Former Princeton vice provost Ruth Simmons will be stepping down as president of Brown University at the end of this academic year, Brown announced on Thursday.
A 20-foot inflatable rat sat in front of Firestone Library earlier this week as a form of protest against the University’s contract employing nonunionized asbestos removal workers.
Borough and Township residents weighed the pros and cons of municipal consolidation at a forum hosted by the Princeton Community Democratic Organization on Sunday evening. Residents will vote on consolidation on Nov. 8.
Nearly 100 different drawings and song lyrics by John Lennon went on display in Palmer Square last Friday at the opening of a new exhibit “Gimme Some Truth: The Artwork of John Lennon.” The exhibit, organized by Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono and Legacy Fine Art & Productions, lasted through the weekend and attracted a large number of community members and students.
Two members of the University’s history faculty, professors Linda Colley and her husband Sir David Cannadine, have taken equity stakes in the newly founded New College of the Humanities in London.
Property owners and their neighbors on eastern Nassau Street in the Borough are looking to amend the area’s land-use ordinances in hopes of converting a formerly automobile-oriented area to a lively pedestrian-oriented neighborhood. At Tuesday’s meeting, the Borough Council heard a presentation on a proposed ordinance that would amend the zoning in this area to attract the desired development.
University undergraduates Marius Constantin ’14 and Abraham Chaibi ’14 were arrested on Sept. 8 after they allegedly attempted to purchase alcohol with a fake ID, according to the Borough police blotter.
Though the University Registrar’s website SCORE was scheduled to open for all non-freshmen at 7 a.m. yesterday, many students were able to log on well before the scheduled time to add or drop classes.
Princeton Township police promoted five officers in June in the second round of promotions since the department’s leadership was implicated in a corruption probe at the end of last year.
In an email sent out to the student body on Aug. 11, Deputy Dean of the College Clayton Marsh announced that the University had reached an agreement with Labyrinth Books, which provides textbooks for most University courses, allowing students to buy used and new textbooks at 30 percent off the listed price.
Public Safety will no longer be required to notify the Princeton Borough Police of calls from Prospect Avenue. Under the newly revised policy, if students call Public Safety from the eating clubs, they will receive the same response as the one they would receive if they called from an on-campus location.
The yield for the Class of 2015 is 57.2 percent, the Princeton Alumni Weekly reported on July 6. This number is a slight increase from last year, when the yield reached 56.9 percent.
The university took first place in the U.S. News and World Report’s list of America’s best national universities for 2011-12, tying with Harvard. Yale came in third, followed by Columbia, the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The storm that brought heavy rain and high winds to the East Coast two weeks ago — Hurricane Irene — caused only minor damage to University property, the administration reported. The University is currently in the process of assessing estimates and costs regarding the loss incurred.
The University’s Annual Giving campaign raised $50,010,045 for the year 2010-2011, it announced in July, the second highest total in the campaign’s history.
At the end of the month, the future of the former Valley Road School site will be determined. Princeton Regional Schools will choose between replacing the school with a site to house Princeton’s emergency services or converting the school to a community center for local nonprofits.
A $10 million gift made by philanthropist Lynn Shostack to the University’s Project X in June will ensure continued support for faculty members seeking seed funding for creative and unconventional research projects in the field of engineering.
Three weeks after the University’s Aug. 23 announcement that it would prohibit freshmen from rushing fraternities or sororities beginning in the fall of 2012, the University’s Greek organizations are still taking in the news.
Sovereign Bank signed a three-year agreement with the University in July, effective immediately, to help support international academic initiatives.
Last Sunday on Cannon Green, several hundred University faculty, students and members of the public gathered to reflect on the 10-year legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and honor the memories of the thousands who perished, including 13 Princeton alumni.
