Five contractors who worked on the soon-to-be-opened Lewis Library have pleaded guilty to paying
The University received $54.1 million in the 2007-08 Annual Giving campaign,
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ruled in favor of the University after reviewing a complaint filed on June 6 by Public Safety's Fraternal Orders of Police (FOP) union.
The University announced four alumni donations for expanding environmental research this week, the largest of which is a $100 million gift from investment manager Gerhard Andlinger ?52.
The six-year-old dispute over the Robertson Foundation?s $900 million endowment will face yet another delay.
A silver sports car sped down Washington Road, swerved and hit a student crossing the street, sending him flying onto the sidewalk. The student then sprang to his feet, the car backed up, and, several minutes later, the whole scene played out again as cameras rolled throughout. Paramount Pictures arrived in Princeton on Sunday afternoon with
The University is entitled to nearly $10 million in insurance money to cover some of its legal fees in the Robertson case, a New York appeals court ruled on June 5.The decision requires the National Union Fire Insurance Company to honor the full amount of the policy, which was purchased the same year in which two University-appointed Robertson Foundation trustees suggested the changes in the management of the Foundation's endowment that eventually led the Robertson family to sue the University.The company had previously only been willing to pay up to a $5 million sublimit on the $15 million policy.The Appellate Division, First Department of New York's Supreme Court unanimously denied an appeal by the company and upheld a September 2007 decision by Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman that awarded Princeton just over $9.6 million.The company argued that the University wanted the funds to fight claims not covered under the insurance policy, but Freedman ruled that National Union had to advance costs for both covered and non-covered claims.
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has broadened its investigation into a federal complaint filed in August 2006 by an applicant to the University who was denied admission.
President Tilghman conferred 1,125 bachelor's degrees and 743 graduate degrees at the University's 261st commencement, the final ceremony in a three-day series of graduation events.
Meaghan Petersack '08 has been elected the newest young alumni trustee, University officials have announced.
Physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer exhorted the members of the Class of 2008 to "make hope and history rhyme" as he delivered the Baccalaureate address this afternoon.Farmer took the phrase from a poem by Seamus Heaney, whom he incorrectly identified as the 2006 baccalaureate speaker, and used it to lead into a description of his vision of a utopian future that he hoped this year's graduating class would help create.
It?s an unconventional opening gambit, outside of a courtroom and facing a jury, to ask for your sympathy.
White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten ?76, speaking on campus today, said that his dismissal of former press secretary Scott McClellan may have motivated McClellan?s new book, which harshly criticizes the Bush administration."It may be that I?m ultimately responsible for the bitterness and disgruntlement, and ultimately for the book,? said Bolten, who rarely speaks publicly.
The reopening of the legendary Cannon Club has been a drama long in the making.Though Dial Elm Cannon (DEC) Graduate Board chair Warren Crane ?62 and University Executive Vice President Mark Burstein had both said earlier this year that the club is slated to open next February, Crane said in an interview yesterday that this is not a firm deadline.Crane still hopes for a February 2009 opening.
Two Princeton researchers, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger, have become the first humans in recorded history to witness the explosion of a supernova in real time.
Misbah, Princeton?s first magazine dedicated to exploring Muslim issues, was officially launched at a release party last night in Frist Campus Center 309.The new student publication aims to be a ?conversation in print,? editor-in-chief Babur Khwaja ?09 said.
California is set to become the second state to allow same-sex marriages, following a ruling yesterday by the state?s supreme court that struck down California?s marriage laws as unconstitutional.
Princeton students lack concern for others and live in an environment that does not encourage a sense of social responsibility, said a group of concerned students who were joined by deans and administrators at a town-hall discussion in the Mathey College Common Room on Wednesday night.The discussion was put together by students in various peer advisory groups such as Speak Out and SHARE to address ?sensitivity to racial and sexual harassment and assault,? in light of recent events including the violence at BlackBox in April and the charges brought against former student Malik Little ?11, Alice Abrokwa ?08 explained.Moderator Dante Ricci GS said the discussion was not intended to focus too much on these recent events, though.
