President Abdullah Gul of the Republic of Turkey cancelled his Friday noon talk on campus, an email sent by the University communications staff at 7:26 a.m.
Post-revolution turmoil in the Middle East is a natural effect of creating new democracies, not a sign that the Arab Spring was unsuccessful, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki argued in a lecture about the challenges facing his country’s new democracy on Thursday afternoon. Observers of the Arab World should be patient before drawing conclusions about the success of the Arab Spring because revolutions take time to effect change, he noted. “Democracy is a process; it’s continuous experimentation,” Marzouki said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian before the lecture.
Before delivering a public lecture on Thursday afternoon, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki spoke briefly with The Daily Princetonian about the challenges he faces as president and the reasons for his visit.
Omar Wasow became an assistant professor of politics this fall to teach students on race and identity.
Concentrators in the operations research and financial engineering department jumped by more than a third with this year’s sophomore class, according to the University directory.
A year after Hurricane Sandy, Princeton is negotiating the use of private schools and churches as reception centers in case of weather emergencies, the Princeton Packet reported. Two weeks ago, Emergency Management Director Robert Gregory wrote letters of request to private schools for use of their spaces.
Two of this year's 24MacArthur fellows areaffiliated with Princeton University. Choreographer Kyle Abraham is a guest instructor in the University's dance program.
The University was included on The Huffington Post’s list of The Colleges Most Obsessed with Squirrels. The story features the infamous black squirrels that frequent the campus, recounting the campus myth that theywere the result of a biology experiment at the University.
A team of University physicists and engineers met with collaborators in Palestine, Texas this summer to assemble and test a telescope complex, known as SPIDER, that when launched will help scientists understand the fundamental physics of a period during the early universe.Currently, most of SPIDER has been disassembled and is on its way by boat to Antarctica.
A search committee has been formed to find the replacement for Dean of the Graduate School William Russel, who announced on Sept.
The University’s investments do not include any “direct” holdings in weapons manufacturing companies, according to a report released by the Resources Committee during the summer.
Gail Collins, a New York Times columnist and the first female editor of that paper’s editorial page, spoke on campus Tuesday about women’s rights from the 1960s to the present. The Daily Princetonian: Let’s talk about journalism and newsrooms.
Before speaking on campus Tuesday, BuzzFeed COO and president Jon Steinberg ’99 sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his memories from Princeton, his position at the helm of one of the Internet’s most popular media companies and advice for current Princetonians. The Daily Princetonian: When you wrote for the Opinion section of the ‘Prince,’ did you know that you would end up working at an online media company?
The birth control pill, the economy of the 1970s and the civil rights movement were the three factors that made the boom of women’s rights between 1964 and 1972 possible, New York Times columnist and former editor of the Times’ editorial page Gail Collins said in a lecture on Tuesday.Discussing her 2009 book “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present,” Collins shared anecdotes from various women who were part of the women’s rights movement.“A vision about the way things should be that had existed for millennia, ever since the beginning of Western civilization, with women in the home taking care of kids while men were outside running the public world —that vision changed overnight,” Collins said.In 1960, women faced social pressure if they weren’t engaged by their junior year of college, Collins said, adding she believes this expectation existed because effective birth control was not available.Once the birth control pill became available to women, female applications to law and medical school soared, according to Collins.
While Gov.
The University’s last Annual Giving campaign raised $57,019,138,the second-highest total in the program’s history in nominal terms,just short of the $57,246,302 mark set the previous year.
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the case of the freshman charged with drug possession back to the Princeton Municipal Court, Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday.The Prosecutor's Office downgraded the charge againstJoseph Gauvreau '17 frompossession of controlled dangerous substances — the initial charge made by theUniversity’s Department of Public Safetyearlier this monthafter searching the student's Holder Hall room — to failure to dispose of CDS.The new charge is considered a disorderly persons offense under New Jersey law.The Municipal Court had originally elevated the case to the Prosecutor’s Office because of the nature of DPS's initial charges.DeBlasio also released a copy of the complaint against Gauvreau that indicates he was allegedly found with "Molly," a name for ecstasy usually found in powder or crystal form.
The Aquinas Institute, a local Catholic chaplaincy that provides services to Princeton students, relocated to a newly-bought house on 24 Charlton St., north of the Friend Center, on Aug.
“If someone says they don’t like the cute animals on BuzzFeed, you should turn to them and ask if they are a robot,” Jon Steinberg ’99, the president and COO of BuzzFeed, said jokingly during a lecture he delivered on Tuesday night. But it was not just a joke.
