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From the West Wing to the Wilson School

From the West Wing to the Wilson School

Visiting Wilson School professor Josh Bolten ’76 sat at a table in Robertson Hall, in the high-ceiling Shultz Dining Hall with chandelier-style lights, sleek black chairs and glass-paneled walls — a far cry from the West Wing office he occupied until January 2009 as former U.S. president George W. Bush’s chief of staff.

NEWS | 10/18/2009

Seeing Double: Prince-twins

Many Princeton students wish they could be in two places at once, but twins Christine and Jennifer Schoppe ’10 have discovered the next best thing.

NEWS | 10/18/2009

Harvard loses $1.8 billion in cash from investments

Harvard lost $1.8 billion in cash by investing the money with the Harvard Management Company, the university released in a report last Friday.

NEWS | 10/18/2009

From taboo to tame: Interracial relationships at Princeton

Many students who date members of different races said that interracial relationships on campus are no longer as conspicuous or fraught with tension as they once were. But issues of culture and ethnicity can still be problematic, they added, noting that when cross-cultural misunderstandings occur, it is often the members of older generations, rather than the students themselves, who take issue.

NEWS | 10/15/2009

Bursting open the bubble

It was the end of a particularly “slow semester” in 1969 when Mier Ribalow ’70 and his roommates decided to turn the ongoing dialogue about coeducation at Princeton into a case study. Their ideas took shape as “Co-Ed Week,” an event held on Princeton’s campus from Feb. 9 through Feb. 14 of that year. Roughly 800 undergraduate women would be chosen from 30 women’s colleges scattered across the Atlantic seaboard to experience Princeton and attend classes as female students.

NEWS | 10/15/2009

Number of flu-like cases jumps to 409

There have been a total of 409 cases of influenza-like illness on campus since Aug. 30, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said Thursday evening. This figure represents a 57.3 percent increase from the figure released on Oct. 5.

NEWS | 10/15/2009

Undergrads flock to Wilcox and Wu, forgo Forbes

Last year, the Wilcox Dining Hall was a haven for students trying to escape the mealtime crowds. Since its recent renovation, though, the dining hall has become the newest hot spot on campus.

NEWS | 10/15/2009

Seven vie for 2013 presidency

It has been only 37 days since they arrived on campus, but already 21 freshmen have stepped up to lead the Class of 2013 through student government.

NEWS | 10/15/2009

When semesters follow trimesters

For a few undergraduates at Princeton, financial considerations include not just tuition and textbooks but also daycare; social worries involve not just obtaining Street passes but battling social stigmas against young mothers; and a balanced schedule juggles academics not just with extracurriculars but also with diaper changes and bedtime stories.

NEWS | 10/14/2009

Administration announces coed housing option

The University will offer a gender-neutral housing option for upperclass undergraduates for the first time during the 2010-11 academic year.

NEWS | 10/14/2009

Spurring sports without a budget

Princeton’s 17 varsity women’s athletics teams have earned Ivy League titles and All-American accolades, but when women first came to Princeton 40 years ago, Dillon Gymnasium did not even have a women’s locker room. The first female Tigers broke into intercollegiate athletics at Princeton largely thanks to the pioneering work of Merrily Baker, who started the women’s sports program following the advent of coeducation at the University in 1969.

NEWS | 10/14/2009

The beekeeper’s apprentices

This fall, the University has its first-ever beekeeping group, the Princeton BEE Team, which plans to offer free beginner lessons this spring. The team already cares for a large hive located at an old quarry site on University property.

NEWS | 10/14/2009

Students push for chastity center

A group of students, many of whom are Anscombe Society members, has stepped up its efforts to lobby the University to launch a Center for Abstinence and Chastity.

NEWS | 10/14/2009

Schmidt ’76 donates $25 million for technology fund

Google CEO Eric Schmidt ’76 donated $25 million toward the creation of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund, the University announced on Tuesday.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

News & Notes: Peek ’69 to resign from CIT at year’s end

As the CIT Group attempts to stave off bankruptcy, Jeffrey Peek ’69 will resign as the commercial lender’s CEO at the end of the year.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

News & Notes: Freshman hit by car on Washington Road

A male freshman was hit by a car on Tuesday while crossing Washington Road on his bicycle on his way back from sports training. He was not seriously injured.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

No squashing this ‘Critter’

Susan Craig was the only one of the Undergraduate Assembly officials in the room who didn’t shave before that day’s meeting in 1969. A model of resilience, the Undergraduate Assembly secretary who became Susan Scott ’70 was such a graceful pioneer for women at Princeton that perhaps even she failed to discern the lasting significance of her achievements.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

Viergutz ’01 eschews consulting career

Dina Viergutz ’01 came to Princeton with an already clear post-graduation plan: Go to New York to do “something very fast-paced” in the business world. Nowadays, though, Viergutz can be found during her workday sitting at the Koffie Salon in Amsterdam or traveling around the world promoting her new novel, “Another Faust.”

NEWS | 10/13/2009

Students raise almost $2,000 for storm relief

Though he’s lived in the United States for the past eight years, Anh Nguyen ’11 still keeps track of current events in his native Vietnam. So when he heard about recent tragedies in his home country, Nguyen quickly partnered with about 15 other volunteers to organize fundraising booths and raised $1,952.94 last week to help the victims of natural disasters in Southeast Asia.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

Walking the road unseen

It’s dinnertime in the Whitman dining hall, and Andrew Wai ’13 just had his prox swiped. Making regular sweeping motions with the thin white cane in his right hand, he navigates through a maze of circular and square tables on his way to the servery. Wai is blind. He has a rare condition called Leber’s congenital amaurosis, which causes the progressive degeneration of retinal photoreceptors.

NEWS | 10/13/2009

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