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.
Huamanzana is a tiny Peruvian village located an hour’s bus ride from the nearest major city. It has a population of 140 and boasts a single two-room schoolhouse for 40 kids in first through sixth grade. But this village’s residents are equipped with a piece of modern technology one might not expect to find in a place of its size: cell phones.
Smartphone applications that cater to Princetonians, such as Fountainhop and Scoop, now have another competitor: MYMapp. MYMapp is an iPhone application created by Matthew Salesi ’11, Michele Capece ’11 and Yu-Han Hsu ’11. The application “grabs” all the events currently listed on Point and runs them through a process that accurately extracts information about each event’s location, Salesi said.
A national assessment of research colleges and universities released on Tuesday ranked many of the University’s 35 Ph.D. programs as among the best in the country. The National Research Council billed the report, titled “An Assessment of Doctoral Programs in the United States,” as a new national resource on graduate education.
Many Princetonians know politics professor Robert George as a rigorous constitutional scholar and an influential Republican. But the Robert George who debated his close friend, religion and African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80, on Wednesday afternoon spoke as a committed Christian first and foremost, explaining that religion can and should strongly inform people’s actions.
New Jersey Transit may begin offering wireless Internet access on trains and at rail stations, according to a statement released earlier this month. The state’s train system is currently soliciting proposals from wireless service providers.
