Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced on Wednesday that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program, the first year of the program’s reinstatement since it was canceled four years ago.
On Tuesday night, sociology professor Paul Starr and history professor Keith Wailoo gave an informal talk on the different perspectives of the current healthcare situation in America. Both professors presented introductions of their previous works on the topic and shared their insights on past, present and future issues involving American healthcare.
In two close votes cast on Tuesday, Borough residents elected Yina Moore ’79 as their next mayor and voted to merge with the Township into a single municipality, according to unofficial results.
Around 70 Harvard students walked out of their Economics 10 class last Wednesday afternoon to show solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City and to express their displeasure with the conservative “bias” they perceive in the class, which is taught by economist Gregory Mankiw ’80.
Voters reelected incumbent Democrats Bernard Miller and Sue Nemeth to the Township Committee. Miller received 2,739 votes, and Nemeth received 2,682.
Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the software company BRM, nonprofit company Snuneet and educational website Start Up Jerusalem, spoke about his experiences and plans as mayor of Jerusalem in a ticketed talk on Tuesday in Robertson Hall.
Democrats maintained their sizable majorities in both houses of the state legislature in quiet statewide elections Tuesday night, emerging victorious in a pair of vicious state Senate races in Atlantic and Bergen Counties.
Recently released campaign finance reports revealed that the campaigns of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Rush Holt paid $19,500 each to settle charges by a former election worker who claimed he was fired for hiring minorities.
In the fall of 1967, a team of “special scouts” from The Daily Princetonian and Tiger Magazine went on a trip to eight women’s liberal arts colleges along the East Coast. Their goal: “to select go-go girls for the 1967 ‘Prince’-Tiger Dance,” the ‘Prince’ reported in an article on Nov. 3 of that year. Below the text, the paper had printed the pictures of two of the top candidates — both from Connecticut College — along with self-submitted captions.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have spent the last 16 years trying to understand the process of magnetic reconnection, a natural phenomenon that occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy. In huge bodies such as the Sun and other stars, magnetic reconnection has a very high explosive power.
Cannon Club will be opening earlier than previously announced, according to updates made to its Facebook page and an email sent out to members of the Classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 early Monday morning.
University researchers have discovered new ways to pinpoint the amount of destruction that might be brought by a giant meteorite slamming into the Earth.
“The government has to play a smart investment role in expansion and economic recovery, or we’ll be facing a new normal,” said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, before a crowd of roughly 80 students, faculty and local residents yesterday in Dodd Auditorium.
Two alumni are launching an online service intended to provide college applicants with a more accurate method of assessing the quality of a particular institution and deciding which college is right for them.
Human-driven deforestation has been touted as one of the greatest threats facing wildlife and ecosystems worldwide. But a Princeton research team led by Carla Staver, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has suggested that the loss of savannas to forests as a result of human alteration of climate and landscapes is an equally serious issue.
Following a controversial change in policy, Bank of America has announced that it will be terminating its plans to charge a $5 monthly fee for using its debit card.
If Roy James has his way, Princeton will be host to a 9/11 memorial featuring steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center by Sept. 11, 2012.
The University has pledged to contribute to a study of the local community’s transit needs under an agreement with local government that went into effect on Tuesday. At a reception held in the Dinky waiting room, which the University has reopened under the agreement, officials from the University, Borough and Township celebrated the passage of their memorandum of understanding on transit negotiations.
University news and editorial services director Cass Cliatt ’96 will serve as vice president for college communications at Franklin & Marshall College starting Jan. 3, 2012, according to an Oct. 31 announcement by college president Daniel R. Porterfield.
Former New Jersey Governor and Wilson School visiting lecturer Jon Corzine resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive at MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Nov. 4 while the FBI conducts an ongoing investigation into $633 million of client money that is unaccounted for at the options and futures firm.
