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Kirp lauds benefits of investing in preschool

Kirp lauds benefits of investing in preschool

Investment in the improvement of preschool education will show its returns, David Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a lecture last night in Robertson Hall.?Learning builds on learning,? he said.

NEWS | 02/25/2008

PAWS takes aim at Ugg boots

Defying February?s climatic dictates, students lay in the newly fallen snow on the Frist Campus Center?s North Front Lawn on Friday afternoon, feigning death, wearing coats covered with fake blood and sporting signs that read, ?What if you were killed for your coat??The protest, based on a campaign started by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and organized by the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), was designed to raise awareness of animals? suffering as part of the fashion fur industry.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

Four graduate students named Jacobus fellows

Graduate students Thomas Clark, Vasily Pestun, Kellam Conover and Ning Wu were awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

Two seniors awarded Pyne Prize

One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

University plans to reduce emissions to 1990 level by 2020

The University announced its campus Sustainability Plan on Thursday, pledging to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

University honors students on Alumni Day

One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

Franklin ’76 points to Katrina to stress need for advance planning

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is a convincing reason to emphasize the need for creating strong communities and for planning in advance for natural emergencies, Evangeline Franklin ?76 said in her lecture on Friday.Franklin, who serves as emergency preparedness manager of the city of New Orleans, was the medical director in the Superdome, a stadium which served as a temporary housing facility for people fleeing their homes before the hurricane.?A community prepared requires the personal commitment of each individual,? she explained.The presentation, entitled ?The City of New Orleans in Disaster and Recovery,? focused on the hurricane-caused devastation in New Orleans and the various efforts to manage the aftermath.Franklin began by pointing out various disasters that could occur or have occurred near audience members? hometowns and reminded students that everyone could potentially be affected by a mass disaster.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

USG creates new liaison positions

The USG voted unanimously last night to confirm several amendments to its constitution, which required a second consecutive vote of approval to take effect, and inducted two new members to its ranks. Phil Stern ?09 and Braeden Kepner-Kraus ?10 will fill the roles of IT chair and senior elections manager, respectively.?Take a lot of leadership in project management and project development,? USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 said to the convened senators.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

News & Notes

Ralph Nader ?55 announced his decision to run for president as an independent candidate yesterday.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

Students share concerns about Public Safety

Students expressed concerns about the relationship between students and Public Safety at the second Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) workshop on Friday.The workshop, entitled ?Structures That Affect High-Risk Drinking,? was held in Wu Dining Hall with about hundred student, staff, faculty and community members in attendance, many of whom filtered in and out during the four-hour event.?I think from all indications the workshop went really well ... everyone there seemed really engaged in the conversation,? Public Safety director and co-chair for Friday?s workshop Steven Healy said.The workshop opened with a lecture given by Linda Langford, associate center director of the U.S.

NEWS | 02/24/2008

Stanford gives large boost to aid

The University?s financial aid policy may no longer be the single ?strongest need-based financial aid program in the country? as advertised on the University?s financial aid website, Undergraduate Financial Aid Director Robin Moscato said in an interview.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Cease and Thesis't

Mitosis is (Spellman 1996)? hmmmm? mitosis? is?Oh, hello Weather Fans.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Program helps disabled Elis

Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

JuicyCampus gushes gossip

"C?mon. Give us the juice,? beckons juicycampus.com, a website that allows anyone with access to the internet to anonymously post comments about other people.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Program helps disabled Elis

Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Classes? No go, I’d rather sleep

In the busy haze of Princeton life, many students might ask: Who hasn?t missed a class? Beneath this reality, a variety of factors, some far removed from the quality of the course, impact students? decisions, while faculty members employ a growing number of techniques to ensure their weekly presence.Lack of sleep appears to be the prevailing student explanation for missing class, in addition to class size, department and quality of the course.Jahnabi Barooah ?11 said she recently missed her 9 a.m.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Corzine hosts integration panel

In a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of New Jersey?s schools, students from high schools around the Garden State debated issues surrounding the racial integration of its public schools.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

Digital orchestra wins MacArthur funding

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) has received an Innovation Award totaling $238,000 from the MacArthur Foundation?s Digital Media and Learning Competition.Co-founded by music professor Daniel Trueman GS ?99 and computer science professor Perry Cook in 2005, PLOrk is a musical performance group of 15 laptop-based instruments.The award money will allow the currently technologically limited PLOrk to become more portable, stylish and harmonious, Trueman said.

NEWS | 02/21/2008

U. to join worker rights group

The University will submit its application for membership in the Worker Right Consortium (WRC) within the next few days, said Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69, after years of debate by the Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

NEWS | 02/20/2008

Pollster Luntz says race between McCain, Obama, calls for integrity

Frank Luntz, a pollster, Fox News commentator and political consultant, said he believed Bill Clinton has ruined his wife?s political campaign, leaving the 2008 presidential campaign in the hands of Sen.

NEWS | 02/20/2008

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