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.
Wei Ho '09 is coached by visiting Japanese research calligrapher Koji Kakinuma in 185 Nassau Thursday.
Princeton's two-year-old grade deflation policy remains overwhelmingly unpopular among the student body, with nearly 75 percent of students believing it has had a negative effect on the University's academic environment and over a third saying it has influenced their course selections, according to the results of a USG survey being released today.Though most students indicated that the policy has not affected their choice of major, an even larger majority said they would prefer a revised system, one in which professors are encouraged to grade rigorously while imposing no quotas.A total of 2,183 students ? 657 from the Class of 2008, 653 from the Class of 2009, 535 from the Class of 2007 and 338 from the Class of 2006 ? responded to the 22-question survey, which was conducted by the USG this past summer between mid-June and late August.USG president Alex Lenahan '07 stressed that the survey is a necessary first step in spurring dialogue about the controversial policy.
The following story originally appeared in The Daily Princetonian on Dec. 2, 1955:The existence at Princeton of top secret research into peacetime uses of atomic energy was confirmed yesterday by President Dodds.
Adrienne Rich, a 77-year-old writer and feminist who made headlines in 1997 when she refused to accept an award from President Clinton, read from poems spanning her half-century career to a McCormick Hall audience yesterday."The victory carried like a corpse / from town to town / begins to crawl in the casket," Rich read, quoting from her 1971 poem "Letters: March 1969." Much of her poetry involves meditations on the Vietnam War and castigations of the Bush administration."There's a mainstream idea that you sacrifice aesthetics if you write about political positions," she said at a reception after the reading.
Michael Walzer, renowned political theorist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, criticized America's involvement in Iraq as "unjust," arguing that the administration had lost its moral compass, at a discussion in Butler College last night.Walzer's speech, entitled "Can Any War Be Just?" was the second in a series of talks on "The Just Society" organized by the Pace Center.As opposed to the first Gulf War ? "a classic just war" ? Walzer said the current conflict was unjustified in that it has pitted the country "against a distant and speculative threat which may or may not materialize," and left the United States "living with the dangerous consequences of military occupation.""War is the business of killing," Walzer, who also edits the left-wing quarterly magazine Dissent, said.
A power outage covering most of the University and parts of the surrounding town thrust the campus into temporary darkness last night.A Public Safety official said that the outage was likely caused by inclement weather.
The following article originally appeared in The Daily Princetonian on Dec. 9, 1955: Raymond W.
Two days after Whig Hall was tagged with graffiti, unknown vandals ? apparently Rutgers students ? returned Wednesday to finish the job, spray-painting Clio Hall, the Revolutionary War cannon and the two nearby tiger statues."Give us a f?kin' game, f?gots," was written in red on the stairs of Clio Hall, followed by a heart and the numbers "443 1869!" The top of the cannon was painted red, while the west and east tigers had "Rutgers" and the letters R and U written across their backs, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said.Public Safety discovered the damage at 5 a.m., and it was cleaned later in the morning.Individuals claiming responsibility for the vandalism made contact with The Daily Princetonian at 11:21 a.m.
Raymond W. Apple, Jr. '57, a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian who spent more than 40 years traveling the world as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times, died yesterday in Washington.
The following is a copy of an article written by R. W. Apple, Jr. '57 on Friday, April 18, 1955, the day Albert Einstein died.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 2 ? In the deep night, when office workers have gone home and the subway rhythm lulls, the homeless emerge to reclaim the city streets.
