The University will begin a year-long pilot printing quota on Oct. 15 as both a sustainability initiative and cost-cutting measure.
With five days left before New Jersey's voter registration deadline, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s New Voters Project — a group whose mission is to “[stand] up to powerful interests” — is trying to reach its registration goal of 800 student voters.
Both sides of the ongoing Google Books dispute now have until Nov. 9 to prepare a revised settlement for U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin ’75. Chin had previously approved a motion to postpone the date for submitting the revised settlement to Oct. 7.
Leaning forward on his hands with a huge grin on his face, the tailored black suit, the intense bearing, the distinctive hairstyle — all are signature “Brother West."
The Regional Planning Board approved the University’s plans for its neuroscience and psychology complex, despite lingering logistics and construction concerns.
Textbook sales at Labyrinth Books have dropped 13 percent this fall in light of the economic downturn, said Dorothea von Moltke, the bookstore’s co-owner. One reason for lower revenue is that “about 80 fewer classes than last fall are using any books at all,” she explained. But Labyrinth, only a few years into its lease on Nassau St., must also grapple with a systemic change to its industry that has shuttered bookstores across the country: the rise of online textbook sources.
Students reported seeing a shirtless middle-aged white male expose his genitals outside Charter Club on Monday evening, according to a campus safety alert issued by e-mail to the University community on Tuesday afternoon.
At the town hall meeting on Tuesday, the third held this calendar year, several audience members took advantage of the chance to ask questions of University administrators, focusing on the budget cuts and the necessary layoffs that will result.
The University has offered its intensive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture course, known to students and faculty as the humanities sequence or “HUM,” to freshmen and sophomores since 2003. The sequence consists of four classes that split equally between two semesters and fulfill four distribution requirements while giving students a thorough grounding in Western intellectual traditions.
There have been a total of 260 cases of influenza-like illness on campus, University Health Services Executive Director John Kolligian said at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
At Campus Club for most of last Saturday night — from 10:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. — there was one thing missing: students. Except for the two baristas who gave out free water to the 25 or so people that wandered in at various times and usually left a few minutes later, Campus Club was empty.
Job prospects for members of the Class of 2010 may be sunnier than those of members of the Class of 2009, as the economic climate begins to show some signs of stabilizing.
Nothing was going right for Ellie Kemper ’02. She was doing a one-person comedy show, and every joke she told was falling flat.
As members of the Class of 2010 and their families begin planning for this year’s Commencement weekend, many local hotels are raising their prices more steeply than they have in past years to compensate for a loss of profits during the economic downturn.
Nine Princeton alumni are among the 400 wealthiest Americans, according to the Forbes magazine rankings released last week.
Currently facing a 23.7 percent decline in endowment value and projected $170 million budget cuts over two years, the University plans to continue making campus-wide and department-specific cost reductions.
From Firestone Plaza to Prospect Garden, Holder Hall and Blair Arch, Orange Key tour groups of prospective students and parents traverse campus several times per day, hitting many of the University’s most important landmarks, with one exception: the Street.
Fall Bicker concluded this past Friday with a total of 54 new members being accepted into Cap & Gown, Ivy and Tower clubs.
While many Princeton students spent last Saturday’s brunch chowing down at their local dining hall or eating club, David Gibbs ’10 and Eric Schlossberg ’10 were dining at Lahiere’s. Instead of omelets and oatmeal, they sated their appetites with pappardelle pasta with roasted duck, cremini mushrooms and dried cranberries.
Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation on Oct. 1 that grants immunity in some cases to intoxicated minors in need of medical attention and to students who call for help on their behalf. The University’s policy is slightly different, however.
