Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated Monday by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
When Sarah Hammit '04 took a hard fall snowboarding in January of her senior year, the resulting concussion, cracked kneecap and sprained ankles were only the beginning of a problem that continues to disrupt her life today.She and her family never anticipated the bureaucratic nightmare that unfolded throughout the initial X-rays, an MRI, surgery and months of painful physical therapy.
Yale responded Tuesday to a class action grievance by promising funding to a graduate student who charged that Yale was taking away her funding because of her nationality.The grievance was filed last week with the Yale University Dean of the Graduate School on behalf of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), a student group that sought for years to be officially recognized by Yale.Chinese students are "heavily recruited by Yale to work in labs and teach undergraduates, face discrimination and double standards from administrators, often resulting in loss of jobs, student status, and visas," the statement said.The grievance was filed after Han Xuemei, an ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student, said she had been asked to leave the university because she was in poor academic standing.
Firestone Curator of Manuscripts Don Skemer has organized an effort to digitize about 200 Islamic manuscripts and electronically catalog more than 10,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Rare Book Division's collection during the next four years.The collection, the largest in North America, ranges in age from the earliest Islamic texts in the ninth century to pieces written in the early 20th century during the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire."When I first arrived in the early '90s, I realized there were many manuscripts that had not been catalogued," Skemer said.
As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.
As a senior at Princeton, Samuel Alito '72, President Bush's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, chaired a Wilson School undergraduate conference that authored a report calling for the bolstering of privacy rights, including the creation of a federal privacy ombudsman and the decriminalization of sodomy."At the present time ... we sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in his "Report of the Chairman" on the "Conference on The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.""[W]e all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values," said the 1971 report, which is located in the University's Mudd Manuscript Library.
Nineteen University students will travel to Louisiana and Alabama with the Student Volunteer Council (SVC) to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, doing everything from cleaning up trampled gardens to clearing debris from hurricane-ravaged streets.A month and a half after Katrina struck, much of the Gulf is still in need of repair.
This year's Class Day co-chairs are seniors Lauren Bush, Shaun Callaghan and Harrison Frist.Class Day, held the day before Commencement, is a student-organized event featuring remarks by a keynote speaker.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched yet another round of litigation in its campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.
Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and author and evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes met to discuss the issues facing Christian churches in modern America in a packed University Chapel on Wednesday evening.The public event, titled "Preachers, Profits and the Prophetic: The New Face of American Evangelicalism," was part of the "Conversation" lecture series organized by the Program in African-American Studies.Jakes is currently pastor of The Potter House, a multiracial, nondenominational church in Dallas with more than 30,000 members.
Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
A few bad nights of sleep in the beginning of freshman year quickly snowballed into chronic insomnia for Ryan Harris '07.
Nineteen University students will travel to Louisiana and Alabama with the Student Volunteer Council (SVC) to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, doing everything from cleaning up trampled gardens to clearing debris from hurricane-ravaged streets.A month and a half after Katrina struck, much of the Gulf is still in need of repair.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched yet another round of litigation in its campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.
John Bonner has had a lifelong passion for slime mold.It was a slime mold that led Bonner ? the George M.
This year's Class Day co-chairs are seniors Lauren Bush, Shaun Callaghan and Harrison Frist.Class Day, held the day before Commencement, is a student-organized event featuring remarks by a keynote speaker.
Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and author and evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes met to discuss the issues facing Christian churches in modern America in a packed University Chapel on Wednesday evening.The public event, titled "Preachers, Profits and the Prophetic: The New Face of American Evangelicalism," was part of the "Conversation" lecture series organized by the Program in African-American Studies.Jakes is currently pastor of The Potter House, a multiracial, nondenominational church in Dallas with more than 30,000 members.
A few bad nights of sleep in the beginning of freshman year quickly snowballed into chronic insomnia for Ryan Harris '07.
John Bonner has had a lifelong passion for slime mold.It was a slime mold that led Bonner ? the George M.
