An e-mail written by Stephanie Grace ’07 has sparked controversy across the country for suggesting that intelligence directly correlates with race.
Members of the economics department, consistently ranked among the top few in the world, agree that the leadup to the financial crisis, and the recession that followed, have revealed flaws in their field’s approach.Some of economists’ core assumptions — that people act rationally and that market prices reveal true value — did not hold during this tumultuous era. But rather than disavow their techniques, which rely on the use of such assumptions to understand complicated issues, members of the department have maintained faith in their approach, albeit with a larger dose of caution.
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano two weeks ago spewed clouds of ash 11,000 meters into the atmosphere above northern Europe, rendering trans-Atlantic air travel impossible for a week.The largest peacetime disruption to air travel in history, the explosion cost the aviation industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Some members of the University community were among the passengers whose travel plans were disrupted by the roughly 100,000 cancelled flights.
Princeton students are willing to pay $20 for a ride to Quaker Bridge Mall, $10 for a club soda and $5 for a phat lady sandwich from Hoagie Haven. And through nowineed.com, a new website that officially launches today, they can get what they want.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that all Division I student athletes must be tested for sickle cell trait, or sicklemia, effective at the start of the 2010-11 academic year, unless athletes show proof of a previous test or sign a waiver exempting themselves from the test.
Each Thursday evening, 45 Princeton students cloaked in black robes meet by candlelight and swear an oath of loyalty to a hooded figure known to them as Most Noble Archon.“Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae habes et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo; et veni, sequere me.”
The average GPA is 3.0 at public universities but 3.3 at private institutions, according to the results of a survey of 160 American colleges and universities.
When Chern Han Lim ’11 arrived on campus, adjusting to the American education routine of homework and class participation was jarring. At his high school in Malaysia, Lim had been on the British track, in which course grades were based almost solely on exams. “I wasn’t used to working hard. I could just afford to slack off the entire semester and cram before exams,” he explained.
While many of his peers spend their time behind desks, Robert Marshall ’13 will be spending his summer tending a herd of cattle, renovating a cabin and working at an auto shop. Elizabeth Hopke ’10 will be working for her local county Parks and Recreation department in Williamsburg, Va., where she has worked every summer since she was 12 years old, and Brian Lesh ’12 will apprentice for an acoustic instrument shop learning to make basic repairs.
Six years ago this spring, in a second-floor classroom in Frist Campus Center, there was a meeting that may have been the first of its kind. It was also the last.
The University had an estimated 80 percent response rate for the 2010 census among undergraduate and graduate students living in on-campus dormitories.
Every spring, Princetonians return in droves for their 25th reunion, donning orange-and-black class jackets, to reunite with classmates, march in the P-Rade and sing “Old Nassau.” But the highest-profile member of the Class of 1985 — First Lady Michelle Obama — will not join her classmates.
David Karp ’10 has been named this year’s valedictorian, and Marguerite Colson ’10 has been selected as Latin salutatorian, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at the faculty meeting on Monday.
When Eric Hagstrom ’13 arrived on campus, he had only shot a rifle “once or twice before in Boy Scouts,” he said. Yet two weeks ago, Hagstrom, who joined the club rifle team in September, traveled to Purdue University to take part in the Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship, which featured top clubs from across the country.
Stereotypes surrounding Princeton’s sororities and fraternities are not uncommon on a campus with an unusual and often hostile relationship to its Greek organizations.
The Residences at Palmer Square will be the first new housing development in Princeton Borough in decades. But the majority of faculty and graduate students seeking off-campus housing will be priced out of the development’s 17 townhomes and 83 condominiums.
The results of spring USG elections were announced Friday evening on the USG website. A number of candidates ran unopposed, though competition increased after the filing deadline was extended by two days for races with an insufficient number of candidates.
The results of spring USG elections were announced Friday evening on the USG website. A number of candidates ran unopposed, though competition increased after the filing deadline was extended by two days for races with an insufficient number of candidates.
In her keynote speech at the “Take Back the Night” event on Friday night, Jaclyn Friedman — a feminist performer, author and activist who was raped in college — called on the audience to create a culture and community “where it’s outrageous to think that someone would commit sexual violence against another member of the community.”
The Roots will headline next Sunday’s USG-sponsored Lawnparties concert, following an opening act by the student band Shape Machine, USG Social Chair John Wetenhall ’11 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday.
