Presided over by USG president Bruce Easop ’13 for the first time, the USG voted Sunday to charge guests a fee at spring Lawnparties to fund the opening act. The size of the fee will depend on funding from the Alcohol Initiative.
The Humanities Council recently introduced a new certificate program titled Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities to the undergraduate curriculum.
During this year’s USG presidential campaign, candidate Bruce Easop ’13 placed posters depicting him giving a piggyback ride to a fellow classmate. “I support Bruce because he supports me,” the slogan under the picture read.
A new University committee will thoroughly document and analyze the racial and gender diversity of the faculty, senior administration and graduate student body, the University announced last month. The committee will suggest strategies to increase the diversity of the University to President Shirley Tilghman in spring 2013.
Politics professor and outspoken gay-marriage critic Robert George told The Daily Princetonian on Thursday night that he supports Governor Chris Christie’s plan to call a referendum on gay marriage.
While the college application process may seem a distant memory to University students, future applicants may find it a little less painful.
Students studying Portuguese will now have a new opportunity to learn the language and culture — in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.In January, the University announced the creation of the first Princeton in Brazil program. University faculty members in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures are partnering with the Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos to offer two levels of Portuguese classes exclusively to University students.
An unusually severe outbreak of gastroenteritis, also known as the stomach flu, struck the University community at the beginning of Intersession and continues to plague the campus a week later.
Of all the alumni that have run for public office in recent years, few have won the endorsement of the Tea Party. Yet roughly one year after filing to run for U.S. Senate and 20 years after walking out FitzRandolph Gate, former Solicitor General of Texas Ted Cruz ’92 has become a darling of the conservative movement as he campaigns against what he calls federal overreach in the Lone Star State.
The University’s Outdoor Action program won a $10,000 prize from Polartec last Wednesday, squeaking past Northeastern University’s program to win the award following an aggressive Facebook campaign.
Freshmen nationwide are becoming more studious and career-oriented, according to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles released near the end of January.
As outgoing USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 passes the baton to Bruce Easop ’13, a two-year era for an active USG comes to a close.
Warren Crane ’62, the former chairman of the Cannon Dial Elm Club Graduate Board of Trustees, died Monday at approximately 2:35 p.m. He died from a rare combination of soft tissue cancer and paraneoplastic neurological disease. Crane was 70 years old.
After three public meetings on the issue, the Princeton Regional Planning Board has not yet come to a decision about whether to allow the Institute for Advanced Study to build additional faculty housing on a parcel of land directly adjacent to Princeton Battlefield State Park. The hearing has been extended to a fourth meeting on Feb. 16.
The eight-hour Internet outage on Monday that affected thousands of users on campus was related to an effort to upgrade the campus Internet system, but the University has not yet been able to pinpoint the specific cause, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.
After announcing a significant reduction in membership rates for rising juniors and seniors in mid-January, Quadrangle Club saw its first-round membership numbers increase by nearly 40 percent over last year’s first-round numbers.
Princeton Township Deputy Mayor Liz Lempert has announced her candidacy for mayor of the consolidated Princeton in the Democratic primary to be held June 5.
When SCORE opened for enrollment this semester, one class stood out in popularity. ENG 385: Children’s Literature was one of the fastest courses to fill up this year and has been extremely popular with students across different class years.
About half of the student body, or 2,567 students, responded to the USG’s Academic Life Total Assessment survey distributed to students during finals period.
Former U.S. ambassador to Syria Richard Murphy headlined a panel on the turbulent modern-day political climate in Syria and the potential future of the Arab Spring movement in that country.
