White-and-red Labyrinth Books tote bags are popping up all over campus, serving as a visible reminder that the newcomer to Nassau Street is staking its claim in the University community.
Though in recent years most Americans perceived the United Nations as a stagnant organization, in the past year it was hit by a flurry of changes, a veteran reporter who has covered the organization since 2003 said yesterday.
Foresight is what gives humans the ability to plan ahead to avoid widespread ecological catastrophe, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said in a lecture last night in McCosh 50 before a large crowd comprising mainly community members.
Think you can quit Facebook? Think again. Jane Dobkin ?10 decided to leave the popular networking site and deactivated her facebook.com account, but she still continued to receive friend requests and e-mails sent through the website, she said.
The Borough Council vowed to combat the gypsy moth at its meeting last night. Declaring the moth a ?public nuisance,? the Council voted to authorize ?all measures deemed necessary? to ?suppress this forest and shade-tree pest.?During the meeting the Council also approved the December police report, authorized new pay scales for Borough officials and heard a report from the Arts Council.Princeton?s crusade against the hungry moth will be coordinated with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture?s Gypsy Moth Suppression Program.
Shortly before he died from a rare form of bone cancer, Alexander Adam ?07 joked that a prize should be created in his memory for ?the most creative freshman with the worst GPA,? his mother, Eleanor Adam, said.
Students who find the University desperately lacking in graphic design opportunities should have their interest sated by UDesign, an upcoming conference that will highlight graphic design?s impact on our lives and will give students the opportunity to learn firsthand from field leaders.UDesign, which connotes both ?you design? and ?universities of design,? will focus on the influence of individuals and society on design and graphic design?s ability to transcend multiple disciplines.The conference, which will be held on March 1, is the first of its kind to take place on campus.
On the game show ?Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,? contestants stumped by their multiple-choice question can poll the audience to see how many people support each answer.
President Tilghman led the charge against binge drinking by discussing the formation of the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) at yesterday?s monthly meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.
Wikipedia.org, the popular online encyclopedia run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, has sparked heated reactions from Muslims who object to the site?s inclusion of images of the prophet Muhammad in an article bearing his name.?There have been complaints from Muslims saying ?it offends me personally? or ?it offends my religion,? ? Wikipedia spokesman Dan Rosenthal said.An online petition, which surfaced in early December 2007 and has since gathered more than 134,000 signatures, is requesting that Wikipedia remove images of the Prophet, citing the teaching in Islam that forbids images of the Prophet and all living creatures.
Iranian government honors NES professorNear Eastern studies professor Michael Cook received a Farabi International Award last month from the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his contributions to the study of Islam.Cook received the award for his book ?Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought,? in which he discusses Islamic ethics relevant to today?s Sunni and Shi?ite populations.
Michael Chou ?10 only spent one day at his internship, but not because he was fired. As part of the redesigned ?Princeternship? program, Chou shadowed Hal Stern ?84, vice president of Sun Microsystems, on a typical workday.
A panel that included faculty from Notre Dame, Columbia, Yale and Princeton scrutinized the controversial tenure of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist at a discussion last Friday, as part of a conference on Rehnquist?s contributions to constitutional jurisprudence.
All but one eating club filled to capacity following Bicker and second-round sign-ins, signaling strong demand for club membership in the first year in which the four-year residential college system has been in place.
Correction appendedAmendments to the USG constitution proposed by USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 were tabled yesterday at the first meeting of the newly elected student body government after there was confusion about the wording of one of the amendments detailing the U-Council chair selection process.U-Councilors Sarah Langberg ?09 and Maria Salciccioli ?09 questioned the amendment in question, saying it would give the president more power in choosing U-Council chairs.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 18 ? I was somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to kick in.
On Friday morning, the long benches of Nassau Hall?s faculty room were filled with about 100 fifth graders from Bronx Public School 70, one of the largest public elementary schools in New York City.
Harvey Lederman ?08, a classics major and past recipient of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and the Haarlow Prize for coursework in humanistic studies, is the University?s sole recipient of a 2008 Keasbey Scholarship.
Shea Conaway ?10 was watching Super Tuesday coverage with a friend when news broke of the dozens of tornadoes ripping across the Southeastern United States.
