After three decades in journalism, Douglas Pike ’71 has decided to embark on a different path. He announced his candidacy to represent Pennsylvania’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives on April 8, 2009.
University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 presented the findings of the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, which he chaired, at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
This piece, authored by Elena Kagan ’81 during her tenure at The Daily Princetonian, was published on Nov. 10, 1980. Where I grew up — on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — nobody ever admitted to voting Republican. The real contests for Congress and the state legislatures occurred in early September, when the Democratic primary was held. And the people who won those races and who then took the November elections with some 80 per cent of the vote were real Democrats — not the closet Republicans that one sees so often these days but men and women committed to liberal principles and motivated by the ideal of an affirmative and compassionate government.
On the corner of Olden and Prospect streets sits a building constructed in 1892. But if everything goes as planned, the former home of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding won’t be there much longer. Despite objections by some prominent alumni, the University Board of Trustees approved plans to demolish the building at 86 Olden St. during a meeting in March.
The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 12, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. An anti-registration, anti-draft, anti-war movement again sweeping the country? Not quite, unfortunately. The only “movement” we can see today is in the other direction — toward an era in which myopic and over-sensitive “national pride” precludes the thoughtful search for alternatives to an unnecessary draft registration. At today’s noon rally, however, Princeton students can demonstrate that they view registration as a dangerous and unacceptable method of settling our current problems.
The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 4, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. Throughout the coming week, Princeton’s most lingering tradition — Bicker — will once again make its presence felt throughout the university community. This year, 551 sophomores registered to bicker, approximately 45 percent more than did last February. We find this increase extremely dismaying.
As a freshman, Ravi Sangisetty ’03 did not strike friends as a natural candidate for Congress. Now he has tossed his hat into the ring as the sole Democrat in the race for Louisiana’s third congressional district and one of a handful of alumni running for Congress as first-time politicians.
When the U.S. men’s soccer team conducts its training camp in Princeton later this month to prepare for this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa, students will have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the squad.
Jake Sally ’12 was elected USG social chair and Peter Favoloro narrowly defeated incumbent Austin Hollimon for Class of 2012 treasurer in runoff elections, USG elections manager Tony Xiao ’12 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday. Stefan Kende and Kevin Mantel will face each other in a run-off for Class of 2013 vice president after garnering 113 and 70 votes, respectively, in a re-vote.
Elena Kagan ’81 got drunk on election night in 1980. Standing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music with her vodka and tonic, she watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept. Three decades later, Kagan is the first female solicitor general of the United States and one of the leading candidates for President Barack Obama’s nomination to fill the seat of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who is due to retire when the court’s term ends this summer.
Markus Brunnermeier had seen this game play out before. The intense trading, the pronouncements of indefinitely rising prices, the herd mentality — everything about the real estate markets seemed reminiscent of of the dot-com bubble that had popped not so long ago.
In October 2008, a Princeton freshman should have died. During a reunion of Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni at a campus tailgate, a freshman pledge was made to consume dangerous amounts of Everclear. Later that day, the pledge was rushed to the University Medical Center at Princeton, where doctors found he had a blood alcohol level of 0.40.
In her first public address at Princeton since leaving in 2004, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann challenged universities to combat the underrepresentation of middle-class students on college campuses and to act in a “publicly defensible way.” Gutmann, a former Princeton provost, spoke Thursday afternoon to an audience of several hundred people in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory and delivered a lecture titled “Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges.”
“Can there be such a thing as sex-positive, meaningful porn?” prompted the blurb advertising the talk given by Tristan Taormino in McCosh 10 on Thursday. Taormino said yes, in a controversial USG-funded forum sponsored by the campus group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS).
An e-mail written by Stephanie Grace ’07 has sparked controversy across the country for suggesting that intelligence directly correlates with race.
Members of the economics department, consistently ranked among the top few in the world, agree that the leadup to the financial crisis, and the recession that followed, have revealed flaws in their field’s approach.Some of economists’ core assumptions — that people act rationally and that market prices reveal true value — did not hold during this tumultuous era. But rather than disavow their techniques, which rely on the use of such assumptions to understand complicated issues, members of the department have maintained faith in their approach, albeit with a larger dose of caution.
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano two weeks ago spewed clouds of ash 11,000 meters into the atmosphere above northern Europe, rendering trans-Atlantic air travel impossible for a week.The largest peacetime disruption to air travel in history, the explosion cost the aviation industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Some members of the University community were among the passengers whose travel plans were disrupted by the roughly 100,000 cancelled flights.
Princeton students are willing to pay $20 for a ride to Quaker Bridge Mall, $10 for a club soda and $5 for a phat lady sandwich from Hoagie Haven. And through nowineed.com, a new website that officially launches today, they can get what they want.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that all Division I student athletes must be tested for sickle cell trait, or sicklemia, effective at the start of the 2010-11 academic year, unless athletes show proof of a previous test or sign a waiver exempting themselves from the test.
Each Thursday evening, 45 Princeton students cloaked in black robes meet by candlelight and swear an oath of loyalty to a hooded figure known to them as Most Noble Archon.“Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae habes et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo; et veni, sequere me.”
