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As renovations begin on Campus Club, the eating club that closed two years ago, recently hired club director Dianne Spatafore has begun to prepare for the opening of yet another center for student life on a campus that already has a student center and six residential colleges.Spatafore will spend this year overseeing the club's renovation as well as planning the club's policies and calendar in conjunction with a soon-to-be-appointed student advisory board of 12 undergraduates and six graduate students.

NEWS | 09/18/2007

Middlesex author Eugenides to teach creative writing

Middlesex author Eugenides to teach creative writing

With seven years and a Pulitzer Prize under his belt, author Jeffrey Eugenides has returned to Princeton to join other lauded writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Chang-rae Lee in teaching in the University's creative writing program.Paul Muldoon, chair of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, described Eugenides as "that rare creature ? a great writer who is also widely admired, including by a generation only recently come to reading."Eugenides taught at the University in 1999-2000, around the time that his 1993 debut novel "The Virgin Suicides" was made into feature film starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner and Kirsten Dunst.In 2003, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Middlesex," the coming-of-age story of an intersex person growing up in Michigan.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

A healthy start

Students refueled with bagels and cream cheese on McCosh walk yesterday morning. The free brunch was provided by the USG.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

A 'Second' Princeton

Students can now wander Nassau Hall, gaze across Richardson Auditorium and relax in Chancellor Green ? all without leaving their dorm rooms.Now that several locations on campus have been replicated in Second Life, an online program that lets users live, work and own property in a 3D virtual world, those buildings can be explored through the internet.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

Average grades drop 6.4 percent

The average percentage of A's awarded to undergraduates has dropped by over six percent University-wide since the grade deflation policy was implemented three years ago, according to a report released yesterday by the Faculty Committee on Grading.While an average of 47 percent of undergraduates received A's in courses during the period 2001-04, the percentage fell to an average of 40.6 percent from 2004-07.The grade deflation policy requires every department to cap its A-level grades at 35 percent in undergraduate courses and at 55 percent for independent work."The Princeton faculty has now demonstrated conclusively that with clear intent and concerted effort, a university faculty can bring down the inflated grades that ? left uncontrolled ? devalue the educational achievements of American college students," the Committee reported.The Faculty Committee on Grading incorporated last academic year's grading results into a broader comparison of the percentages of A's granted before and after the policy was implemented in fall 2004.Humanities departments saw the greatest decreases in the percentage of A grades awarded.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

Summer in the heat of battle

Well before dawn on a day in late July, encumbered by a rucksack, assault pack, helmet and body armor, I waddled out of a boxlike armored vehicle called a Rhino onto the tarmac in Baghdad's International Zone under the watchful eyes of half a dozen heavily armed security contractors.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

Colbert slated for Class Day

Comedian Stephen Colbert, the host of the satirical Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," will deliver the Class Day address on June 2, senior class president Tom Haine '08 announced yesterday morning."For his success as an actor, author and public speaker, we are honored that Mr. Colbert will be joining the senior class to help us celebrate the end of our college careers," Haine said in an email to seniors.In choosing a speaker, the Class Day chairs looked for a celebrity ? someone whom students would know and be able to identify with, said Jonathan Galeano '08, one of three Class Day co-chairs charged with selecting a speaker.Describing Colbert as "our gift to the class," Galeano said he thought Colbert's satirical wit would appeal to the student body."Princetonians would tend to love that kind of satire," he said.Many seniors reacted positively to yesterday morning's announcement.

NEWS | 09/17/2007

Go Tigers

Fans cheer for the Tigers at Saturday's football game, in which Princeton fell to Lehigh, 32-21.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Im in ur paperz, forecastin ur weatherz

Welcome, freshman rubes: I am the Weather Guy (in West Virginia, legally known as the Robert C. Byrd Memorial Weather Guy), and I possess the skillz to pay this campus' weather billz.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Pace takes over service groups

The Student Volunteers Council (SVC) and Community House, service groups previously managed by two different administrative offices, were incorporated into the Pace Center this summer, making Pace an umbrella organization for civic engagement groups.Though some students were initially concerned that the July 1 reorganization would detract from student control of the service groups, all three parties soon concluded that the move made sense, SVC director Dave Brown said."Obviously the question of whether [the reorganization] would impact the students' ownership of this was definitely a concern of mine," Brown said.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Stephen Colbert to speak at Class Day

Comedian Stephen Colbert, widely known as the host of the satirical Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," will deliver the Class Day address on June 2, Class of 2008 president Tom Haine announced this morning."For his success as an actor, author and public speaker, we are honored that Mr. Colbert will be joining the senior class to help us celebrate the end of our college careers," Haine said in an email to the Class of 2008.The announcement comes on the heels of a controversy over the 2007 Class Day speaker, "West Wing" actor Bradley Whitford, a selection that disappointed a number of last year's seniors.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Quidditch

Students from Rocky and Mathey colleges participate in a friendly game of Quidditch on Alexander Beach, complete with brooms, multiple balls and a human Snitch.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Taste of Nassau offers local cuisine at reduced prices

Nassau Street's pricier restaurants will be more affordable this week, as today marks the start of Taste of Nassau, a joint venture by the USG and area merchants designed to give Princeton students a chance to sample local cuisine."This is an event we hope will introduce freshmen and all undergraduates to the exciting restaurants that exist in the town," USG campus and community affairs chair Cindy Hong '09 said.With discounted prix-fixe meals and special student savings continuing through Thursday, the four-day promotion will allow students to "treat themselves to a nicer meal out," she said.Zach Kwartler '11 said he may do just that.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Court awards Cottage tax-exempt status

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that Cottage Club is eligible for property tax-exempt status and that Princeton Borough must reimburse the club for its tax payments, totaling more than $300,000 since 2001.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Thesis: Better 27 years late than never

Almost three decades after he should have started it, Josh Kornbluth '80 has finally finished writing his senior thesis.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Notaro revisits campus for frosh week laughs

Comedian Tig Notaro returned to Princeton on Thursday for the third time, performing to mixed reviews before an audience of 1,000 students in Dillon Gym.The Mississippi native wasted no time launching into her opening joke as she took the stage.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Saltine Olympics

Students chow down on saltine crackers during one of the events featured at the first annual Whitman Olympics, held Friday.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Despite criticism, University stays in rankings game

For the eighth consecutive year, Princeton ranked first on U.S. News & World Report's list of top universities, which the magazine released last month.Newsweek and Kaplan, meanwhile, called the University the "Hottest for Liberal Arts" on its "Hottest Universities" list, in which 25 institutions are singled out for excellence in a particular category.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Activities fair

Freshmen attend the fall activites fair in Dillon Gym, where hundreds of student organizations attempted to attract new members.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Whitman College by the numbers

Cost: $136 million Size: 250,000 sq. ft. Buildings: 10 Residents: 500 undergraduates, 10 graduate students, one faculty fellow Bedrooms: 405 (301 single bedrooms and 104 double bedrooms) Dining rooms: One main hall and two semiprivate halls Building materials: 6,000 tons of fieldstone and limestone (175,000 pieces of fieldstone and 38,000 pieces of limestone) Trees: 219

NEWS | 09/12/2007

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