State health officials have confirmed four cases of swine flu in the campus community. Three graduate students and one adult graduate dependent tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
“Blue skies! Blue skies!” President Tilghman exclaimed as she walked onto the damp front lawn of Nassau Hall to preside over the University’s 262nd Commencement, where she conferred 1,128 bachelor's degrees and 753 graduate degrees.
With 409 votes out of the 1,412 cast, Mendy Fisch ’11 fell short in his bid for a seat on the Borough Council. Fisch finished third in the Democratic primary on Tuesday behind Jenny Crumiller, a former head of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization who won 531 votes, and incumbent Councilman Kevin Wilkes ’83, who won 472 votes.
“CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Katie Couric urged members of the Class of 2009 to “look beyond the paycheck and actually see possibilities” in her Class Day speech Monday morning.
Class of 2012 senator Becca Lee has been appointed to complete her term after being forced to vacate her seat following the discovery of an error in the vote counts from last December’s election.
While blending humor with a serious call to action, Gen. David Petraeus GS ’85 challenged the Class of 2009 “to make a commitment to something larger than self” and to devote their lives to service in his address at the University’s 262nd Baccalaureate service in the University Chapel on Sunday.
J. David Germany and Sonia M. Sotomayor are the joint winners of this year's M. Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest honor the university confers on an undergraduate.
This letter to the editor, published in the Feb. 27, 1976, edition of The Daily Princetonian, was written in response to an incident six days before, when eight students ransacked the dorm room of two gay students who were members of the Gay Alliance of Princeton. The letter was signed by 39 individuals, including Sonia Sotomayor ’76, history professor Nancy Weiss (now Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel) and politics professor Walter Murphy.
Sonia Sotomayor ’76 wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the May 10, 1974, edition of The Daily Princetonian. In it, Sotomayor explains a complaint filed by University students with the Health, Education and Welfare Department charging the University with “an institutional pattern of discrimination.”
On the day that Sonia Sotomayor ’76 became the first Latino student ever to win the Pyne Prize, several Chicano alumni returned to Princeton and found it more attuned to Chicano problems than it had been when they were students.
A Sept. 12, 1974, article in The Daily Princetonian in which students, including Sonia Sotomayor '76, on the advisory committee for a new assistant dean of student affairs criticize the amount of student participation in the selection process.
Latin student groups assail University hiring performance (April 22, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Anti-Latino discrimination at Princeton (May 10, 1974)Students complain about selection of 'minority dean' (Sept. 12, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Criticizing the process of selecting a 'minority dean' (Sept. 12, 1974)Letter to the Editor: Condemning an anti-gay attack on campus (Feb. 27, 1976)Germany, Sotomayor receive 1976 Pyne Prize (Feb. 28, 1976)Back for Pyne Prize luncheon, Chicanos find ‘changed’ campus (March 1, 1976)
The following was a letter to the chairman published in the Sept. 12, 1974, edition of The Daily Princetonian. It was signed by Chico Albert ’76, Quentin Easter ’75, Mary Miller ’75, Frank Sancho Reed ’76, Russell Smith ’76 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76, members of the undergraduate committee which served in an advisory capacity in the recently completed search for a successor to the former assistant dean of student affairs, Joseph Moore.
In its April 22, 1974, issue, The Daily Princetonian covered the filing of a complaint by Accion Puertorriquena, whose co-chairman at the time was Sonia Sotomayor '76, and the Chicano Organization of Princeton with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. They charged the University with a “lack of commitment” in hiring Puerto Rican and Chicano administrators and faculty and recruiting students from these minority groups.
Elizabeth Dilday ’09 has been elected her class’ young alumni trustee.
Sonia Sotomayor ’76, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who raised her in a Bronx housing project, was nominated to the Supreme Court on May 26 by President Obama.
Class of 2012 senator Becca Lee will vacate her seat after it was discovered that hundreds of votes were disregarded in last December’s election because of a software glitch, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced in an e-mail to the freshman class sent on Sunday.
Charter Club was exonerated Monday morning of charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance by Judge Bonnie Goldman of the Princeton Borough Municipal Court.
A female student reported being approached by a masturbating man at around 12:30 a.m. on Monday, according to a campus safety alert.
As the days until graduation wind down, Princeton seniors can almost smell the vehicle exhaust on the other side of FitzRandolph Gate. But some still have big plans to follow through on before they complete the rite of passage.
