Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler spoke on freedom and constraint in modern society at the seventh annual Donald S. Bernstein ’75 lecture in McCormick Hall on Tuesday.
The Graduate Student Government recently announced its newest group of officers, recently elected GSG communications manager and art and archaeology student Kjell Wangensteen GS said in an email to The Daily Princetonian on Monday.
In an interview with Russian television network RT earlier this month, African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 said that President Barack Obama, whom West publicly supported during his 2008 campaign, is abandoning his political positions.
Mark Schlissel ’79 has been named Brown University’s newest provost.
Several University affiliates have signed a petition on behalf of Bradley Manning, the American soldier charged with leaking classified information to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi introduced a list of proposed amendments to the 2011 budget at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting.
The USG released its first annual report, which reviews initiatives from the 2010 calendar year as well as upcoming projects, early on Tuesday morning.
Mitch Julis ’77 has made a donation to create the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance as part of the Wilson School. Julis’ gift will support research, course enrichment, undergraduate internships, graduate fellowships and public outreach to ensure the University’s strong presence in the field of public policy, according to a University statement.
A group of about 40 people gathered in Whig Hall on Monday night to watch a video of a lecture by Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs and a live lecture by Rutgers professor Larry Temkin GS ’83. The event marked the launch of the Princeton chapter of the international philanthropic organization Giving What We Can.
The Wilson School review committee will publish the findings of its formal investigation sometime after April 16, according to committee co-chair, spokesman and Wilson School associate dean Nolan McCarty. A confidential draft of the committee’s findings recently circulated among University administrators and the Wilson School’s elected undergraduate student advisory council, which met with the committee during the process.
Incumbent Class of 2012 social chair candidate Aparajita Das has been disqualified from the race due to a lack of communication about changes to USG election rules, sparking backlash from several current officers.
A capacity crowd of students gathered for a talk titled “High Concept, Low Art: Cartoonists Larry Gonick and Randall Munroe in Conversation about Life, the Universe and Nothing” on Monday night in Taylor Auditorium in Frick Chemistry Laboratory. Due to the large crowd, two overflow rooms were set up in Jadwin Hall that streamed a simulcast of the lecture.
Amanda Rees ’12 and Gabrielle Wilkerson-Melnick ’12 are among the first Dalai Lama Fellows ever selected. Currently in its inaugural year, the Dalai Lama Fellowship will award the pair $10,000. Rees and Wilkerson-Melnick said they plan to spend the money on a social entrepreneurship and sustainable energy project in Tanzania.
A group of LGBT peer educators met recently with the 10 eating club presidents to discuss issues related to discrimination against LGBT students.
Mercer county Clerk Paula Sollami Covello has urged Gov. Chris Christie to submit a proposal to make Princeton home to a 2012 presidential or vice-presidential debate in the time leading up to the November election.
The USG announced candidates for the upcoming spring elections at its Senate meeting on Sunday night. Candidates for the majority of class government positions are running unopposed.
A public dedication was held on Saturday for Frick Chemistry Laboratory, the new campus chemistry facility whose construction began in the fall of 2007 and ended last summer.
On Friday night, Service in Style held its seventh annual Fashion Speaks benefit fashion show, from which all proceeds will be split between Autism Speaks and the Eden Institute.
Yale may consider implementing a policy that would allow students to designate a class “Credit/D/Fail” after finishing it, according to a recent report in the Yale Daily News.
Two weeks after the federal government announced that America was officially in a recession, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined University President Shirley Tilghman on campus to discuss a potential solution: investment in science.
