Six University faculty members have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year, up from two last year and down from seven in 2005, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday.
Though they're barely 40 years old, the undesirable waffle-ceilinged, brick-walled dorms of the Butler College quad will be demolished this summer, to be replaced with more desirable dorms by the fall of 2009.But what about the hundreds of beds, desks and chairs etched with students' names and graduation years?
An "explosion" of American diversity has influenced the legal debate over which civil liberties are protected by the 14th Amendment, Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino told a crowd of about 90 students, professors and community members in Dodds Auditorium yesterday.In a lecture entitled "The New Equal Protection," Yoshino argued that an increase in national diversity has caused courts to change the way they protect civil liberties.With arguments taken in part from his recently published book, "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights," Yoshino contended that the old strategy of expanding civil liberties through a constitutional "equal protection" argument ? which subjected discrimination against groups such as racial minorities to "heightened scrutiny" ? is "exhausted" and experiencing a backlash.The courts are now avoiding "group-based identity politics," employing a universal rights argument instead, he said.
University administrators clashed with Borough officials and residents last night in a heated public work session held to discuss the University's plans for expansion and address possible conflicts with the greater Princeton Community Master Plan.Led by University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee '69, the University contingent met with members of the Princeton Planning Board.Citing the board's belief that Princeton "is not simply a college town and is not a town for one institution," chair of the Master Plan Subcommittee Marvin Reed said it is vital that the greater Princeton community and the multiple educational institutions that inhabit it ? including the University, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Institute for Advanced Study ? grow together cooperatively."It's an interesting community because it has one of the great universities but isn't a college town," Durkee said in an interview after the meeting.Chief among the Planning Board's concerns are proposed changes to the Dinky station, traffic flow issues, the impact of the University on the economic viability of businesses on Nassau Street and the overall continued expansion of the University. The Dinky, the Wawa, the Arts NeighborhoodThe Dinky station will be relocated 460 feet south, or approximately an extra two-minute's walk, said Neil Kittredge of Byer Blinder Belle, the consultancy firm advising the University on the project."The Dinky station is very important to the health, welfare and ability of this community to travel to any other part of the world," Reed said.Though the Dinky will be relocated southward, "we hope to significantly improve the amenities for those who use the Dinky station," Durkee said.
A math department team consisting of Ana Caraiani '07, Andrei Negut '08 and Aaron Pixton '08 placed first in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, marking the first time a team from Princeton has taken the top prize in the contest's 68-year history.The University team received the competition's highest honors, finishing first out of 507 other university teams.
The cost of birth control pills offered at University Health Services has skyrocketed in recent months, raising fears that women may switch to less effective methods or stop using contraception altogether.
Three months since leaving the Senate, Bill Frist '74 still struggles to tear himself away from the political scene.Though he said he planned to take a sabbatical from public life and announced in November that he would not seek the 2008 Republican nomination for president, after 12 years in the Senate, including four as majority leader, the Tennessee native is still very much engaged in the work of a statesman.In a wide-ranging interview, Frist recalled his years on Capitol Hill, voiced concern over the level of partisanship in Washington and spoke passionately about his medical work in Africa, calling it "a currency for peace."Frist's time in the Senate was marked by significant victories and major controversies.
Giving new meaning to the idiom, "you are what you eat," Dining Services has begun offering better quality hamburgers in dining halls on Wednesdays.Made from organic grass-fed beef, the new burgers are the product of cows reared on grass rather than grain.
Three Yale students were arrested after burning an American flag hanging from the front porch of a private home early Tuesday morning.Senior Hyder Akbar and freshmen Nikolaos Angelopoulos and Farhad Anklesaria were arrested on charges that included reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, arson and breach of peace, the New Haven Register reported yesterday.Both Angelopoulos and Anklesaria are foreign citizens, from Greece and Britain, respectively.
Some students fear that underclassmen charged with minor infractions face disadvantages during the disciplinary process compared to their older classmates, two members of the USG told the Residential College Disciplinary Board (RCDB) during a meeting last Friday."For a long time students have felt that the process could be improved," Class of 2007 president Jim Williamson said in an interview.The meeting ? organized for USG officers to tell administrators about student suggestions for reform of the disciplinary process ? focused on the way students are notified of infractions, the role of the residential college directors of studies and how the board handles alleged misconduct by Public Safety.The RCDB, made up of the directors of studies and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Hilary Herbold, deals with underclass infractions resulting in probation or campus service.
A lecture about abortion stirred heated debate yesterday, as Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council (FRC) delivered a fiery condemnation of what she described as the practice's shaky legal basis and its grave consequences for women.Though the lecture was advertised under the title "How Abortion Harms Women," Yoest, vice president for communications for the nonprofit Christian think tank and lobbying group, said a more accurate name was "The Politics of Abortion: Moving Toward a Post-Roe America.""I believe Roe v.
One month after graduating from Harvard in 2001, Victoria Chang GS found herself in a classroom in West Central Africa teaching teenagers how to use birth control.The Peace Corps had taken her to Gabon for two years to serve as a community health educator, an experience she said eventually led her to Princeton."I was based in the village talking to young moms and pregnant women about maternal/child health," Chang said.
The eXpressions Dance Company will perform its all-student-choreographed dance pieces set to hip-hop and lyrical music this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
As Gene McHam sat at a foldout desk in McCormick 101 yesterday morning, he listened attentively to Professor Angela Gleason's HIS 343: Civilization in the Early Middle Ages lecture.Though he might seem like a typical student, McHam's silver-gray hair sets him apart from the crowd.
Nolan McCarty will take over for Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 when she goes on sabbatical for the 2007-08 academic year.McCarty, associate dean of the Wilson School, came to Princeton in 2001 from Columbia.
Following the discovery of an anti-Semitic chalkboard drawing in a Bloomberg Hall study room last weekend, campus groups have come together to create a postering campaign against bias.Various campus groups, including the Center of Jewish Life (CJL) and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS), in conjunction with residential colleges, have begun distributing and posting anti-bias flyers around the University.The flyers display the word "bias" crossed out, with "not on our campus" written below.In an email to Butler residents, Butler Director of Studies Matthew Lazen encouraged students to print out the flyers and display them on doors and windows.
International students who wish to work in the United States after graduation often run into bureaucratic red tape ? both from the University and from the federal government ? due to the academic calendar's incompatibility with visa-application schedules.Foreign college graduates are not allowed to be employed in the United States unless they have a valid H-1B visa, which is issued to professionals who wish to work in the country for an extended period of time.
Graduate students with families will soon benefit from significant changes to University policy, including expanded childcare subsidies, extended maternity leave and suspended teaching and academic obligations during time off."Princeton is making a fantastic effort to help graduate students," said Emily Frasier, a pregnant mother of two whose husband is a second-year graduate student.
China's rapid economic growth has turned heads worldwide, but the nation's recent spurt of prosperity may not continue without considerable costs, Vice President of the Bank of China Min Zhu GS '88 told a full audience in Robertson Hall yesterday.During his lecture, titled "2007: Global Economy and Financial Market," Zhu strove to address China's economic rise in the context of its relationship with the United States.
