Students from multiple universities gathered in the Fields Center on Saturday afternoon for “Hip Hop 2.0: The Price of an Era,” a symposium that addressed a number of issues surrounding the current state of hip-hop.
The University’s “In the Mix: Asian Pop Music” conference brought together 32 speakers from eight different countries alongside performers, music industry professionals and students from around the world on March 25 and 26.
Just days before tens of thousands of high school students worldwide find out if they were accepted to the University, The Princeton Review released the results of its annual “College Hopes and Worries” survey. Princeton was ranked the fourth most popular “dream” school for college applicants and third for parents.
Newly selected members of Project ALTA were announced at the USG Senate meeting held at the Department of Public Safety building at 200 Elm Drive on Sunday night.The members include USG vice president Catherine Ettman ’13, USG executive analyst Shyam Modi ’14, USG academics chair Steven Rosen ’13, Rafael Grinberg '12, Emily Levy ’13, Alexis Morin ’12 and Rebecca Scharfstein ’12. The project will be chaired by USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12.
Mathematician John Milnor GS ’54 has won the the 2011 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on March 23.
The Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a $80.3 million 2011-12 spending plan on Tuesday night.
The Korean American Students Association political board hosted a screening of the documentary “Hiding,” made by the humanitarian organization Liberty in North Korea, in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College on Thursday night. After the screening, North Korean defector Jinhae Jo recounted her experience escaping from North Korea to China and eventually to the United States.
The sound quality was poor, but the voice on the other end of the line was unmistakable: Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row inmate, author and cultural icon, was phoning in from Greene State Correctional Institution in Waynesburg, Pa., to speak about the harsh disconnect prisoners face from society.The phone call kicked off “Imprisonment of a Race,” an all-day conference aimed at examining mass incarceration and racial tensions in the justice system, which was cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and took place on Friday.
Wilson College announced that it was beginning a college listserv in an email to students on Wednesday.
Skipper, Dean Nancy Malkiel’s beloved miniature schnauzer and a campus icon, passed away from illness on Wednesday morning. She first joined the Malkiel family in October 2001 and has been a fixture in Malkiel’s West College office ever since.
The Wilson School hosted a faculty panel discussion titled “After the Earthquake: Japan’s Nuclear Plant Crisis” on Thursday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium.
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’75 rejected a proposed settlement between Google, The Authors Guild and The Association of American Publishers that would have allowed the leading Internet search engine company to proceed with its Google Books Search project on Tuesday. The decision has major implications for the University’s digitization efforts.
Despite what appears to be 216 fewer courses offered in the fall term compared to this spring’s offerings, the number of courses offered in the fall will be approximately the same, several departmental representatives confirmed.
Public Safety will now notify the Princeton Borough Police Department on all calls for assistance from the eating clubs, Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall confirmed in an email. Public Safety will still respond to calls from students or club officers to help intoxicated students, but it will now inform the police of the call and expect them to respond as well.
Political philosopher and professor emeritus Michael Walzer spoke about the philosophical implications of choice in a lecture called “Humanitarianism: What is it?” on Wednesday night in Lewis Library.The lecture was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion as the fifth annual Doll Family Lecture on Religion and Money.
While many students may think that miracles don’t exist, Robby Dawkins wants to change their mind.Dawkins, a pastor at the Vineyard Aurora Church in Aurora, Ill., gave a demonstration of miracles Wednesday night in McCosh 10 in a seminar sponsored by Princeton Faith in Action.
Residents Anne Waldron Neumann and Yina Moore ’79 have both announced that they will be seeking the Democratic nomination for Borough mayor.
President Tilghman led a panel discussion Wednesday night with members of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership about the 114-page report the committee published on Monday after a year-and-a-half investigation into women’s campus leadership.
A commission currently studying the possible consolidation of the Borough and the Township met Wednesday night to discuss merging the municipalities’ debts and public services.For the past several months, the Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission has been working with the Center for Governmental Research, a nonprofit public management consulting firm, to examine the possibility of a merger.
Students recently locked out of their rooms have received cards announcing an updated lock out policy. The cards feature the fees that will be charged when students are let into their rooms by Public Safety officers and promise “disciplinary action for repeat offenders.”
