The debate over free speech on colleges campuses has, in large part, come and gone.Students speak freely at Princeton, and faculty who use obscenities in class are not questioned.
Raks Odalisque, the student Middle-Eastern dance troupe, performs their annual spring show, "Unveiled," in Frist Campus Center on Thursday.
The debate over free speech on colleges campuses has, in large part, come and gone.Students speak freely at Princeton, and faculty who use obscenities in class are not questioned.
In April 2004, Whig-Clio hosted a forum at which Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel answered questions from an anxious student body about the proposed grading policy.
Harvard, Stanford and Penn have in recent months announced financial aid initiatives aimed at making college more affordable for low-income families.
The Center for Trash Cultural Encounters, in association with the Program in Mixological Studies presents La Vida Loca: Understanding Life in the Pre-Willennial Era, a colloquium featuring scholarship, discussion panels, and light refreshments.
Repeated incidents involving pellet guns in Wilson College have caused thousands of dollars in damage and frustration for administrators."This is the last warning you will receive ? enough is enough," Wilson College Master Marguerite Browning said in an email to Wilson students March 23 after the most recent incident, when students were seen using pellet guns, also known as BB guns, in 1937 Hall."Be assured that anyone found to have a pellet gun or to have participated in the events ... will be subject to disciplinary procedures that could result in probation, removal from University housing or even suspension," Browning said.Browning also cautioned students that pellet guns will be confiscated if found.While Browning's email states that Public Safety is involved in the investigation of the second incident, Public Safety deputy director Charles Davall said in an email that "the pellet gun situation hasn't been reported to us yet."The first incident, in early February, also occurred in 1937 Hall.
After blanketing campus with posters advertising Pride Week events, the LGBT Center reported that posters have been torn down en masse in recent days.Debbie Bazarsky, director of the LGBT Center, estimated that of the 500 original posters, roughly 300 had been removed.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye (rear center, l. of mailman] stands with her admission officers and a truck-full of application notifications outside West College on Wednesday.
Frist Campus Center, March 5, 3:44 a.m.A University student reported two lampposts and a bulletin board on fire in front of Frist and two lampposts on fire on the way to 1903 Hall.
When the faculty voted in April 2004 to curb grade inflation, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel penned an article for the undergraduate parents' newsletter, in which she wrote that the University would stand at the vanguard of grading reform nationwide.The question then, as now, is whether any peer institutions would truly follow the University's lead.Grade inflation is considered a national problem by the broader academic community.
When the faculty voted in April 2004 to curb grade inflation, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel penned an article for the undergraduate parents' newsletter, in which she wrote that the University would stand at the vanguard of grading reform nationwide.The question then, as now, is whether any peer institutions would truly follow the University's lead.Grade inflation is considered a national problem by the broader academic community.
The Admission Office and Alumni Schools Council have launched a program aimed at increasing the socioeconomic diversity of the University's undergraduate applicant pool through pilot programs involving Boston and Washington, D.C.-area public high schools.The programs are based on creating relationships with schools that have traditionally not yielded applicants to the University and have a large number of low-income and minority students."What we were aware of was that there were Princeton-caliber students out there, and the University wasn't seeking them out, and they weren't seeking out Princeton," chair of the Boston pilot program and vice president of the Princeton Association of New England Andrew Hoffman '89 said in an interview.Both the Admission Office and Alumni Schools Council (ASC) recognized that outreach efforts to these schools present "a qualitatively different challenge" because many students have never seriously considered the University and are reluctant to apply for financial reasons, co-chair of the Washington, D.C.
Frist Campus Center, March 5, 3:44 a.m.A University student reported two lampposts and a bulletin board on fire in front of Frist and two lampposts on fire on the way to 1903 Hall.
Though newspapers have speculated in recent weeks that President Tilghman might be a candidate to replace Larry Summers as the president of Harvard, Tilghman said she has no interest in the job in an interview Wednesday."Why would I leave the best job in higher education?" Tilghman said, adding, "I have spoken to no one, and I have no interest in the job."The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported Tuesday that religion professor Cornel West GS '80, who left Harvard in 2002 after a much-publicized spat with Summers, had suggested Tilghman as a possible replacement for Summers.West had previously said he believes his former employer could learn from the examples of "strong-willed" women, such as Tilghman and Brown president Ruth Simmons.West specifically praised Tilghman's leadership in an interview Tuesday."She would be a great university president across the board," West said.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye (rear center, l. of mailman] stands with her admission officers and a truck-full of application notifications outside West College on Wednesday.
After blanketing campus with posters advertising Pride Week events, the LGBT Center reported that posters have been torn down en masse in recent days.Debbie Bazarsky, director of the LGBT Center, estimated that of the 500 original posters, roughly 300 had been removed.
Repeated incidents involving pellet guns in Wilson College have caused thousands of dollars in damage and frustration for administrators."This is the last warning you will receive ? enough is enough," Wilson College Master Marguerite Browning said in an email to Wilson students March 23 after the most recent incident, when students were seen using pellet guns, also known as BB guns, in 1937 Hall."Be assured that anyone found to have a pellet gun or to have participated in the events ... will be subject to disciplinary procedures that could result in probation, removal from University housing or even suspension," Browning said.Browning also cautioned students that pellet guns will be confiscated if found.While Browning's email states that Public Safety is involved in the investigation of the second incident, Public Safety deputy director Charles Davall said in an email that "the pellet gun situation hasn't been reported to us yet."The first incident, in early February, also occurred in 1937 Hall.
The Admission Office and Alumni Schools Council have launched a program aimed at increasing the socioeconomic diversity of the University's undergraduate applicant pool through pilot programs involving Boston and Washington, D.C.-area public high schools.The programs are based on creating relationships with schools that have traditionally not yielded applicants to the University and have a large number of low-income and minority students."What we were aware of was that there were Princeton-caliber students out there, and the University wasn't seeking them out, and they weren't seeking out Princeton," chair of the Boston pilot program and vice president of the Princeton Association of New England Andrew Hoffman '89 said in an interview.Both the Admission Office and Alumni Schools Council (ASC) recognized that outreach efforts to these schools present "a qualitatively different challenge" because many students have never seriously considered the University and are reluctant to apply for financial reasons, co-chair of the Washington, D.C.
Though newspapers have speculated in recent weeks that President Tilghman might be a candidate to replace Larry Summers as the president of Harvard, Tilghman said she has no interest in the job in an interview Wednesday."Why would I leave the best job in higher education?" Tilghman said, adding, "I have spoken to no one, and I have no interest in the job."The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported Tuesday that religion professor Cornel West GS '80, who left Harvard in 2002 after a much-publicized spat with Summers, had suggested Tilghman as a possible replacement for Summers.West had previously said he believes his former employer could learn from the examples of "strong-willed" women, such as Tilghman and Brown president Ruth Simmons.West specifically praised Tilghman's leadership in an interview Tuesday."She would be a great university president across the board," West said.
