Greenstaff Inc. of New York City taped an episode of the Korean television series "Sad Serenade," a love story partly based in Princeton, on Nov.
The University will hold a symposium to honor Robert Geddes, the first dean of the University's School of Architecture, on Nov.
Point.Princeton.edu, a new website featuring a list of weekly campus events as well as additional services, will be available to University students starting Wednesday.The new site will advertise student group events as well as departmental lectures, speakers and programs.USG President Matt Margolin '05 said the Projects Board gives money to fund many events that would be more successful with better publicity.The site will list the most important events as well as rank the eight most popular ones.The University maintains a similar site, calendar.Princeton.edu, which Margolin said was difficult to use."The [new] site is very organized and very self explanatory," Margolin said.Students can also customize the site to show events pertinent to their interests.
The Student Task Force on Civic Values will present their recommendations tonight to make Princeton "a major research university committed to excellence."The symposium will be held at 6:30 p.m.
The eight men arrested on Witherspoon Street last month after a federal immigration investigation have been deported from an Elizabeth, N.J., detention facility.Seven were sent back to their home country of Guatemala and one to Mexico, an associate working on their behalf said.The associate, Maria Juega, the local chair of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been actively involved with the eight men and their families since the arrests.She said the men's families remaining in the community are "not doing well" since their deportation.The mother of Johnny Lopez, 19, who was sent back to Mexico, is feeling the effects of life without her son since his deportation."They are never going to understand the pain a mother feels about her son," said the woman, who asked not to be named and spoke in Spanish.The men were arrested after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency officers were let into an apartment during their search for an illegal immigrant.The officers were legally allowed to check the immigration status of the other men in the apartment after those residents provided false paperwork, said ICE Assistant Director for Public Relations Manny Van in an earlier interview."As ICE officers, we cannot turn away from the law," Van said.
Forget about investment banking and consulting. This week, Career Services launched "Not Your Average Career Week."Nicole Snyder, associate director for recruitment and employer relations at Career Services, stressed the importance of exposing students to less publicized job opportunities."We do want to ensure that students are aware of the diversity of the job market," Snyder explained.
Class sweatshirts are a must-have for any University student on campus. Students show class pride by donning sweatshirts emblazoned with '05, '06 and '07 across the back.
Intel Corporation awarded University electrical engineering professor Ruby Lee a research grant for her work in transforming simple microprocessors into supercomputers.Lee, the Forrest G.
Facing a group of six middle school students, Ted Gudmund-sen, '07 hands out five sticky mailing labels, a 10-foot string, 15 straws, 27 toothpicks, and tells them that they have five minutes to build a tower as high as possible.
Princeton placed ninth in the world university rankings published by The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement on Friday.Harvard is the best university in the world, according to the rankings, followed by the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In an attempt to attract new members in the spring semester, eating clubs have started hosting their annual "sophomore dinners."Sophomore dinners, the first events in the run-up to spring semester Bicker and sign-in sessions, typically begin after Fall Break, with each club organizing a unique event.Popular with sophomores, the dinners bring in up to hundreds of potential new members to experience a more typical upperclassman event at the Street ? dinner.Some of the dinners feature special menus, themes or affiliated events.Charter Club, for example, held a "Southwestern Barbecue Fiesta" on Friday, which president Chris Voie '05 called "overwhelmingly successful."And sophomores have been receptive to the dinners.Ben Brady '07 said he plans to attend future events at various clubs.
Falling leaves, the change of seasons and near-freezing temperatures aside, students hailing from the West Coast must adjust to many new aspects of the Princeton life.
New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey delivered his farewell speech Monday in preparation for his Nov. 15 resignation.McGreevey addressed an audience of several hundred supporters and colleagues.
Three writers for Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" spoke at the Princeton U-Store Friday to promote their new book, "America (The Book)."Speaking to a packed audience, Chris Regan, Rob Kutner '94 and Jason Reisch discussed the political legacy left by America's founders and the experience of working as satirical commentators on current events.Following "The Daily Show's format as a mock news show, "America (The Book)" is a mock textbook explaining America's history and government structure.The book uses such devices as cutout dolls, fake campaign ads and suggested classroom activities to discuss subjects ranging from "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom" to "The Future of Democracy: Four Score and Seven Years From Now."Although "The Daily Show" relies heavily on political humor, the writers denied any partisan leanings in the show's content."It's important to comment on what's going on, but also keep a distance from it," said Regan.
The USG considered an amendment to its constitution Sunday that would clarify disciplinary measures over Senate members' attendance at meetings.The amendment is intended to address members' confusion following a move to dismiss the two Class of 2006 senators at the last senate meeting.USG President Matt Margolin '05 informed Class of 2006 Senator Camille Coates that she had been dismissed Oct.
Professor knighted in Lebanon for researchLebanon President Emile Lahoud knighted one of Princeton's own professors Edgar Choueiri on Oct.
Six student delegates represented the University at the Ivy Council fall conference this weekend, examining a range of joint issues from mail to online music sharing.During the three-day conference in Ithaca, N.Y., students from every Ivy League school met to discuss matters of joint concern.Princeton's delegation used the conference as an opportunity to learn how other schools deal with specific issues, such as mail services and summer storage, said head Ivy Council delegate Jay Saxon '05.
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) President Dan Glickman recently announced the issuance of hundreds of copyright infringement lawsuits against people sharing movie files online.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has sought to downplay the operation that resulted in the arrests of eight immigrants last month on Witherspoon Street as local Hispanics gathered to protest the action.The Hispanic community, which held a rally to promote their cause Saturday, describes the Oct.
For the first time, graduate students from various disciplines were able to display their research together for students at Friday's Graduate Research Symposium in Whig Hall.The winning presentation, as judged by her peers, was EEB graduate student Maria Ramos's study of the conflict between reproductive success and the ability to outrun predators in male spiders.Other entrants included Christine Percheski's "Does Mothers' Money Matter?," Nancy Khalek's "Continuity and Change in Byzantine and Early Islamic Damascus" and Nicole Avena's "Sugar-dependence in rats: similarities to drug abuse."These presenters, from the sociology, history and psychology departments, respectively, represented the diversity of the academic work sought by the symposium's organizers."There's an interdisciplinary aspect to it," said committee member Shin-Yi Lin.Karla Evans, also a committee member, agreed that an important goal was "to give an opportunity to graduate students to develop skills in presenting their work to people who are not specialists in their field . . . and to think about the significance of the work."Organizers also wanted community members to participate, and several were present, talking with students about their projects."For a lot of [graduate students], we're being funded by the public and there's really no way the public gets anything out of it, so this was a good opportunity to address that," Lin said.Avena said she appreciated the symposium because "in the psychology department we're only exposed to research in our own department . . . It's been interesting to see what other people are doing and meet people."The organizing committee began setting up the symposium over the summer, which involved fundraising and calling for students to submit abstracts, or 250-word summaries of their research, in preparation for a more thorough poster presentation.
