Attempt to enter Campus Club on a typical Saturday night and, chances are, you’ll be greeted by a stern-looking student asking to see your PUID.
Snowball fights are fun, but if you want to stay warm and vent your frustration, try initiating a listserv war. While some students find these listserv battles — often begun when one student’s e-mail sparks an influx of “reply all” responses — amusing, others consider them burdens to their inboxes.
You won’t find Kimberly Bonner ’08 in Medford, N.J., her home listed on the TigerNet alumni directory. Bonner is stationed in Tanzania, waging a war against mosquitoes.Bonner is one of the five inaugural undergraduate recipients of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) scholarship. The program places Princeton graduates in federal government jobs for two years and funds their two-year Master in Public Affairs (MPA) degrees at the Wilson School.
The Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a debate Thursday evening over whether the Department of Public Safety’s sworn officers should be allowed to carry guns on campus. Audience members voted 15-8 in favor of arming the officers. Roughly 30 to 40 people were present at the debate.
The creation of the University’s Facebook page — in addition to accounts on Twitter, YouTube and iTunes — reflects efforts by the communications office to increase Princeton’s online presence via social media.
Residential colleges will no longer be zoned by class year. Certain rooms — which will be unavailable during the room draw process — will be designated for incoming freshmen with the goal of bringing them in greater proximity with their RCAs.
It is common knowledge that most Internet file sharing is illegal, but Sauhard Sahi ’10 has proof. Analyzing a random sample of 1,021 files available on a variant of the file-sharing application BitTorrent, Sahi found that 85 to 99 percent of files were shared in violation of copyright law.
In response to heavy snowfall, the University canceled classes and closed the campus to non-critical staff on Wednesday. The nor'easter delivered more than a foot of snow to most of New Jersey, with some parts of Mercer County reporting more than 17 inches. All three Rutgers campuses, The College of New Jersey, Seton Hall University and Rider University were also closed the entire day, while Columbia closed at 3 p.m.
To finance major projects in its 10-year capital plan, the University issued $250 million in tax-exempt bonds on Jan. 20. The bonds will help fund construction of the new buildings for the chemsitry department and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute as well as major renovations to Jadwin Hall and Firestone Library.
All three campus co-ops — 2 Dickinson St. (2D), Brown Co-op and the International Food Co-op (IFC) — have already reached their membership limits for next year, with 48 members joining 2D and 28 each joining Brown and the IFC. Each co-op is instituting a waitlist.
Sustainability efforts on campus generally involve installing new, greener technologies — water-saving toilets, motion-sensitive lights and trayless dining are a few of the University’s recent sustainability initiatives. Though the broader movement centers around consuming less, most initiatives have started with the step of constructing more.
Though Princeton graduates are employed across the country and around the world, some alumni find careers by walking back through FitzRandolph Gate. A search of the TigerNet alumni directory revealed 683 Princetonians employed at their alma mater, many of whom work at the University in non-academic capacities.
President Tilghman ended a 255-year streak of male leadership when she became the University’s president in 2001. Last Friday, Alison Lahnston accomplished a similar feat when she was elected the first female president of the 120-year-old Nassau Club.
While the Office of Admission says it does not systematically investigate each applicant’s Facebook profile, prospective students should not consider their online activity safe from scrutiny.
The University is projecting that the endowment will increase by 10 percent during fiscal year 2010, Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced at the town hall meeting on Tuesday night.
Members of the University community have raised doubts about the prudence of new biofuels guidelines issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Wednesday. The guidelines call for increased production and use of corn-based ethanol and other biofuels in an attempt to decrease the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
When Will Fisher '10 has a cookie, he skips the milk. Fisher, like a few other students on campus, is a vegan. Vegans make up a mere 3 percent of the undergraduate population, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail. Though they do not consume meat, fish, poultry or animal products and by-products like eggs and dairy, students said that campus dining options — though limited — are still conducive to a vegan lifestyle.
Former USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 has been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University announced this morning.
This September, some local grade schoolers will be learning more than the basics on their first day of class when the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) opens its doors — and debuts its Mandarin Chinese immersion program — to 170 students.
President Tilghman addressed the immediate future of the University through the lens of fiscal conservatism.
