Much of American military policy is terrorism, 81-year-old linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky argued before a crowd of roughly 450 audience members in McCosh 50 on Monday evening.
With its move to a new office space at 36 University Place from its former accommodations on Nassau Street, the Office of Career Services set out to form closer connections with students.
Last semester, Ann-Marie Elvin ’12 maintained a regular written and artistic correspondence with prison inmates, which was published in the literary magazine Inside Out as part of her work for SOC 227: Race and Ethnicity.
Between teaching, doing research for her dissertation, attending meetings and grading exams, Jelena Bradic GS leads the dizzyingly over-packed lifestyle that many of her fellow graduate students can relate to. “Sometimes I’m up until 5 a.m. and don’t even realize it,” the third-year operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) graduate student said.
The Wilson School accepted 90 sophomores on Thursday out of 162 who applied, Wilson School spokeswoman Rebecca Anderson, said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian. Of the 90 accepted, six applied to be certificate students.This year’s admission rate for the University’s only selective major is in line with last year’s, when the Wilson School accepted 90 out of around 160 students. In 2008, the Wilson School accepted 90 out of 154 applicants.
Roughly 30 students and community members gathered on Saturday night outside the front entrance of Frist Campus Center for a candlelight vigil to honor those who lost their lives in the devastating earthquake that struck Chile on Feb. 27.
On a Wednesday morning last month, Sean Pi ’12 ran breathlessly into his 10 a.m. French class dressed in a suit and tie, carrying a suitcase and his French books. Just five minutes earlier, he had paid a cab driver $300 for a ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where his red-eye flight from California had landed hours before.
Mitch Daniels ’71, the popular Indiana governor who handily won reelection in 2008, has sparked speculation that he may run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, with recent comments that backtracked from earlier claims that he was not considering a run.
Students, professors and unions across 32 states organized protests and rallies on Thursday in response to recent budget cuts in public university systems.
Though members of Sigma Chi frequently get together on Thursday evenings, they usually don’t meet at the Princeton Public Library.But last night, roughly 18 Princeton students — all Sigma Chi members — gathered for an alcohol education event known as the CHOICES program, which aims to educate students about the risks associated with excessive alcohol use through group discussions and self-reflection.
When he arrives on campus to teach next fall, former White House adviser Van Jones will be greeted by students and faculty generally supportive of his appointment.
Architecture majors at most universities with specialized programs receive a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B.Arch.). Princeton students in the School of Architecture, however, receive a Bachelor of Arts degree (A.B.). Unlike other universities’, Princeton’s architecture school is unaccredited. While many architecture programs concentrate on building regulations and construction, Princeton takes the unconventional approach of focusing on both liberal arts and architectural curricula.
A team of academics and Wall Street economists — including Peter Hooper ’69 of Deutsche Bank and economics professor Mark Watson — have developed a new financial index which they unveiled at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum conference in New York City on Feb. 26.The new index reveals that the economic recovery might not be as strong as some financial indicators suggest.
As chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner ’82 is normally a member of the audience as attorneys argue their cases in front of him. But on Wednesday afternoon, he was doing the talking when he delivered a lecture, called “The New Jersey Supreme Court: A Perspective from the Bench,” in Dodds Auditorium.
More than two years after it was first created, the Alcohol Coalition Committee’s (ACC) mission — to address high risk drinking on campus — is the same. Director of Campus Life Initiatives Amy Campbell, the ACC co-chair, said, “High-risk drinking crosses all boundaries ... It doesn’t matter whether you’re a member of an eating club or participate in a fraternity or sorority or are in a residential college ... It’s a particular behavior we’re focused on.”
Crushed under a pile of rubble and bleeding from wounds to his head and legs, American filmmaker Dan Woolley writhed in an agonizing daze. It had all happened so fast: a massive tremor, followed by an explosion that brought down the concrete walls around him. Mr. Woolley had been shooting a video about poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. And for the 65 hours before being found and rescued, he survived with the help of an unlikely medical aid — his iPhone.
For 15 minutes on Wednesday evening, a crowd of 150 people gathered in Labyrinth Books to listen to a phone call. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an inmate on Pennsylvania’s death row, spoke on the phone with African-American studies and religion professor Cornel West GS ‘80 and sociology professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly.
Students flipping through the course catalog this year may have wondered what a course cross-listed in Atelier, environmental science and theater entailed. An interdisciplinary course in environmental theater, ATL/THR/ENV 496: Environmental Documentary and Music Theater combines the scientific methods of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) with the artistic approach of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Riots and protests at the University of California, Berkeley, have erupted both on and off campus this week, according to U.S. News & World Report and The Daily Californian, the school’s student newspaper.
Hank Song ’11 participated in Charter Club’s initiations last February like any other new member. But while most sophomores celebrated alongside old friends and new acquaintances, he settled in for a shorter stint on the Street. Song, who said he always planned to leave Charter after a year, is one of several juniors who will leave their eating clubs to become independent as seniors.
