One does not need a meal plan to get into Whitman Dining Hall anymore, just a pair of wings, and small brown birds have been exploiting this loophole of late.Silvia Valdivia, a Food Services worker, first noticed an avian guest on Sunday.
The current generation of young Americans has marginalized race?s influence in politics, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Saturday night in the keynote speech for the Wilson School?s Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) symposium.He cited the election of President-elect Barack Obama as the latest and clearest example of a country moving toward racial equality.?We showed we were capable of becoming a more perfect union ? one where the Constitution that once defined Obama as three-fifths of a man now allowed him to capture three-fifths of the electorate,? Villaraigosa said.?On Tuesday, the American people chose hope over cynicism,? he added.The selection of Villaraigosa, the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872, as a speaker at the symposium was part of its mission to ?explore what it means to be a leader of color in these exciting times,? according to SAOC?s website.After praising America?s newly elected president, Villaraigosa shared his personal story, which began in East Los Angeles and culminated in the mayorship of America?s second most populous city.Outlining the challenges he faced growing up, including temporarily dropping out of high school, Villaraigosa explained how he overcame the setbacks of poverty and graduated from UCLA and the People?s College of Law.Though he said that his path was a difficult one, Villaraigosa noted that the work of minority leaders before him helped pave the way.?I?m here on the shoulders of others, here on shoulders of Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks,? he said.
The chancel of the University Chapel was transformed into a Hindu temple Saturday night, with candle-filled bowls and gold statues lining its steps, as more than 200 University and community members removed their shoes to participate in Diwali, the Hindu festival of light.This year?s celebration, held for the first time in the University Chapel, was the brainchild of Coordinator for Hindu Life Vineet Chander, selected last summer to fill the newly created position, and of members of the Princeton Hindu Satsangam (PHS), a student group focused on promoting awareness of Hinduism on campus.Sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and the Hindu Life Program, the event included dance performances, singing, speeches, a lamp-lighting ritual and readings from sacred texts.
Butterfly wings are unexpectedly powerful. In addition to altering the atmosphere enough to change the course of a tornado, butterfly wings can also provide crucial information in the development of cancer-treating drugs, emeritus chemistry professor Edward Taylor explained in the keynote address at the Princeton Research Symposium (PRS) held Saturday at the Friend Center.
Nearly 200 people gathered Sunday morning next to the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) for the first Princeton CJL Charity Run/Walk.
Kanye West as a ballet composer? Tchaikovsky must be rolling in his grave.That is just a taste of the blend of styles present in the fall semester eXpressions show, fittingly titled ?Kaleidoscope.? The show is a melange of dances from jazz to lyrical to the Robot.The variety was one of many impressive aspects of the show.
Flooding caused by a burst water pipe has temporarily closed the Cottage Club dining room, club members confirmed Thursday evening.The members, who were granted anonymity because they are not permitted to speak for the club, said they believe the burst occurred in the early morning hours on Thursday, and officers announced the incident to the club in an e-mail later that day.
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer ?81 (D) will not face charges in the prostitution scandal that led to his resignation last spring, according to a statement made today by Michael Garcia, U.S.
There?s a British joke from the 1960s about the Irish airline Aer Fungus offering its first completely automated flight without a human pilot.
The Dalai Lama?s expected withdrawal from talks with China on the issue of Tibetan autonomy will terminate ongoing mediation efforts, said Robert Barnett, lecturer in Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia, in a lecture in Robertson Hall on Thursday.Barnett said the failure of the current talks ? the eighth round since 2002 ? is due to China?s aggressive stance toward Tibet, the country?s unwillingness to make concessions and the Dalai Lama?s continued efforts to draw attention to the situation.In response to protests within Tibet earlier this year, China launched a ?patriotic education? campaign, Barnett explained.The campaign, which was initiated to denounce the Dalai Lama, has led to the ?institutionalization of abuse,? he said, explaining that under this program ?all monks and officials have to sign documents that literally record the primary insults and criticisms of the Dalai Lama.?Barnett cited a recent article published by the Chinese press that said the ?Dalai Lama deserved to be ill because he was a deceitful vagrant.?Though China has allowed for more personal freedom, ?religion is curtailed in ways that a Western analyst does not expect,? Barnett noted.While people in the countryside and private sector are allowed to practice their religion so long as they follow certain regulations, he explained, ?people who work for the government are not allowed to practice religion at all if they are Tibetan.?Barnett said the Dalai Lama?s withdrawal from talks with China is a reaction to the frustration of his followers, who no longer tolerate his participation in fruitless discussions.While China is willing to hold talks with Tibetan leaders, no agreements have been reached with regard to Tibet?s autonomy.
Imagine being able to rapidly decrypt all of the sensitive personal information that is being transmitted over the internet at every moment, gaining access to credit card numbers, medical records and other private information.
Oregon House of Representatives speaker Jeff Merkley GS ?82 (D) has defeated incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) in a close race for Oregon?s Senate seat, making the two-term moderate Republican the latest casualty in the Democrats? quest to expand their congressional majority.The outcome of the race was up in the air Tuesday night when the polls closed, and the margin remained razor-thin as ballots were counted: Merkley led in the counting Tuesday night, and Smith took the lead early Wednesday morning.
Chris Lu ?88 will serve as executive director of President-Elect Barack Obama?s transition team, the campaign announced Wednesday.A Wilson School major and former senior news editor of The Daily Princetonian, Lu has been working for Obama since he took office as a U.S.
When faced with inadequacies in other areas of government, the judiciary must compensate with creative solutions, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Joaquim Barbosa said Thursday afternoon in a seminar in Aaron Burr Hall.Barbosa is the first self-identifying Afro-Brazilian minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court in its 179-year history.
As many students were gearing up for a night out on Princeton Halloween, David Clark was teaching his class about werewolves - but not as a costume idea.Clark, a visiting lecturer in the history department, studies demonology, which includes the study of magic, witchcraft and, of course, demons.
Wei Ho '09, who had been missing since the early morning hours of Oct. 31, has been found "safe and unharmed" in San Francisco, according to a campus safety alert issued Tuesday afternoon.Ho was found by the San Francisco Police Department, whom Public Safety contacted after its investigation revealed that Ho was in the San Francisco area, according to the alert."There was no foul play involved in this case and Ho's parents are now with him in San Francisco," the alert explained.The computer science concentrator from Chamblee, Ga., was located around noon Tuesday, Public Safety director Steven Healy said.Ho did not respond to repeated requests for comment.Public Safety had originally issued an alert on Saturday requesting information on Ho's whereabouts from the campus community.
When president-elect Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) enters the White House on Jan. 20, 2009, he may bring a number of Princeton alumni with him.
Starting a business is a daunting task, but the key to an entrepreneur's success is not letting the challenges of the endeavor squash ambition, Zipcar founder and former CEO Robin Chase said to a few dozen students during a lecture in
Princeton students care a lot about late meal options, according to a new feature launched on Point this week by the USG."Which do you want more?" is an interactive feature that combines suggestion box and survey features to gauge the relative priority students assign to different campus issues.
Though Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and the Democrats swept to a decisive victory in Tuesday?s election, many questions remain about the future presidential administration, race relations, the American electorate and the Republican brand.There was a standing ovation as Obama?s name was first mentioned in a panel discussion Wednesday on the aftermath of the 2008 election, but panelists and audience members alike questioned what his victory will mean for the future.The panel consisted of Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80, religion and African-American studies professor Cornel West GS ?80, Wilson School professor Julian Zelizer and Columbia comparative literature and African-American studies professor Farah Griffin.Religion and African-American studies professor Eddie Glaude GS ?97 moderated the panel, which was sponsored by the Center for African-American Studies and the Graduate School?s Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity.The panelists agreed that the coming months will be a test for Obama.?He has to be able to project strength, but also a new kind of humility and posture,? Slaughter explained.Of the trials he could face in the future, Slaughter said that addressing terrorism and national security may be the most difficult.?I expect that Al Qaeda will put him in a position where he has to kill Muslims,? she said, explaining that this would force him to walk a fine line between support in the Middle East and the expectations of the American people.She added that Iran could find this ?the perfect time to rattle its sabers.? Russia, damaged by economic crisis, might also try to stir something up on the Ukrainian border to deflect criticism from its own administration, she noted.Even without unforeseen foreign policy issues, Obama will have a tough time with the global financial collapse when he takes office, Slaughter said.
