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Nassau Club elects first female president

Nassau Club elects first female president

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2010

Applicants' Facebook profiles may be viewed

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2010

U. endowment projected to rise by 10 percent during FY2010

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2010

University professor, students disagree with new EPA guidelines

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2010

Vegan tigers vouch for diet

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Diemand-Yauman ’10 wins Pyne Prize

Former USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 has been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University announced this morning.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Local charter school to offer Mandarin program

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

U. still plans to break ground on construction projects

President Tilghman addressed the immediate future of the University through the lens of fiscal conservatism.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Audio: The extremes of room draw

Eben Novy-Williams '10, Associate Editor for Sports Emeritus, takes a look at both extremes of room draw in a piece he produced for Back Story, a radio show produced by undergraduates in Dan Grech '99's fall journalism course, The New Audio Age of Journalism. The complete show will air Feb. 14 at noon on WPRB.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Sculpture, sketching and stereotypes

Princeton’s art and archaeology department reflects the field’s changing demographics, with a predominantly male faculty and a primarily female student body.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Labyrinth Books closed Saturday, citing weather and parking policies

Students who trudged through the snow to Labyrinth Books on Saturday were greeted by a sign that read, “Labyrinth will be closed due to weather and the town’s absurd parking policy.”

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Tower has record 219 bickerees

With 219 bickering, Tower Club set a new record for the largest bicker class in the University’s history. The previous record of 217 was set by Tower in spring 2008.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Alcohol transports fall for weekend of pickups

Five intoxicated students were transported to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) last weekend, the Department of Public Safety reported.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

USG-funded concerts to resume at spring Lawnparties

The USG will sponsor a spring Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, after having donated its fall social budget to the Pace Center, USG social chair John Wetenhall ’11 said at the USG’s first meeting of the semester Sunday afternoon.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Google awards $500,000 to professors for web projects

Google announced last Tuesday that it will award five Princeton professors combined grants of $500,000 for their promising research on Internet energy efficiency and privacy.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Authors decry gender inequity

Sheryl WuDunn GS '88 and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke about their new book “Half the Sky” before a packed crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon. The nonfiction work identifies gender inequity as the moral challenge of the century.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Children learn through Legos

Thousands of students apply every year for the opportunity to study engineering at Princeton. But roughly 40 students bypassed the application process altogether and began their first class Thursday night. The select few were eight-year-olds who spent an hour building cars out of Legos at the Princeton Public Library, under the mentorship of four undergraduate engineers.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Art Museum attracts with late night hours

The Princeton University Art Museum’s portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton went missing last night. But it was found within the hour, thanks to the detective work of roughly 45 undergraduates participating in the museum’s scavenger hunt Thursday evening.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

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