When Wilson School professor Stanley Katz remembers 9/11, his first thoughts are not of Sept. 11, 2001, but rather of the walk to his office in Robertson Hall the very next day.
It seemed like another world — the bright sun, air buzzing over manicured flowers in Prospect Garden. But students hurrying towards Frist Campus Center, cell phones held tightly to ears, eyes focused somewhere in the distance minutes after the World Trade Center collapsed yesterday morning, made clear just how close the disaster was to home.
In an apparent parallel attack on U.S. financial and military institutions, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center around 9 a.m. yesterday, causing the twin towers to collapse in the heart of New York's financial district.
Not long after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center, I was in Frist Campus Center. I hadn’t heard the news when I happened upon a group of students watching a replay of the crumbling towers on CNN.
Ten years after attacks that challenged the foundation of American political and social life, it remains unclear what legacy lies behind for the generation that was buried and arose in its ruins. The 9/11 generation cannot define itself because the generation is still growing, still grappling and still grieving.
President Barack Obama nominated Wilson School professor Alan Krueger as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers today.
A Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad member who was injured in a storm-related rescue attempt has passed away, Township police announced Monday morning.
The University will ban students from participating in freshman rush, it announced on Tuesday. The ban will take effect beginning in fall 2012, with members of the Class of 2016 prohibited from affiliating with fraternities or sororities for the duration of their freshman year
The University was shaken by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shortly before 2 p.m. on Tuesday. No damage or injuries have been reported on campus.
The University welcomed eight alumni to its Board of Trustees on July 1, including prominent figures such as former ABC anchor Charlie Gibson ’65 and 2010 California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman ’77.
Campus lurer Tony Kadyhrob has been indicted by the Mercer County Grand Jury on one count of second-degree attempted kidnapping and one count of third-degree luring, according to Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio.
Sustainable Princeton celebrated the opening of its new BYOBag campaign in Hinds Plaza on Thursday. The campaign hopes to encourage customers to embrace environmentally friendly habits through the use of reusable shopping bags.
Dubbed the "worm from hell," Halicephalobus mephisto is one of four species of nematodes recently discovered by researchers more than 2.2 miles beneath the surface of the earth in South African gold mines. Multi-cellular organisms have never been detected at such depths before.
The Borough Council voted on June 28 to hire legal counsel to advise on legal public transit issues related to the Dinky station and the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
The Township Committee introduced a zoning ordinance last month that would allow the University to build its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood along the Alexander Corridor.
The Borough has requested a new trial after a Superior Court jury awarded $525,000 to a police officer who claimed that the police department retaliated against him for filing a racial discrimination complaint.
New Jersey Transit does not have the power to prevent the University from moving the Dinky terminus, representatives from New Jersey Transit said at a Borough Council meeting early last month.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s main administrative building has been awarded a gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
A local man was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and refusal to submit to a breathalyzer test last Saturday when Borough police officers found him passed out in his vehicle by Wawa.
Former White House environmental official Van Jones, who served a one-year appointment as a visiting professor at the University last year, recently announced the creation of the “American Dream Movement,” an initiative designed to serve as the left wing’s answer to the Tea Party.
