A male freshman was hit by a car on Tuesday while crossing Washington Road on his bicycle on his way back from sports training. He was not seriously injured.
Susan Craig was the only one of the Undergraduate Assembly officials in the room who didn’t shave before that day’s meeting in 1969. A model of resilience, the Undergraduate Assembly secretary who became Susan Scott ’70 was such a graceful pioneer for women at Princeton that perhaps even she failed to discern the lasting significance of her achievements.
Dina Viergutz ’01 came to Princeton with an already clear post-graduation plan: Go to New York to do “something very fast-paced” in the business world. Nowadays, though, Viergutz can be found during her workday sitting at the Koffie Salon in Amsterdam or traveling around the world promoting her new novel, “Another Faust.”
Though he’s lived in the United States for the past eight years, Anh Nguyen ’11 still keeps track of current events in his native Vietnam. So when he heard about recent tragedies in his home country, Nguyen quickly partnered with about 15 other volunteers to organize fundraising booths and raised $1,952.94 last week to help the victims of natural disasters in Southeast Asia.
It’s dinnertime in the Whitman dining hall, and Andrew Wai ’13 just had his prox swiped. Making regular sweeping motions with the thin white cane in his right hand, he navigates through a maze of circular and square tables on his way to the servery. Wai is blind. He has a rare condition called Leber’s congenital amaurosis, which causes the progressive degeneration of retinal photoreceptors.
Facing a 25 percent endowment shortfall, administrators said the University aims to preserve the University’s core obligations, such as the quality of the student experience, research and financial aid.
Peter Norman Curtin ’08 died last Saturday after he collapsed while running in the Baltimore Marathon. Curtin, 23, fell at around 11:20 a.m. at the 25-mile marker near the course’s last medical station. He was immediately taken to Union Memorial Hospital.
A lawn display advocating against abortion was vandalized last Wednesday and Friday evenings, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said. The posters were on the north lawn of Frist Campus Center for Respect Life Week, organized by Princeton Pro-Life.
Sitting in the stands at the 1968 Princeton-Harvard football game, Mary Procter GS ’71, a graduate student in the Wilson School, was disgusted. The University band was making jokes referring to Princeton’s small female population — a group of women studying critical languages — as “cunning linguists.”
Forbes College kicked off its Blackbox concert series last Friday with performances by Columbia student Steven Helferich and the band Tim McGlone and The Turn, as well as free pizza and T-shirts.
The summer before her junior year, Kate Stevick ’09 was guaranteed an internship that came with housing, food and transportation for two months. The catch? Not only was the internship unpaid, she spent $7,999 procuring it.Stevick was matched with her position through University of Dreams, an organization that helps students find summer internships.
The integrated science curriculum, now in its sixth year, continues to attract students with an interest in pursuing graduate programs and careers in the sciences. Through its notoriously difficult multidisciplinary program of courses, the curriculum arms graduates to work at the cutting edge of many fields, said students, professors and alumni.
As members of the Class of 2010 fill their schedules this fall with job interviews, many international students are re-evaluating their decision to work in the United States after graduating.
Asian applicants may face discrimination in the admission process at many elite universities, according to data from a recent study conducted by sociology professor Thomas Espenshade GS ’72.
From behind her desk, Paxson — a former economics department chair and the founding director of the University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing — speaks cautiously about her vision for the Wilson School, a vision that involves examining the school’s admission policy for undergraduate majors, building a tighter community in one of the University’s largest departments and restructuring its finances.
They called her “Miss Bikini.” “A statuesque blonde from Elberon, N.J.,” the Time magazine article said, a “lovely Tigress” whose photo graced the magazine in the summer of 1969.
Jewish students who do not use electricity on the Sabbath recently received metal dorm keys to use from sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays. Since religious restrictions prohibit the use of electricity on the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays, in past years prox access machines have been left unlocked for the first 10 minutes of every half hour each Sabbath to allow students observing the holiday to enter their dorms without swiping their proxes.
The University hosted a forum on Sept. 30 to discuss a possible Latino boycott of the 2010 U.S. Census as a means to advocate for immigration reform. As the April 1 commencement of the census approaches, some Latino activists have encouraged illegal immigrants to boycott the count in hopes of encouraging change in immigration policy.
Janet Dickerson, Princeton's first vice president for campus life who oversees the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Department of Athletics, University Health Services, the Office of Religious Life and the Pace Center, will retire in June.
Harvard is named the best educational institute in the world for the sixth year in a row, followed by the University of Cambridge, Yale and University College London. Imperial College London and University of Oxford tie for fifth, while the University of Chicago comes in just ahead of Princeton in seventh place.
