"These are frightening times," Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, dean of the Wilson School, told an overcapacity audience at Dodds Auditorium yesterday.
Stephen LeMenager, removed from the University admissions office last summer after breaching a Yale University admissions website, has been appointed new director of planning and administration for campus life.LeMenager has been a University administrator since 1983, spending 18 years in the admissions office and rising to the position of Director of Admission.LeMenager received much of the blame last summer when it was discovered staffers of the University admissions office had breached Yale University's admission website, the 'Prince' reported.He was removed from the office last August, and has since worked as senior director of special projects in the communications office, according to a University press release.LeMenager's new position, in the office of Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, will include financial planning, work on the 500-student increase recommended by the Wythes Committee, and planning for the campus health and wellness center, according to the press release.The University announced LeMenager's appointment on the University website during break.
No changes are planned in the University schedule because of the war with Iraq.University officials say, however, that they are strengthening security and disseminating emergency guidelines while health and religion officials stand ready to help members of the community in need.Students return to class today from Spring Break during a military conflict that has claimed several dozen allied lives in its first four days and revealed some of the worst ground fighting in a generation.
Brown students stage walkout in protest of warPROVIDENCE, R.I. (U-WIRE) ? At noon on Thursday, cruise missiles pummeled the city of Baghdad, protestors gathered by the thousands worldwide and at Brown University, President Ruth Simmons walked unnoticed past several hundred students on her way to University Hall, newly barricaded by wire fences.
Princeton students last month found an email survey in their inboxes. The survey, which began by asking students to take a time out to fill in the circles, wanted to know how much time students spend on various activities out of the classroom.
(WASHINGTON POST) Against a backdrop of artillery fire and screaming jetplanes, U.S. Marines fought their most pitched battle of the five-day-old war in Iraq today when they captured two bridges critical to the U.S.
The USG and Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding have established the Monthly Cultural Leaders Summit, a collection of representatives from various minority groups on campus.Its first meeting was held on March 7.Though in the past, both organizations have made similar efforts, this is the first time the two have worked together to form such a summit.The collaboration of the USG and the Fields Center will provide a greater incentive for multicultural student groups to send and continue sending representatives to the summit's meetings, William Robinson '04, Undergraduate Life Committee Chair, said."It would be run through the Fields Center," Robinson said.
Borough Police arrested and charged three University students with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway Thursday when they sat in the middle of Nassau Street bound to each other with piping to protest the war with Iraq.
President Bush has matured into a leader with a vision and seems to grasp the international challenges posed by a war with Iraq, said a top analyst of the presidency at the Wilson School yesterday.Fred Greenstein, a Wilson School professor emeritus and leading scholar of presidential leadership, referred to Bush's recent prime time press conference and said, "With what was the length of his answers, what was the density of his responses, you could see someone who was far more up to speed than he was before."The lecture titled "Presidential Leadership Wartime: The Case of George W.
Nineteen months after the Office of Computing and Information Technology was renamed the Office of Information Technology, and eight months after the complete restructuring of campus information technology services, administrators said they are pleased with the results of these changes.The Office of Computing and Information Technology was formed in 1986 under the leadership of Chief Information Officer Ira Fuchs as an attempt to unify technological services on campus.In September 2001, with new CIO Betty Leydon in charge, CIT was reborn as the Office of Information Technology, and in July 2002 OIT was significantly restructured to provide better services to the University."The focus during CIT was to provide great technology to campus.
To this day ? Albert Einstein's 124th birthday ? his altruism and genius still hold a ubiquitous presence in the realm of physics, Zionism, pacifism and even in certain offices of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.
David Denby, film critic for the New Yorker magazine, lamented the state of modern movies at a talk to a filled McCosh 50 last night.The longtime critic and author gave his picks, pans and predictions about the industry while revealing the "nuts and bolts" of the life of a film critic ? what he described as "morose creatures of the city dipping in and out of shadows seeking enchantment."According to Denby, the "golden age" was the '70s, when film schools churned out a crop of new directors by the names of Lucas, Spielberg and Scorcese.Denby said a "ghastly new style" has come into place, a style of production and distribution he described as "the conglomerate aesthetic" which depends on reaching masses and making money."Six conglomerates control eight production companies," he said.
A new student publication, The Internationalist, will launch early next month and aim not only to inform Princeton students about international affairs, but also to act as a forum for university students around the globe to engage in dialogue about the challenges facing their countries and the world."We want people with only passing interest in foreign affairs to be gripped by our magazine," said Adam Frankel '03, who co-founded the magazine.
With midterms and the worst winter weather in years behind them, many students will take spring break as an opportunity to relax and recuperate.
Amid a tangled maze of wires and shiny steel enclosures on the ground floor of Frick Laboratory, Chemistry Professors Kevin Lehmann and Giacinto Scoles are overseeing an investigation into the behavior of energy within individual molecules.
The president of Colonial Club was issued a summons Monday for serving a minor and maintaining a nuisance, Borough Police Lt.
Three weeks after Amir Rosenfeld finished his graduate exams, he walked to his local recruiting station and, like every other Israeli youth, joined the military.
Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed's decision not to run for reelection Friday has prompted praise of his accomplishments, while at least one candidate has made public his intention to vie for the empty seat.Reed, a Democrat, said his decision to retire made sense because of the timing of the Borough's projects."A lot of those things came to fruition this year so I have the rest of the year to finish them," said Reed, 71.University Director of Community and State Affairs Pam Hersh praised Reed for his commitment to the job.
The University announced the three finalists in the running for the Class of 2003's Young Alumni Trustee yesterday.
While Dan Pastor '03 was walking down the Street, he found out he'd soon be flying down to Chile with the support of the Martin Dale '53 Fellowship.Pastor, a politics major, discovered he had won the fellowship last month when Associate Dean of the College Clair Fowler happened to see him, Pastor said.He was shocked.
