Following a tense faculty meeting that left in doubt Harvard professors' confidence in their leader, University President Lawrence Summers released for the first time Thursday a transcript of his controversial remarks on women in science.
Three days after the Pride Alliance posted 1,000 gay-themed Valentine's Day fliers across campus, the complaints of a few students prompted Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne to order the posters' removal from public spaces.The posters showed same-sex couples kissing under the slogan "Love = Love" and were meant to "raise awareness that LGBT love is one kind of love," Pride Alliance president Claire Woo '06 said.Among the students who filed complaints was John Andrews '05, who noted in an e-mail to Dunne that the lack of attribution on the posters violated school policy.Andrews cited a regulation in "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" stating that "public postings without sponsorship of a registered University organization shall be removed or deleted" if a student objects.Although the posters did not print the name of the group that sponsored the campaign, the Pride Alliance took the credit on its website and in interviews with The Daily Princetonian.Andrews, an outspoken conservative and former editor of the Princeton Tory, a conservative student publication, said his complaint was not motivated by his personal views on the matter."Content aside, this is an issue of procedural fairness," Andrews said.
John Prausnitz GS '55 has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, a prestigious award for achievement in science and technology.Prausnitz, a chemical engineer at the University of California at Berkeley, will receive the medal along with nine other honorees, at a ceremony at the White House on March 14.He has won several awards over the course of his career, including an honorary degree from Princeton in 1995, but "none [were] as good as this one," Prausnitz said in an interview Thursday.The medal honors his work at UC Berkeley in applying molecular thermodynamics ? a field most commonly associated with chemistry and physics ? to engineering problems.His research helped to improve the safety of chemical manufacturing processes by identifying volatile combinations of chemicals."You can calculate compositions of chemical mixtures which will be explosive or which will burn, and of course you want to stay away from those," Prausnitz said.His discoveries also improved the efficiency of chemical manufacturing."The main part [of the research] is actually economic, if you want to make chemicals and want to do it in the cheapest way possible," he said.Prausnitz cited the difficulty of isolating specific molecules in chemical compounds for commercial purposes."An example is petroleum, which has a lot of different molecules.
Gregory Mankiw '80 has resigned from his post as one of President Bush's top economic advisers, a position he has held since 2003.
USA Today awarded Jordan Amadio '05 a place in its 20-member All-USA College Academic Team. A panel of judges chose from a pool of more than 600 applicants from colleges and universities nationwide, and the finalists were included in Thursday's edition of USA Today.The distinction, which includes a $2,500 award, is bestowed annually on "students who excel not only in scholarship but also in leadership roles on and off campus," according to USA Today."It's really a great honor," Amadio said.
Graduate students in the classics department will meet with faculty members to raise concerns over the lack of University support in their sixth year of study, after raising the issue with President Tilghman at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community Monday.Because sixth-year graduate students are not recognized as officially enrolled, they are ineligible for the benefits guaranteed to students in their first five years, including housing, health insurance and access to the Assistant in Instruction budget that employs them to work as preceptors.Because of the unique demands of the classics program, however, graduate students in that department have traditionally required six years to finish their degrees."There is a long gauntlet of course requirements," in addition to language examinations in Greek and Latin and general examinations in history, literature and program-specific topics, said fifth-year classics student Chris Noble GS.Noble said the department has been "supportive," adding, "They are doing their best to help us out."Andrew Ford, director of graduate studies for the department, said he and department chair Dennis Feeney are investigating other ways to secure funding for the students or find them alternative employment, possibly in the Princeton Writing Program."The story's not over," Ford said.
Speaking to a large crowd in McCosh 50 yesterday evening, Stephen Wolfram, creator of the popular computer program Mathematica, said that all of nature can be modeled by computer programs based on one simple rule or pattern.
Trading Whoppers for watercress, students will soon be able to feast on healthy salads and sandwiches rather than cheap, quick burgers on Nassau Street.Burger King, which closed earlier this year, will be replaced by Saladworks, a higher-priced chain that specializes in salads and sandwiches.
Federal regulations passed last week will reduce obstacles to entry and study in the United States
David Bradford, professor and associate dean of the Wilson School, remains in critical condition after being admitted to Temple University Hospital Feb.
Princeton Tsunami Relief (PTR) has collected more than $17,500 from University students, faculty and staff, organizers announced this week.
The editors of the Nassau Weekly will apologize in next week's issue for publishing a list of "Top 10 Holocaust movies I've never seen but would like to," which angered some students.The list, which was printed in the magazine's Feb.
Career Services will hire a new part-time internship coordinator, following limited approval of a funding request by the Priorities Committee in late January.Director of Career Services Beverly Hamilton-Chandler said the request was made because "there are concerns" about the lack of sufficient staff.Due to budgetary restraints, the Priorities Committee rejected the office's request for funds for two positions paying $41,500 each, and designated $20,000 for one halftime employee instead."During the peak application period of November to February, our processing time for recommendation letters has been 10 working days," Hamilton-Chandler wrote in her request.
The Progressive Review ? a liberal publication at the University ? is one of 14 campus publications across the country receiving a grant from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C.The $2,500 grant comes as part of the Campus Progress program, which is being launched today by CAP.Campus Progress aims to support progressive movements on college campuses and was founded partly to counter the $35 million conservative groups give annually to college organizations."Our goal is to support the progressive alternative on college campuses," CAP campus programs director Ben Hubbard said.
Harry Frankfurt, professor emeritus in the philosophy department, wasn't bullsh-tting when he wrote an essay titled "On Bullsh-t."The work, which was recently published in book form by the Princeton University Press under the same title, defines bullsh-t and addresses its prevalence in American society.
Edmund Hull '71, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen and winner of several State Department awards, has been appointed to fill Wilson School's first Diplomat-In-Residence position.The position was created by Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80.
The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a resolution Sunday supporting the creation of a proxy voting advisory committee that would consider ethical issues concerning the University's investments and make recommendations.According to the resolution, which was sponsored by the Princeton Coalition Advocating Investor Responsibility (P-CAIR), the proxy voting advisory committee is designed to promote social and ethical investment by the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO).The committee will research any controversial voting issues that arise to determine if the investments adhere to the University's community values.Ben Shell '05, the founder of P-CAIR, hopes that the committee will include students, faculty and alumni who will serve as ethical liaisons to PRINCO."Because Princeton has the fourth largest endowment in the country, we are socially responsible to care about this issue," he said.Jesse Creed '07, vice president of USG, attended the meeting at which the resolution was discussed and endorsed."The role of USG is twofold: first, to lobby administration to enact a specific plan and then, to foster a good campus community to the extent that we can," Creed said.
The USG released the results of a University-wide survey Monday that has provided new insight into how students feel that race affects campus life.Chris Willis '07 and Matt Shapiro '05, members of the USG Survey on Race Committee, presented the report at a Council on the Princeton University Community meeting Monday afternoon.
The University will officially launch a new homepage Thursday, following a month-long preview to accommodate feedback from the student body.
A surprising number of students view self-segregation in a positive light, according to a campus-wide race survey presented at a Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting Monday afternoon.Students and University administrators were on hand to hear the results of the survey, which was conducted by the Undergraduate Student Government Survey on Race Committee last year.The presentation was the culmination of a survey conducted last year to gauge student perceptions of race relations on campus, committee co-chairs Chris Willis '07 and Matt Shapiro '05 said.Presiding over the meeting, President Tilghman called self-segregation a "truly deep problem.""The themes in this report are similar to those found in [surveys done at] other Universities," she said.
