The perks of being a Residential College Adviser include a large single, two refrigerators, free board and 190 meals from Dining Services.
Students may soon have a greener way to blow off steam on Prospect Avenue.Greening Princeton is seeking to bring recyclable cups to the Street as part of its efforts to curb environmentally unfriendly behaviors on campus."In all the clubs, there are so many [plastic cups] wasted each night," co-president of Greening Princeton Posie Harwood '09 said.
The USG has chartered two buses to carry more than a 100 students to Cambridge, Mass., to watch the 100th-ever Princeton vs.
A freshman at Westminster Choir College of Rider University was pronounced dead on arrival at the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) yesterday, reportedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol.Casey DeBlasio, spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor's office, confirmed that 18-year-old Justin Warfield, a music theory and composition major, had used heroin Tuesday night.
The newly elected Class of 2011 officers are:President: Alex RosenVice President: Trevor MartinTreasurer: Jonathan GarySocial Chair: E.J.
The University endowment went from $13 billion to $15.8 billion during the past year, Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) President Andrew Golden said in an interview yesterday.The endowment's investment return for the 2006-07 fiscal year was 24.7 percent, which marks an increase over last year's 19.5 percent. For the 2005-06 fiscal year the national average for higher education endowment returns was 10.7 percent, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The average percentage increase for the 2006-07 fiscal year, which ended June 30, has not been released."This was an amazing year," Golden said of the endowment growth and investment return.
After filling out forms, writing essays and taking a leap of faith to apply to the University, there's one more step for many applicants: the off-campus alumni interview.Now that the most competitive generation of college applicants is applying to one of the world's most competitive universities, hopefuls are looking for any advantage they can find.
Freshmen will vote in runoff elections for class officers today, after no candidate running for any of the five positions won a majority of votes.In all, 25 candidates ran in the first round of Class of 2011 voting, which lasted two days and ended Tuesday at noon.
Students who saw Princeton as a relatively low-crime suburban paradise received a wakeup call this month as the campus was hit with five unsolved burglaries.
Controversial conservative writer David Horowitz delivered an address on the dangers of modern Islam and what he calls a "genocidal" and "barbaric" Muslim culture to a large student audience in McCosh 10 last night.Though he focused on Islamo-fascism, the name some conservative commentators give to a brand of Islam they deem similar to the fascist movements of 1930s Europe, Horowitz also talked about what he called the injustice of ad hominem arguments by the political left, reverse discrimination against white males and open academic debate within universities."There is a lot of hate coming at me and other leaders with similar opinions coming in a large part from the political left," he said.
Forbes College will spend about $20,000 this spring to throw an extravagant party based on the novel "The Great Gatsby," which is more than triple the cost of previous celebrations the residential colleges have sponsored."It's going to be big.
The USG plans to open a cafe in Dillon Gym the Monday after Fall Break."We started to discuss the idea last spring.
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.
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.
