Students take fun to new heights
Carl Zhang '03"We met down at the OA climbing wall. Paul [Hooper '03] has more experience than I do.
Carl Zhang '03"We met down at the OA climbing wall. Paul [Hooper '03] has more experience than I do.
David Allyn was a lecturer in the history department from 1996 to 1999. His book, "Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered History," was released this month.
Since 1971, the telescope in FitzRandolph Observatory has seen little use. The equipment simply gathered dust, used by only the occasional amateur stargazer.But beginning last summer, a team of University students and faculty headed up by physics professor David Wilkinson began a massive effort to change the dilapidated telescope into a state-of-the-art instrument that could help bring mankind one step closer to contact with extraterrestrial life.Wilkinson's project was prompted by an experiment coordinated by Harvard University professor Paul Horowitz to detect and catalog unexplained polarized light pulses observed in the night sky.Horowitz and Wilkinson had first met years before when Horowitz was still a graduate student at Harvard.
John Little '80 was working on a project at the computer science building in the spring of 1977 when a 13-year-old boy took him across Olden Street to demonstrate the newest computer technology ? the Internet's predecessor, the Advanced Research Project Agency's Net, which is also known as the Arpanet.Dialing up on a primitive machine and using a simple modem, Little was amazed at their ability to access several government-run information resources.As soon as Little realized what he was seeing, he knew that the technology would some day change the world.
MANVILLE, N.J. ? Steve Forbes '70 endorsed former Republican presidential opponent George W.
For most seniors at colleges and universities across the country, spring is a time to savor the college experience before diving headfirst into the 'real world.' But for Princeton seniors, spring is marked by countless late nights in Firestone carrels as they struggle to polish their senior theses.Hyped up on coffee and Wa Bolis at 4 a.m.
Students received a campus-wide e-mail Monday informing them of recent changes to Rights, Rules, Responsibilities that, beginning April 1, will affect the composition of the disciplinary committee and the process through which students can appeal its rulings.The present language of the process calls for students who are appealing committee decisions to take up their complaints with President Shapiro, who has the authority to decide to either uphold, lessen or increase the penalty.
Despite recently announcing the smallest annual percent increases in tuition in three decades, Ivy League officials are finding themselves placed on the defensive about the costs of attending their institutions.Since Princeton announced a 3.3-percent tuition increase to $32,626 in late January, all of the Ivy schools except Columbia University have announced tuition and fee charges for the upcoming year.For each of the colleges, next year's rate of increase is the lowest in recent history.
There is a jazz term that professor Tony Branker '80 defined for his students during a recent class that describes the creation of a brand-new melody over an existing harmonic foundation.Like that technique, Branker adds a dose of his own animation and energy to the academic syllabus of MUS 209/AAS 209: Introduction to Jazz."Clap along.
When the USG launched its Visions of Princeton survey in February, USG president PJ Kim was a man in search of a vision on some of the most important issues his administration was facing.But even after extensive advertising and a decision to extend the survey period to more than 3 weeks, only about 600 students filled out the online poll ? leaving Kim, who had planned to use the survey to set his agenda, without clear goals or direction for his presidency."Our goal [for responses] was over 1,000," USG vice president Spence Miller '02 said.
Anders Chen '01 kept forgetting. He knew that people were starving somewhere around the world, that they lived without houses or clothes or doctors or books and that children died in swaths every day from malnutrition.He knew this.
Firefighters and Public Safety responded to smoky conditions in a second-floor room on the east side of Holder Hall yesterday after a light bulb exploded in a lamp that short-circuited, according to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser.Smoke detectors were triggered by smoke from the explosion at 11:41 a.m.
East Pyne was evacuated for six hours yesterday after an anonymous caller informed Public Safety that a bomb supposedly had been placed in Chancellor Green Cafe.The anonymous call was made at 9:34 a.m.
While most of his classmates wrote LIT 141 papers, Jared Schutz '96 wrote business plans. And while classmates were busy learning how to find their classes, he was finding investors for his Chicago-based Internet service provider, which he co-founded and later sold for $23 million.Several companies and hundreds of million dollars later, Schutz ? the former 'Bluemountain.com wiz' ? is still busy, serving as chairman of three other Internet-based companies across the country.He will speak on the subject of the Internet economy in a speech today at the University.In an interview yesterday, Schutz dismissed his technological success as luck, saying that as investors' interest in the Internet grew, he was "fortunate to be in the right place at the right time."Schutz, who said he never took a computer science course while at the University, explained that he thinks of himself as "more of a business guy than an Internet guy."He recalled that he has always been interested in two things ? computers and politics.
Sometimes a simple e-mail is all it takes. For Jonathan Sills '96, author of ESPN.com's "Behind the Numbers" column, a little bit of initiative went a long way.Sills, an avid ESPN.com user while studying at Oxford University the year after his Princeton graduation, took a special interest in one ESPN column that blended science and sports."I just randomly wrote in one day and asked if they had any interest in doing a similar column on math and sports," said Sills, who majored in engineering and management systems at Princeton.
Separated from the men by an opaque green cotton curtain, sophomore Tzivia Friedman must stand on her toes to peer at her boyfriend on the other side.
In response to student complaints about weekend maintenance of the University's public bathrooms, building services has begun a month-long trial to explore three different cleaning plans.General Manager of Plant and Services Mike McKay said the lack of weekend coverage is a "bad situation.
Since 1994, Princeton students have traveled to Belize for the summer ? teaching adult education classes, coordinating summer camps and beautifying national parks ? to help some of Latin America's less fortunate.But last spring, when the University reduced financial support for the trip, one student and two alumni mobilized to form Princeton Programs with the International Community to ensure that the service program they had enjoyed would continue."[The trip] didn't fit the University's strict educational mission and they wanted to alter some things," said PPIC co-founder and past-president Aaron Michels '00 of the University's decision that prompted him, Sarah Betrucci '98 and Chad Oliver '98 to find other ways to support the Belize trips.According to Associate Dean of Religious Life Sue Anne Steffey Morrow, the University's office of risk management decided the trips to Belize were "not sufficiently in line with the University's primary mission of the education of its students to be a worthy risk."PPIC ? a nonprofit organization that thrives on tax-deductible donations from foundations and individuals ? funds nine-week summer trips to Belize's St.
An increasing number of few, proud, Princeton students have shown they have the mettle to be Marines.Capt.
Cloister Inn was taken off tap last weekend by the club's graduate board, according to club president Maura George '01.