Corrections appended Princeton students often dream of seeing the letters Ph.D.
Chapel Choir conductor Penna Rose leads a string ensemble and organist Eric Plutz on Monday night in a performance of seasonal music in the chapel.
With winter break approaching, campus environmental groups have mounted a campaign to leave energy consumption out in the cold.The Pull-the-Plug campaign ? which has been advertised with posters and table tents at Frist and the residential colleges ? asks students to sign the "Plug Pledge," agreeing to unplug appliances, switch off lights, shut windows and turn down thermostats before they leave for break in an effort to reduce energy consumption."There's a lot of awareness on campus about global warming, and this is something super easy that everyone can do to help Princeton reduce its carbon footprint," said Rebecca Lutzy GS, a SURGE (Students United for a Responsible Global Environment) representative.SURGE, along with support from Eco-Reps, Greening Princeton and Water Watch, has been leading the educational effort to encourage students to reduce their carbon footprint, the amount of carbon dioxide each person's activities emit into the air.Volunteers from Eco-Reps, SURGE and Greening Princeton will enter dorm rooms accompanied by a housing representative on Dec.
Campus recreation director David Leach responded to concerns about club and intramural sports and about funding for Dillon Gymnasium at yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, assuring attendees that work is being done to remedy the current shortfalls."I am hopeful that we will make some strides shortly and that we will continue to make those strides," Leach, also the University's associate athletics director, said.
The face of graduate education is changing at the University and nationwide, as more women and minorities obtain Ph.D.s and international students face new hurdles after Sept.
University of Pennsylvania president and former Princeton provost Amy Gutmann said Thursday that she will not leave her current position to take the helm at Harvard.
After a day of deliberations, Kavita Saini '08 (l.) was elected the editor-in-chief of the 131st board of The Daily Princetonian on Friday afternoon.
The University has reached a deal with the music downloading service Ruckus to provide free music to the entire student body, USG officials said.Reporters for The Daily Princetonian attempted to use the service last night and were successful in downloading and playing several songs.But Class of 2008 Senator Rohan Joshi, who has largely spearheaded the initiative, said that while student accounts for the service had been activated, speeds may be slower than expected pending installation of a local server."Download speeds won't be as fast as they could be when the cache server is finally installed on campus," he said last night.
John Streicker '64 has donated funds for a new pedestrian bridge to be built across Washington Road at the southern part of campus.The bridge, to be named after Streicker, is scheduled for completion in 2010 and will be part of the University's burgeoning science complex.
Correction appended Applications for residential college adviser (RCA) and assistant RCA positions increased to a new record this year, with 216 students vying for 95 spots.Last year 206 students applied, compared to 175 the previous year.The application process shouldn't be significantly more selective than it has been in previous years, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students Hilary Herbold said.
An expectant crowd gathers on the Frist lawn and surrounds three orange fabric squares placed on top of a larger black rectangle.
In the face of the mounting difficulties that face middle class applicants to elite colleges, U.S.
One day after the Iraq Study Group report chastised Saudi Arabia for being "passive and disengaged" in finding a way out of the conflict in Iraq, the kingdom's ambassador to the United States defended his government's policy and said it wants to work with Iraq's neighbors to find a solution to the ongoing war."Saudi Arabia has already been acting," Prince Turki al-Faisal said yesterday in an interview with The Daily Princetonian shortly before he delivered a lecture at the Wilson School.
No stranger to criticism from the political right, philosophy professor Peter Singer came under friendly fire recently for comments he made in a documentary about scientific research on animals.Singer ? the author of "Animal Liberation," a work often credited with kick-starting the animal rights movement ? touched off the controversy when he said on camera that an Oxford neurosurgeon's Parkinson's research did not appear to be morally objectionable, even though it involved giving the debilitating disease to primates.In the documentary "Monkeys, Rats and Me: Animal Testing," which was screened late last month on BBC2, Tipu Aziz explained to Singer that his Parkinson's research has improved the lives of about 40,000 people and involved only about 100 monkeys, according to a story in The London Times."Well, I think if you put a case like that, clearly I would have to agree that was a justifiable experiment," Singer said in response.
Drowning in work and extracurriculars, most students rarely venture outside the manicured lawns of campus.
A Christmas tree brightens Palmer Square at dusk. Lights draped over the tree throughout the year are lit a day after Thanksgiving in an annual ceremony to kick off the holiday season.
Lehman Brothers president and chief operating officer Joe Gregory encouraged students to infuse new life into the finance industry by breaking rules and challenging the status quo, in a lecture yesterday in Dodds Auditorium.Lehman needs rule-breakers, he explained.
Daily Princetonian: Yesterday the Iraq Study Group released its report on the war in Iraq, and they outlined a number of proposals, including calls for direct engagement with Syria and Iran and jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
Conventional wisdom aside, high-achieving women are just as likely to get married as all other women, Christine Whelan '99, author of "Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women," said in a talk about her book at the U-Store Wednesday night.Whelan's findings counter the traditional notion that women with graduate degrees and high-earning jobs are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.
Daily Princetonian: There are lots of people who say that going to Wall Street is like selling your soul, and your time would be more worthwhile to do community service and other forms of work to save the world.
