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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The University has the lowest percentage of female faculty members of any Ivy League institution.
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.
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.
Grade deflation and the relationship between the University and the eating clubs will be top priorities for Jack Altman ’11 if he wins the three-way race for USG president.
