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Club sports teams report lacking funds

Club sports teams report lacking funds

The women's rugby team leaves for California today to play Stanford in the final four ? but they will be buying their own plane tickets.The team receives $3,000 from the University annually, but will spend more than 10 times that amount this year on referees, union dues, transportation and ambulances at their games, said former rugby team president Lisa Newman-Wise '05.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Smoking banned near public library

The Princeton Borough Council voted in favor of an ordinance banning smoking in the new outdoor plaza next to the Princeton Public Library.The ordinance was passed with a 5 to 1 vote.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Professors' salaries third highest in nation

Full professors at the University earn an average annual salary of $151,100 ? the third highest in the country, according to a report released last week by the American Association of University Professors.This is a 3.7 percent increase over last year's average of $145,600, but inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index increased by 3.3 percent over the period covered, making the actual increase in buying power slight.Salaries also rose slightly for lower-ranked faculty members.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

West, Wallis advocate religious left

Author and evangelist James Wallis and religion professor Cornel West GS '80 spoke Tuesday night about how to change the way liberals and moderates view religion before an overflowing audience in McCosh 50.Wallis criticized the conservative hold on religion, arguing that prophetic religion should be a force for social change.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Students protest Frist at Frist

Correction appendedFor more than 12 hours yesterday, students on Frist North Lawn continuously read from the U.S.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Bowen calls for focus on socioeconomic diversity

American excellence in higher education will falter unless universities provide better opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds, former University president William Bowen GS '58 argues in his latest book.The book, titled "Equity and Excellence in American Education," was released last week."If you want the [United States] to be competitive in the future, you have to do something now," Bowen said in an interview.Bowen, who currently serves as president of the Andrew W.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Williams wins Ruth Lilly Prize

C.K. Williams, a professor in the creative writing program, is the surprised recipient of this year's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award that carries a $100,000 reward.Despite receiving many prestigious awards, Williams said that winning the Lilly Prize "had never even crossed [his] mind" before he received the congratulatory call in the Boston airport a few weeks ago.Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for "Repair," the National Book Award in 2003 for "The Singing" and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987 for "Flesh and Blood." He has published nine collections of poetry, and plans to release his collected works in 2006."C.K.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Ninety years later, a debate stirred

Ninety years after the killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, Peter Balakian is trying to make sure people don't forget."Memory is a moral act.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Meng '05 wins Dale for environmental project

While some post-thesis seniors spend the last few weeks of the year relaxing, Kyle Meng '05 plans to sit in the basement of Fine Hall, finishing a presentation for the U.S.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Lawrence, Hull win '08 class runoff elections

After a few nervous days in limbo, newly-elected Class of 2008 vice president Katie Lawrence and social chair Leland Hull learned Friday of their runoff victories.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Fewer sophomores opt for 'big five' departments

The number of sophomores concentrating in the University's five largest departments has decreased five percent this year, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at a faculty meeting Monday afternoon.With psychology replacing English as the fifth most-popular department for sophomores, 38 percent of the Class of 2007 has chosen to major in politics, history, economics, the Wilson School or English ? down from 43 percent last year and 46 percent historically, Malkiel said.The numbers come in the wake of Malkiel's campaign to diversify students' choices of concentrations and reduce the number of concentrators in the larger departments.Humanities majors increased by 15 percent and natural sciences by seven percent, while social sciences concentrators decreased by seven percent and engineers by four percent.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Seniors Phadke and Phillips win top honors

Seniors Varun Phadke and Graham Phillips were named valedictorian and Latin salutatorian, respectively, at the University faculty meeting Monday.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Pulitzer winner Berg '71 to speak

A. Scott Berg '71, a Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of figures including Charles Lindbergh and Katharine Hepburn, will participate in a discussion tonight with fellow alumnus Roger Berlind '52, a 12-time Tony winning Broadway producer.The book that launched Berg's career, "Max Perkins, Editor of Genius," emerged from Berg's Princeton experience.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

Cultural studies requirement discussed

The USG discussed recommending the institution of a cultural studies requirement in the undergraduate curriculum at its meeting Sunday.Most members agreed that a better understanding of different cultures and the way they interact is important, but opposed the idea of adding another distribution requirement to the 11 A.B.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

Ambassador discusses Afghan past and future

Taking pride in his country's past but looking toward the challenges of the future, the Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, Ravan Farhadi, held an informal talk with University students Friday.Hosted jointly by the Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES), Whig-Clio and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the forum was an outgrowth of an NES course on Afghanistan taught by lecturer Michael Barry.Before the open discussion, Farhadi met privately with the students in Barry's class to talk about his country and their study of it.Princeton is "one of the few, if not the only, universities in the world to have a course on Afghanistan" Barry said.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

Film examines health in Haiti

When novice filmmaker and philanthropist Kimberly Green thought she had completed the script for her first documentary, a colleague looked at the 500-page screenplay and asked her if she was insane.Green eventually came to her senses and shortened the script to a manageable 30 pages.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

Eating clubs help local students with SATs

After three months of reviewing SAT vocabulary tricks and trigonometry lessons, participants in the University's chapter of Let's Get Ready (LGR) ? an student-run college prep and SAT tutoring program ? held its last meeting Sunday.Princeton's chapter, the largest of the 14 university chapters participating in LGR, was founded this year by the Interclub Council (ICC) and supported by all 11 eating clubs.Fifty University students gathered in Frist each week to coach 90 local high schoolers, who were targeted for their interest in attending college and their financial need."I think it's just an amazing program," ICC president Jamal Motlagh '06 said.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

International festival apologizes for slogan

The International Festival (IF) Committee has apologized to the Chicano Caucus for an advertising slogan some Caucus members called insensitive to immigrant communities.The slogan on the posters that were put up around campus read, "Meet the Aliens ... the legal ones."The Caucus will meet today with members of Acción Latina and the International Consortium, which sponsored the festival, to arrange a lunch discussion about the situation.The controversy comes during a period of heightened tension in the local Hispanic community, which has experienced several immigration raids in recent months."Try to understand why a phrase such as: 'come meet the aliens...the legal ones,' evokes unpleasant feelings of international student elitism, disgrace and disrespect for our hard-won rights as immigrants in this country, disregard for our immigrant ancestors, and a mockery of something so dear and poignant to us," Chicano Caucus president Juan Lopez '06 said in an email.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

Kamras '95 wins teaching award

With a bachelor's from the Wilson School and a masters in education from Harvard, Jason Kamras '95 could have chosen among many lucrative job opportunities.

NEWS | 04/21/2005

As Newman's Day approaches, all eyes on Princeton

The Student Health Advisory Board (SHAB) is launching a campaign called "Livesmart" to promote responsible drinking habits among students for Newman's Day, the annual 24-beers-in-24-hours tradition that takes place on campus April 24.SHAB will be handing out free orange rubber wristbands engraved with the word "Livesmart" at Frist Campus Center today and tomorrow.

NEWS | 04/21/2005

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