While most students have seen them zipping around campus, few see golf carts for the injured as anything more than luxury items for varsity athletes.
The first round of elections for the Class of 2008 concluded Tuesday afternoon with all positions except social chair requiring a second round of runoffs.The contest for president is between Aaron Spolin, who received 199 out of 781 total votes cast, and Grant Gittlin, who received 127 votes.Katie Lawrence received 130 votes and Arjun Reddy had 125 votes in the vice presidential race.The race for secretary was the closest with Megan Petersack receiving 272 votes to Sara Breslow's 270.For treasurer, Kyle Super, who received 209 votes, will be pitted against John Curtius, who received 190 votes. Spolin's agendaSpolin said he was happy with the results from the first round of voting, but added that he would not relax, preferring to continue campaign during the next 48 hours.Spolin's agenda includes the '08 Inter-Collegiate Project, which he hopes will subsidize study breaks among RA groups in different colleges.He also wants to contact alumni to help freshman receive better summer internships, organize volunteer committees for all aspects of freshman life and create an informational website for the class. Gittlin's planGittlin has similar plans for the Class of 2008, choosing to focus on class unity, career opportunities and communications during his campaign.He also said he would use class money for free class gear and to get late meals expanded to other eating venues outside of Frist Campus Center. Voter turnoutAccording to Emily Arensman '06, the USG supervisor of elections, the low percentage of the total votes received by each candidate could be attributed to the number of candidates: Twelve students ran for president this year.Voter turnout was higher than usual, with nearly 66 percent of the 1,175 students in the Class of 2008 casting ballots.While last year's freshman elections still drew the highest percentage ? nearly 70 percent ? the average turnout for class elections ranges from 55 to 60 percent of eligible voters, according to USG statistics.This marks the second year in a row that nearly all positions in freshman elections ended with no clear victor.When no candidate holds a majority, the top two vote-getters face each other in a runoff.This year's runoff will begin at midnight Thursday and last for 24 hours.
Kinder Noble '06 is used to the excitement building up to a big game, the eyes of the crowd, the rush of leading the cheers.
An emeritus University professor and his former graduate student have been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for a theory they refined while working together in the 1970s, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.David Gross and Frank Wilczek GS '75, along with David Politzer, received the award for their work involving the forces that hold atoms together.
Community service is not a new concept to Prospect Ave., but for the first time Tuesday club leaders came together behind a service program called the Prospect Alliance for Community Action (PACA).The culmination of weeks of work, PACA plans to coordinate the community service activities of the clubs."The presidents of the eating clubs decided that we could pool our resources to make a larger impact in the community," Inter-Club Council and Quadrangle Club President J.W.
The Princeton University Art Museum will have the opportunity to demonstrate its prominence as a collector of American art with its new exhibit, opening Oct.
After a month of voter registration drives, Princeton Votes 2004 announced today that it has registered 1,295 new voters, equivalent to approximately one-third of the eligible voters among the undergraduate population, according to an organization press release.Of the new voters, 1,104 registered in New Jersey, with the remaining 191 registering as absentee voters in other states.The new registrations come on top of approximately 1,000 existing University student registrations in New Jersey, said Evan Baehr '05, president of the College Republicans and one of the P-Votes founders.Voter registration in New Jersey for the Nov.
Princeton Borough and Township officials are considering establishing an emergency management coordinator to oversee local response to crises.While the Township and Borough currently have separate coordinators, supporters of the plan believe that a single czar ? who would manage both municipalities and University response ? would be in a better position to handle a situation like a biological or chemical attack.The impetus for the idea came when Theodore Cashel, emergency management coordinator for Princeton Township, left in April.The University's efforts to discuss emergency preparedness with local agencies strengthened desires for a single official.Phyllis Marchand, mayor of Princeton Township, said her support for the plan stems from a recognition of the close linkage of the Township, Borough and University.
After naming an interim director to succeed Rabbi James Diamond, the executive search committee of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) has convened to find a permanent director.The successor will follow Diamond's nine years of leadership that helped transform the CJL.Diamond resigned as CJL director last spring, capping a 36-year career.
Cap and Gown and Ivy Clubs concluded a highly selective fall Bicker last week, with more than 40 bickerees apiece and far fewer acceptances, according to club members.Of the 45 students who bickered Ivy, just eight were accepted, members said.Further down Prospect Avenue, at Cap and Gown, 13 of 42 bicker candidates won a spot in the club.Ivy and Cap each drew about 140 bickerees in the spring.Tower, which boasted the largest Bicker class in the spring, remained a popular 'Street' option.
The University announced Monday that it will overhaul the residential college advising system next year.
Since the University announced no-loan financial aid in 2001, many peer institutions have moved to a similar format, and the latest change has come at Brown University.Nonetheless Don Betterton, University director of financial aid, said that he remains confident that Princeton boasts the best program."We have no plans to make major changes to our aid policies," Betterton said.
"I thought the tour was great," said Olivia Kang, a prospective applicant from Glendale, Calif., after taking a tour of the University.
The command options on Thefacebook.com are familiar enough to the average Princeton student.
It's 2:30 a.m., and the campus is quiet. Joe Godino rings up a customer's bill and tells him, "At the moment, I'm reading 'Gravity' by James Hartle and a book on abstract algebra by Michael Artin."As the recipient of a Ph.D.
Last Monday, the Committee on the Freshman Year Social Experience issued its final report and provided recommendations to change pre-orientation, orientation and student organizations and activities.The committee was formed last fall to examine "the ignition experience" of freshman, Dean of Undergraduate Students and chairman of the committe Kathleen Deignan said.Faculty, students and administrators joined the group to examine a typical student's first hundred days at the University, and "how we could make it better," Deignan explained.The committee was divided into three subsections to investigate pre-orientation, orientation and organizations and activities. Pre-orientationThe pre-orientation subcommittee examined the University's information delivery system.While students complained about "the overload of information that they receive over the summer," according to the official committee report, they also expressed confusion about subjects ranging from Propect's eating clubs to fraternities and sororities.As a result, the committee recommended the University "find ways to organize the mailings [and] provide the same information on a website" to ease students fears of missing important information.The committee was also surprised by the "impact of who you know before you come here," Deignan said.
Comedian Lewis Black of Daily Show fame will be "Back in Black" ? and orange ? when he comes Oct.
Like many Princeton graduates of the 1990s, Joe Sigelman '93 and Randy Altschuler '93 found jobs in the financial industry.One night in 1999, they chatted long distance as they were up late working on presentations for their clients.It was 3 a.m.
The Borough Council introduced a modified version Tuesday night of a fire alarm ordinance that seeks to reduce the number of false fire alarm calls.If passed, the ordinance will require Borough property owners with installed fire alarm systems to pay an annual $125 registration fee and a $500 penalty fee if more than four false alarms are triggered each year.The fee was increased from $300 after the Borough solicited public input as to the rates it should use.If the property charged with the penalty has fewer than four false alarms the next year, the fee would be reduced to $150.The number of false alarms in the Borough "has come down quite a bit in the last two to three years," Borough Chief Fire Inspector Bill Drake said.
On Sept. 17, the Inter-Club Council (ICC) offered the Class of 2008 a chance to dine at an assigned eating club through the new initiative, "A Taste of Prospect." Students who had signed up from Forbes College, however, were accidentally left out of the program due to an oversight.The glitch was discovered early that day when the students who had signed up from Forbes College learned they had not been added to the roster."I take responsibility for [the oversight]," J.W.
