A bill encouraging colleges to leave privately-sponsored student loan programs for a federal program was introduced in the U.S.
Princeton University Press named Peter Dougherty, a 33-year publishing veteran, as its new director Wednesday, following a Tuesday meeting of its Board of Trustees.Dougherty will take the position after current director Walter Lippincott '60 retires at the end of June.Dougherty joined the Press in 1992 as senior economics editor and was later promoted to group publisher for the social sciences."My goal for the Press is to concentrate our efforts on signing and publishing the major books in the field in which we publish," Dougherty said, while seeking a blaance of books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.He plans to continue the progress Lippincott made, building on "the many great things [Lippincott] did for the Press" as director.But he also intends to broaden the Press' reach to incorporate "a strong international emphasis" in the kinds of books it publishes and how those books are marketed, following the lead of the Press' 2000 international bestseller "Irrational Exuberance," by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller.Dougherty helped publish the Press' books on economics, higher education and public affairs and was responsible for supervising sociology and political science editors.He has edited the books of seven Nobel prizewinning economists, as well as works by former Princeton University President William Bowen and former Harvard University President Derek Bok's book about the role of race in university admissions.After coming to Princeton, he also edited "The Essential John Nash," a book coauthored by Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind."Managing editor Elizabeth Byrd said she is "tickled pink and think[s] Peter Dougherty is a wonderful choice."She added, "I am expecting great things from Peter; I have absolute confidence in him."In addition to editing, Dougherty wrote "Who's Afraid of Adam Smith?: How the Market Got Its Soul," which was published in 2002 by John Wiley and Sons.The book discusses how economists use Smith's writings to explain how economic markets create fiscal and social capital.Dougherty has also written articles about economics and culture that have run in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.Before coming to Princeton, Dougherty was an editor at five publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill and St.
Course offerings posted on the Registrar's website Thursday included a new listing of courses on "race, ethnicity and cross-cultural encounter."Though a listing of cross-cultural courses has been included in the paper catalog in previous semesters, the Registrar's Office posted the information online in response to a request from USG officers, who said they wanted to give the courses a higher profile."We wanted to emphasize the importance of courses dealing with civic engagement and we also wanted to emphasize the cross-cultural courses, especially given the results of the race survey," said USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06.University administrators said that, despite the heightened visibility, they have no plans to introduce a cross-cultural distribution requirement."Last time the University reconsidered general requirements . . . a decision was made not to make these courses a requirement, based on evidence that almost all students, of their own choice, took courses that considered race and culture," Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin said.Dobin said the primary objective of the change was to correct an oversight, not emphasize cross-cultural courses."We're simply trying to make the online course offerings more friendly and useful," Dobin said.
NEW YORK ? President Tilghman on Thursday rekindled the debate over why some women do not advance as far as men in science and engineering, saying they face a host of social challenges including a "natural human instinct" by men to hire other men.The view contrasts with recent controversial comments by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers that "intrinsic aptitude" might account for the difference in male and female success in the sciences.Speaking at an initiative to promote women in science at Columbia University on Thursday, Tilghman said, "For the foreseeable future, we will have to be eternally vigilant to the way in which the societal image of what constitutes a successful scientist or engineer is working against women in those fields."She emphasized that there is no "silver bullet" and that combating gender stereotypes does not mean applying different standards to men and women."I have a huge advantage," she said.
Only occasionally does an intelligible word emerge from the garbled sounds of "Idle Chatter," the computer-created composition of music professor Paul Lansky GS '78.
Chancellor Green Cafe will offer a whirlwind tour of French vineyards tonight with a wine sampling that includes Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs and Champagnes.
A team of three chemical engineering graduate students ? Warren Hogarth, James Nehlsen and Swaroop Chatterjee ? won the seventh annual Business Plan Contest for their proposal of a new fuel cell design for laptop computers.During the Feb.
As the battle to determine whether Florida woman Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be reinserted continues, Princeton-area Representative Rush Holt (D-N.J.) denounced Congress' recent intervention in the case.Holt, who is the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, said in a statement to The Daily Princetonian that with this action, Congress "has set aside principles that have served America well for more than 200 years and inserted itself into the hospital rooms and doctors' offices of every American."The impassioned ethical debate surrounding Schiavo's care has accelerated since her feeding tube was removed last week.
When Emily Thornton '05 started dating her boyfriend, she didn't expect her relationship to spark an idea for her senior thesis.
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.
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.
The pool at Dillon Gymnasium will be filled with swimmers nearly every day this week, but they will look a little different than usual.
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.
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.
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.
Growing up in the small port city of Alton, Ill., Tom Haine '08 never expected to attend an Ivy League school.
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.
Two University students were recently named among the top five performers in a prestigious nationwide mathematics competition.
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.
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.
