President Barack Obama nominated Caitlin Halligan ’88 for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Sept. 29. Halligan is currently general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Eighty years after it opened as an academic center to prepare students for leadership in public service, the Wilson School is conducting a formal review of whether its undergraduate program is living up to its mission.
Princeton has made an unexpected appearance in Delaware’s Senate race.Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, came under scrutiny in recent weeks when political opponents and media outlets said she falsely implied that she pursued a master’s degree at the University.
The University’s peer institutions have seen signs of economic recovery, reporting investment returns of between 8.9 and 17 percent for their endowments in recent weeks. Princeton is the only Ivy League institution that has not yet released its endowment figures for the 2010 fiscal year, which ended June 30. At the end of the 2009 fiscal year, the University endowment was valued at $12.6 billion.
Auditions for performing arts groups are always competitive, but the heads of a cappella, dance and theater groups said that this was an especially tough year for freshmen.Shere Khan was one of the most selective groups, admitting only one new member out of the 130 students who auditioned. Roaring 20 accepted four out of 120 auditioners. None of the five a cappella groups that spoke to The Daily Princetonian accepted more than seven new singers.
The Princeton Township Police Department, which has jurisdiction over part of campus, has been taken over by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office amid a criminal investigation of the department’s leadership.
University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 presented a progress report on the implementation of last spring’s recommendations by the eating club task force at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.At the meeting, Durkee also discussed the plans of the recently announced task force on campus and social life.
“You guys ready not to think?” Felipe Esparza asked a near-capacity audience at McCarter Theatre on Monday night.Esparza, the winner of NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy contest “Last Comic Standing,” closed a two-hour, five-man stand-up routine that drew regular laughs with jokes about college drinking and a number of politically incorrect references.
The University “turned a corner” in greenhouse gas reduction, Sustainability Manager Shana Weber said while presenting the University’s 2010 sustainability report at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday afternoon.The challenge facing the University when it comes to sustainability is “both institutional and individual,” Weber said as she described the University’s progress on sustainability efforts in greenhouse gas reduction; resource conservation; and research, education and civic engagement.
The dying joke about women following college with an “Mrs. degree” may have received its fatal blow this year.Women now earn more Ph.D.s than men, the Council of Graduate Schools announced in its annual report last month. The trend has yet to reach Princeton, where there are still three men for every two women.
At the end of September, some students celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkot with a Sukkah party at an unexpected location: Terrace Club.The Sukkah party was the first event sponsored by a new student group, Jews on the Street, which is funded by the Jewish organization Chabad and aims to further the presence of Jewish life at the eating clubs.
Six of the 38 current members of the University Board of Trustees and three trustees emeritus have donated a total of $156,800 to the California gubernatorial campaign of Republican Meg Whitman ’77, according to campaign finance records made available online by the California Secretary of State.
NEW BRUNSWICK — Roughly 15 undergraduates rode the train one stop north on Sunday evening, where they joined several hundred Rutgers University students and community members for a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyler Clementi.
Ivy, Tower and Cap & Gown clubs, the only eating clubs to conduct fall Bicker, accepted a total of 61 new members last week. Tower accepted 25 new members out of 47 students who bickered, Tower president Martin Scheeler ’11 said in an e-mail.
Every week, Meghan Todt ’11 dances in three different studios for the same ballet class.On Tuesdays, she walks to the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. On Wednesdays, the class meets in the first-floor studio of New South Building. On Fridays, it’s back to 185 Nassau Street, but this time in the third-floor studio.
Richard Kahlen-berg has strong words for preferential admission of alumni children: “fundamentally un-American.”“The revolution was fought in large measure to rid ourselves of aristocracy and inherited privilege, so each individual would rise or fall on her own merits in the United States,” said Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. “The notion of providing a leg up in admissions to a group of students who ... are fairly advantaged to begin with is profoundly unjust.” Kahlenberg attended Harvard for college and law school as a legacy student and is the author of four books about education, equal opportunity and civil rights.
The University should brace itself for a new wave of vegetarianism on campus, if Thursday night’s 75-35 vote against eating meat on ethical grounds is any indication.
Campus crime has declined across the board over the past year, according to the University’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2009 that was released Thursday.
The plan to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system appeared to face a major setback at Thursday night’s meeting of the Princeton Regional Planning Board, after residents voiced near-universal opposition to the plan.
Mimi Omiecinski, founder of Princeton Tour Company, is a self-proclaimed “Princeton wannabe.” “I’m not a historian, and I didn’t grow up in Princeton, and I don’t have an Ivy League education, but I love to gush about Princeton,” she said.
