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.
In early 2009, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 met with communications representatives from a handful of universities in Washington, D.C. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the sharp decline in coverage of University-based research following steep newsroom cutbacks in science and research reporting.
Penn plans to launch a new recruitment effort focusing on gay and lesbian applicants, according to a report in The Huffington Post. In doing so, Penn hopes to make the school appear more welcoming to LGBT students.
For Princeton students with close connections to those affected, the aftershocks of the recent earthquake in Chile continue days later.
On Thursday, Feb. 25, President Obama presented Robert Caro ’57, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer, with a 2009 National Humanities Medal. Caro was awarded the medal “for capturing the subtle machinations of political influence in America,” according to a statement issued by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Between 10 a.m. and 1:08 p.m., someone went into a student’s unlocked room in Pyne Hall and stole two computers, an “expensive” watch and gaming equipment, Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall said Wednesday afternoon.
Borough Police charged four local teenagers last week in the theft of students’ laptops and iPods from Tiger Inn, Terrace Club and Frist Campus Center.
Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin outlined a new retirement incentive program at the monthly faculty meeting on Monday afternoon. The program will offer professors a bonus equal to at least one-and-a-half times their annual salary if they agree to transition to half-time teaching upon reaching age 65 and retire completely by age 68.
Jake Nebel ’13 and David Chen ’13 have fairly typical part-time jobs for college students, but they don’t have typical commutes. Driving to weekend tournaments — like most assistant high school debate coaches — would be pretty difficult, considering that Nebel coaches for The Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, and Chen works for Palos Verdes High School near Los Angeles.
