Few attend forum on Greek ban implementation
Around 20 students attended a forum held on Wednesday night that was intended to solicit student feedback on implementing the recent ban on freshman rush.
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Around 20 students attended a forum held on Wednesday night that was intended to solicit student feedback on implementing the recent ban on freshman rush.
Kyle Soloff ’11 and Ashley Higginson ’11 have spent most of their Friday and Saturday mornings this fall much the same way they have for the past four years: eagerly awaiting the sound of a gun to signal the start of a race.
Roundtable, a startup company co-founded by Princeton student Josh Miller, has been named one of Business Insider’s 20 most innovative tech startups of 2011, the online business journal announced on Nov. 8.
The implementation of the ban on freshman affiliation with a fraternity or sorority was furthered last week, as an online survey soliciting suggestions on how to administer the new policy was made available to students on Thursday.
In a fast-paced game that turned into a blowout in the final stages, the women’s basketball team opened its season with a 79-62 victory over St. Joseph’s. The Tigers suffered a tough overtime loss to the Hawks last year but got revenge thanks to a full-court press that forced 28 turnovers, paired with strong offensive performances from junior forwards Niveen Rasheed and Kate Miller.
When a team goes 24-5 overall and 13-1 in its league for a full season, it might seem that the most logical strategy would be to continue doing the same things. But the women’s basketball team acknowledges that its composition has changed significantly over the offseason, and the Tigers have spent the first few weeks of practice adjusting their style of play accordingly.
Cannon Club will be opening earlier than previously announced, according to updates made to its Facebook page and an email sent out to members of the Classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 early Monday morning.
In the fall of 1967, a team of “special scouts” from The Daily Princetonian and Tiger Magazine went on a trip to eight women’s liberal arts colleges along the East Coast. Their goal: “to select go-go girls for the 1967 ‘Prince’-Tiger Dance,” the ‘Prince’ reported in an article on Nov. 3 of that year. Below the text, the paper had printed the pictures of two of the top candidates — both from Connecticut College — along with self-submitted captions.
On each of the past two weekends, the men’s soccer team took a very early lead against a league opponent, reviving their hopes of finishing the season on a positive note and possibly even finishing the league season with a winning record.
When U.S. News & World Report released its latest college rankings in September, placing Princeton and Harvard atop the list, the annual storm of criticism of the ranking methodology once again appeared on blogs and op-ed pages all across the country.
After runoff elections concluded for all five positions of the freshman class government, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced the winners to the Class of 2015 via email on Friday.
To test an alternative theory explaining the 65-million-year-old mass extinction that led to the demise of the dinosaurs, Princeton University researchers developed a model that more accurately accounts for the Earth’s heterogeneities and offers different interpretations from previous models.
Super Mash Bros. will perform at the Orange and Black Ball, the class governments announced in emails to their classes on Sunday afternoon. The event, a revival of the all-campus Prince-Tiger Dance that used to take place annually during alumni weekend at the University throughout the mid-20th century, will be held on Friday, Nov. 11, at 11 p.m.
Struggling to accumulate momentum in a disappointing Ivy League season, head coach Jim Barlow ’91 made a number of changes to the men’s soccer team’s lineup on Saturday night at Harvard, hoping that different combinations of players on the field would yield a different result.
While there were many factors that contributed to the football team’s dismal showing in the 2010 season, injuries to a lot of top players on both the offensive and defensive sides is at or near the top of the list. Junior defensive lineman Caraun Reid — who sat out most of last year with a pectoral injury — knew this, and he could not take it.
In the wake of two series of changes made to its sexual misconduct policies in September, the University administration has asserted that its procedures are fully in line with the protocols enumerated in Title IX. However, adjunct professor at New England Law School and Title IX advocate Wendy Murphy — the lawyer who filed a complaint against Princeton last April — claims the school still has a long way to go.
For five brief minutes on Saturday night at Roberts Stadium, the men’s soccer team held onto the hope that it could turn its season around and contend for the Ivy League title. But when Columbia scored the go-ahead goal in the 89th minute of play, those hopes vanished just as quickly as they had come for a Princeton team that finds itself winless and tied with Harvard for last place in the conference.
While he was a senior at Northwestern University in 2000, Nick Ehrmann GS ’10 decided to apply for Teach for America out of what he called “a pretty abstract desire of wanting to do some good in the world.” In 2009, he turned that abstract desire into a reality by founding Blue Engine, an education fellowship program that seeks to combat college under-preparedness in low-income schools in New York City.
The freshman rush ban, which will be implemented beginning next fall, appears to have had no effect on this year’s sorority rush, with the three Panhellenic sororities at Princeton offering a very similar number of bids as they did last year.
Leading Brown 2-1 with just eight minutes remaining in the game, the men’s soccer team appeared poised to take its first Ivy League win and continue to turn its season around. But with two late goals, the Bears stole the victory and disrupted the momentum the Tigers were hoping to maintain after a 7-3 victory over Seton Hall.