Several dozen students lined up to get tickets at the Princeton Garden Theatre more than an hour before a free screening of “The Social Network” started at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of roughly 30 graduate students — representing the graduate student governments of all eight Ivy League universities and Massachusetts Institute of Technology — met in Robertson Hall to discuss important issues currently facing graduate students. Dressed in business casual attire, the students spent the weekend participating in seminars and social events as part of this year’s Ivy Summit.
Wilson School professor Alan Krueger will step down from his post as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy next month and return to the University. Krueger, who was nominated to the post in March 2009, is the latest of several economic officials in President Barack Obama’s administration to announce their resignations.
At a panel titled “Education as the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time” on Friday afternoon, speakers aimed to raise awareness of the achievement gap between students of different classes and races in American secondary education. The panel, which was moderated by President Shirley Tilghman, was sponsored by Students For Education Reform, Teach for America and the USG.
Wilson School professor Alan Krueger will step down from his post as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy next month and return to the University. Krueger, who was nominated to the post in March 2009, is the latest of several economic officials in President Barack Obama’s administration to announce their resignations.
Two weeks after he was removed as chief of the Princeton Township Police Department, Mark Emann said his biggest challenge has been “being away from my police department.”“It’s been difficult to say the least ... I really can’t comment much more than that,” Emann said.
President Shirley Tilghman has lifted a restriction requiring the Alcohol Initiative to sponsor events only on Thursday and Saturday nights. Students can now solicit grants from the Alcohol Initiative fund with more flexibility.
The University’s five-year Aspire capital campaign has raised a total of $1.26 billion or 72 percent of its $1.75 billion goal. This was as of Sept. 20, several months past the halfway mark of the campaign, which is scheduled to end June 2012.
When voters visit polling places on Nov. 2, they likely won’t realize that the machines that will count their votes could run at least one video game.Over the summer, computer science graduate student Ariel Feldman and Alex Halderman GS ’09 reprogrammed a Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen voting machine to play the arcade classic Pac-Man in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary. The process took just three afternoons.
When Rep. Rush Holt and Scott Sipprelle took the stage in a Rider University auditorium Thursday, it marked the first official debate of the main contenders for New Jersey’s 12th congressional district. But the physicist-turned-lawmaker and Wall Street banker-turned-entrepreneur have been crossing paths on the airwaves and campaign trail for months in what is the most competitive race since 2002, when redistricting made Holt’s district more solidly Democratic. University students have also played a role in the race, from registering to vote to actively campaigning for their candidates.
After its endowment investments lost 23.5 percent during the 2009 fiscal year, the University posted a return of 14.7 percent in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2010, the University announced on Friday. The endowment closed the fiscal year valued at $14.4 billion.“The strong performance of the endowment contributes significantly to the financial health of the University in what remains a difficult economic climate,” Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in the University statement.
The races for the Class of 2014 president, vice president and treasurer will proceed to runoff elections today, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 and USG elections manager Tony Xiao ’12 announced in an e-mail to the freshman class on Friday.
The rule of law in China is very much a work in progress, speakers said during “Rule of Law Development in China,” a panel attended by roughly 35 audience members in Robertson 016 on Wednesday. A mixture of academics and professionals discussed the progress that has been made in creating and enforcing universal laws in China, as well as many of the challenges that lie ahead.
Since August, students passing the University Art Museum after dark have been treated to a unique art display: a film of bizarre images, such as foxes, deer, bison and other animals in hotel rooms.
The 2010 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released last week, ranked the University eighth out of 141 colleges and universities nationwide. This is a significant improvement from its 2009 ranking of 61st.
Over the next 15 months, Firestone Library will transition from the Richardson classification system to the Library of Congress call number system — the first phase of a 10-year plan to the renovate the library. The reclassification project, which began over the summer, involves individually relabeling and reshelving the millions of volumes within Firestone.
The number of freshman and sophomore women who began sorority rush jumped to 210 this year, a 28 percent increase over last year.
A federal district judge’s order immediately halting the military’s enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy raises questions about the future status of the Princeton ROTC program.
During the fall semester of his senior year, J.D. Walters ’09 found his interest in graduate school waning. Faced by the high cost of further education and the poor employment prospects for Ph.D. graduates in philosophy and theology, Walters turned to the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation.
Elizabeth Cooper ’12 and Sam Borchard ’11 wanted to live together, just like other friends on campus. There was only one problem: Through last year, male and female students could not share a room.
