Students using the University’s wireless network should notice faster and more reliable internet performance on campus.
The USG will emphasize student participation and communication under the leadership of Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, who begins his term as USG president Feb. 1 and succeeds current president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10.
Appiah, who opened the New Year’s Eve event, is the president of PEN American Center, a New York-based literary association devoted to defending freedom of expression.
The New Jersey Treasury Department’s decision to freeze committed funding to arts organizations could result in losses of as much as $500,000 for McCarter Theatre and threaten the successful execution of productions scheduled for its next season.
Two degrees may be all that distinguish a thriving coastal city from a deluged ghost town, according to a study led by University researchers that was the basis for an article in Wednesday’s issue of Nature.
While Princeton students were feasting on Thanksgiving turkey or taking advantage of Black Friday sales, Suraiya Baluch was having a remarkably different experience.
UHS has vaccinated 2,271 students, faculty, staff and dependents against the H1N1 flu during November and December.
Try to imagine the University without one of its most controversial and distinctive institutions — one that has endured for more than a century, even in the face of sharp criticism for its divisiveness and exclusivity.
Michael Yaroshefsky '12 narrowly won the runoff for USG president with 51.3 percent of the vote, defeating Jack Altman '11 by 41 votes.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel defended the grade deflation policy at a debate Wednesday evening hosted by the Whig-Cliosophic Society.
Yale has admitted 730 of the 5,261 applicants in its single-choice early action pool, the university announced on Tuesday. The acceptance rate for this applicant pool, 13.9 percent, is slightly larger than the rate from last year, 13.4 percent. Yale also received 5 percent fewer early applications this year than it did last year.
Civically engaged students interviewed for this article described Princeton as a campus where students organize lecture series and film screenings rather than protests and rallies.
Abiodun Azeez ’12 knew even before she arrived on campus last fall that she didn’t want to join an eating club. “I don’t think eating clubs are the place for me,” she said in an e-mail. “I guess part of it had to do with what I’d read about eating clubs — elitism, rich white kids —and I’m not elite, rich, or white.”
On the morning of April 14, 1978, 210 University students took over two floors of Nassau Hall for 27 hours, while 300 supporters gathered outside the iconic building. The students, led by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa, were protesting University holdings in corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.
Princeton students graduate with the least debt, on average, out of all college students in New Jersey, according to a recently released report on student debt nationwide.
Perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader ’55 is considering running in 2010 for the Senate.
Princeton is the third most expensive private nonprofit four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey, according to recent data compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In the fall of her sophomore year, Sarah ’10 received an e-mail from her sorority inviting her to an unusual gathering. Instead of advertising an upcoming semiformal or tailgate, this e-mail announced one of the sorority’s annual Bicker workshops.
Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said his department will seek more input before deciding whether to begin purchasing Fair Trade bananas, as recommended by a USG referendum passed last week.
Roughly 60 students campaigned on Monday against online comments posted on a Daily Princetonian article about the Dec. 5 fight at the Fields Center. The students spray-painted T-shirts with excerpts from some of the comments: “moves in packs,” “prone to violence” and “less deserving candidate.” Several students said they found the excerpts, which reference people involved in the fight, to be “racist” and “ignorant.”
