Instead of tanning on a beach or hanging out at home over Fall Break, 51 students walked through rain-soaked Northern Virginia to knock on the doors of 10,000 strangers.
There was a lot of extra lasagna at the first-ever USG Diversity Council meeting Monday evening.Though 39 student leaders from more than 30 different affinity-based student groups were invited, only six people attended the 6 p.m.
Melekot Abate ?11 won?t be voting in today?s presidential election, and the law bars him from donating to candidates of any party.
The University?s expansion efforts involve the construction of more than just on-campus buildings.
Retired Camden County Superior Court Judge John Fratto has denied motions filed by both sides in the dispute over the Robertson Foundation?s $900 million endowment, ruling that the trial will be conducted in two phases.Fratto, who replaced Mercer County Superior Court Judge Maria Sypek in September, ruled at an Oct.
After 50 years at the University, Bill Lockwood ?59 hasn?t changed his taste in decorations.
University Executive Vice President Mark Burstein said in an interview this week that the University should not expend the resources necessary to keep Firestone open after midnight, noting that he believes that not enough students want to study in the building during the early morning hours to justify the cost.
This Fall Break, while some students caught up on sleep or campaigned for their candidates, just over 40 students spent part of their week off helping elementary school students, tomato-farm workers, pediatricians and undocumented immigrants.The Pace Center sponsored four Fall Break Breakout Princeton Civic Action trips this year.
Wei Ho ?09, a computer science concentrator from Chamblee, Ga., has been missing since Friday, Oct.
The six-year-old dispute over the Robertson Foundation?s $900 million endowment has been assigned to a new judge, just months before case is scheduled to go to trial.
As one of the nine women out of the 500 students in the Harvard Law School class of 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to stand up for herself.
Watching an episode of ?Grey?s Anatomy? or ?Scrubs? gives the impression that today?s doctors-in-training and their supervisors devote about 98 percent of their time to styling their hair, sleeping with their coworkers, sleeping with their patients, talking to their coworkers about sleeping with their patients, talking to their patients about sleeping with their coworkers and admiring their coworkers? expertly styled hair.
"I tell people I eat from the trash, and they think I?m crazy,? Alex Barnard ?09 said.Barnard follows the principles of freeganism.
Though they have fundamentally different interpretations of liberty, liberals and libertarians agree on key issues such as national security, the economy and immigration, a panel of three liberals, three libertarians and two neutral commentators said during a discussion in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon.?We are ideological cousins sprung from common ancestry,? McGill political science professor and libertarian Jacob Levy GS ?99 said.Ideologically, the two groups agree on a sense of liberty, but they disagree about the specifics of what the term means, sociology professor Paul Starr said.Libertarians give the highest priorities to property rights, whereas liberals give greater weight to constitutional rights, Starr said.A second liberal panelist, The Nation?s Washington, D.C., editor Christopher Hayes, noted that the meaning of the term ?liberal? has changed as the political landscape in the United States has been torn apart and reformed over the past few years.?There are demographic changes in the liberal coalition,? Hayes explained.Hayes noted that the current administration?s handling of three issues have led to a liberal-libertarian alliance: the growth of the ?national security state,? immigration and economic policy.There is one significant factor, however, that differentiates liberals from libertarians, namely ?the role of government in creating and managing markets,? Wilson School professor Douglas Massey GS ?77 explained.Nevertheless, Massey said that he believes libertarians should naturally ally with liberals.
While only a small minority of students usually takes advantage of Fall Break for its original political purpose, this year will see more than the typical number of students on the campaign trail.Fall Break is especially important to student political involvement, as getting involved in a campaign may be difficult at other times of the year, College Democrats president Rob Weiss ?09 said.
The Nixon administration was drafting young men to fight for the United States in Southeast Asia. Students on college campuses across the nation were involved in violent, sometimes fatal, protests.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?s rich and complex sermons convey his intense love of the black community, said Barnard sociologist Jonathan Rieder, who spoke Wednesday in front of a small audience in Lewis Library about his research on the powerful styles and themes of the preacher?s public and private words.Rieder, whose lecture was titled ? ?I?m Gonna Be a Negro Tonight?: Martin Luther King?s Preaching in the Black Pulpit,? said he gave the speech because ?I still find it fascinating to keep uncovering the richness which I always respected.
A crowd of a few dozen listened to a conversation between bestselling author Naomi Wolf and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges about Wolf?s most recent book, ?Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries,? in the basement of Labyrinth Books on Wednesday evening.Wolf gained international attention after the publication of her first book, ?The Beauty Myth,? in 1990, becoming a public face for the third-wave feminist movement.After describing the United States? path to dictatorship and fascism in her sixth book, ?The End of America,? Wolf wrote a sequel, ?Give Me Liberty,? to re-examine the principles advocated by the founding fathers and to teach Americans how to best utilize the power endowed upon them by the democratic system.
The Regional Planning Board of Princeton approved a proposal on Thursday for a major expansion and renovation of the Nassau Inn, according to the Princeton Packet.The proposal, a revision of a 1998 plan, includes significant renovation of the existing Nassau Inn facilities, as well as the construction of a six-story addition along Hulfish Street and a three-story building at the site of the one-story Lindt Chocolate store on Palmer Square West.The Planning Board granted the Nassau Inn permission for the six-story structure, despite zoning restrictions that allow only five stories.
Several Borough Council members noted their frustration with the pace of the investigation in the cases involving three Princeton Borough Police Department officers at last week?s council meeting, citing the financial burden of keeping three officers on the Borough?s payroll in the interim.
