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.
Some colleges have an ivory tower to protect them from the real world. Princeton has an Orange Bubble.
A town hall meeting will be held Thursday to discuss changes to the status of graduate students that will take effect this spring.
The extension of a 1994 law controlling federal access to communication networks may result in expensive technology upgrades for colleges and, in the long run, higher tuition rates for students.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Aug.
The Princeton Report on Knowledge (P-ROK), an online platform for intellectual discussion, was launched earlier this year to fill a gap in the public debate of academic work.The site's founders and editors ? anthropology professor John Borneman and history professor Gyan Prakash ? were disconcerted by the absence of a public forum for the discussion of social and natural sciences, humanities and on-campus events and seminars."We thought that the absence of such a forum or platform ghettoized academic work as 'merely academic,' " Prakash said.Borneman and Prakash took it upon themselves to change that, putting a premium on making knowledge and opinions widely accessible."While there is much support at Princeton for research, there is little effort to turn this into accessible knowledge," Borneman said.Since its inception, the site has taken an unorthodox format, featuring interviews, discussion forums and question and answer sections in lieu of scholarly articles.P-ROK's slogan reveals the site's interdisciplinary focus: "To survey the local complexities of a globalizing world.
A town hall meeting will be held Thursday to discuss changes to the status of graduate students that will take effect this spring.
Some colleges have an ivory tower to protect them from the real world. Princeton has an Orange Bubble.
For a few days over fall break, the University will turn back the clock to the '60s.Period Musical Inc., of Revolution Studios, will spend Nov.
The Dinky rail service, which runs between the University campus and the Princeton Junction train station, may undergo major renovations as part of a federal planning process.The study looks into ways of integrating the Dinky, which carries up to 1,500 passengers daily, with the proposed Route 1 corridor Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT). The BRT ? an improved bus transportation system that has already been instituted in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ottawa, Canada ? would make numerous stops between Trenton and central New Jersey.According to the "Alternatives Analysis" study sponsored by Central New Jersey Transit, proposed options include upgrading or removing the Dinky while adding a BRT line, upgrading the service without adding the line, or leaving the Dinky alone.
For a few days over fall break, the University will turn back the clock to the '60s.Period Musical Inc., of Revolution Studios, will spend Nov.
The Dinky rail service, which runs between the University campus and the Princeton Junction train station, may undergo major renovations as part of a federal planning process.The study looks into ways of integrating the Dinky, which carries up to 1,500 passengers daily, with the proposed Route 1 corridor Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT). The BRT ? an improved bus transportation system that has already been instituted in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ottawa, Canada ? would make numerous stops between Trenton and central New Jersey.According to the "Alternatives Analysis" study sponsored by Central New Jersey Transit, proposed options include upgrading or removing the Dinky while adding a BRT line, upgrading the service without adding the line, or leaving the Dinky alone.
The extension of a 1994 law controlling federal access to communication networks may result in expensive technology upgrades for colleges and, in the long run, higher tuition rates for students.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Aug.
The Princeton Report on Knowledge (P-ROK), an online platform for intellectual discussion, was launched earlier this year to fill a gap in the public debate of academic work.The site's founders and editors ? anthropology professor John Borneman and history professor Gyan Prakash ? were disconcerted by the absence of a public forum for the discussion of social and natural sciences, humanities and on-campus events and seminars."We thought that the absence of such a forum or platform ghettoized academic work as 'merely academic,' " Prakash said.Borneman and Prakash took it upon themselves to change that, putting a premium on making knowledge and opinions widely accessible."While there is much support at Princeton for research, there is little effort to turn this into accessible knowledge," Borneman said.Since its inception, the site has taken an unorthodox format, featuring interviews, discussion forums and question and answer sections in lieu of scholarly articles.P-ROK's slogan reveals the site's interdisciplinary focus: "To survey the local complexities of a globalizing world.
