislature and the corporate boardroom, he has become the top political aide in the state, serving as Gov. Chris Christie’s chief of staff.
Politics professor Robert George is involved in a dispute with Apple that could result in legal action. Two weeks ago, George coauthored a letter to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asking him to reinstate the Manhattan Declaration iPhone application, which the company removed following criticism that the app was anti-gay.
"If you want to work in film, why did you go to Princeton?” Sarah Curran ’02 was continually asked this question when she attended the Tribeca Film Festival as a student. Though she does not work in film today, Curran is one of hundreds of alumni working in the performing arts industry. After acting, teaching and earning a master’s degree in performance, she now holds a position at an arts programming office at Stanford University.
President Barack Obama’s recent tax deal with Republicans includes tax breaks that have supported higher education not just on the institutional level, but for tuition-paying families as well.
The number of Princeton applicants for Princeton in Latin America and Princeton in Africa decreased this year, while those for Princeton in Asia remained stable, according to the executive directors of the three programs.
Young college graduates should prepare to be the most entrepreneurial generation yet or face massive unemployment, according to Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a three-month-old board of more than 80 entrepreneurs that counts among its members former USG president Josh Weinstein ’09.
Alumnus Eric Schmidt ’76 has stepped down as CEO of Google. Schmidt’s departure will be rewarded with $100 million in stocks and options, and he is expected to retain 9.1 percent of Google’s voting power.
Leonard Milberg ’53 has contributed his third donation of prose written by Irish writers to the University. Milberg’s previous donations of poetry and theater materials were made in 1994 and 2006, respectively.
Former eBay CEO and Princeton alumna Meg Whitman ’77 has joined Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors.
Anti-government protests that have caused over 100 deaths during the past week are posing a serious threat to the five Princeton students currently studying abroad in Egypt.
Princeton appears to be an exception to the December findings of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council’s 15th annual “Small Business Survival Index,” which ranked New Jersey as the least hospitable state for small businesses. New Jersey ranks ahead of only the District of Columbia.
Princeton Township officials are criticizing the secrecy and the roughly $100,000 cost of a corruption probe that implicated the leadership of the Township police department and resulted in criminal charges against the chief. At the same time, officials are working to find a new chief and determine the makeup of the department in the future.
The Princeton board of education is currently facing a $2 million deficit in its operating budget and is examining ways to close the gap, including extending a six-year payment in lieu of taxes agreement with the University that is set to expire this year.
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Professor emeritus Milton Babbitt of the University’s music department passed away yesterday at the University Medical Center at Princeton at the age of 94.
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According to a release from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 38.7 percent of individuals in Mercer County, N.J., have a bachelor’s degree, in comparison with 34.14 percent in New Jersey overall. The national average for bachelor’s degrees is 27.53 percent.
At Tuesday night’s Borough Council meeting, resident Charles Crider GS ’79 made a public presentation requesting that the Council ask the University to fund a long-term study of the local community’s transit options.
Princeton Public Library patrons will soon be able to visit Firestone and other University libraries once a month. Announced on Monday, the Firestone Library Cards program will let Princeton Public Library members reserve passes for Firestone and other University libraries every month.
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