For the third straight year, US News and World Report confirms what most University students already know: Princeton is No.
It seems to be cropping up all over campus. You may have noticed the signs: the high-pitched beeping of trucks, the mechanical growls of construction cranes, the purr of jackhammers.Construction projects have been changing the face of campus for years, and this year is no different.Over the summer, crews finished renovations to Dod Hall; continued work on the genomics institute, a new dormitory, 185 Nassau St., McCarter Theatre, the art library and East Pyne, Green and Robertson halls; and broke ground on the Witherspoon Hall project.The construction on Dod included a full restoration of the dormitory and the addition of elevators, said Jon Hlafter '61, director of physical planning.In addition to replacing the parking area on the west side of Dod with a new pedestrian plaza and drop-off area, crews completed many landscaping projects including replacing walks in the Joline/Campbell courtyard with bluestone and cobblestone as part of a master plan to restore the campus's historic areas, Hlafter said.Crews also completed the Class of 1948 Plaza by West College over the summer."I think that a number of our grounds projects have been completed," Hlafter said.However, the building department has far to go.
The University announced the appointment of nine alumni to the board of trustees on June 19.The group of new trustees represents a varied collection of post-University experiences ranging from two politicians to a longtime Trenton community activist.Among those new trustees elected by the alumni body, current students and the sitting trustees are two African-American alumni, one of whom is female.The board appointed former Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine '56, Maryland Sen.
One year and one day after the United States suffered terrorist attacks that spurred a host of tighter immigration laws, three foreign University students missed their first day of classes yesterday because they had not received visas.One delayed student is a freshman from a Middle Eastern country, and the other is a visiting student from England with a Middle Eastern name, University officials said.A graduate student from China is also delayed, but his case seems unrelated, they said.Officials have kept the names of the students secret to avoid hurting their chances of getting the visa.It is unclear whether the students will arrive in time to take part in this year's classes.Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Marianne Waterbury, who runs University visa services, said the two undergraduates have had their visa requests approved but have not received them yet."Their local embassy is more than willing to give them the visas," she said.The student from China faces delays because of U.S.
The University received the green light last week from local authorities to build new graduate student apartments as part of its efforts to alleviate the current housing shortage.The University's plan calls for seven structures to be built on a new roadway called Lawrence Drive, which will intersect Alexander Road near Basin Street.The construction will help alleviate the growing dearth of low-cost housing for graduate students, which became a hot issue last spring during the final meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.The buildings will eventually provide 206 new units of housing for roughly 225 graduate students.Although the University still faces a housing shortage, plans for the new apartments will chip away at what has become a major concern for the Graduate Student Government.The apartments will allow the University to house roughly 80 percent of the students.
Princeton University doesn't seem all that important when you're 3,000 miles away. Sitting here in the room I grew up in, with the Michael Jordan poster collecting dust on top of my stereo and the hardcore band posters taped up ever-so-artistically to my wall, I don't really feel like I belong to Princeton.
This year's Outdoor Action and Community Action pre-frosh programs both had record numbers of trips, buoyed by a significant increase in student leaders.As a result, neither program put any applicants on the waitlist."A lot of people went through [OA] leader training last May," program director Rick Curtis '79 said.
A new online registration program, Student Course Online Registration Engine, became available to undergraduate and graduate students Monday.
Annual giving to the University by alumni, parents and friends fell this past fiscal year for the first time after eight consecutive years of gains.
Looking around the room at an Ivy League newspaper editors conference at Brown in the spring of his senior year, Richard Just '01 noticed something.
Almost three years ago, Richard Just '01, soon to be the 124th 'Prince' editor-in-chief, had a vision for expanding the paper's intellectual scope beyond the occasional in-depth look at campus dynamics.
It was not a memorial. It was not a commemoration or a remembrance per se. Instead, it was something that seemed a better fit for the University's heavily academic climate ? an intellectual discussion.The Wilson School held a panel yesterday afternoon titled "Legacies of Sept.
On a day of heightened national concern, a truck leaking medicalwaste yesterday on Witherspoon St.
The tropical humidity made the air so thick with moisture that my fingers stuck to each thin strand of the net, causing my task to be more difficult than I imagined.
With the first Monday of classes coinciding with Yom Kippur, the registrar has switched Friday and Monday classes to accommodate the Jewish holiday.Classes will be on a normal schedule today, but tomorrow all students will head to the classes they would normally attend on Monday.The swap completes Monday when the usual Friday courses will be held.
Professor Alexander Nehamas GS '71 recited a poem by Seamus Heaney titled "Anything Can Happen."USG President Nina Langsam '03 read a passage from the Bible book of Lamentations, emphasizing that "God does not willingly try to hurt anyone."In bleachers and on the grass, the crowd sang "Amazing Grace."As hundreds of students, faculty, staff and community members gathered on Cannon Green last night in recognition of the anniversary of last September's unforgettable tragedy, a contemplative quiet reflected the solemnity of the occasion.The medley of musical selections, poetry readings and other thoughts shared by program participants revealed the diversity of personal responses to Sept.
Half of this year's freshman class is receiving financial aid, a record-high percentage, the University announced this week.That figure is much higher than figures from the past two years and higher than other Ivy League universities' numbers.Forty percent of the Class of 2004 received financial aid in its first year, and 46 percent of the Class of 2005 received aid its first year.The percentage of the Class of 2006 receiving financial aid at Princeton is also significantly higher than at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.Yale spokesman Tom Violante said 39.9 percent of Yale's freshman class is receiving aid, and Penn spokeswoman Jessica Reitano said 42.7 percent of Penn's Class of 2006 is receiving aid in the form of both grants and loans.Those figures have increased from last year, officials from both universities said.Because the University has awarded financial aid to more students over the past few years, more applicants who are accepted have chosen to enroll.The University offered admission to 10.9 percent of applicants last year, a record low, and the percentage of accepted applicants who chose to enroll ? the yield ? was approximately 73.6 percent, a record high, according to a press release.The yield for applicants who needed financial aid "was as high or higher than we've had over a number of years," said Don Betterton, director of the University's financial aid program.Both the increase in the percentage of students receiving financial aid and the increased yield were affected by the significant changes made to the financial aid program over the last several years, Betterton said.
The International Balzan Foundation named history professor Anthony Grafton winner of the Balzan Prize on Tuesday.The foundation seeks to acknowledge outstanding achievement in science, culture and humanitarian causes by annually awarding four prizes, each carrying a grant of 1,000,000 Swiss francs ? equivalent to $667,000.Because of the secret nature of the selection process, Grafton did not know of his nomination.
The campus' brown lawns remind students daily that New Jersey is in the midst of the worst drought it has seen in a century."As you can tell, [the lawns are] all parched.
