Students returning to campus this fall were greeted by an unfamiliar sight — 12 enormous animal heads, each 10 feet tall and cast in bronze, lined up along the Fountain of Freedom outside Robertson Hall.
The January consolidation between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township entered the final stage of the yearlong process on Wednesday evening as the Transition Task Force released the first draft of its final report on the merger at its meeting.
Faculty members nearing the end of their careers are pleased with the University’s retirement programs, so much so that the University’s work in faculty retirement earned the University a $100,000 grant from the American Council of Education.
A mystery in number theory that has puzzled mathematicians for the past three decades may have been solved last week by a Princeton alumnus.
Firestone Library is honoring former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, on the centennial of his election as President of the United States in 1912 with an exhibit in the library’s Milberg Gallery.The exhibition, titled “The Election for Woodrow Wilson’s America,” features photographs, love letters from Wilson to his wife Edith, political cartoons and campaign posters of Wilson during the 1912 election, when he defeated both incumbent President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Labyrinth Books has added additional security measures by its exit in response to inventory shrinkage — or the loss of products — at the store. To prevent future product loss, Labyrinth has hired a security guard stationed at the front of the store and installed an electronic gate at its entrance.
Firestone Library was evacuated at approximately 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday after a faulty sensor caused a fire alarm to ring in an elevator shaft.
At one of the nation’s most prestigious economic policy summits, economics professors Markus Brunnermeier and Yuliy Sannikov presented a paper this summer that argued that monetary policy can play a redistributive role in the economy during financial crises and stimulate growth.
As her former embassy in Yemen was stormed by protestors angered by an anti-Islam film, Barbara Bodine watched the chaos from the comfort of the Wilson School. Bodine, who served as the American ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001 as part of her 30 years in the Foreign Service, currently lectures at the Wilson School while leading the school’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.
The suspect in the alleged sexual assault on Sunday in 1939 Hall may have electronically recorded the incident, the Borough police confirmed on Tuesday. Both the alleged suspect and victim are University students. The police are consulting with the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office about whether to file charges in the case.
Thanks to a recent change made to Blackboard’s software, students can once again access syllabi for any course, regardless of whether they are officially enrolled in the class on SCORE.The syllabus tool on Blackboard was built to allow students to access syllabi for all courses. Students could in fact do this for many years, according to Dennis Hood, manager of courseware in the Office of Information Technology’s Academic Services department.
For the first time, undergraduates who live on campus will be able to vote at an on-campus polling place this November.After last fall’s vote to consolidate Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, the Mercer County Board of Elections redrew Princeton’s voting districts last December. Effective on Jan. 1, the new districting makes it possible for all undergraduate students to vote on campus.
The Borough Police is investigating a report of a sexual assault in Wilson College on Sunday afternoon. The incident, first reported to Public Safety at 4:35 p.m., was reported in 1939 Hall.
With Lawnparties over and the first full week of school underway, the USG is in the process of determining its plans for the upcoming semester. Current USG president Bruce Easop ’13, who won in a closely contested runoff in last year’s election, will spearhead a USG government that promised last spring to promote mental health awareness, better publicize academic information and reinforce connections among students around campus through a variety of media. Easop’s term ends at the beginning of the spring semester.
New blue-light telephone towers located around campus are the latest addition to the University’s emergency communications system. The new towers not only allow for direct communication between members of the University community and the Department of Public Safety during an emergency but also include speakers that can broadcast emergency messages all over campus.
A recent study funded by the Princeton-based Witherspoon Institute questioning the success of same-sex parenting has drawn scrutiny from gay rights activists and scholars.
A bill moving through the state legislature in Trenton may alter the relationship between private colleges and universities and local governments in New Jersey. In late June the State Senate passed a bill that would allow institutions like Princeton to pursue expansion and development without the approval of local government. The bill will take effect if it is passed by the House and receives the signature of Governor Chris Christie.
Joel Goldstein '75 is not particularly dependent upon the spotlight. His friends describe him variously as low-key, generous, modest and thoughtful, usually emphasizing his quiet and wry sense of humor. But during election years, Goldstein, a law professor at Saint Louis University, temporarily swaps his academic cap and gown for the garb of a political commentator. Goldstein is one of the nation’s leading experts on the vice presidency, making him a valuable go-to man for media outlets when, once every election cycle, they become obsessed over the question of who will be tapped as a vice presidential nominee by the leading campaigns.
As students struggle to break out of their summer sleeping habits and readjust to their new fall schedules, students from all over the world who are enrolled in online Princeton courses are attending lectures from the comfort of their own beds.
At a get-together in New York City a couple of years ago, a small group of Princeton alumni came to a number of conclusions about the University’s political climate. Liberal organizations didn’t have a big enough presence at Reunions, they decided. The political discussion had swung to the right, but Princeton alumni weren’t doing as much as they could to bring it back to the center, they thought. And in that room, Princeton Progressives was born.
