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.
The Princeton community is experiencing an increase in slackers.Three or four days a week, they can be found in front of Foulke Hall, traversing inch-wide nylon webbing lines between two trees 20 to 30 feet apart.A small, dedicated contingent and some others have set up an informal group that take a nice day, a few trees and nylon webbing and make it into what Denali Barron '09 calls "a social, mildly athletic activity" ? slacklining.Slackliners walk across and perform tricks on a band of nylon webbing strung between two anchors.
Margaret Crotty '94 went on a foreign exchange trip to France as a high school sophomore and hasn't looked back.Next week she will become president and CEO of AFS Intercultural Programs, a nonprofit that organizes exchange trips for high school students, and be responsible for sending high schoolers on exchanges just like the one she had."She has a lot of relevant background," said Kimberly Ritrievi '80, chair of the AFS board of directors.
New Jerseyans think their government has grown increasingly corrupt during the past four years, a poll released Sunday suggests.Conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in conjunction with Gannett New Jersey, the poll found that 60 percent of New Jersey residents believe there is "a lot" of corruption in their state.
A former "card-carrying member" of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) who once had an abortion described her transformation into a "pro-life feminist" in a lecture yesterday in McCosh Hall.Karen Shablin, a speaker for Feminists for Life of America's college outreach program, advocated more resources for pregnant women so they will not have to resort to abortion like she did.
Correction appendedThe Princeton Borough Council reviewed local crime and disorder statistics for August and September, as well as discussing rent control and the construction of a plant-shaded walkway at its meeting last night.Borough Police Lieutenant Sharon Papp presented the police report from August and noted that University-related alcohol violations were especially high in September.
