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Swearing the oath: Inside St. A's

Swearing the oath: Inside St. A's

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

Each Thursday evening, 45 Princeton students cloaked in black robes meet by candlelight and swear an oath of loyalty to a hooded figure known to them as Most Noble Archon.“Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae habes et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo; et veni, sequere me.”

NEWS | 04/28/2010

Average GPA is 3.0 at public universities, 3.3 at private schools

The average GPA is 3.0 at public universities but 3.3 at private institutions, according to the results of a survey of 160 American colleges and universities.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Adjusting to America

When Chern Han Lim ’11 arrived on campus, adjusting to the American education routine of homework and class participation was jarring. At his high school in Malaysia, Lim had been on the British track, in which course grades were based almost solely on exams. “I wasn’t used to working hard. I could just afford to slack off the entire semester and cram before exams,” he explained.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

The road less taken

While many of his peers spend their time behind desks, Robert Marshall ’13 will be spending his summer tending a herd of cattle, renovating a cabin and working at an auto shop. Elizabeth Hopke ’10 will be working for her local county Parks and Recreation department in Williamsburg, Va., where she has worked every summer since she was 12 years old, and Brian Lesh ’12 will apprentice for an acoustic instrument shop learning to make basic repairs.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Six years of silence: Shirley & the Greeks

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

Six years ago this spring, in a second-floor classroom in Frist Campus Center, there was a meeting that may have been the first of its kind. It was also the last.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Eighty percent respond to census

The University had an estimated 80 percent response rate for the 2010 census among undergraduate and graduate students living in on-campus dormitories.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Obama ’85 will not attend 25th reunion

Every spring, Princetonians return in droves for their 25th reunion, donning orange-and-black class jackets, to reunite with classmates, march in the P-Rade and sing “Old Nassau.” But the highest-profile member of the Class of 1985 — First Lady Michelle Obama — will not join her classmates.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

Karp ’10 named valedictorian

David Karp ’10 has been named this year’s valedictorian, and Marguerite Colson ’10 has been selected as Latin salutatorian, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at the faculty meeting on Monday.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

Rifle team boasts world-class athletes

When Eric Hagstrom ’13 arrived on campus, he had only shot a rifle “once or twice before in Boy Scouts,” he said. Yet two weeks ago, Hagstrom, who joined the club rifle team in September, traveled to Purdue University to take part in the Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship, which featured top clubs from across the country.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

Whiter & Wealthier: Who rushes and why

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

Stereotypes surrounding Princeton’s sororities and fraternities are not uncommon on a campus with an unusual and often hostile relationship to its Greek organizations.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

New luxury townhomes constructed in Palmer Square

The Residences at Palmer Square will be the first new housing development in Princeton Borough in decades. But the majority of faculty and graduate students seeking off-campus housing will be priced out of the development’s 17 townhomes and 83 condominiums.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

Two USG races to go to runoff vote today

The results of spring USG elections were announced Friday evening on the USG website. A number of candidates ran unopposed, though competition increased after the filing deadline was extended by two days for races with an insufficient number of candidates.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

Two USG races to go to runoff vote today

The results of spring USG elections were announced Friday evening on the USG website. A number of candidates ran unopposed, though competition increased after the filing deadline was extended by two days for races with an insufficient number of candidates.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

Students ‘Take Back the Night’

In her keynote speech at the “Take Back the Night” event on Friday night, Jaclyn Friedman — a feminist performer, author and activist who was raped in college — called on the audience to create a culture and community “where it’s outrageous to think that someone would commit sexual violence against another member of the community.”

NEWS | 04/25/2010

USG selects The Roots for Lawnparties

The Roots will headline next Sunday’s USG-sponsored Lawnparties concert, following an opening act by the student band Shape Machine, USG Social Chair John Wetenhall ’11 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

Eight members of Class of 2010 win Spirit of Princeton award

Eight seniors were awarded the 2010 Spirit of Princeton Award. From a pool of more than 90 nominees, Muhammad Jehangir Amjad, Sam Gulland, Reilly Kiernan, Jenni Newbury, Eric Plummer, Mariam Rahmani, Gabriel Rodriguez and Doug Sprankling were selected by a committee of students and administrators for their contributions to the undergraduate experience.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

In the Hot Seat: Hazing at Princeton

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

One night during the fall of his freshman year, John Burford ’12 found himself at the Show & Tel strip club on the south side of Philadelphia with six other Princeton freshmen. All seven were pledge brothers in Princeton’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and they had made the 45-mile trip south because Burford had specific instructions from the older brothers in the fraternity: Make a visit to “the hot seat.”

NEWS | 04/25/2010

An untraditional bat mitzvah

When enrolling in JDS 315/WOM 310: The Family in Jewish Tradition, Alexis Kleinman ’12 expected to learn about Judaism — and talk about sex — with psychosexual therapist and 1980s icon Dr. Ruth Westheimer. While the seminar delivered on both fronts, she also ended up with a bonus: a bat mitzvah.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

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