Advertising. It owns you. Effective enough, and a cuddly sock puppet convinces $10 billion in venture capital to invest in a company that sells dog food over the Internet.
Briefly resurrecting memories of Sept. 11, 2001, a small private plane piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into a residential tower on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 2:42 p.m.
Correction appendedStanford started the public phase of the largest-ever fundraising drive by an institution of higher education, president John Hennessy announced Tuesday.The five-year, $4.3-billion capital campaign campaign, billed as "The Stanford Challenge," edges out the $4-billion campaign announced by Columbia two weeks ago.Princeton is expected to announce a public capital campaign in the coming years.
Creative writing professor and noted author Joyce Carol Oates publicly apologized Tuesday to those upset by her recent New Yorker short story, "Landfill," a work of fiction that set off a small storm of controversy this week for its resemblance to fact."I'm certainly feeling very apologetic and deeply sorry that I inadvertently ... hurt the feelings of these people and just feel sorry about that," Oates said in an interview with The Times of Trenton."Landfill," which was published in the Oct.
Cuban voices echoed off the blackboards in Frist 304 Wednesday night, expressing a collective hope that Fidel Castro's repressive regime will soon end.In a conference call with students from the University's chapter of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA), members of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement (CYDM) discussed the persecution and economic hardship that Cuban university students face."They have waited all their lives to speak up and express themselves," CAUSA member Ken Sinkovitz '07 explained.
Students gather to celebrate "National Coming Out Day." All across campus, LGBT students and allies could be seen wearing jeans to express solidarity with members of the gay community.
Homosexuality has a biological correlate even if the particular genes have not yet been confirmed, University of Illinois at Chicago psychiatry professor Brian Mustanski said Tuesday in his lecture, "Is there a gay gene?"Mustanski's address, which preceded today's official opening of the LGBT Center, presented results from a variety of studies ? including his own ? that point toward a genetic influence on homosexuality."Each older brother increased the odds [of homosexuality] by about 33 percent to 48 percent, which is a pretty large effect," Mustanski said, referring to earlier studies that examined the relationship between homosexuality and the number of older siblings.
New legislation on military commissions "allows officials in the United States government to torture with impunity," visiting politics professor Jamie Mayerfeld told students in a discussion last night.Mayerfeld met with a small group of concerned University students to discuss the Military Commissions Act, which was passed by Congress on Sept.
Binge drinking may have its benefits.High school binge drinkers, though they tend to have a harder time landing jobs, end up with a six percent higher earning potential than their non-drinking peers, according to a September report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.The findings, based on data gathered by the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), were reported by Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Pinka Chatterji and University of South Florida economics professor Jeffrey DeSimone.
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.
