In his new book “Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” which was released on Tuesday, Peter Elkind ’80 profiles Eliot Spitzer ’81.
A small fire on the second floor of Dod Hall drew a significant response from University and town emergency officials on Monday evening. Roughly 35 people were evacuated when a smoke alarm was triggered around 5:50 p.m. by a fire in a trash can.
Few artists make it to The New Yorker, but Henry Martin ’48 did nearly one better and started his career there.Sixty years later, the prolific cartoonist has donated nearly 700 original drawings to the University, adding to a collection of Martin originals that already numbered in the thousands.
Hazony and 13 other students tried to explain their religious beliefs “on one foot” to about 50 students who gathered in Murray-Dodge Hall for “Speed-Faithing” on Monday afternoon. The students delivered presentations as brief as two minutes long on nine different religious traditions, ranging from Sikhism to secular humanism. The event, hosted by the Religious Life Council as part of Religion Week, lasted roughly 90 minutes and offered students a chance to learn about others’ religions in an informal setting.
Nine University faculty members were named 2010 Guggenheim Fellows, the most from any university this year, according to a statement released last week by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Eric Lander ’78, a principal leader of the Human Genome Project, described the genetic mapping process, as well as developments that have occurred since the project’s completion, to a packed crowd in McCosh 50 on Monday night.
Almost a year ago, Lauren Imparato ’02 quit her job in fixed-income emerging market sales at Morgan Stanley, following a recent promotion, to start the New York City-based yoga studio I.AM.YOU.
Christina Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, identified a severe shortfall in aggregate demand as the primary cause of the nation’s exceptionally high unemployment rate in her opening keynote address of the 2010 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs.
Former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine suggested five key steps to revitalizing America’s social contract after the economic crisis in his closing keynote address for the 2010 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs.
With spring USG elections set to begin today, the USG had not yet complied as of midnight with the terms of a referendum passed last year requiring candidates to announce, “as a part of the official process of formally declaring one’s candidacy,” whether they will sign a pledge stating that they will not ask University administrators for recommendation letters.
In the summer before her freshman year, Rachel Blum ’11 received an envelope from the University. Buried among papers discussing health insurance and the Honor Code was the housing request form, which poses the first among many choices that students face about how they want to structure their social lives — whether or not they want to live in a substance-free dorm room.
Cap & Gown Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, Terrace Club and Tower Club are all displaying rainbow flags outside in honor of LGBT Pride Week, which runs April 11–17.
The university will offer roughly the same number of courses next semester as it did last fall, Registrar Polly Griffin said. The University offered only 706 courses last semester, compared to the 738 courses offered this spring.
For students like Adam Hesterberg ’11, the senior thesis — the culmination of four years of study at the University — will mark the beginning, rather than the end, of their academic careers.
The number of candidates for the USG spring elections has nearly doubled after the filing deadline for three open positions was extended from Monday to Wednesday. Five candidates are running for Class of 2012 treasurer and for Class of 2013 vice president, and the number of candidates for the 10 U-Councilor openings jumped from nine to 22.
With orange lanyards around their necks and maps sticking out of their pockets, roughly 630 admitted students have descended on campus for the first weekend of Princeton Preview.
For two weekends in April, the University attempts to achieve a viewbook-like perfection on campus to convince admitted students to join the incoming class. Princeton Preview weekends, which will take place April 15–17 and April 22–24 this year, offer prospective students, or prefrosh, the opportunity to experience life on campus and interact closely with current students — especially their hosts.
Revenue for the Princeton University Press has risen by 19.4 percent as of last March, director Peter Dougherty said on Wednesday, putting the company on track for “the best year we have ever had financially.” Last February, revenue at the publisher was down 7–8 percent from the previous year.
Students went to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for help with a class almost 1,000 times last semester. And 96 percent of those times, students said they would recommend the tutoring service to a friend, according to data collected by the McGraw Center.
At Princeton, seeing a professor’s name in a textbook assigned for a class is not unusual. But at other institutions, like George Mason University, professors who assign textbooks they have authored may encounter resentment.
