Around midnight on Friday, a male student in a Lawnparties-worthy sundress — complemented by a string of pearls, a headband and a beard — practiced his handstand in a small room in Terrace Club, revealing black spandex beneath his dress.
The University and its members don’t adequately recognize the seriousness of sexual crimes, Princeton students and victims of recent sexual assaults told a crowd of roughly 25 students gathered outside 1879 Arch on Friday evening.
The U-Store, which recently extended its hours of operation to 4 a.m., reported a net loss of $133,829 for the fiscal year ending in June.
Princeton in the nation’s Service” may be the University’s unofficial motto, but the widespread enthusiasm for service among Princetonians does not extend to state law enforcement. Alumni participation in this profession has been sparse, with only a handful of active police officers listed on TigerNet, Princeton’s alumni database.
When Sierra Schelegle ’11 checked her student bill this fall, she was surprised to find a $640 charge for “painted walls.” She was confused, since no such charge had been included in her fire inspection notice.Schelegle is one of several undergraduates who expressed confusion about the University's rules against students painting their dorm rooms, though administrators insist there has been no change in policy.
University Health Services saw a lower than expected student turnout at the Nov. 16 H1N1 vaccine clinic, administering only 860 vaccines of the available 2,000. “We are concerned that eligible students are not taking advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated for H1N1 flu,” UHS Executive Director John Kolligian said.
More than 1,200 total applications were received for the 75 freshman seminars offered this year, after freshmen submitted applications for the spring seminars last week.
Last year, Lorne Applebaum GS saw a flyer on campus for a bike co-op that led him to a tiny room in the basement of Forbes College. One year later, Applebaum is a volunteer with the co-op, since renamed Cyclab, which has become a spot for students and community members to share their knowledge of and enthusiasm for the bicycle.
Despite the growing trend among colleges of hiring outside management consultants to help trim their budgets, the University has no plans to take that action for financial counsel, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.
A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwish was cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event’s sponsors, Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, withdrew their sponsorship, citing her criticism of Islam.
Wilson School postdoctoral researcher Nils Weidmann has uncovered substantial evidence of voter fraud in last August’s presidential election in Afghanistan. And he didn’t have to interview a single Afghan voter.
Paul Ominsky, the director of public safety at Mount Holyoke, Smith and Hampshire, has been named Princeton’s next Public Safety director.
The University announced this week that the Center for African American Studies is launching an internship program this summer for students interested in working on issues of race and public policy.
Jeff Bezos ’86, founder and CEO of the online retail giant Amazon.com, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on May 30, Class of 2010 president Aditya Panda announced Tuesday in an e-mail to all seniors. Bezos, a former Quadrangle Club member, graduated summa cum laude from the University as a concentrator in computer science and electrical engineering. After college, he worked in finance for several years before founding Amazon.com in 1994.
USG officials distributed an elections handbook at their meeting Sunday evening that is inconsistent with both the current USG constitution and the bylaws of the Council of the Princeton University Community. The inconsistencies relate to the election of class senators and U-Councilors.
The Princeton in Africa Program has begun accepting applications from students from any nonprofit college or university in the United States, breaking with its established precedent of only taking Princeton alumni.
Early admission applications to Yale dropped 5.2 percent from last year, from 5,556 applications in 2008 to 5,265 this fall, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel announced on Monday.
Colgate University announced this week that Jeffrey Herbst ’83 will be its next president, starting in the summer of 2010. Herbst will succeed interim president Lyle Roelofs.
Stereotypical images of Princeton students often include pastel lawn dresses, collared polo shirts and neatly pressed khakis. But one Princeton sophomore, featured nude on the cover of the first official issue of Diamond magazine, is challenging those stereotypes.
Though the University dropped from 29th to 61st on the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card this year, the rates of STIs among students on campus are on par with those at other colleges and universities in the United States, based on the fall 2008 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) II and data provided by UHS to The Daily Princetonian.
