On Sept. 11, 2001, Col. Mark Milley '80 was stationed in Hawaii as chief of staff of the 25th Light Infantry Division of the United States Army.
In the five years since 19 young men boarded U.S. jet airliners and changed the course of history, the country has seethed, grieved, sought solace, ached for revenge, been afraid, celebrated victories and ultimately, changed.In "Focus," a special section published with today's paper, The Daily Princetonian looks back on the five years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, exploring the lives of Princetonians, from the victims' families to soldiers to Muslim students. How we changed In interviews with several Princetonians, Sophia Ahern Dwosh explores how the attacks of 9/11 shifted the course of our lives.
Any strategy for defeating terrorism needs a basic framework to get started. As Kurt Campbell and I discuss in our forthcoming book, "Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security," there are perhaps five key elements.
Princeton ranked as the sole No. 1 university in the country in a U.S. News and World Report released last month.This is the seventh straight year Princeton has ranked first in the magazine's annual survey of "America's Best Colleges." Rival Harvard dropped to second place in this year's survey."We are pleased that our commitment to providing the highest quality undergraduate education continues to be recognized," University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said in a statement.
Once the dust settled from the wreckage of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans turned their eyes to academia, searching for answers about the Middle East, Islam and the emerging threat of terrorism.Like it did during the Cold War, academia poised itself to respond to those needs by changing curricula, recruiting new scholars and rethinking the roles of policy makers and scholars.University departments, especially Near Eastern Studies (NES), history, politics, religion and the Wilson School, as well as groups such as the Institute for Transregional Studies, underwent dramatic shifts, offering courses and lectures that tailored themselves to the new world order.But has Princeton done enough? A 9/11 curriculumAs expected, the demand for classes in Middle East studies has surged since 9/11.
"Why?" Wilson School professor Uwe Reinhardt asked of his son, Marine Cpt. Mark Reinhardt '01 and another Marine officer as they sat in a bar in San Diego.
After Sept. 11, 2001, politics professor Amaney Jamal remained in her house for two days. She did not show up for work, run errands or even send her children to school.
Simeng Sun '08 was in class at Stuyvesant High School, four blocks from the towers. Sandy Charles '05 was watching TV in 1942 Hall.
Upperclassmen welcome the Class of 2010 to the University at the third annual Pre-Rade on Sunday afternoon.
Harvard University shocked the world of elite college admissions Monday when it announced it is abandoning its early admission program, saying the move is intended to make the admissions process fairer for disadvantaged applicants.The announcement ? unprecedented among the nation's top universities ? has forced Princeton officials to reconsider the future of the University's own early decision program, which requires students to matriculate at Princeton if they apply early and are accepted.The move came as a surprise to Princeton administrators.
Recent strong returns on the Princeton endowment have prompted University trustees to allot $24.8 million in additional spending to underfunded areas of the operating budget.The increase in spending will be directed towards a number of areas, including energy and renovation costs, information technology and the University library system.The spending increase constitutes only the seventh adjustment in endowment spending policy since it was adopted in 1979, according to the University website.
Some of the most unlikely victims in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 have been international students studying in the United States.International student enrollment nationwide has dropped significantly since 2001.
The 'Prince' surveyed the University' undergraduate community about their attitudes and perspectives five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
By a staggering margin, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer '81 won the Democratic Party nomination for New York governor Tuesday night.With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Spitzer led with 81 percent of the vote, totaling more than 550,000 votes, the Associated Press reported.
Following Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other schools, the University has announced that it will divest from companies it believes are complicit in the genocide in Darfur.Though the University said it currently has no direct holdings in companies operating in Sudan, the new policy ? adopted earlier this week by the finance committee of the University Board of Trustees ? disallows future investments in companies that directly or indirectly conduct operations that are involved with the genocide in the war-torn region.University spokeswoman Class Cliatt '96 said Princeton waited until now to withdraw investments because, unlike other institutions that had direct investments in companies involved in Darfur, the University has only indirect ties to such companies.President Tilghman explained in an e-mail that for the University to act, "we needed to be persuaded that genocide was indeed occurring and that this had been so for some time.""Furthermore this seemed to be an issue around which there was consensus on campus," she added.Since 2003, tens of thousands of Sudanese have been killed and millions more uprooted from their homes as a civil war rages between Sudanese rebels, government forces and Arab militias.
Five years after terrorists turned airplanes into missiles, cutting short the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, including 13 alumni, the University commemorated their loss with an interfaith service Monday in the September 11 memorial garden next to Chancellor Green.Family, friends, faculty and students gripped tissues and bowed their heads as speakers shared their experiences of that day and intoned the names of the 13 victims."We all have memories of that day and the accompanying emotions of shock, grief, confusion," Paul Raushenbush, associate dean of religious life, said.But in this fifth year, there is a "shift of gears ... a passage of yearly remembrance into history," Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal said.
Chloe Wohlforth '07 was sitting in her junior year French class at Greenwich Academy in Connecticut when a classmate walked in late saying that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center.Wohlforth's father worked there, but the thought that he was in any kind of danger didn't cross her mind.
On the official first day of his retirement this summer, Professor John Fleming GS '63 will be teaching.Fleming, an English professor who has taught at the University for more than 40 years, will lecture on Dante's poetry ? but in a Tuscan castle, not McCosh Hall or East Pyne.
The International Mathematics Union named Professor Andrei Okounkov and Terence Tao GS '96 among the four Fields Medal winners announced this morning.The award, often described as mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize, is given once every four years and is considered the discipline's highest honor.
