Students who have already been fined for painting their dorm rooms this year will have those fines waived, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Thursday afternoon.
USG presidential candidates Jack Altman ’11 and Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 will move on to a runoff that begins today after Jack Lindeman ’11 was eliminated in the first round of voting.
After last year’s market turbulence, the Princeton University Investment Company, headed by its president Andrew Golden, is re-examining its investing strategy with the aim of increasing liquidity.
Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, who oversees the University's postgraduate fellowship program, has been fired, effective June 2010.
Platonic philosophers don’t just give lectures or sit in desks listening to them. Sometimes, they may emerge only when the room is empty, long after the students and professors have left the classroom.
Borough Police have charged two men with the alleged aggravated assault of two University students early Sunday morning on Prospect Avenue.
After hearing that star running back Jordan Culbreath ’10 had been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a condition in which bone marrow does not sufficiently replenish blood cells, Caitlin Alev ’10 decided to take action by organizing a bone marrow drive on campus. The purpose of the drive, supported by the National Bone Marrow Registry, is to match potential donors with Culbreath and others around the world in need of marrow transplants.
Despite its name, the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) doesn’t do any investing directly. Founded in 1987 to manage the University’s assets, PRINCO creates broad guidelines for its investment portfolio and then selects outside investment managers to give funds to, until the portfolio resembles PRINCO’s target. Instead of being an investment manager, PRINCO is more of a “manager of managers.”
Princeton students leaving through FitzRandolph Gate for graduate school in the future will face a new step in the application process: a revised, longer version of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
Borough Police Lt. David Dudeck was sworn in as Princeton Borough’s police chief at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday evening.
This spring, the Program in Visual Arts will lose seven of the 14 instructors currently teaching fall courses following the hiring of Joseph Scanlan, who is due to begin as the program’s director in February.
Just because the University has a $12.6 billion endowment doesn’t mean that it can quickly come up with $12.6 billion to spend on any given day. In fact, the University can only convert about half of its endowment to cash with ease.
The University endowment’s return on its investments rose more than 5 percent during the fiscal quarter ending on Sept. 30, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. She also said in an e-mail to the ‘Prince’ that the investment returns have seen “modest additional gains” over the last nine weeks, but she added that the University did not have data on the value of the endowment as of Sept. 30.
Members of the faculty voted Monday afternoon to approve a USG proposal to reform the pass/D/fail policy. Under the new system, students will be able to switch to P/D/F between the seventh and ninth weeks of the semester, and they will no longer be able to rescind the option later in the semester.
As she manned the stove and register, Chirida De Toro was dreaming of the perfect bowl of noodle soup. The broth can take more than a week to prepare traditionally, and — with working in the Rocky-Mathey Dining Hall, cooking full time at her restaurant and teaching cooking classes — De Toro, or “Da,” as her customers and family call her, has trouble finding the time.
USG presidential candidates Jack Altman ’11 and Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 were forced to dismantle their websites.
Wilson School major Josh Grehan ’10 has been awarded this year’s Sachs Scholarship.
If the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) had instead adopted a more conservative investment strategy 10 years ago, focusing on highly liquid assets that offered great short-term flexibility, the endowment would be worth less than half of what it is worth today, PRINCO president Andrew Golden said.
Roughly 10 to 20 people were involved in a fight on Saturday evening at a dance hosted at the Fields Center. The conflict escalated until Borough Police sprayed the crowd with pepper spray.
Many of this year's budget cuts came in response to the plunge in the financial markets last year, which brought the value of the endowment down by nearly a quarter. But Andrew Golden, the gray-haired and bespectacled president of the Princeton University Investment Company, is not too worried.
