Students prepare to move out of their rooms. Classes have ended, papers are turned in and now students are left to finish finals.
Recent strong returns on the Princeton endowment have prompted University trustees to allot $24.8 million in additional funds to needy 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.
Pop reggae star Rihanna will headline next weekend's fall Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, USG social chair Andrew Heyman said Saturday.Heyman described Rihanna, the singer of the recent hits "Pon de Replay" and "SOS," as a desirable performer for Princeton not only musically but also intellectually."Rihanna's music is a departure not only from the Lawnparties acts of the past three years, but also from a lot of the music that we usually hear at Princeton in general.
Sitting in her quiet Alabama home on a Friday afternoon earlier this month, Betty Saxon grew increasingly worried as the minutes passed.
Princetonians in Israel, Lebanon and Palestine offer their perspectives on what it's like to be in the midst of a war zone in our "in the crossfire" blog.
The University announced eight new members of the Board of Trustees on June 14.The new trustees are Shelby Davis '58, Carl Ferenbach '64, Charles Gibson '65, Ellen Harvey '76, Robert Murley '72, John O'Brien '65, Mark Siegler '63 and Brady Walkinshaw '06."I am very pleased with the election of the new members of the board of trustees," President Tilghman said in an email."They all bring unique perspectives," she added.
One Princetonian is taking the reins from another at Time magazine, in a major media change announced earlier this week.Richard Stengel '77 will replace longtime friend Jim Kelly '76 as managing editor of Time, the magazine's editor-in-chief announced in an email to his staff, calling the two "oldest of friends." Kelly is being promoted to the newly created position of Managing Editor of Time Inc., overseeing the companies' more than 150 magazines.The connection between Kelly and Stengel extends beyond their employers and matching undergraduate diplomas.
Friday: A chance of afternoon storms. Saturday and Sunday: a little warmer, and finally drying out somewhat.
Former President Bill Clinton mixed jokes with a serious discussion of the immigration debate and a traditional graduation speech call to action in his address to the Class of 2006 this afternoon, encouraging them to engage in the world "locally, nationally and globally."Clinton's speech emphasized civic and political involvement, instructing graduates to use the "personal power" they developed at Princeton to better the world."You have an education that has given you unprecedented personal power," he said later in the half-hour speech, "and you live in a time which has given you unprecedented personal power."Class Day is the second in the series of graduation events at the University.
The University Cottage Club will not be granted property tax-exempt status as an historical site, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey ruled late last week.
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.
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.
Witherspoon Hall, May 3, 11:54 p.m.A University student reported finding a harassing note left under her room door.
Only months before creative writing professor Toni Morrison is set to retire, the New York Times Book Review has named her 1987 novel "Beloved" the best book in American fiction in the last 25 years."It is a happy occurrence that at the very moment that Professor Morrison has decided to retire she should have received this honor, one that is so richly deserved," Edmund White, director of creative writing and author of the recent memoir "My Lives," said in an email.Though University officials declined to confirm Morrison's decision, several individuals familiar with her plans said she is likely to retire, though the move has not been finalized.
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 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.
Friends of Manzili Davis '06 gathered Wednesday afternoon in the University Chapel for memorial service, remembering him as quiet, kind individual.Dean of Religious Life Tom Breidenthal welcomed those present and spoke briefly before ceding the podium to Chris Aguilar '06, one of Davis' freshman year roommates, who read from the Bible.Following Aguilar, Dean of Mathey College Steve Lestition led the congregation in a responsive reading of Psalm 23.
Two Princeton undergraduates studying in Beirut were evacuated to Cyprus yesterday, as Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah continued battering each other's targets."They're out," study abroad dean Nancy Kanach said today.
An updated story is available here.The International Mathematics Union named professor Andrei Okounkov a winner of the Fields Medal this morning.
After three years of sharing top-spot honors, U.S. News & World Report ranked Princeton alone the No.
