It may have been last on the agenda, but the state of the Lawrence Apartments Residence Committee was a chief concern for several graduate students at last night?s Graduate Student Government (GSG) meeting.
Nearly 500 prospective students from the Class of 2012 will flood the campus today to decide whether the University should receive their thumbs up on May 1.Princeton Preview, a revised version of the program formerly known as April Hosting, hopes to convince admitted students to come to the University.Because all students have been admitted using regular decision, Princeton Preview will take place during both this weekend and next to accommodate all admitted students.The Admission Office ?had to rethink how [to] welcome admitted students to campus because [there would be] at least double the number of students visiting, if not more than that,? Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained.
Keep taxes simple and let people control their own financial resources, Steve Forbes ?70, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, said to a large audience last night in Dodds Auditorium.Forbes, who founded the magazine Business Today while a student at the University, discussed his opinions on the current economic crisis in the United States and possible solutions for problems involving the tax code, social security, monetary policy and health insurance.
Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday for his first novel, ?The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,? stressed the importance of science fiction in conveying historical and social truths before a full house in McCormick 101 yesterday.Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and spent some of his childhood there before moving to New Jersey, acknowledged that he and the novel?s protagonist have similar life stories.The protagonist of ?Oscar Wao? is a Dominican-American boy who grows into a lonely, science fiction-loving nerd.
What positive number, spelled out in Scrabble tiles, has a score equal to itself? What seven-letter bingo is a Scrabble player most likely to be holding?These are easy questions for the mathematically minded players who dominate national and international Scrabble tournaments.
Sophomore Jenni Newbury had some unwelcome visitors in her room. Getting rid of them the easy way, however, only made things worse.
The Center for Health and Wellbeing yesterday announced that a certificate program in global health and health policy will be launched in fall 2008.Students will study, on a global scale, how diseases interact with societies and how they can be managed using medical technologies and policy interventions.
Hisham Mahmoud began his lecture yesterday with a long incantation in Arabic.?You guys are all under my enchanted spell,? Mahmoud, a lecturer in Near Eastern studies, then said to the audience in McCormick 101.
Princeton?s international students are now less likely to have to leave the country soon after graduation.Students who graduate with degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) will now be allowed 29 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows them to work in the United States at any point during or immediately after their academic career, the U.S.
The Borough Council approved plans last night to raise money by auctioning off some of the municipality?s possessions, including a baseball glove and a fire truck.In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi characterized the items that will be auctioned as ?goodies that we collect.? Some of the items were abandoned around the Borough or left in municipal buildings, while others had been purchased by the Borough and are no longer needed, Bruschi said.Bicycles are one of the most common items collected, Bruschi noted.
One oversees a vast collection of ancient coins. Another studies the end of the world according to the Old Testament.
The decision to remove Terri Schiavo?s feeding tube is comparable in its inhumanity to the actions of the Nazis during World War II, Schiavo?s brother Bobby Schindler said before an audience of mostly students in Frist 302 last night.Schiavo died in 2005 at age 41, two weeks after doctors, following orders from a federal judge, removed a feeding tube that had kept her alive for more than a decade.
Salaries for faculty at four-year colleges in 2007-08 increased by 4 percent for full and associate professors nationwide, according to a recent survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Increases for assistant professors followed closely at 3.9 percent, while newly hired assistant professors? salaries received a 3.3 percent boost on average.In 2005-06 and 2006-07, salaries went up by 3.4 percent and 3.8 percent respectively, according to CUPA-HR.
Dennis Keller ?63 and his wife Constance Templeton Keller have donated $25 million to the University to encourage the integration of engineering and the liberal arts, as well as to foster other initiatives in engineering and technology.
Witch doctors have yet to lose their credibility in South Africa because of the ?treatment anarchy? that continues to deny effective anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to AIDS patients there, Nicoli Nattrass explained in a talk yesterday afternoon.
Students walking down Prospect Avenue may catch sight of ?DANGER ASBESTOS? signs posted on the doors and windows of numbers 5 and 58, locations of the former Campus and Elm eating clubs.The two vacant buildings are currently undergoing routine asbestos removal, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ?96 said.
In a nation with roughly 200 million citizens of voting age, the presidential nomination of one of the two major political parties may be decided by about 800 party bigwigs.As Sen.
The Catholic Church employed the recognition of miracles and canonization of saints to both unite people and preserve its power during the turmoil of 17th-century Europe, Columbia University religion scholar Paolo Parigi told an audience in Wallace Hall yesterday.Linking two ordinarily distinct subjects, religious miracles and social movements, Parigi explained that the proclamations of new miracles and saints during that period were part of the ?strategy of the Church for defending itself? against the dissolution of its support amid the enormous changes in Western culture during the era that saw the expansion of the Protestant Reformation and the Inquisition.
Faculty members approve course changesMembers of the faculty approved changes in course offerings in the art and archaeology, economics, operations research and financial engineering, and Spanish and Portuguese departments at the monthly faculty meeting.
Correction and editor's note appended While the 1,976 students recently admitted to the Class of 2012 may be getting ready to bask in the summer sun and celebrate the completion of their last academic application for the next few years, they may be surprised to learn that selectivity doesn?t end at the Admission Office.
