A lawn display advocating against abortion was vandalized last Wednesday and Friday evenings, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said. The posters were on the north lawn of Frist Campus Center for Respect Life Week, organized by Princeton Pro-Life.
Sitting in the stands at the 1968 Princeton-Harvard football game, Mary Procter GS ’71, a graduate student in the Wilson School, was disgusted. The University band was making jokes referring to Princeton’s small female population — a group of women studying critical languages — as “cunning linguists.”
Forbes College kicked off its Blackbox concert series last Friday with performances by Columbia student Steven Helferich and the band Tim McGlone and The Turn, as well as free pizza and T-shirts.
The summer before her junior year, Kate Stevick ’09 was guaranteed an internship that came with housing, food and transportation for two months. The catch? Not only was the internship unpaid, she spent $7,999 procuring it.Stevick was matched with her position through University of Dreams, an organization that helps students find summer internships.
The integrated science curriculum, now in its sixth year, continues to attract students with an interest in pursuing graduate programs and careers in the sciences. Through its notoriously difficult multidisciplinary program of courses, the curriculum arms graduates to work at the cutting edge of many fields, said students, professors and alumni.
As members of the Class of 2010 fill their schedules this fall with job interviews, many international students are re-evaluating their decision to work in the United States after graduating.
Asian applicants may face discrimination in the admission process at many elite universities, according to data from a recent study conducted by sociology professor Thomas Espenshade GS ’72.
From behind her desk, Paxson — a former economics department chair and the founding director of the University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing — speaks cautiously about her vision for the Wilson School, a vision that involves examining the school’s admission policy for undergraduate majors, building a tighter community in one of the University’s largest departments and restructuring its finances.
They called her “Miss Bikini.” “A statuesque blonde from Elberon, N.J.,” the Time magazine article said, a “lovely Tigress” whose photo graced the magazine in the summer of 1969.
Jewish students who do not use electricity on the Sabbath recently received metal dorm keys to use from sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays. Since religious restrictions prohibit the use of electricity on the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays, in past years prox access machines have been left unlocked for the first 10 minutes of every half hour each Sabbath to allow students observing the holiday to enter their dorms without swiping their proxes.
The University will begin a year-long pilot printing quota on Oct. 15 as both a sustainability initiative and cost-cutting measure.
Harvard is named the best educational institute in the world for the sixth year in a row, followed by the University of Cambridge, Yale and University College London. Imperial College London and University of Oxford tie for fifth, while the University of Chicago comes in just ahead of Princeton in seventh place.
Janet Dickerson, Princeton's first vice president for campus life who oversees the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Department of Athletics, University Health Services, the Office of Religious Life and the Pace Center, will retire in June.
The University hosted a forum on Sept. 30 to discuss a possible Latino boycott of the 2010 U.S. Census as a means to advocate for immigration reform. As the April 1 commencement of the census approaches, some Latino activists have encouraged illegal immigrants to boycott the count in hopes of encouraging change in immigration policy.
With five days left before New Jersey's voter registration deadline, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s New Voters Project — a group whose mission is to “[stand] up to powerful interests” — is trying to reach its registration goal of 800 student voters.
Both sides of the ongoing Google Books dispute now have until Nov. 9 to prepare a revised settlement for U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin ’75. Chin had previously approved a motion to postpone the date for submitting the revised settlement to Oct. 7.
Leaning forward on his hands with a huge grin on his face, the tailored black suit, the intense bearing, the distinctive hairstyle — all are signature “Brother West."
The Regional Planning Board approved the University’s plans for its neuroscience and psychology complex, despite lingering logistics and construction concerns.
Textbook sales at Labyrinth Books have dropped 13 percent this fall in light of the economic downturn, said Dorothea von Moltke, the bookstore’s co-owner. One reason for lower revenue is that “about 80 fewer classes than last fall are using any books at all,” she explained. But Labyrinth, only a few years into its lease on Nassau St., must also grapple with a systemic change to its industry that has shuttered bookstores across the country: the rise of online textbook sources.
There have been a total of 260 cases of influenza-like illness on campus, University Health Services Executive Director John Kolligian said at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
