Upperclassmen welcome the Class of 2010 to the University at the third annual Pre-Rade on Sunday afternoon.
Simeng Sun '08 was in class at Stuyvesant High School, four blocks from the towers. Sandy Charles '05 was watching TV in 1942 Hall.
After Sept. 11, 2001, politics professor Amaney Jamal remained in her house for two days. She did not show up for work, run errands or even send her children to school.
"Why?" Wilson School professor Uwe Reinhardt asked of his son, Marine Cpt. Mark Reinhardt '01 and another Marine officer as they sat in a bar in San Diego.
Once the dust settled from the wreckage of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans turned their eyes to academia, searching for answers about the Middle East, Islam and the emerging threat of terrorism.Like it did during the Cold War, academia poised itself to respond to those needs by changing curricula, recruiting new scholars and rethinking the roles of policy makers and scholars.University departments, especially Near Eastern Studies (NES), history, politics, religion and the Wilson School, as well as groups such as the Institute for Transregional Studies, underwent dramatic shifts, offering courses and lectures that tailored themselves to the new world order.But has Princeton done enough? A 9/11 curriculumAs expected, the demand for classes in Middle East studies has surged since 9/11.
Princeton ranked as the sole No. 1 university in the country in a U.S. News and World Report released last month.This is the seventh straight year Princeton has ranked first in the magazine's annual survey of "America's Best Colleges." Rival Harvard dropped to second place in this year's survey."We are pleased that our commitment to providing the highest quality undergraduate education continues to be recognized," University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said in a statement.
Any strategy for defeating terrorism needs a basic framework to get started. As Kurt Campbell and I discuss in our forthcoming book, "Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security," there are perhaps five key elements.
In the five years since 19 young men boarded U.S. jet airliners and changed the course of history, the country has seethed, grieved, sought solace, ached for revenge, been afraid, celebrated victories and ultimately, changed.In "Focus," a special section published with today's paper, The Daily Princetonian looks back on the five years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, exploring the lives of Princetonians, from the victims' families to soldiers to Muslim students. How we changed In interviews with several Princetonians, Sophia Ahern Dwosh explores how the attacks of 9/11 shifted the course of our lives.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Col. Mark Milley '80 was stationed in Hawaii as chief of staff of the 25th Light Infantry Division of the United States Army.
If this experiment of ours worked the way it's supposed to, you picked up this copy of the 'Prince' at your doorstep this morning.As of today, the 'Prince' is free.
Preemptive war, color-coded alerts, red states and blue states: The politics of America have changed in the years since Sept.
Pop reggae star Rihanna will headline next weekend's fall Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, USG social chair Andrew Heyman '07 said Saturday.Heyman described Rihanna, the singer of the recent hits "Pon de Replay" and "SOS," as a desirable performer for University students musically and intellectually."Rihanna's music is a departure not only from the Lawnparties acts of the past three years, but also from a lot of the music that we usually hear at Princeton in general," Heyman said in an email."I wanted to do something new and different for this show, but I also wanted something that Princeton students would enjoy and relate to.""Not only is she an internationally known artist whose popularity continues to rise, but Rihanna's story is also fascinating and compelling."Rihanna, 18, is the daughter of an Irish-Guyanese father and Barbadian mother.
Five years after terrorists turned airplanes into missiles, cutting short the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, including 13 alumni, the University commemorated their loss with an interfaith service Monday in the September 11 memorial garden next to Chancellor Green.Family, friends, faculty and students gripped tissues and bowed their heads as speakers shared their experiences of that day and intoned the names of the 13 victims."We all have memories of that day and the accompanying emotions of shock, grief, confusion," Paul Raushenbush, associate dean of religious life, said.But in this fifth year, there is a "shift of gears ... a passage of yearly remembrance into history," Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal said.
Chloe Wohlforth '07 was sitting in her junior year French class at Greenwich Academy in Connecticut when a classmate walked in late saying that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center.Wohlforth's father worked there, but the thought that he was in any kind of danger didn't cross her mind.
The federal government must do a better job of recruiting college students to fill its growing need for young, talented workers, a recent report suggests.According to a report from the Partnership for Public Service (PPS), only three percent of the 1.9 million federal government employees are under 25 years of age.
Jason Turetsky '07 recounts the experience of being in Haifa last week when it came under attack by Hezbollah rockets.
After meeting with West College administrators last week, the politics department reopened enrollment in several fall semester courses that had been filled by juniors and seniors during the first round of course registration earlier this month.POL 388: Causes of War and POL 397: National Security are the two most popular courses that have been reopened for registration by the Registrar's office.
As the University prepares for the opening of the four-year residential colleges in 2007, a proposal to remove assistant masters from the colleges has provoked concern among some Residential College Advisers (RCAs).Currently, two graduate student assistant masters in each residential college act as liaisons between the undergraduate RCAs and the residential college staff, running core group meetings and giving advice to RCAs who ask.
This year, we're trying something new with our Reunions coverage ? The Daily Princetonian Reunions blog, accessible at http://princeatreunions.blogspot.com. This effort, I should say up front, is an experiment, but one we hope will be a success.
Feedback on our 'Prince' at Reunions blog (http://princeatreunions.blogspot.com) has been overwhelmingly positive and, based on your requests, we've opted to keep going through Graduation.Our staff and, in particular, our soon-to-be-graduated managing editor emeritus David Baumgarten '06 will continue blogging through Commencement ceremonies on Tuesday, June 6.
