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.
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.
