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Study: Alumni may donate to boost children’s chances

Study: Alumni may donate to boost children’s chances

Alumni may donate money to highly selective universities in hopes of improving their children’s chances of admission, according to a study by economics professor Harvey Rosen and Texas A&M economics professor Jonathan Meer. Rosen and Meer have written a series of papers on college donation habits based on the frequency and quantity of tens of thousands of alumni gifts between 1983 and 2007 at an unidentified selective private university they called “Anon U.”

NEWS | 10/27/2009

Students enlist for GoCrossCampus battle

Early Monday morning, Penn students turned on Princeton to forge an alliance with Yale, quartermaster general Dan Humphrey ’12 said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.The move is part of an online battle, waged among the eight Ivy League schools over their virtual campuses as part of gocrosscampus.com, an internet strategy website that was founded two years ago.

NEWS | 10/26/2009

Trayless and lovin' it

When the renovated Wu and Wilcox dining halls opened this fall, the most noticeable changes may have been the updated decor and new dining options. But while there were lots of new elements to the renovated dining halls, there was also something missing: trays.

NEWS | 10/26/2009

U. will nominate 20 for new fellowship

Princeton will be one of 45 universities participating in an effort sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies to give new humanities Ph.D.s a much-needed boost in their search for employment. This program will offer 50 two-year fellowships around the country that would guarantee $50,000 to finalists, along with an annual $5,000 research or travel allowance, health insurance and a one-time $1,500 moving allowance.

NEWS | 10/26/2009

Profs. find flaw in climate law

Current climate legislation laws are based on incomplete emission assessments, according to a study by 13 authors, including two Princeton professors, that was published in the journal Science on Oct. 23.

NEWS | 10/26/2009

U. awarded $15.2 million to launch cancer center

The Princeton Physical Science-Oncology Center was launched Monday after the National Cancer Institute awarded $15.2 million to a group of researchers from the University and four other institutions to study the evolution of cancer, the University announced Monday.

NEWS | 10/26/2009

Elections manager Darling '12 to resign over errors

The USG will hold a revote for Class of 2013 vice president beginning at noon today, and USG senior elections manager Addie Darling ’12 will resign after she misspelled the e-mail addresses of two vice presidential candidates.

NEWS | 10/25/2009

Seeking a place for Sikhs on campus

The few Sikhs at Princeton rarely have opportunities to meet with each other, since there is no formal forum for Sikhs at the University. Karambir Khangoora ’10, however, is currently trying to launch a group on campus to help Sikhs connect and to increase awareness of Sikhism on campus.

NEWS | 10/25/2009

Peter Singer reflects on a decade at Princeton

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.

NEWS | 10/25/2009

LGBT students praise gender-neutral housing program

When Arlyn Katen ?12, an LGBT peer educator, read about gender-neutral housing in the Princeton Progressive Nation

NEWS | 10/25/2009

Curtin ’08 honored at Chapel memorial

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.

NEWS | 10/25/2009

Helm ’68: U. blocked me from TigerNet

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.

NEWS | 10/22/2009

Number of new flu-like cases drops this week

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.

NEWS | 10/22/2009

Choosing the chosen people

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.

NEWS | 10/22/2009

Godless at Princeton

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.

NEWS | 10/22/2009

Alumni find calling on yak farm

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.

NEWS | 10/22/2009

Krugman applauds deficit spending

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.

NEWS | 10/21/2009

Library will not cut student jobs or reduce hours

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.

NEWS | 10/21/2009

Tilghman's pay neared $800K during 2007-08 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.

NEWS | 10/21/2009

Passing review on higher education

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.

NEWS | 10/21/2009

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