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With many students and staff going home or on trips over break, groups such as athletes; first-generation, low-income (FLI) students; and international students often remain on campus. As Thanksgiving break approaches, The Daily Princetonian spoke with students belonging to these groups about their experiences with meal plans when the University is not in session.
Since its establishment in 2006, the Office of Disability Services (ODS) has expanded its scope to serve Princeton students with disabilities and to provide resources through the AccessAbility Center. Liz Erickson, the director of accessibility and disability services, retired last month after working in the Office of Disability Services for 17 years.
Earlier this year, a proposal submitted to the University’s Faculty Committee was approved, changing Princeton’s terminology from “certificates” to “minors” to match the vernacular of other higher institutions. Despite this change, the preservation of both existing certificate programs and the University’s plans to gradually offer more minor programs have caused a variety of reactions among students.
The men’s football team (4–3 overall, 3–1 Ivy League) will take on Dartmouth (3–4 overall, 2–2 Ivy League) on Friday evening in their fifth Ivy League matchup of the season. The Tigers will take on the Big Green at 7 p.m. in Hanover, N.H., with streaming available via ESPNU.
The Daily Princetonian’s analysis of Google Trends revealed which University professors have the highest public profile. The ‘Prince’ uses a scale of a professor’s public profile which uses their Google search results over the past 13 years, scaled to the average number of searches for President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 in the same period of time, colloquially known as Bosworth scores. For example, a faculty member with a Bosworth score of five has been searched an average of five times as much as Eisgruber has over the course of the past 13 years. Many of the faculty members have more prominent namesakes, making it difficult to disentangle their Google search results. Data writers break down interesting correlations with Bosworth scores.
Tennis balls, ping-pong balls, and beer cans found lodged in plumbing systems contributed to a backup in Holder and Henry Halls earlier this week, causing a lingering sewage smell, according to residents.
Correction: This piece has been updated to clarify Princeton’s taxed and untaxed contributions to the town and county, and the fact that it has not acquired a significant amount of new land in recent years. The ‘Prince’ regrets these errors.
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Nonprofit organizations, including Princeton, must fill out the Form 990 – a tax form detailing finances for everything from total investment income to the highest-paid employees. The Daily Princetonian analyzed the University’s public tax records in search of intriguing data. Records include contributions to government organizations, assistance with financing homes for employees, and payroll of big-name professors. Through further comparisons of Princeton's finances to the 990s of peer institutions Harvard and Yale, we explored how Princeton distributes its substantial budget — from the roughly $400,000 spent on lobbying to the over $250 million earmarked for financial aid.
A performance by Princeton’s Glee Club was interrupted on Saturday, when a Harvard student impersonating a Princeton alum was dragged off the stage.
Last Tuesday, Oct. 24, students and administrators embarked on the first of three lighting safety walks scheduled for this semester to assess the state of campus lighting.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Just two blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building, and nearly three years later, Larry Giberson ’23 was sentenced to two months of incarceration, six months of home detention, and $2000 in fines by D.C. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols for his involvement in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cost of Travel for Princetonians
At 1 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, cars once again thundered over Washington Road Bridge.
Every April, stress abounds throughout campus as freshman BSE and sophomore AB students face the deadline to declare their concentration. They struggle to pick the right department to fit their individual scholarly needs. Yet this stress is unnecessary: career professionals regularly tell college students that their majors do not affect their employment prospects, and alumni from universities around the country increasingly regret their choices in hindsight. So why do Princeton students agonize over this seemingly meaningless decision? More importantly, why does the University require concentrations at all?
With students from 140 countries and all 50 states, Princeton’s student body hails from all corners of the globe. For many students, returning home may pose financial challenges. The University states within the ‘cost-of-Princeton’ breakdown that “the cost of transportation … may range between $300 and $5,000.” Princeton’s financial aid, however, does not specifically cover travel for returning home for all breaks, including Thanksgiving break. The Daily Princetonian broke down where the Class of 2027 lives and analyzed types of travel and prices to different locations.
Ten years after the creation of the Princeton and Slavery Project, recent events affecting the University and the state of New Jersey have renewed conversations surrounding the project, with a focus on exploring new possible applications.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many top universities, including Princeton, paused their standardized testing requirement because of difficulty accessing the test. However, even after the pandemic, many schools have permanently eliminated the requirement to submit a standardized testing score. Princeton has extended its test-optional policy through 2025 while it “assesses the role standardized testing should play in our admission process.” Advocates of a test-optional policy for college admissions claim that doing so increases socioeconomic diversity in incoming classes because lower-income students don’t have the same access to test prep resources that wealthier students do.
For senior Jalen Travis, football is just one of his many passions. Hailing from a town less than two miles away from where George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, advocacy and activism were central to his upbringing.