A number of thefts and robberies have occurred on Nassau Street and in Palmer Square in the past few weeks, according to press releases from the Princeton Police Department. On Feb.
Three students and two alumni were awarded the 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.David Abugaber ’14, Isabel Kasdin ’14, Madeline McMahon ’13, Elizabeth Presser ’10 and Simone Sasse ’14 will study at the University of Cambridge. Theywere offered the scholarship via email on Feb.
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker ’49 criticized the current state of democracy in America in a Wilson School lecture on Friday. Volcker explained that the topic of the lecture would be “Good Governance,” examining the current state of the United States’ governing bodies and whether or not they are meeting the needs of citizens. “In that context, my speech can be both definitive and exceedingly short,” Volcker said.
The USG has recently launched a new design of their official website. USG president Shawon Jackson '15 explained that they decided to redesign the website to make it easier for students to use. “We decided to redesign the website because we wanted to have a sleeker design," Jackson said.
Terrace Club was the most popular sign-in club for the second year in a row, with over 130 total students signed in.
Cap & Gown Club was the most selective and most bickered eating club for the second year in a row after accepting 46 percent of bickerees.Cap accepted 98 of its 213 bickerees this year, including 96 sophomores and two juniors. Around 563 students were accepted into one of the six bicker clubs this year, which is significantly higher than the 515 who were offered membership last year. In total, the bicker clubs received about 884 applications, including cross-bickerees, up from 831 applications last year. Cap president Justin Perez '14 attributed the increase in his club's bickerees to the multi-club Bicker system that was introduced by the Interclub Council last spring.With the new system, students can bicker up to two selective eating clubs and gain membership to the highest ranked club that accepts them. "People probably had the option to bicker two clubs and maybe try Cap out if they wanted to see if they thought it was a place they'd want to be," Perez said."We also had a bunch of sophomore pre-Bicker events that have seen quite a lot of people out as well." Cap has seen a steady increase in the number of bickerees for the past three years, up from 199 in the spring of 2013 and 157 in the spring of 2012. Tower, on the other hand, was the least selective club with a 76.8 percent acceptance rate.
Princeton loses 53-52 after leading by 8 at the half
While dozens of elite colleges have recently been accused of illegally instructing potential applicants to fill out an unnecessary financial aid form, the University is the only Ivy League school not included on the list of offenders, according to The Huffington Post. According to a letter sent out by Rep.
Two Princeton Ph.D. students of mechanical and aerospace engineering, John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, submitteda publicationwhose research predicts that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. Cannarella and Spechler conducted their research using an epidemiological model called SIR, which considers the number susceptible to, infected by and recovered from an infectious disease to predict the spread of that disease within a population.
Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and thisessay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor.
Film director Ethan Coen ’79 discussed various elements of his latest film as well as his experience in making movies in a dialogue with poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Thursday, following a screening of the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis." “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which opened on Jan.
An undergraduate student was arrested by the University's Department of Public Safety and charged with drug possession on Sunday night. Thomas Fellowes ’14 was arrested by DPS after officers allegedly found marijuana and prescription drugs in his dorm room, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Thursday.
Josh Miller, originally a member of the Class of 2012, has sold the start-up he co-founded, called Branch, along with a sister company called Potluck, to Facebook last month for $15 million.
The incoming USG administration plans to create a new campus-wide mentorship project, host a Violence Intervention and Prevention Week in collaboration with the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources & Education Peer Advisors and work with University administration to revise the grading policy, according to incoming USG president Shawon Jackson '15. Jackson, who was recently reelected for his second term, said his administrative focus will remain on service in leadership. Jackson said his Senate project priorities include creating a policy report about students who take gap years entitled theExtended Leave Report,completing the Committee on Background and OpportunityIV report, which looks at students' backgrounds in relation to their experiences at Princeton, and an ongoing mental health initiative. Jackson said his hope is to increase accountability and approachability among USG members so students understand that “we are here to serve what their needs are and not what our own personal interests are.” The new USG vice president, Molly Stoneman ’16, said she is ready to work with Jackson on these and other projects and is excited about bringing her own set of new ideas to the student government.
University of Pennsylvania sophomore Elvis Hatcher died Tuesday, according to a report by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Most students look forward to applying what they’ve learned at Princeton to their developing careers post-graduation, but by the time Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 graduated from the University, she was already in what she called "the full-fledged middle of [her] career.” She was a fashion model and photographer. Pal-Chaudhuri spent five years traveling the world as a model before enrolling at the University to study anthropology.
A Jan. 24 Rutgers-Eagleton poll found that only 46 percent of New Jerseyans view ex-officio University trustee Chris Christie favorably, as opposed to 63 percent of New Jersey likely voters in an Oct.
The Office of Religious Life is sponsoring a trip this June that will present students with the opportunity to travel to Cuba in order to focus on religion, human rights and social change, said Alison Boden, who is the dean of the Office of Religious Life and of the Chapel and is responsible for organizing and leading the trip. Between 15 and 20 students will partake in the trip, Boden said,adding that she anticipates that students will be eager to take advantage of this unique opportunity for travel. One such student is Deirdre Ely ’17, who has applied to go on the trip. “It’s a cool country that, because I’m an American citizen, I wouldn’t really get the opportunity to go to,” Ely said. Ely added that she hopes that in participating in the trip she will improve her Spanish and that she will come away with an understanding of Cuban culture and Cuban politics. Getting permission to travel to Cuba was challenging in a few ways, Boden explained.
All University classes were canceledon Wednesdaydue to a winter storm that droveNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to declare a state of emergency on Tuesday evening. Non-essential University personnel were also ordered not to report to work.
Though areportreleased this past September by theTrustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversityfound that white males dominated in faculty, administrator, graduate student and postgraduate populations, representatives from several departments on campus said that they had paid attention to the diversity among their populations before the report was released. The Committee’s report reviewed statistics of the racial and gender demographic trends in undergraduate, graduate, postdocs, faculty and staff populations.
