Nearly one month after the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, several campus initiatives have started up to try to aid the victims of the disaster.
The report and recommendations of the Joint Revaluation Study Commission of Princeton released on Monday contained a proposal for an unprecedented municipal public loan program that would allow qualifying homeowners to defer the burden of rising property taxes until a later date and give struggling residents more time to plan a way to repay their loans.
Public Safety Captain Donald P. Reichling sent out a campus-wide safety alert on Monday afternoon cautioning that a suspicious individual has been targeting young women at local college campuses.According to the University’s Campus Safety alert, the individual, 68-year-old Tony Kadyhrob, has not been linked to Princeton’s campus and the email was merely precautionary.
Rutgers University will pay Princeton Council of the Humanities professor emeritus Toni Morrison $30,000 to speak at Rutgers’ commencement ceremony on May 15.
Reforms for the upcoming USG elections were discussed and approved at the USG Senate meeting in Frist Campus Center on Sunday night.
Haley White ’12 has been selected as the University’s sole 2011 Truman Scholar.
Largely as a result of the three-candidate race, Borough Councilman David Goldfarb, who has served as a Borough councilman for 20 years and also represents the Borough on the Borough-Township Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission, fell short of receiving the Princeton Democratic Community Organization’s official nomination for the June Democratic primary for Borough mayor.
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education report revealed that 9.9 percent of students at the University were recipients of Pell Grants in 2008-09.
The University’s first Relay For Life was held from Friday to Saturday from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Dillon Gymnasium. Organized by the student group Relay for Life at Princeton, the event raised over $23,000 to be donated to the American Cancer Society.
The Student Design Agency hosted its fourth-annual graphic design conference, titled “Reach: Design Across the Social Spectrum,” on Saturday in McCormick Hall.
Rebecca Gomperts, a visiting fellow in the Wilson School, has been honored by Women Deliver as one of the 100 “Most Inspiring Individuals Delivering for Girls and Women.”
The Princeton Joint Revaluation Study Commission concluded that a legal challenge of a property tax revaluation would not likely succeed and makes recommendations for how public communication of the revaluation process could be improved in future years.
D. Michael Lindsay GS ’06 has been named the president of Gordon College, a Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Mass.
According to Max Anderson ’01, cofounder and chairman of The MBA Oath initiative, there may be a way to prevent the world from falling into the next financial crisis.
Despite seeing a record-high 27,189 applicants for the Class of 2015, the University’s initial acceptance rate of 8.39 percent is slightly higher than last year’s rate of 8.18 percent. It extended offers of admission to 2,282 students on Wednesday.Since the Class of 2011 admissions cycle in 2007, the University’s acceptance rate has remained below 10 percent and has decreased each year aside from slight upticks this year and in 2009.However, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said that admission rates have decreased so sharply in recent years that slight differences between years have become insignificant.
Christian speaker Douglas Jacoby presented on Thursday night a lecture titled “Is Christianity Rational? A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Jesus.”
When one former University student found herself in need of a non-circulating book from Firestone Library that was pivotal to her senior thesis, her decision was difficult but obvious: steal it.
A panel of experts on the American perception of Islam spoke in Frist Campus Center on Thursday afternoon to address the congressional hearings currently being run by Rep. Peter King concerning the threat of radicalization within the American Muslim community.
Alexia Kelley, the deputy director and senior policy adviser of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke on government support of community organizations in a lecture in Robertson Hall on Wednesday night.
Due to a salary freeze and a voluntary contribution from the University, the Township’s proposed 2011 municipal budget, introduced Monday, contains no tax increase. The Township held off a tax increase in part due to the University’s contribution of $500,000 to its operating budget and by accepting a salary freeze for all non-union employees for the second year in a row.
