Joseph Nye '58, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and University president emeritus Harold Shapiro GS '64 will be honored by the University on Alumni Day next February for their professional accomplishments.On Feb.
Before Josh Probst '06 even arrived at Princeton as a freshman in the fall of 2000, he knew he would not be coming back the following year.Probst, originally a member of the Class of 2004, has spent the past two years fulfilling a promise he made to himself a long time ago: to voluntarily spend a portion of his life in the service of his church, acting as a missionary in the developing world."I really feel that I owe so much to God . . . [Taking] two years of my life [to be a missionary] wouldn't be really sacrificing anything but gaining something," Probst said.After completing his freshman year at the University, Probst set out to spread the gospel ? one of approximately 60,000 missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A new way of lifeProbst's assignment to the LDS Church's mission in Brazil meant he would have to learn Portuguese, the nation's official language.He and his fellow young missionaries ? most of whom were under the age of 25 ? underwent two months of training in S
It's surprising that John Andrews '65, who has edited editions of Shakespeare's plays and several scholarly journals, wasn't always a Bardophile.
As part of its increasing effort to improve intellectual life on campus, the undergraduate U-Council is dubbing this week ? Nov.
A five-day festival celebrating Czech cinema and food will seek to educate the University community on what organizers see as a little-known but incredibly rich culture.Initiated by members of last year's freshman seminar titled "Prague, Vienna, and Cultures of Central Europe," the week began last night with a viewing of a documentary highlighting the seminar's trip to Czechoslovakia.Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Mirjam Fried and her seminar students realized the importance of gaining firsthand exposure to Czech culture last year when they journeyed to the country as part of their course work."The Festival became part of the planning for the trip itself," Fried said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor praised the late Justice John Marshall Harlan '20 last night for the "legacy of respect" he built during 16 years on the nation's highest court ? years defined by a states' rights advocacy O'Connor has inherited.As an audience including Harlan's daughter, two federal judges and three New Jersey Supreme Court justices looked on in Richardson Auditorium, O'Connor highlighted the pragmatic aspects of her predecessor's record in the inaugural Harlan Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication of the Program in Law and Public Affairs."In his respect for tradition, the individual liberties of all people, the federal system of government, the separation of powers and the craft of constitutional adjudication itself, Justice Harlan is a model for all of us who have been given the delicate task of interpreting the Constitution," said O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.At times, it was hard to escape the parallels between the judicial philosophies of Harlan and O'Connor.
Interest in the study of Africa ? both on campus and through study abroad ? has grown significantly in recent years, demonstrated by the University's increased funding of the African Studies program and the growth of faculty and student involvement in the area.By founding the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, which provides added resources to the African Studies Program, the University demonstrated administrative interest through funding, program director Emmanuel Kreike said.The additional monetary support follows the steady increase in the number of faculty members in the African Studies program, which has grown from 12 in 1997 to 22 this year, Kreike said.The growth did not necessarily result from a centrally planned effort, Kreike added."Individual departments on their own added African specialists," he said.
Kevin Carranza '05 is king of the dining hall. And he is always ready to rule.Nobody is sitting at the card checking station outside Rockefeller College dining hall one recent Thursday night at 5:30.
University Geophysicist W. Jason Morgan GS '64 received the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony on Nov.
Public Safety officers discovered nine burglarized cars parked in student parking lots 21, 23 and 23A Thursday and Friday, Steven Healy, director of Public Safety, said.The cars showed evidence of forced entry that suggested the suspects broke a window to enter the vehicles and stole radios, removable radio plates and other miscellaneous items such as CDs, Healy said."We believe between two and three individuals came to campus between Wednesday at 11 p.m.
Steven Healy has been the University's director of Public Safety since Jan. 1. Before coming to Princeton, Healy was the police chief at Wellesley College.
The University's undergraduate admission office witnessed a large drop in early decision applications received this fall, the number declining by between 23 and 25 percent from last year, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.The decline follows last year's all-time high, when the office received 2,350 early applications for the Class of 2007, an increase of 11 percent over the Class of 2006.Though Rapelye confirmed the University had received fewer early applications this year, she warned that the figure is merely an approximation and that last-minute submissions and a postal workers' strike in the United Kingdom mean applications are still trickling into 110 West College.Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities all saw significant changes in their early application numbers as well, The New York Times reported.Harvard saw early numbers drop 47 percent while Yale and Stanford witnessed the opposite swing, with their early numbers rising 42 and 62 percent respectively.Some admissions officials and college counselors said they believe this year's fluctuation in applicant numbers has to do with the revamped structure of early admissions programs at these schools.Last year, both Yale and Stanford had early decision programs that required applicants to matriculate if accepted.
The University might be alien and intimidating to most freshmen first setting foot on campus, and one might guess that, for home-schooled students who have never spent a day in a classroom, the experience seems earth-shattering.
This weekend the University Triangle Club will celebrate its 113th anniversary as it performs this year's fall show, "For Love or Funny," at McCarter Theatre.
Four Princeton scientists and faculty members are involved in a new center that will be founded to focus on the behavior of plasma: Dr. Maasaki Yamada and Dr. Hantao Ji from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and Professors Jeremy Goodman and Russell Kulsrud from the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.Plasma is a hot, charged gas prevalent throughout the universe.
The University demonstrated its love for tigers this week when the it agreed to give $10,000 to aid the transport and housing of 24 Bengal tigers confiscated on Tuesday from a compound in Jackson Township, N.J., by the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection, said Director of Community and State Affairs Pam Hersh."We were also encouraged to help by members of the University community who recognized our institutional attachment to the tiger as our mascot and symbol," Hersh said in an email.The tigers, which are considered an endangered species, were seized in a raid by a unit of the State Division of Fish and Wildlife that included a sharpshooter, The New York Times reported.The compound belonged to Joan Byron-Marasek, a former zoo performer with the nickname "Tiger Lady" who in 1976 founded the Tigers Only Preservation Society, according to the Times.New Jersey has been trying to remove the tigers from the Jackson Township compound since January 1999 when one was discovered roaming loose in the streets, the Times reported.After winning a legal battle to gain possession of the tigers, however, the state encountered the problem of funding an evacuation that will cost approximately $240,000.Hersh said the DEP approached the University with a request that it financially aid the transportation of the tigers to the Wild Animal Orphanage near San Antonio, Texas, some 1,300 miles from Jackson Township."The DEP is an agency with whom we work extensively and [we] often ask them for help and advice," Hersh said.
The Princeton Justice Project, a student group designed to address social injustice, removed itself from the sponsorship of the Pace Center for Community Service after the University raised concerns about the partisan nature of the group.The PJP has now registered as a student group with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
She makes it to the front stoop of the eating club and comes to a stop. She didn't forget her pass; she has her University ID card.Eloise Salmon '07 can't enter the club because of the three steps blocking her way.
In her first year, new admission dean Janet Rapelye has overseen the revamping of the University's viewbook for prospective students, which now includes extensive, detailed course descriptions.
Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, raised questions to make students rethink their daily ethical choices this past Tuesday in the second of a series of ethics discussions sponsored by the Office of Religious Life.Singer ? whom Wilson College assistant master Eliot Ratzman GS introduced as "the most influential intellectual in the field of ethics" ? focused the discussion on issues of ethical spending and humane treatment of animals."What is it that entitles us to treat nonhuman animals as badly as we do?" Singer asked his audience, and compared the mistreatment of animals today to the treatment of black slaves in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Singer said that though he does not label himself a staunch vegan, he chooses to live a vegan lifestyle in all possible situations.
