Sarah Allison '10 (l.) and Kim Ostrum '10 collect donations for the United Nations Children's Fund outside Frist Campus Center yesterday.
For the first time in its history, the University's student-run radio station, WPRB, held an on-air membership fund-raising drive last week to cover its operating budget and avoid having to sell or close the station.The drive raised $37,000 toward a revenue shortfall that put the 67-year-old nonprofit station's future at risk.
Prospective University students often get their first glimpse of campus after driving along the winding, scenic Route 206.
An economist with close ties to the University was among the three Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday.Eric Maskin, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study who has been a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at the University since 2000, won the prize yesterday for his contributions to mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that describes how institutions function in the midst of inefficient markets, such as when competition is not open or when individuals have asymmetric or private information.Maskin found out that he won the Nobel at 6:30 yesterday morning.
Bombarding students at freshman check-in, the activities fair and outside Frist Campus Center's convenience store, the student group Princeton Votes has registered almost 400 students to go to the polls this fall.Though the push to increase students' civic participation anticipates this winter's presidential primaries and next year's general election, the number of students registered one day before the deadline was the lowest in P-votes' four-year history.Over 1,300 students registered to vote in the 2004 presidential election in the organization's first year, and 421 students registered for the 2005 election.P-Votes co-chair Evan Magruder '08 said traffic at the registration table seemed about the same as last year, but his co-chair, Sarah Breslow '08, acknowledged the decrease in political activity."The past three years have had a presidential election, gubernatorial election and senatorial election," Breslow, a Daily Princetonian photographer, said in an email.
For the eighth consecutive year, students, faculty and administrators will meet in small groups to discuss race relations in Sustained Dialogue.
Students care most about improvements to computing facilities, academic advising and large events sponsored by the student government, a new USG priorities survey found.Last night's USG meeting was a planning meeting to look at the results of the survey and brainstorm potential projects."Not so much our administration, but over time, the USG has become a body that worked on what it wanted instead of what the student body cared about," USG president Rob Biederman '08 said.
At least nine Princeton faculty members were associated with the group of scientists that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its work on climate change.The group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was created in 1988 to provide objective policy advice about climate change as more people became concerned about the issue.
Seated in plastic chairs under a large tent that covered Harvard Yard and kept out sporadic raindrops, a crowd of more than 8,000 gathered Friday to watch Drew Gilpin Faust's inauguration as Harvard's 28th president.The two-day ceremony marked the first time the university will be led by a woman in its 371-year history."The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future ? not simply or even primarily to the present," Faust told a crowd that included more than 220 administrators and scholars representing universities and colleges from around the world."A university is not about results in the next quarter," she added.
You may be walking down the Street late one night, looking to relieve yourself. Hoagie Haven is open, but it doesn't have a bathroom.
Students attend a workshop taught by roving magicians in Wilson College on Friday. The David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project sponsored their visit.
Princeton graduate students: antisocial or untapped resource? Forty-four percent of the almost 600 undergrads polled in a 2005 Point survey said, "If they weren't my TAs, I wouldn't talk to them." The residential colleges' new Resident Graduate Student program aims to change that.Resident Graduate Students, or RGSs, were selected by application and are meant to enrich undergraduate life by becoming part of the residential college community.
Princeton Borough Police have charged the presidents of Tiger Inn, Cottage Club and Cloister Inn with serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance, Borough Lt.
Plans for the $300 million arts neighborhood in the southwest corner of campus continue to evolve, despite the loss of the project's lead architect last fall.
From booking a flight to sending an email, everyday internet procedures rely on a security system that protects credit card numbers and addresses.That's where computer science professor Boaz Barak comes in.
For obvious reasons, the California recall election was a trash cultural goldmine. With stringent qualification standards replaced by the "Hobo Criterion" (does the prospective candidate gots change?), the election became an irresistible magnet for Z-list celebrities, the emotionally needy and the generally illucid.
Even as the opening of the four-year residential colleges fueled hopes for a greater sense of community among undergraduates, some graduate students have voiced concerns that their housing options fail to foster connections with their peers.Some members of the Graduate Student Government (GSG) said the dispersed nature of graduate housing makes it more difficult for graduate students to interact with each other.
Decades before evangelical leader Pat Robertson began broadcasting his gospel to legions of avid fans, the "Cold War Christian Right" was spreading its message through the radio waves, media scholar Heather Hendershot said in a lecture in Betts Auditorium yesterday.Hendershot, a media studies professor at Queens College in New York and Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton, cited the example of the Rev.
Correction appendedThree eating clubs were charged with serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance yesterday.
