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.
Two alumni and two former University professors were awarded Pulitzer Prizes yesterday in recognition of their journalistic achievements.Barton Gellman ?82 of The Washington Post, Ferris professor of journalism in 2001-02 and former chairman of The Daily Princetonian, won the national reporting award for his examination of Vice President Dick Cheney?s often concealed use of power.
A new P-Rides program is planned to begin next September, Director of Parking and Transportation Kim Jackson explained at the USG meeting last night.The new initiative, which will be named ?On Demand,? will begin service each evening immediately following the last scheduled shuttle bus.
Residents of Feinberg and Edwards halls were greeted with new, ?green? toilets when they returned to their rooms after spring break, when Facilities staff members installed dual-flushing systems designed to save water.The new toilets allow users to push the flush handle one way to use less water for liquid waste and another way to release more water for solid waste.This is one of several efforts that the University has undertaken to make dorms more environmentally efficient, having been bolstered by the encouragement of student activists and the guidance of the University?s new Sustainability Plan.
Last Saturday evening, Prospect Avenue looked a little like the East Egg of F. Scott Fitzgerald ?17?s ?The Great Gatsby.?Though Nick Carraway and his Long Island neighbors were nowhere to be found, a record number of freshmen donned tuxedos and gowns, strutting their stuff en route to the Freshman Formal.Nearly a dozen silver balloons greeted the 777 members of the Class of 2011 who made their way to the Quadrangle Club for the annual event.
Samantha Power, a professor of government at Harvard University and former foreign policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen.
