Raised in a rural community in southeastern China and uneducated until his mid-teens, Ying-Shih Yu seems an unlikely recipient of the John W.
African refugees face a difficult transition to the United States, a Sudanese refugee and a film director said at a screening of "The Lost Boys of Sudan" on Friday.Joseph Deng, a U.S.
In response to serious blood shortages at both the Red Cross of Central New Jersey and at the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), three students are organizing a blood drive in an effort to boost local supplies.
The first bonfire in 12 years blazed Friday night on Cannon Green as thousands of students, faculty, staff and community members looked on.
Student leaders of international service groups presented recommendations aimed at broadening opportunities for volunteering abroad at yesterday's USG meeting.
The first bonfire in 12 years blazed last night on Cannon Green as thousands of students, faculty, staff and community members looked on."Because our school prides itself on tradition," football team offensive co-captain Jeff Terrell '07 told the crowd, "this is one that we've wanted for a while."The football team is providing the occasion for the celebration, having completed their sweep of rivals Harvard and Yale last week.
Twenty-five-foot silk paintings. An 8,000-pipe organ. A choir of more than 70 people. Walking with a friend into the Chapel one day two years ago, the sheer scale of the Catholic Mass overwhelmed Nene Kalu '07.
University Library officials said this week that they have received no requests for student or faculty library records under the USA PATRIOT Act in the five years since Congress passed the controversial law.
"The food we eat has changed more in the past 30 years than in the last 30,000," Eric Schlosser '81, author of the bestselling book "Fast Food Nation" and co-writer of the new movie of the same name, said last night in a crowded Richardson Auditorium.Schlosser joined philosophy professor Peter Singer in making opening remarks for the two-day "Food, Ethics, and the Environment" conference sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Emotion shapes nearly every aspect of human activity ? from learning to memory to decision-making ? and even influences evolution, University of Southern California neuroscience professor Antonio Damasio said in a lecture in McCosh 50 Thursday night."Emotion, whichever way you look at it ... is involved in homeostasis," he said, and "the business of running our life."Damasio's talk focused on the processes involved in triggering and experiencing emotions and feelings.Though Sigmund Freud and William James investigated the science of emotion more than 100 years ago, such research had largely been abandoned by the turn of the 20th century, he said.In the past 10 years, however, significant progress has been made in identifying what Damasio termed the "body loop" theory of emotion production.Damasio explained that "emotional programs" are built from simpler drives and motivations."To have an emotion is a very big deal, and it actually involves a lot of changes [throughout] the body proper, as well as the brain itself," he said.People used to think, Damasio pointed out, that one or two systems in the brain would "do all the emotions for you and feel the emotions.""Now we know this is not true.
After 12 years in the dark, thousands of students, alumni and community members will assemble this evening on Cannon Green to reignite a hallowed University tradition known simply as "The Bonfire."The football team is providing the occasion for the celebration, having completed their sweep of rivals Harvard and Yale ? the first time since 1994 ? on Saturday.
When seniors Ritu Kamal and Sanhita Sen looked at their post-graduation options, they each came to the same conclusion."We are both interested in doing service in India, but we realized that all of the programs that Princeton currently has do not offer sites in India," said Sen, who is also an associate editor at The Daily Princetonian.The seniors decided to address the lack of University-sponsored service opportunities in India by creating a program themselves.
After Jim Leach '64 graduated from Princeton, he headed south for a Washington job in the office of a fellow Tiger: a young Illinois congressman named Donald Rumsfeld '54.More than four decades later, the fates of employer and employee remain intertwined.Leach, a powerful Iowa congressman who has held the same seat for nearly 30 years, and Rumsfeld, President Bush's departing defense secretary, are part of a handful of prominent Princetonians who find themselves evicted from the political scene after last Tuesday's Democratic electoral triumph.Rumsfeld, one the chief architects of Bush's controversial foreign policy, was forced to resign Nov.
An artist from Trenton shows off his work to students at Murray-Dodge, which held an art show featuring the work of homeless and formerly homeless local artists last night.
Director Richard Linklater denounced the fast food industry for wasting natural resources and exploiting factory workers during a question-and-answer session following the screening of his upcoming film, "Fast Food Nation," Wednesday night.The film is based on the bestselling book by Eric Schlosser '81 by the same name.
Students in search of dates or new friends meet and mingle in the Chancellor Green Cafe at last night's Speed Dating party.
East Asian Studies professor emeritus Yu Ying-shih is one of two winners of the $1 million John W.
Discussion remained civil in the Whig Senate chamber last night as Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and USG president Alex Lenahan '07 faced off in the latest public forum on grading policy.Other than Malkiel's slight head shake over a perceived misinterpretation of the policy, the discussion transcended the heated debates common throughout campus since the policy's implementation in 2004.
The advantage enjoyed by children of rich and powerful families in gaining admission to elite colleges violates basic notions of fairness, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden said in a lecture Wednesday night.Golden, author of the recent book, "The Price of Admission," argued that there are essentially four groups of people granted "preferences of privilege" by college admissions officers: legacies, "development cases," which range from Hollywood stars and their children to the children of state legislators, athletes and children of the faculty and staff of the university.Legacy preference is given at "the vast majority of America's top-50 universities," Golden said.
A minor radioactive leak in Jadwin Hall on Monday initially raised safety concerns but further testing has determined that no individuals were harmed and contamination was minimal.The leak was caught by officials at the University's Office of Environment Health and Safety during a routine health and safety check of the building.
