Students reported seeing a shirtless middle-aged white male expose his genitals outside Charter Club on Monday evening, according to a campus safety alert issued by e-mail to the University community on Tuesday afternoon.
At the town hall meeting on Tuesday, the third held this calendar year, several audience members took advantage of the chance to ask questions of University administrators, focusing on the budget cuts and the necessary layoffs that will result.
The University has offered its intensive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture course, known to students and faculty as the humanities sequence or “HUM,” to freshmen and sophomores since 2003. The sequence consists of four classes that split equally between two semesters and fulfill four distribution requirements while giving students a thorough grounding in Western intellectual traditions.
At Campus Club for most of last Saturday night — from 10:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. — there was one thing missing: students. Except for the two baristas who gave out free water to the 25 or so people that wandered in at various times and usually left a few minutes later, Campus Club was empty.
Job prospects for members of the Class of 2010 may be sunnier than those of members of the Class of 2009, as the economic climate begins to show some signs of stabilizing.
Nothing was going right for Ellie Kemper ’02. She was doing a one-person comedy show, and every joke she told was falling flat.
As members of the Class of 2010 and their families begin planning for this year’s Commencement weekend, many local hotels are raising their prices more steeply than they have in past years to compensate for a loss of profits during the economic downturn.
Nine Princeton alumni are among the 400 wealthiest Americans, according to the Forbes magazine rankings released last week.
Currently facing a 23.7 percent decline in endowment value and projected $170 million budget cuts over two years, the University plans to continue making campus-wide and department-specific cost reductions.
From Firestone Plaza to Prospect Garden, Holder Hall and Blair Arch, Orange Key tour groups of prospective students and parents traverse campus several times per day, hitting many of the University’s most important landmarks, with one exception: the Street.
In 2008, Princeton reported more judicial referrals for liquor law violations than either Harvard or Yale despite reporting the fewest arrests for liquor law violations.
Almost every relationship I’ve ever been in started with a flurry of text messages.
The University has altered its emergency notification system to send out alerts sooner since the March 7 gun scare, representatives from the Department of Public Safety said at the USG meeting on Sunday night. On March 7, Steven Shonts ’12 triggered a Princeton Telephone and E-mail Notification System (PTENS) alert by carrying a permanently disabled AK-47 across campus. Deputy Director of Public Safety Charles Davall said at the meeting that the 76-minute delay between the first report of a weapon sighting and the activation of the alert system was too long.
Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation on Oct. 1 that grants immunity in some cases to intoxicated minors in need of medical attention and to students who call for help on their behalf. The University’s policy is slightly different, however.
While many Princeton students spent last Saturday’s brunch chowing down at their local dining hall or eating club, David Gibbs ’10 and Eric Schlossberg ’10 were dining at Lahiere’s. Instead of omelets and oatmeal, they sated their appetites with pappardelle pasta with roasted duck, cremini mushrooms and dried cranberries.
Fall Bicker concluded this past Friday with a total of 54 new members being accepted into Cap & Gown, Ivy and Tower clubs.
Many graduates heading out of FitzRandolph Gate become consultants, investment bankers, lawyers, doctors or professors, but Matt Hawrilenko ’04 chose a more unconventional career: professional poker player.
On-campus arrests for drug abuse and liquor law violations increased to a total of 25 in 2008 from two in 2007 and none in 2006, according to the 2009 Annual Security Report. The report, which lists no cases of criminal homicide, robbery or illegal possession of weapons on campus in 2008, also shows an increase in the number of forcible sex offenses and arson.
While 35.7 percent of the Class of 2008 had secured jobs before graduating, only 29.6 percent of the Class of 2009 was able to do the same.
Late Wednesday night, a group of freshmen gathered in a Holder Hall lounge to celebrate the second weekly meeting of the Sleep Around Campus Klub. Gathered on a small couch in a pile of intertwined limbs, blankets and pillows, the members fought to get comfortable over a chorus of gossip, jokes and friendly banter.
