Over 25 panelists from universities, nonprofit organizations and departments of the federal government gathered for “A Round Table on Deportations and National Security” on Monday in the Friend Center’s Convocation Room.
In light of Public Safety’s new policy of notifying the Princeton Borough Police of every alcohol-related transport request made on Prospect Avenue, eating club presidents have begun advising members on how to handle situations in which intoxicated students need assistance. While many clubs say they will still call for help if the situation demands it, they have strongly advised members to remember that the officers on duty should be the first line of help.
Kavita Ramdas GS ’88 spoke about gender justice in the global community before a largely female audience in Dodds Auditorium on Monday afternoon.
Registrar Polly Griffin said the University is working to make teaching evaluations accessible directly from the Course Offerings website starting in fall 2011 at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. Griffin added that students may be able to ask course-specific questions directed toward individual department representatives in the near future.
Earlier this month, anti-abortion literature circulating at Princeton Theological Seminary sparked a controversy after several students found the flyers, with slogans such as “Black Genocide in the 21st Century,” to be racially offensive.
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.
