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Four-year colleges act as safety net for late upperclass draw times, students say

Four-year colleges act as safety net for late upperclass draw times, students say

Upperclassmen had the opportunity to draw into all three of the planned four-year residential colleges, including the new Butler College, for the first time this year. Several students who entered residential college draws said they did so to ensure that even if they got a bad upperclass draw time, they would have other options, though some explained that they were drawn to the colleges’ superior housing facilities.

NEWS | 04/06/2009

Endowment may fall by 30 percent

Revised projections that the University endowment will lose 30 percent of its value by the end of this fiscal year have forced administrators to cut next year’s budget by $88 million, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to the campus community Monday morning. The administration will also eliminate raises for staff and tenured faculty earning more than $75,000 in a move the University predicts will save $4 million.

NEWS | 04/06/2009

University to launch new Latino studies program

The University approved a new Program in Latino Studies at a faculty meeting on Monday, more than 10 years after the idea was conceived. The certificate program will be launched in the 2009-10 academic year. Requisite program courses will consist of a core class on “Latinos in American Life and Culture” as well as four courses in departments outside participating students’ areas of concentration, including social sciences, arts and humanities.

NEWS | 04/06/2009

Fighting for Fair Trade produce on campus

Over Fall Break, Haley White ’12 developed an unlikely interest in the University’s bananas.White was one of several students who took part in a Breakout trip organized by the Pace Center to Immokalee, Fla., where they learned about immigrants working in the tomato industry.

NEWS | 04/06/2009

Former English department chair dies at age 66

Emory Elliott, a former chairman of the English department at Princeton and a distinguished professor at UC Riverside, passed away last Tuesday from a heart attack at age 66. A professor of American literature, he was director of the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside. During his 17 years as a faculty member at Princeton, Elliott also served as chairman of the Program in American Studies.

NEWS | 04/05/2009

New novel inspired by University admission process

"Admission," a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, will be released on April 13. Korelitz drew inspiration for the novel from her time working as an outside application reader for the Office of Admission to create her fictional main character Portia Nathan, a 38-year-old Princeton admission officer who is coming to terms with a painful secret that threatens both her professional and personal lives.

NEWS | 04/05/2009

From the Depression to the recession

Houseparties was nearly cancelled, The Daily Princetonian printed its own money, and scores of Princetonians couldn’t afford to pay tuition as the Great Depression tightened its grip on the University during the early 1930s.

NEWS | 04/05/2009

Admission rate sparks heated debate online

The University’s announcement last Wednesday of a 9.79 percent undergraduate acceptance rate, up from 9.25 percent last year, sparked a firestorm of heated online comments on The Daily Princetonian article reporting the news.

NEWS | 04/05/2009

U. postpones $695 million in construction projects

The University will postpone an estimated $695 million in construction projects due to severe endowment losses, President Tilghman said in an interview with Bloomberg News last Thursday. Princeton will delay buildings for neuroscience research, arts and engineering.

NEWS | 04/05/2009

Cancer researchers win $25,000 in U. competition

With $40,000 in prize money at stake, researchers, graduate students and professors attempted to summarize years of research in three minutes Thursday night.

NEWS | 04/02/2009

Running on empty

“I basically try my best never to sleep,” said Philip Acciarito ’12, who only sleeps four hours per night. “I choose this schedule out of sheer insanity. There’s too much to do in one day.” Though medical professionals recommend eight hours of sleep per night, abnormal sleep schedules like Acciarito’s sometimes seem to be the norm on campus.

NEWS | 04/02/2009

Patel: Mobilize youth toward religious pluralism

The time has come to mobilize the ever-growing youth population to move toward religious pluralism and away from extremism, Eboo Patel said Thursday night in the second address of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations Spring Lecture Series.

NEWS | 04/02/2009

Waitlist larger than projected size for Class of 2013

The University’s 1,331-person waitlist is larger than those of many of its peer institutions in a year when Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said economic turmoil has meant yield predictions are especially uncertain.

NEWS | 04/02/2009

Obama's voice

Just six years after graduation, Adam Frankel ’03’s words have already been heard by millions. Frankel is a senior speechwriter for President Obama.

NEWS | 04/02/2009

University staff to suit up as Borough firefighters

University staff will begin serving as volunteer firefighters with the Princeton Fire Department during their work shifts in a move that will effectively double the size of Princeton’s firefighting force during the business day.

NEWS | 04/01/2009

The 'typical' Tiger

He is as close to an “average Princeton student” as one gets — statistically: He’s a caucasian male from New Jersey concentrating in economics. He earned a 3.78 grade point average at a public high school and earned around a 2220 on the SAT. He is a member of Wilson College, receives $33,671 in financial aid and will live in Dod Hall his senior year.

NEWS | 04/01/2009

Departments' thesis binding policies vary

Even after months of research and writing, a senior's thesis isn't done until it's bound. For some seniors, this final step is insignificant, but students in some departments face steep costs and strict departmental requirements for binding. The history and psychology departments do not require theses to be bound prior to submission, but other departments, such as politics and the Wilson School, require not one, but two bound copies.

NEWS | 04/01/2009

Affirmative action stigmatizes minority students, study finds

Affirmative action may increase academic pressure and stigmatize minority students, according to a study conducted by sociology professor Douglas Massey GS ’78.

NEWS | 04/01/2009

Lazy students, look no further

The elimination of the University’s swim test in 1990 marked the end of Princeton’s physical education requirement. Several peer institutions, however, retain requisite participation in physical fitness programs. Currently, Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth are the only Ivy League schools with physical education requirements.

NEWS | 04/01/2009

University to crack down on early move-in

Students arriving on campus before Sept. 1 next fall won’t be permitted to move into their own rooms, Facilities representatives announced at a USG meeting Sunday. Students who are approved to move in early will live in designated temporary dorms until regular move-in, Director of Campus Life Initiatives Amy Campbell explained in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 03/31/2009

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