Former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine suggested five key steps to revitalizing America’s social contract after the economic crisis in his closing keynote address for the 2010 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs.
With spring USG elections set to begin today, the USG had not yet complied as of midnight with the terms of a referendum passed last year requiring candidates to announce, “as a part of the official process of formally declaring one’s candidacy,” whether they will sign a pledge stating that they will not ask University administrators for recommendation letters.
In the summer before her freshman year, Rachel Blum ’11 received an envelope from the University. Buried among papers discussing health insurance and the Honor Code was the housing request form, which poses the first among many choices that students face about how they want to structure their social lives — whether or not they want to live in a substance-free dorm room.
Cap & Gown Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, Terrace Club and Tower Club are all displaying rainbow flags outside in honor of LGBT Pride Week, which runs April 11–17.
The university will offer roughly the same number of courses next semester as it did last fall, Registrar Polly Griffin said. The University offered only 706 courses last semester, compared to the 738 courses offered this spring.
For students like Adam Hesterberg ’11, the senior thesis — the culmination of four years of study at the University — will mark the beginning, rather than the end, of their academic careers.
The number of candidates for the USG spring elections has nearly doubled after the filing deadline for three open positions was extended from Monday to Wednesday. Five candidates are running for Class of 2012 treasurer and for Class of 2013 vice president, and the number of candidates for the 10 U-Councilor openings jumped from nine to 22.
With orange lanyards around their necks and maps sticking out of their pockets, roughly 630 admitted students have descended on campus for the first weekend of Princeton Preview.
For two weekends in April, the University attempts to achieve a viewbook-like perfection on campus to convince admitted students to join the incoming class. Princeton Preview weekends, which will take place April 15–17 and April 22–24 this year, offer prospective students, or prefrosh, the opportunity to experience life on campus and interact closely with current students — especially their hosts.
Revenue for the Princeton University Press has risen by 19.4 percent as of last March, director Peter Dougherty said on Wednesday, putting the company on track for “the best year we have ever had financially.” Last February, revenue at the publisher was down 7–8 percent from the previous year.
Students went to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for help with a class almost 1,000 times last semester. And 96 percent of those times, students said they would recommend the tutoring service to a friend, according to data collected by the McGraw Center.
At Princeton, seeing a professor’s name in a textbook assigned for a class is not unusual. But at other institutions, like George Mason University, professors who assign textbooks they have authored may encounter resentment.
The New Jersey Transit Board of Directors approved plans on Wednesday to raise fares and limit some services. Rail fares will increase by 25 percent as part of the new fare plan, which will take effect May 1.
The Office of Information Technology blocked roughly 25 iPads from the University’s network after the tablets caused network problems when trying to connect to the Internet, Steven Sather, OIT’s associate chief information officer and director of support services, said in an e-mail.
When Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10 needed career advice, standard campus resources like the Office of Career Services could offer her little help. Kiltz is part of a growing segment of University students who intend to pursue the performing arts professionally.
The average salary for full professors at Princeton rose a mere 0.4 percent to $181,000 this year, up from $180,300 last year, the American Association of University Professors announced in its annual report on Monday.
Even if you ace all the exams and papers, you can still fail a psychology course.As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department. Through their participation, undergraduates form the human subject pool for graduate students and faculty researchers. Undergraduate psychology majors are not allowed to use the subject pool for research because of size constraints.
A crowd of students and community members filled each seat in Friend Center 101 and spilled over to the floor on Tuesday afternoon to hear a speech by Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and 2004 presidential candidate.
On April 16, 2006, Dan-el Padilla ’06 lost his relative anonymity. In a profile in The Wall Street Journal, readers across the campus — and around the world — read about his journey from homelessness and poverty to Latin salutatorian of the University. But Padilla’s arc was not just another rags-to-riches tale. The article also revealed that Padilla had entered the country without documentation. To the country, he was now an illegal immigrant, a term Padilla is loath to use.
The death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other Polish leaders in a plane crash on Saturday shocked University students, alumni and faculty members. Members of the University’s Polish community expressed apprehension about the future of the country.
