Weather Fans, there are certain things that merit drawing a line in the sand, a line you do not cross.
A week after photos of a student government candidate wearing black face paint triggered concerns about racial sensitivity, students and faculty gathered yesterday at the Carl A.
A member of Colonial Club's intramural broomball team fends off an opponent yesterday at Baker Rink during tournament play.
Administrators held an open forum yesterday afternoon to answer student questions about the changes to the University's alcohol enforcement policy that were announced last month.Though USG president Rob Biederman '08 sent two emails to undergraduates encouraging them to attend, just three students went to the discussion, excluding student reporters and USG officers.
With youtube.com playing an increasingly prominent role on the national political scene, this year's USG candidates also crafted online ads in an effort to bolster their vote tallies.From serious to silly, their videos reflect the changing nature of USG elections, as the internet makes even student government campaigns a subject of public attention on and off campus."He came up to me, he started talking to me, you know, introduced himself, just incredibly nice," Jon Feyer '09 said at the start of the video for Kenton Murray '09, who ran unsuccessfully for vice president.
The new U-Store location on Nassau Street offers the same Princeton apparel and paraphernalia that the old University Place branch once did.And for some who have already shopped there, it also seems to offer a brighter, more welcoming experience to customers."They've really done an ace job," U-Store student trustee Michael Smith '10 said.The new branch is much brighter than the fluorescent-lit old store on campus, and the new storefront includes such specialized department titles as "Princeton Alumni Section" selling Princeton blazers and Princeton leather attache cases.
Though President Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld '54 have made mistakes in the planning and execution of military operations in Iraq, they are not solely responsible for the war's failure, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post staff writer Thomas Ricks said in a lecture yesterday.Speaking to an audience of over 100 in Robertson Hall, Ricks argued that the war represents a failure of American institutions on multiple levels ? primarily a failure of the United States' Middle East policy.
The University's sole 2008 Marshall Scholar is Sarah Vander Ploeg '08, a Wilson School major and opera singer who is heavily involved with campus musical groups.Vander Ploeg will use the prestigious prize to study at London's 600-student Royal College of Music next year.
Three years after the University launched the integrated science sequence, the program has seen participation nearly double as more students choose its interdisciplinary offerings over more traditional science classes."We are looking for, and attracting, students who are deeply interested in the sciences," physics professor William Bialek, who teaches part of the sequence, said in an email.
Students will be buying textbooks in a whole new way next semester at Labyrinth Books. After filling out a course slip and receiving the books from Labyrinth staff, students will be able to pay with their proxes.Since last month, Labyrinth Books and the Nassau Street U-Store have been accepting payment via Paw Points, which are stored on students' proxes, and Tower Cards, which charge costs to academic departments, University Services General Manager Paul Breitman said.
A new Chinese government policy requiring HIV testing for foreigners entering the country and citizens who have been abroad for over a year is eliciting doubt among faculty and students as to its probable efficacy in preventing the spread of the AIDS virus.Put into effect on World AIDS Day, Dec.
The University's plan to add between 1.5 and 2 million square feet of new structures to campus over the next 10 years is just one of the five major expansion projects currently underway in the Ivy League.
Something has been bothering anthropology professor John Borneman lately.He is concerned that, as the Defense Department steps up efforts to make strategic use of anthropologists during military conflicts, his discipline may lose the capacity for independence and objective research it requires in order to survive."Could this be the end of anthropology as we know it?" he asked.Though Borneman's fear may seem far-fetched, he's not the only one worried.
Princeton Borough and Township officials sparred over the ownership of a landfill during a joint meeting at Borough Hall last night.The dispute was over 127 acres of land in the northeastern corner of the Township.
The University began to subsidize the cost of oral contraceptives for students on Dec. 1, after legislation withdrawing federal subsidies for campus health centers caused the price of contraceptives at colleges to skyrocket and triggered a national uproar earlier this year.The subsidy reduces the price of oral contraceptives on campus from $15 per pack to $6, Interim UHS Director Janet Finnie said.
USG vice president Josh Weinstein '09 won an overwhelming victory in the race for USG president, garnering more than 80 percent of the 2,500 votes cast in polling that ended yesterday at noon.Weinstein follows the path of his predecessor, Rob Biederman '08, in springboarding from vice president to president despite campus-wide controversy.Photos of Weinstein wearing black face-paint and dark clothing posted on ivygateblog.com, which covers Ivy League news, provoked concerns about whether voters would be concerned by the possible racial connotations of his costume."There are some people who seek to use race as a weapon to divide us," Weinstein said.
This summer, officials associated with study abroad programs at several U.S. colleges and universities were revealed to have accepted free trips and other gifts from foreign study providers in exchange for pushing undergraduates toward certain programs.Companies that organize study abroad programs were documented as offering school administrators trips to visit their overseas campuses, providing office services to campus study abroad offices and giving bonuses and commissions on student-paid fees to school officials, according to an article in The New York Times. Some universities charged students full at-home tuition, paid a fraction of the money to an outside provider or overseas university and then pocketed the difference.But Princeton officials say the University does not accept such offers, and it does not conduct itself in the manner described by the Times."Princeton has no exclusive relationships for study abroad with any provider, nor does the office receive money or perks as a reward for sending students to particular programs," Nancy Kanach, associate dean of the college and director of the study abroad program, said in an email.Critics say such exclusive relationships with providers limit student options and drive up costs, asserting that some schools require students to use one of several approved providers or agents.
The Black Student Union decided to endorse Josh Weinstein '09 for USG president late Sunday night despite concerns raised last week by the release of photos showing the candidate in a costume considered by some to be racially insensitive.The endorsement comes after the group held an open forum Saturday afternoon with Weinstein, currently USG vice president, and his opponent, U-Council chair Sarah Langberg '09, to discuss the implications of the photos and the USG's overall representation of minority students' issues.
The temperature was 23 degrees on Sunday at 3 a.m., and light snow was falling.But that didn't stop Mike Smith '10 from stripping down to a pair of underwear and getting on a bicycle stationed in front of Frist Campus Center.It was all for a cause, though: getting his team, the Princeton Rugby Football Club, to Ireland for spring break.Over nine-and-a-half days of biking ? which began last Thursday at 11 a.m.
Amid grumbles from scores of students and faculty members, the University is considering shifting from the webmail client it has used for several years to a more modernized email program.The University currently uses Sun Java System Messenger Express 6.2, an application last updated in 2004 and far behind current technologies.
