It has been only 37 days since they arrived on campus, but already 21 freshmen have stepped up to lead the Class of 2013 through student government.
For a few undergraduates at Princeton, financial considerations include not just tuition and textbooks but also daycare; social worries involve not just obtaining Street passes but battling social stigmas against young mothers; and a balanced schedule juggles academics not just with extracurriculars but also with diaper changes and bedtime stories.
The University will offer a gender-neutral housing option for upperclass undergraduates for the first time during the 2010-11 academic year.
Princeton’s 17 varsity women’s athletics teams have earned Ivy League titles and All-American accolades, but when women first came to Princeton 40 years ago, Dillon Gymnasium did not even have a women’s locker room. The first female Tigers broke into intercollegiate athletics at Princeton largely thanks to the pioneering work of Merrily Baker, who started the women’s sports program following the advent of coeducation at the University in 1969.
This fall, the University has its first-ever beekeeping group, the Princeton BEE Team, which plans to offer free beginner lessons this spring. The team already cares for a large hive located at an old quarry site on University property.
A group of students, many of whom are Anscombe Society members, has stepped up its efforts to lobby the University to launch a Center for Abstinence and Chastity.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt ’76 donated $25 million toward the creation of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund, the University announced on Tuesday.
As the CIT Group attempts to stave off bankruptcy, Jeffrey Peek ’69 will resign as the commercial lender’s CEO at the end of the year.
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.
