The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Cottage Club is eligible for property tax exempt status and that Princeton Borough must reimburse the club for its tax payments, totaling more than $300,000 since 2001.
Less than a year after beginning "a sabbatical from public life," former Tennessee senator Bill Frist '74 will join the University as a visiting professor in the Wilson School."We are very pleased to welcome Bill Frist back to Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson School," Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said in a statement.
Concluding a nearly five-month search, the University named the Rev. Alison Boden dean of religious life and the chapel yesterday.An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Boden has served as the dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago for the past 12 years.Boden will also have an occasional opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in the religion department, Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson said.Dickerson, who led the search for a new dean of religious life, said the search committee was "very impressed" with Boden's experience and "commitment to social justice." She said Boden's reputation also made an impact on the search committee.
Two brothers will become the first public donors to the planned Princeton Neuroscience Institute, the University announced on Friday.A $30 million donation from James McDonnell '58, John McDonnell '60 and the JSM Charitable Trust will fund the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience, which will study cognitive processes.In a statement, President Tilghman expressed her gratitude for the McDonnells' gift, saying she believes it will "greatly strengthen Princeton's position at the forefront of neuroscience research.""In years to come," Tilghman added, "we expect many important discoveries to emerge from the center [the McDonnells] have created."The announcement is the first step in a larger fundraising campaign that aims to raise money not only for the institute, but also for the University as a whole.
Jim Williamson '07 has been elected as the newest young alumni trustee, sources informed of the race's outcome said earlier today.
Speaking with the wit and wisdom that characterized his four decades at the University, John V. Fleming GS '63 imparted his final advice to the Class of 2007, calling them "the last Princeton class I will ever really know," at the University's 260th Baccalaureate ceremony this afternoon.Collectively dubbing the graduating seniors as "the Class of Destiny," Fleming, the Louis W.
Students with finals on the last day of the exam period have been granted a one-day respite this year before they must move out of their dorms.Those who have exams Saturday, May 26 can apply to extend their move-out deadline to noon on Sunday, May 27.
Armed with an extra backpack and a plane ticket in hand, Justin Karfo '09 will bring home more than just his clothes and laptop this summer.The Burkina Faso native will also take students' leftover school supplies to children at the Primary School of Ziou in Nahouri."I [will] be giving [the supplies] to people who wouldn't have gone to school otherwise," Karfo said.The Rotaract Club, an international service organization, is sponsoring a school supply drive to benefit Ziou's students.Karfo said that going to school in the village can be hard for some children because of the expenses associated with school supplies.The period between August and December is harvest time in the region, he said, and several factors, including a loss of manpower and the cost of additional school supplies, can be too much for some families to manage.Many parents, Karfo said, "don't want [their children] to go to school" if it will mean not only lost income but also additional expenditures on school supplies.In a country where the majority of the people rely on subsistence agriculture, 45 percent of the population lives under the poverty line.Though Karfo grew up in the nearby capital city of Ouagadougou, he said he has a history of doing service work for students at Ziou.
A large crowd of students gathered yesterday in the Butler Quad to bid a fond farewell to brick walls and waffle ceilings.Immediately after Reunions, the five buildings that form the Butler Quad ? Lourie-Love, 1922, 1940, 1941 and 1942 Halls ? will be demolished to make room for the construction of new dormitories.Yesterday's Farewell to Butler Quad Party hosted live performances from the Sensemaya Afrobeat All-Stars, Spinglass and Funk Master General, bands that each have at least one member in Butler College.
Undergraduates will have a harder time storing their belongings over the summer this year.With the demolition of the Butler Quad and the renovation of parts of Forbes College, several on-campus storage spaces will no longer be available.
Following in the year-old footsteps of the University and other peer schools, MIT announced Monday that it will divest from companies that it believes are complicit in the mass death occurring in Darfur."MIT invests for the purpose of preserving the capital of MIT's endowment and earning a return on capital that is consistent with MIT's longterm investment horizon," a statement released by the school's news office read.
After months of virtual house arrest and detention in Iran, a former Princeton Near Eastern studies professor was arrested in Tehran last week on charges that could carry the death sentence.Haleh Esfandiari, who taught Persian classes at the University from 1980 to 1994, stands accused of "crimes against national security." She is under suspicion because of her affiliation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank where she directs the Middle East Program.
Lot 16, April 2, 1:11 a.m.A Public Safety staff member reported observing three individuals looking in car windows in the parking lot.
In the wake of complaints from scientists worldwide, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced Friday that it would reinstate chemists in Iran and Sudan whose memberships it had previously revoked on legal grounds.The organization had initially barred 36 Iranian members and its one Sudanese member on the grounds that their membership violated U.S.
As Dean's Date approaches, many students are ensconced in their favorite study spots. Some pick a table in Firestone's C-Floor atrium, while others commandeer a classroom in Frist Campus Center or lounge on the front lawn of an eating club.The most difficult challenge, students say, is finding a good spot in a popular study space or a place that is open late at night.
With a digital flood of communication, Princeton tested the Connect-ED emergency notification system around 1 p.m.
A group of about 10 students gathered near the Frist Campus Center's South Lawn on Friday afternoon to protest the United States' use of an interrogation method known as "waterboarding" that many charge amounts to torture.During the demonstration, Jean Beebe '10 was cuffed by her ankles, lying face-down on a stretcher, with her head made to appear submerged in a bucket of water.
South Asian students celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi on Saturday by dousing each other with colored water and powders.
Borough Police arrested a sophomore at Cap & Gown Club on Saturday night after a member observed him rifling through jackets in the club's coatroom.
Correction appendedCharges have been filed against Colonial Club president Tommy Curry '08 for serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance after an intoxicated student told Borough Police that she had been drinking in the club.
