The Office of Religious Life (ORL) is nearing the end of its search for the University?s first full-time Muslim and Hindu chaplains.
On the last day of her fall semester freshman year at Brandeis University, Courtny Hopen ?08 received a call from West College.
Former University President Robert Goheen ?40, who steered Princeton through the tumult of the 1960s and oversaw dramatic changes, including the implementation of coeducation, died of heart failure yesterday morning at the University Medical Center at Princeton.
President Tilghman met with a small group of Wilson College residents to discuss challenges facing the Princeton community Monday night over dinner in the Wilcox special dining room.
Correction appendedAfter months of breathless anticipation, eager applicants logged online yesterday evening to find out if they had been granted a spot in the Class of 2012.
Editor's note appendedStudents who plan to study abroad might want to pay attention to the details of their club?s financial contract.
Among the many good things I could say about Bob Goheen, perhaps the most telling is that II cannot recall meeting anyone who didn?t like him: He was a nice guy, a good one, too.
Robert Francis Goheen '40, who served as president of Princeton from 1957 to 1972, passed away yesterday.
One autumn afternoon in 1956, a 37-year-old assistant professor in the classics department was summoned to the phone while attending a Princeton football game at Yale.
Guests at the Book Adoption Party held yesterday enjoyed wine and hors d?oeuvres, making sure not to spill their refreshments on the books, maps, manuscripts and coins on display.The event, at which guests could adopt a variety of rare items for prices ranging from $100 to $1,650, was designed to raise funds to restore pieces in poor condition.
OIT representatives heard student comments and suggestions regarding the University Webmail system at a USG Senate meeting last night.USG vice president Mike Wang ?10 described the Sun Java Webmail system as ?highly in need of improvement.?Among the problems with the current Webmail system discussed at the meeting were its inabilities to filter messages, to search through multiple folders at the same time and to retrieve e-mail addresses previously used when the user types in the first few letters.The representatives from OIT, who included senior manager of customer services Leila Shahbender, presented students with the options they are currently considering, stressing that no decisions have been made yet.One of the options under consideration is ?moving most students to Exchange [a Microsoft e-mail front similar to Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird],? explained Charlayne Beavers, technology integration specialist at support services at OIT.?We?re doing this assessment [regarding student opinions of the e-mail system], and in the background we?re doing an assessment on cost-analysis to try to determine which way to go,? Beavers said.Shahbender also brought up a ?digital [student] suitcase? available at princeton.edu/suitcase, which is an online service students can use to create a downloadable zip file for storing their Princeton University e-mail, files on their H drive and blog entries.Though this service is ?meant for people who are leaving campus [so that they] can take all their intellectual property with them, anyone can use it while they?re at Princeton if they want to back up their H drive or back up their e-mails,? Shahbender said.USG social chair Christian Husby ?08 said he used to use the Sun Java Webmail system but has since converted to Gmail because of the other features it included, such as a place to store documents and a calendar.Students also prefer to use other applications because of the notifications that pop up when they receive an e-mail, U-Councilor Becca Silver ?09 said.That the University increased the size of the e-mail quota five-fold, however, was helpful, Class of 2010 senator Cole Morris said.U-Councilor Liz Rosen ?10 added that another benefit of the current system is the effectiveness of the University?s junk-mail filter.Students also expressed a desire during the meeting to retain their Princeton e-mail addresses after they graduated.?To notify everybody [about a new e-mail address] would just be kind of a hassle,? Husby said.Even if the University did outsource its e-mail, most students agreed that they would prefer to keep ?Princeton? in their e-mail addresses.?We can?t promise to implement anything with a new system, but we?re trying to get feedback from you to find the best fit possible,? said Joseph Karam, manager of enterprise infrastructure services at OIT.Another item on the meeting agenda was amending Article III, Section D of the USG constitution to stipulate that ?all appropriations from the Senate Pilot Programs fund which are greater than $1000? must require Senate approval.
A senior claiming she was sexually assaulted at Tiger Inn in February 2006 has filed a lawsuit against the University and TI, marking the first time in recent years that a student has brought legal action seeking damages from Nassau Hall and an eating club.?My client was sexually assaulted.
University researchers have identified two proteins used by E. coli bacteria to form protective outer membranes.
Two Princetonians, Mateusz Plucinski ?08 and Kenneth Fockele ?06, received scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University next year.Plucinski, an operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) major from Warsaw and West Virginia, intends to study computational biology while at Cambridge.Hugo Simao, an ORFE professor who worked with Plucinski, described Plucinski?s future studies as a ?hybrid of math, biology and computer science.??He?s very persistent.
The sound of Middle Eastern music playing in Dillon Gym was drowned out by the screaming and giggling of children of all ages scrambling to see lizards, snakes, frogs, falcons and a camel Saturday at the second annual Princyclopedia convention.An interactive event sponsored by the Cotsen Children?s Library, Princyclopedia, whose theme this year was ?Aladdin and the Middle East,? was free and open to the public.Student groups, nonprofit organizations and businesses helped run 25 activities, which included hovercraft carpet rides, making your own genie in a lamp, Arabic calligraphy and building miniature minarets.Aside from the different games and crafts, Bent Spoon ice cream was offered at the ?Oasis? table.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) joined former American Israel Public Affairs Committee President Lonny Kaplan at the Tigers for Israel (TFI) dinner celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Israel, as well as student and governmental support for American-Israeli relations.?I think that it is absolutely vital that we have voices that step up and say the reasons to be the closest of allies [with Israel],? Corzine said at the dinner, which was held at Prospect House and hosted 75 attendees.He highlighted the New Jersey-Israel Commission as evidence of the economic link between the state and the country.
