With many months between receiving a Princeton acceptance letter and arriving on campus, incoming freshmen have plenty of time to wonder what life on campus will actually be like.
Labyrinth Books, an independent scholarly bookstore, will open a branch on Nassau Street in November 2007, following a decision by Micawber Books to sell their store to the University after 25 years in business, University officials announced at a press conference yesterday.Administrators also announced that the U-Store will phase out its book business next fall, leaving Labyrinth as the only major bookseller in town.
The Iraq war causes disillusionment in today's youth similar to the effects of World War I and the Vietnam War, Peter Beinart, the editor-at-large for The New Republic magazine, said in a lecture yesterday."We are in the early stages of the third great disillusionment of the past 100 years," he said, comparing the effects of the current war in Iraq on today's youth to the ways that the aftermath of World War I and the Vietnam War disillusioned the younger generations of their respective time periods.Beinart, a Rhodes scholar and the editor of The New Republic for seven years, addressed about 80 Princeton students and faculty in Robertson Hall in a lecture sponsored by the Wilson School.During World War I, Beinart said, Americans ? especially young Americans ? believed the war would be a vehicle for spreading democracy throughout Europe.
Members of the Class of 2007 make their way through the Commencement Fair, a University-organized event where the prospective alumni can be fitted for graduation gowns and beer jackets, order yearbooks and receive Commencement tickets for family members.
USG vice president Rob Biederman '08 seemed poised to win the student government presidency last night, with close to half of students polled saying they have voted or plan to vote for him.Biederman commands 47 percent of the vote compared to fellow junior Grant Gittlin's 24 percent, according to an unscientific poll of 416 students conducted by The Daily Princetonian last night.Twenty-nine percent of voters, however, said they remain undecided between the two candidates.
To honor Romania's Union Day, which marks the country's 1918 unification, Romanian students provided information about their country and samples of its cuisine to classmates in Frist on Friday.
Prince Moulay Hicham Benabdallah '85, third in line to the throne of Morocco, is smart, urbane, charming, articulate and highly educated.
Can anonymity save Princetonians from ennui? Yes, if the popularity of boredatfirestone.com is any indication.The website ? an experimental blog where students converse simply, quickly, freely and completely anonymously ? has quickly taken off since its Oct.
The Ghost of Christmas Past reminds Scrooge of his past days as a schoolboy during McCarter Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol." The play, adapted from Charles Dickens' classic by David Thompson and directed by Michael Unger, runs until Dec.
Correction appendedA majority of students said yesterday that the USG presidential candidates' disciplinary records are relevant to them as voters.
In an effort to streamline fundraising and maintain the University's status as a major research institution, the Board of Trustees appointed physics professor A.
The University is close to finalizing a contract with a music downloading service to provide free subscriptions to the entire Princeton student body, Class of 2008 senator Rohan Joshi said in an interview yesterday."There's no way the University can sit with giving out free CDs," said Joshi, who has spearheaded the project for the past year.
As students continue to register for spring classes, one University official introduced a plan yesterday to elicit more reviews of professors and courses on the USG's Student Course Guide website.Peter Quimby, the associate dean of the college, said that in order to boost the number of evaluations on the site, a program could be set up to prevent students from seeing their final grade in a course until they had accessed the guide and either written a review or selected the "no comment" option.Quimby, along with site webmaster Joe Perla '09, spoke at the weekly USG meeting in Frist last night about recent improvements to the guide.
"I'm very honored and grateful to be invited here," Meryl Streep began her address in McCosh 50 last night, "to be the Belknap prisoner ... vis ... to be the Belknap pris ... visitor!""Oh my god," she said of her gaffe as the packed audience burst into laughter.
Contracting troubles have forced the University to delay the opening of its new multimillion dollar science library.
Like Ted Stevens earmarking $400 million for a Bridge to Terabithia, this week's weather has been completely inappropriate.
Since 2004, West College has inundated freshmen and sophomores with materials encouraging them to join smaller departments.With information sessions at Career Services and the residential colleges, increased attention to course design and the distribution of pamphlets describing successful alumni from small departments, administrators have enlarged some departments by as much as 60 percent.The University, though, has also put its money where its mouth is.
USG presidential candidate Rob Biederman '08 was forced to explain his own disciplinary record yesterday, one day after opponent Grant Gittlin '08 admitted at a public forum that he was asked to move off campus after three disciplinary violations.Gittlin supporters suggested on Thursday that Biederman was not being forthright about his own run-ins with the University.
My quote in the Prince yesterday unintentionally implied that the administration does not take disciplinary actions seriously.
Athletics deserves as much intellectual inquiry as the liberal arts, Trinity College philosophy professor Drew Hyland '61 said in a lecture yesterday, asking the audience to imagine a world where wrestling vies with mathematics as a main school subject.Hyland, a former Princeton basketball player, addressed about 100 students and members of the Princeton Varsity Club in McCosh 10 at "The Sweatiest of the Liberal Arts: Athletics and Education." Making allusions to ancient Greece and current European educational models, he argued that the common view of sports as divorced from the academic sphere harms students' potential growth."By giving short shrift to the arts and physical education, we are cutting off from our children [their] core sensibilities," Hyland said.He began by describing the ancient Athenian view that the two foundations of a young person's education were the pursuits of the muses and those in the gymnasium.
