University administrators detailed a plan to cut $82 million from the operating budget beginning on the July 1 start of the new fiscal year at a finance-focused town hall meeting Wednesday.
A mounted deer head worth roughly $5,000 was taken from Quadrangle Club’s poolroom Saturday night. The trophy was returned to the club late Monday night.
A pilot experiment that will remove trays from the Forbes dining hall on March 24 and April 22 may put this juggling ability to the test. The program was designed to spread awareness about the environmental benefits of trayless dining and will test the effectiveness of this policy.
USG Senate approves $155,500 semester operating budget, including $10,000 extra for the Social Committee.
Zachary Sweet described his trajectory from a Christian childhood to a “hotbed of homosexuality” music school to a period of celibacy and finally to a stable relationship, accompanying himself on the cello in a performance last night in the Whitman common room. Sweet performed excerpts from the Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and told his personal story of struggling with promiscuity and turning to abstinence to an audience of about 20 people.
Terrace Club began offering health insurance coverage plans to its entire staff last October, joining Cloister Inn and Tower Club in providing workers with comprehensive medical coverage.
Members of the USG Senate engaged in preliminary discussions Sunday evening to brainstorm ideas for improving communication between students and professors regarding written comments on end-of-term coursework.
Please click here to view the Special Spring Sports Preview, which covers the men's and women's lacrosse, baseball and softball teams as they prepare for their upcoming seasons.
Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein updated the packed crowd at Monday's faculty meeting on the University’s financial standing in light of the global economic crisis.
Doctor and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim will become the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League school this summer when he begins his term as the 17th president of Dartmouth College on July 1. The college announced the appointment on Monday.
Young alumni trustee candidates are strictly forbidden to campaign or solicit votes in any fashion, but many students and alumni said that as a result, voters do not have enough information to make informed decisions and end up voting for already well-known student government leaders by default.
The University’s environmental studies program has recently seen a rise in enrollment, program director and public affairs professor David Wilcove GS ’85 said. The jump is in line with a nationwide trend increases in environmental studies programs at colleges and universities.
In the music world, the viola is seen as a second-class citizen. At age 22, David Carpenter ’08 says he is trying to change that. With his debut album set to be officially released in September, violist Carpenter is adding to his already extensive resume, to become what Princeton University Orchestra (PUO) director Michael Pratt calls a “dominating figure” in the musical world.
The $787 billion stimulus measure that President Obama signed into law on Feb. 17 may pour a significant amount of money into science research at the University, even as administrators impose budget cuts across all departments.
After the Senate passed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act on Thursday by a 61-37 vote, D.C. residents are one step closer to getting a voting representative in Congress. The House of Representatives will vote on the bill later this week. Several University students from D.C. said they were glad it may finally gain representation in Congress.
This summer, Whig Hall, home to the world’s oldest collegiate political, literary and debating society, will undergo its first large-scale renovation since 1972.
Friends and family of Lorin Maurer, who died Feb. 12 in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, N.Y., filled the University Chapel on Friday for a memorial service in celebration of her life.
A portrait of T. Ferdinand Wilcox, Class of 1900, disappeared Wednesday night from its usual location near the Wilcox seminar room.
Eben Novy-Williams, associate editor for sports, and Vikram Rao, sports senior writer, break down the men's lacrosse team position by position, discuss the season and end with an analysis of Saturday's showdown against Johns Hopkins.
University faculty and students will soon have the opportunity to join an investigation into the effects of foreign economic aid on political violence, thanks to an $8.4 million grant awarded to Wilson School professor Jacob Shapiro by the Department of Defense.
