President Tilghman led a presidential panel at a forum on academic diversity Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
The USG announced spring election results Wednesday, though two positions for the Class of 2008 will be determined in runoff elections today.The rising senior class reelected Chris Lloyd '06 as their president.
Steven Squyres, a principal investigator on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project, spoke on the ongoing 2004 rover mission Wednesday evening to a packed Reynolds Auditorium.
Born to a family of scholars in Poland, Jan Gross knew from the start that he too would spend the bulk of his life in the academic world.
The nine recipients of this year's Spirit of Princeton Award were notified last Friday by a selection committee of previous winners, University administrators and students.The winners, chosen from a pool of more than 100 nominees, were seniors Jen Albinson, Andrew Bruck, Darren Geist, Chanel Lattimer, Xiuhui Lim, Christopher Ramos, Justin Reed, Robert Simmons and Jesse Weber.The recipients will be honored at a dinner, where they will receive a certificate and book prize.The award, now in its 10th year, recognizes "a select group of undergraduate students who have made positive contributions to various facets of the University, including the arts, community service, student organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors," according to its mission statement.Many of the recipients interviewed spoke about the award as a way to acknowledge students whose service to Princeton generally goes unrecognized.
The Princeton University Varsity Streaking Team was disbanded Thursday after University officials threatened members with disciplinary action, according to a team co-founder.The action was in response to an April 8 streak down Prospect Avenue.
The lights of Jadwin stadium, Fine tower and the Graduate College's Cleveland tower lit up Monday night for the 50th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death and the 100th anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis, or 'miraculous year,' during which he published three seminal papers that revolutionized the study of physics.The light relay that traveled west around the globe between Monday and Tuesday night began and ended at Princeton.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) subpoenaed the University on Monday for the identities of 25 students accused of illegally sharing music files, University spokesman Eric Quinones said.The 25 students, along with 380 students at 17 other colleges nationwide, are being sued for copyright infringement by the industry trade group as part of its latest campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.The University expects to respond to the subpoena by May 9, the deadline for compliance."The General Counsel's Office will review the subpoena to see if there is any reason to challenge it, but they don't expect there to be any reason to challenge, and we expect to comply," Quinones said.Students being sued by the RIAA will be notified today by the Office of General Counsel, Quinones said.
Broadway actress Eva van Dok will perform "Eaten Alive," a one-woman show about eating disorders, at 8 p.m.
"Let's be serious," Ben Stiller said at the start of his question-and-answer session with the Class of 2005 Monday night.Of course, the event was anything but, as the star of "Meet the Parents," "There's Something About Mary," and "Dodgeball" entertained a packed Richardson Auditorium with antics from a Tom Cruise imitation to an impersonation of the "Zoolander" male model Blue Steel.The show, which lasted just over an hour, began with 2005 class officers introducing Stiller and rattling off a list of his memorable and not-so-memorable films.
Kimberly Woods '05 is used to standing out for both her Ivy League academic prowess and her camera-worthy looks."A lot of times when I go places to model I get the whole, 'Oh wow, beauty and brains' thing," said the soft-spoken neuroscience major.Her pictures appeared online last week as part of a Maxim photo contest called "Hometown Hotties," which features 100 women each week for 10 weeks before Maxim readers choose 10 models to become semifinalists.Woods will find out the results of the competition in the coming week.The annual Maxim contest has become something of a fixation with Woods, who entered the competition this year for the third time.
The campus was calm and quiet. A few students walked on paths from classes to dorms, and a handful of tourists posed in front of landmarks.Suddenly, Monday afternoon's silence was shattered.
Physician and biomedical ethics expert William Hurlbut squared off against molecular biology and public affairs professor Lee Silver on the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research Monday in a panel moderated by former University president Harold Shapiro GS '64.Hurlbut and Silver agreed that science struggles to set a non-arbitrary line during human development to separate a mere clump of cells from a human being entitled to human rights.Hurlbut, a consulting professor at Stanford University, interpreted this arbitrariness as reason to define life as beginning with conception, which would enable the definition to encompass all the possibilities of an embryo's ontological standing.
Matthew Nickoloff '04 and his girlfriend Leah Cornell held anti-Burger King signs Saturday afternoon by the roadside outside the fast food restaurant on Route 206, protesting Burger King's indifference to its Honduran franchise's unjust firing practices.Cornell and Nickoloff, who works for the Office of Religious Life, held posters for an hour to raise awareness for their cause.Their protest was just one of several demonstrations in the United States and Canada planned by Americans for a More Just Society (AJS). Saturday's protests in more than 15 cities were the culmination of similar protests that have been taking place nationwide since February.AJS organized these protests in response to the illegal actions of the Honduran Burger King franchise last year.
Men in evening gowns and women in suits and ties strutted under the moonlight Saturday night as part of the first All-Ivy Drag Competition."Drag taps into peoples' souls and allows them to live vicariously through me for a moment," said drag queen Hedda Lettuce, one of the event's two emcees.
Beautiful models wearing the hottest designer clothing strolled down the runway Friday night.While the scene could have passed for Paris or Milan, it all took place on the Frist South Lawn at Operation Style, an annual charity fashion show.
New Jersey acting Gov. Richard Codey announced plans to create an ethics panel headed by University President Emeritus Harold Shapiro GS '64 to oversee state-sponsored stem cell research in a speech at the Wilson School on Friday.Codey, a vocal advocate for state-sponsored stem cell research, said the state "cannot afford to wait" before it budgets additional money for stem cell research."Science and the benefits of this research, economically and on a human level, cannot be put on hold until New Jersey's financial stars align," he said.
Senator Paul Sarbanes '54 (D-Md.) spoke about the importance of civil discourse and the open exchange of ideas to a democratic society at a banquet Friday.Speaking to members of Whig-Clio, the senator, a former Wilson School major, praised Whig-Clio for its dedication to these principles.Currently serving a fifth term, he is Maryland's longest-serving senator; he plans to retire this year.
Chinua Achebe ? a Nigerian novelist best known for his 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" ? spoke Friday about Western prejudice and misconceptions of Africa.
Ian Segal '08 loved studying science at the Harvard-Westlake School, a prep school in Los Angeles.
