Students submitted competing business plans to judges on Saturday at the annual TigerLaunch Business Competition, which pitted prospective proprietors head-to-head on the stage of McCosh 10. Students entered submissions in one of two categories, business entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, each of which awarded a total of $10,000 to award winners.
The University awarded U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87 and former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach ’64 two of the highest alumni honors on Alumni Day on Saturday.
Petraeus, who currently serves as commander of the U.S. Central Command, received the James Madison Medal, the top honor awarded annually to a graduate alumnus. Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest distinction for an undergraduate alumnus.
On Saturday afternoon, Bollywood came to Princeton. Indian dance music resounded across Firestone Plaza as critically acclaimed Indian filmmaker Gautham Menon brought his crew to campus to shoot scenes for his upcoming film “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya,” or “Will You Come Down From the Sky?” in English.
In 2001, there were four female eating club presidents, but that number has slipped since. When Stephanie Burset '09 was deciding whether to run for Tower Club president, Savannah Sachs ’08 of Cloister Inn was the only female eating club president. Burset would go on to become the only female eating club president of her graduating class. This year, all 10 club presidents are men.
Caitlin Caldwell ’12 always dreamed of becoming a doctor. So when she learned she had been accepted to Brown University’s eight-year medical program, which includes both undergraduate and graduate education, she was ecstatic. But Princeton had offered her full financial aid. Without a credit history or a loan co-signer, the $2,000 annual cost she would have to cover at Brown made her decision easy: She came to Princeton.
Though the University dropped from 29th to 61st on the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card this year, the rates of STIs among students on campus are on par with those at other colleges and universities in the United States, based on the fall 2008 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) II and data provided by UHS to The Daily Princetonian.
Stereotypical images of Princeton students often include pastel lawn dresses, collared polo shirts and neatly pressed khakis. But one Princeton sophomore, featured nude on the cover of the first official issue of Diamond magazine, is challenging those stereotypes.
Only 13 students joined Colonial Club during the first round of sign-ins, a major drop-off from the 87 members who joined the club in the first round last year.
Over the first few days of Intersession, roughly 130 students participated in Inter-Action, an intensive three-day public service project sponsored by the Pace Center at no cost to participants. The program, which took place from Jan. 24 to 27, was funded by about half of the $90,000 fall Lawnparties fund, which was reallocated to the Pace Center by a USG referendum last spring.
A guitar valued at $1,500 was stolen from Charter Club before Intersession, the latest in a month-long string of thefts at the club, Charter President Justin Knutson ’11 said in an e-mail.
As the spring semester begins, several study abroad students — both those returning from fall semesters abroad and those going abroad in the spring — have said they had problems communicating with the Housing Department. Though these students said they received delayed or incomplete information regarding their new rooming assignments, administrators maintained that they communicate with students throughout the process.
Jenna Hauca ’11 was studying in Green Library when her pager went off. Within an hour, she had donned a firefighter’s uniform and put out a garage fire in Princeton Township.
On Sunday evening, Colonial Club picked up its smallest first-round class in at least a decade. With only 13 members joining, the club saw a drop of 74 from the previous year.
Raucous chanting, door-banging and shaving cream spraying have routinely ushered in the first Friday of the spring semester in recent years, as bicker clubs pick up new members from their dorm rooms.
The Princeton University Art Museum’s portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton went missing last night. But it was found within the hour, thanks to the detective work of roughly 45 undergraduates participating in the museum’s scavenger hunt Thursday evening.
With 219 bickering, Tower Club set a new record for the largest bicker class in the University’s history. The previous record of 217 was set by Tower in spring 2008.
Five intoxicated students were transported to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) last weekend, the Department of Public Safety reported.
The USG will sponsor a spring Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, after having donated its fall social budget to the Pace Center, USG social chair John Wetenhall ’11 said at the USG’s first meeting of the semester Sunday afternoon.
When Will Fisher '10 has a cookie, he skips the milk.
Fisher, like a few other students on campus, is a vegan. Vegans make up a mere 3 percent of the undergraduate population, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail. Though they do not consume meat, fish, poultry or animal products and by-products like eggs and dairy, students said that campus dining options — though limited — are still conducive to a vegan lifestyle.
All three campus co-ops — 2 Dickinson St. (2D), Brown Co-op and the International Food Co-op (IFC) — have already reached their membership limits for next year, with 48 members joining 2D and 28 each joining Brown and the IFC. Each co-op is instituting a waitlist.
The Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a debate Thursday evening over whether the Department of Public Safety’s sworn officers should be allowed to carry guns on campus.
Audience members voted 15-8 in favor of arming the officers. Roughly 30 to 40 people were present at the debate.
Snowball fights are fun, but if you want to stay warm and vent your frustration, try initiating a listserv war. While some students find these listserv battles — often begun when one student’s e-mail sparks an influx of “reply all” responses — amusing, others consider them burdens to their inboxes.
Attempt to enter Campus Club on a typical Saturday night and, chances are, you’ll be greeted by a stern-looking student asking to see your PUID.
Roughly 25 Native American undergraduates are currently enrolled at Princeton, according to a Univesity estimate. Because of its small size and the mixed ethnicities of Native American students, the Native American community on campus has had limited visibility in recent years, several Native American students said.
Four students traveling to South Padre Island, Texas, over winter break is nothing unusual. But instead of catching some sun, Haonan Zhou ’13, Atanas Petkov ’12, Jack Hutton ’13 and Daniel Minkin ’12 competed in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship.
Just four months after the Office of Information Technology (OIT) implemented printing quotas, printing has decreased by roughly 13 percent, saving the University roughly $27,000, OIT senior manager Leila Shahbender said.
As part of an effort to reach out to urban youth, undergraduates will travel to Trenton Central High School every other week to teach high school students about competitive debate. A subsidiary of the Whig-Cliosophic Society, the Princeton Trenton Debate Partnership — led by Rush Doshi ’11 — will train students to debate topics that have been previously discussed at national debate competitions, such as government policies and moral questions.
Arab men holding machine guns stand in front of an image of Osama Bin Laden as a plane soars above them, in a collage hanging in the Bernstein Gallery in the basement of Robertson Hall. This piece of artwork is part of a new and controversial exhibit, “As the World Turns Then & Now,” which has been on display since Jan. 23.
Twenty-four seniors have been approved as candidates in the annual election for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT), the University confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The winner of this year’s race will join the 40-member Board of Trustees for a four-year term beginning on July 1.
Candidates were required to submit petitions signed by at least 50 members of the Class of 2010 by Monday night, and the Alumni Association completed verification of submissions on Thursday. This year’s applicant pool is smaller than last year’s pool of 30 seniors, which was the largest since 2004.
Only his close friends know that Marty Topol ’10 hunts.
“I don’t walk around campus in camo stuff, but if you get to know me, and you’re a friend of mine, then you would know it is something I like to do,” he said.
While student groups like the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) criticize hunting on moral grounds, hunters argue that their pastime can be ethical in certain circumstances.
Motivated by the recent attention highlighting the lack of female leadership on the Street, four former eating club presidents spoke on a panel on Friday about their experiences as women leaders in the male-dominated Street environment.
Former female club presidents noted that their decisions to run for office were not motivated by existing gender stereotypes.
For students looking to explore their inner artists, several residential colleges offer free materials and facilities without the formality of an academic class.
Tucked away in the basement of 1938 Hall is one of these spaces, the Wilson College ceramics studio. Though it was mostly empty during its open hours on Sunday, the walls were lined with half-finished pieces, from thrown pots to chess pieces.
Though it offers free coffee and has been open since October, the Taproom Cafe is still struggling to lure students into its nook in the Campus Club basement.
The student group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS) plans to hold an event that will include screening clips from pornographic films and a discussion with a porn industry director or actor sometime this semester, LeTS president Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 said.
Hank Song ’11 participated in Charter Club’s initiations last February like any other new member. But while most sophomores celebrated alongside old friends and new acquaintances, he settled in for a shorter stint on the Street. Song, who said he always planned to leave Charter after a year, is one of several juniors who will leave their eating clubs to become independent as seniors.
Though members of Sigma Chi frequently get together on Thursday evenings, they usually don’t meet at the Princeton Public Library.
But last night, roughly 18 Princeton students — all Sigma Chi members — gathered for an alcohol education event known as the CHOICES program, which aims to educate students about the risks associated with excessive alcohol use through group discussions and self-reflection.
You won’t find Hilary Bergsieker GS at the Street on a Saturday night.
“As a student who came to Princeton already married and with a close set of friends,” she said, “I felt less pressure or motivation to go out and be social all the time than I did as a college freshman.”
Thursday through Saturday, students flock to the Princeton Garden Theatre on Nassau Street to enjoy the movies provided by the Undergraduate Film Organization (UFO). Last September, the UFO and the USG announced plans to move the UFO’s weekend movie program from the Frist Film/Performance Theatre to the Garden Theatre. After six months of strong attendance and positive feedback from students, USG members and students said the new program appears to be off to a strong start.
Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10, Josh Grehan ’10 and Aditya Panda ’10 are finalists in the Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) primary election, the Alumni Association announced on Tuesday afternoon. The three candidates will move on to the general election.
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11, president of Let's Talk Sex, said that an event planned by LeTS would primarily consist of remarks by feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino and would include “a brief showing of various film clips.”
The University’s Office of Transportation & Parking Services announced last Thursday that it is partnering with WeCar to offer car rentals to University students. The service competes with Zipcar, which offers the same service but is only for those over 21 years old.
As a junior at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., Jessica Rowland GS found out that she was pregnant.
“It was very nerve-wracking,” said the single mother, who is now a second-year graduate student in the molecular biology department. “I actually initially thought about dropping out of school.”
Tucked between the University postcards, U-Store promotions and credit card offers that normally fill their campus mailboxes, students will find a letter this March from the government: the 2010 census form.
Like many married couples, Lyra Plumer GS and Aaron Hostetter GS share hobbies. They discuss books, watch movies, cook meals and even play music together.
But most couples don’t invite a few dozen college students to accompany them.
The Anscombe Society and Pride Alliance formed an unlikely partnership on Thursday when they agreed to jointly protest a Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Students were allowed to observe the inner workings of the USG Projects Board on Thursday afternoon at Campus Club, as Projects Board members and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne explained how the board allocates funds to student organizations.
The price of birth control pills will increase at University Health Services after March 31 due to changes in pharmaceutical pricing in recent years.
Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky said that there was “some logistical confusion” in the University’s emergency notification response to the bomb threat that occurred on March 12, when asked about the incident at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
Nine rooms were selected by mixed-gender draw groups in the Spelman Halls room draw on Tuesday.
On the stage at McCarter Theatre, with his back to the rows of red chairs and his long braids swept into a loose knot on his head, 10-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin sang a stream of improvised sounds through his microphone. “Can you remember all that?” he asked, and the 40 students in a semicircle in front of him laughed.
Nonie Darwish, a controversial Egyptian-American activist and author, will speak in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber at 4:30 p.m. today. The lecture comes roughly four months after her previously scheduled talk at the University was cancelled following strong opposition from students and religious leaders.
Thomas Laboratory was evacuated following a small fire in the building on Tuesday morning. The fire, which took place in a washroom on the first floor, was contained within a small oven used to wash and dry glass lab equipment and was reported at 10:30 a.m.
Anyone taking a spin on ChatRoulette.com faces a risk of video voyeurism. Former USG president Josh Weinstein ’09, who is also the creator of GoodCrush.com, has launched a challenger in RandomDorm.com. RandomDorm’s twist is that only users with an e-mail address ending in “.edu” can join, restricting access to college students.
The coffee mugs of Wu-Wilcox dining hall are disappearing. Though the dining hall had 1,300 mugs in September, only 64 remained as of March 10, when Laurie Hebditch, the college administrator at Wilson College, sent an e-mail to Wilson students to notify them of the mug shortage. She warned students that they could return mugs without penalty for 48 hours, but would face disciplinary action if mugs or other dining hall service items were found during fire inspections after that point.
Last summer, Fareed Ben-Youssef ’09 crisscrossed Europe, attending film festivals on a postgraduation grant from the University and viewing more than 60 films in countries like France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Walter Snook ’13 has two hours of ROTC physical training each week but also exercises one-and-a-half to three hours per day on his own. “It’s a very good stress reliever,” he explained. “When you’re working out, you can let your mind go blank and let it wander to whatever you want to think about, especially if you’re doing something like running or long-distance — something peaceful.”
According to estimates provided by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, roughly 80 to 100 students voluntarily withdraw from the University each year for psychological difficulties or conditions requiring intensive off-campus treatment. Students cited a variety of reasons for taking time off from the University, such as mental stress linked to academics, substance abuse, physical health problems and deep-seated psychological issues. They noted that academic and social pressure on campus significantly impacted their decisions and also led to a certain degree of stigma upon their return to campus.
The apparent suicides of three Cornell undergraduates within one month have prompted discussion among Princeton students and health officials about the University’s own measures to address student mental-health issues.
University students now have access to what USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 called “the Swiss Army Knife of course-selection tools.” The Integrated Course Engine, or ICE 2.0, which was launched on Wednesday, allows users to access multiple sources of information related to class scheduling all on the same webpage.
Though her thesis is due in just four days, Alexis Rodda ’10 isn’t spending much time in her carrel in Firestone Library. Instead, the English major is working onstage at Richardson Auditorium, preparing to perform in an opera that she wrote and directed, and that is unrelated to her senior thesis.
When Ben Farkas ’10 lowered himself into Dillon Pool on Sunday morning, it was not to swim laps, but rather to embrace Christianity through baptism.
Along with Farkas, Natalie Kim ’12, Jinju Pottenger ’10, Victoria Tan ’11 and Carola Hernandez-Cappas ’11 also submerged themselves in the waters of Dillon Pool for the annual baptismal celebration on Easter Sunday, sponsored by Manna Christian Fellowship, Princeton Evangelical Fellowship and Princeton Faith and Action.
More than two years and 1,400 green handles later, dual-flush toilets have been installed in an estimated 95 percent of residence halls, facilities department administrators said.
The toilets, which use 1.6 gallons of water when their handles are pushed down but only 1.1 gallons when pushed up, were first installed in Feinberg and Edwards halls in 2008.
For Yevgeniy Leypunskiy ’11, the end of finals period will not signal a trip home. Instead, he will stay on campus for the summer to conduct independent work for his senior thesis.
“I’m a chemistry major, and almost all of us stay on campus the summer before senior year,” Leypunskiy said.
Unlike during the school year, when staying on campus means living in a dorm, a substantial contingent of students like Leypunskiy chooses to live off campus, citing cost and convenience.
Though less than two months old, a newly formed student organization, Global Zero, is already fully committed to fulfilling its mission of sparking grassroots activism and raising questions about nuclear disarmament.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that one in five college women is a victim of sexual assault. Yet few of these students choose to report incidents to their universities.
Book collecting is a common pastime — but rather than just gathering dust, books can earn University students thousands of dollars. The Friends of the Princeton University Library annually awards several undergraduates the Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is open to undergraduates who collect any item generally found in a library. Candidates for the prize submit an essay describing their collection, along with a bibliography listing of all its pieces.
On a warm Thursday night, Jeff Kreisler ’95 managed to elicit near-constant laughter from a crowd of roughly 60 people in McCosh 10 during an event dubbed “Comedy Against Evil,” sponsored by the College Democrats.
For eight hours on Thursday, students walking by the north lawn outside Frist Campus Center were greeted by a 16-foot wall made of wood and Styrofoam — a symbolic representation of the wall dividing the West Bank, which has sparked extensive disagreement and conflict.
Pamela Paul might be opposed to porn, but she is not “anti-sex” or a “prude.”
“Porn is not sex,” Paul said, but is “at root a negation of the human experience.” Drawing a comparison between Hostess cupcakes and homemade ones, she explained that because porn is “artificial,” it is “not as good” as actual sex.
Every year, the graduating class invites a star speaker to give a speech on Class Day, the day before Commencement. In recent years, seniors have learned who will address them before turning in their theses. But the identity of this year’s guest still remains a mystery.
For several students, the details of the room draw process have proved confusing due to unclear information provided by the Housing Department. Lisa DePaul, associate director for student housing, said in an e-mail that the majority of feedback she receives from students is positive.
The USG announced the candidates in the spring 2010 election on Monday morning. Only three races are contested in the election, in which students must elect class officers, U-Councilors and the USG social chair.
When Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10 needed career advice, standard campus resources like the Office of Career Services could offer her little help. Kiltz is part of a growing segment of University students who intend to pursue the performing arts professionally.
Students went to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for help with a class almost 1,000 times last semester. And 96 percent of those times, students said they would recommend the tutoring service to a friend, according to data collected by the McGraw Center.
For two weekends in April, the University attempts to achieve a viewbook-like perfection on campus to convince admitted students to join the incoming class. Princeton Preview weekends, which will take place April 15–17 and April 22–24 this year, offer prospective students, or prefrosh, the opportunity to experience life on campus and interact closely with current students — especially their hosts.
The number of candidates for the USG spring elections has nearly doubled after the filing deadline for three open positions was extended from Monday to Wednesday. Five candidates are running for Class of 2012 treasurer and for Class of 2013 vice president, and the number of candidates for the 10 U-Councilor openings jumped from nine to 22.
Cap & Gown Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, Terrace Club and Tower Club are all displaying rainbow flags outside in honor of LGBT Pride Week, which runs April 11–17.
A small fire on the second floor of Dod Hall drew a significant response from University and town emergency officials on Monday evening. Roughly 35 people were evacuated when a smoke alarm was triggered around 5:50 p.m. by a fire in a trash can.
Hazony and 13 other students tried to explain their religious beliefs “on one foot” to about 50 students who gathered in Murray-Dodge Hall for “Speed-Faithing” on Monday afternoon. The students delivered presentations as brief as two minutes long on nine different religious traditions, ranging from Sikhism to secular humanism. The event, hosted by the Religious Life Council as part of Religion Week, lasted roughly 90 minutes and offered students a chance to learn about others’ religions in an informal setting.
Class of 2013 vice president Gabrielle Cole ’13 was disqualified from her bid for reelection for two violations of the election rules, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2013 Wednesday morning. Since voting for the position had already begun at the time of the disqualification, a revote will be held next Monday.
For students who grew up in communities where religious life revolves around black churches, coming to Princeton meant leaving a central feature of their lives behind.
“Being from the South, in an environment in which blacks are the majority, my worship style — my cultural context in general — I feel is definitely underrepresented on campus,” Jonathan Ford ’12 explained.
The College Sustainability Report Card, an initiative of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, gave the University a B grade for sustainability in its 2010 report. Across the Ivy League, Yale, Harvard, Brown and Penn were each given an A-minus, Dartmouth received a B-plus, and Cornell and Columbia joined Princeton with B’s.
Trash turned into treasure when students made clothes out of garbage in celebration of the 40th annual Earth Day on Thursday.
“In the fashion world, caring for the environment has gotten more trendy,” explained Sarah Chen ’13, a member of both Greening Princeton and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, or SURGE. “It’s not a bad thing at all.”
When Eric Hagstrom ’13 arrived on campus, he had only shot a rifle “once or twice before in Boy Scouts,” he said. Yet two weeks ago, Hagstrom, who joined the club rifle team in September, traveled to Purdue University to take part in the Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship, which featured top clubs from across the country.
Stereotypes surrounding Princeton’s sororities and fraternities are not uncommon on a campus with an unusual and often hostile relationship to its Greek organizations.
When Chern Han Lim ’11 arrived on campus, adjusting to the American education routine of homework and class participation was jarring. At his high school in Malaysia, Lim had been on the British track, in which course grades were based almost solely on exams. “I wasn’t used to working hard. I could just afford to slack off the entire semester and cram before exams,” he explained.
Six years ago this spring, in a second-floor classroom in Frist Campus Center, there was a meeting that may have been the first of its kind. It was also the last.
The University had an estimated 80 percent response rate for the 2010 census among undergraduate and graduate students living in on-campus dormitories.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that all Division I student athletes must be tested for sickle cell trait, or sicklemia, effective at the start of the 2010-11 academic year, unless athletes show proof of a previous test or sign a waiver exempting themselves from the test.
Princeton students are willing to pay $20 for a ride to Quaker Bridge Mall, $10 for a club soda and $5 for a phat lady sandwich from Hoagie Haven. And through nowineed.com, a new website that officially launches today, they can get what they want.
Each Thursday evening, 45 Princeton students cloaked in black robes meet by candlelight and swear an oath of loyalty to a hooded figure known to them as Most Noble Archon.
“Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae habes et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo; et veni, sequere me.”
In October 2008, a Princeton freshman should have died.
During a reunion of Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni at a campus tailgate, a freshman pledge was made to consume dangerous amounts of Everclear. Later that day, the pledge was rushed to the University Medical Center at Princeton, where doctors found he had a blood alcohol level of 0.40.
“Can there be such a thing as sex-positive, meaningful porn?” prompted the blurb advertising the talk given by Tristan Taormino in McCosh 10 on Thursday. Taormino said yes, in a controversial USG-funded forum sponsored by the campus group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS).
Jake Sally ’12 was elected USG social chair and Peter Favoloro narrowly defeated incumbent Austin Hollimon for Class of 2012 treasurer in runoff elections, USG elections manager Tony Xiao ’12 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday. Stefan Kende and Kevin Mantel will face each other in a run-off for Class of 2013 vice president after garnering 113 and 70 votes, respectively, in a re-vote.
The Rockefeller-Mathey and Graduate College serveries will join the University’s trayless dining program in the fall of 2010, followed by Whitman College in 2011, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.
University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 presented the findings of the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, which he chaired, at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
Public Safety officers arrested a man visiting campus after he allegedly started a fight with a Princeton student and sprayed a fire extinguisher at him in Foulke Hall after Lawnparties on Sunday.
After more than a decade operating on the outskirts of campus, Outdoor Action has moved its offices to a more central location at Dillon Court West. OA will also move administratively under the purview of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, leaving the Princeton Blairstown Center after 14 years.
Eating club officials expressed mixed feelings about the report released this week by the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs. The report praised the clubs as distinctive and integral parts of students’ social lives at the University, but also offered suggestions ranging from the mundane, such as joint purchasing for waste removal, to a proposal to establish an eating club match system that would replace current Bicker and sign-in processes.
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The Sigma Alpha Epsilon national organization has completed an investigation of its Princeton chapter, concluding that members of the chapter deny that hazing took place as part of its pledge process, the organization announced in an April 27 statement on its website.
Stefan Kende won the runoff election for Class of 2013 vice president with 81 votes, 10 more than Kevin Mantel received, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2013 on Friday. Last Monday’s vote concluded three rounds of voting for the position.
As James Cole ’12 shook hands and slapped backs in the uproar of Ivy Club pickups, he thought of more than just the meals, parties and friends that his new home would offer: He remembered how his father, too, had been cheered on at Ivy pickups roughly three decades ago.
Roughly 60 students attended an open casting session at Nassau Inn on Saturday morning to audition for a new reality television show, which plans to shoot its pilot on the University’s campus this fall and document the Ivy League college lifestyle.
You can store it, donate it or take it home. But if you leave your bike locked to a rack for the summer, it won’t be there come fall.
Chaos Theory, a new hip-hop dance group, will arrive on the campus dance scene next fall. Started by Brian Jeong ’11, Seung Nam ’12 and Henry Moss ’12, the group was recently recognized by the University as a student organization.
Jeong is a member of diSiac, Moss is a member of BodyHype and Sympoh, and Nam is a member of Black Arts Company: Dance. Despite having danced for groups with different styles, the three saw a void on campus that a new hip-hop troupe could fill.
Janet Dickerson, the highly praised vice president for campus life whose decade at the University will come to a close this spring, disliked her first job in education.
Long before coming to Princeton, Dickerson began her career as a middle school English teacher. “I hated it,” she said. “The students weren’t ready to learn.”
When the last copy of this issue of The Daily Princetonian left the press at The Princeton Packet’s office on Witherspoon Street this morning, it marked the end of an era. Brian Smith, the production manager and only non-student currently employed by the ‘Prince,’ is leaving his position after 24 years of service.
Smith was hired from the Packet in 1986 to take over for the legendary Larry DuPraz, who had spent 40 years in various positions with the newspaper. After a six-month trial period, Smith began working full-time in what he called a very “hands-on” job.
With Denny Chin ’75 narrating, 13 students celebrated Constitution Day on Thursday afternoon by reenacting the historic 1942 trial of Minoru Yasu, who intentionally violated a curfew imposed upon Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Seven months after Charter Club became the only sign-in club to fill to capacity in first-round sign-ins, the club has decided to change the format of its sign-in system for this February, allowing sophomores to boost their chances of acceptance by attending club events.
If the lead drummer in the rock band You Hang Up, which played at Campus Club on Saturday, looked familiar, it’s probably because you’d grown up with him on your television for about six years. Best known as the snarky lead of the long-running sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” Frankie Muniz was a household name when he was still going through puberty. Now 24, Muniz has taken a step out of the limelight to play drums for the unsigned rock band You Hang Up.
The University announced the creation of a 13-member working group on campus residential and social life on Monday. President Shirley Tilghman charged the group with following up on the work of last year’s Task Force on the Relationship between the University and the Eating Clubs by soliciting opinions from diverse members of the University community.
The latest word on parties, study breaks and impromptu campus events will soon be at students’ fingertips — literally. This is the promise of two new smartphone applications, Fountainhop and Scoop, being launched by University students.
While interning with Rep. Jared Polis ’96 this summer, Samson Schatz ’13 wrote constituent letters, researched bills — and walked a dog. The dog, Gia, who Schatz described as “really cute,” belonged to the Colorado Democrat, one of two congressmen that Schatz worked for this summer.
The Office of Information Technology has not yet determined what caused Wednesday's unprecedented wireless network outage, which knocked out wireless Internet service Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to Steven Sather, associate chief information officer and director of support service for OIT.
Charter Club’s new weighted sign-in policy has garnered generally positive reactions from the campus community in the week since it was announced in The Daily Princetonian. But questions remain about how the logistical details of the system, which have yet to be finalized, will align with Charter’s goals.
A new USG nutrition initiative aims to raise awareness of healthy eating options by expanding the number of healthy selections and offering student discounts at the Food Gallery in Frist Campus Center beginning in November.
Based on research conducted in collaboration with a University professor, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new emergency contraceptive pill this summer that can prevent pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected sex, two days longer than is possible with the current leading alternative.
At the start of the academic year, the Office of Information Technology introduced a single cluster printing queue and deactivated location-specific printing queues in an effort to streamline campus printing. Less than a month later, though, students have reported technical problems ranging from lengthy printing delays to the new queue’s incompatibility with their laptop operating systems.
The University has reinstated Saturday meals at both Forbes and Whitman colleges, a year after it implemented a cost-saving initiative that left only one of the two dining halls open on Saturdays.
“A number of the cost-reduction initiatives exceeded our projections,” Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail, citing “the tray-free dining program and modifications to our purchasing program.”
Smartphone applications that cater to Princetonians, such as Fountainhop and Scoop, now have another competitor: MYMapp. MYMapp is an iPhone application created by Matthew Salesi ’11, Michele Capece ’11 and Yu-Han Hsu ’11. The application “grabs” all the events currently listed on Point and runs them through a process that accurately extracts information about each event’s location, Salesi said.
Many Princetonians know politics professor Robert George as a rigorous constitutional scholar and an influential Republican. But the Robert George who debated his close friend, religion and African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80, on Wednesday afternoon spoke as a committed Christian first and foremost, explaining that religion can and should strongly inform people’s actions.
The University should brace itself for a new wave of vegetarianism on campus, if Thursday night’s 75-35 vote against eating meat on ethical grounds is any indication.
Campus crime has declined across the board over the past year, according to the University’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2009 that was released Thursday.
Ivy, Tower and Cap & Gown clubs, the only eating clubs to conduct fall Bicker, accepted a total of 61 new members last week. Tower accepted 25 new members out of 47 students who bickered, Tower president Martin Scheeler ’11 said in an e-mail.
Auditions for performing arts groups are always competitive, but the heads of a cappella, dance and theater groups said that this was an especially tough year for freshmen.
Shere Khan was one of the most selective groups, admitting only one new member out of the 130 students who auditioned. Roaring 20 accepted four out of 120 auditioners. None of the five a cappella groups that spoke to The Daily Princetonian accepted more than seven new singers.
Twenty-seven candidates have entered the races for freshman class government positions, and voting is set to begin today at noon. But, there has again been some confusion in the run-up to voting.
Beginning in early November, University Health Services expects to offer testing for sexually transmitted infections at dramatically reduced rates.
The smell of dim sum filled the halls of the Fields Center on Sunday evening as hundreds of local students and community members celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Thanksgiving.
Take a midnight snack run from Firestone Library to Wawa, and you’ll see a view of Princeton not featured in any campus architecture pamphlet: rooms filled with light, but void of people.
The USG issued a 29-page mid-year report Sunday night detailing the student government’s progress on key initiatives in academics, dining and social events, as well as its agenda for the upcoming semester.
Elizabeth Cooper ’12 and Sam Borchard ’11 wanted to live together, just like other friends on campus. There was only one problem: Through last year, male and female students could not share a room.
On a campus filled with distinctive architecture, few buildings are as closely associated with Old Nassau as Blair Tower. Its archway hosts a cappella concerts, its cascading staircase appears in the film “Across the Universe,” and its famous cast-iron clock looms over the courtyard below.
University Health Services administered 4,976 flu vaccinations through its annual FluFest clinic. The number of vaccines administered this year is comparable to figures from previous years.
When Joshua Vandiver GS met Henry Velandia, his future husband, in 2006, he never imagined that he would be fighting to save him from deportation less than four years later.
For Pixar animation artist Sanjay Patel, finding a cross between his Hindu upbringing and love of art was an accident 30 years in the making. The product of his discovery is a modern, illustrated retelling of the ancient Hindu story “Ramayana.”
A campus fixture is receiving a much-needed face-lift. The 11-foot sculpture “Oval with Points,” located north of West College, is undergoing restorations scheduled to be completed this week.
Frist Campus Center gained a modest addition this summer: an herb garden on its south patio. The garden was planted at the beginning of the summer and provides herbs for Frist dining services. The University created the garden after dining staff expressed interest in incorporating fresh herbs into food served at Frist, sustainability manager Shana Weber said in an e-mail.
When John Burford ’12 pledged the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in 2008, he, like so many other freshmen, was seeking to redefine his identity. “I just wanted to see what it felt like to be a part of that crowd, to be part of the cool kids, the party people,” he said.
Terrace Club is considering accepting graduate students as full members beginning this sign-in period. The move would be a break from the policies of the other nine eating clubs, though it would fall in line with a policy Terrace abandoned earlier this decade.
Most freshmen are intimidated on their first night out on the Street. But the initial reaction of Han-wei Kantzer ’11 was a bit more visceral. “Freshman year, I was really appalled by the Street and the concept of the Street,” Kantzer said.
Artwork made of trash, including hats constructed out of used Capri Sun juice packets, were on display in the Chancellor Green rotunda as part of the Sustainability Open House held Wednesday afternoon.
Wilson College celebrated its 50th anniversary with a nearly five-hour celebration. More than 130 alumni, past and present faculty, and current students attended the event, which included an alumni panel discussion moderated by USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, a reception and welcome toast by President Shirley Tilghman, and a dinner featuring a keynote address by English professor emeritus John Fleming GS ’63.
USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 is attempting to become the first two-term USG president in 16 years. After defeating two juniors to win last year’s election as a sophomore, Yaroshefsky is now in the ironic position of facing a sophomore in order to retain his position. Running a classic reelection campaign, Yaroshefsky’s platform builds on his present work to address issues affecting students’ academic and social lives.
Polly Korbel ’13 has set out to defeat incumbent USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, who she says has been generally effective at leading the USG. The problem, she argues, is in the institution itself — a student group that is “fundamentally flawed” due to its isolation from the broader student body it is charged with representing.
Presidential and vice presidential candidates for this week’s USG election debated the proper direction of student government at Frist Campus Center on Sunday.
Due to a last-minute turn of events, the Sabra hummus referendum, which would ask Dining Services to provide an alternative hummus brand in retail locations, will not appear on this week’s USG elections ballot. It could instead be up for a vote next week, beginning Monday, Nov. 29, pending the submission of a new petition.
Beginning today, students will be able to register support, opposition or complete apathy toward the Sabra hummus referendum, which has been hotly debated on campus over the past two weeks.
Four years after early decision was abolished at Princeton, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye still sends out letters each winter to a select group of Princeton applicants effectively guaranteeing their admission.
Princeton finished last year with the 32nd best athletic program among Division I schools nationwide, 20 spots ahead of Cornell, its nearest Ivy League competitor, according to the annual ranking by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. But when it comes to selling Princeton to high school recruits, it is the U.S. News & World Report ranking that matters.
Tens of thousands of high school students apply to Princeton each year and are the focus of countless media reports and dinner-table conversations. But much less attention is paid to the 4 percent of Princeton undergraduates — roughly 50 students per class — who do not graduate within six years. Many of them arrived at the University only to find that the Princeton experience they imagined did not exist, and ultimately, they decided to leave.
Students who transfered cited an overarching culture of competition, along with more specific concerns such as the lack of academic support for athletes and the difficulty of training for a career in the arts.
Ask most Princeton students on campus about Sabra hummus and they will probably roll their eyes. Minor media firestorms and student apathy aside, though, there are students on campus who cared very deeply about the outcome of the Sabra hummus debate. And, with the final vote of 1,014 against the referendum and 699 in favor, in many ways, both sides seem to think they won.
In most of the races in this fall’s USG elections, challengers received two to three times fewer votes than winners. But some students missed election for USG positions by only a few votes.
Pace Center representatives delivered a breakdown of how the center used the USG’s spring 2009 donation of $90,000 at the USG meeting on Sunday evening. The meeting also included a recap of the USG-sponsored FrostFest event on Friday, along with updates about research on grade deflation and a possible electronic meal-exchange system, among other topics.
Elevators in Wu and Scully halls failed state inspections last month and were closed after testing showed minor problems with their hydraulic systems, inspection records show.
A sprinkler pipe burst in the basement of Fine Hall early Tuesday morning, spilling water across the basements of four buildings, disrupting classes and soaking library books and maps.
Though residential college advisers have had mixed responses to the on-call system put into effect last September, a record 256 students have applied for RCA positions for the upcoming academic year. Last year 241 students applied, and 234 applied in 2008.
The next time you are in trouble while traveling abroad, facing scams online or even stuck with a flat tire, the Department of Public Safety would like to help.
This is the sentiment the department hopes to convey to the campus community in public seminars in the upcoming year.
The total number of students placed into their first-choice eating club during the first round of sign-ins is almost 70 students higher than it was last year, according to data released to the club presidents by the Princeton Prospect Foundation on Saturday night. The significant increase is primarily the result of a dramatic rise in first-round sign-ins at Colonial Club. None of the clubs saw a drop in first-round interest, and a few saw modest increases.
Michael Bloomberg, the third-term mayor of New York, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on May 29, Class of 2011 president Alex Rosen announced in an e-mail to seniors Jan. 14.
While a restoration of high membership numbers may have returned one club to normalcy in first-round sign-ins, for two others, this year’s sign-ins were an experiment in breaking tradition.
Eleven students required medical transports this past weekend for excessive alcohol consumption. Between Friday morning and Sunday morning, Public Safety confirmed, three students were taken to McCosh Health Center and eight to the University Medical Center at Princeton. These numbers represent a significant increase from those of the corresponding weekend last year.
Final exam procrastination reached chart-topping levels in January when the University placed in the top 10 colleges using the trivia website Sporcle.com.
Despite the worldwide popularity of social networking websites, eating clubs have found little use for the services provided by sites such as Facebook or Twitter.
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