As summer internships in the finance sector continue to disappear, opportunities for Princeton students hoping to work in civic service are also dwindling.
The noise from renovations on the B level of Firestone Library has disrupted some seniors working on their theses. The demolition work, which takes place from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, began on an eastern section of the B level on Jan. 24 and is scheduled to last through Feb. 23, according to a statement on the University library system’s website. The renovations will continue until June, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said.
Last month, Jim Forkel, a trained chef, operated his small red hot-dog stand Roverdogs, which was usually parked between Tower and Cannon clubs. So far, Roverdogs has only been open for two nights. Still, in these two nights alone, Forkel estimated that he sold around 500 hot dogs.
Thirty members of the senior class submitted petitions Monday night to run in the annual election for young alumni trustee, a four-year position held by recent graduates on the University Board of Trustees. The Class of 2009 YAT will serve on the 40-member board from July 1, 2009, to July 1, 2013. For the candidates who handed in petitions with the required 50 signatures yesterday, campaigning is strictly prohibited.
Penn officials reported an outbreak of three confirmed and two suspected cases of bacterial meningitis last week. The students affected were members of fraternities and sororities and atheletes on the men’s and women’s fencing teams.
The Class of 2009 candidates for YAT, currently pending certification, are:
Though many students come to Princeton with enough credits to graduate early, very few choose to take advantage of an option that can provide financial benefits and unique experiences, often because they are afraid of the social repercussions, students said.
Research conducted by physics professor Zahid Hasan — in collaboration with researchers from Penn, UC Berkeley and institutions in Germany and Switzerland — may bring quantum computers one step closer to some lucky student’s dorm room.
New Jersey’s Democratic senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, recommended to President Obama on Friday that he appoint Paul Fishman ’78 as the next U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
Diedrich Graham has been named Ombuds Officer, the University announced Monday. Graham, who has served as Associate Ombudsman since February 2008, is filling the vacancy left by Camilo Azcarate’s departure in October to become manager of mediation services at the World Bank.
Grumbling about courses may be a time-honored dining hall pastime, but 88 percent of student respondents said their fall 2008 courses were excellent, very good or good, according to the student course evaluation results from the fall semester that were made available online Feb. 11.
Some men may view scantily clad women as objects rather than as people, a recent study found. The research, conducted by Princeton psychology professor Susan Fiske, Mina Cikara GS and Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt GS, was performed on 21 undergraduate male students at the University who identified themselves as heterosexual.
Former International Relations Council (IRC) president Rachel Jackson ’11 resigned last Thursday, explaining in an e-mail to the group that she felt she could no longer effectively serve as president without exacerbating “the tensions and polarization in [the IRC].” Kyle Trombley ’11, the former IRC vice president, will serve as president, and Maya Le Gall ’11 will serve as vice president.
Since graduating from Princeton in 1995, Signer has served as a political strategist or policy adviser to a governor, a congressman and two presidential candidates. But now the politics concentrator is throwing his own hat into the political ring, launching a bid to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor.
Lorin Maurer, the athletic friends manager for the Department of Athletics and the Office of Development at the University, was on her way to her boyfriend’s brother’s wedding when her plane crashed in a Buffalo suburb six miles from the city’s airport.
Travel has always been an attractive aspect of membership in many campus extracurricular organizations. But as the economic downturn continues to affect every segment of the Princeton community, many of these organizations are struggling to make ends meet.
Charlotte ’10 and Henry ’11 represent opposite ends of a relationship spectrum that several undergraduates said spanned the two extremes of Princeton’s dating culture, in which students are involved in serious, long-term relationships, engage in serial hookups with strangers or are simply single.
Sociology professor Douglas Massey GS '78 will chair the recently formed committee charged with finding a replacement for Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 as dean of the Wilson School, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to Wilson School faculty, students and staff Tuesday afternoon.
As many companies are struggling to turn profits in the current economic downturn, infomercials are flourishing. The counterintuitive success of infomercials is directly correlated to a decrease in the price of media time, according to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Dan Nosenchuck, who teaches a class on entrepreneurial engineering.
Former chemistry professor Walter Kauzmann GS ’40, an academic whose groundbreaking work offered deep insights into protein folding, died in his sleep on Jan. 27. He was 92.
