Nobody is going to argue that Ivy League schools aren’t exclusive. We all feel a sense of pride being here, precisely because it’s such a challenge to get to this point.
If I could sit my freshman self down at the dawn of my Princeton career, I’d have quite a few things to say.
Taking the rush hour train across Midtown always seemed to show me the best of the city. The indescribable odors.
I am a feminist, so the first words I spoke at a recent town hall meeting on the new sexual assault procedures were in praise of the University’s speedy response to the new Title IX regulations.
Coming into Princeton, I knew I wanted to get involved with community service. At the Activities Fair, I spent most of my time under the Pace Center for Civic Engagement tent.
The week we, the freshman class, marched through FitzRandolph Gate, we were bombarded with activities that initiated the four-year-long journey that will be our Princeton careers.
’Tis the season to be rejected. The acceptance emails and rowdy pickups have maxed out now as student organizations across campus take their pick of the deliciously talented cornucopia of applicants.
You would think the author of an essay titled “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” would get a chilly reception in a room of Princeton students.
College athletics in America faces a crisis. This past August, former NCAA basketball star Ed O’Bannon won a suit against the NCAA over the latter’s use of his likeness for commercial purposes.
As the University faces an investigation for possible violations of federal law under Title IX, it has directed some of its attention to the role of residential college advisers in new policy changes.
The University likes to say that it cares about its students’ welfare and concerns.
I found out what a precept was the day before classes were supposed to begin my freshman year. It was during a meeting with my academic adviser, finalizing courses, that the word first went into my ear.
Were you to stroll into Whig Hall last Thursday afternoon, you would have found a bevy of Princeton students debating with a former Yale professor.
In a recent opinion post in The New York Times, Anna Altman continues a recent trend, though certainly not a new phenomenon, of decrying tourists and tourism in general.
In 2007, Princeton alumnus Sir Gordon Wu ’58, the namesake of Wu Hall in Butler College, completed payments of $100 million that he pledged to the university in 1995, bringing his total lifetime donations to over $118 million.He gave this donation to support the School of Engineering and Applied Science, particularly to increase the number of endowed professorships, supporting renovations and construction, and to provide fellowships to graduate students.
When I opened the September issue of The Princeton Tory at breakfast this past week, I was met with the bold-print title “Plan Your Time At Princeton,” under which was placed a photograph of a man reading a very, very, very old book.
The University is finally taking steps to address a policy that should have been discussed and updated years ago: its policy and procedures on sexual misconduct, an umbrella term encompassing sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape.
“Princeton IS affordable.” “For more than three decades, we've considered students for admission to Princeton without concern over their families' ability to pay —and offered aid to cover 100 percent of each admitted student’s need.” “We … meet 100 percent of each admitted student’s financial need with generous aid packages.” These are just a few examples of how the University brags about its financial aid packages on its financial aid website. Princeton’s peer institutions all spew the same rhetoric.
On Sept. 10, The Daily Princetonian published a news article, "Student charged with drug possession at Princeton Stadium," about an undergraduate student who was arrested by the University's Department of Public Safety for allegedly being in possession of marijuana and psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, at the Princeton Stadium.
This past week, all members of the Class of 2017 received an email from the class council telling us about this year’s class gear.
