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Eight members of Class of 2010 win Spirit of Princeton award

Eight members of Class of 2010 win Spirit of Princeton award

Eight seniors were awarded the 2010 Spirit of Princeton Award. From a pool of more than 90 nominees, Muhammad Jehangir Amjad, Sam Gulland, Reilly Kiernan, Jenni Newbury, Eric Plummer, Mariam Rahmani, Gabriel Rodriguez and Doug Sprankling were selected by a committee of students and administrators for their contributions to the undergraduate experience.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

In the Hot Seat: Hazing at Princeton

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

One night during the fall of his freshman year, John Burford ’12 found himself at the Show & Tel strip club on the south side of Philadelphia with six other Princeton freshmen. All seven were pledge brothers in Princeton’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and they had made the 45-mile trip south because Burford had specific instructions from the older brothers in the fraternity: Make a visit to “the hot seat.”

NEWS | 04/25/2010

An untraditional bat mitzvah

When enrolling in JDS 315/WOM 310: The Family in Jewish Tradition, Alexis Kleinman ’12 expected to learn about Judaism — and talk about sex — with psychosexual therapist and 1980s icon Dr. Ruth Westheimer. While the seminar delivered on both fronts, she also ended up with a bonus: a bat mitzvah.

NEWS | 04/25/2010

USG selects The Roots for Lawnparties

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.

NEWS | 04/23/2010

Former White House Chief of Staff Bolten '76 will continue to teach at U.

When former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten ’76 agreed to teach a course last fall as a visiting professor at the Wilson School, he thought it would be a one-year affair.

NEWS | 04/22/2010

Preeminent constitutional scholar and professor emeritus Murphy dies at 80

Walter Murphy, politics professor emeritus and a leading constitutional scholar, died of cancer on April 20 at age 80.

NEWS | 04/22/2010

Tilghman, Malkiel, other top administrators advise independent work

The first step in most students’ independent work is finding a faculty adviser in their department, but Jake Miller ’09 said he “kind of dropped the ball.”Since he did not find an adviser on his own, the history department assigned him one: Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel. “I didn’t even know she was an adviser,” Miller said. “It kind of surprised me.” Miller is a former sports editor for The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 04/22/2010

Fashion contest showcases sustainable apparel

Trash turned into treasure when students made clothes out of garbage in celebration of the 40th annual Earth Day on Thursday.“In the fashion world, caring for the environment has gotten more trendy,” explained Sarah Chen ’13, a member of both Greening Princeton and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, or SURGE. “It’s not a bad thing at all.”

NEWS | 04/22/2010

VP Cole ’13 disqualified from race

Class of 2013 vice president Gabrielle Cole ’13 was disqualified from her bid for reelection for two violations of the election rules, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2013 Wednesday morning. Since voting for the position had already begun at the time of the disqualification, a revote will be held next Monday.

NEWS | 04/21/2010

U. may benefit from proposed cuts to NASA moon exploration

University professors and students lauded President Barack Obama’s recently announced plan to divert funds in NASA’s budget away from human space exploration ventures, such as the planned 2020 mission to the moon, and toward commercial endeavors and private research.

NEWS | 04/21/2010

Borough Council caps police at 30 in 4-1 vote

The Princeton Borough Council approved a controversial restructuring of the police department last week that lowered the number of police officers authorized to work in the department while keeping that cap above current staff levels. Borough officials said that the decision comes after two years of attrition and disciplinary action that left the department understaffed.

NEWS | 04/21/2010

U. receives B grade for sustainability in 2010 report

The College Sustainability Report Card, an initiative of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, gave the University a B grade for sustainability in its 2010 report. Across the Ivy League, Yale, Harvard, Brown and Penn were each given an A-minus, Dartmouth received a B-plus, and Cornell and Columbia joined Princeton with B’s.

NEWS | 04/21/2010

A critic’s critics: On black churches

For students who grew up in communities where religious life revolves around black churches, coming to Princeton meant leaving a central feature of their lives behind. “Being from the South, in an environment in which blacks are the majority, my worship style — my cultural context in general — I feel is definitely underrepresented on campus,” Jonathan Ford ’12 explained.

NEWS | 04/21/2010

West GS ’80 speaks at workers’ rights panel

African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 participated in a workers’ rights panel held Tuesday afternoon in McCosh 50. At the panel, West said that “We are here to unequivocally and enthusiastically affirm the dignity of every member of the Princeton community.” Yet most of the panel discussion, organized by the student group Princeton for Workers’ Rights, focused not on the University’s workers, but rather on those at HEI Hotels and Resorts.

NEWS | 04/20/2010

American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects nine professors as fellows

Nine University faculty members were among the 229 fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Monday.

NEWS | 04/20/2010

U. taxes to Borough, Township expected to decrease

The University’s property tax payments to Princeton Borough and Princeton Township are expected to decrease in 2011. Borough Councilman David Goldfarb estimated that, assuming budgets hold constant for the next year, the University will pay $260,000 less in annual property taxes to the Borough and $191,000 less to the Township.

NEWS | 04/20/2010

Crittenden GS ’05 named associate dean of undergraduate students

Whitman College Director of Studies Cole Crittenden GS ’05 will replace Hilary Herbold GS ’97 as associate dean of undergraduate students for the upcoming academic year, Whitman College Master Harvey Rosen announced during the Whitman Workers’ Appreciation Party dinner on Tuesday. Crittenden was selected following an internal search.

NEWS | 04/20/2010

The politician and the press pass: profiling Spitzer ’81

In his new book “Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” which was released on Tuesday, Peter Elkind ’80 profiles Eliot Spitzer ’81.

NEWS | 04/20/2010

Fire prompts evacuation of Dod Hall

A small fire on the second floor of Dod Hall drew a significant response from University and town emergency officials on Monday evening. Roughly 35 people were evacuated when a smoke alarm was triggered around 5:50 p.m. by a fire in a trash can.

NEWS | 04/19/2010

Drawing through the decades

Few artists make it to The New Yorker, but Henry Martin ’48 did nearly one better and started his career there.Sixty years later, the prolific cartoonist has donated nearly 700 original drawings to the University, adding to a collection of Martin originals that already numbered in the thousands.

NEWS | 04/19/2010

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