Singer has been a divisive figure, garnering attention from alumni, students and faculty who disagree with his controversial opinions and from those who laud his academic prowess and his openness to alternate viewpoints.
When Arlyn Katen ?12, an LGBT peer educator, read about gender-neutral housing in the Princeton Progressive Nation
In a testament to the deep impact he had on others, hundreds of family members and friends filled seats at the University Chapel on Sunday in a memorial service for Peter Curtin ’08, who died on Oct. 10 after he collapsed while running in the Baltimore Marathon.
TigerNet subscribers may have found their inboxes slightly less full these past few weeks, ever since Harold Helm ’68 — an alumnus infamous for his tendency to bombard the alumni listservs with barrages of e-mails on a variety of subjects — said he was banned from the database. The University declined to comment on Helm’s specific case or confirm that he had been banned, citing privacy concerns.
There have been a total of 479 cases of influenza-like illness on campus since Aug. 30, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said Thursday afternoon. This figure represents a 17 percent increase from the figure released on Oct. 15, when the total was 409 cases, and it appears the spread of the disease may be slowing. The Oct. 15 figure represented a 57.3 percent rise from the 260 cases reported Oct. 5.
For the past five years, Rabbi Julie Roth has been working to change a puzzling statistic: Thirteen percent of Princeton’s undergraduate student body is Jewish, the lowest percentage of any Ivy League university besides Dartmouth, which comes in at 11 percent.
Atheists on campus have no formal support network comparable to those provided by many religious groups, several students noted in interviews with The Daily Princetonian, but Dean of Religious Life Alison Boden said that to her knowledge there has been no interest expressed in forming such a group or instituting a position similar to Harvard’s humanist chaplain to specifically address the needs of atheist students.
Until three summers ago, Kate Williams ’89 didn’t know much about yak faming. But that all changed during the summer of 2007, when Williams and her husband, Rob Williams ’89, traveled from their home in Vermont to visit her brother in Montana, where he owned a small herd of yaks.Today, along with her husband and two other families, Williams co-owns Steadfast Farm in Waitsfield, Vt., home to the Vermont Yak Company and the only meat-producing yak herd in the Northeast.
The world economy is in a state of “apocalypse not now,” Nobel laureate and Wilson School professor Paul Krugman told an audience of roughly 300 in McCosh 50 on Wednesday afternoon. Krugman juxtaposed a confidence in the handling of the economic downturn with caution about the future, explaining that he is not “totally without hope but not optimistic either” regarding future economic challenges.
The University library system is reducing its operational costs and freezing its acquisition budget but will not reduce its hours or layoff any student employees, University Librarian Karin Trainer said in an e-mail. These changes reflect the library’s efforts to meet the University’s requirement that all departments cut their budgets by an average of 7.5 percent this year and another 7.5 percent next year.
President Tilghman’s pay — including her $738,432 salary as well as $45,027 in benefits and deferred compensation — stood at $783,459 in the 2007-08 academic year, the most recent year for which tax filings are publicly available. In addition to compensation, Tilghman also had an expense account totaling $76,810 for the 2007-08 year.
On the hardwood floor of John Katzman ’81’s Manhattan office stands a life-size wooden cow painted to look like a No. 2 pencil — the writing utensil mandated by the College Board for students taking SATs. But Katzman’s connections to standardized tests run much deeper than his office decorations. Almost immediately after his graduation from Princeton in 1981, Katzman founded The Princeton Review test prep company, serving first as president and then as CEO until his departure in 2007.
While math and science departments have long been home to a disproportionately high number of male faculty members and students, in recent years humanities classes have typically hosted a larger female contingent.Yet the philosophy department at Princeton mirrors a nationwide trend of attracting fewer women than other humanities.
Justin Woyak '09 and Katie Pocalyko '10, who are among a small number of University students and alumni who plan to enter Christian ministry after graduation, said the University supports those who decide to pursue a life of religious service, no matter how late they discover this calling.
The University will eliminate one RCA position from each residential college next year due to budget cuts, administrators began telling current RCAs this week.
A number of University seniors are currently competing for Rhodes Scholarships, 32 of which are awarded to students at American colleges and universities, for the completion of graduate work at Oxford.
Dozens of undergraduate alumni have served on the board as young alumni trustees over the last 40 years, but no comparable positions have ever been established for young Graduate School alumni, despite interest expressed by some members of the current Graduate Student Government who said the board was “inaccessible” to graduate students.
All University undergraduates will be limited to printing 2,100 sheets of paper this year, but the 84 students in ORF 405: Regression & Applied Time Series are trying to do away with paper entirely.
With job titles such as “Chief Ninja” and “Deputy Chief Ninja” the Boston-based startup company SCVNGR might not look like a serious endeavor. But the company, which was founded in 2008 by Seth Priebatsch ’11 and designs large-scale, electronically based scavenger hunts, has amassed profits and accolades in two short years.
Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios, spoke about his journey in the film industry to roughly 100 students Monday evening in Robertson Hall as part of Business Today’s seminar series. Meyer described the unlikely path that led him from obscurity to fortune and answered questions on topics ranging from his personal film preferences to the future of the movie business.
