In an attempt to reduce the number of sexual assaults on campus and raise student awareness, all 10 eating clubs have held or scheduled presentations on sexual assault.
Former Republican congressman Jim Leach '64 will spend three semesters on campus as a visiting professor in the Wilson School, the University announced late last month.A Republican from eastern Iowa, Leach served in Congress for 30 years before being narrowly defeated in November in his bid for a 16th term.
Alexander Adam '07, an active member of the Princeton theater community, died of bone cancer last Thursday in New York.
Tuition will not increase next year, the University announced on Sunday, but fees for room and board will rise by 19 percent, more than four times the percentage increases implemented in past years.For the 2007-08 academic year, tuition will remain at $33,000, while room and board for undergraduates living on campus with full meal contracts will increase by $1,780.
Kelvin Dinkins '09 slinks onstage in his black glasses, black hat and gray-and-white pinstripe suit.
After more than 25 years in business, Micawber Books will permanently close its doors this March.
The University's disciplinary process is being criticized in the wake of an alleged assault involving two Princeton students.A lawyer for the alleged victim has accused the University of violating the victim's privacy, and local prosecutors have threatened to charge University officials with obstruction of justice and hindering public prosecution, leading the administration to indefinitely suspend disciplinary action against the alleged assailant.The dispute stems over concurrent, but not collaborative, investigations of the alleged assault by the University and law enforcement authorities, and how each of those investigations should proceed.
The University will relocate the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding to the former Elm Club next to Tiger Inn within the next few years, following concerns about the center's distance from the heart of campus."The design was reviewed with the [University] Trustees over the weekend and they were very pleased," University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee '69 said."The project will need to go through the community approval process, and I don't yet know the timetable for that, but the hope is that the project will be completed by the fall of 2009," he added in an e-mail.Since its inception as the Third World Center in 1971, the Fields Center has occupied the former Osborn Clubhouse, which stands down Prospect Avenue from Elm Club."The proposed move would increase space for programs, accessibility and the visibility of the Fields Center," University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said in an e-mail.The move seems to address some of the student qualms about the Fields Center voiced in the 2004 USG Survey on Race and Campus Life.Forty-one percent of respondents said they had never been to the Fields Center.
This issue marks the end of the 130th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian.When our names first appeared on the masthead 12 months ago, we had great plans for the 'Prince.' We dreamed not only of serving, informing, persuading and entertaining our readers, but also of forging the future of this newspaper.This year, for the first time in the paper's history, we offered the 'Prince' free to every student ? and, we believe, made this 130-year-old institution even more relevant to the life of the University.
A power outage at 2 p.m. today shut down electricity, hot water, room heat and internet access in a total of 16 buildings.
On a warm afternoon in early June, Mark Reinhardt '01 stood beneath the lofty ceiling of Nassau Hall's faculty room, accepting his commission as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.Earlier that day, he had received his diploma on the front lawn outside Nassau Hall, alongside more than 1,000 fellow seniors.
Since the publication of an op-ed in the joke issue of The Daily Princetonian last week, many readers have raised important concerns about the op-ed itself and the experience of racial and ethnic minorities on campus.As leaders of the Asian-American Student Association and The Daily Princetonian, we are both frustrated that this episode has led some to believe that Princeton is an unwelcoming place for Asian-American students.
Financial aid awards are often a crucial factor in an applicant's decision to enroll at a college, but now the tables may be turning as students pit schools against each other to receive more money.Last week, in a speech at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., their high school alma mater, Yale senior Phoebe Rounds and recent Yale alumnus Peter Hasegawa suggested that students apply to Princeton in order to gain better financial aid awards at other colleges.According to the two, the average increase in aid awards that resulted from this approach was between $15,000 and $20,000 for four years."I was accepted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but Princeton gave me substantially better financial aid," Rounds said in an interview.
Caitlin Puklin '07 never noticed that she was the only girl in her engineering precept. Though she had attended an all-girls high school, she felt completely comfortable participating in discussions with a group of 12 males ? until it came time to study automobiles."I did the reading, just like every other week.
Afif Safieh ? the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative to the United States ? delivered a speech in Dodd auditorium Monday, calling for a more balanced U.S.
Since publishing Wednesday's joke issue, we have learned that some of our readers were offended by a column satirizing Asian stereotypes. The response surprised us: We did not seek to offend, and we sincerely regret having upset some of our readers.Many criticisms of the column, however, do not recognize its purpose.
Richardson Auditorium rang with the voices of students, faculty and community members Monday during the University's 16th-annual Martin Luther King Day celebration.
If there was anything that outgoing USG president Alex Lenahan '07 made abundantly clear during his tenure, it was his penchant for communicating with fellow students.After winning the presidency by a large margin in a runoff vote in December 2005, Lenahan immediately issued an e-mail to the student body, outlining his goals for the year and promising a term characterized by dialogue and direct, concrete responses to undergraduates' needs and concerns.Ever since he took that telling first step, students have gradually become accustomed to Lenahan's lengthy e-mail missives on grade deflation and the four-year residential colleges.
When Princeton's freshman seminar program was first formed two decades ago, professors hoped it would quell what they saw as a rising tide of anti-intellectualism and bring students and faculty closer together."Students didn't seem to engage very much intellectually, even though they also had precepts," history professor and program founder Anthony Grafton said in an e-mail.
