Students relax on Frist's South Lawn yesterday evening during FristFest. The event included live bands, carnival games, a make-your-own teddy bear stand, and a clown (c.) as well as a variety of food including tacos, steak, hoagies and cotton candy.
As students prepare to strut their stuff during Houseparties this weekend, one might expect Stephens Fitness Center in Dillon Gym to be packed with soon-to-be revelers fitting in some last-minute workouts before they don their sleeveless dresses and formalwear.But some students have expressed mixed opinions about the equipment and facilities at Dillon.Sohaib Perwaiz '10, who said he uses the Stephens almost daily, called his workouts "relaxing" but expressed disappointment with the current offerings of the non-varsity gym.Offering a few suggestions for improving the facility, Perwaiz said, "I think the Stephens Fitness Center should stay open later on the weekends.
Correction Appended After a two-year decline in the number of students concentrating in the five largest academic departments at the University, 490 members of the Class of 2009 joined the top five departments last week.
Civic participation in America has declined in recent years as factors including increased commuting time and a rise in television viewing cause people to neglect social interactions, Harvard professor and bestselling author Robert Putnam told a crowd of more than 100 in Dodds Auditorium yesterday.Befitting someone who studies bowling league participation and dinner party attendance, Putnam was congenial and never stuffy as he paced around the front of the room and walked up and down aisles, his booming voice freeing him from needing a microphone.After a brief introduction by Wilson School professor and civil society scholar Stan Katz, Putnam ? the author of "Making Democracy Work" and the bestselling "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" ? defined social capital, his topic of study.
Can I get a boost with that?Students may find themselves asking this question at a new smoothie shop opening on Nassau Street this summer.
Dina McGreevey, the ex-wife of former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, has come out swinging this week.With the Tuesday release of her book "Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage," Dina has for the first time voiced anger about her ex-husband and her treatment by the media since his August 2004 revelation of an extramarital affair with state homeland security advisor Golan Cipel and subsequent declaration of homosexuality.The 2004 scandal sparked a firestorm of controversy, forcing the governor to resign amid nationwide debate over the appropriateness of his behavior and the relevance of his sexual orientation.
From left: Mary Cait Walthall '08, Jonathan Weed '09 and Tyler Allard '07 act in a skit for the improv comedy group Quipfire's spring show, which opens this Thursday in Theatre Intime.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine ended a talk with state law enforcement officials yesterday with an unusual request, asking state police superintendent Rick Fuentes to write him a ticket for violating New Jersey's seat belt law on April 12.Corzine wrote a check for the $46 fine.
A year after illegal immigration legislation took center stage at Princeton and across the country, Latino students groups' participation in this year's National Day of Mobilization for Immigrant Workers was notably smaller in scale.As immigrants across the country joined forces yesterday, leading demonstrations to promote civil rights and more lenient immigration laws, on-campus activity was much more low-key.
Former New Jersey governor and 9/11 Commission chairman Tom Kean, Sr. '57 will join the board of trustees of the Robertson Foundation, the University announced yesterday."His government service and his international affairs experience will provide invaluable benefits to the foundation and ... I greatly look forward to his service on the board," President Tilghman said in a statement.Bill Robertson '72, the Foundation trustee and the Robertson heir who filed suit against the University in July 2002, praised Kean's appointment.
Members' wallets were stolen at six eating clubs Monday afternoon and credit cards from the stolen wallets were subsequently used to make purchases at nearby stores.Wallets were stolen from backpacks and handbags at Cap & Gown, Ivy, Quadrangle, Terrace, Tiger Inn and Tower at lunchtime on Monday.
Following pressure from students to increase its course offerings focusing on South Asia, the University plans to add a certificate in South Asian studies to its curriculum as part of a broader push to expand its ethnic studies programs in previously underrepresented regions.The certificate program, which will fall under the auspices of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), is awaiting final approval by a faculty vote on May 14.
New York governor Eliot Spitzer '81 submitted legislation Friday that would effectively legalize same-sex marriage in his state.The legislation, if passed, would eliminate gender as a criterion in the legal definition of marriage and make the denial of a marriage license to same-sex couples illegal, opening the door for gay marriage.
Princeton math professor Robert MacPherson and Yeshiva University dean and materials science professor David Srolovitz have constructed a formula for predicting the rate of change of the volume of bubbles over time, a formula with practical applications varying from metal processing to beer manufacturing.The two professors first met when Srolovitz was a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at Princeton and MacPherson asked to sit in on his graduate course on materials science."He came to pretty much every class," Srolovitz said.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine left the hospital and arrived in Princeton this afternoon for an extended stay at Drumthwacket, his official residence.
The Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors undergraduates who have positively contributed "to various facets of the University, including the arts, community service, student organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors," has been awarded to 10 students this year.A selection committee of students and administrators chose the winners from a pool of about 35 nominees.
Creative writing is an avenue for imagination and self-expression. In light of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's violent and dark fictional writings, however, his professors are facing accusations that they could have prevented the massacre by realizing that something was wrong with Cho.Now, creative writing professors on campuses nationwide are being challenged to be more active in looking for the warning signs of violence in student work.Over his years at Virginia Tech, Cho took several creative writing classes and authored works so gruesome that, in some cases, his fellow students refused to analyze them.
Campus Club will reopen in September 2008 as a social venue and study space for members of the University community, administrators said at yesterday's Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting.Members of the planning committee ? Lauren Barnett '08, Kellam Conover GS, former USG president Alex Lenahan '07 and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne ? said renovations making Campus wheelchair accessible will begin this summer.
