Walter Murphy, politics professor emeritus and a leading constitutional scholar, died of cancer on April 20 at age 80.
The first step in most students’ independent work is finding a faculty adviser in their department, but Jake Miller ’09 said he “kind of dropped the ball.”Since he did not find an adviser on his own, the history department assigned him one: Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel. “I didn’t even know she was an adviser,” Miller said. “It kind of surprised me.” Miller is a former sports editor for The Daily Princetonian.
Trash turned into treasure when students made clothes out of garbage in celebration of the 40th annual Earth Day on Thursday.“In the fashion world, caring for the environment has gotten more trendy,” explained Sarah Chen ’13, a member of both Greening Princeton and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, or SURGE. “It’s not a bad thing at all.”
Class of 2013 vice president Gabrielle Cole ’13 was disqualified from her bid for reelection for two violations of the election rules, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2013 Wednesday morning. Since voting for the position had already begun at the time of the disqualification, a revote will be held next Monday.
University professors and students lauded President Barack Obama’s recently announced plan to divert funds in NASA’s budget away from human space exploration ventures, such as the planned 2020 mission to the moon, and toward commercial endeavors and private research.
The Princeton Borough Council approved a controversial restructuring of the police department last week that lowered the number of police officers authorized to work in the department while keeping that cap above current staff levels. Borough officials said that the decision comes after two years of attrition and disciplinary action that left the department understaffed.
The College Sustainability Report Card, an initiative of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, gave the University a B grade for sustainability in its 2010 report. Across the Ivy League, Yale, Harvard, Brown and Penn were each given an A-minus, Dartmouth received a B-plus, and Cornell and Columbia joined Princeton with B’s.
For students who grew up in communities where religious life revolves around black churches, coming to Princeton meant leaving a central feature of their lives behind. “Being from the South, in an environment in which blacks are the majority, my worship style — my cultural context in general — I feel is definitely underrepresented on campus,” Jonathan Ford ’12 explained.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 participated in a workers’ rights panel held Tuesday afternoon in McCosh 50. At the panel, West said that “We are here to unequivocally and enthusiastically affirm the dignity of every member of the Princeton community.” Yet most of the panel discussion, organized by the student group Princeton for Workers’ Rights, focused not on the University’s workers, but rather on those at HEI Hotels and Resorts.
Nine University faculty members were among the 229 fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Monday.
The University’s property tax payments to Princeton Borough and Princeton Township are expected to decrease in 2011. Borough Councilman David Goldfarb estimated that, assuming budgets hold constant for the next year, the University will pay $260,000 less in annual property taxes to the Borough and $191,000 less to the Township.
Whitman College Director of Studies Cole Crittenden GS ’05 will replace Hilary Herbold GS ’97 as associate dean of undergraduate students for the upcoming academic year, Whitman College Master Harvey Rosen announced during the Whitman Workers’ Appreciation Party dinner on Tuesday. Crittenden was selected following an internal search.
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.
