After a string of gang-related events over the past three months, Princeton Township held a public forum to educate the community about gangs in New Jersey.
After opening exclusively for lunch this semester, the Healthy Eating Lab has added dinner hours to its schedule.
Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post, discussed the developments in Central Asia that led to the 2001 terrorist attacks in Dodds Auditorium on Monday.In a lecture titled "The Roots of September 11: America and Afghanistan," Coll dissected two decades of American involvement in the region, the roots of Islamic fundamentalism and the rise of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Coll, author of "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001," began his talk with a description of the complications involved in covert operations in the region, particularly with bin Laden.In February of 1999, he noted, CIA-trained tribal leaders had located bin Laden in eastern Afghanistan.Though alerted and ready to strike, U.S.
University students who often share files online are under the increasing scrutiny as the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has begun to take action against those who illegally download movies.The MPAA announced its initial wave of lawsuits Nov.
Connoisseurs of dining hall cuisine will get to air their compliments, complaints and suggestions next month when University Dining Services holds focus groups for students Dec.
Despite the public outrage surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, new research by psychology professor Susan Fiske on prisoner abuse found that the incident was not an isolated event.
The road of British author Alan Hollinghurst from budding young novelist to winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize has been marked by his groundbreaking approach towards writing about homosexuality.Hollinghurst, at the University this fall as an Old Dominion Fellow, won this year's prize Oct.
"You don't sound like a foreigner," an interviewer for a consulting firm said to Michaela Jacova '05, who listed English as a second language.
Though most University students have attended an event sponsored by the Trustee Initiative on Alcohol Abuse, often they aren't aware of it.
The campaigning for next year's USG offices officially kicks off this afternoon, with juniors Shaun Callaghan and Leslie-Bernard Joseph vying for the post of USG president.Overall, 32 candidates will compete for 12 positions, with only one position unopposed.
A Middle Eastern expert and Princeton graduate alumnus was sentenced Monday for attempting to smuggle 4,000-year-old artifacts looted from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad into the United States.Joseph Braude was sentenced to six months under house arrest and two years probation after pleading guilty to smuggling and making false statements before U.S.
In reaction to increased gang activity over the past three months, Princeton Township will hold a forum to inform community members about gang-related trends in New Jersey.The Township Police Department, Princeton Middle School and Corner House, a nonprofit counseling agency, are cosponsoring the Nov.
As a majority of students rush home to families and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, international students find themselves in a unique situation.While the International Students at Princeton organizes activities for foreign students during Fall, Christmas and Spring breaks, they don't plan activities for Thanksgiving because the vacation is so brief.Without planned activities, international students are typically on their own for the four days the University is closed.Jonathan Cheng '05, a Toronto native, will spend his fourth Thanksgiving on campus this year.
Scientists and philosophers have long questioned whether the future of the world is entirely a function of its past.
University seniors Joshua Geltzer and Patrick Cunningham have won Marshall Scholarships, which provide funding for American college graduates to study at a British university for two years in any subject.Cunningham, an English major on the creative writing track, will study comedic writers from the late Victorian period at Oxford University.Geltzer, a Wilson School major, will likely study trans-Atlantic relations at either King's College London or Oxford University."It will be very useful to study that dialogue [between Britain and America] from the other perspective and to get to know British culture," Geltzer said.Geltzer said he learned he won the scholarship after receiving a phone call on Nov.
The University played host to royalty Friday as Hereditary Prince Alois and Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein attended an advisory council meeting for the Liechtenstein Institute On Self-Determination.Along with the meeting, the princes attended tea at Forbes College and high tea ? a late afternoon tea ? at Prospect House.At the high tea, Prince Alois explained some of small states' policy concerns."As a small country you have to be quick and flexible," he said.
President Tilghman and three top University officials spent fall recess on a 10-day, four-city tour of cities in China, Korea and Japan designed to raise the University's profile in Asia.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye, Dean of the Graduate School William Russel and Miguel Centeno, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) accompanied Tilghman.The tour, which included stops in Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Seoul, also reached out to University alumni living in those cities."We are at somewhat of a disadvantage relative to peer institutions like Stanford and Harvard because we don't have the very large professional schools," Tilghman said.
The Majors Fair on Friday gave students the chance to either explore major options or find out more about their favorite department.Departments, especially small ones, tried to convince students to concentrate.Since last year, the administration has called attention to the fact that over half of students choose to concentrate in five departments ? English, politics, history, economics and the Wilson School.In an effort to inform students about the opportunities among small departments, the University released "Major Choices" ? a book of profiles of alumni from smaller departments ? earlier this semester.Professor Robert Phinney of the geosciences department, which had 17 junior and senior concentrators last year, said he believes smaller departments have to try harder to attract students. He explained his rationale in terms of the geology department"There's no AP course in geology, and it's not really taught in high school," Phinney said.
Beginning a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Thursday they will be taking legal action against 791 individuals suspected of illegally downloading music files.
A pipe in the Forbes Main Inn burst Friday at 10:30 p.m., flooding the building's second floor with hot water.A brass-plated fitting broke in a pipe causing water to drip through the ceiling.The flood most severely damaged two rooms on the second floor, but the dripping water dampened the carpet of two rooms on the first floor as well."The water came through the closet and also the bathroom . . . There were a couple of inches of water," said Teresa Velez '07, whose second floor room was most affected.
