A district court judge ruled on Oct. 28 to deny a motion made by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for a restraining order against the Maine ethics commission, which is currently investigating NOM’s finances.
While many students caught up on sleep and TV over Fall Break, others spent their week immersed in civic engagement. The Breakout Princeton trips, organized by the Pace Center, drew 73 participants, making this fall’s program the largest yet. But because of escalating demand, only 61 percent of the 120 applicants could be accommodated, said Andrew Nurkin, the senior program coordinator at the Pace Center.
Steve Slovenski ’09 works with cattle and horses on a ranch in California. As the economic downturn weakened job prospects for recent graduates, Slovenski decided to pursue an unconventional solution.
Princeton offers the second-best value among private colleges for providing academic excellence at an affordable price, according to rankings published by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine last week.
Four male students have been charged with criminal attempted theft, criminal mischief and resisting arrest by flight after they allegedly tried to steal a parking meter on Prospect Avenue on Oct. 26.
In 2001, there were four female eating club presidents, but that number has slipped since. When Stephanie Burset '09 was deciding whether to run for Tower Club president, Savannah Sachs ’08 of Cloister Inn was the only female eating club president. Burset would go on to become the only female eating club president of her graduating class. This year, all 10 club presidents are men.
"War in the classic sense and peacekeeping in the classic sense don't seem to work," Romeo Dallaire, a former force commander of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda, said to a packed Dodds Auditorium at a lecture on Monday.
When Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson retires in June, the University will lose a devoted and caring administrator, President Tilghman and students told The Daily Princetonian last month. But the University will also lose the only African-American member among its senior administrators.
Around this time each year as the weather gets colder, a few knowing residents of Holder Hall look at their courtyard and acknowledge its relative emptiness. One night each year for at least a quarter of a century until 2000, that area was full of naked sophomores honoring the year’s first snowfall. For the last 10 years, though, the snow has fallen on jackets and hats alone.
The University will authorize only about one-third as many searches for new faculty as it has in the past, Provost Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 said on Monday at the annual public meeting of the Priorities Committee. Eisgruber also announced the University has reached its goal of making 200 staff reductions between June 2008 and June 2010.
Zachary Beecher has been elected Class of 2013 president, USG senior elections manager Addie Darling ’12 said in an e-mail to the freshman class on Friday afternoon.
On Saturday afternoon, Bollywood came to Princeton. Indian dance music resounded across Firestone Plaza as critically acclaimed Indian filmmaker Gautham Menon brought his crew to campus to shoot scenes for his upcoming film “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya,” or “Will You Come Down From the Sky?” in English.
Spongebob is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish for 12 hours,” Squidward the Octopus exclaimed in an episode of the animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Squidward clearly has not heard of John Dabiri ’01, who is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.
An unidentified male entered the women’s locker room in Caldwell Field House and recorded himself performing a lewd act using unattended camera phones, Senior Associate Director of Athletics Erin McDermott said in an e-mail sent on Friday to the members and head coaches of the women’s athletics teams.
While most seniors working on their theses lock themselves up in Firestone Library and spend their days scouring the dimly lit stacks for research material, others are looking elsewhere for their primary research material. Sociology, economics and politics majors, as well as psychology majors in particular, are choosing to focus on humans, rather than books, as research material for their theses.
Students respond to midterm week.
Soon after leaving their comfortable campus, Princeton graduates may feel the absence of a crucial part of their undergraduate experience: an intimate social community. Yet as recent alumni scatter across the country, some have sought to maintain the engaging intellectual and social experience they had at Princeton.
The University will lay off 43 employees across various offices and job levels and involuntarily reduce the hours of 18 other employees.
The 2009 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released earlier this week, ranked the University 61st out of the 141 colleges and universities assessed nationwide, a steep drop from the University’s 29th-place ranking in 2008. The fourth annual report card evaluates access to sexual health resources and information on the campuses of major NCAA colleges and universities.
The Pace Center has finalized plans for distributing an estimated $90,000 in USG funds, nearly half of which will be spent on a week-long service initiative in Trenton for between 150 and 200 students over Intersession, the center announced in a statement on Thursday.
