As the Princeton football team prepares for its season opener against Lafayette, one of its players is preparing to be the first of a different sort.
A terrorist attack spurred the University to relocate Tyler Lawrence ’16 and Tori Rinker ’16 from their internships in Cairo, Egypt, in mid-July. "Out of an abundance of caution in the wake of an incident in Cairo, the students were relocated to Casablanca, Morocco, to continue their internship with the same organization.
A trophy wife. It’s a notion both archaic and shockingly sexist. It reduces a woman from human being to a possession, a glittery object a man can tote around for all to see.
Princeton ranked the second lowest among the Ivy League in athletic coaching salary disparities based on the team's gender, according to data gathered from the Office of Postsecondary Education for the 2013-2014 fiscal year.According to the Department of Education’s online Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool, the difference between average salaries for full time coaches of men’s teams and of women’s teams at Princeton is $16,817.Full time head coaches of men’s teams earn about $124,744 on average and full time head coaches of women’s teams earn about $107,927on average.The gender reported does not refer to the gender of the coach but rather that of the team.
Banghart wins Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year It seems Courtney Banghart has reached the top of the college basketball coaching world. On Tuesday, Banghart was named the Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year.
Former Princeton men’s squash coach Bob Callahan diedon Tuesday. He was 59. Callahan passed awaythis Tuesdayafter a long battle with brain cancer.
After being fired following a tumultuous and unsuccessful tenure as head coach of the New York Jets, Rex Ryan has pretty obviously been holing up at Princeton Stadium, about an hour south of his former team’s home stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. “I feel bad kicking him out, especially because he seems to think nobody’s noticed he’s there,” said Princeton football head coach Bob Surace ’90, who is arguably more likely to receive a head coaching position in the NFL than Ryan. Groundskeepers said they first became suspicious when they discovered a banner reading “Reappoint Ryan!” hanging from a flagpole in the stadium.
At its peak, over 300 students marched in protest along Prospect Avenue starting at midnight Tuesday morning chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot,“ “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter,” in what was probably the largest public protest at the University in recent years. The protest occurred the night before Thanksgiving break, a night known for students going out to the eating clubs — also located along Prospect Avenue — and partying before leaving campus for the rest of the week. The protest looped around both sides of the Street against the backdrop of a separate group of students that vied for entry into one of Princeton’s 11 eating clubs. The protests occurred hours after a grand jury ruled that Darren Wilson, a policeman from the suburbs of St.
University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 spoke about the University’s current standing of diversity at a lecture during "Coming Back," a conference hosted by the University to reconnect black alumni. More than 900 undergraduate and graduate alumni and guests registered for the third Coming Back conference this week — a record turnout according to Eisgruber.
When U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz ’92 set out on a bus tour last week, kickstarting the campaign for incumbent U.S.
China has been actively working to increase its global political hegemony but will find it hard to dislodge the United States as the de facto global leader, Geoff Dyer, Financial Times foreign policy correspondent, told the audience at Dodds Auditorium on Thursday.The vulnerability of American capitalism indicated by the 2008 financial crisis in particular suggested to the Chinese political and academic elite that a more hawkish approach to the competition between the United States and China might be in order, Dyer explained.
Recessions cause long-term decreases in fertility rates in the United States, according to a recent study done by researchers at the University. The team, led by co-authors Wilson School professor and director of the Center for Health and WellbeingJanet Currie and postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Health and WellbeingHannes Schwandt, analyzed 140 million U.S.
A new report published by The Iran Project on Sept.
The Daily Princetonian sat down with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman before his public lecture Monday titled “Learning from Europe.” He spoke about the European recovery, midterm elections, separation from the Universityand his favorite NPR Tiny Desk Concerts.
The Arabic Twittersphere shows deep-seeded opposition to outsiders' intervention in the Middle East, professors Amaney Jamal, Robert Keohane and Dustin Tingley and Ph.D.
A student originally in the Class of 2014 launched Seniors and Youth, a cross-generational Korean language program and nonprofit project that pairs a University student who studies Korean with a retired senior citizen in Yongsan Senior Welfare Center in South Korea for weekly 15-minute Skype conversations.
Republican Congressional nominee David Brat is not the first individual to have made the assertion that he was educated in Princeton – the town, that is – while remaining ambiguous about the exact institution that he attended. Brat, a little known economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, rose to prominence earlier this week after a surprise victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary.
Amid a backdrop of intense activism, a male Columbia student is retaliating in federal court against an internal disciplinary conviction of sexual assault. The student, who is only identified as John Doe in the suit filed Monday, alleges that Columbia administrators sought to make an example out of his case, that his rights under Title IX were violated and that administrators succumbed to external pressures from student activists in determining his guilt.
On Thursday, May 22, Princeton field hockey assistant coach David Williamson will participate in the fourth annual Unogwaja Challenge.
At the University, Bryan Bunch ’09 was one of the only open libertarians on campus. He was “not your stereotypical student,” one of his friends said. Bunch also never joined an eating club, instead opting to live and dine in Mathey College for all four years, in one of the first classes that allowed students to live in their residential college as upperclassmen.
