A group of 25 architecture graduate students voiced their disagreement with the selection of Alejandro Zaera-Polo as the new dean of the School of Architecture to University President Shirley Tilghman Wednesday morning.
After more than 40 years of excluding the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from its campus, Harvard announced last week that it will formally recognize the group.
Ehud Olmert, the 12th prime minister of Israel, discussed his willingness to compromise with Palestine, the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Arab Spring on Wednesday evening.
William “Mandela” Sheaffer ’13 was arrested by police in Bowling Green, Ohio, on Saturday morning, sparking a growing social media campaign claiming that his arrest was an “injustice” that resulted from racial profiling. The police have refuted this claim.The incident, which occurred one month after a black teenager in Florida was killed by a neighborhood watch captain in what some activists have called a hate crime, has prompted renewed concerns on campus about racial tensions nationwide.
The Borough Council met on Tuesday evening to discuss the logistics of relocating the University Medical Center of Princeton to Plainsboro off Route 1 and the recent string of car burglaries that occurred north of Nassau Street earlier this month.
Last Thursday, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 malicious emails were sent out to the University community in an attempt to access and collect personal information from both students and faculty members, according to Princeton’s Office of Information Technology.
Former University professor and current Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke will make a brief return to academia this month, teaching a series of four lectures at George Washington University School of Business.
The University is looking into creating an online platform that will allow for interactive learning, Deputy Dean of the College Clayton Marsh said at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday.
World-renowned architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo will be the next dean of the School of Architecture, the University announced on Tuesday.Despite the support of his predecessor and others within the department, Zaera-Polo's appointment has been met with opposition from graduate students and doctoral candidates in the program, who say the School has been less than receptive to their opinions throughout the search process.
With five days left until the filing deadline for the primary election, the Princeton Republican Committee has yet to announce a candidate for mayor of the newly consolidated Princeton municipality.
A pair of New Jersey women were arrested on Sunday after one allegedly tried to fill a fake prescription for oxycodone at the CVS pharmacy on Nassau Street, the Borough police reported.
Last week’s sudden departure of Glenn Cummings, director of Health Professions Advising, is only the latest in the revolving door of staffing changes at Forbes College and HPA.
Over 60 students staged a demonstration on campus that ended at Nassau Hall on Monday afternoon, the one-month anniversary of the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida.Demonstrations across the country spurred students to wear hooded sweatshirts and carry Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea, the same snacks that Martin purchased the night of the shooting, and gather in front of Nassau Hall.
Nearly a year after the members of the USG’s Academic Life Total Assessment committee were announced, the group presented its findings and recommendations to the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
Amy Campbell, who during her 17 years at the University has led many prominent social initiatives on campus, will become the new executive director of campus services and planning for University Services.
n April 2010, President Shirley Tilghman told The Daily Princetonian that she would be “absolutely willing to have a conversation” about recognizing Greek organizations who made the concession to voluntarily delay rush until sophomore year.Nearly two years later, the University has banned freshman rush, but the conversation about the unrecognized status of fraternities and sororities has swung in the opposite direction.
The University is making progress toward reinstating a campus pub, which has evaded the campus for nearly three decades, to be potentially located in Cafe Viv, which is located in Frist Campus Center.Last May, the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life recommended the return of the pub, which was previously located in the cafe in Chancellor Green. This semester, a steering committee will meet to consider issues surrounding its implementation, including food and beverage dispensation and hours of operation.
President Obama nominated Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim on Friday to succeed Robert Zoellnick as president of the World Bank. Zoellnick’s five-year term will expire on June 30.
After seven months of deliberation, the University unveiled on Sunday its recommendations for implementing the freshman-rush ban. However, Princeton is not the only school in the Ivy League determining how to enforce a ban on freshman rush.Yale is currently assessing how to implement the ban it announced in early March. Penn and Dartmouth already have well-established delayed-rush systems. Princeton’s policy of nonrecognition of fraternities and sororities puts it in a unique position among peer schools that have sought to delay rush, and, as a result, its policy looks different from the systems in place at other schools.
Norm Bonnyman ’12, Angela Groves ’12 and Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 have been named finalists for the position of Young Alumni Trustee. The three were selected in a primary election from the 41 seniors that ran for the position, the largest pool of candidates since the University began keeping records of the elections in 1999.
