The WenQin Art Troupe, a student group from ZheJiang University in China, performs during the Cross-Pacific Cultural Exchange in Richardson Auditorium Tuesday night.
For someone with an Ann Coulter blurb on his book cover, Ramesh Ponnuru '95 is surprisingly soft-spoken.While Ponnuru ? a senior editor at the National Review, frequent newspaper contributor and conservative talking head ? might be more circumspect and cerebral than the average culture warrior, his words pack no less a punch.In his new book, "The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life," a work that has landed Ponnuru recent guest spots on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," he takes aim at abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and the American Left."The party of death started with abortion," he writes, "but its sickle has gone from threatening the unborn, to the elderly, to the disabled; it has swept from the maternity ward to the cloning laboratory to a generalized disregard for 'inconvenient' human life."The book, unsurprisingly, has turned Ponnuru into a darling of the right and a nuisance for the left.
Princeton has been shut out of the Nobel Prize races so far this year, but one professor recently won a related award of only slightly less distinction.Psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer won the Ig Nobel Literature Prize awarded last week at Harvard University for a series of experiments in which he proved that using long words to impress an audience actually makes you look less intelligent.The prizes are presented by Nobel laureates around the time the Nobel Prize winners are announced each year and are awarded to scholars who perform experiments that "make people laugh, and then make them think," according to the Annals of Improbable Research, the scientific humor journal that organizes the honors each year.Oppenheimer ? whose findings are published in the study "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long words Needlessly" ? became the first Princeton professor to receive an Ig Nobel."I initially had mixed feelings [about winning]," Oppenheimer said.
While Princeton students continue to spar with administrators over the two-year-old grade deflation policy, Yale's student newspaper released a poll last week suggesting that the median GPA at the New Haven rival lies between 3.6 and 3.7.The unscientific survey, sent to 400 randomly selected members of the Class of 2006, garnered 201 responses.
A dinner discussion at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday kicked off a collaboration between Outdoor Action and the Office of Religious Life to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality.Outdoor Spirituality ? a program founded by Outdoor Action (OA) director Rick Curtis '79, Presbyterian minister Peter Hazelrigg and Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush ? aims to reach out to students who are not directly involved with religious groups on campus.
"Do you live in a hut?"It's a question that Yolisa Nalule '10 deals with on a regular basis.
Students at 180 colleges and universities around the country now have the option of shopping for courses like they shop for the latest electronic devices.Pick-a-Prof ? pickaprof.com ? allows students to view professors' grading histories, write course reviews and evaluate professors' responsiveness.
Which is the best college in America?Old Nassau may be number one in the hearts of Princetonians and in the U.S.
At 11:36 a.m. Monday Seoul time ? 10:36 p.m. Sunday in New York ? the North Korean government reportedly detonated a small nuclear weapon in Hamgyong Province.
Seniors ambled through Dillon Gym like kids in a candy store Friday, gathering loot from companies desperate to attract the best and brightest.More than 100 organizations ? ranging from investment banks to the CIA ? jostled for student attention at the General Interest Career Fair, offering not only pens and notepads but also Frisbees, t-shirts, Rubik's cubes, Nalgene bottles, Lindt chocolates, Slinkys, mouse pads, stress balls and playing cards, all emblazoned with corporate logos.As college seniors nationwide enjoy a boom in postgraduate employment, the knickknacks are an attempt by employers ? over 1,500 of whom are listed on Tiger Tracks ? to stand out and attract applicants who fit their recruiting profile.Last year, 68 percent of the Class of 2006 planned to enter the workplace, and only one quarter of them were still seeking a job at graduation.
Correction appendedAdministrators and a USG officer have challenged USG president Alex Lenahan '07's assertion that grade inflation may not have existed at the University.In an email sent to the student body last Wednesday, Lenahan cited a Princeton Alumni Weekly article reporting that each class's percentage of academic 1's and 2's ? the Admission Office's designation for the academically strongest applicants ? has been on the rise since 1993.
When Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.) took the podium in Dodds Auditorium on Friday afternoon it was to discuss welfare in America.
Five years out of college, Steve Papa '94 and Peter Bell '94 wanted a beer can to remind them of Old Nassau.
Though no longer exclusively a women's organization, the Radcliffe Institute ? formerly Harvard adjunct Radcliffe College ? still draws prominent female academics, including two this year from Princeton.German and art and archaeology professor Brigid Doherty and history professor Christine Stansell '71 are among the 50 recipients of this year's 2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, which provides yearlong residencies to writers, artists, scientists and other scholars to pursue their work free from distraction.While at Radcliffe, Doherty plans to begin work on a book project entitled "Homesickness for Things," which will "provide new interpretations of the relations among persons, works of art and other objects in poetry and prose," according to her project description."I came to art history from a background that moved across disciplines from the beginning," Doherty said in an interview.
Every day dozens of students, parents, staff and tourists pass through the multilevel Princeton University Store.
The future of late meal remains unclear, even after dining services responded to student pressure by testing an earlier late dinner Wednesday and Thursday.
Not classy: Freshmen who, nearly a month into the semester, still have not grasped the subtle difference between "Reply" and "Reply All" when responding to course-wide emails.
An 80-year-old nun who gave up her life as a Beverly Hills socialite to take care of prisoners in Tijuana, Mexico, spoke on the virtues of belonging and kindness last night at the Frist Campus Center.Mother Antonia, whose real name is Mary Clarke, is a widowed divorcee who has made a prison cell her home for the past 30 years.
Governments should influence individuals' actions while preserving their freedom of choice, prominent legal scholar Cass Sunstein argued in a lecture last night.The talk, titled "Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron," focused on merging two seemingly contradictory ideologies: libertarianism, which holds that governments should grant people complete freedom of choice; and paternalism, which advocates centralized government commands.
As if students needed another reason to dislike the University's grade deflation policy, USG president Alex Lenahan '07 is now suggesting that there may not have been inflated grades to begin with.In a 775-word email sent to students Wednesday night, Lenahan claimed that the academic caliber of students admitted during the 1990s rose at an even greater rate than that at which grades were inflated.To support this assertion, Lenahan referenced a 1998 article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) concerning the increase in so-called "academic 1's and 2's" accepted to the University between the classes of 1993 and 2002.
