A new USG nutrition initiative aims to raise awareness of healthy eating options by expanding the number of healthy selections and offering student discounts at the Food Gallery in Frist Campus Center beginning in November.
As the working group on campus social and residential life prepares to examine the role of fraternities and sororities on campus, the Cornell University administration has mandated a major overhaul of the school’s Greek system.Under Cornell’s new rules, announced in August, Greek organizations must eliminate all activities involving alcohol from their recruitment and pledging activities, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. The new provisions also toughen penalties for hazing and state that all parties with alcohol should be closed to freshmen.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a visiting Wilson School professor, warned that Congress had not addressed fundamental economic problems in the financial reform bill it passed in July, a move that threatens to push the country back into recession.
America requires a new approach to energy policy that also diversifies the country’s workforce, Jones argued in his first public address as a visiting fellow on Monday afternoon.In his speech, titled “Beyond Green Jobs: The Next American Economy and The Politics of Hope,” Jones said that the United States should strike a balance between government regulation and business innovation in its energy plans, focusing on renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
The way you sit may influence the way you vote, according to a new study by psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer and Thomas Trail GS ’10.The researchers discovered that people who lean to the left are more likely to support liberal beliefs — a physical manifestation of the familiar left-right political division that originated in the 1791 French Legislative Assembly, where liberals sat on the left and conservatives on the right.
Brandishing a number of large crowbars, Chip Crider GS ’79 criticized a recent proposal by Princeton Borough and Princeton Township to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system. “A BRT won’t work in Princeton because we don’t have the space for it and we don’t have the demand for it,” he said, using the crowbars to represent large transit systems like the BRT.
Caroline Park ’11 knows that health care can’t be learned from a textbook.This summer, Park’s senior thesis in ecology and evolutionary biology brought her to Senegal, where she studied the impact of dam construction on demographic, health and economic conditions in the surrounding villages.“You can read a lot about health care, but once you actually get out into the villages and see how people are living every day, it gives you new perspective about how development is actually progressing there,” Park said.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and former chair of the University’s economics department, defended his home discipline in a high-profile speech on Friday in which he argued that the field of economic research remains valid despite the widespread criticism it has faced since the global financial crisis began in 2008.
Charter Club’s new weighted sign-in policy has garnered generally positive reactions from the campus community in the week since it was announced in The Daily Princetonian. But questions remain about how the logistical details of the system, which have yet to be finalized, will align with Charter’s goals.
Thirty years ago, arguments for a nonviolent end to the conflict in Northern Ireland might have been labeled naive. But now, when Gerry Adams, one of the key architects of the Northern Ireland peace process, says that “no conflict is intractable,” his words carry weight.
The Office of Information Technology has not yet determined what caused Wednesday's unprecedented wireless network outage, which knocked out wireless Internet service Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to Steven Sather, associate chief information officer and director of support service for OIT.
A decade ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped start the Bendheim Center for Finance on campus. He will return to Princeton on Friday to commemorate the center’s 10th anniversary.
As the calendar turns to October, seniors in the Engineering School will be finalizing plans for independent research projects. Meanwhile, Anna Kornfeld Simpson ’14 will be cashing a $25,000 check from the Davidson Institute for prize-winning research she completed before she had even applied to Princeton.
As the 24-year tenure of Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel comes to an end, the search has begun for her successor. University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is heading a search committee that will offer recommendations on candidates to President Shirley Tilghman. Tilghman will then select a candidate to present to the University’s Board of Trustees.
While interning with Rep. Jared Polis ’96 this summer, Samson Schatz ’13 wrote constituent letters, researched bills — and walked a dog. The dog, Gia, who Schatz described as “really cute,” belonged to the Colorado Democrat, one of two congressmen that Schatz worked for this summer.
The latest word on parties, study breaks and impromptu campus events will soon be at students’ fingertips — literally. This is the promise of two new smartphone applications, Fountainhop and Scoop, being launched by University students.
After weeks of teaching children at an orphanage in India, Ben Cogan ’12 turned to his students for a lesson. He asked them how to say “nice to meet you” in Hindi. They readily obliged with a phrase that turned out to be “an incredibly insulting curse word.”
The Class of 1969 Community Service Fund, which supports the Princeton Internships in Civic Service program, will partner with the Pace Center for Civic Values to increase the PICS program’s accessibility and meet the steadily increasing demand for the program’s internships.
Princeton residents are accustomed to the high-end boutiques that line the streets of town, giving it its trademark upscale image. But the owners of the Princeton Sports Bar & Grill, a newly opened restaurant on Nassau Street, aim to chip away at that reputation.
The University faced an unscheduled wireless network outage on Wednesday afternoon that lasted at least seven hours, forcing students to rely upon Ethernet cables to connect to the Internet.
