Harvard?s endowment surpasses $34 billionHarvard?s endowment has risen above $34 billion, a $6 billion increase over the past year, according to The Boston Globe.
Charter Club joined Terrace Club in filling their membership through the first round of sign-ins.
With the clocks counting down to 5 p.m. on Dean's Date, Rich LeBano '08 sat at his computer unable to find that perfect word.
Lauren Bartholomew '09 recently learned that her plans to spend next semester in Kenya had been cancelled due to mounting violence and protests within the country in the wake of last December's contentious elections.Bartholomew, along with three other juniors and one sophomore, hoped to take part in the ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) department's Tropical Biology Program in Kenya this spring.
One day almost four decades ago, Nancy Weiss walked through the doors of Princeton's history department intent on doing something no other woman had done before: getting a job as a professor there.As a Harvard doctoral candidate, she had the credentials for the post, but her gender made her an anomaly among the applicant pool."It isn't that we have a policy against hiring women," then-history department chair Lawrence Stone told the young woman seated in his office.
As the 131st Managing Board's time at the helm of the The Daily Princetonian comes to an end today, we're talking about the things we're not going to miss about being editors: staying up late, canceling on our friends and family, editing a story that needs lots and lots of work.But that's just so that we don't have to think about all the things that we're going to miss: Late nights spent gossiping once the paper's done and we're procrastinating on our schoolwork.
A strange email showed up in students' inboxes on New Year's Day. Under the subject line "happy 2008" was a simple message ? "Have a happy new year" ? and a link to a youtube.com video.It was Joseph Perla '09's way of wishing the campus holiday cheer.
All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees.Sen.
History professor Jan Gross is under investigation in his native Poland for slandering the Polish government ? a crime punishable with a prison sentence of up to three years ? after claiming in a new book that anti-Semitism was prevalent in the country after World War II.Gross is being investigated by the Krakow Prosecutor's Office for allegedly violating Statute 132, which prohibits "publicly accusing the Polish nation of organizing or being responsible for Nazi or communist crimes." The conservative League of Polish Families party pushed the statute through in 2006.Gross' book, "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz" was released in the United States in 2006 and published in Polish on Jan.
The University has chosen Steven Holl Architects and BNIM Architects to design the academic buildings of the new arts and transportation neighborhood set to open in five to six years.Steven Holl Architects will design several buildings to house the Program in Theater and Dance, parts of the Department of Music, the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts.
The University received a record number of undergraduate applications for the fourth year in a row, with 20,118 students applying for admission to the Class of 2012."In a transition year when we changed to a single application deadline, we have increased the number of applications and the quality of our pool, which exceeded our expectations," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in a statement.This year's figure marks a 6 percent increase over last year's 18,942 applicants for the Class of 2011 and a 22 percent increase from the number of applicants for the Class of 2009.This year is the first round of applications since the University ended its early admissions program in September 2006.
Francisco Nava '09 will not be charged with filing a false police report and most likely will not face prosecution for sending harassing emails, officials from Public Safety and Princeton Township Police said yesterday.Nava claimed that he was attacked in an empty lot in the Township on Dec.
Rob Biederman '08 likes surprises and last-minute organization. Less than an hour before he sent a school-wide email promising an iPod Touch to the winner of a Dean's Date scavenger hunt, he had not yet settled on what items the winner would have to collect.The scavenger hunt was typical of Biederman.
Correction appendedYale announced this week that it will change its undergraduate financial aid policy for all students this fall.
N.J. to give electoral votes electors to winner of popular voteNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation last Sunday that will give New Jersey's 15 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in the 2008 presidential election.New Jersey follows Maryland as the second state to enter into a compact that would diminish the Electoral College's constitutional power to choose the president.
Fraternities across campus have started to jockey for positions in the 2009 student government. The past year of authoritarian rule under the Alpha Epsilon Pi political machine has proven that Greek rule is cool on campus, or at least a possibility.Though President Tilghman continues to deny the presence of Greek life at Princeton, the four-year-old Jewish fraternity has seized the top three executive roles in the USG.
A month after he drew national attention for claiming he had been threatened for his beliefs and subsequently assaulted with an Orangina bottle, Francisco Nava '09 has reported a still more traumatic experience: alien abduction.Nava claims the kidnapping occurred around 7 p.m.
