Before Friday, Ruckus provided subscribers with an unlimited number of free music downloads. Now, the company’s website merely states, “Unfortunately the Ruckus service will no longer be provided.”
Nearly 700 students took part in Bicker last week — the most in at least four years — signaling strong demand for membership in the selective clubs in the second year of the four-year residential college system.
This past week, hundreds of sophomores bickered or signed in to eating clubs. But for others like Klein-Cloud, financial concerns prevented them from participating in one of the University's oldest traditions, though many receive the maximum financial aid grant for board.
Thursday marked the curtain call for the controversial website juicycampus.com, an anonymous public forum that that became a mechanism for perpetuating gossip online. After its launch in August 2007, JuicyCampus expanded to cover more than 500 colleges in the United States, but funding failed to match the website’s growth.
Biofuels are not as green as many people think, visiting Wilson School research scholar Timothy Searchinger said. In a 2008 paper in the journal Science, Searchinger said that cutting down forests to clear more land for growing biofuel crops could double greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years.
The exertion of non-military power is crucial to progress in America’s most pressing military engagements, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said to a packed audience in McCosh 10 on Thursday afternoon.
The tenure of USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 will be shaped by his ability to effect change while dealing with controversial issues like the USG election process and the discrepancy between University and Borough alcohol policies.
Nick DiBerardino ’11 has withdrawn from the revote for USG vice president, ceding the race to Michael Weinberg ’11 and marking the end of a two-month election process fraught with controversy and confusion.
Fitness-minded night owls can now sweat even longer, as Dillon Gymnasium has extended the hours of Stephens Fitness Center. Stephens now closes at 12:45 a.m. Sunday through Friday, an hour later than it has in the past.
As a testament to Michelle Obama ’85’s prominent public image and popularity, sociology and African American studies professors unveiled her senior portrait on the Class Photo Wall of the Nassau Inn’s Yankee Doodle Tap Room on Wednesday.
The Princeton Buildering Society (PBS) breaks the rules every time its members meet. Buildering — the act of climbing on structures like buildings, poles and statues — has occurred on Princeton’s campus for decades. Every brick scaled and every tower reached, though, marks a violation of the University’s Environmental Health & Safety guidelines, which state that “the use of University structures for ‘climbing’ is prohibited.” The practice, however, survives.
Power Shift began as a project to promote policies that advance the use of 100 percent clean energy. Students from thousands of campuses have joined this campaign for environmental action, which culminated in Power Shift ’07, for which 6,000 students convened in Washington. Power Shift ’09 is expected to be even bigger: More than 6,000 people, including many Princeton students, have preregistered for the event, which will be held from Feb. 27 to March 2.
I feel it necessary to explain my position in the chaos that has been this USG election, and I want to express my rationale behind withdrawing from this Vice-Presidential race. First and foremost, I would like to congratulate Sophie Jin for her wise decision to call for a revote ? there was unquestionably unfairness and illegitimacy to the first Vice-Presidential election, largely due to the actions of just a few members of the previous USG administration. To those who jeopardized the credibility of the entire USG in order to mislead the student body in the first election, I can only voice my extreme disappointment in their judgment.
Jimmy Greene, a cook with green eyes and a passion for chocolate milk and well-done fish, died early Tuesday morning in a car accident on his way to work. He was 41.
The University library system has recently obtained the papers of former Time Magazine editor Thomas Stanley Matthews ’22. The volumes will be available in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in Firestone Library to serve as a resource for students of journalism and American history.
Following more than a month of accusations and uncertainty, the revote to elect the next USG vice president is set to take place in mid-February after an investigation determined that the initial election was invalid. The details of the month-long inquiry remain unclear, however, and several USG members involved said they were uncertain why the investigation, which lasted from Dec. 9 to Jan. 7, took so long to complete.
Continued disagreements with Princeton Borough and Princeton Township could delay or halt the University’s plans to expand unless both sides reach a harmonious conclusion.
Undergraduates will be allowed to select the pass/D/fail grading option for non-departmental classes, the University announced last week, reversing a November policy decision.Some undergraduates say they think the P/D/F option should be extended to any graduate course, including departmentals.
Fearing that the Obama administration will “swiftly begin an assault on pro-life laws and pro-marriage policies,” politics professor Robert George has joined forces with conservative academics from around the country to create a website which he says will hold anti-abortion voters “accountable” for supporting President Obama.
John Kolligian has stepped down from his position as the director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) to take up the post of executive director of University Health Services (UHS), the University announced Monday.
