The former president of the Phi Kappa Tau (PKT) fraternity at Rider University has settled a civil suit filed by the family of Gary DeVercelly, who died of alcohol poisoning at a PKT party in March 2007.
Princeton religion and African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, visiting politics fellow Nadia Urbinati and Columbia law school professor Patricia Williams addressed the left wing?s view of the coming presidential election last night in Dodds Auditorium.The Pace Center coordinator for civic engagement learning and moderator of the discussion, Andrew Seligsohn, opened the lecture by expressing his surprise at the duration of the Democratic primary.
New Jersey State Senator Bill Baroni thinks Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has a great shot at winning over Garden State voters come November, arguing yesterday afternoon at a talk sponsored by the College Republicans that the bitterly divided Democratic Party will continue to work in McCain's favor.
Students can already see the foundations of the four new Butler College buildings that will rise between Bloomberg and Wu halls.
"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung," Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849. Music professor Dmitri Tymoczko now begs to differ: According to his research, there's an entire world of complex geometric poetry underlying the language of music. Tymoczko, together with music professors Ian Quinn and Clifton Callender of Yale and Florida State universities, respectively, has found a way to literally illustrate the close connections between music and mathematical topology.
Weather Fans, I?ve noticed many of you taking advantage of the winning combination of warm weather and post-thesis/junior paper bliss recently.
The Borough Police has released the names of three gang-affiliated men charged with aggravated assault in connection with an altercation at the Wilson College BlackBox on Friday, April 18. Princeton residents Vonzell Kelley, 20, and John Hayes, 20, as well as Lawrence resident Bernadino Guervil, 21, were all charged with aggravated assault and each held on $25,000 bail.
The ethnically diverse array of doctors who star on television shows like ?Scrubs? and ?Grey?s Anatomy? does not accurately portray the population of doctors in the real world, according to a study presented by sociology professor Elizabeth Armstrong to a small group of students at an intimate dinner discussion in the Wilson private dining room yesterday evening.Armstrong?s study looked at 50 years of primetime television shows involving either ?medical settings or ... medical characters as primary characters? and attempted to ?compile a census? of this population and compare it with the real world population of physicians.By the 1990s, 13 percent of recurring physician characters on primetime network television were minorities, and 26 percent were women, Armstrong said.
Mark Cousins, a British architectural writer and theorist, criticized the way architectural history is taught at a talk last night in Betts Auditorium, arguing that courses should expose students more profoundly to older forms of architecture to inspire their creativity.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced yesterday that President Bush has decided to nominate Gen.
Candidates for Class of 2009 president and Class of 2011 vice president attempted to distinguish themselves from their opponents in a sparsely attended debate at Frist Campus Center last night.
Dozens of students lazed in the sun on the Frist South Lawn yesterday, enjoying the music of the Ithaca-based funk/rock band Revision.
There?s a little piece of orange and black on West 43rd Street, and the Class of 2009 gets to enjoy it for free.The Class of 2009 student government officers announced in an e-mail yesterday that beginning in June 2008, rising seniors will receive a year?s worth of free membership to the Princeton Club of New York (PCNY).While University alumni organizations span the country, PCNY is the largest and is also the only one with its own clubhouse, co-chair of PCNY?s alumni committee and club governor Zach Goldstein ?05 said.
Writing an essay in which he proposed six ways the United States can go green left James Coan ?09 with quite a bit of green of his own.Coan won a $10,000 prize in an essay contest sponsored by The Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy.
For the Canadian students at Princeton who may feel homesick, the Canadian Club can help serve as a proxy for home.The club partners with the Canadian studies program to run a variety of Canada-related activities, including celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving every October, taking trips to hockey games and hosting distinguished Canadian speakers.?We?re all just trying to have a good time,? Kyle Hagel ?08 said.
A group of irate Princeton residents sat in on the Borough Council meeting last night and demanded granite sidewalks.
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) emerged victorious in the Pennsylvania primary yesterday in the race against Sen.
Last night, Bonnie Bassler, the University?s Squibb professor in molecular biology, discussed the American aversion to science and the need for a more racially diverse population of scientific researchers before a crowd of more than 50 students and community members in McCormick Hall 101.Bassler, an award-winning researcher, was this year?s speaker for the third annual James Baldwin lecture.
?Stacy?s Mom? will grace campus during Lawnparties this year after Tower Club secured the rock band Fountains of Wayne to play at the club on May 4.?Fountains of Wayne has a ton of name recognition,? Tower president Stephanie Burset ?09 said in an e-mail.
Both Public Safety and Princeton Borough Police will bring charges against three non-University-affiliated individuals suspected of causing a violent incident at the Wilson College BlackBox on Friday night, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ?96 said in an e-mail. Public Safety will charge the three with ?obstruction with the administration of justice,? Cliatt said.
