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Dorm cleaning sparks controversy

Dorm cleaning sparks controversy

A student-run dorm cleaning service that has attracted controversy and national media attention might soon come to the University.Fraternal entrepreneurs Matthew Kopko '08 and Harvard sophomore Michael Kopko plan to launch DormAid at both Princeton and Harvard next month.Currently available only at Boston College, DormAid hires professionals to vacuum, dust, wash, organize and otherwise spiff up dirty dorm rooms.The company made national headlines after an editorial in the Harvard Crimson urged a student boycott of DormAid."By creating yet another differential between the haves and have-nots on campus, DormAid threatens our student unity," the Crimson Editorial Board wrote.The Kopko brothers have defended their business in interviews with The New York Times and radio talk show hosts.

NEWS | 03/23/2005

Finalists for trustee named

Seniors Azalea Kim, Matt Margolin and Antoinette Seaberry, having earned the most votes from a field of 26 candidates, will compete in a runoff election for a spot on the University Board of Trustees.The online primary election ended March 3 with 708 senior votes.

NEWS | 03/22/2005

Getting their feet wet

The pool at Dillon Gymnasium will be filled with swimmers nearly every day this week, but they will look a little different than usual.

NEWS | 03/22/2005

Committee promotes creative arts

President Tilghman has established a faculty task force to examine the future of arts programs at the University in an effort to make it an international leader in the creative and performing arts."Our mission is to report back to the president with a kind of vision for the creative arts at Princeton," said Stanley Allen GS '88, dean of the School of Architecture and chair of the task force.

NEWS | 03/22/2005

Assembly votes on smoking ban

Smoking may become illegal in all dorms next year if a bill to ban smoking in college dormitories passes in the New Jersey State Assembly.The State Senate passed the bill unanimously last week.Earlier this year, the University enacted a smoking ban in undergraduate dorm rooms that will take effect this fall.

NEWS | 03/22/2005

Minimum wage raised by $2

The New Jersey State Assembly approved a $2 increase in the state minimum wage last week.University officials said the law will have no immediate effect on employees at Princeton, but student wages are expected to rise in coming years.The increase will take place in stages over the next two years and will raise the current minimum wage of $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour in October 2005 and $7.15 an hour by 2006.Because all University employees are paid above the current minimum wage, the changes will have no immediate affect, according to media relations officer Eric Quinones and Director of Student Employment Betty Ashwood."All University employees are paid above the minimum wage, so the state increase will not have an effect on campus," Quinones said in an email.In October 2006, the minimum wage will surpass the lowest-paying job rate for students, which is currently $6.45 an hour."In the 2006-07 year, we will have to review the sitting job rate, or the lowest student wage rate at Princeton," Ashwood said.

NEWS | 03/22/2005

Spotted history aside, Opus Dei forges close campus links

Growing up in the small port city of Alton, Ill., Tom Haine '08 never expected to attend an Ivy League school.

NEWS | 03/21/2005

From bachelors to bottles, Tigers trade unusual items online

TigerTrade, the Princeton online auction network formerly known as pBay, has almost everything: from computer parts, sandals and toasters to textbooks and video games, all available for purchase by student bidders.

NEWS | 03/21/2005

Students win top math prize

Two University students were recently named among the top five performers in a prestigious nationwide mathematics competition.

NEWS | 03/21/2005

Morning tests move to 9 a.m.

Students studying into the wee hours for final exams will have a bit of consolation this spring.Morning exams will be pushed back from 8:30 a.m.

NEWS | 03/21/2005

Shrines on exhibit subject of debate

Featuring a life-size architectural reconstruction of the Wu Family Shrines, a new exhibit at the University Art Museum highlights the controversy surrounding the shrines' true identity.For centuries, scholars have viewed the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong province of China as a central source of information on the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

A look back: Kennan discusses Soviet leadership

Editor's Note: Shortly after Khruschev resigned power in the Soviet Union, the 'Prince' interviewed George F.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

Known worldwide, at home in Princeton

George F. Kennan '25 was crying. He browsed the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald '17's "The Great Gatsby," moved by its descriptions of a Midwesterner's life in the Northeast.I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known . . . They were careless people, Tom and Daisy ? they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together.Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" lured Kennan to Princeton ? climbing with clear blue aspiration, the great dreaming spires of Holder and Cleveland towers ? but he found himself ill-suited to the elitism of the eating club system and the rigor of the coursework.As recalled in a biography of the men who created the U.S.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

Memories of writing thesis, meeting Kennan

The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan '25, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

Student body to increase next year

The University announced last week that it will increase the size of the student body sooner and more gradually than originally planned by aiming to enroll 28 additional students in the Class of 2009.The increase ? which will bring the class population to 1,226 students ? is part of a plan to increase the student body by 11 percent by 2012.Under the revised expansion plan, approved by the Trustee Executive Committee on Feb.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

Alumnus, IAS professor emeritus dies after trailblazing career as diplomat

Almost a decade and a half after the Soviet Union collapsed, George F. Kennan '25, the celebrated diplomat and historian whose ideas became the foundation of American cold war policy, died Thursday in his Princeton home.

NEWS | 03/20/2005

Firing up a lecture

Outside Frick Laboratory, a member of the men's track team prepares for a unique race. Dressed as Zorro and wielding a plastic sword, he races a fuse burning its way down a strip of aluminum foil covered in gun powder.This is not the filming of a low-budget remake of the "Mask of Zorro"; it's CHM 215.The gunpowder race is part of the course taught by chemistry professors Robert Cava and Robert Pascal.

NEWS | 03/10/2005

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