News & Notes: Princeton High School students stage walkout to support teachers' union
Hundreds of Princeton High School students supported teachers in a contract dispute by walking out of classon Thursday, according to the Times of Trenton.
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Hundreds of Princeton High School students supported teachers in a contract dispute by walking out of classon Thursday, according to the Times of Trenton.
Nyssa Emerson GS, a graduate student in the chemistry department, was struck by a 2008 Toyota Prius Wednesday night while crossing Washington Road, according to a press release published by the Princeton Police Department.
Harold Ekeh, a student at Elmont Memorial High School in Elmont, N.Y., was accepted to all eight Ivy League universities, as well as five other universities. He was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Michael Graves, a famous architect based in Princeton, died in his Princeton homeThursday. He was 80 years old.
The University of Pennsylvania’s men’s basketball head coach Jerome Allen has announced his resignation, which will go into effecton Tuesdaynight after Penn plays Princeton in its last game of the season, according to Ivy League Sports.
Cornell hosted the fourth Ivy League Vegan Conference, with over 300 anticipated visitors, this past weekend.
William Scheide ’36, a musician and philanthropist who died in November at the age of 100, bequeathed his rare books collection to the University, making it the largest gift in the University’s history.
In response to school-wide Title IX policy changes on the issues of sexual and gender-based harassment across the nation, Harvard banned its professors from having sexual relationships with undergraduates this week.
The Task Force on Sexual Assault at Brown University advised the administration to hire professional investigators to explore and help resolve student complaints of sexual assault and misconduct on campus in areport that was published inDecember, according to the Providence Journal.
When Ramona Romero took her first job and became the only Hispanic lawyer at a large law firm, she felt lost and isolated.
William H. Scheide ’36, philanthropist, scholar and noted Bach enthusiast, died on Friday in his Princeton home. He was 100 years old.
Journalism professor John McPhee ’53 is a highly acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author and has taught the popular “Creative Nonfiction” journalism class for 40 years. On Wednesday, he gave a public lecture in McCosh 50 in which he read from several of his writings on the University and the writing process. Before the reading, he spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his career.
The University is now looking to hire a three-year lecturer in Sanskrit to begin in fall 2015, according to its online employment postings.
A new sculpture suddenly appeared on Whitman College grounds this summer. While sculptures dominate the old portions of the campus — such as near Nassau Hall, East Pyne and Firestone Library — the installation of this sculpture was unusual because of its location in the Southern portion of campus and raised the question of how the University decides which sculptures to install and where.
The University’s stratospheric spacecraft project, SPIDER, is set to begin its 20-day orbit 110,000 feet above ground level in December.
Ramona Romero is the University’s new appointed general counsel, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced onWednesday morning. Romero has served as the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 2011.
An online petition to reintroduce Sanskrit into the University curriculum has 240 student signatures as of Monday morning. The petition was started byVidushi Sharma ’17 and began circulating on Sept. 18.
After seeing a significant increase in the use of study halls for classes such as economics, math, chemistry and physics, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning has designed a new tutoring system in order to meet the capacity of students who want help, and plans to implement these changes within the next two weeks, Director of the McGraw Center and Associate Dean of the College Lisa Herschbach explained.
The Princeton Big Sibs project, a program through which members of the Class of 2016 mentor low-income students at City Invincible charter school in Camden, N.J., has been discontinued because City Invincible did not have its charter renewed. Thiswas due to the fact that student test scores in the school were below those in the host district.
Seven hundred and twentyadmitted students attended the first session of Princeton Preview on Thursday, compared to 700 admitted students in attendance at the first session of Princeton Preview last year.