Five University alumni who work in the media tried to answer the question, “Is Anyone Really Interested in Having the News Be Fair and Balanced?”, in a panel discussion hosted on Thursday afternoon.
Each year, no sooner is the big white tent on Alexander Beach taken down after Princeton Preview than it is reconstructed once again, accompanied by tall wooden gates that seem to have appeared overnight. As students prepare for final exams and alumni get ready to return to campus in late May, Reunions season has already begun for the University’s Grounds and Building Maintenance carpenter and electric crews.
Politics professor Robert George highlighted “the importance of this upcoming election” as an indicator of the direction of both American politics and the future of America in a conversation Friday with Ramesh Ponnuru ’95, senior editor at the National Review and columnist for Bloomberg View.
Nikki Muller ’05, creator of the viral YouTube video "Ivy League Hustle (I Went to Princeton, Bitch)," has made it big. Muller spoke at a discussion titled "Feminism in Action" on Friday and will perform her popular rap at various sites during Reunions. In between, she stopped to talk with the ‘Prince’ about life during and after Princeton.
Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden Bruce Reed ’82 and five other alumni active in politics argued about the causes of political polarization in Washington D.C. in an alumni-faculty forum Friday morning.
This weekend, as nearly 20,000 University alumni, family members and friends converge on campus for Reunions 2012, The Daily Princetonian also celebrates its past through the completion of the Larry DuPraz Digital Archives: a free, searchable online index of every past issue of the ‘Prince’ from its creation in 1876 through 2002, accessible at http://theprince.princeton.edu. All issues will be loaded by June 30, 2012.
Actress Brooke Shields ’87 returned to campus for her 25th Reunion Friday, speaking at the Alumni-Faculty forum “Tigers in the Arts” about her acting and writing projects both on campus and after graduation. After the forum, she spoke to the ‘Prince’ about her time at the University and her experiences with Reunions and Class Day.
After a morning Alumni-Faculty forum on bipartisanship, the ‘Prince’ sat down with Bruce Reed ’82, the chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and an assistant to the President, to discuss his two tours in the White House, his career aspirations as a Princeton student and "surviving your 20s."
When W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 was rejected as an Orange Key tour guide over twenty years ago, an activity in which he “desperately” wanted to take part, he was upset. In hindsight, it was a shocking disappointment; but today, it is obvious he has overcome that rejection.
Angela Groves ’12 has been elected as the University’s newest Young Alumni Trustee, the University announced Friday. Groves will serve a four-year term on the University’s governing body.Groves defeated former USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 and former Tiger Inn vice president Norman Bonnyman ’12 in the general election to earn the slot. The Classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 voted over the first three weeks of May.
The golden ticket to Reunions tents has gotten a little more high-tech.
Brooke Shields ’87 and four other University graduates spoke about their professional experiences in theater and music in a panel on Friday morning as part of the University’s effort on Reunions weekend to open up new career paths to graduating seniors and young alumni.
A 55-year-old contractor broke his ankle while setting up for Reunions on Wednesday, falling 20 feet along the roof of Fisher Hall of Whitman College. The worker, whose name is not being released, had been working with an electrical cable for the sound system for a Reunions event and landed on a lower portion of the roof.
Ted Cruz ’92, the former solicitor general of Texas and a darling of Tea Party conservatives nationwide, prevented Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst from eclipsing 50 percent of the vote Tuesday night in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, forcing a runoff between the two men in late July.
A top director at Princeton HealthCare System, the parent company of the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, has been charged by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office with embezzling $186,000 from the hospital.
All undergraduate student email will switch to Gmail between this August and December, the culmination of a semester-long joint project between the Office of Information Technology and the USG to evaluate potential replacements for the current Webmail system.Gmail will be the default email service for members of the Class of 2016, and this summer members of the Classes of 2013, 2014 and 2015 will have their email switched to the new server.
Following a Department of Energy report last week that revealed that four Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory employees had been unreasonably overpaid by at least $1.8 million, the University has agreed to reimburse the DOE $1 million to avert further controversy. The DOE oversees the plasma science and fusion lab.
Three people were hospitalized after a glass container filled with a highly corrosive acid exploded in Frick Chemistry Laboratory this afternoon, causing the evacuation of 300 people and the interruption of a final exam. All three victims have since been released from the hospital.
A grill fire in the Whitman Dining Hall caused the evacuation of 250 people from the residential college at around 8 p.m. tonight, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. No injuries were reported.“Flames started on one of the stoves in the kitchen,” Adriana Estor ’12, who was working in the kitchen at the time, said of the incident. “The cooks were trying to put it out but couldn’t, and so they called the fire truck."
The University will increase the capacity of freshman rooms and repurpose residential college social spaces to house students from the larger-than-expected Class of 2016. Additionally, many University programs will also expand their operations to meet the greater demand from the freshman class, in particular by increasing the number of sections for large, popular introductory courses and increasing the number of Writing Seminar courses offered.
