In an effort to cut costs, the administration will evaluate whether some University publications could be distributed online instead of in print, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.
Upperclassmen had the opportunity to draw into all three of the planned four-year residential colleges, including the new Butler College, for the first time this year. Several students who entered residential college draws said they did so to ensure that even if they got a bad upperclass draw time, they would have other options, though some explained that they were drawn to the colleges’ superior housing facilities.
Revised projections that the University endowment will lose 30 percent of its value by the end of this fiscal year have forced administrators to cut next year’s budget by $88 million, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to the campus community Monday morning. The administration will also eliminate raises for staff and tenured faculty earning more than $75,000 in a move the University predicts will save $4 million.
The University approved a new Program in Latino Studies at a faculty meeting on Monday, more than 10 years after the idea was conceived. The certificate program will be launched in the 2009-10 academic year. Requisite program courses will consist of a core class on “Latinos in American Life and Culture” as well as four courses in departments outside participating students’ areas of concentration, including social sciences, arts and humanities.
Over Fall Break, Haley White ’12 developed an unlikely interest in the University’s bananas.White was one of several students who took part in a Breakout trip organized by the Pace Center to Immokalee, Fla., where they learned about immigrants working in the tomato industry.
The microblogging format of Twitter — which has become increasingly popular on campus — may bring administrators and faculty members closer to students, as they divulge personal details of their lives in an informal setting.
Emory Elliott, a former chairman of the English department at Princeton and a distinguished professor at UC Riverside, passed away last Tuesday from a heart attack at age 66. A professor of American literature, he was director of the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside. During his 17 years as a faculty member at Princeton, Elliott also served as chairman of the Program in American Studies.
"Admission," a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, will be released on April 13. Korelitz drew inspiration for the novel from her time working as an outside application reader for the Office of Admission to create her fictional main character Portia Nathan, a 38-year-old Princeton admission officer who is coming to terms with a painful secret that threatens both her professional and personal lives.
Houseparties was nearly cancelled, The Daily Princetonian printed its own money, and scores of Princetonians couldn’t afford to pay tuition as the Great Depression tightened its grip on the University during the early 1930s.
The University’s announcement last Wednesday of a 9.79 percent undergraduate acceptance rate, up from 9.25 percent last year, sparked a firestorm of heated online comments on The Daily Princetonian article reporting the news.
The University will postpone an estimated $695 million in construction projects due to severe endowment losses, President Tilghman said in an interview with Bloomberg News last Thursday. Princeton will delay buildings for neuroscience research, arts and engineering.
With $40,000 in prize money at stake, researchers, graduate students and professors attempted to summarize years of research in three minutes Thursday night.
“I basically try my best never to sleep,” said Philip Acciarito ’12, who only sleeps four hours per night. “I choose this schedule out of sheer insanity. There’s too much to do in one day.” Though medical professionals recommend eight hours of sleep per night, abnormal sleep schedules like Acciarito’s sometimes seem to be the norm on campus.
The time has come to mobilize the ever-growing youth population to move toward religious pluralism and away from extremism, Eboo Patel said Thursday night in the second address of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations Spring Lecture Series.
The University’s 1,331-person waitlist is larger than those of many of its peer institutions in a year when Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said economic turmoil has meant yield predictions are especially uncertain.
Just six years after graduation, Adam Frankel ’03’s words have already been heard by millions. Frankel is a senior speechwriter for President Obama.
University staff will begin serving as volunteer firefighters with the Princeton Fire Department during their work shifts in a move that will effectively double the size of Princeton’s firefighting force during the business day.
The elimination of the University’s swim test in 1990 marked the end of Princeton’s physical education requirement. Several peer institutions, however, retain requisite participation in physical fitness programs. Currently, Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth are the only Ivy League schools with physical education requirements.
Affirmative action may increase academic pressure and stigmatize minority students, according to a study conducted by sociology professor Douglas Massey GS ’78.
Even after months of research and writing, a senior's thesis isn't done until it's bound. For some seniors, this final step is insignificant, but students in some departments face steep costs and strict departmental requirements for binding. The history and psychology departments do not require theses to be bound prior to submission, but other departments, such as politics and the Wilson School, require not one, but two bound copies.
