The University received 3,831 early action applications as of Nov. 15, a slight increase over the 3,810 applications submitted last year.
The University is expected to announce Monday whether it will allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer a meningitis vaccine not yet approved for use in the United States to the Princeton community. SevenUniversity-associated individualshave been hospitalized with the disease since March.
Donald DeZarn, the senior operations manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services,lost his bid for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate on Nov.
The government’s mass call tracking program violates fundamental civil liberties and rights to privacy, Catherine Crump, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project argued in a lecture on Thursday. Crump began the lecture with a simple question: “How many of you have cell phones?” Virtually every hand in the room shot up. “It used to be practically impossible for the government to track you without expending tremendous resources,” Crump added.
For some lucky undergraduates, fall break wasn’t a break from their courses, though it did involve zip-lining in Costa Rica and riding camels in Morocco.
With a number of school-wide events approaching, an email sent to students by the residential college directors of student life warned students to exercise caution over the weekendin light of the seventh case of meningitis associated with the University. The email, which had the subject “Alcohol and Meningitis,” advised students to prevent the spread of the disease by using their own cups, washing their hands frequently, using hand sanitizer and refraining from sharing drinking glasses, smoking materials or eating utensils. Alcohol consumption may put students at increased risk for spreading the bacteria that causes meningitis, the email warned. “The more you drink, the more your judgment may decrease about sharing objects that come into contact with the mouth, thereby increasing your risk of disease,” it read.
After receiving negative feedback from students last spring, instructors have restructured the lecture format of COS 226: Data Structures and Algorithms this fall.
Those questioning their sexual identity or searching for LGBT resources need not look further than their computer screens. The LGBT Center’s Outreach Chats Program, a service providing an anonymous online chat resource for students to communicate with trained peer educators, is now receiving regular business in its second year.
A single-stream recycling pilot program in 1939 and Edwards Halls was launched Monday through the collaborative efforts of Greening Princeton, a student group that promotes environmental sustainability, and University Building Services.
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One windy winter day, two freshmen decided they were tired of dining hall food and took a train to New Brunswick in search of gourmet sandwiches.
First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 recalled being told by her teachers at Whitney M.
“We lured a girl into the Large Hadron Collider.” “Herman Cain has already received a carefully groomed mustache.” "We tried to eat our spectacular students." These are just three examples of the randomly generated non sequiturs produced by What Would I Say, a website developed by seven Princeton graduate students during last weekend's HackPrinceton event.
The USG Senate and class governments could become two independent bodies if the Senate passes several amendments in its upcoming meetings. The proposed amendments were discussed and written jointly by the class governments and members of the Senate, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.
Current USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 is running for reelection unopposed, chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 announcedWednesdayin an email sent to the undergraduate student body by Jackson. “I’ve really enjoyed being USG president this past year, and I’m excited to serve in the position again,” Jackson said.
A restaurant that will be locatedin the Arts and Transit Neighborhood is attempting to obtain a liquor license, even though the state has already given away its maximum number of licenses to the town of Princeton. To get around the lack of available licenses, Raoul Momo, head of Terra Momo Restaurant Group, applied for a concessionaire’s permit, a special kind of permission granted to businesses that the state deems to be of public benefit.
The recent discovery of the Higgs boson, a previously only-theorized particle whose existence would validate the currently accepted model of why things have mass, has had enormous implications for physicists’ understanding of how particles acquire mass, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall explained in a public lecture on Monday evening.In March, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, identified a particle bearing the attributes of the proposed Higgs boson.Theoretical physicistsPeter Higgs and Francois Englert received the Nobel Prize in physics last month for their 1964 proposals of the particle.Randall explained that the discovery will pave the way for new research in particle physics.“It really was a spectacular discovery that gives us insight into the Standard Model of physics,” Randall said of the discovery.Randall began her lecture by showing the hall several pictures of the Eiffel Tower at different resolutions, providing an analogy about the importance of scaling in scientific inquiry as well as the need to examine phenomena at both a large and small scale.Randall emphasized the importance of small scaling in scientific examination and how crucial it was to the research being conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.When Higgs boson particles were discovered, scientists didn’t see the Higgs particles themselves, but rather the particles they decayed into, Randall explained.
The relationship between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney was much more contentious than is commonly believed, Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times, told a nearly filled Dodds Auditorium in a Tuesday evening lecture.
The Friends of the Princeton University Library have made a new acquisition for the Numismatic Collection: a set of coins issued by Egypt's Mamluk Sultanate, The Times of Trenton reported. The gift was bequeathed by the estate of Richard E.
Juniors and seniors undertaking their junior papers and theses will now receive additional guidance from the Office of the Dean of the College’s newly published Guides to Independent Work, the University announced last week.
