Azmi Bishara, a prominent Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, criticized the U.S. policy of exporting democracy to the Middle East before a packed Dodds Auditorium on Thursday evening.
With three back-to-back terms as class president under his belt, adjectives like "popular" and "charismatic" come to mind when describing Chris Lloyd '06.
The Princeton Humanity Project launched an online version of its ongoing petition protesting the Darfur genocide Wednesday, with the support of the USG.The Humanity Project expects to send copies of both the electronic and the earlier paper petition to the White House by the end of next week.The Humanity Project started planning a nonpartisan Darfur petition after comments made last week by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel in a speech they sponsored with the Princeton Public Lecture Series.
Revised figures from the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) show that the University's endowment grew to about $11.2 billion at the end of the last fiscal year, some $200 million more than previously estimated.Investment returns for the 2004-05 fiscal year were 17.0 percent, contrary to figures previously reported in The Daily Princetonian.
University and local officials are discussing how to meet the state requirements for low-cost housing as the deadline for submission of a plan draws near.The slew of campus construction planned for the next decade could impose a large burden on the University and the surrounding municipalities because of the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) guidelines.Though local and University officials have requested that COAH waive the guidelines to accommodate the nature of campus construction, this resolution is unlikely, Director of Community and State Affairs Pam Hersh said.COAH establishes guidelines for "growth share," which link the amount of affordable housing required to other development in a community.
Politics professor Robert George has been named the first recipient of the Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). George will receive the award in an Oct.
Prospect 11 ? the completely autonomous vehicle designed by a group of Princeton engineering students ? has qualified for the finals of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) competition, contest organizers announced Wednesday at a ceremony in Fontana, Calif.The modified GMC Canyon pickup will compete Saturday against 22 other autonomous vehicles, all of which navigate without a driver or remote control, at the DARPA Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada.Eight students from the Prospect 11 team have been in California this week competing against 42 other teams in the semifinals.
In its first semester, the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) is offering two courses to integrate engineering into other disciplines.
Google Inc. announced Wednesday that it has named President Tilghman to its board of directors. Tilghman is now "literally one of the bosses" at Google, according to Eric Schmidt '76, chairman and CEO of the popular search engine, who also serves as a University trustee."She is a natural leader," Schmidt said in an interview.
For Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06, the cost of his eating club just wasn't worth it.The former Campus Club member liked having a club to call his own, but Joseph, who serves as USG president, became an RCA his junior year.
With the opening of The Bent Spoon last summer, downtown Princeton acquired its fourth ice cream and sweets shop.
Scott Wolman '07 spent the summer assembling an electric bike without an instruction manual, putting together a toy rock crawler, trying to find a Rolls Royce keychain in Chinatown and placing copies of Maxim magazine in random locations throughout Central Park.
After two years in the White House as deputy assistant for national security affairs and director of policy planning, Aaron Friedberg has returned to his joint post as a professor of politics and international affairs in the politics department and the Wilson School."I came back because I wanted to have the freedom to write about the things that most interest me and because I missed teaching," Friedberg said in an email.Friedberg began his government post in June 2003 on a National Service leave, which allows faculty members to serve in the government or in international organizations, and after one year was asked stay on until 2005.The transition back to Princeton has been "relatively painless," Friedberg said.
Two centuries after the birth of famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, his legacy lives on in children's fairytales and Disney movies such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid." In honor of Andersen's bicentenary next month, the Cotsen Children's Library will host an international conference to bring together scholars, actors and filmmakers in celebration of his achievements.Titled "Hidden But Not Forgotten: The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the Twentieth Century," the conference will feature presentations of numerous scholarly papers on Andersen's writings and legacy, as well as film screenings, theatrical renditions of Andersen's tales and live storytelling.Cotsen's celebration, scheduled for Nov.
A group of University professors has finished collecting data from the Campus Life in America Student Survey (CLASS), launched last year to explore the issue of racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses.
Students and community members gathered in the basement of The Annex restaurant last Thursday for the third meeting of Drinking Liberally, one the newest political associations for both students and community members.
Paul Nelson '06 has been doing a great deal of file-sharing recently ? and the administration doesn't mind.
Making his way through the halls of headquarters with a military bearing and brisk manner, Red Cross volunteer John Green looked like a man on a mission ? except for the slightly confused look on his face.
An increase in the number of tutoring programs offered at Community House ? a student-run organization that reaches out to community youth and adults ? has led to a shortage of volunteers this fall, especially in the Big Brother program, which doesn't have enough male volunteers."The [Princeton] community is relying more heavily on volunteers than [on public school] teachers," Laura Collins '06, a Community House volunteer and chair of the Student Executive Board, said.
A day after the attempted assault of a female undergraduate student in a Frist Campus Center bathroom Sunday night, little new information about the attack has been made available and the assailant is still at large.The Department of Public Safety continued to search for the assailant on and around campus Monday.
