Assistant professor of mathematics Benjamin Sudakov faced a problem during the fall semester as he prepared for his linear algebra class, MAT 202.
The USG Senate unanimously approved three amendments to its constitution on Sunday, including a clause that will make the voting records of each Senate member available to the student body.Under one of the amendments, the vice president is required to ask the Senate before each vote whether there is a motion to take a roll call vote.A roll call vote involves each member being individually called upon to vote on an issue.
Before the weigh-in, Chris Steinbaugh '05 chugged three liters of water."Then I got on the scale, got off the scale and vomited," Steinbaugh said.
African-Americans have lived in the Princeton area as landowners, businessmen, slaves and servants since the 18th century.
When alumnus Miles Gilburne '72 felt that he had gained all he could from his career in the media and entertainment industry, he did more than request a job change.Gilburne left the corporate world and began a nonprofit organization to promote child literacy in Washington, D.C.
A group of Yale University students staged an eight-hour sit-in at Yale's admissions office Thursday to call for reforms to the university's financial aid policy that would make it comparable to those offered at Princeton and Harvard.The doors of the admissions office were locked and prospective students were waved past the building, according to protestors.At 6:30 p.m., the 15 students were issued citations and fined for trespassing."We need to get reform that looks more like [Princeton's] or Harvard's, because it's affecting our admissions," said Julie Gonzales '05 of the Yale Undergraduate Organization Committee (UOC), a group pushing for financial aid reform.Outside, hundreds of students rallied with loudspeakers and drums, protest organizers said.The sit-in came two days after Yale President Richard Levin announced plans to make serious changes to the financial aid policy.
In the opening address of a University conference on world hunger, former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern urged U.S.
Jenna Gelfand '07 and Mark Salzman '07 were officially confirmed last weekend as representatives of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO), a local political group.Gelfand and Salzman will represent District 1, which encompasses a large portion of campus.Princeton students have historically represented this district on the PCDO committee."Our main objective is getting local officials elected from the Democratic party," said Salzman, who called PCDO the "principal Democratic organization in the area" besides the College Democrats.The sophomores will serve as official election officers in the district during local and national elections.Other community representatives will join the two students in their partisan efforts.Frances Schendle '06, president of the College Democrats, recommended Gelfand and Salzman to the PCDO.
The American Mathematical Society has announced that University mathematician Elias Stein will receive the 2005 Stefan Bergman Prize for his work in complex analysis.The Bergman Prize, which includes a cash award of $17,000, honors the memory of the late Stanford mathematician Stefan Bergman, known for his research in several complex variables.Stein was recognized for his research in real, complex and harmonic analysis, which are advanced forms of calculus."Analysis is like the major leagues in calculus," said Mike Breen, a spokesman for the American Mathematical Association.Fellow mathematicians praised Stein's ability as a writer and teacher to make complicated mathematical concepts understandable to non-experts."People are impressed by what are called his expository abilities," Breen said.
Medicine runs in Craig McFarland's blood.The influence of his father, a doctor, along with positive experiences in science courses here, led him to major in molecular biology.Now in his last semester at Princeton, McFarland is faced with the prospect of incorporating his interests into a career path.Though he plans to attend some type of graduate program in the future and is "leaning towards medical school at the moment," McFarland isn't clear about what career path he wants to pursue."It's a little stressful," McFarland said of watching many of his classmates gain acceptances to medical and graduate school programs.
More than a week after the results of a University-wide race survey were released, campus attitudes toward the report and its implications range from skeptical to hopeful.Student leaders and University officials have begun to address concerns raised by the survey, emphasizing the need for collaboration.Vice President of Campus Life Janet Dickerson said in an email, "I was struck by the depth of students' satisfaction, or dissatisfaction with, the dining environment for upperclass students, and the correlations of satisfaction with the current system(s) to race/ethnicity and income."The survey ? presented Feb.
A new student group is working to raise awareness about drug issues and reform drug laws.The Princeton chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), recognized last week by the Student Groups Recognition Committee, already has more than 80 members on its mailing list, said SSDP president Reona Kumagai '06.One of the group's aims is to provide drug education for students at the personal level.
President Bush has promoted University professor Harvey Rosen to chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), the White House announced Wednesday.
As a child growing up in India, Fairy Pardiwalla '05 made rhymes out of the prayers and speeches recited during school assemblies.
The University will sponsor its first all-freshman Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) peer group this week in hopes of building a stronger freshman LGBT community.Debbie Bazarsky, the LGBT student services coordinator, will lead this weekly group "to help first-year students meet each other, get adjusted, and make their transition into Princeton a little easier," she said.The freshmen will gather for lunch each week and discuss a wide range of topics, including coming-out stories, healthy dating and the academic pressures of campus."There are events sponsored by the Pride Alliance, but there isn't necessarily a more anonymous, closed group, where students feel they have a safe space to begin the process of coming out," said James Ashenhurst '08, one of 12 freshmen who have expressed interest in the group.Bazarsky is not advertising the meeting's location, date or time to protect students' confidentiality.She hopes the group will foster unity for new students and prevent openly gay students from becoming closeted, a phenomenon she said happens here a few times each year.
Entrepreneurs, CIA agents and research scientists have been visiting campus this week to participate in Career Week Spring 2005.The week aims to introduce students to careers they may not have considered and to facilitate alumni-student relations through a series of 10 panels and a career fair."The primary goal is to offer programs that expose students to future options because there is a diversity of career options that are not always readily available," said Becky Ross, Associate Director at Career Services.
Pablo Kapusta '05 sat quietly behind the bulletproof glass at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic defended himself against charges of human rights abuses.It was the summer of 2002, and Kapusta was interning across the street at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.He watched the Milosevic testimony as it was simultaneously translated into English, French and Serbo-Croatian and transmitted to the audience through an internal radio system."The fact that a former head of state could be held responsible for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity is a huge step in progress," Kapusta said, noting the explosion of international law in the past 15 years.He hopes to soon contribute to that field.Kapusta, a Wilson School major, has applied to law schools at Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas.
The Princeton Healthcare Task Force presented a review of proposals to relocate or expand the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) at a Borough Council meeting Tuesday night.The hospital would need to expand to more than 11.76 acres by 2010 if it does not relocate, according to Marvin Reed, chair of the Princeton Healthcare Task Force and former mayor and councilman, who presented the results of the study.The current hospital facility covers 5.63 acres on Witherspoon Street.If the hospital is not relocated, the task force suggested expanding to Franklin Avenue and constructing a 13-story building and a six-level parking garage.If the hospital is relocated, Reed recommended the council permit the property to be rezoned for redevelopment.The task force emphasized the importance of facilitating transportation to the hospital if it relocates.
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers avoided a vote of confidence in an emergency faculty meeting held Tuesday, but the controversy over his leadership continues to dominate discussion around the country and at Princeton, where professors are considering possible trickle-down effects.At the meeting, Jeremy Knowles, former dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, proposed a three-professor committee to serve as a link between Summers and the faculty ? but professors quickly rejected the idea as "undemocratic," The Harvard Crimson reported."There was consensus on all sides that further consultation is needed," Harvard psychology department chair Daniel Schacter said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.
Wilson School Associate Dean and professor David Bradford, a prominent labor economist and former White House adviser, died Tuesday morning from injuries sustained in a fire in his home two weeks ago.
