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Pace takes over service groups

Pace takes over service groups

The Student Volunteers Council (SVC) and Community House, service groups previously managed by two different administrative offices, were incorporated into the Pace Center this summer, making Pace an umbrella organization for civic engagement groups.Though some students were initially concerned that the July 1 reorganization would detract from student control of the service groups, all three parties soon concluded that the move made sense, SVC director Dave Brown said."Obviously the question of whether [the reorganization] would impact the students' ownership of this was definitely a concern of mine," Brown said.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Stephen Colbert to speak at Class Day

Comedian Stephen Colbert, widely known as the host of the satirical Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," will deliver the Class Day address on June 2, Class of 2008 president Tom Haine announced this morning."For his success as an actor, author and public speaker, we are honored that Mr. Colbert will be joining the senior class to help us celebrate the end of our college careers," Haine said in an email to the Class of 2008.The announcement comes on the heels of a controversy over the 2007 Class Day speaker, "West Wing" actor Bradley Whitford, a selection that disappointed a number of last year's seniors.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Quidditch

Students from Rocky and Mathey colleges participate in a friendly game of Quidditch on Alexander Beach, complete with brooms, multiple balls and a human Snitch.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Taste of Nassau offers local cuisine at reduced prices

Nassau Street's pricier restaurants will be more affordable this week, as today marks the start of Taste of Nassau, a joint venture by the USG and area merchants designed to give Princeton students a chance to sample local cuisine."This is an event we hope will introduce freshmen and all undergraduates to the exciting restaurants that exist in the town," USG campus and community affairs chair Cindy Hong '09 said.With discounted prix-fixe meals and special student savings continuing through Thursday, the four-day promotion will allow students to "treat themselves to a nicer meal out," she said.Zach Kwartler '11 said he may do just that.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Court awards Cottage tax-exempt status

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled earlier this year 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.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Thesis: Better 27 years late than never

Almost three decades after he should have started it, Josh Kornbluth '80 has finally finished writing his senior thesis.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Notaro revisits campus for frosh week laughs

Comedian Tig Notaro returned to Princeton on Thursday for the third time, performing to mixed reviews before an audience of 1,000 students in Dillon Gym.The Mississippi native wasted no time launching into her opening joke as she took the stage.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Saltine Olympics

Students chow down on saltine crackers during one of the events featured at the first annual Whitman Olympics, held Friday.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Despite criticism, University stays in rankings game

For the eighth consecutive year, Princeton ranked first on U.S. News & World Report's list of top universities, which the magazine released last month.Newsweek and Kaplan, meanwhile, called the University the "Hottest for Liberal Arts" on its "Hottest Universities" list, in which 25 institutions are singled out for excellence in a particular category.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Activities fair

Freshmen attend the fall activites fair in Dillon Gym, where hundreds of student organizations attempted to attract new members.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Whitman College by the numbers

Cost: $136 million Size: 250,000 sq. ft. Buildings: 10 Residents: 500 undergraduates, 10 graduate students, one faculty fellow Bedrooms: 405 (301 single bedrooms and 104 double bedrooms) Dining rooms: One main hall and two semiprivate halls Building materials: 6,000 tons of fieldstone and limestone (175,000 pieces of fieldstone and 38,000 pieces of limestone) Trees: 219

NEWS | 09/12/2007

An insider's tour of the newest residential college

Though its Gothic spires have drastically transformed the campus landscape, Whitman College is uncharted territory for many members of the University community.Composed of 10 buildings and spanning 250,000 sq.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Whitman unveiled

It took two years to plan, three years to construct and $136 million to fund. Now Whitman College ? equipped with a state-of-the-art dining hall, a digital photo lab and plentiful greenery ? is finally open.Two hundred freshmen, 100 sophomores, 200 upperclassmen and 10 graduate students have moved into the college that promises to transform life at Princeton by kicking off the four-year residential college system.Despite Whitman's 10 buildings and impressive facilities, two challenges still face its incoming residents."At Whitman, we have been blessed with a fabulous infrastructure," said economics professor Harvey Rosen, who will serve as the first master of Whitman."On the other hand, we have no shared history or traditions.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

From Waffles to Whitman

Move-in, 2007: I parked in Lot 23 and walked up the familiar slope of Elm Drive. I could see piles of rubble from the destruction of the Butler Quad from far away, and I immediately felt a sense of loss, of sadness.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Meet Meg Whitman '77

In 2002, eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman '77 donated $30 million to the University, putting her name on the residential college that opened this fall following five years of planning and construction."Princeton had an enormous impact on my life, helping to define the person I am today," Whitman said in a recent email to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

A possible alternative to the Street?

At first glance, Princeton's newly established four-year residential colleges resemble those that have existed for years at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and scores of other institutions.But, in trying to replicate its peer schools' systems, the University faced a unique challenge: the 10 eating clubs clustered near Prospect Avenue.Almost as long as the clubs have existed, the University has periodically tried to replace them with a residential college system.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Who bought the buildings that compose Whitman College?

When Whitman College holds its official grand opening Sept. 26 and 27, students and administrators will pay tribute to the dozens of University alumni who contributed more than $136 million toward the creation of the newest residential college.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Colleges search for a niche in services

With massive Gothic towers, mottled stone and gleaming sod, students returning to campus this fall have found it all but impossible not to notice that the construction site at the south end of Elm Drive has been transformed into the mammoth Whitman College.Awed by seeing the project finally completed, excited about living there or envious of those who do, students may overlook the overall transformation of the residential college system.Common spaces and dining halls in Forbes, Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges have been renovated in the last few months, the dorms of the Butler College quad have been demolished and some undergraduate rooms in each college have been converted into as many as 10 graduate student suites.But the changes to the system run much deeper, allowing each college to specialize and develop its own identity, from updated college shields to new menus unique to each college's dining hall.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

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