For 5,000 years, the culinary debate has raged from the Promised Land to the palettes of Princeton students.
An army of headless, hollow men loom in front of the Princeton University Art Museum. If visitors manage to sneak past these ominous structures and enter McCormick Hall, however, they will encounter a diverse array of paintings, crafts and historical relics.Aside from the building's guardians, museum administrators continue to worry that students remain unaware of the building's offerings.The museum was founded in the 1880s with the mission of exhibiting original works of art.
One year ago, Phillip Bannister GS was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Today, he is one of the first people to be injected with an experimental new drug intended to eliminate the cancer.Bannister, a graduate student in the physics department, was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and common type of brain tumor.
Food is all about shapes, at least for contemporary Americans, Gourmet Magazine's Ruth Reichl said to hundreds of foodies gathered in McCosh 50 last night."It's all about the way it looks," she said.
Blacks at Ivy League schools are over three times more likely to be immigrants than blacks in America's general population, a study published in February's American Journal of Education and coauthored by Princeton researchers suggests.Within the United States, first and second-generation black immigrants make up 13 percent of the total black population.
Former Sen. Gary Hart delivered a biting criticism of the religious right yesterday afternoon, claiming that extremist evangelicals misrepresent their values to gain the support of "mainstream Christians."Hart, a Democrat from Colorado, said that when the religious right says, " 'We believe in faith and values,' they are talking about evangelical Christian values.
Six months after releasing a report intended to forge a new foreign policy vision for the 21st century, Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 and her colleagues in the Princeton Project on National Security continue to promote ambitious international reforms, drawing on current events to garner media attention for their ideas."We are using the final report as a springboard for serious bipartisan debate of national security issues ? and based on the responses from audiences in Iowa, California and Atlanta, it is clear that Americans are eager to engage in just such a debate," Slaughter said in an email.
On the morning of Feb. 9, a freelance photographer for The New York Times followed Tower Club members on their annual bicker pickup trail down Prospect Avenue and onto campus, as they approached the dorms of new members.This was not the first time a Times journalist has been on campus to chronicle the eating clubs.
Following last week's release of two new options for redesigning the University's academic calendar, faculty members debated the possible schedules during the monthly faculty meeting yesterday afternoon.Before opening the floor to comments, President Tilghman informed the gathered faculty that no voting would occur and that the meeting was solely to facilitate an informal discussion on the remaining calendar options.Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, who usually leads faculty meetings, was out sick.The proposed academic schedules have stirred discussion in the past week, as the campus has buzzed with discussion of calendar plans that would potentially take effect in about five years.
As the U.S. Department of Education considers higher education reforms to increase accountability and measure student performance, many universities, including Princeton, have voiced concern.The reforms, which might include standardized testing for college students, were presented last fall as part of a comprehensive plan to improve U.S.
Five years after the United States overthrew the Taliban regime, insurgency and insecurity continue to plague Afghanistan, U.N.
The University's move to conduct this year's entire room draw process online is being met with general praise.
Princeton alumna Natasha Degen '06 won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, an award established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to send distinguished students to pursue studies at Cambridge University in England.Degen majored in art and archaeology and earned a certificate from the Wilson School.
Anticipating a Tuesday faculty meeting addressing possible changes to the University's academic calendar, the USG debated its role in the process yesterday night and created a survey for distribution to the undergraduate body to gauge students' views on the issue.The faculty is currently considering two possible academic calendars ? dubbed Calendars D and E ? that extend the academic portion of semesters to 13 weeks and rearrange or eliminate breaks, among other changes."It is of critical importance that student opinion is provided to the administrators and faculty in charge of making decisions," USG president Rob Biederman '08 said, adding that the USG will not necessarily take a stand for or against either of the new calendars.To obtain an initial assessment of what students like about the current academic calendar and what they want changed, USG academics chair Sarah Breslow '08 created a seven-question survey that will be emailed to undergraduates today."Every time the faculty votes on something," Breslow said, "having student opinion on hand in the form of concrete data is the best way to ensure student viewpoints are taken into account." Breslow is also a photography editor for The Daily Princetonian.Because neither the USG nor any other students will have a voting role in the faculty's decision, Biederman said, one of the ways to influence faculty members is to produce numerical results reflecting student opinion."If people unanimously, or at least in majority, come out in favor of one option or another," Breslow said, the faculty may be more inclined to vote in favor of that selection.The preliminary results of the survey, which poses several questions to students regarding their preferred schedules for breaks, academics and exams, will ideally be presented at Tuesday's meeting of the Committee on the Course of Study, Breslow said."There's no specific role for the students [in this process]," Biederman said, "so we need to fill the vacuum and take the initiative."Also discussed during the meeting were changes to the Projects Board charter and the status of princetonplus.com, a website that provides students with information about discounts in the Princeton region."The goal of the project is to get every retail outlet and restaurant in the area to list their services, contact information and any information concerning student discounts," U-Councilor Vince Ley '08 said of the site.While the website is currently operating only in a limited capacity, USG vice president Josh Weinstein '09 said, "we already have participation from 20 Nassau Street merchants ... and we expect more merchants to follow suit once the program is fully established."The website should be fully operational within the next few weeks, Weinstein added.Projects Board co-chair Will Wallace '09 also presented an updated charter for the Board, which changed the title of "Board Advocates" to "Board Liaisons," established explicit limits on funding support for student group banquets and eliminated the express prohibition on paying for food at campus events.
Students and community members gathered in the Carl Icahn Laboratory atrium Friday night for the traditional Jewish Shabbat dinner during "Shabbat 300." The event aimed to attract 300 participants.
Microsoft released Windows Vista in late January, but the Office of Information Technology (OIT) is advising students wishing to upgrade to the new operating system to consider waiting a few months.Later this spring, students who bought PCs through the Student Computer Initiative (SCI) will be able to purchase the upgrade for about $10.
A student in one of chemistry graduate student Sophia Kwon's MOL 214: Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology lab sections approached her and said, "I can't believe you're streaking with us.""I was helping them streak yeast for the lab," she explained.
Researchers at Princeton and across the country may soon enjoy increased access to presidential documents, following the introduction of a bill in Congress last Thursday intended to reverse restrictions on public viewing of White House records.The Presidential Records Act Amendment of 2007, introduced by Rep.
The Constitution must evolve in order for the law to keep pace with a changing world, politics professor emeritus Walter Murphy argued Friday afternoon.Murphy, the former McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, said that a constitutional democracy like the United States requires both "constitutional interpretation" and "constitutional maintenance.""The only way to maintain a constitutional order is to change it as the world changes," Murphy said.His comments came during a symposium on his latest book, "Constitutional Democracy." A panel of six scholars, all with close personal ties to Murphy, discussed their reactions to some of the ideas set forth in the new book.
Creative writing professor Gabe Hudson is one of 20 young novelists whose work was honored last night in New York by the British literary magazine Granta.A sample of Hudson's fiction writing will be included in "Granta: Best of Young American Novelists 2," the magazine's second listing of the best American fiction writers under 35.Hudson said in an interview that he is thankful to receive the award.
