Kyle Ofori ’13, Nathan Jones ’14 and Michael Becker ’14 placed first, second and third, respectively, in the inaugural Hong Kong Cup Chinese Speech Contest on Oct. 8.
Princeton International Academy Charter School is suing South Brunswick, Princeton Regional and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional school districts to prevent them from interfering with the charter school’s opening. A judge in Trenton heard the dispute on Tuesday.
Receiving a fatherly pat on the cheek from “the most dangerous man in Pakistan,” watching as an intelligence officer compared waterboarding to salted peanuts and receiving a compliment on a pair of boots from a Somali general with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden are but a few of the many bizarre stories recounted by Toronto Star journalist Michelle Shephard in her new book, “Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone.”
Wilson School lecturer and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine discussed development in Yemen over the past three decades and the country’s future possibilities in a lecture in Robertson Hall on Tuesday night.
Bioethics professor Peter Singer and GiveWell.org co-founder Holden Karnofsky spoke about global poverty in a talk sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Princeton chapter of Giving What We Can on Tuesday.
The Army microbiologist accused of mailing anthrax-laden letters from a mailbox in Princeton a decade ago did not, in fact, have the technical skill needed to manufacture the spores, a team of scientists asserted this week. This raises the possibility that one of the largest FBI investigations in history failed to identify co-conspirators or the right suspect.
Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Paul Stevens spoke about his past legal decisions and personal experiences while serving on the court before a packed audience in Richardson Auditorium on Monday afternoon.
A recent CNBC slideshow has named Princeton the most expensive college town in the nation.
The University has codified the procedures for anyone wishing to file a Title IX complaint against Princeton for discrimination on the basis of sex. Vice Provost Michele Minter, whose office is responsible for ensuring that the University complies with Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, announced the news to students in an email sent out late Monday afternoon.
When economics professor Christopher Sims was awoken by a phone call at 6:15 a.m. from a Texas area code, he was sure it was a prank call. His wife mishandled the phone, and the call was dropped. Assuming that it wasn’t important, the couple went back to sleep. But when the callers telephoned his home again, Sims had an inkling that it might be the folks from the Nobel Foundation.
A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging the University’s proposed move of the Dinky station. The legal complaint, filed on Oct. 3 to the Superior Court of New Jersey in Trenton, challenges the University’s right to move the station. The complaint requests that the court permanently enjoin the University from moving the station and judge that the public has the permanent right to cross the University’s land to access the station.
University students hoping to enter graduate school have begun taking the revised, longer version of the Graduate Records Examination, a standardized test required for admission to most graduate schools across the nation and around the world.
The freshman rush ban, which will be implemented beginning next fall, appears to have had no effect on this year’s sorority rush, with the three Panhellenic sororities at Princeton offering a very similar number of bids as they did last year.
University economics professor Alan Krueger has been confirmed to serve as the chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. The Senate Banking Committee approved his appointment on Thursday by a voice vote, and Krueger awaits final approval by the full Senate before he can assume his new post.
The University’s endowment posted a 21.9 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ending Jun. 30, 2011 — raising the total endowment figure to $17.1 billion from last year’s $14.4 billion total.
The Department of Public Safety is urging community members to be on the lookout for a man accused of suspicious activity at Rider University and The College of New Jersey, according to a Campus Safety Alert issued Saturday morning.
Through the recently developed group text messaging system SwoopTEXT.com, leaders of campus organizations have a new communication platform that allows them to conveniently send free text messages to their members.
The University’s default rate is the highest of the country’s top 20 universities as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report, according to an analysis by news website Business Insider. The website reports that the University’s default rate tops the list at 2.2 percent, with peer institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology reporting figures near 0 percent.
The University’s wireless Internet has been especially slow in some areas of campus, many students have noticed. Specifically, residents in lower areas of campus have complained of unreliable Internet connection, particularly after 8 p.m.
The University placed fifth in the Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s 400 best universities for 2011-12, released on Thursday.
