Despite the leaky basements in the Spring Street parking garage, its developer, Nassau HKT, has been given the green light to begin construction on another building next door.
While the current economic climate continues to affect institutions and businesses, student agencies seem to be getting away with little hardship to speak of
Wu Hall turned 25 in style on Friday when a formally dressed crowd of students and faculty celebrated with a panel discussion, lunch and toast in the Wu dining hall.Butler College sponsored the panel, which featured University trustee and the building?s namesake Gordon Wu ?58, former University Architect Jon Hlafter ?61 and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, who designed the building.
Peter Orszag ?91, Congress? budget office chief, is rumored to be President-elect Barack Obama?s choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget.The New York Times and the Associated Press both reported Democratic sources saying that Orszag is likely to accept Obama?s offer despite his initial reluctance to leave the budget office midway through his four-year term.An economics major at Princeton, Orszag was an economist in Bill Clinton?s administration and later founded an economic consulting firm.Projections for the fiscal year, which began Oct.
There is no evidence that grade deflation has harmed students? employment or graduate school opportunities, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said at Sunday night?s USG Senate meeting, at which she agreed to appear at the USG?s request.?All the data we have for the last period of time since the grading policy went into effect tell us that there are no negative, worrying results in terms of fortunes of Princeton students in the post-graduate world in which people wish to pursue opportunities,? she said.She noted, ?medical school [acceptance] rates went up slightly? since the policy was implemented.
Three Princetonians ? Timothy Nunan ?08, Scott Moore ?08 and Stephen Hammer ?09 ? are among this year?s winners of the Rhodes Scholarship, awarded to 32 Americans to complete graduate work at Oxford.
The brisk November wind could not keep University students from the Carl Fields Center on Sunday afternoon, where they were paired with children with Down syndrome to play games and listen to stories.
The late Sir John Templeton, a billionaire investment broker who has been accused of renouncing his U.S.
When 17 students staged a sit-in on Nassau Hall in April 1995 to protest the lack of academic offerings in Asian-American and Latino studies, they easily got the attention of University administrators.After the 36-hour sit-in, the University pledged to create four to seven new professorships and to increase its library holdings and course offerings in the two areas of study.
Students picked up more than 1,000 energy-efficient light bulbs on Frist North Lawn on Wednesday and Thursday through a project aimed at reducing the University?s energy consumption.
Ramona isn?t like other robots. Created in 2001 by artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and author Raymond Kurzweil, Ramona is an Aquarius who likes tight clothes, cannoli and Australian sheepdogs, but that?s not what sets her apart from the proverbial robot pack.
In the first year that University Health Services (UHS) offered FluMist in addition to the traditional flu shot at FluFest, total vaccinations held steady.
Students attending lecture Thursday may have found a startling message on their seats. As part of an ongoing campaign, SpeakOut put up posters in the largest lecture halls on campus that read: ?[One] in 4 women is a survivor of sexual assault by the time she graduates college.
Freshman should not have the right to walk on Princeton?s sidewalks, supporters of Princeton Proposition 8 (PP8) said Thursday in a demonstration on Firestone Plaza.?We?re not froshophobes.
Lewis Library was officially dedicated today to University trustee Peter Lewis ?55, who funded the building with a $60 million gift.
The University has received preliminary approval from the Princeton Regional Planning Board for its plan to address traffic congestion as it moves forward with the implementation of the 10-year Campus Plan.At its Nov.
Due to a new University policy, undergraduates wishing to register in graduate-level courses now face more obstacles than in recent years, including an extensive form, in-person enrollment at the Registrar?s office and no option to take the course with Pass/D/Fail grading.The policy change is an effort to ensure that students are prepared for their classes and fully understand their professors? expectations, Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler said.