At one of its last meetings before Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consolidate, the Transition Task Force discussed a forthcoming report to be produced by Wilson School graduate students on the consolidation process.
The University will allow staff members to apply for up to five days of paid leave to volunteer with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University implemented a similar policy.
Princeton is not one of the four universities that have offered former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87 a position on its faculty, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Tuesday. Last week, The New York Times reported that he had offers from four schools, though it did not name the schools.
When Alejandro Zaera-Polo was appointed as the new dean of the School of Architecture in March, student reactions were mixed. An informal poll circulated among the school's graduate students in March found that only five of 58 respondents approved of Zaera-Polo's selection.
After spending a month on campus in 2000, New York Times opinion columnist and conservative commentator David Brooks returned to campus to deliver a lecture on the recent cultural shift. Reflecting on his original moniker “Organization Kid” in his 2001 article for The Atlantic magazine, Brooks believes this “achievement ethos” has only deepened since he left campus more than a decade ago. After his lecture, Brooks sat down with the ‘Prince’ to expand upon his cultural observations and how they might relate to Princeton.
The iron fence that bordered the north side of Prospect House for over a century and became a topic of Princeton folklore has been permanently taken down.
Last week’s USG winter elections marked the first elections cycle in recent history in which all committee leadership elections were uncontested. USG vice president Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 said the large number of uncontested races represents “a failing on the part of our administration.”
While MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Yale all made the top five in a new study ranking U.S. colleges according to their students’ cognitive abilities, Princeton ranked 39th, behind Bucknell and Northeastern. Some psychologists, however, are questioning the methods of the study that ranks Princeton poorly.
Philosophy concentrator and campus Greek life leader Jake Nebel ’13 will be named the University’s sole winner of the 2013 Marshall Scholarship.Nebel, who is also pursuing a certificate in Values and Public Life, has already been published in multiple academic journals as an undergraduate. He will use the scholarship to complete the equivalent of a two-year master's degree at the University of Oxford.
New York Times opinion columnist and conservative commentator David Brooks described a recent cultural shift from self-effacement to self-advancement and warned of its implications for national politics.
The Harvard student body passed a referendum last week calling for divestment from the fossil fuel industry, echoing the referendum passed by the Princeton student body last spring to invest its endowment in “socially responsible ways.”
Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s former chief regulator and the author of the award-winning “Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” highlighted the influence of default rules, or how existing norms and regulations can impact people’s behavior, in a lecture on Monday afternoon. Sunstein, now a professor at Harvard Law School, partially oversaw the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and financial regulatory reform during his time as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
In the first manifestation of the local government following consolidation, the newly elected, but still powerless, Princeton Council met on Monday afternoon in a preliminary meeting before it officially takes over on Jan. 1. The new council met in the former Township Hall, which was renamed the Princeton Municipal Complex during the consolidation process.
Penn plans to interview every applicant to the school by 2015 as part of a new interview program that will use Skype and phones to interview applicants that live in sparsely populated regions, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Even as the January consolidation of the Borough and the Township opens new possibilities for interaction between the town and gown, the University has no plans to change the size of its voluntary contribution to the local community under the new system. However, the mayor-elect of the new Princeton thinks the University should increase the size of the annual payment it will make to the consolidated town.
Few professors are surrounded by an air of admiration and controversy as much as sociology professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly.“I have a history of sort of getting myself into deep trouble as a part of my research,” she noted casually. Her neatly organized, well-lit office in Wallace Hall makes such troubles and misfortune seem far off, but a closer look at the photos and trinkets that line her walls tells a vastly different and dynamic story.
The new movie “Lincoln” tells the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to pass the 13th Amendment amidst the Civil War. But a recently published book written by a Princeton alumnus argues that Lincoln in fact caused the Civil War because he misunderstood the South.
Riding support from a Class of 2016 that voted for him by a two-to-one margin, Class of 2015 senator Shawon Jackson was elected USG president Saturday following a campaign period complicated and delayed by allegations of campaign violations. Jackson defeated USG social chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 by 86 votes, according to vote tallies released on Saturday morning. Jackson earned 51.9 percent of the vote.
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The last-minute attempt by one candidate for USG vice president to disqualify another has been canceled after sponsors of the appeal withdrew their support Friday evening. The series of events over Thanksgiving break delayed the release of all the results from the recent USG election, which will now be released Saturday morning.
