Since August, students passing the University Art Museum after dark have been treated to a unique art display: a film of bizarre images, such as foxes, deer, bison and other animals in hotel rooms.
The 2010 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released last week, ranked the University eighth out of 141 colleges and universities nationwide. This is a significant improvement from its 2009 ranking of 61st.
Over the next 15 months, Firestone Library will transition from the Richardson classification system to the Library of Congress call number system — the first phase of a 10-year plan to the renovate the library. The reclassification project, which began over the summer, involves individually relabeling and reshelving the millions of volumes within Firestone.
The number of freshman and sophomore women who began sorority rush jumped to 210 this year, a 28 percent increase over last year.
A federal district judge’s order immediately halting the military’s enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy raises questions about the future status of the Princeton ROTC program.
During the fall semester of his senior year, J.D. Walters ’09 found his interest in graduate school waning. Faced by the high cost of further education and the poor employment prospects for Ph.D. graduates in philosophy and theology, Walters turned to the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation.
Elizabeth Cooper ’12 and Sam Borchard ’11 wanted to live together, just like other friends on campus. There was only one problem: Through last year, male and female students could not share a room.
The State Department issued a travel alert Oct. 3 that warned U.S. citizens of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Ten days later, some of the 55 undergraduates studying abroad in Europe and European students on campus have said that the alert has not significantly impacted their plans.
After a long and laudatory introduction by Wilson College Master Eduardo Cadava, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek tugged on the gray T-shirt he was wearing with blue jeans and told the audience that he was a “miserable presence.”
Students looking to purchase organic coffee, artisan cheese and fresh bread from the Greening Princeton Farmers Market, which used to take place in Firestone Plaza on Tuesdays, will be disappointed to find that it no longer exists.
The search committee for the next dean of the college held its only open meeting Monday evening in McCosh 28. Though the meeting’s purpose was to provide a forum for student feedback, only one student not on the committee attended. The committee hopes to name a successor to Nancy Malkiel — who announced in September that she will step down as dean at the end of the year — by the end of January, University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said. This would allow the incoming dean to work in collaboration with Malkiel and other administrators before officially assuming the post on July 1, 2011.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and a visiting professor in the Latin American studies and creative writing programs, argued that culture has withered in modern-day society in a speech on Monday evening in Richardson Auditorium.
Take a midnight snack run from Firestone Library to Wawa, and you’ll see a view of Princeton not featured in any campus architecture pamphlet: rooms filled with light, but void of people.
The USG issued a 29-page mid-year report Sunday night detailing the student government’s progress on key initiatives in academics, dining and social events, as well as its agenda for the upcoming semester.
The smell of dim sum filled the halls of the Fields Center on Sunday evening as hundreds of local students and community members celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Thanksgiving.
Arizona may have recently come under national scrutiny for passing a law cracking down on illegal immigration, but an initiative in Princeton that has the opposite effect has attracted its own share of controversy.
A large crowd gathered under the tents outside the Princeton Public Library on Sunday afternoon, where they cheered, applauded and sang a collective “Happy Birthday” to the library, which was celebrating its 100-year anniversary with a cake shaped like a stack of children’s books.
Twenty-seven candidates have entered the races for freshman class government positions, and voting is set to begin today at noon. But, there has again been some confusion in the run-up to voting.
Beginning in early November, University Health Services expects to offer testing for sexually transmitted infections at dramatically reduced rates.
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo on Friday, the news sparked international dialogue about the future of human rights in China.
