With orange lanyards around their necks and maps sticking out of their pockets, roughly 630 admitted students have descended on campus for the first weekend of Princeton Preview.
For two weekends in April, the University attempts to achieve a viewbook-like perfection on campus to convince admitted students to join the incoming class. Princeton Preview weekends, which will take place April 15–17 and April 22–24 this year, offer prospective students, or prefrosh, the opportunity to experience life on campus and interact closely with current students — especially their hosts.
Revenue for the Princeton University Press has risen by 19.4 percent as of last March, director Peter Dougherty said on Wednesday, putting the company on track for “the best year we have ever had financially.” Last February, revenue at the publisher was down 7–8 percent from the previous year.
Students went to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for help with a class almost 1,000 times last semester. And 96 percent of those times, students said they would recommend the tutoring service to a friend, according to data collected by the McGraw Center.
At Princeton, seeing a professor’s name in a textbook assigned for a class is not unusual. But at other institutions, like George Mason University, professors who assign textbooks they have authored may encounter resentment.
The New Jersey Transit Board of Directors approved plans on Wednesday to raise fares and limit some services. Rail fares will increase by 25 percent as part of the new fare plan, which will take effect May 1.
The Office of Information Technology blocked roughly 25 iPads from the University’s network after the tablets caused network problems when trying to connect to the Internet, Steven Sather, OIT’s associate chief information officer and director of support services, said in an e-mail.
When Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10 needed career advice, standard campus resources like the Office of Career Services could offer her little help. Kiltz is part of a growing segment of University students who intend to pursue the performing arts professionally.
The average salary for full professors at Princeton rose a mere 0.4 percent to $181,000 this year, up from $180,300 last year, the American Association of University Professors announced in its annual report on Monday.
Even if you ace all the exams and papers, you can still fail a psychology course.As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department. Through their participation, undergraduates form the human subject pool for graduate students and faculty researchers. Undergraduate psychology majors are not allowed to use the subject pool for research because of size constraints.
A crowd of students and community members filled each seat in Friend Center 101 and spilled over to the floor on Tuesday afternoon to hear a speech by Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and 2004 presidential candidate.
On April 16, 2006, Dan-el Padilla ’06 lost his relative anonymity. In a profile in The Wall Street Journal, readers across the campus — and around the world — read about his journey from homelessness and poverty to Latin salutatorian of the University. But Padilla’s arc was not just another rags-to-riches tale. The article also revealed that Padilla had entered the country without documentation. To the country, he was now an illegal immigrant, a term Padilla is loath to use.
The death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other Polish leaders in a plane crash on Saturday shocked University students, alumni and faculty members. Members of the University’s Polish community expressed apprehension about the future of the country.
Roughly 25 students met in McCosh 28 for one hour on Monday night to discuss concerns about the University’s honor system as the USG prepares to introduce a referendum that, if passed, would create an Honor Committee with 12 full members. Under the current system, nine full members and three alternates sit on the committee.
The USG announced the candidates in the spring 2010 election on Monday morning. Only three races are contested in the election, in which students must elect class officers, U-Councilors and the USG social chair.
For several students, the details of the room draw process have proved confusing due to unclear information provided by the Housing Department. Lisa DePaul, associate director for student housing, said in an e-mail that the majority of feedback she receives from students is positive.
Cannon Club is still scheduled to open in spring 2011, said Mercedes Naficy-D’Angelo ’84, secretary of the Dial, Elm and Cannon club graduate board. “We’d love for that to happen, though we hoped it would happen a little sooner,” she said on Sunday.
For once, Forbes College was the place to be on a Saturday night. The residential college celebrated its 25th anniversary in style, honoring its guest, Steve Forbes ’70, with an afternoon reception that featured an ice sculpture of the Forbes shield and vast offerings of hors doeuvres and sparkling cider. A special dinner and a “Fire and Ice” semiformal followed the reception
The USG announced the candidates in the spring 2010 election on Monday morning. Only three races are contested in the election, in which students must elect class officers, U-Councilors and the USG social chair.
Out of 185 links to student group websites on the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students’ student group directory, 53 prompt error messages or blank pages. Dozens more have not been updated this year.
