While 35.7 percent of the Class of 2008 had secured jobs before graduating, only 29.6 percent of the Class of 2009 was able to do the same.
Late Wednesday night, a group of freshmen gathered in a Holder Hall lounge to celebrate the second weekly meeting of the Sleep Around Campus Klub. Gathered on a small couch in a pile of intertwined limbs, blankets and pillows, the members fought to get comfortable over a chorus of gossip, jokes and friendly banter.
Last-minute precept cancellations have been problematic for graduate students, who risk losing income and health insurance because they are teaching fewer sections. The cancellations have also been problematic for undergraduates: Many have had to drop courses because the remaining precepts no longer fit into their schedules, and all may face larger discussion sections.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said the United States should open lines of communication with countries in the Middle East during a lecture in Dodds Auditorium before an audience of roughly 150 people on Wednesday.
When Ashley Vinson ’14 goes to a store in Novi Sad, Serbia, she tries to explain what she’s looking for in Serbian, but the clerks usually try to respond in English.
On the fourth anniversary of the publication of his highly controversial cartoon featuring the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard stressed the importance of free speech to an audience of roughly 80 people on Wednesday as part of a panel in Whig Hall.
The Princeton Borough Police Department will adopt a “proactive approach” to drinking violations at eating clubs this fall, according to Borough Police Lt. David Dudeck’s testimony at the Borough Council meeting on Sept. 22.
Tower Club is the most expensive eating club on the Street, with annual membership fees totaling $8,260 this year, according to figures provided by members of all 10 eating clubs to The Daily Princetonian.
The value of the University’s endowment fell 22.7 percent in the last fiscal year, and administrators will be laying off staff members this year, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to the University community on Tuesday.
Eight undergraduates will serve on the 18-member task force established to review relationships between the University and the eating clubs.
The University raised a total of $210.4 million during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, compared to $234.7 million in the previous fiscal year, Vice President for Development Justin Harmon ’78 said in an e-mail on Tuesday.
Frist Campus Center’s Cafe Vivian began operating on a reduced schedule this fall as part of a series of changes being implemented by Dining Services to preserve core services and reduce the need for layoffs, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail.
As the University endeavors to cut spending across all academic and administrative units by an average of about 7.5 percent by the end of the next fiscal year, the University is also requiring Public Safety to take cost-saving measures, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel distributed a letter to the faculty outlining student concerns about the implementation of the grade deflation policy.
The nine-foot headless guardians of McCormick Hall have vanished. The collection of statues by 79-year-old Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz was taken down this summer.
Anita McLean has been appointed director of Counseling and Psychological Services in University Health Services, succeeding John Kolligian, who was named executive director of University Health Services in February.
Dear Members of the Faculty, As Princeton undergraduates, we are committed to holding ourselves to the highest academic standards.
Many alumni would probably say that Princeton became a part of them in one way or another. In the case of Bob Massie ’78, who received a new liver in July with the help of a few classmates, this metaphor could be interpreted a bit more literally.
Airport travelers save little time by using conveyor belts and are often outpaced by those who avoid them, according to a study by former University locomotion researcher Manoj Srinivasan.
Burglars entered several students’ rooms in the Main Inn of Forbes College late Tuesday morning, taking laptop computers, other electronic equipment and cash, according to a campus safety alert sent to the University community on Tuesday.
