The day after announcing that the Class of 2016 would include 136,431 students, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye defended her high school math education and refuted claims that her office had made any mistake.
While most consolidating municipalities remember to combine all town departments, Princeton Township and Princeton Borough “inadvertently” fired the staffs of both town trash collection departments.
The presidents of the four bicker and one “we-don’t-do-Bicker-but-we-want-to-be-cool-too” clubs have reneged on their plans to institute a multi-club Bicker system this spring, dozens of confused sophomores learned late Thursday night.
While most universities do not over-enroll their students, and while most universities decide to accomodate over-enrolled students, the University has decided to ask the 50 extra students in the Class of 2016 to not return next semester and instead take all their courses on Coursera, the new online learning platform.
Following up on the success of The Daily Princetonian’s ban on email interviews, the ‘Prince’ announced a new initiative Wednesday to obtain even more revealing information from sources: the ‘Huh?’ ‘Huh?’ nag.
Though the highest office of the University is closed to David Petraeus GS ’87, another hall is welcoming him with open arms: Terrace F. Club’s dining hall.
The management at Olives, the Greek deli on Witherspoon Street, doesn’t know what happened. Last year, the business was recording record profits as its popularity grew with University students and town residents alike. Now, it’s closing its doors.
Students looking to finance study abroad, thesis research and summer internships will now be able to look through one central database for University funding.
As the job market slowly recovers and hiring at financial institutions remains low, college newspapers are feeling the impact of decreased advertising from financial institutions.
Halfway through the first year of the ban forbidding freshmen from joining Greek organizations on campus, not one violation of the ban has been reported. Both students and administrators attribute the success of the ban to the severity of the punishment violators would face, a one-year suspension.
Representatives of the University and the newly-consolidated Princeton are set to renegotiate the terms of the University’s annual payment to the town’s budget sometime later this year. As a nonprofit entity, the University does not pay local taxes on property used for educational purposes but instead contributes a voluntary payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, to offset the impact of foregone property tax revenue.
University President Shirley Tilghman has received a petition from faculty members urging the University to divest its holdings in companies involved in the manufacture of firearms similar to those used in the Dec. 14 shooting Newtown, Conn. The petition has been sent to the Resources Committee for review.
University alumnus and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 announced on Sunday that his progressive television talk show, “Viewpoint,” is ending.
Over winter break, a man who allegedly made “terroristic threats” to a postdoctoral student in a University parking lot was banned from campus for 90 days by the Department of Public Safety. In addition, another man allegedly in possession of marijuana outside the Fields Center was arrested by Public Safety.
Railroad investor and Dinky devotee Henry Posner III ’77 recently renewed his interest in purchasing the Dinky line and keeping the station in its current location, according to The Times of Trenton. Publicity for the announcement comes on the heels of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton’s decision last month to allow the development of the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
The Wilson School raised well above its goal of $30,000 in its Fifth Annual Holiday Service Auction meant to benefit at-risk youth. The auction pulled in more than $39,000 for the Greater Donnelly Initiative, a Trenton-based non-profit that provides a safe space for youth who are at risk of gang violence, family troubles, homelessness, hunger and drugs.
While students were away over winter break, two momentous, long-awaited events ushered in a new age in both the town’s government history and in its relations with the University. The previously separate Borough and Township merged into a single municipality, and the local planning board approved the construction of the University’s long-awaited Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
As a nonprofit institution, the University does not pay municipal property tax on its land used for educational purposes. Despite this, the University paid $8 million in property taxes in 2012, making it the single largest taxpayer in town.
This past holiday season when students watched their relatives opening presents, they looked at more than just their faces to gauge their reactions, according to University psychology professor Alexander Todorov.
Lance Liverman, a former Princeton Township committeeman, has referred to consolidation as a rancorous family reunion — one with an uncle who is “rude and nasty,” and an aunt who is “too judgmental.”
