Young adults were a key constituency in the 2008 presidential election but seem to have lost their enthusiasm, according to results from a study by Harvard’s Institute of Politics released Thursday.
Luchi Mmegwa was elected Class of 2014 president following runoff elections earlier this week, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2014 on Friday evening.
When Joshua Vandiver GS met Henry Velandia, his future husband, in 2006, he never imagined that he would be fighting to save him from deportation less than four years later.
Before launching zandigo.com, founders Jeremy Johnson, Joseph Perla ’11 and Breanden Benneschott ’11 were shopping for a tent at a Boston sporting goods store. The four planned to sleep in a park while crashing a Harvard conference for admission officers, to whom they planned to pitch a website that allowed admission officers to access the profiles of high school students for a small fee.
Though students may still be bitter that the University placed second in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking of the top U.S. universities, Princeton barely eked into the top 100 on another ranking, placing behind institutions ranging from Bates College to College of the Holy Cross.
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer ’81 is back in the spotlight. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Harvard Club of New York City had rejected Spitzer’s application for membership.
Tiger Inn, Charter Club, Terrace Club and Cap & Gown Club all underwent renovations over the summer, from reupholstering to salvaging taprooms, which club presidents said they hoped would offer members benefits for years to come. While Terrace’s renovations are complete, projected end dates for construction at the other three clubs range from this December to next September.
Two years after winning a $100 million settlement from the University, the family of deceased donors Charles Robertson ’26 and his wife Marie has launched a new effort to prepare graduate students for work in government, partnering with public policy programs at four universities. The heirs’ new organization, the Robertson Foundation for Government, announced this month that the 11 students who will win its first scholarships were chosen from the University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Tufts University and the University of California, San Diego.
University Health Services administered 4,976 flu vaccinations through its annual FluFest clinic. The number of vaccines administered this year is comparable to figures from previous years.
After years of relying on a patchwork of services, international students and scholars now have a central office dedicated to their needs. Over the summer, the Davis International Center moved to a new home on Alexander Street.
Education reform must consider the student perspective in order to be successful, panelists agreed in a discussion on quality education, “We the People,” held in McCormick 101 on Tuesday afternoon. Robert Moses and African American studies professor Imani Perry, authors of the book “Quality of Education as a Constitutional Right,” were joined by Lauren Veasey of the Young People’s Project, an education reform organization.
On a campus filled with distinctive architecture, few buildings are as closely associated with Old Nassau as Blair Tower. Its archway hosts a cappella concerts, its cascading staircase appears in the film “Across the Universe,” and its famous cast-iron clock looms over the courtyard below.
For many Princeton students, the SAT is a distant, unpleasant memory. But Andy Kaier ’12 sees the test as a business. Kaier is one of several students who have channeled their experience as successful Ivy League applicants into jobs in the college testing and admission consulting industry.
For people like community member David Dorfman, running 5-kilometer races isn’t just about getting exercise or contributing to charity. Dorfman, who was diagnosed with lymphoma several years ago, said that for him and other people with serious illnesses, the races are a “visible sign of doing something” to fight their diseases. With that mindset, Dorfman finished his fourth 5K on campus this semester on Sunday at the Save a Child’s Heart race, which was sponsored by the Center for Jewish Life.
More than 40 leading speakers and 400 participants gathered to reflect on, reexamine and debate the controversies surrounding abortion at the “Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words” conference sponsored by the University Center for Human Values last weekend.
Biologists have long attempted to pinpoint why some traits exhibit greater variation than others. While they have known that traits essential for survival are less variable than traits like hair color, which have little to no effect on fitness, new research has demonstrated the importance of another factor: gene location.
As voter registration deadlines for the 2010 midterm election pass in states around the country, students must make a seemingly straightforward but impactful decision about where they want their votes to count.
Several dozen students lined up to get tickets at the Princeton Garden Theatre more than an hour before a free screening of “The Social Network” started at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of roughly 30 graduate students — representing the graduate student governments of all eight Ivy League universities and Massachusetts Institute of Technology — met in Robertson Hall to discuss important issues currently facing graduate students. Dressed in business casual attire, the students spent the weekend participating in seminars and social events as part of this year’s Ivy Summit.
Wilson School professor Alan Krueger will step down from his post as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy next month and return to the University. Krueger, who was nominated to the post in March 2009, is the latest of several economic officials in President Barack Obama’s administration to announce their resignations.
