A panel of prominent conservative political commentators analyzed the uniqueness of the 2008 election before a packed audience in the largest lecture room in Aaron Burr Hall last night.
While the Democratic and Republican primaries have been dominated by graduates of Columbia, Wellesley College and the United States Naval Academy, among others, Princeton alumnus Ralph Nader ?55, a three-time presidential candidate, is considering a campaign of his own.Nader has organized an exploratory committee to investigate whether a campaign as an independent would be feasible, a move that prospective candidates usually make before officially announcing their intent to run.Nader said in an interview
In a high-tech application of the University?s motto, ?Princeton in the Nation?s Service and in the Service of all Nations,? the Wilson School has made a vast collection of public policy and international affairs lectures and event recordings available to the public through the creation of the University Channel (UChannel).Featuring content from youtube.com and podcasts, the UChannel is hosted at uc.princeton.edu and now documents more than 1,000 hours of material.
Contrary to some expectations, increasing the proportion of girls in the classroom may increase the academic attentiveness of normally unfocused boys and can lead to improved learning across entire classes, research from a former post-doctorate fellow at the University shows.Analia Schlosser, who completed her fellowship in labor economics in December and is now a professor at Tel Aviv University, worked with Victor Lavy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to demonstrate that primary-school students in classes made up of more than 55 to 60 percent females show higher test scores and matriculation-success rates and less anxiety about safety concerns, violence and disruption compared to students in male-dominated classes.Many scholars believe that having mixed-gender classes sometimes causes the boys in the class to show off to the girls and the girls to subdue their talent so as not to scare off the boys by seeming too smart.
Dartmouth College President James Wright announced Monday that he will step down from his position in June 2009.Wright, 68, will retire after 11 years as Dartmouth?s 16th president.
The University has finalized its 10-year Campus Plan and released a brochure outlining its development goals through 2016.
For the past two years, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had claimed that the pirating of copyrighted movies on college campuses accounted for a staggering 44 percent of monetary losses to the movie industry.
Princeton voters bucked the trend in New Jersey Democratic primary yesterday, choosing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) over Sen.
Yesterday?s 24 Republican primaries and caucuses moved Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) many steps closer to his party?s nomination, while Democratic contenders Sen.
Art Museum director leavesSusan Taylor will leave her position as director of the Princeton University Art Museum at the end of the academic year.
Despite three years of construction and a $136 million price tag, Whitman College still isn?t big enough.
For many, Intersession is a time devoted to getting off campus and forgetting about life at Princeton for a while.
Nearly 8,000 pages of documents covering the tenure of Allen Dulles, Class of 1914, the CIA?s longest-serving director, are now available online through the University website.Having access to online material will benefit faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students engaged in research projects, history professor Julian Zelizer, who specializes in American political history, said in an e-mail.?It is a very valuable source of material,? Zelizer said.
Anna Almore ?08 and John Templeton, the assistant dean for graduate admissions in the Wilson School, were presented Journey Awards by President Tilghman as part of the Jan.
Over a thousand students will head to the polls in Princeton today to cast their vote in New Jersey?s presidential primary, results of an e-mail survey conducted by The Daily Princetonian show.The unscientific survey also found that Sen.
Charter Club joined Terrace Club in filling their membership through the first round of sign-ins.
The University briefly suspended the e-mail accounts of roughly 10 individuals as a result of a phishing scam that targeted the University during final exam period, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said.Over 2,000 University students, faculty and staff received the e-mail in question on Jan.
Editor's note: The charges have been formally dismissed and cleared from Bendele's record.Borough Police charged Lisa Bendele '09 with aggravated assault on Jan.
After three years of shamelessly outsourcing their administration to India and China, terrified staff members at The Daily Princetonian have finally thrown off the tyrannical shackles of foreign rule in an attempt to revitalize the U.S.