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Snowy, with no chance of nudity

Snowy, with no chance of nudity

This Saturday, when the rain turned into the year’s first snow, the courtyard of Holder Hall remained empty. For the 11th straight year, members of the sophomore class opted not to risk the one-year suspension that accompanies participation in the Nude Olympics.

NEWS | 12/06/2009

A sneak peek at campus

Assistant Dean of the College Diane McKay did not indicate that varsity athletes are a target group for the Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI) but some students who have attended FSI said the program was dominated by athletes.

NEWS | 12/03/2009

U. trails Yale in law school acceptance rates

In 2008, Princeton’s applicants were less successful than Yale’s in gaining acceptance to the nation’s top law schools, according to data provided by both universities. Roughly 32 percent of Princeton applications to the top 12 law schools of U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 rankings were awarded admission in 2008, according to the Office of the Dean of the College. At Yale, that number was 37 percent.

NEWS | 12/03/2009

Despite cuts, U. sees 241 apply for RCA spots

Though University administrators have decided to cut six RCA positions next year, the number of RCA applications has risen slightly, to 241 up from 234 last year.

NEWS | 12/03/2009

Dorison ’11 returns from U.K. in time for VP election

USG vice presidential candidate Sam Dorison ’11 returned to campus last night after a semester abroad in Oxford. His return comes four days into the campaigning period for next week’s USG elections and three days before the polls open on Monday.

NEWS | 12/03/2009

U. opposed to two-ply toilet paper in campus bathrooms

University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 explained that the University currently purchases a “mid-level toilet tissue” that is higher in quality than the most basic commercially available products. A move to two-ply tissue, she added, would make little financial or environmental sense.

NEWS | 12/03/2009

Now on the Prox

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NEWS | 12/02/2009

Writing with the stars

Around 8 a.m. on a weekday morning last spring, when most students were still fast asleep or groggily pounding their snooze buttons, a line had already begun to form inside 185 Nassau St. Some students in the line had been holding their spot for over an hour, armed with textbooks and laptops and ready for the long haul.

NEWS | 12/02/2009

APA pushes for hiring equality

The American Philosophical Association (APA) will censure universities that use sexual orientation as a basis for hiring decisions, philosophy professor and APA chair Kwame Anthony Appiah confirmed in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 12/02/2009

Clerics voice opposition to coeducation at KAUST

Forty minutes outside Jeddah, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia, lies a new urban and educational center, supported by Princeton’s own president. President Tilghman sits on the board of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a secular, coeducational graduate-level research school that opened in September.

NEWS | 12/02/2009

Yaroshefsky ’12 lists 24 goals for USG

Several of this year’s USG presidential candidates are talking about toilet paper, but only one has produced a Monty Python-inspired campaign video — complete with coconuts, knights who say “Ni” and a fast-paced soundtrack.

NEWS | 12/02/2009

Websites offer homework help, exam solutions

The solutions for the ECO 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics problem sets are online. Log on to coursehero.com and you can download the 2007 problem set solution sheets.

NEWS | 12/02/2009

Two candidates penalized in USG election

Two candidates for USG positions — Jack Lindeman ’11 and Caitlin Downey ’13 — have received campaigning penalty points. Lindeman, who is running for president, has received five points, while Campus and Community Affairs chair candidate Downey has received 10.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

Nine students will participate in Havana task force next spring

Nine Wilson School students will have the rare opportunity to study abroad in Havana, Cuba, next semester, with the launch of the Wilson School’s first task force in Cuba.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

Tissue is the issue for Lindeman ’11

The main problem USG presidential candidate Jack Lindeman ’11 would like to fix is campus toilet paper, he said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Lindeman is interested in pushing for more comfortable two-ply toilet paper on campus, he explained.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

USG failed to comply with referendum

The USG has not fully complied with the stipulations of a referendum passed last spring, which asked USG members to sign a pledge to not ask administrators for recommendations.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

‘Getting a giggle’: How one Tiger became a clown

Princeton students often juggle classes, athletics, eating clubs and social lives. But for Christina Gelsone ’96, juggling is part of her daily life as a clown and street performer.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

U. faculty is 27 percent female

The University has the lowest percentage of female faculty members of any Ivy League institution.

NEWS | 12/01/2009

Some USG officers will not sign recommendation pledge

Several current USG officers — including vice president Michael Weinberg ’11, treasurer Trevor Martin ’11 and USG IT Committee chair and current presidential candidate Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 — have declined to sign a pledge affirming that they will not ask University administrators for letters of recommendation.

NEWS | 11/30/2009

Common Application only option for applicants this year

Prospective students applying to Princeton will no longer have to choose between the Common Application and Princeton’s own application form, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 11/30/2009

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