Students in graduate housing have been coping with an unwanted wakeup call most mornings for more than five months now ? heavy construction outside their rooms, often beginning at six or seven in the morning."It used to be that we had a nice quiet area.
Adam Michnik, lifelong human rights activist and editor-in-chief of Poland's first independent daily newspaper, described how post-communist nations have "a problem with history" in a lecture yesterday in Aaron Burr Hall.Translated by University history professor Jan Gross, who introduced him as "one of the few heroes of revolution that has no skeletons in his closet," Michnik spoke of the problems all newly-formed democracies face when confronting their past.
Seniors James R. Williams and Soraya Umewaka have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, a $25,000 fellowship to fund independent projects serving the public good for the year after graduation.Umewaka, a politics major, will travel to Brazil to work for a nongovernmental organization and make a documentary about a mentoring program for poor children.
Seniors James R. Williams and Soraya Umewaka have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, a $25,000 fellowship to fund independent projects serving the public good for the year after graduation.Umewaka, a politics major, will travel to Brazil to work for a nongovernmental organization and make a documentary about a mentoring program for poor children.
OXFORD, March 14 ? I began my semester at Oxford confident in my prowess as a writer. Having penned for The Daily Princetonian such fascinating stories as 'Students obey hunger late at night' and 'Freshmen seek their place on campus,' I knew that my first Oxford essay would be a masterpiece.My tutor ? Oxford-speak for the faculty member who's responsible for teaching me ? disagreed.
OXFORD, March 14 ? I began my semester at Oxford confident in my prowess as a writer. Having penned for The Daily Princetonian such fascinating stories as 'Students obey hunger late at night' and 'Freshmen seek their place on campus,' I knew that my first Oxford essay would be a masterpiece.My tutor ? Oxford-speak for the faculty member who's responsible for teaching me ? disagreed.
As students call for "poke" attacks and scramble to block Public Safety officers from viewing their facebook.com profiles, Public Safety director Steven Healy has issued guidelines establishing how officers may use the site.Officers can continue to use Facebook as a supplementary source for investigations, but cannot scour the site for parties or other activities.
Students in graduate housing have been coping with an unwanted wakeup call most mornings for more than five months now ? heavy construction outside their rooms, often beginning at six or seven in the morning."It used to be that we had a nice quiet area.
"I have a friend who's been gay since day one, 51 years old, who one day comes to me and says, 'Fritz, I'm starting to think about vaginas and women.
"I have a friend who's been gay since day one, 51 years old, who one day comes to me and says, 'Fritz, I'm starting to think about vaginas and women.
Could a computer ever have common sense? Emotion? To technological innovator Frank Moss '71, these are not just possibilities, but goals.Last month, Moss was named director of the prestigious MIT Media Lab, an information technology laboratory founded in 1980 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte and then-MIT president Jerome Weisner.
In the latest development in the back-and-forth legal battle between the University and the Robertson family, the University submitted two briefs to the New Jersey Superior Court yesterday, asserting that the Wilson School has effectively upheld the Robertson Foundation's mission and appropriately allocated its funds.The University said that it has, in fact, "undercharged" the Foundation by $235 million since 1965, when the University decided to only charge the Foundation for expansion of the school's graduate program instead of the program's base cost.
Around midnight Sunday, students studying in Forbes library were deluged with a shower of water coming from the tiles in the ceiling, caused by a ruptured sink pipe above.
Six junior University faculty members were awarded 2006 Sloan Research Fellowships, which provide them with $45,000 in unrestricted funding to be used over the next two years.The fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P.
Six junior University faculty members were awarded 2006 Sloan Research Fellowships, which provide them with $45,000 in unrestricted funding to be used over the next two years.The fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P.
Could a computer ever have common sense? Emotion? To technological innovator Frank Moss '71, these are not just possibilities, but goals.Last month, Moss was named director of the prestigious MIT Media Lab, an information technology laboratory founded in 1980 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte and then-MIT president Jerome Weisner.
In the latest development in the back-and-forth legal battle between the University and the Robertson family, the University submitted two briefs to the New Jersey Superior Court yesterday, asserting that the Wilson School has effectively upheld the Robertson Foundation's mission and appropriately allocated its funds.The University said that it has, in fact, "undercharged" the Foundation by $235 million since 1965, when the University decided to only charge the Foundation for expansion of the school's graduate program instead of the program's base cost.
Around midnight Sunday, students studying in Forbes library were deluged with a shower of water coming from the tiles in the ceiling, caused by a ruptured sink pipe above.
