After coming back to her dorm on a typical February afternoon with the temperature outside well below 30 degrees, Kate Huddleston ?11 found that she was not crawling under the blankets and wishing she had a working fireplace.
The Princeton Borough Council has revealed most of the contents of a private August 7 meeting, but a part of the meeting is still being kept under wraps.The undisclosed section of the meeting?s minutes concerns the so-called ?final offer? that the Borough Council presented Nassau HKT (NHKT), Councilman Roger Martindell said.
Fourteen delegates from Peking and Tsinghua universities visited Princeton during the past three days in an effort to facilitate an educational exchange between the Chinese students and Princetonians in preparation for the Beijing Olympics.The program is organized by IMUSE, short for ?Initiating mutual understanding through student exchange,? and included lectures and discussions that connected students from the two most renowned universities in China and elite North-American colleges.Yu Yi, a student from Peking, said that he doubts the program will have a direct impact on China or American perceptions of China.
Andrea Jung ?79, CEO of the cosmetics company Avon Products and a former University trustee, spoke about the ?six principles of leadership? and social responsibility to a crowd of students in Dodds Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
After a series of derogatory and offensive comments were left in several residence halls of Whitman College early last week, the heads of the residential college, along with several RCAs, organized an open discussion to address the incidents last night.?It took me by surprise,? Mentha Hynes-Wilson, director of student life at Whitman, said of the series of events.
Borough Council members commended the steps that eating clubs and the University have taken to combat high-risk and underage drinking on campus but sparred with club presidents over the Borough?s policy toward the clubs.University administrators answered questions about programs they have implemented this year, including the Princeton Alcohol Coalition and the new RCA alcohol policy.Interclub Council and former Charter Club president Will Scharf ?08, former Tiger Inn president Chris Merrick ?08, former Tower president Jon Fernandez ?08 and former Colonial president Tommy Curry ?08 attended the meeting to explain the efforts the clubs have taken to prevent dangerous drinking.The most impassioned rhetoric of the night came from club presidents protesting the Borough?s decision to press criminal charges against many club presidents in the recent past.Scharf, who will appear in court on March 10 to answer to charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance at Charter, said the charges have taken a toll on his personal life.
Princeton University has achieved a top-10 ranking and secured a place in the final round of the ONE Campus Challenge, it was announced Monday.
In anticipation of the proposed plan to move the Dinky Station 480 feet south, the University agreed to fund a jitney service that will shuttle commuters around Princeton to facilitate transportation around the University and the Borough.
Michelle Obama ?85?s thesis was released to the public by the University today after several days of media scrutiny over its availability and content.
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In line with other University efforts to push for an increased global presence, Diana Davies will become the first associate provost for international initiatives.
The Religious Life Council (RLC) hosted a unique forum for the understanding of world religions last evening, opening with RLC fellow and co-convener Manav Lalwani ?09 leading the Gayatri Mantra, a Hindu prayer, and ending with Jessica Montoya ?09, another fellow and co-convener, reciting the Roman Catholic St.
Brown announces new financial aid planBrown University approved a new undergraduate financial aid policy on Saturday that will eliminate tuition for students whose families earn less than $60,000 annually.
Investment in the improvement of preschool education will show its returns, David Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a lecture last night in Robertson Hall.?Learning builds on learning,? he said.
Defying February?s climatic dictates, students lay in the newly fallen snow on the Frist Campus Center?s North Front Lawn on Friday afternoon, feigning death, wearing coats covered with fake blood and sporting signs that read, ?What if you were killed for your coat??The protest, based on a campaign started by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and organized by the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), was designed to raise awareness of animals? suffering as part of the fashion fur industry.
Graduate students Thomas Clark, Vasily Pestun, Kellam Conover and Ning Wu were awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.
One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.
The University announced its campus Sustainability Plan on Thursday, pledging to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020.
One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.
