The University will not participate in the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ (VA) new Yellow Ribbon Program to partially waive tuition for veterans.
Judge Denny Chin ’75 ruled last week to delay a final hearing for Google and to allow authors four more months to choose whether they will participate in a settlement concerning the company’s online Google Book Search service.
Princeton’s debate team recently ended yet another successful season with a slew of top honors.Most notably, the team’s president emeritus Dan Rauch ’10 and current president Zayn Siddique ’11 won the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s (APDA) Team of the Year Award, the APDA’s highest honor.
The Graduate School admitted 10.5 percent of applicants to master’s and doctoral programs for the 2009-10 academic year, down from 13 percent last year.
Charter Club’s trial for charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance resumed at 9 a.m. Thursday morning in Princeton Borough Municipal Court following a nine-day break. No ruling was reached, and the trial is scheduled to continue May 11.
The vast majority of prefrosh interviewed said the University’s grading policy is not a key factor in their consideration of whether to accept Princeton’s offer of admission. Some said they had never heard of the policy, but of the 22 who had, only two said it was a major deterrent, and they both added that they were set on going to graduate school.
Students voted to reallocate the USG social budget and $20,000 from the $27,000 USG Senate Pilot Projects budget to student-initiated service projects. The move will cancel the USG’s Lawnparties concert next fall and donate roughly $100,000 to the Pace Center.
This discrepancy between the number of students who said they cheated on in-class exams and the number who said they cheated on take-home assignments reflects the dramatic distinction at Princeton between these two types of academic work — a distinction which is highlighted by the jurisdictional divide between the University’s Honor Committee and its Committee on Discipline.
Thirteen days after University Health Services (UHS) alerted the student body to four cases of pertussis, eight more cases have been confirmed on campus, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said.
Three Princetonians are among President Obama’s picks for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Eric Lander ’78, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Eric Schmidt ’76, chairman and chief executive of Google, and Wilson School professor Christopher Chyba, have all been appointed to serve on the council.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2010 graduate school rankings last week, placing the University first for its programs in politics, economics, history and mathematics.
Many college students wouldn’t think twice before feigning illness or computer malfunctions to explain to a professor why an assignment is late. But at the University of Virginia, that could get you expelled. At the other extreme, Yale has no honor code. With a disciplinary system administered by a combination of students, faculty and administrators who hand down punishments ranging from probation to expulsion, Princeton charts a middle course among peer institutions with its standards of integrity.
Voting ended for the spring USG elections at noon Wednesday, but results will not be announced until today, USG senior elections manager Sophie Jin ’11 said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian late Wednesday evening.
As the nations of the world wrestle with a deepening economic crisis and threats of terrorism and pandemic, it is “more important than ever” for China and the United States to view each other as allies, Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong said Wednesday afternoon.
President Tilghman said in an interview last Wednesday that the administration continues to discourage incoming students from participating in Greek life on campus because she believes it restricts students’ social lives.
In a town that already had several popular and well-established ice cream shops, newcomer Twist — a do-it-yourself frozen yogurt joint on Nassau Street — has found an unlikely niche and is enjoying booming business in the face of a floundering local economy.
The current economic recession has taken its toll on the Princeton community, as local businesses are seeing declining revenues and some residents are expressing intentions to move out of the area because of high property taxes. PCTF members are asking the University to pay full property taxes, though much of the campus is tax-exempt under New Jersey state law.
At an institution that prides itself on upholding high standards of academic integrity, several students and faculty members said they believe the punishments doled out by the Honor Committee and the Committee on Discipline for academic violations are unnecessarily severe. Members of the committees, however, defended their punishments, explaining that their decisions are based largely on precedent and that they take into consideration a wide variety of factors when determining penalties.
The University is taking precautionary measures to protect the campus community from swine flu following reports of five suspected cases in New Jersey. The University has decided to cease approving and funding undergraduate travel to Mexico because of the recent outbreak of swine flu in the country.
An international conference on the relationship between the United States and the Arab world concluded Monday as 15 visiting students from Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon departed campus after participating in the four-day event.
