The 125th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian leaves 48 University Place with this issue. The 'Prince' will resume publication on Feb.
The recent controversy over Cornel West GS '80's status as a professor at Harvard University has attracted attention to Princeton University's Program in African-American studies.The program ? founded in 1969 ? awards certificates, but not degrees, to seniors, who must major in another department.
Politics professor Robert George was named Wednesday to President Bush's Council on Bioethics, a new panel that will explore the ethical consequences of scientific research.
It's funny how much aesthetics matter at this school.Princeton is supposed to be filled with great minds that are able to grasp complex theories and higher levels of thinking that are on the cutting edge of education and morality.
Shortly before the beginning of winter break, FBI agents made sample copies on all 45 of the University's publicly accessible copying machines as part of the bureau's on-going anthrax investigation.Ted McLaughlin, who runs the Photographic Services office in Firestone Library, is in charge of publicly accessible machines on campus, which allow anyone with a pre-paid access card to make copies.
The Rev. Ernest Gordon, a former prisoner of war who was University chaplain emeritus and dean of the University Chapel from 1955 to 1981, died Wednesday morning at Princeton Medical Center.
With only three months to go before the scheduled event, the USG has abandoned plans for a spring concert in the University stadium, according to a student government official familiar with the stadium concert discussions.The decision was made during the first week of reading period in a closed-door session of the USG Senate."The USG leadership just decided that they hadn't done their homework on getting a good band," the official, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
Three years after the University banned the Nude Olympics, the sophomore class and West College have finally agreed on an alternative class bonding activity.Recent discussions between 2004 class officers, the Interclub Council and the University administration have resulted in a plan to hold the first day of Bicker and sign-ins in the nude at all clubs, according to ICC advisor Alice Teti '00."Some of the sophomore class officers had approached me with this idea a couple of months ago," Teti said.
In a stunning development, the University Jewish community has decided to boycott Tower Club Bicker in early February.
She forcefully opened the door and rushed to her seat. Outside, the wind gently howled, picking up not one or two, but many leaves on its way to the Atlantic.
Shortly before the beginning of the winter recess in December, FBI agents came to campus to make sample copies on all 45 of the University's publicly accessible copying machines.The FBI is investigating letters containing anthrax bacteria, which were mailed from the Trenton area in October.
TRENTON ? James E. McGreevey was sworn in as New Jersey's 51st governor yesterday in a ceremony at Trenton's War Memorial.Declaring in his inaugural speech that New Jersey and the nation are facing a time like none other, McGreevey called upon New Jersey residents to build upon the spirit of community that was forged after Sept.
Rutgers University photocopiers were examined by FBI agents Friday for possible links to the four letters laced with anthrax that were mailed through a Trenton-area post office last year.The tainted letters were addressed to prominent politicians and journalists and were mailed just a few weeks after the Sept.
The University announced Friday that Director of Health Services Pamela Bowen will resign at the end of the academic year.
The Workers' Rights Organizing Committee held a forum Thursday as part of its continuing effort to address the needs and concerns of the University's low-wage workers.The forum, specifically for workers, was poorly attended, organizers believe, because of a scheduled dinner being held that day in the dining halls.
I grew up with the dispute between India and Pakistan constantly in the news. Poverty in India, a nation of one billion people, was and continues to be a distant second in media coverage.
When my generation was growing up, we heard our Pakistani families heatedly discuss the India-Pakistan conflict, the dangers of war and the waves of internal political and social unrest ? all of which combined to leave a deep impression on our young psyches.After 50 years of independence, the same issues repeatedly return to haunt us Pakistanis because we never moved forward from square one.
I've been going to the Arab section of Jerusalem's Old City every other week for the last two months, even though the university where I'm studying tells us it's not safe to do so.
At a meeting last week to explore potential traffic solutions in the West Windsor area, President Tilghman said the University would not develop the land it is purchasing from the Sarnoff Corporation during her tenure.Later in the meeting, the head of the Penns Neck Environmental Impact Statement Partners Roundtable ? the group that organized the meeting ? resigned for unrelated reasons.These meetings aim to balance development and environmental concerns in central New Jersey, where traffic congestion has soared during the past decade.The University agreed in October to purchase 90 acres of Sarnoff's West Windsor campus.The land will not be purchased, however, until West Windsor Township approves Sarnoff's overall development plan, said Robert Durkee '69, the University vice president for public affairs.Since the beginning of the University's discussions with Sarnoff, he said, the University has said the land would not be developed in the near future.
Donald Clayton Spencer, mathematics professor emeritus, died of a heart attack on Dec. 23 in Durango, Colorado.
