The brisk November wind could not keep University students from the Carl Fields Center on Sunday afternoon, where they were paired with children with Down syndrome to play games and listen to stories.
The late Sir John Templeton, a billionaire investment broker who has been accused of renouncing his U.S.
When 17 students staged a sit-in on Nassau Hall in April 1995 to protest the lack of academic offerings in Asian-American and Latino studies, they easily got the attention of University administrators.After the 36-hour sit-in, the University pledged to create four to seven new professorships and to increase its library holdings and course offerings in the two areas of study.
Students picked up more than 1,000 energy-efficient light bulbs on Frist North Lawn on Wednesday and Thursday through a project aimed at reducing the University?s energy consumption.
Ramona isn?t like other robots. Created in 2001 by artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and author Raymond Kurzweil, Ramona is an Aquarius who likes tight clothes, cannoli and Australian sheepdogs, but that?s not what sets her apart from the proverbial robot pack.
In the first year that University Health Services (UHS) offered FluMist in addition to the traditional flu shot at FluFest, total vaccinations held steady.
Students attending lecture Thursday may have found a startling message on their seats. As part of an ongoing campaign, SpeakOut put up posters in the largest lecture halls on campus that read: ?[One] in 4 women is a survivor of sexual assault by the time she graduates college.
Freshman should not have the right to walk on Princeton?s sidewalks, supporters of Princeton Proposition 8 (PP8) said Thursday in a demonstration on Firestone Plaza.?We?re not froshophobes.
Lewis Library was officially dedicated today to University trustee Peter Lewis ?55, who funded the building with a $60 million gift.
The University has received preliminary approval from the Princeton Regional Planning Board for its plan to address traffic congestion as it moves forward with the implementation of the 10-year Campus Plan.At its Nov.
Due to a new University policy, undergraduates wishing to register in graduate-level courses now face more obstacles than in recent years, including an extensive form, in-person enrollment at the Registrar?s office and no option to take the course with Pass/D/Fail grading.The policy change is an effort to ensure that students are prepared for their classes and fully understand their professors? expectations, Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler said.
The scattered conversations in Spanish and French faded as students ate Chinese take-out and listened to a translation of ?How the Grinch Stole Christmas? in Twi, a language spoken in Ghana.The language-themed feast was part of the awards ceremony for the PU Language Program (PULP)?s inaugural translation contest, held in early October.
Instead of having just interior airbags to protect passengers, the cars of the future should have exterior devices that can predict a collision and then inflate to protect the vehicle from damage.
A year after the implementation of Residential Hallway Patrols (RHP) and a new RCA policy, students are still questioning what some have criticized as contradictory University policies toward alcohol consumption in dormitories.Since October 2007, Public Safety officers on RHP have been making rounds in dormitory hallways at night.
President-elect Barack Obama selected two University alumni for his White House staff on Wednesday afternoon.
The University has no specific plans to make additional upperclass dormitories part of the four-year residential college system, representatives of the Housing Department said in an interview Wednesday.There has been ?no predetermined decision that any or a certain quantity [of upperclass dorms] are going to be reassigned,? Assistant Vice President for Facilities Chad Klaus explained.The department plans to send undergraduates a survey on Friday to evaluate student opinion on potential additions to the college system and overall housing preferences.The survey allows students to rank their preferences for adding parts of upperclass dormitories to the four-year colleges in the event that ?demand for upperclass spaces in residential colleges next year exceeds planned supply,? according to the text of the survey.Proposed additions to the college system listed in the survey include parts of Scully, Cuyler or Patton-Wright halls to Butler College; parts of Little, Lockhart or Foulke halls to Mathey College; and parts of Spelman, Cuyler, Patton-Wright or Pyne halls to Whitman College.Klaus said that these dorms were not selected based on their room configurations, how recently they were renovated or their popularity during room draw, but rather by their proximity to residential colleges.In the event that additional upperclass housing is incorporated into four-year residential colleges, the current requirement that all students in residential colleges buy a University meal plan will not be changed.?I think the requirement for being in a residential college and having a University meal plan would stay,? said Matt Kinsey ?98, associate director for planning and administration in Executive Vice President Mark Burstein?s office.The survey asks students which factors are important in ?determining a positive housing experience.? Choices include room size and location, proximity to kitchens and study spaces, and the age of the building.
The USG may reform its online election system to remove the potential for internal tampering, USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 said in response to inquiries from The Daily Princetonian regarding the integrity of the system.Currently, certain USG members have the ability to view the list of students who have cast ballots, and there is a chance that they could exploit this ability by altering the results of the election without leaving a trace, said James Chu, a senior systems developer in the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Chu was the original designer of the WebSurvey facility used in the elections process.?Both as past senior elections manager and president, I take these issues very seriously, and I think we need to look at fixing [the system] as soon as possible,? Weinstein said.Under the current election framework, the USG creates a survey using the WebSurvey facility and then deploys that survey as an election, Chu explained.
Though students at peer institutions have organized and participated in sizable public rallies against Proposition 8, the ballot measure that revoked gray marriage right in California, there has been little public outcry at Princeton in the weeks following election day.The proposition, which passed with 52 percent of the votes cast in favor, amended the California state constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman.Members of the campus LGBT community expressed deep discontent with the outcome of the referendum, but many said they felt that there wasn?t much they could do to make a difference.Proposition 8 was discussed at a meeting of students and religious life leaders at the LGBT Center last Wednesday, but no protests or large-scale public events have been held on campus.Chris Simpson ?09 said he is organizing a satirical campaign on Thursday that would ban freshmen from walking on campus sidewalks to parallel the injustice of the proposition.?I think it?s a shame that there is so little debate taking place on a campus that is as well-informed as ours,? Simpson said in an e-mail urging students to participate.Matt McMahon GS, an openly gay first-year architecture student who tried to organize a sit-in at the Nassau Street office of the National Organization for Marriage, the biggest funder of support for Proposition 8, said he has received few responses to his campaign.He explained that he felt obligated to act because campus felt like a ?radiant silence.??It led me [to be] disheartened about the state of LGBT affairs at Princeton,? said McMahon, who lived in New York City and was an undergraduate at Penn State.
