Brian Spaly ’99, founder of the men’s clothing brand Bonobos, wears the pants in his company, but he insists that his pants are more comfortable than most.
Though many University students spend Saturday nights out on the Street in search of their next hookups, Peter — a gay undergraduate — has found a safer and more discreet meeting place: Craigslist.
Gettysburg College president Janet Morgan Riggs GS ’82 learned last Thursday that a sophomore at her school had been stabbed and strangled that morning. Police have charged 21-year-old Kevin Robert Schaeffer in the killing of 19-year-old Emily Rachel Silverstein.
Last Thursday, YouTube, which is owned by Google, and music company Universal Music Group, announced a joint plan to introduce Vevo — a website which will provide music videos of Universal’s artists and other related content — this year. Though the idea of the site appeals to some students, others said they were unsure it would be widely used, especially if its content was already available online or the site posted too many advertisements.
University sustainability initiatives will be largely unaffected by the $88 million budget cuts planned for next year.
Forbes magazine editor-in-chief and former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes ’70 is endorsing New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, the alumnus announced on April 8.
Six University faculty members have won the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, giving Princeton the second highest number of fellowships awarded to any university this year. The recipients from the University are Slavic languages and literatures department chair Caryl Emerson, operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) professor Jianqing Fan, classics department chair Denis Feeney, psychology professor Susan Fiske, physics professor Steven Gubser ’94 and Muhammad Zaman, a professor in the Near Eastern studies and religion departments.
Nicholas Katzenbach '43 has fought on the front lines of desegregation, in the air over North Africa and in the halls of the nation’s Capitol with some of America’s most prominent politicians.
The University may cancel its plans to renovate the Hibben-Magie Apartments in light of the economic downturn and instead partner with an outside developer to build new apartments on the Hibben-Magie site, upsetting graduate students who say the move might lead to higher living costs.
At the beginning of her freshman year, Katie Rodriguez ’11 would get “shit-faced just for fun.” As her first year on campus progressed, her drinking escalated until she was blacking out on a regular basis. Then, toward the end of her first semester, she got drunk and was sexually assaulted by a student she met at an eating club.
Though the co-op is technically off-campus, undergraduates can draw into 2D for University housing. Graduate students who belong to the co-op, however, may not live in the house. The combination of co-op members and non-members as well as vegetarians and non-vegetarians in the house has led to some tensions and inconveniences for 2D residents.
The quest for clues about how life-bearing worlds would look from afar has led astrophysics professor Edwin Turner from the far side of the moon to Australia, all in an effort to observe our planet’s reflection on the moon.
Syed Shimail Reza ’11 wanted to spend time away from the University studying abroad. But then he realized he couldn’t if he was going to complete the requisite courses for economics concentrators. Reza faced a common obstacle for students who hope to study abroad: satisfying departmental requirements while taking classes at foreign universities.
In fall 2009 the Princeton University Language Project (PULP) will expand to 25 college campuses across the country, just four years after Eugene Yi ’08 founded the program.
Several Princeton undergraduates currently studying abroad in France are experiencing a new kind of education, as the country enters the 10th week of strikes demanding the withdrawal of educational reforms.
Princeton Borough will present its case against Charter Club in a trial scheduled for April 20. Last fall, the Borough charged the club with two counts of serving alcohol to minors and two counts of maintaining a nuisance. The charges resulted from two separate incidents during the 2007-08 academic year.
Academic departments will cut back on guest speakers, class trips and catered parties in light of Monday's announcement that their budgets will be cut, as administrators work to reduce the 2010 fiscal year budget by $88 million and the next year’s budget by another $82 million. Departments will see an 8 percent decrease in restricted endowment incomes and a 5 percent cut in their non-personnel administrative budgets in each of the next two fiscal years.
As the economic climate worsens, representatives from several eating clubs said their plans for clubhouse renovation and expansion are being threatened. Some clubs, including Colonial Club, Tiger Inn and Cap & Gown Club, are struggling to fund their clubhouse improvement plans in the face of slowing alumni donations.
If she is elected to the open seat in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, Terri Sewell ’86 will be the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Alabama.
Two Princeton alumnae — Elena Kagan ’81 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76 — are rumored to be on the short list for President Obama’s first appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
