The University does not anticipate having to overhaul its policy on internet piracy in light of new rules published in the Federal Register on Oct. 22, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said.
The University is preparing to vaccinate up to 2,000 individuals against the H1N1 flu this Monday and has already vaccinated roughly 400 students and student dependents in the highest health priority group over the last two weeks.
The University is offering Rape Aggression Defense System (RAD) classes for women this semester, following a series of several incidents of lewdness that have occurred on campus in the past few months.
In the crisp, cold autumn air, a group of students dressed in matching gray shirts, black shorts and physical training reflector belts dash for the stairs leading to Weaver Stadium. Despite their small numbers, their voices ring out distinctively as one united entity as they count together. “One, two, three, one! One, two, three, two!”
The more people know about the U.S. Supreme Court, the less they like it, correspondents who cover the judicial body explained to a packed Robertson Hall on Wednesday. The panel discussion, which C-SPAN also broadcasted live, was moderated by sociology professor Paul Starr. “Full Court Press: The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Understanding” included New Yorker writer and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin, Slate.com writer and editor Emily Bazelon, New York Times correspondent Adam Liptak and Slate.com editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick.
The University will invest more than $40 million over the next 10 years to reduce utility usage by at least 25 percent as part of its Energy Master Plan, according to the Report on Sustainability released on Tuesday.
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) has begun discussing a possible plan to outsource the University e-mail service to third-party providers, also called cloud providers, OIT associate director Steven Sather said in an e-mail.
English professor and Rockefeller College master Jeff Nunokawa’s has been at the University for more than two decades. He was filled with excitement as he began to talk about the community he has overseen for two years.
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.
