This year, 82 students from the freshman and sophomore classes received the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. The students were honored at a banquet held in the Garden Room of Prospect House on Sept. 27.
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of and quintessential persona behind Apple Inc. passed away on Wednesday at the age of 56.Jobs stepped down from his office as chief executive of Apple on Aug. 24 following a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer and a 2009 liver transplant.
Politics professor Robert George and economics professor Harvey Rosen traded anecdotes from their service in Washington D.C. at a panel discussion with 20 students in Lewis Library on Wednesday afternoon. The panel was organized by College Republicans President Brian Lipshutz ’12.
A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging the University’s proposed move of the Dinky station. The complaint, filed on Tuesday to the Superior Court of New Jersey in Trenton, challenges the University’s right to move the station. The complaint requests that the court permanently enjoin the University from moving the station.
The Borough Council voted 3-2 to approve the memorandum of understanding on the Dinky on Tuesday evening. If passed by the Township Committee, the memorandum of understanding would secure the community a right-of-way easement that would allow for a potential light rail system and would also promise to contribute funds to a study of the community’s long-term transit needs and a study of the community impacts of the University’s expansion.
New Jersey Governor and University ex-officio trustee Chris Christie officially ended months of relentless speculation about his presidential aspirations on Tuesday when he announced at a Trenton press conference that he would not be a Republican candidate for president in 2012.
Architect Maya Lin presented a lecture discussing her past and present projects at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday. Lin is most well known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
This fall marks the early stages of the spring 2011 policy change in the Program in Creative Writing, with enrollment in poetry, translation and screenwriting workshops no longer requiring applications for courses at the 201 level and below. But as the add/drop window closed only recently, it is still too early to fully assess many of the effects of the removal of the application process, according to program director Susan Wheeler.
Wokie Nwabueze was named as the University’s ombuds officer last week, the University announced in a recently distributed press release.
Princeton United Left, an organization started by Seongcheol Kim ’14, is a left-wing group currently seeking recognition from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. The organization, Kim said, is separate from the College Democrats and other campus organizations with similar political views. He described PUL as a broad-based left-wing political party on campus that operates outside of the existing political space while at the same time participating in campus-based actions.
Nearly seven years after it first began its capital campaign, Tiger Inn has nearly completed the first major renovation to the club’s facilities since it opened its doors in 1895. The expansion, which has increased the size of the building by over 5,000 square feet, will potentially accommodate around 50 new members.
In the spring of 2010, Carlyn Cook ’13, Teddy Eyster ’13 and the rest of the sophomore class had a decision to make about their eating plans for the following year. As Cook did not want to join an eating club, buy a residential college meal plan or become independent, her remaining option was to join a co-op — and Eyster opted to do the same.
Still short of its goal to recruit 75 to 100 upperclassmen to become social members this spring, Cannon Club will now be offering a discount to members of the Class of 2013 who decide to join the reopening club.
The Orange and Black Ball will return to the University this fall after an absence of more than over four decades, members of the junior and senior class governments confirmed. The ball will take place on Nov. 11, though the location has not yet been finalized.
A seven-member committee has been appointed to find a new dean for the University’s School of Architecture by the beginning of the next academic year.
Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering spoke about the need for diplomacy in addressing Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to a full audience in Robertson Hall on Monday night. The public lecture was titled “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Can Diplomacy Help?” and was co-sponsored by the Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security.
A former Princeton Club of New York payroll manager, 51-year-old Jo-Ann Garcia, filed a $10-million lawsuit against her former employer in early August, contending that she was dismissed from her job due to her age and race.
Total reported campus crime has reached its lowest levels in over a decade, according to annual crime data for 2010 released by the Department of Public Safety at the end of last week.Most significantly, judicial referrals — cases that are sent to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students — for on-campus alcohol offenses fell 73 percent in the last three years. Public Safety issued 33 judicial referrals related to alcohol in 2010, a substantial decline from the 120 issued in 2007. In all but two cases in 2010, the referrals resulted from an incident in a dormitory. The cause of the decline is unclear.
If Princeton residents vote to consolidate the Princeton Borough and Township this November, they can expect to receive aid from the state to cover 20 percent of the transition costs, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Friday. Christie also endorsed the consolidation measure and announced his support for pending legislation that would allow municipalities in the process of consolidation to spread their transition costs out over five years.
Both the number of students participating in fall Bicker and the overall numbers of students accepted to eating clubs declined significantly this year compared to last October. The decline was mostly due to the steep decrease in the number of students accepted to Cap & Gown Club, while the number of students gaining admission to Tower Club and Ivy Club increased slightly from last fall.
