Acceptance numbers for the Princeton in Spain and Princeton in Bermuda summer programs were released this week.
At Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting, the Council reviewed its proposed 2011 capital budget and a councilmember announced his support for an editorial requesting that the University publicly state that the Arts and Transit zoning ordinance decision will not affect its annual voluntary contribution to the Borough.The editorial, “Eliminate PILOT Doubts,” published in The Princeton Packet on Thursday, advises that the University “issue a statement that the payments in lieu of taxes are not tied to the zoning changes and that they will continue at the current amount or more well into the future.”
Rapper Wiz Khalifa will be performing at the USG-sponsored concert at Lawnparties on May 1.
U.S. Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey and actress and humanitarian Mia Farrow opened the International Relations Council's Distinguished Speaker's Series last Saturday with their talk titled "What Lies Ahead: Prospects for Peace in Sudan."
Jeremy Waldron, a New York University law professor and a professor of social and political theory at Oxford, delivered a lecture on “Sovereigns, Borders and Responsibility for the World” in Lewis Library on Monday.
Over 25 panelists from universities, nonprofit organizations and departments of the federal government gathered for “A Round Table on Deportations and National Security” on Monday in the Friend Center’s Convocation Room.
In light of Public Safety’s new policy of notifying the Princeton Borough Police of every alcohol-related transport request made on Prospect Avenue, eating club presidents have begun advising members on how to handle situations in which intoxicated students need assistance. While many clubs say they will still call for help if the situation demands it, they have strongly advised members to remember that the officers on duty should be the first line of help.
Kavita Ramdas GS ’88 spoke about gender justice in the global community before a largely female audience in Dodds Auditorium on Monday afternoon.
Registrar Polly Griffin said the University is working to make teaching evaluations accessible directly from the Course Offerings website starting in fall 2011 at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. Griffin added that students may be able to ask course-specific questions directed toward individual department representatives in the near future.
Earlier this month, anti-abortion literature circulating at Princeton Theological Seminary sparked a controversy after several students found the flyers, with slogans such as “Black Genocide in the 21st Century,” to be racially offensive.
Students from multiple universities gathered in the Fields Center on Saturday afternoon for “Hip Hop 2.0: The Price of an Era,” a symposium that addressed a number of issues surrounding the current state of hip-hop.
The University’s “In the Mix: Asian Pop Music” conference brought together 32 speakers from eight different countries alongside performers, music industry professionals and students from around the world on March 25 and 26.
Just days before tens of thousands of high school students worldwide find out if they were accepted to the University, The Princeton Review released the results of its annual “College Hopes and Worries” survey. Princeton was ranked the fourth most popular “dream” school for college applicants and third for parents.
Newly selected members of Project ALTA were announced at the USG Senate meeting held at the Department of Public Safety building at 200 Elm Drive on Sunday night.The members include USG vice president Catherine Ettman ’13, USG executive analyst Shyam Modi ’14, USG academics chair Steven Rosen ’13, Rafael Grinberg '12, Emily Levy ’13, Alexis Morin ’12 and Rebecca Scharfstein ’12. The project will be chaired by USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12.
Mathematician John Milnor GS ’54 has won the the 2011 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on March 23.
The Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a $80.3 million 2011-12 spending plan on Tuesday night.
The Korean American Students Association political board hosted a screening of the documentary “Hiding,” made by the humanitarian organization Liberty in North Korea, in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College on Thursday night. After the screening, North Korean defector Jinhae Jo recounted her experience escaping from North Korea to China and eventually to the United States.
The sound quality was poor, but the voice on the other end of the line was unmistakable: Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row inmate, author and cultural icon, was phoning in from Greene State Correctional Institution in Waynesburg, Pa., to speak about the harsh disconnect prisoners face from society.The phone call kicked off “Imprisonment of a Race,” an all-day conference aimed at examining mass incarceration and racial tensions in the justice system, which was cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and took place on Friday.
Wilson College announced that it was beginning a college listserv in an email to students on Wednesday.
Skipper, Dean Nancy Malkiel’s beloved miniature schnauzer and a campus icon, passed away from illness on Wednesday morning. She first joined the Malkiel family in October 2001 and has been a fixture in Malkiel’s West College office ever since.
