With a five-minute ceremony Friday afternoon, nearly 80 years of history came to an end.The ceremony marked the closing of the Armory, Princeton ROTC's longtime home on Washington Road.
Major student health issues including mental health and birth control were discussed last night at the USG Senate meeting, which hosted two representatives from University Health Services (UHS).University Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman and John Kolligian, director of mental health services, updated the USG about McCosh Health Center's services and recent initiatives.Commenting on the recent controversies over birth control, Silverman explained that the price hikes are the result of a change in national law and emphasized that the University did not have control over the decision.
Thousands of community members and University students flooded Nassau and Witherspoon Streets for the annual Communiversity festival on Saturday.Jointly sponsored by the Arts Council of Princeton and the University, the day-long affair featured over 160 artists, craftsmen, merchants and organizations.Attendees sampled international cuisine, listened to live music, viewed demonstrations, perused galleries and participated in arts and crafts activities.
After admitting to falsifying her academic credentials, MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones resigned yesterday."I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to MIT 28 years ago and did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since," she said in a statement posted on MIT's website.Throughout her time at MIT, Jones was believed to have received degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), when in fact none of the three institutions had conferred a degree on her, MIT Chancellor Phillip Clay explained in a statement.An RPI official confirmed that Jones had been a part-time student at the Troy, N.Y., school during the 1974-75 academic year, though she did not officially matriculate.
A year after his status as an illegal immigrant triggered broader debate about the nation's immigration policy, Class of 2006 salutatorian Dan-el Padilla-Peralta has found at least a temporary solution to the difficulties raised by his lack of United States citizenship.Padilla has obtained a part-time job assisting his former Princeton thesis adviser with project research, and with it an H-1B visa, which allows specially trained foreigners to work in the United States for up to six years.
Mama, take this prox off me, I can't swipe it anymore. It's getting dark on Level C, And I'm knocking on Firestone's door..."? Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Firestone's Door," 1972.Oh, my little Langoliers, slaving away at independent work during weather as nice as last weekend's is as absurd as Flava Flav not knowing what time it is, the soul-sucking equivalent of backing up over a severe tire-damage strip.
Students flipping through next year's course catalog this week may notice some unconventional names among language programs set to be offered in the fall.
Wilson School faculty and employees brought their children to campus yesterday as part of the School's "Take Your Child to Work Day"
Seniors who missed out on classes with some of Princeton's most prominent professors have a final chance to learn from academic heavyweights like James McPherson and John Fleming GS '63 before they graduate.The opportunity comes as a newly reinstated program ? called the "Last Chance Lectures" ? allows seniors to register for talks by popular professors during their final, thesis-free days at Princeton.Fleming, a recently-retired English professor and this year's Baccalaureate speaker, began the series on Monday with a lecture about St.
Tom Haine '08 narrowly unseated three-year incumbent Grant Gittlin '08 in the runoff election yesterday for next year's senior class president.Haine earned 54.15 percent or 339 votes, to Gittlin's 287 votes or 45.85 percent.
Tom Haine '08 won the runoff election for next year's senior class president, defeating three-year incumbent Grant Gittlin '08.Haine garnered 54.15 percent of the 626 ballots registered during the 24-hour voting period, while Gittlin received 287 votes or 45.85 percent.More to come.
Mayoral candidates Mildred Trotman and Kim Pimley debated the possible effects of the University's planned arts neighborhood last night in front of an audience of more than 70 students and local residents.The new development in the area near the Dinky station has come under fire in recent months over how it will affect the local community and the University's tax contribution to the Township.In their first public appearance together, the two Democrats differed on their views of the proposed development.
USG election managers shut down the campaign website of Tom Haine '08 ? who is facing off against Grant Gittlin '08 in the runoff for their class presidency ? for publicizing incorrect voting numbers evidently given to him by the managers.Haine sent an email to members of the junior class yesterday morning citing voting percentages from the first election round.
Punk bands Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake will perform at Quadrangle Club for next weekend's Lawnparties, along with Welbilt, a rock band from Washington, D.C., which will open the show."This is going to be an exciting show," USG social chair Andrew Heyman '07, who was involved in choosing the band lineup, said.
Astrophysical sciences professor Bohdan Paczynski, pioneer of a technique that led to the discovery of several planets outside Earth's solar system, died of brain cancer last week at the age of 67.Paczynski, who was born and educated in Poland and joined the Princeton faculty in 1982, was known by his colleagues and students as a brilliant scientist and inspirational teacher."He was one of the world's greatest astrophysicists, recognized as the world authority on stellar structure and evolution," astrophysics professor Bruce Draine said.
Almost a month after the earliest round of room draw, the final draw group of six sophomores logged on the room draw website and completed the Housing Department's first-ever online room draw with a click of the submit button on their laptops.After decades of "chaotic" in-person room draw, as Housing Department director Andrew Kane called it in an interview, the online system consolidated the process of room selection, which started March 28."Room draw was a success by all the measures we might use," Kane wrote in a press release.
Three years ago, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel pioneered the Major Choices initiative, designed to raise underclassmen's awareness of smaller departments.Nonetheless, this week hundreds of sophomores chose to major in economics, politics, history and the Wilson School ?? the four largest departments on campus.Since the 2004-05 academic year, Major Choices has ensured that "curriculum development funds have been and will be targeted to the support of initiatives in smaller departments to devise new courses or renovate existing courses to appeal more effectively to beginning students," Malkiel wrote in an email.Though she credits Major Choices for aiding in the growth of some smaller departments, departments are more skeptical of the initiative, questioning whether the initiative is responsible for the slight increases in some departments.Major Choices, Malkiel said, is not designed "to discourage students who are passionately interested in departments like History or Politics or Economics from pursuing studies in those fields."But the slight increase in enrollment in some smaller departments over the last two years has been accompanied by a slight decrease for certain larger ones.Malkiel emphasized the role of the Major Choices initiative in the rise of student concentrators in some small departments, citing "significant changes" in enrollment in the classics, art and archaeology, French and Italian, and psychology departments, among others.The classics department, for example, traditionally had 12 to 15 seniors each year, chair Dennis Feeney said.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is suing TerraCycle, Inc. ? a local fertilizer company founded by two former Princeton students ? claiming that its product designs and advertising statements are too similar to those of Scotts Miracle-Gro.TerraCycle founders Tom Szaky '05 and Jon Beyer '05 deny the allegations from the fertilizer giant and plan to fight it necessary.
Welbilt, a rock band from Washington, D.C., will open for punk acts Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake at Quadrangle Club for next weekend's Lawnparties.Reel Big Fish's 1997 hit "Sell Out" sparked the ska band's popularity.
Seniors Glen Weyl and Maya Maskarinec were named valedictorian and Latin salutatorian, respectively, at the University faculty meeting Monday night and will deliver speeches at Commencement.Weyl is an economics major from Los Altos Hills, Calif., and has produced economics papers that have attracted attention from theorists and policymakers in the field, economics professor Hyun Shin, who has served as a mentor to Weyl, said."His senior thesis is a very impressive paper on the topic of the theory of two-sided markets; it's a very new topic, and he has made fundamental contributions to that topic," Shin said.Weyl was approached by the U.S.
