Civically engaged students interviewed for this article described Princeton as a campus where students organize lecture series and film screenings rather than protests and rallies.
Abiodun Azeez ’12 knew even before she arrived on campus last fall that she didn’t want to join an eating club. “I don’t think eating clubs are the place for me,” she said in an e-mail. “I guess part of it had to do with what I’d read about eating clubs — elitism, rich white kids —and I’m not elite, rich, or white.”
On the morning of April 14, 1978, 210 University students took over two floors of Nassau Hall for 27 hours, while 300 supporters gathered outside the iconic building. The students, led by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa, were protesting University holdings in corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.
Princeton students graduate with the least debt, on average, out of all college students in New Jersey, according to a recently released report on student debt nationwide.
Perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader ’55 is considering running in 2010 for the Senate.
Princeton is the third most expensive private nonprofit four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey, according to recent data compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In the fall of her sophomore year, Sarah ’10 received an e-mail from her sorority inviting her to an unusual gathering. Instead of advertising an upcoming semiformal or tailgate, this e-mail announced one of the sorority’s annual Bicker workshops.
Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said his department will seek more input before deciding whether to begin purchasing Fair Trade bananas, as recommended by a USG referendum passed last week.
Roughly 60 students campaigned on Monday against online comments posted on a Daily Princetonian article about the Dec. 5 fight at the Fields Center. The students spray-painted T-shirts with excerpts from some of the comments: “moves in packs,” “prone to violence” and “less deserving candidate.” Several students said they found the excerpts, which reference people involved in the fight, to be “racist” and “ignorant.”
Stanford University has accepted 13.5 percent of its early applicant pool, admitting 753 applicants to its Class of 2014 out of a pool of 5,566 early applications, the university announced Monday.
A team of Princeton researchers led by molecular biology professor Saeed Tavazoie has developed an algorithm to chart the genetic behavior of cancerous cells that will allow for more targeted cancer treatments.
During his junior year, Ted Price ’10 had trouble finding time for regular meals at Ivy Club, where he was a member. He was a distance runner on the track team, and he found himself spending large sums of money on food, beyond his Ivy membership dues.
On Monday morning, President Tilghman announced the creation of a new 19-member Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership at Princeton.
During her sophomore spring, Kaitlyn Hay ’10 wanted to join Charter Club, along with many of her friends. Despite the University’s financial aid programs, cost proved to be a barrier for her.
Just weeks after New York lawmakers defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage, supporters of gay marriage in New Jersey are pushing to get a similar bill passed by the State Senate in time to reach Gov. Jon Corzine before he leaves office next month.
Inspired by the actions of Jewish chaplaincies on other campuses across the country, Princeton’s Chabad House launched the “Giving Back at Formals” initiative by collecting more than 1,000 cans to construct a menorah, which was displayed outside Quadrangle Club during Winter Formals on Saturday. The cans will be delivered to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen this week.
Many people have watched the Olympic flame make its international journey on television, but in January, Derek Wu ’13 will actually get to carry the torch in the torch relay for the 2010 Games in Vancouver.
If SCORE enrollment is any indication, ENG 335: Children’s Literature is where the students will be. With an enrollment of 450 students, the course, to be taught by English professor William Gleason, is currently the largest planned for spring 2010. In addition to such classic children’s stories as Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” the lecture’s sample reading list includes J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.”
Two Princeton physics professors are leading a campaign for the withdrawal of the 2007 statement of the American Physical Society, which claims that the evidence for global warming represents an immediate national emergency.
Students who have already been fined for painting their dorm rooms this year will have those fines waived, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Thursday afternoon.
