In a shocking security breach of the University's electronic network, hackers replaced the controversial RCA Alcohol Policy with a fresh set of guidelines last night.
In what some are calling the most brazen act of female supervillainy since the enactment of grade deflation, the Princeton community was shocked early Wednesday by the overnight disappearance of Nassau Hall at the hands of alleged double-dealing diva Carmen Sandiego.
The University received an all-time record number of undergraduate applications for the fourth year in a row, with 20,118 students applying for admission to the Class of 2012.This year's figure marks a 6 percent increase over the record-breaking 18,942 applicants for the Class of 2011 and constitutes a 22 percent increase in applicant numbers since the Class of 2009.The rise in application numbers comes in the first year after the University dropped its early admission program, which had admitted nearly half of previous incoming classes.
With the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations more hotly contested than ever following the Jan.
Four teenagers were charged with juvenile delinquency on Wednesday for toppling nearly 500 gravestones in a New Brunswick Jewish cemetery.The youths are being held in the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, awaiting a hearing in county family court.As the investigation of the crime continues, New Brunswick police suspect that the teens were most likely not motivated by anti-Semitism.
Nushelle De Silva '11 concentrates on a paper for her freshman seminar in a common area in Bloomberg Hall.
Students present "The Old Ship of Zion," a play written and directed by Natalia Naman '08, in the Whitman College Theater.
Correction appendedSome of the 34 faculty and staff members evacuated from their homes at the College Road Apartments following a four-alarm fire Thursday have been allowed to move back into their homes.
The University is making progress toward its goal of awarding only 55 percent A-range grades to junior and senior independent work, due in large part to the efforts of large departments, according to a memo sent to faculty by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel on Nov.
Six members of the Class of 2009 have won Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) fellowships, enabling them to spend time working for the federal government before returning to the University to earn a Masters in Public Policy (MPA) degree from the Wilson School.The juniors ? Cyndi Barmore, Shannon Brink, Michael Konialian, Emily Norris, Michael Shapiro and Brendan Reilly ? were notified of their selection last month and are the second group of undergraduates to be accepted into the program.
Award-winning writers might be stereotyped as shrouding their creative process in secrecy, but eight University undergraduates got to pierce the veil of mystery this semester, observing and learning from famed playwright Edward Albee as he prepared his latest theatrical opus.The students ? participants in the seminar THR: Special Topics in History and Theory: Albee on Albee, a course offered through the program in theater and dance and co-taught by the playwright himself ? helped Albee prepare his latest play, "Me, Myself, and I," which opened at the Berlind Theatre last Friday.
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 had claimed that he had been attacked in an empty lot in the Township on Dec.
The Red Cross of Central New Jersey opened its disaster relief center in Princeton Township on Wednesday.Designed as a headquarters to organize relief efforts for the surrounding counties and possibly serve as a shelter for affected families in the case of a disaster, the Alexander Road center will serve Middlesex, Mercer and Hunterdon counties as well as the southern part of Somerset County.The 5,000 sq.
President Tilghman discussed how the University administration views the USG during a question-and-answer session with the outgoing USG administration yesterday.Speaking during the last USG Senate meeting of the semester, Tilghman cited two main areas in which she said the USG was most valuable.
One October morning in 1996, I put on a Bill Clinton mask and went to school. Morningside Elementary in Atlanta, Ga., was holding its annual Halloween carnival, and the year's presidential election was only 10 days away.
As undergraduates buckle down to write their papers for Dean's Date, many graduate students are wrapped up in far more extensive writing projects: their dissertations.Though grad students at the University complete their dissertations more quickly than average, according to recent findings by the Council of Graduate Schools, Princeton's ethos of speedily finished degrees can be a mixed blessing, grad students and alumni said.
In the first admissions cycle without early admissions at Princeton and Harvard, application numbers soared and acceptance rates dropped across the rest of the Ivy League and at other selective institutions that continue to offer early admissions.Seeking early acceptance at a top school, some applicants who might have applied early to Princeton or Harvard in past years seem to have applied early elsewhere, especially to Yale, which saw a record 4,888 applicants for the class of 2012, a 36 percent jump from the class of 2011.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in October 2007 that she thought some students had applied early to Princeton for strategic reasons.
A fire raged through a faculty housing complex across from McCarter Theatre yesterday afternoon, leaving several University faculty and staff members homeless but no individuals or pets injured, according to University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96.The fire, which was reported at 2:29 p.m., caused severe damage to Unit 2 of the College Road Apartments, which are located on College Road between University Place and Alexander Street.
The week leading up to the New Hampshire presidential primaries may not have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it was certainly close.For the first time since 1928, neither an incumbent president nor current vice president was in the race.
