During adolescence, life for Kellie Ernzen '00 was nomadic.Uprooted from home each time her father changed military posts, Ernzen was exposed to a myriad of Catholic youth groups.
Borough Fire Official William Drake said yesterday that the March 23 fire at the Frist Campus Center destroyed roofing materials and insulation valued between $25,000 and $30,000.The investigation of the fire is still in progress, and Drake said Bureau of Fire Safety and Housing Inspection officials are not yet certain of the cause.
Joining a campaign sweeping across America, a group of four students from the Princeton Conservation Society is spearheading an effort to convince the University to comply with carbon dioxide emission standards outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.The goal of this environmental compact ? signed in December 1997 at the International Climate Summit ? is to combat global warming.
As the New Jersey legislature continues to debate several bills that would require the installation of sprinklers in campus dormitories, the University is preparing for a massive and expensive renovation project.If the bill being considered by the assembly passes, the University will have two years to equip all its dormitory buildings with sprinkler systems."It's definitely safe to say this is the hot topic," a spokesman for Gov.
As part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality of University health care, student peer education groups are sponsoring the second annual Health Awareness Week.
When he's on deadline, Charles Coxe '97 works around the clock to put the finishing touches on his section of the trendy men's magazine Maxim.
When she approached the doors of Scully Hall close to her 2:33 p.m. draw time on the second day of junior room draw, Carlyne Turner '02 was sure she would be home-free and living in the single of her choice during her junior year.But it was not to be."I was really surprised.
The man behind most American foreign policy decisions is someone with whom most Americans are not familiar.
After submitting their theses, most seniors aspire to earn the commendation of their department and high marks from their professors.But the discoveries made by chemical engineering major Ryan Hayward '99 truly raised the eyebrows of his advisors and proved to be the pinnacle of his Princeton academic experience.
Errol Thompson, the man wanted by police for allegedly shooting his wife and shooting at a coworker in the parking lot of the Merwick Rehabilitation Unit on Oct.
University employees have lost a master key to eight dorms and Forbes College, forcing Public Safety and the University Lock Shop to scramble to change the locks on more than 800 dorm room doors, Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said yesterday.The lost key provides access to room doors in Pyne, Spelman, Little, Foulke, Henry, 1901, Laughlin, Lockhart and Forbes ? which house nearly one-quarter of the campus population, Weiser said.According to Weiser, two University employees checked out the master key Friday to perform standard maintenance on several upperclass dorms and later discovered they had lost the key.For security reasons, the University must now change all the door locks in the compromised dorms, Weiser explained.
With six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's temporary U.S. residency set to expire tomorrow, the debate over the Cuban boy's future continues to rage across the country ? and the University campus is no exception.Many professors and students said they believe Gonzalez should be returned to Cuba for a variety of political and personal reasons ? primarily the rights of the boy's father."For good or for ill, we've always accepted the authority of biological parents, and I don't understand why we didn't do so six months ago," said sociology professor Miguel Centeno, who is a Cuban immigrant."The saddest thing is the stereotypical response of American culture.
The Princeton municipal prosecutor has reinstated a drug-related charge against Marc Brodherson '00, whom police arrested last September after they searched his room to find the cause of his roommate's collapse, Emily Hornaday, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor's office, said Friday.Borough Police Lt.
For Neysun Mahboubi '97 ? a recent recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans ? liberty holds greater meaning than it does for most citizens.
ON BOARD A DEHAVALAND DH-6 ? Standing at the hatch of the airplane, cruising at 13,500 feet, Philadelphia is a mere speck and the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.
The University may be required by a New Jersey state initiative to install sprinkler systems in the more than 35 dormitories on campus, according to University spokesman Justin Harmon '78.Though the issue is still pending in the state assembly, a bill passed last month in the state senate would require all New Jersey colleges, universities and boarding schools to install sprinklers in their dormitories within two years.The impact of the bills under review in the assembly is uncertain, Harmon said.
USG president PJ Kim '01 responded at a USG meeting last night to recent assertions in The Daily Princetonian that student responses to the online survey Visions of Princeton fell short of USG goals, leaving his administration without direction.About 600 students responded to the poll that the USG hoped would garner at least 1,000 responses, USG vice president Spence Miller '02 said.Though Kim previously had indicated he would base his agenda on the results of the project, he made statements to the contrary last night.
Several of Princeton's Ph.D. programs received top rankings in U.S. News and World Reports ratings of the nation's graduate schools and programs, released last week.The University's history, mathematics, public affairs, physics, architecture and economics departments all received top-three rankings in the survey."I'm delighted," chair of the history department Philip Nord said of the history Ph.D.
The University has responded to almost 40 false fire alarms sounded from pull stations in the Graduate College since the middle of February, according to Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser.The large number of false alarms has prompted Public Safety to place officers at the Graduate College to watch some of the more frequently used fire alarm pull stations, Weiser said."We had officers over there [Saturday] night," Public Safety Lt.
Jeremy Billetdeaux goes to work five days a week. As a part-time instructor at Yale University, he watches students enter his French class unable to string multiple words together, and leave reading novels, writing essays and commenting on movies.He spends time outside of class, talking with them in his office or over coffee, analyzing their papers and generating grades.
