The implementation of the ban on freshman affiliation with a fraternity or sorority was furthered last week, as an online survey soliciting suggestions on how to administer the new policy was made available to students on Thursday.
Princeton released its third annual Sustainability Report on Nov. 9, confirming its progress in sustainable practices on campus, including a 2.6 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions from 2008 and a 13 percent decrease in water and landfill waste since 2006.
To appreciate the role that social media plays in the Arab Spring, London revolts or Occupy movements, we must first understand how larger media networks function and encourage civic participation, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, who spoke in a lecture Thursday night in Sherrerd Hall.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program.
“I remember sitting in class here,” Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 said as he sat down with creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates for an armchair discussion, “Writing Life,” in McCosh Hall 50 on Thursday. “It’s strange and exciting to be back and on stage.”
Politics professor emeritus Richard Falk rejected a debate challenge from Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz over a book titled “The Wandering Who?”, by Gilad Atzmon, after Falk endorsed the book and Dershowitz described it as “anti-Semitic.”
For most Princeton students, senior year is a hectic blur of job-hunting, thesis research and figuring out what life after graduation will look like. But alumna Suzanne Raga ’11 spent her last year at the University working on an e-book for music-loving tweens. Her book, titled “YOU ROCK! How to Be A STAR Student & Still Have FUN,” offers study tips for academic success and will “put the cool back in school,” according to its description. Raga spoke with staff writer Kathy Sun on Thursday about the writing process.
Last semester, Voices of Change founder Ari Satok ’14 made the quintessential freshman mistake: He showed up to the wrong class. Instead of going to the international news reporting class he had signed up for, Satok ended up in a radio journalism class by accident.
Yale law professors Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize winner, explored the polarization of America’s abortion debate on Thursday afternoon.
The University defines low-income students as those coming from households making $60,000 a year or less, a figure markedly greater than the 2009 national household median income of $49,777.
The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.
The USG Community Service Committee is revamping community service on campus with a new Campus Community Challenge, or 3C, initiative.
Molecular Biology professor Bonnie Bassler is the second Princeton recipient of the For Women in Science Award, which is presented by UNESCO and L’Oreal. President Shirley Tilghman was the University’s first recipient in 2002.
Andrew Blumenfeld ’13, who is running for a position on the La Canada Unified School District governing board, is 12 votes behind incumbent Jeanne Broberg as of Wednesday night in the election that took place on Tuesday.
A group of upperclassmen spanning all available campus eating plans has been gathering in Lockhart’s kitchen at 8:30 each morning from Tuesday to Friday to share their morning meal.
The Borough Council discussed the possibility of zoning the area where the train track currently lies as a rail-transit-use-only zone at a meeting on Tuesday night.
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.
