Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87, head of the U.S. Central Command, will replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the leader of coalition forces in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced June 23.
Despite threats of heavy rainfall, students gathered with their family and friends under the historic green elms in front of Nassau Hall to celebrate the University’s 263rd Commencement on Tuesday morning.The ceremony honored 1,175 bachelor’s degree recipients — 1,166 from the graduating Class of 2010 and nine undergraduates from previous classes — and 804 recipients of graduate degrees. Degree candidates were joined by roughly 7,500 family members and friends.
John Lewis, former dean of the Wilson School and economic adviser to three U.S. presidents, died of natural causes May 19 in Montgomery, N.J. He was 89.
Charlie Gibson ’65, former anchor of ABC’s “World News,” did not attend his own Class Day 45 years ago. He didn’t want his four years at the University to end, he explained during his Class Day speech Monday morning. But, Gibson assured the Class of 2010 that students remain connected to the University, even after graduation.
At the Class Day ceremony held on Cannon Green on Monday morning, members of the Class of 2010 were acknowledged for their service, leadership and athletic achievements at the University.
Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos ’86 opened the University’s 263rd Baccalaureate address with a story from his childhood. After watching a public service announcement about the health effects of smoking, he calculated that his grandmother’s addiction would likely take nine years out of her life. But rather than praising him for his mathematical prowess, his grandmother burst into tears.
Workers reported a leak of acidic waste water at the University’s cogeneration plant on Sunday morning. The plant, which generates electricity and heat for the campus, was shut down and the hot water supply to dormitories was disrupted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Josh Grehan ’10 was elected Class of 2010 Young Alumni Trustee, Anne Sherrerd GS ’87, president of the Alumni Association, announced at an annual meeting of the Alumni Council on Friday.
It wasn’t until 1969 that the University first began admitting women — and four decades later, members of the graduating classes from the early 1970s have looked back on their undergraduate years and said that, while the transition was challenging, they are proud to be members of the first classes that graduated following the arrival of women on campus.
The yield for the Class of 2014 stood at 56.9 percent as of Wednesday. The University has accepted 137 of the 1,415 students it placed on the waitlist, yielding a current 8.71 percent overall acceptance rate. Of the students admitted from the waitlist, 108 have accepted the offer.
The Annual Giving campaign has raised nearly $32 million with 44 percent alumni participation as of this week — falling short of its goal of $46 million and 60 percent participation — but is on track to meet its target, those involved in the campaign said, emphasizing that contributions made by alumni during Reunions weekend will likely add substantially to the fundraising totals.In the last four years, alumni made an average of 8,500 gifts totaling roughly $13 million each June, William Hardt ’63, assistant vice president of development for Annual Giving, said in an e-mail.
The timeworn volumes of The Daily Princetonian in the basement of Mudd Manuscript Library will soon be excused from further wear and tear as the Larry DuPraz Daily Princetonian Digitization Project launches the first available online index of ‘Prince’ archives at the newspaper’s annual Reunions barbecue on Saturday.The ‘Prince’ Board of Trustees partnered with Mudd Library to digitize the archives, which date back to the paper’s founding in 1876 and consist of roughly 85,000 pages.
Journalist Charlie Gibson ’65, former anchor of ABC’s “World News,” will deliver this year’s Class Day address. Rebecca Foresman ’10 and Zach Zimmerman ’10 will also address their class after being selected from a pool of 11 finalists.
The Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education is currently conducting two separate investigations of the University in response to student allegations that the administration has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Janet Dickerson, the highly praised vice president for campus life whose decade at the University will come to a close this spring, disliked her first job in education.Long before coming to Princeton, Dickerson began her career as a middle school English teacher. “I hated it,” she said. “The students weren’t ready to learn.”
A settlement was reached Thursday evening in the lawsuit Diane Metcalf-Leggette ’13 filed last October against the University.
When the University releases its admission decisions each spring, a group often larger than an entire class of students is left in limbo: the waitlist. This year, 1,451 applicants were put on the waitlist, and around 900 have decided to remain on the list. Last week, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said that the Office of Admission was planning to “probably take 100 kids off the list” this year.The University placed 1,331 students on its waitlist last year, and 1,526 students on its waitlist in 2008.
Juniors embarking on research for their senior theses this summer might find their travel expenses funded by the Office of the Dean of the College, by their departments or certificate programs, by outside sources or by a combination of the three. The process of securing funding depends in large part on the individual department’s timeline and guidelines for independent work, departmental representatives said.
For Richard Golden ’60, the small envelope addressed to his daughter was an unconscionable insult. “My daughter got her rejection letter from Princeton yesterday,” Golden fumed in a letter to Princeton Alumni Weekly in April 2003. It was not right for alumni to be “blindly loyal to the university,” while Princeton merely “[paid] lip-service to the values of Tradition and Loyalty” in its “mindless drive towards social engineering,” he wrote.
Though he left the University’s physics laboratory 12 years ago, Rush Holt’s connection to Princeton is still critical in his new career — as a congressman.Employees of the University constitute his top group of campaign contributors, and students have been summer interns at his office. With a potentially contentious reelection campaign shaping up for 2010, Holt would benefit from further support from members of the University. Over his political career, he said, there have been “students and faculty and staff very involved in my campaigns as volunteers, canvassers and advisers.”
