The Dinky train will not be replaced, the Princeton Regional Planning Committee decided in a vote at its meeting Thursday evening. The decision comes after more than seven months of debate.
As most undergraduates spent their time in class, members of the Tigertones, an all-male a cappella group, journeyed to Washington on Tuesday as invited performers for one of many White House Christmas parties hosted by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama ’85.
Members of the DREAM Team, a campus group that has been advocating passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, expressed some disappointment Thursday after the legislation they championed faced a setback in Congress, though they remained optimistic about the cause’s future.
More than five weeks after election day, Republican congressional candidate Randy Altschuler ’93 finally conceded to incumbent Democratic representative Tim Bishop in the nation’s last undecided congressional contest. Altschuler called Bishop on Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory in New York’s 1st Congressional District, which covers a portion of eastern Long Island. Altschuler was one of 12 University alumni to run for office in this year’s midterm elections.
Leaders of the Center for African American Studies, Program in Teacher Preparation, Princeton University Preparatory Program and Student Volunteers Council have joined with the Trenton Public School District to build a custom literacy-tutoring program for the city’s struggling students.
Roughly 30 undergraduates attended an informal open house held in the Trustees Reading Room of Firestone Library on Wednesday night, where library staff discussed the motivations for renovating the University’s largest library, summarized the phases of renovation and solicited feedback. Earlier that day, Firestone hosted similar open houses for faculty members and graduate students.
Two-and-a-half months after the establishment of the working group on campus social and residential life, participants in the separate focus groups organized by the working group agreed that reopening a campus pub would be a good idea, said Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69, a co-chair of the committee.
“Ivy League,” a reality television show starring Princeton students, is set to begin shooting its pilot in February, co-director Rosana Clawson said. But the future of the show is still far from certain, with future hurdles including filming, producing, teaming with a network and receiving University approval.
A generation raised on digital technology has fundamentally different business expectations, argued Jeff Bell in a lecture Wednesday evening at East Pyne 245. Bell, a senior vice president and chief information officer for PHH Corporation, delivered his speech, titled “Digital Natives at the Wheel: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Worker,” as part of Business Today’s seminar series.
Ask most Princeton students on campus about Sabra hummus and they will probably roll their eyes. Minor media firestorms and student apathy aside, though, there are students on campus who cared very deeply about the outcome of the Sabra hummus debate. And, with the final vote of 1,014 against the referendum and 699 in favor, in many ways, both sides seem to think they won.
Members of the Princeton Borough Council discussed concerns about the Princeton public pool and bicyclist safety at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
Patti Smith, the legendary singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, discussed her motivations as an artist and her long and close relationship with controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe before a capacity audience in McCosh 50 on Tuesday night.
In most of the races in this fall’s USG elections, challengers received two to three times fewer votes than winners. But some students missed election for USG positions by only a few votes.
Tens of thousands of high school students apply to Princeton each year and are the focus of countless media reports and dinner-table conversations. But much less attention is paid to the 4 percent of Princeton undergraduates — roughly 50 students per class — who do not graduate within six years. Many of them arrived at the University only to find that the Princeton experience they imagined did not exist, and ultimately, they decided to leave. Students who transfered cited an overarching culture of competition, along with more specific concerns such as the lack of academic support for athletes and the difficulty of training for a career in the arts.
The faculty unanimously approved a proposal to change the name of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender to the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies during its monthly faculty meeting on Monday.
A search for “Princeton University” on Amazon.com returns more than 20,000 books. But only one is written by a 6-year-old.Zach Malott’s latest book, written with help from his father, Michael Malott, was released Saturday. “Let’s Explore Princeton,” published in November through the self-publication company CreateSpace, shares the experience of a Princeton visit from a child’s point of view.
Students walking through the Rockefeller College common room Monday night were greeted with an unfamiliar scene: A flash mob of roughly 40 students, accompanied by live rhythmic drumming and recorded music, swirled and swarmed around the room for 20 minutes.
Two years ago, Carter Cleveland ’09 sketched his first plan for a website to match young people with art, as Pandora Radio does with music. Now, his idea has evolved into a million-dollar start-up company, Art.sy, which will match fine art with collectors.
A culture of hookups and drinking for the sake of drinking increases the occurance of inebriated sexual encounters in Princeton’s social scene, many students concluded at a workshop organized by the Alcohol Coalition Committee.
Late last spring, the Asian-American Students Association decided to host a conference for Asian American undergraduates at Ivy League schools during the 2010-11 academic year.“Because Asian-Americans make up a good portion of the population, we felt that it was a good time to raise more awareness,” said Laiyin Li ’12, co-president of AASA. “American studies and African-American studies already existed, but Asian-American studies weren’t going through with the administration. There were more Asian-American courses than before, but progress is still not evident.”
