After nearly nine years in business, the Wild Oats Market on Nassau Street will permanently close its doors this May.
Rebecca Legett '08, an engineer and member of Colonial Club, treks back and forth from the E-quad to the Street every day to take her meals.
Facing pressure from the USG, Kent Kuran '08 resigned from the U-Council this weekend, explaining that he did not have enough time to devote to the job.Kuran was elected vice president of Tower Club earlier this month and said that, on top of his other commitments, eating club officership left him too busy to be an effective member of the U-Council, a committee of nine who work with the USG Senate and represent the USG in meetings of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC)."I was confronted by another member of the U-Council who told me that since I didn't really have anything to show for my past semester as a U-Councilor, my membership would be up for review," Kuran said in an interview.
For weeks, whispers have been echoing in the halls of Firestone: "The D-Bar is opening again; are you coming?" Thursday night's grand opening proved that the answer must have been a resounding "Yes!"As I pulled on my most comfortable shoes (for the long walk over, of course), I prepared myself for a role I had never played before: The Sketchy Undergrad.
University graduate students and undergraduates over 21 years old crowded into the D-Bar last Thursday night to celebrate the reopening of the club.
On Feb. 12, Lester Mackey '07 received an email from Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan instructing him to come immediately to her office.
Thirteen students who cleared debris from evacuated homes in New Orleans over Intersession issued a public challenge to politicians on Mardi Gras, asking elected officials to get their hands dirty as well."Come down to New Orleans and do more than bear witness," the statement said, addressing any politician either occupying or planning to occupy a public post in the United States.
"Welcome to Realville," Angela Degraff said to a crowd of about 50 people Saturday morning.They were gathered in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber for "Realville," a poverty simulation complete with paper money, "stores" and a "jail" stocked with handcuffs.Intended to give the participants firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be poor, the Community Action Poverty Simulation was cosponsored by the Student Volunteers Council (SVC) and the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton.Though the event was targeted at young volunteers, people from eight to 70 years old were given a chance to experience a life more like the ones of the people they help.Participants were assigned to family units with one to six members and given a limited budget to survive on in Realville.
There's always something slightly comical about alumni occasions, and this weekend's Alumni Day events were no exception.
Correction appendedThis past summer, Alex Ruda '08, Brian Extein '08 and Sarabeth Sanders '09 traversed the desert, slept in Bedouin tents and hung out with soldiers.Rather than undergoing a desert boot camp, however, the three students were traveling through Israel on a 10-day tour organized by Taglit-birthright Israel-Hillel.
Nestled in the austere depths of the E-Quad, a laboratory decorated vibrantly with new-age posters, experimental apparatus and stuffed animals welcomed visitors into its quirky, old-fashioned atmosphere for 28 years.Until Tuesday, that is.
For each Chinese-speaking westerner, East Asian Studies professor Perry Link said, there are thousands of English-speaking Chinese."That leaves the question," Link said, "why do westerners learn Chinese?"Though English is spoken virtually everywhere ? Link called it "a hegemonic language" ? it is not always enough, a fact that students and academic institutions are quickly coming to terms with.Enrollment in Chinese and Arabic classes at Princeton has skyrocketed in the last decade, as political and commercial interests in East Asia and the Middle East intensify.
Note: Due to head injuries sustained during the NBA All-Star Weekend, today's weather column will not be seen.
Sally Frank '80, who spent 13 years in court fighting to force the then all-male Ivy Club, Tiger Inn and Cottage Club to admit women, praised the advent of the four-year colleges yesterday but said the University continues to send mixed signals about the clubs.Now an attorney and professor of law at Drake University, Frank filed her suit during her junior year after her attempts to join Ivy, Tiger Inn and Cottage all failed.
Three students of Seattle artist and Humanities Council visiting fellow Vannessa Tran work in 185 Nassau yesterday at the last of three painting workshops offered by Tran this week.
Four Princeton students will travel to Nashville, Tenn. to compete as finalists in the Collegiate Team Championship bridge tournament.Princeton bridge team members Dana Berkowitz '07, David Lin '07, Alex Lishkov '09 and Jonathan Ullman '08 are set to face teams from Stanford, UCLA and Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.Last week, teams from 26 colleges competed in the preliminary stages of the tournament through an online round-robin competition.
An "undercover" story about the eating clubs published yesterday in a New York newspaper has attracted criticism from some students for what they say is its unfair and sensationalistic portrayal of the Street.The article, published in the online edition of the New York Observer, described several of the selective eating clubs as elitist and insular.
In an effort to ease transportation woes and curb the number of abandoned bicycles, the USG is planning to scatter orange bikes across campus.A collaboration between the USG and Public Safety, the USG Bicycle Initiative aims to charge students an annual fee of $3 for unlimited access to bikes stationed around campus.
