Former White House chief of staff Josh Bolten ’76 will become a member of the Wilson School faculty in the upcoming academic year, the University announced July 7.
Dressed in black, they held candles, sang Farsi songs from the 1979 revolution and stood around a makeshift memorial on the grass of Palmer Square. Last Friday evening, more than 70 members of the Iranian community in Princeton gathered for a 90-minute candlelight vigil to honor the memory of the dozens of people who have lost their lives in the violent protests following the Iranian presidential election on June 12.
The University announced a voluntary incentivized retirement program last week at a time when employees nationwide are delaying their retirement in light of the recession.
Economics professor Christina Paxson was more than 3,000 miles away from Princeton, atop the mountains of Oregon, when she received an e-mail from President Tilghman notifying her of good news.
Visiting Wilson School professor and former Republican congressman Jim Leach ’64 has been nominated by President Obama to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Katie Couric sat down with The Daily Princetonian’s Jack Ackerman on Monday morning before her Class Day address to answer questions about her move from NBC to CBS, how much she pays attention to ratings and the growing importance of the internet for the media.
Members of the Class of 2009 did not receive alerts from the University’s emergency notification system about Wednesday’s gun scare because their names had been removed from the database.
State health officials have confirmed four cases of swine flu in the campus community. Three graduate students and one adult graduate dependent tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
“Blue skies! Blue skies!” President Tilghman exclaimed as she walked onto the damp front lawn of Nassau Hall to preside over the University’s 262nd Commencement, where she conferred 1,128 bachelor's degrees and 753 graduate degrees.
With 409 votes out of the 1,412 cast, Mendy Fisch ’11 fell short in his bid for a seat on the Borough Council. Fisch finished third in the Democratic primary on Tuesday behind Jenny Crumiller, a former head of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization who won 531 votes, and incumbent Councilman Kevin Wilkes ’83, who won 472 votes.
“CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Katie Couric urged members of the Class of 2009 to “look beyond the paycheck and actually see possibilities” in her Class Day speech Monday morning.
Class of 2012 senator Becca Lee has been appointed to complete her term after being forced to vacate her seat following the discovery of an error in the vote counts from last December’s election.
While blending humor with a serious call to action, Gen. David Petraeus GS ’85 challenged the Class of 2009 “to make a commitment to something larger than self” and to devote their lives to service in his address at the University’s 262nd Baccalaureate service in the University Chapel on Sunday.
J. David Germany and Sonia M. Sotomayor are the joint winners of this year's M. Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest honor the university confers on an undergraduate.
This letter to the editor, published in the Feb. 27, 1976, edition of The Daily Princetonian, was written in response to an incident six days before, when eight students ransacked the dorm room of two gay students who were members of the Gay Alliance of Princeton. The letter was signed by 39 individuals, including Sonia Sotomayor ’76, history professor Nancy Weiss (now Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel) and politics professor Walter Murphy.
Sonia Sotomayor ’76 wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the May 10, 1974, edition of The Daily Princetonian. In it, Sotomayor explains a complaint filed by University students with the Health, Education and Welfare Department charging the University with “an institutional pattern of discrimination.”
On the day that Sonia Sotomayor ’76 became the first Latino student ever to win the Pyne Prize, several Chicano alumni returned to Princeton and found it more attuned to Chicano problems than it had been when they were students.
A Sept. 12, 1974, article in The Daily Princetonian in which students, including Sonia Sotomayor '76, on the advisory committee for a new assistant dean of student affairs criticize the amount of student participation in the selection process.
Latin student groups assail University hiring performance (April 22, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Anti-Latino discrimination at Princeton (May 10, 1974)Students complain about selection of 'minority dean' (Sept. 12, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Criticizing the process of selecting a 'minority dean' (Sept. 12, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Condemning an anti-gay attack on campus (Feb. 27, 1976)Germany, Sotomayor receive 1976 Pyne Prize (Feb. 28, 1976)Back for Pyne Prize luncheon, Chicanos find ‘changed’ campus (March 1, 1976)
The following was a letter to the chairman published in the Sept. 12, 1974, edition of The Daily Princetonian. It was signed by Chico Albert ’76, Quentin Easter ’75, Mary Miller ’75, Frank Sancho Reed ’76, Russell Smith ’76 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76, members of the undergraduate committee which served in an advisory capacity in the recently completed search for a successor to the former assistant dean of student affairs, Joseph Moore.
