Selected stories cover topics ranging from milestone changes in University policy to the Princeton community's involvement in larger national incidents.
Within the last decade, Princetonians have won Nobel Prizes, risen to political office and upheld the University's informal motto, "Princeton in the nation's service and the service of all nations."
The next time you are in trouble while traveling abroad, facing scams online or even stuck with a flat tire, the Department of Public Safety would like to help.This is the sentiment the department hopes to convey to the campus community in public seminars in the upcoming year.
Though residential college advisers have had mixed responses to the on-call system put into effect last September, a record 256 students have applied for RCA positions for the upcoming academic year. Last year 241 students applied, and 234 applied in 2008.
President Barack Obama’s recent tax deal with Republicans includes tax breaks that have supported higher education not just on the institutional level, but for tuition-paying families as well.
Young college graduates should prepare to be the most entrepreneurial generation yet or face massive unemployment, according to Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a three-month-old board of more than 80 entrepreneurs that counts among its members former USG president Josh Weinstein ’09.
The number of Princeton applicants for Princeton in Latin America and Princeton in Africa decreased this year, while those for Princeton in Asia remained stable, according to the executive directors of the three programs.
Politics professor Robert George is involved in a dispute with Apple that could result in legal action. Two weeks ago, George coauthored a letter to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asking him to reinstate the Manhattan Declaration iPhone application, which the company removed following criticism that the app was anti-gay.
Elevators in Wu and Scully halls failed state inspections last month and were closed after testing showed minor problems with their hydraulic systems, inspection records show.
"If you want to work in film, why did you go to Princeton?” Sarah Curran ’02 was continually asked this question when she attended the Tribeca Film Festival as a student. Though she does not work in film today, Curran is one of hundreds of alumni working in the performing arts industry. After acting, teaching and earning a master’s degree in performance, she now holds a position at an arts programming office at Stanford University.
A sprinkler pipe burst in the basement of Fine Hall early Tuesday morning, spilling water across the basements of four buildings, disrupting classes and soaking library books and maps.
Valerie Smith, an English and African American studies professor, will succeed Nancy Malkiel as the next dean of the college, the University announced Tuesday. Her appointment, effective July 1, 2011, will make her one of the highest-ranking African-American administrators in University history.
As a sophomore at the University, Richard Bagger ’82 took the bus to Trenton to work as an entry-level legislative aide to a state assemblyman. After stints in law school, the state legislature and the corporate boardroom, he has become the top political aide in the state, serving as Gov. Chris Christie’s chief of staff.
Since announcing its new weighted sign-in system in September, Charter Club has held six sophomore events, with activities ranging from a Monday Night Football viewing to a “Fraturday” party. Despite initial concerns that the system represented a move toward greater exclusivity, both current and prospective members of Charter said their experiences have been positive, citing the mutual benefits of the new system to sophomores and the club as a whole.
Though the Tea Party movement is not inherently racist as a whole, incidents of explicit racism from within the movement are evident and reflect larger social anxieties within White America, argued African American studies professors Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude GS ’97 in a discussion titled “The Role of Race in the Tea Party Movement,” held Monday afternoon in Robertson Bowl 1.
International initiatives and programs are some of the “most important initiatives” the University has undertaken in the past 10 years, President Shirley Tilghman said during Monday’s meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.
Every weekday morning, janitor Natasha Bowman walks into a men’s bathroom in the fourth entryway of Blair Hall knowing what she’ll see: a large pile of unused toilet paper on the floor of a particular toilet stall. Bowman has given a special name to the student who leaves behind an average of one roll of toilet paper a week with this strange habit. He is “the toilet paper fetish guy.”
Pace Center representatives delivered a breakdown of how the center used the USG’s spring 2009 donation of $90,000 at the USG meeting on Sunday evening. The meeting also included a recap of the USG-sponsored FrostFest event on Friday, along with updates about research on grade deflation and a possible electronic meal-exchange system, among other topics.
Khameer Kidia ’11, a French major from Harare, Zimbabwe, has been named one of Zimbabwe's two Rhodes Scholars, he confirmed Monday morning.Kidia, who hopes to become a physician and has already been admitted to the humanities and medicine program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, plans to use the scholarship to earn a master's degree in medical anthropology at Oxford.
While numerous Princeton students have experienced life abroad, Josh Shulman ’13 is one of the few who have written a book about it. Shulman, who is 25 and speaks four languages, published a 70-page guide to Japan, titled “All-You-Can Japan: Getting the Most Bang for Your Yen,” in November.
