The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will host a debate among the three candidates running for the Princeton Borough Council tonight at 9 p.m.
Student activists are no longer congregating in front of Frist Campus Center, but the spirit of public involvement that inspired last year's filibuster is now being channeled into a new student-run organization.
With the New Jersey gubernatorial election less than a month away, the College Republicans have stepped up their efforts to elect two G.O.P.
The South Asian Students Association (SASA) is working with the USG to coordinate a relief effort in response to the this week's deadly earthquake in Pakistan.On Tuesday, the groups set up a fundraising booth in Frist Campus Center to collect donations and sell T-shirts, pins and other accessories.
Judging from his curriculum vitae ? 19 books and hundreds of essays in print, a masters and doctorate in English from Princeton, another masters degree from Cambridge ? Sam Pickering GS '70 '85 has entered the rarefied league of academic and literary greats.
A half-hour past sunrise on an ordinary morning, Yann Le Gall '07 is already four miles into his daily run.
In August, nine Princeton students arrived in the mountain town of Huamanzaña, Peru, with an armful of engineering plans.They departed a month later with the hope that their presence had permanently changed the way of life in that community.This was no ordinary study-abroad excursion, but rather the inaugural trip of Princeton Engineers Without Borders (EWB).Founded in spring 2004, the Princeton chapter of this national organization seeks to "take technologies that are sustainable, culturally sensitive and maintainable and introduce them into disadvantaged communities anywhere around the world," chapter president Sebastien Douville '06 said.One such community was Huamanzaña, which had no sanitation system and a very limited source of clean water.
Princeton had the second-highest percentage of computers controlled by hackers among cities worldwide between Aug.
The Goldman Sachs Foundation announced a $475,000 award to the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) on Oct.
Following a foiled theft of maps from the Beinecke Rare Book library at Yale, Princeton librarians said they are committed to preventing similar crimes here but declined to specify whether anything might be missing from University collections.The thwarted heist, by map dealer E.
Princeton Votes 2005 (P-Votes) hosted an event Friday to familiarize University students, faculty and the local community with key issues in N.J.
Speaking about what he called "the threat of American amnesia," National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman Bruce Cole delivered a lecture Monday, arguing that too many Americans are forgetting their nation's past, a problem that will have repercussions in the future.In his lecture titled "American Ideals and National Memory," Cole discussed the benefits that come from the study of the humanities, especially history."Without our memory, we have no bearings," Cole said.
The three on-campus sororities concluded formal rush Friday, offering bids to 104 of the 150 students who initially registered, Panhellic Association President Emily Somerville '06 said.Twenty-three students dropped rush and the remaining 23 did not receive a bid from a sorority or the sorority of their choice, Somerville said.Neither sororities nor fraternities are officially recognized by the University, which for the second year in a row sent letters to incoming freshmen and their parents discouraging participation in Greek organizations.This year there were fewer participating sororities because the on-campus chapter of Delta Delta Delta lost its charter last spring.Rush began Oct.
Few professors would be caught wearing jeans and a Hawaiian T-shirt. But Manjul Bhargava GS '98 of the math department isn't your typical professor.At age 30, Bhargava has already finished graduate school, won numerous prestigious awards, been named as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10," traveled the world on a Clay Fellowship, worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and received tenure.
Complaints from Mathey and Rockefeller College students prompted University officials to rein in some early-morning construction work on Hamilton Hall, but the noise is unlikely to go away anytime soon."The drilling is literally a few feet from my window," said Emmelyn Stevens '09, who lives in Campbell Hall.Facilities Department policy states that "no construction projects should begin before 8 a.m.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel defended the University's new grading policies against criticism from skeptical student leaders at a Monday meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC), insisting the policy would not deny A's to deserving students or damage Princetonians' opportunities after graduation.Malkiel also emphasized the importance of widespread discussion about the planned four-year residential college system, saying that a document will be circulated this semester.USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 said he is suspicious of the idea that the initiative gives students a more accurate idea of their work's quality."I find it hard to believe students don't know when they're doing their best work and can only tell [it's their best] when they get an A," he said.But Malkiel said the policy has better enabled instructors to differentiate between levels of work, with positive results for students who seek honest assessments of their papers and problem sets."[Before the initiative] faculty members were giving students the same grade for the best work as for good work," she said, adding she had heard of some students who received A's on their theses from departments known to be generous, but then took their papers to rigorous professors in other departments for more honest commentary.
Taking a cue from Wendy Kopp '89, whose senior thesis became a nationally known nonprofit organization, Christoph Geiseler '04 has turned his own thesis into a music appreciation program for inner-city children.The nonprofit, Modern Improvisational Music Appreciation (MIMA) Music, runs an after-school program called Spinjazz.
Like sand grains running through the hourglass, such are the rainy days of our lives. Fresh off a weekend cruelly punk'd by just over four and a half inches of rain, one might realistically hope for more irenic skies this week.
The Borough Police Department has released a sketch and photo of the man suspected of an attempted assault in Frist Campus Center on Oct.
Prospect 11's improbable ride came to an end Saturday morning near Primm, Nev., as the student-engineered robotic vehicle malfunctioned 10 miles into a 132-mile driverless race across the Mojave Desert.The finals of the Grand Challenge competition ? created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate research in unmanned ground vehicles for use on the battlefield ? pitted 23 completely autonomous cars against each other, the clock and desert conditions in a race for $2 million.Stanley, a Volkswagen SUV modified by a Stanford team in collaboration with area companies, traversed the terrain in less than seven hours to earn its creators the grand prize.
