A man convicted of blowing up his neighbors' homes and shooting their pets stands before a judge."Why did you do it?" the judge asks."I claim the right of a belligerent," the man responds.With this anecdote ? alluding to the U.S.
Students plagued by swarms of email and repeated "approaching quota" warnings are finally getting some relief.
The Toyota Motor Corporation has outperformed its American competitors by keeping prices low with a lean management structure and a contented workforce, the company's North American president Hideaki Otaka said at a lecture in the Frist Campus Center Monday.Otaka said that when Toyota took on the Big Three manufacturing giants ? Chrysler, General Motors and Ford ? in the wake of the 1970s oil embargo, no one could have predicted the Japanese firm would seize a substantial share of the American auto market."It was like a high school football team trying to challenge the New England Patriots," said Otaka, who has run Toyota's North American operations since last May.Though the Big Three American automakers continue to sell more cars than Toyota overall, current trends favor the Japanese firm.
As part of the U-Store's yearlong celebration of Albert Einstein's life and accomplishments, Washington University adjunct professor of physics John S.
University Public Safety officers will be on hand when corrections officers escort four inmates of the state prison system into McCosh Hall Thursday afternoon.
Members of the USG met with administrators last week to discuss opening an establishment to sell alcoholic beverages to all members of the University community above drinking age ? including undergraduate students.
After years of complaints from students and sexual health staff that suitable facilities for collecting evidence of rape were too far away from the University, the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) became certified to perform sexual assault examinations late last year.UMCP recently announced plans to move from its current Witherspoon Street location, but officials say they do not believe it will affect the quality of care or the accessibility of rape kits.The hospital's new location has not yet been determined, though it will be in Princeton Borough or Township.
The USG adopted a "bill of rights" for mail services that suggests ways to revamp the mail system on campus at its meeting Sunday night.The bill is based on the concept of "one mailbox, one person, four years" and addresses issues such as individual mailboxes for students, a consistent four-year mailing address and package and publication delivery.The bill will be presented to Vice President for Administration Mark Burstein today."We're very optimistic that all this actually will happen as the administration has been very receptive to these ideas," said U-Councilor Becky Brown '06, who presented the bill Sunday.The bill proposes reforms to address six concerns.
Prospective applicants to Princeton's Class of 2010 are gearing up for the revamped SAT's debut this weekend, though the University will accept math and verbal scores from both the old and the new versions this fall."For juniors, we will accept the highest verbal and the highest math scores, whether for the old or new test," Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.
President Tilghman was named to the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prestigious research institution based in Washington, D.C., at the Endowment's meeting on Jan.
Rising sophomores submitted contracts for substance-free housing last week, leaving plenty of rooms available for the Class of 2009.While some students chose substance-free to increase their chances of securing prime real estate, others said the rooms available did not influence their decision to sign the contract.Rockefeller College received 25 contracts for the 60 available beds in Buyers Hall, Forbes College received 58 contracts for about 70 beds on the first floor of the Main Inn, Butler College received 25 contracts for 100 beds in Lourie-Love Hall, Mathey College received 50 contracts for roughly 75 beds available in entryways six through nine of Blair Hall, and Wilson received 40 contracts for 140 beds offered in 1939 and Dodge-Osborne Halls.Substance-free beds that have not been taken will become available to rising sophomores in regular draw, with the stipulation that anyone who draws the rooms must sign a substance-free contract.Mathey College Master Antoine Kahn described his criteria for creating substance-free housing, which he said did not include finding exceptional rooms to entice students to draw substance-free."The first idea was to try to find a dorm where we could really make a coherent sub-free living space," Kahn said.
Hany Girgis, a fourth-year graduate student in the molecular biology department, works 12 hours a day.
A week after student protests shut down the Yale admissions office, Yale University President Richard Levin announced Thursday that he will eliminate the required family contribution from the financial aid package for undergraduate students from low-income families.Under the new financial aid program, families with an annual income of less than $45,000 will no longer be required to pay for any part of their children's education.
When the twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, foreign policy shot to the forefront of the American political consciousness.
There will be no early retirement for Charles Davall. After the former Chief of Police of the Borough Police Department retired from the force on January 31st, he joined Public Safety as the new Deputy Director of Operations."It's not much different than my old job," Davall said.
The student auction service on the USG's Point website, formerly pBay, was renamed TigerTrade on Thursday after a University lawyer raised concerns about possible copyright violations.Clay Bavor '05, who launched the pBay website this week, received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon from University counsel Clayton Marsh '85.Marsh warned that legal consequences might result from use of the pBay name and logo.
Early last month, the Princeton Borough Council appointed former Captain Anthony Federico as the new Chief of Police.
Legend has it that a Chinese emperor developed the board game Go 4,000 years ago to improve the intelligence of his dull-minded son.
The state's annual budget, released this week by Acting Governor Richard Codey, aims to increase spending on higher education by nearly $50 million while cutting $600 million from the overall budget.While the increase will have a direct impact on public colleges and universities, it will likely have little to no effect on the University because it is a private institution."The governor has shown that he values higher education," said Paul Shelly, spokesman for the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities.The new budget reduces total state spending to $27.4 billion to reduce the $4 billion deficit.The University will receive an amount close to last year's $700,000, a figure based on the number of attending New Jersey residents, predicted Pam Hersh, director of Community and State Affairs at the University."As far as I understand, the proposed budget recommends about the same direct aid for the independent sector," said Hersh.Much of the swell in education funding is earmarked for employee benefits, to be shared among the state's 12 senior public institutions.
Members of several graduate student unions delivered a report critical of race and gender equity in Ivy League faculty to the offices of President Tilghman and other Ivy League heads Tuesday.The report, titled "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League," argues that women and people of color are grossly underrepresented in Ivy League faculties and doctoral programs, suggesting that hiring disparities persist among underrepresented groups."The goal is to begin a dialogue about the fact that the Ivy League has remained an elitist institution," said Melissa Stuckey '00, one of the students who presented the report.
