On any given day, one might expect to find Princeton students studying, socializing or sleeping, but putting together TV programs might not spring to mind.
Students taking part in the Princeton in Beijing (PiB) study-abroad program this summer will have the opportunity to be in close contact with Olympic athletes ? even if they do not snap up tickets for the 2008 Summer Games.According to The New York Times, the U.S.
Two years after the organization was brought under the aegis of the Admission Office, members of the formerly self-governing Orange Key Guide Service are saying that they have witnessed a marked erosion in their independence as administrators have sought to assert greater control over the content and organization of the group?s tours and in the administration of the group itself. ?Guides now feel that there?s Big Brother over their shoulder,? Brandon Bierlein ?08, the 2007 Orange Key chair, said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian last week, claiming that the administration has taken a larger role in shaping guides? messages to the public over the last two years.Some guides are concerned that ?the University [is] creating a laundry list of things that [have] to be said in the tour,? Bierlein added, noting that during his tenure as chair he heard ?a lot of concern from the guides that the traditional freedom that we?ve had was being undermined."Orange Key, whose volunteer guides lead 26 weekly tours, was founded in 1935 and had been an independently managed student organization funded by University Services until its incorporation into the Admission Office at the beginning of the 2006-07 academic year.?It makes sense for Orange Key and our admissions officers to work together as we present visitors to our campus with a comprehensive picture of life at Princeton,? Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an e-mail in response to questions about the level of her office?s involvement with the guide service.
Robertson case trial date setThe high-profile battle between the University and the Robertson family will go to trial on Oct.
Five faculty members received Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize promising young scientists and provide them with unrestricted financial assistance, the University announced yesterday.Lynn Loo GS ?01, Jason Petta, Ulrich Mueller, Roman Rafikov GS ?02 and Joshua Shaevitz joined 113 peers at North American universities ? chosen out of more than 600 nominees ? to receive $50,000 each for further research in their respective fields.The funds are granted by ?[monitoring] the science field for where the need is,? fellowship administrator Erica Stella said.
Macs have outstripped PCs in laptop sales through the University?s Student Computer Initiative (SCI), which sold three Macs for every two PCs last fall.?The percent of Macs on campus has grown significantly,? said Steven Sather, OIT?s director of support services.
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Jeff Jacoby denied the viability of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine in McCosh 28 yesterday. Jacoby included the two-state solution as one of his ?Four Big Myths? in a lecture titled ?The ?Peace Process? and Other Middle East Myths.? Jacoby listed the four myths as the plausibility of a co-existence of Israel and Palestine, the idea that peace should be made between enemies, the notion that ?terrorists want to derail the peace process? and the belief that ?anti-Zionism isn?t anti-Semitism.? Throughout history, and ?every time [the idea of a two-state solution] has been on the table, Palestin[ian]s have refused it,? Jacoby said.
Concern about the growing number of uninsured Americans has led Mahesh Somashekhar GS to begin rallying students to fight for universal healthcare.Somashekhar?s agenda includes organizing students to do a variety of healthcare-related activities, such as volunteering at local hospitals, facilitating panel discussions, launching letter-writing campaigns and demonstrating at the New Jersey State Legislature.?Good health is precious,? Somashekhar, a graduate student in the sociology department, said in an e-mail.
An accidental fire broke out Tuesday morning at the house of Nobel Prize laureate and University senior research mathematician John Nash, Jr., GS ?50.
Though the University announced the proposal of an international gap-year program for incoming freshmen on Feb.
State budget cuts and a loss of tax revenues will likely force the Borough to raise taxes by about 6.5 percent this year, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi announced at the Borough Council meeting last night.
Two senior members of the student-run radio station WPRB were awarded the station?s most prestigious honor, the Dan D.
David Crane ?81, CEO of NRG Energy, Inc., a Princeton-based power company, joined several professors in Tuesday?s Symposium on Energy, Climate and the Environment at the Friend Center, adding a corporate perspective to academic and policy discussions on climate change.
Even as the headlines of major news outlets highlight the dollar?s depression and the economy?s move toward recession, over the past three weeks students have flocked to interviews for summer internships in the financial sector.
After several elite universities bolstered their financial aid packages during the past year, some Class of 2012 applicants and their families are expressing doubts about whether the University?s financial aid program can best the competition. In the past, the University has stood on the strength of its pioneering efforts to eliminate loans, but some applicants are now skeptical that the funding for middle-class families will not be sufficient, despite repeated attempts by Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Robin Moscato to explain that Princeton provides enough aid to meet the demonstrated need of all students. Applicants lauded the University?s no-loan policy, but some expressed the desire for the University to take further steps as other schools are actively bolstering their aid programs. One applicant praised the University?s grant system, but said the overall program ?only appears to be average because many other colleges and universities are adopting similar financial aid methods.? All applicants interviewed for the article were granted anonymity because their applications to the University are still pending. ?While Princeton had the grant policies before, I think that they should respond to the other colleges? boosts in financial aid so that they can be even more appealing to students,? another applicant agreed. In light of Stanford?s financial aid reform that eliminated tuition for families with annual incomes below $100,000, Moscato maintained that Princeton?s financial aid packages are still competitive. Though the University does not set fixed income brackets for aid packages, the administration?s letter to the Senate Finance Committee last week reported that members of the Class of 2011 with annual family incomes below $75,000 received grants that on average covered nearly all tuition and room and board costs. Those with family incomes between $75,000 and $100,000 paid an average of $10,180, or $800 short of the full cost of room and board.
Most scavenger hunts involve small prizes and bragging rights, but Seth Priebatsch ?11?s idea for a virtual text-messaging scavenger hunt earned him a $5,000 check. Priebatsch?s team SCVNGR, whose name mimics text-messaging style for the word ?scavenger,? won $5,000 and first place in the TigerLaunch Business Plan Competition, in which 15 teams comprising up to four students submitted business plans for review by a panel of judges with backgrounds in entrepreneurship. ?I was excited, but there was still a lot more work to do.
Since 1994, Neil McIntyre has driven his truck around campus, collecting waste from University dining halls most days each week.
A new imaging procedure for brainstem nuclei may help improve scientists? understanding of drug addiction and diseases like Parkinson?s, schizophrenia and ADHD.
A new program that will give seniors in Whitman College an additional perk ? on top of having functional laundry machines ? is drawing skepticism from the University community.
Following categorical denials by University officials, the Princeton Tory has officially apologized for a post on its blog alleging that Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel?s appointment had not been renewed by the executive committee of the University Board of Trustees.?We recognize how frustrating and insulting it must have been for Dean Malkiel to have heard of this false report, and we cannot apologize enough for this unfortunate incident,? Joel Alicea ?10, current publisher of the Tory, wrote in an explanation on the Tory?s blog.The author of the original post, Matt Schmitz ?08, did not have the authorization of the conservative student publication?s current leadership to write the post, Alicea said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.Alicea succeeded Schmitz as the publisher of the Tory in February.Schmitz posted on the blog again after it was clear that his information was false, deleting his first statement and replacing it with one saying that ?the Tory?s sources, who declined to be named, are now unable to stand by their claim that Dean Malkiel?s employment was not renewed.?Alicea decided an official explanation to the campus community was also necessary.
