What do Eliot Spitzer ?81, the-soon-to-be-ex-governor of New York, and a political group whose stated goal was to liberate Antarctica have in common?
Much like the Bud Bowl, the machinations of the horny are a significant source of lulz. Some post profiles on eharmony.com, unaware that the mathematical framework behind the 37 dimensions of compatibility actually describes string theory, which explains why 92 percent of matches are with the Higgs Boson.
An AT&T antenna atop Fine Hall is in the final stages of construction and is scheduled for completion next week.?The antenna has been put up with the intent to improve the phone service on campus and in the Princeton community,? University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appleget said.
Election results for the Graduate Student Government were verified by the elections managers last evening.
Wandering for 30 minutes through a residential neighborhood in Panama, holding a large antenna aloft and listening intently for the quiet hum of a bird's heart rate on a static radio, Margaret Kearns '09 finally spotted a gold-collared manakin.
The number of shared meal plans offered at Charter Club will decrease from 30 to 17 after the administration requested that the club pay the University three times the amount it did last year per shared meal plan.Charter will offer five of those plans to rising juniors and 12 to rising seniors.The nine other eating clubs, however, will not substantially alter their financial contracts with the University.
NATO faces the challenge of combining European and American alliances to deal with global problems, said Kurt Volker, principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs for the State Department, before a crowd of students, professors and community members in Robertson Hall yesterday afternoon.He noted that the United States must work cooperatively with its European allies in NATO because "we are only effective at dealing with [other countries] if we deal with them together."Volker, who worked under NATO's former secretary general Lord George Robertson for several years, has been nominated by President Bush to represent the United States on the NATO Council as a permanent representative.NATO members "are countries that have democracy, human rights, market economies [and] peaceful negotiations," he explained.
In the end, the self-proclaimed ?steamroller? was felled by an adversary no one anticipated: himself.With his wife by his side, New York Gov.
This July, 20 Iraqi and 15 American teenagers will meet in Jordan to discuss the ongoing conflict in Iraq as part of the Youth Initiative for Progress in Iraq (YIPI) conference, which is partially run by University students and has received funding from several University departments.The event is modeled after ?Initiative for Peace: Focus on Kashmir,? a meeting between Indian and Pakistani teens in which participants talked about the conflict in the Pakistani province of Kashmir that Astrid Stuth ?11 helped organize while attending the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.
The University is knee deep in bottles, cans and recycled paper as it enters the final month of Recyclemania, a nationwide endeavor on college campuses that encourages recycling, which this year runs from Jan.
Members of the Borough Council reacted strongly to new regulations from the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) after a presentation by COAH Executive Director Lucy Voorhoeve at the Borough Council meeting last night.
University Medical Center receives $25 million donation David and Patricia Atkinson, former residents of nearby West Windsor, pledged to donate $25 million to the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), the largest donation ever made to a New Jersey hospital.
Data transmissions by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) provide multiple insights into the formation of the universe and its infancy, said several University researchers who were involved in designing and launching the satellite.
The University announced last night that seniors Rob Biederman, Grant Gittlin and Meaghan Petersack are the three finalists in the running for the Class of 2008?s Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) position.The three seniors were chosen from a pool of 21 candidates by members of their class in an online primary election.
Michael Isikoff, an investigative reporter for Newsweek, discussed the secrecy of the current White House administration and the state of investigative journalism in front of a nearly full Dodds Auditorium yesterday.Isikoff, who authored ?Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter?s Story,? is known for his investigation of the Monica Lewinski story and his coverage of the war on terror.He spoke extensively on the problem of the secrecy surrounding the current Bush administration and actions he believes are unconstitutional.?This is an extremely secretive administration,? Isikoff said.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) ?81 is still conferring with advisers and has not said that he will resign in the wake of the revelation that he was an alleged client of a prostitution ring.The delay in a final decision about his resignation is angering some state lawmakers.
James Krendel-Clark ?11 thought he would take a break from studying to say hello to a group of familiar faces sitting on on the other side of the Murray-Dodge Cafe.
While China?s economy is booming, its leaders feel increasingly insecure and threatened, Susan Shirk, deputy assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, said in Dodds Auditorium yesterday during a lecture based on her recent book ?China: Fragile Superpower.??China?s leaders are very anxious about their hold on power inside China,? Shirk said.
News that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) ?81 was involved in a prostitution ring rocked Albany, Wall Street and his alma mater as it became clear that the former New York attorney general, who made his name pushing for greater ethics in government and business, had committed an ethical lapse of his own.
Underclassmen tread softly past the blue sliding metal doors of the carrels nestled in the lower levels of Firestone Library, perhaps afraid that an overworked, overtired senior may emerge and pierce them with an icy glare.
