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Feb. 27, 1980: Women’s Studies Now

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 4, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. Over the past few years, the field of women’s studies has gained ever-increasing recognition and acceptance at universities throughout the country. But at Princeton, little has been done to include this discipline in the mainstream of the university’s curriculum. While other Ivy League institutions have created women’s studies programs and while Princeton students themselves have shown a growing interest in the field, the university has steadfastly clung to an inadequate and outdated approach to this expanding discipline. Happily, there is now a way to change all this. If the recently formed advisory committee on women’s studies recommends the creation of a full-fledged women’s studies program, the university may be persuaded to close this gap in its curriculum.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Following in their parents’ pawprints: The legacy path

As James Cole ’12 shook hands and slapped backs in the uproar of Ivy Club pickups, he thought of more than just the meals, parties and friends that his new home would offer: He remembered how his father, too, had been cheered on at Ivy pickups roughly three decades ago.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Last Lectures series sends seniors off with practicality, pizazz

Classes may be over, but some seniors are still heading to lecture. The Last Lectures series, organized by the Class of 2010 commencement committee, packs more than a dozen speeches from some of the University’s most distinguished professors and other well-known speakers into a three-week period.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Nixon's grandson aims for House

After graduating with a law degree from New York University and co-founding an international consulting firm — OC Global Partners, LLC — Christopher Cox ’01 has set his sights on a different career: congressman.The grandson of former president Richard Nixon, Cox is running in the Republican primary this September and hopes to represent New York’s first congressional district, on eastern Long Island.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Change through a former president's eyes: Harold Shapiro GS '64

Nine years after clearing out his office at 1 Nassau Hall, University president emeritus Harold Shapiro GS ’64 isn’t thinking about retirement just yet.“It had always been my stated objective that I did not want to retire as president; I wanted to retire as a faculty member,” Shapiro said in an interview at his only slightly smaller office in Wallace Hall, which he occupies as a Wilson School professor. “When I turned 65, I thought to myself, ‘You better get on with it.’ In my judgment, the University was in good shape at the time, so I thought it was the right moment to go back to teaching.”

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Outdoor Action moves to campus

After more than a decade operating on the outskirts of campus, Outdoor Action has moved its offices to a more central location at Dillon Court West. OA will also move administratively under the purview of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, leaving the Princeton Blairstown Center after 14 years.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Eating clubs wary of task force recommendations

Eating club officials expressed mixed feelings about the report released this week by the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs. The report praised the clubs as distinctive and integral parts of students’ social lives at the University, but also offered suggestions ranging from the mundane, such as joint purchasing for waste removal, to a proposal to establish an eating club match system that would replace current Bicker and sign-in processes.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

National leaders of SAE deny hazing allegations

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon national organization has completed an investigation of its Princeton chapter, concluding that members of the chapter deny that hazing took place as part of its pledge process, the organization announced in an April 27 statement on its website.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Visiting student arrested for assault with fire extinguisher in Foulke after Lawnparties

Public Safety officers arrested a man visiting campus after he allegedly started a fight with a Princeton student and sprayed a fire extinguisher at him in Foulke Hall after Lawnparties on Sunday.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Construction, admissions discussed at CPUC meeting

University officials reported on this year’s graduate and undergraduate admission numbers and provided updates on construction projects at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Rocky-Mathey to go trayless in fall 2010

The Rockefeller-Mathey and Graduate College serveries will join the University’s trayless dining program in the fall of 2010, followed by Whitman College in 2011, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Fast track to the White House

Jennifer Cannistra ’01 wrote background memos as a health policy analyst in the White House’s Office of Health Reform.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Journalist jumps to campaign trail

After three decades in journalism, Douglas Pike ’71 has decided to embark on a different path. He announced his candidacy to represent Pennsylvania’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives on April 8, 2009.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Eating club task force calls for change to Bicker

University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 presented the findings of the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, which he chaired, at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.

NEWS | 05/04/2010

Nov. 10, 1980: Fear and loathing in Brooklyn

This piece, authored by Elena Kagan ’81 during her tenure at The Daily Princetonian, was published on Nov. 10, 1980. Where I grew up — on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — nobody ever admitted to voting Republican. The real contests for Congress and the state legislatures occurred in early September, when the Democratic primary was held. And the people who won those races and who then took the November elections with some 80 per cent of the vote were real Democrats — not the closet Republicans that one sees so often these days but men and women committed to liberal principles and motivated by the ideal of an affirmative and compassionate government.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Over protest, U. to demolish historic 86 Olden St.

On the corner of Olden and Prospect streets sits a building constructed in 1892. But if everything goes as planned, the former home of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding won’t be there much longer. Despite objections by some prominent alumni, the University Board of Trustees approved plans to demolish the building at 86 Olden St. during a meeting in March.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Feb. 12, 1980: Rally at noon

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 12, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. An anti-registration, anti-draft, anti-war movement again sweeping the country? Not quite, unfortunately. The only “movement” we can see today is in the other direction — toward an era in which myopic and over-sensitive “national pride” precludes the thoughtful search for alternatives to an unnecessary draft registration. At today’s noon rally, however, Princeton students can demonstrate that they view registration as a dangerous and unacceptable method of settling our current problems.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Feb. 4, 1980: Bicker: A damaging tradition

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 4, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. Throughout the coming week, Princeton’s most lingering tradition — Bicker — will once again make its presence felt throughout the university community. This year, 551 sophomores registered to bicker, approximately 45 percent more than did last February. We find this increase extremely dismaying.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Backing the Bayou State

As a freshman, Ravi Sangisetty ’03 did not strike friends as a natural candidate for Congress. Now he has tossed his hat into the ring as the sole Democrat in the race for Louisiana’s third congressional district and one of a handful of alumni running for Congress as first-time politicians.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

U.S. men’s soccer team hires security for training camp

When the U.S. men’s soccer team conducts its training camp in Princeton later this month to prepare for this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa, students will have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the squad.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

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