President Tilghman led the charge against binge drinking by discussing the formation of the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) at yesterday?s monthly meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.
Wikipedia.org, the popular online encyclopedia run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, has sparked heated reactions from Muslims who object to the site?s inclusion of images of the prophet Muhammad in an article bearing his name.?There have been complaints from Muslims saying ?it offends me personally? or ?it offends my religion,? ? Wikipedia spokesman Dan Rosenthal said.An online petition, which surfaced in early December 2007 and has since gathered more than 134,000 signatures, is requesting that Wikipedia remove images of the Prophet, citing the teaching in Islam that forbids images of the Prophet and all living creatures.
Iranian government honors NES professorNear Eastern studies professor Michael Cook received a Farabi International Award last month from the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his contributions to the study of Islam.Cook received the award for his book ?Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought,? in which he discusses Islamic ethics relevant to today?s Sunni and Shi?ite populations.
Michael Chou ?10 only spent one day at his internship, but not because he was fired. As part of the redesigned ?Princeternship? program, Chou shadowed Hal Stern ?84, vice president of Sun Microsystems, on a typical workday.
A panel that included faculty from Notre Dame, Columbia, Yale and Princeton scrutinized the controversial tenure of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist at a discussion last Friday, as part of a conference on Rehnquist?s contributions to constitutional jurisprudence.
All but one eating club filled to capacity following Bicker and second-round sign-ins, signaling strong demand for club membership in the first year in which the four-year residential college system has been in place.
Correction appendedAmendments to the USG constitution proposed by USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 were tabled yesterday at the first meeting of the newly elected student body government after there was confusion about the wording of one of the amendments detailing the U-Council chair selection process.U-Councilors Sarah Langberg ?09 and Maria Salciccioli ?09 questioned the amendment in question, saying it would give the president more power in choosing U-Council chairs.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 18 ? I was somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to kick in.
On Friday morning, the long benches of Nassau Hall?s faculty room were filled with about 100 fifth graders from Bronx Public School 70, one of the largest public elementary schools in New York City.
Harvey Lederman ?08, a classics major and past recipient of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and the Haarlow Prize for coursework in humanistic studies, is the University?s sole recipient of a 2008 Keasbey Scholarship.
Shea Conaway ?10 was watching Super Tuesday coverage with a friend when news broke of the dozens of tornadoes ripping across the Southeastern United States.
While Lucas Baradello ?10 tackles Chinese and Arabic classes and plays for the club soccer team, he has also taken on a struggle that, in his opinion, transcends other academic and extracurricular activities: fighting the base conditions facing immigrant youth.Baradello is the co-founder and managing director of Juvenis, a California nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide internet-based educational and professional resources to disadvantaged immigrant youth.?It?s going to be the cleanest, [best]-organized, most useful scholarship, internship and information database using the latest web technologies,? he said.Baradello, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Argentina, started the organization with his brother Federico Baradello ?05 in 2004.
Private military contractors (PMCs) are efficient and specialized and have high ethical standards, Doug Brooks, founder and president of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), emphasized yesterday in the face of audience criticism regarding controversial PMC conduct in Iraq.
Responding to a recent federal law that increased the government?s wiretapping abilities, a study co-authored by computer science professor Jennifer Rexford ?91 concluded that more wiretapping can actually make Americans less safe.The study suggests that data collected from wiretapping could be hacked by terrorists or abused by government agents.?They can tap into an infrastructure the government essentially built for them,? Rexford said in an interview.
America will face dire consequences if it does not reform healthcare, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker warned students and community members Wednesday afternoon during a talk in Robertson Hall.
At last night?s 2008 USG kickoff meeting, officers offered more than just hot chocolate and cookies to attract student attention.
A panel of prominent conservative political commentators analyzed the uniqueness of the 2008 election before a packed audience in the largest lecture room in Aaron Burr Hall last night.
While the Democratic and Republican primaries have been dominated by graduates of Columbia, Wellesley College and the United States Naval Academy, among others, Princeton alumnus Ralph Nader ?55, a three-time presidential candidate, is considering a campaign of his own.Nader has organized an exploratory committee to investigate whether a campaign as an independent would be feasible, a move that prospective candidates usually make before officially announcing their intent to run.Nader said in an interview
