With the fall job recruiting season at its height, many seniors are facing a new obstacle as they try to land a job in finance.
Students gaze at the stars Saturday night from the rooftop of Peyton Hall as part of the Princeton Astrobiology Club's Star Party.
In a candlelit room with panoramic views of campus, couples kissed and held hands, dancing to a live band.
Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist groups, even when its actions harm innocent civilians, Fordham University law professor Avi Bell told a small group of students yesterday in Whig Hall."I have a human right not to be killed," Bell, who is also a professor at Bar Ilan University in Israel, said.
For more than 30 years, students have worked with faculty and administrators for recognition of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender concerns on campus, seeing only gradual improvement.Decades of frustration gave way to celebration yesterday with the grand opening of the LGBT Center in Frist Campus Center, marked by speeches by President Tilghman and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein."It was important practically and symbolically that we provide a place that would allow LGBT students to flourish," Tilghman said in an interview.The LGBT Center includes a library, lounge, seating area and workspace, all meant to create a comfortable area for students."We were named among the top 20 universities in the country for LGBT student life," Tilghman said in her speech, "which was more important to me than the U.S.
The University's Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI) was recently awarded a three-year $1.3 million grant to expand its service offerings and share its expertise with other campuses hoping to start similar programs.The grant was given by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Many Wilson School professors propose sweeping changes to government policies. Visiting professor Chibli Mallat may actually get to implement some.Mallat, a former lawyer, writer and human rights activist, is running for president of Lebanon.
Persistent wireless interruptions on campus have been traced to a suspected bug in the vendor software.
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.
