Students planning to catch late meal right after the dining hall closes have had to wait an extra hour this year.
Diana Vall-Llobera '10, a native of Puerto Rico, is used to kissing people "hello." The American tradition of shaking hands strikes her as stiff and foreign ? and it's only one of the cultural differences she has encountered since coming to Princeton.To help students like Vall-Llobera adjust to life at the University, Accion Latina has launched a mentoring program for Hispanic students.
Steve Levitt, coauthor of the bestselling book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," interspersed economics with anecdotes in a crowded lecture in McCosh 50 yesterday, discussing everything from the pricing of prostitutes to the altruism of the average person."I ask the ridiculous questions that no economist would ask," Levitt said.
Men and women should refrain from premarital sex, avoid pharmaceutical birth control even in wedlock and discourage peers who manifest same-sex attractions from acting on their inclinations, abstinence proponent and author Jason Evert told an audience of approximately 50 students and locals Tuesday night.In a talk titled "Sexual Propositions: Romance Without Regret," Evert ? the author of several books and a member of the lay apostolate organization Catholic Answers ? stressed the potential emotional damage, physical risks and denigration of women he said sex outside of marriage fosters.Dressed in an untucked button-down shirt and ambling in front of the audience stand-up comedian-style, Evert punctuated his promotion of traditional sexual mores with quips and anecdotes, frequently drawing laughter from the audience."Every guy in here has the desire to lust after girls, but he also has a deeper desire to love a woman," he said, arguing that men should practice self-control while women should dress modestly and avoid tempting male peers to objectify them."All guys have been lied to about what it means to be a man.
Prospective candidates applying to Teach for America (TFA) will no longer have to balance the desire to volunteer against the prospect of losing out on a more lucrative job offer, thanks to a new policy enacted by financial giant JP Morgan.In a partnership between the two organizations, students accepted to both JP Morgan and TFA will have the option to defer their finance jobs for two years to work at TFA.
"Miscommunication" between the University and the Borough Council late last year led the Pub Committee to indefinitely postpone plans for regular pub nights, Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson said yesterday.Plans for a permanent University pub have also been tabled for now, though discussions with the Borough will continue."We do not have a timeline for revisiting this idea, but it won't be this year," Dickerson said in an email.
Though he began his Princeton career taking Chinese "on a whim," Rory Truex '07 has taken his appreciation for the language beyond the classroom.Building off his experience in the Princeton-in-Beijing (PiB) and Princeton-in-Asia (PiA) programs, Truex inaugurated "Summer of Service," a new program in which 11 undergraduates taught at an English immersion program in rural Jishou, China, last summer."It's so easy to do so much good," Truex said.
Recognizing the need for religious leadership for Muslim students on campus, the Office of Religious Life (ORL) recently hired Khalid Latif as the University's first Muslim chaplain.Latif, 23, who grew up in Edison, N.J., graduated from New York University with degrees in political science and Islamic studies and completed a year of chaplaincy there, will offer spiritual guidance to students and promote interfaith programs on campus.He will be dividing his time between part-time chaplain positions at Princeton and NYU, as well as finishing his master's degree at the Hartford Theological Seminary, where he is getting certified in Islamic chaplaincy."I don't sleep, ever," he joked.
In a move mirroring health trends nationwide, University Health Services (UHS) will soon make the newly released human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination available to Princeton students."We wanted to wait until we had the vaccine in hand before we put it on our website, but we expect to have it available sometime later this week," UHS physician Peter Johnsen said.The vaccine protects against the sexually transmitted disease HPV, which has been linked to the development of cervical cancer in women.
University officials presented an updated 10-year campus plan and defended their recent decision to discontinue Early Decision at this year's first meeting of the Council of Princeton University Community (CPUC).The Wawa convenience store will be relocated to make room for the arts neighborhood, but President Tilghman assured students that the store would still be within easy reach.
The University of Virginia announced Monday that it would end its early admissions program, becoming the third institution of higher education in the U.S.
Terence Tao GS '96 may be a genius, but he discovered his passion for math in an unlikely place: in front of the television.It was there, watching "Sesame Street," that the seeds of mathematical renown were planted, when a two-year-old Tao began to teach himself to count.
A puff of hydrogen gas released during the installation of new equipment in Frick Laboratory yesterday caused an hour-long evacuation of the building.University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said that hydrogen was released while workers were connecting a cylinder of the gas to the distribution system of a new chromatograph for room 159 in the laboratory.The gas triggered a monitor that notified Public Safety of the potential leak.
Princeton stadium, Sept. 16, 1:01 a.m.A borough police officer reported receiving a 911 call regarding a fall victim on the north side of Princeton stadium.
Capitalizing on the rising popularity of blogs, students and professors at the University are replacing the stodgy and sometimes inflexible Blackboard software with interactive weblogs for their course postings.Blogs allow users to easily post content online, without having to know all about web software, Michael Muzzie, OIT digital media consultant, said.Edward Felten, a professor of computer science and director of the Center of Information Technology has taught two courses using blogs.
When Redcoats came to Nassau Hall in 1777, General Washington greeted them with cannonballs. Today's English emissaries have received a far more welcoming reception.Francis Williams and James Kanagasooriam are visiting Princeton during a gap year between their studies at Eton College and Cambridge.
Jordan's foreign minister Abdelelah Al-Khatib argued in a Wilson School lecture Friday afternoon that while his country supports Palestine's right to self-determination, neighboring Israel's security is equally important.The two sides "have to respect each others' right to exist," Al-Khatib told an audience in Dodds Auditorium, which peppered the minister with questions after his speech.Al-Khatib described Jordan as a country "in the middle of all the crises in the region." He stressed his concern about the Palestinian economy and government, noting that democratically elected Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas is a "committed leader" who needs the support of the Arab and international community.At the same time, Al-Khatib defended the needs of Israeli security repeatedly, stating that he was "not against [the] special and deep" relationship of the United States and Israel.But Al-Khatib acknowledged criticism from some Arab populations leveled at his government for its perceived lack of action in aiding Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, especially during this past summer's conflict between Israel and Lebanon.The Jordanian government should respect these sentiments, Al-Khatib said, but it need not "play on emotions of the masses" ? a stance which some have argued has distanced top Arab governments from their people.The question-and-answer session after the foreign minister's speech dealt largely with the recent Israeli-Lebanese war, which Al-Khatib noted resulted in a few billion dollars worth of damage to Lebanon as well as the displacement of one million Lebanese.But the foreign minister strongly denounced Hezbollah's actions, including the group's capture of two Israeli soldiers, which resulted in a heavy Israeli response.
USG senators have tabled a constitutional amendment that would give them final say on student referenda and have voted to continue discussing a proposal to reform the University's pass/D/fail policy.
University wireless service has been punctuated with sporadic disruptions this weekend, frustrating students across campus.According to the OIT website, "an issue with the Wireless Access Points servicing the campus wireless network" is causing interruptions in user connectivity.
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