Princeton placed 22nd out of 201 universities in this year's nationwide RecycleMania competition, ahead of all other participating Ivy League schools.
After two years as the unopposed choice for Class of 2008 president, Grant Gittlin faces two challengers in the race for leader of the rising senior class.USG vice president and senior elections manager Josh Weinstein '09 announced Saturday night that Aaron Spolin '08 and Thomas Haine '08 are both running against Gittlin.In separate interviews yesterday, both Spolin and Haine said they wanted to run because they believe there is demand for more class activities.
Following extensive debate last night, the USG Senate voted down a resolution urging President Tilghman to reconsider the denial of University chaplaincy to Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb."We weren't elected to pass resolutions that reflect our own views," USG president Rob Biederman '08 said.
Under the "graduation tickets" heading on Point's TigerTrade, listings express many seniors' desperate desire to get a few more seats for their family and friends."Need 3 Tickets!" one posting reads, typical of the requests from seniors looking for tickets to various Commencement events.Until Friday, strong demand ? and a fixed supply ? supported a flourishing market of graduation ticket buyers and sellers on TigerTrade.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine remains in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., after a severe car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township on Thursday night left him unable to breathe without the aid of a ventilator.Corzine broke 12 ribs along with his sternum, collarbone and left leg in the accident, which occurred when a red pickup truck swerved onto the highway, forcing another pickup into the path of the governor's car.
"One, two, three, four! Global warming out the door! Five, six, seven, eight! We cannot afford to wait!" The mantra echoed from the mouths of more than a hundred people gathered by the Wilson School fountain on Saturday afternoon.The chanting crowd ? participants in Princeton's rendition of the nationwide Step It Up 2007 Climate Change Rally ? were mostly local and state community members, along with a smattering of University students.
Members of the student environmental group Greening Princeton brought a special delivery to the eating clubs yesterday: boxes of compact fluorescent light bulbs, intended to replace the energy-inefficient incandescent bulbs that many clubs currently use.The delivery was part of the Cool Bulbs Initiative, which aims to improve eating club energy efficiency.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was transported by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden after the SUV he was riding in swerved to avoid another car and hit a guardrail on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township.The governor was on his way to meet with embattled radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team at Drumthwacket, the governor's residence in Princeton.
Though President Bush has kept the United States from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, a successful international climate change treaty will soon be crafted, author and U.N.
Two years ago, in a sealed section of Moscow's Archives for Literature and Art, music professor Simon Morrison found a handwritten score and stage notes for a 70-year-old theatrical production of Alexander Pushkin's "Boris Godunov."Now, here at Morrison's home campus, those decades-old papers have come to compelling, if uneven, life.With the original 1936 compositions by Sergei Prokofiev and stage notes from director Vsevolod Meyerhold, "Boris Godunov" combines the extraordinary talents of undergraduate students, faculty and graduate students in a historic performance.
University officials unveiled a proposed redesign of the campus shuttle system in a meeting with community members last night.
Dear Incoming Freshman,Congratulations on your acceptance to Princeton University, six-time running winner of the prestigious number-one ranking in the "Weekly World News" list of colleges most likely to be attended by Bat Boy, if he were not in Afghanistan hunting for Bin Laden!
In the two weeks since the alcohol poisoning death of a student at a nearby college, the University has continued its efforts to combat alcohol abuse on campus.Rider University freshman Gary DeVercelly died on March 30 after binge drinking to the point of unconsciousness at the school's Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house.
Pre-frosh and current Princeton students hold up limo cards yesterday in Dillon Gym at 'The Great Match-up,' where admitted students met their hosts.
One of the University's most ambitious theatrical collaborations came to fruition last night with the world premiere of Alexander Pushkin's 1825 play "Boris Godunov" at McCarter Theatre.The play was brought to life in 1927 by acclaimed Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold and lost to the censorship of the Soviet era when Meyerhold was executed by Stalin in 1940.
Princeton Borough officials discussed their ongoing negotiations with Tiger Inn on Tuesday over the club's affordable housing payment obligation, which has come into question due to the invalidation of a statewide policy by an appellate court.Under a Borough ordinance, a proposed several thousand square foot expansion of TI would require the club to pay the Borough about $450,000, Borough councilman David Goldfarb said.In January, a New Jersey appellate court struck down rules imposed by the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) upon which the Borough ordinance was based.The ruling required that COAH revise those regulations.
As seniors complete their thesis marathons and turn their thoughts to graduation, many have begun to worry that they won't be able to get their family and friends into all of the graduation events in early June.The University gives each senior enough tickets to invite two guests to Baccalaureate, four to the Class Day ceremony, five to the Senior Prom and five to Commencement.The scarce supply has created demand for graduation weekend tickets on the Point portal's TigerTrade marketplace.Rhonda Fitzgerald '07, who lives in New Jersey and has nine close family members she'd like to invite to graduation, said in an email that "getting the amount of tickets I needed has been kind of grueling."Fitzgerald said she has struggled with the high prices some of her classmates are charging for their extra tickets, recalling one senior who was selling Commencement tickets for $250 each.
Every grocer knows the best way to stack oranges into a bag in order to maximize the available space.
Faced with white supremacy, exclusionary social institutions and a criminal justice system that is "racist and deeply unfair," African Americans become trapped in a cycle of crime and incarceration, religion professor Cornel West GS '80 argued yesterday during a panel discussion in McCosh 50.Part of Princeton's first-ever prison colloquium ? "Locked Up and Locked Out" ? the discussion was titled "Punishment and its widening circle of victims: The impact of incarceration on greater society." Focusing on how the criminal justice system in the United States disadvantages African-American citizens, the event drew an audience of around 50 people.West described African Americans' and women's historical struggle for full citizenship, citing these legacies as influential factors in the current criminal system.
