For the second consecutive weekend, Coach Chris Ayres’ grapplers continued to streak in regular season competition, as they once again went three for three in dual matches.
An international collaboration led by physicists from the University installed an underground detector in September with the hope of discoveringa new fundamental particle that could account for dark matter.
A survey sent out to all undergraduate students on Feb.
Joe Barrett ’14 and Isabel Kasdin ’14 were this year’s recipients of the 2014 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize.
Former Vice President Al Gore will speak to the Class of 2014 at this year’s Class Day, the University announcedFriday. Gore, who served as Vice President for President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his activism on climate change. “We were very excited when Al Gore accepted our invitation to speak at Class Day,” Class Day co-chair Alisa Tiwari '14 said in an interview.
The student who was arrested for suspected drug possession on Feb. 2had three pills of Ritalin and less than 50 grams of marijuana, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Daily Princetonian.
Due to the successive winter storms, the statewide demand for salt has exceeded the capacity of suppliers, resulting in a regional shortage of road salt, the Princeton Packet reported. A 100-ton salt shipment was expected to arrive at Princeton on Thursday, but it is now expected to arrive early next week, and it may not be the full order, Mayor Liz Lempert said. As of Thursday, Princeton had only half the amount of salt the municipality uses during snowstorms.As a result, the Department of Public Works employees will use a combination of salt and sand in order to clear smaller roads. The director of emergency management has the power to implement the Princeton Emergency Action Plan due to the state of emergency, and Princeton agencies are able to use property owned by Princeton to protect life and property. The removal of cars from the streets and unnecessary traffic is also required. Municipal offices and public schools in the area were closed on Thursday.Garbage collection was suspended for Thursday and is expected to resume Friday.
In February 2012, a freshman was allegedly asked to withdraw from the University following a suicide attempt, according to a discrimination complaintfiled with the United States Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.The student attempted to fight the administration's decision, the July 2012 complaint read, but ultimately left for two semesters. The complaint was initially dismissed in January 2013 by the OCR, although the student's lawyers allege that the determination was incorrect and are appealing the decision.
Both Forbes College and Whitman College will be participating in a pilot exchange program, Global Exchange, with schools in Hong Kong and Cambridge, United Kingdom this upcoming spring break. Five students from Forbes will spend the break at St.
The USG senate approved selected appointees for a range of positions last weekend, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said. Although public elections took place in November, only one student ran for Class of 2015 senator then, prompting Jackson and Class of 2015 president Jonathan Ma ’15 to send out additional application notices. Nihar Madhavan ’15 will serve alongside Mariana Bagneris ’15 as 2015 class senator.
Sacha Finn ’14 and Harriet Kristin Wilson ’14 were awarded ReachOut 56-81-06fellowships.
The Historical Society of Princeton announced last week that it would be vacating its current headquarters, Bainbridge House on Nassau Street, the Town Topics reported.
Classes are now being held in the new neuroscience building, which houses the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the psychology department in Peretsman-Scully Hall. Construction of the new building, which is named for Nancy Peretsman ’76 and Robert Scully ’72,began in the spring of 2010 and was completed in fall of 2013.
Theresa O’Shea ’16 is a semifinalist on this season of Jeopardy! College Championship, which premiered Wednesday night.
Dov Grohsgal GS ’13 is running for a position as state representative in the 194th district of the state of Pennsylvania.
The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning has received over 3,800 visits since the start of the academic year and is expecting to receive over 7,600 visits by the end of the year.
First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 described feeling overwhelmed when first stepping onto campus as a freshman in a video for “I’m First,” a collection founded by the Center for Student Opportunity. According to the Center for Student Opportunity, “I’m First” aims to provide first-generation students and their mentors with “inspiration, information and support on the road to and through college.” Obama is the series’ first celebrity contributor. In her video, Obama explains that because neither of her parents graduated from college, she did not know how to find her classes or furnish her dorm room, adding that she did not even have the correct size sheets. “But here’s the thing, I may not have had the right sheets, but I learned pretty quickly that I had what it took to succeed in college,” Obama said in the video. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 attended a White House conference on increasing college opportunities for low-income students on Jan.
16 students were transported to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro due to alcohol consumption this weekend, the highest number in at least the past three years. This weekend represents what has traditionally been a spike in the number of students hospitalized for excessive alcohol intake that coincides with the weekend of eating club pickups and initiations. University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua noted that, because the data represents all transports for the entire weekend, it is impossible to conclude whether they are related to specific campus activities. This year’s transport numbers are higher than last year’s, when six students were transported to McCosh and to UMCPP; in 2012, 10 students were taken to McCosh and to UMCPP; in 2011, 11 students were taken to McCosh and to UMCPP. Nine students were transported on Friday, three students were transported on Saturday, and four were transported on Sunday.
The University will consider overturning its policy on transfer students, which prohibits the use of external college credits to enroll after freshman fall, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced during Monday’s Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting. Although many of the University’s peer institutions, including Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth, allow undergraduate transfers, the University ended this practice in 1990 under former University President Harold Shapiro. “It was decided that requirements of a Princeton education are sufficiently unique that it would be hard for someone to come in and make the adjustment,” Eisgruber explained in an interview with The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday, following the Monday meeting. He said that the administration was particularly concerned about preparing students for the University’s independent work requirements, which include two junior research papers and a senior thesis. This major policy shift would require approval from both the Board of Trustees and the administration and is scheduled to come up during the administration’s strategic planning discussions over the next 18 months. “It’s clear that transfer students have come to Princeton in decades past and flourished here, so it’s obviously possible,” Eisgruber said. He explained that a transfer program would allow the University to admit students from community colleges, promoting more socioeconomic diversity on campus, as well as military veterans, who usually have college credits from before their enlistment. However, Eisgruber also said that the policy change would require careful consideration before it could be implemented, and that the program would most likely provide very few extra spaces, a trend consistent with transfer programs at peer institutions. “Still, those small number of slots can be very important to the students who receive them,” Eisgruber noted.
The fall 2013 freshman seminar FRS 157: Philanthropy donated $25,000 to five nonprofit charity organizations.
