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.
After a week of contentious debates and intense campaigning, juniors Grant Gittlin and Tom Haine are set to compete in a 24-hour runoff election starting today at noon in the race for Class of 2008 president, according to unofficial results released by the USG last night.
Correction appendedThe average full Princeton professor takes home $163,700 every year, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP). The University's overall national rank for professors' salaries fell from third to fourth this year.Full professors at Rockefeller University, a biomedical science research institution in New York, are the nation's highest paid, earning on average $186,400 a year.
Though global health organizations strive to control disease in the developing world, the funding for such programs is often costly and difficult to sustain, Oxford scholar Andrew Farlow told an audience of about 30 students, professors and community members in Robertson Hall last night.Farlow analysed the growth of funding into global health initiatives over the past ten years and observed that donors often opt for short-term fixes in place of long-term solutions.
PRINCETON JUNCTION, April 24 ? A 39-year-old man was hit and killed by an Amtrak train at Princeton Junction station shortly before 3 p.m.
Living in India during high school, Julia Neubauer '07 saw a three-year-old girl in the corner of an orphanage every day.
The University has purchased and begun to implement Connect-ED, an emergency notification system that sends campus-wide voicemails, text messages and emails to students in the event of a crisis.Though the purchase seems particularly necessary following last week's shootings at Virginia Tech, the University bought the system two weeks ago, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said, in part because a January campus power outage "showed us that we needed a better way to communicate with students [in the event of an emergency]."Before selecting the new system, the University tested "a variety of different services," Cliatt said, adding that the University's Emergency Preparedness Task Force had been "discussing our responses to various crises and emergencies and ways to improve how we deal with them."The service costs between $2 and $3 per student annually and allows for messages to be sent only to people in certain groups, such as a single residential college or dorm.Natasha Rabe, the chief marketing officer for NTI, the company that owns and runs Connect-ED, said that between 75 and 80 colleges use the system, in addition to other school systems, municipalities and military and governmental organizations.
America needs to develop secure, relatively inexpensive and clean ways of powering transportation as alternatives to oil, former CIA Director James Woolsey said yesterday in a lecture on the intersection of global warming and national security.Woolsey told a crowd of about 120 people in McCosh 10 that two facets of America's energy supply pose threats to national security: dependence on foreign oil and the energy grid."The electricity grid is highly vulnerable," Woolsey said.
About a week before last week's shootings at Virginia Tech, the University made the prescient purchase of a mass alert system to notify students of campus security crises.The University's system, which messages students' cell phones or other portable devices, has not yet been fully implemented, but it signals a heightened concern about campus security that existed even before the shootings.But the shootings have ignited a national debate on methods to prevent and effectively respond to crises and have led to questions about campus security procedures.Some Virginia Tech students have criticized campus safety officials for their slow response to gunman Cho Seung-Hui's murder of two students.
April 24 is a familiar date to the Princeton drinker. Inspired by the putative Paul Newman quote, "24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day.
USG officers released the following results for all contested elections earlier tonight. All results are unofficial until certified by the University registrar. U-Council Davionshante Chism '09 Matt Field '08 Sarah Hogarty '10 Merritt Hummer '10 Rohan Joshi '08 Sarah Langberg '09 Brian No '10 Liz Rosen '10 Maria Salciccioli '09 Becca Silver '09 Class of 2008 government President: Runoff between Grant Gittlin and Tom Haine Social Chair: Jay Serpe Class of 2009 government President: Grant Bermann Class of 2010 government President: Connor Diemand-Yauman Vice President: Aditya Panda Treasurer: Rashad Badr
The University has taken several steps to increase its international focus over the past decade, from adding the phrase "and in the service of all nations" to its motto at the University's 250th anniversary in 1997, to President Tilghman's recently formed committee on international opportunities.
Students who kill their classmates are motivated by a desire to change their reputation, Wilson School professor Katherine Newman and politics professor Keith Whittington told about 50 students and community members last night at a talk on the Virginia Tech shootings.Newman discussed the social experience of school shooters and the unpredictability of such tragedies, while Whittington related the killings at Virginia Tech to gun control regulation and discussed the potential for changes to concealed weapons permits. The sociology of school shootingsMajor American school shootings have mostly occurred in obscure rural neighborhoods, Newman said.
Failures on the part of the international community have contributed to the stormy history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi told an audience of community members and students in a lecture Saturday afternoon."Among the most important of the constraints on Palestinians were international ones, from the League of Nations [to] the U.N.," he said to the crowd gathered in the Computer Science Building.Two years ago, the University considered Khalidi, the director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, for a professorship in contemporary Middle East studies.
As online polls for the USG elections opened at noon yesterday, candidates made their final efforts to secure their classmates' votes, winding down a week marked by unusually intense campaigning for the presidency of the rising senior class.The race pits incumbent Grant Gittlin '08 ? who ran unopposed for the last two years ? against challengers Aaron Spolin '08 and Tom Haine '08.
Students clean up a pond at Cadwalader Park in Trenton as part of the Interfaith Day of Community Servce on Sunday, sponsored by the Religious LIfe Council.
Dillon Gym hosted the Charity Streetball Tournament on Saturday, which benefited a charity for children with sickle cell disease.
The United States is no longer a middle-class "bell-curve" society, but rather is becoming a "barbell society," with the number of people at both ends of the economic spectrum increasing, New York Gov.
A decade ago, they were banging on pots and pans and messing around with dime-store guitars, but now they're selling out venues in New York, Chicago and Princeton.Four University students, Anthony D'Amato '10, Phyllis Heitjan '10, Jason Harper '09 and Steven Kim '09 each balance a semiprofessional music career with academic work.Each has a true "study hard, play hard" mentality.
