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The Daily Princetonian

With Dartmouth announcement, Princeton stands alone in Ivy presidential search

Princeton is now the only Ivy League school still searching for a new university president following Dartmouth’s announcement Thursday that Philip Hanlon, a top administrator at the University of Michigan, would be the school’s 18th president. Dartmouth’s announcement is just three weeks after Yale named its current provost, Peter Salovey, as its next leader.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

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The Daily Princetonian

Q-and-A: Steinberg praises Princeton financial aid

Though Jacques Steinberg said he is not an expert on the Princeton admission process, the prominent New York Times reporter who runs ‘The Choice’ blog certainly knows the field of higher education. Before his lecture Thursday afternoon at an event hosted by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Steinberg sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss trends in the college admission process.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

The Daily Princetonian

U. to charge co-ops new $50 fee per member beginning next semester

All co-op members will be charged a $50 fee paid to the University beginning next semester, a result of a recommendation made by the University’s Priorities Committee, which crafts the University’s budget, and approved by the University’s Board of Trustees in January. Administrators said the increase in fees will help pay for the services the University provides the co-ops, but co-op leaders countered that they had not been consulted before the decision was made.

NEWS | 11/27/2012

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: David Brooks on Princeton culture

After spending a month on campus in 2000, New York Times opinion columnist and conservative commentator David Brooks returned to campus to deliver a lecture on the recent cultural shift. Reflecting on his original moniker “Organization Kid” in his 2001 article for The Atlantic magazine, Brooks believes this “achievement ethos” has only deepened since he left campus more than a decade ago. After his lecture, Brooks sat down with the ‘Prince’ to expand upon his cultural observations and how they might relate to Princeton.

NEWS | 11/26/2012

The Daily Princetonian

Many USG candidates elected unopposed, reflecting internal trends, unsuccessful external outreach

Last week’s USG winter elections marked the first elections cycle in recent history in which all committee leadership elections were uncontested. USG vice president Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 said the large number of uncontested races represents “a failing on the part of our administration.”

NEWS | 11/26/2012

The Daily Princetonian

Study: Princeton students have poorer cognitive abilities than peers, though methodology is disputed

While MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Yale all made the top five in a new study ranking U.S. colleges according to their students’ cognitive abilities, Princeton ranked 39th, behind Bucknell and Northeastern. Some psychologists, however, are questioning the methods of the study that ranks Princeton poorly.

NEWS | 11/25/2012