With a $9.6 billion endowment as of March 2004, the University has an enormous amount of investing power.
What if your student group could get a free Xbox? How about a bunch of video games to go along with it?
New Jersey's college presidents voted unanimously Monday to request an additional $208.6 million in higher education funding from the state following several years of stretched finances.The proposals were passed at a meeting of the Executive Board of the New Jersey Presidents' Council at Rutgers University.
Squash may soon be the 39th club sport offered at the University.The prospective team, organized by Luke Cohler '08, is still awaiting University approval.Cohler said he wanted to start the club because he enjoys the sport but does not consider himself "varsity material."Club Squash practices and matches could be easier to schedule than team sports that have to share fields."Princeton is unusual in that we have two squash courts, one for varsity and one for others," Cohler said.
Three weeks after OIT upgraded its email software, students are still reporting glitches and incompatibilities with their PCs.Some students still cannot send Microsoft Word attachments while using the browser Internet Explorer 6.1 with the new Sun ONE Messaging Server, said Dan Oberst, head of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services at OIT.OIT has been in close contact with Sun Microsystems, the makers of the new messaging system, and has received all but one final patch for the system.
If you happen to receive one of the last times during room draw, you can expect to spend next year in a tiny, cramped dorm room.
The director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, John Miller, came to the University Wednesday to declare that slavery exists in the world today ? and must be fought.After projecting powerful images of the horrors of modern-day slavery from a U.N.-sponsored informational film, Miller said slavery has been on the rise in the past 30 to 40 years."We are talking about a premier human rights issue of the 21st century," he said to the half-full Dodds Auditorium in the Wilson School.In his lecture "The Tragedy of Modern-Day Slavery: Combating Trafficking in Persons," Miller discussed a U.S.
After a steep drop last year, the number of applications received for the University's early decision program nearly rebounded to previous levels, amounting to a "healthy increase" of 10 percent, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said Wednesday.As of today, the admission office had received exactly 2,000 early decision applications for the Class of 2009.
Upon first impression, the new Subway on Witherspoon Street feels immediately familiar. The soft lighting and bright colors on the menu are no different than at any other Subway.
Thomas Kean '57 and Nathan Myhrvold GS '83 were chosen Tuesday to be the recipients of Princeton's most prestigious alumni awards for 2005.Kean, former New Jersey governor and current president of Drew University, was selected for the Woodrow Wilson Award.
In "The Rule of Four," the popular novel set at the University by Ian Caldwell '98 and Dustin Thomason, the characters perpetually navigate dangerous underground steam tunnels on campus.Though some students may have disregarded this plot component as just another fictional element, Sgt.
David Billington, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named the 2005 Walter L.
When he browsed through the course catalog several years ago, the politics department's then-director of undergraduate studies, Jeffrey Herbst, saw something wrong.
In a few rather crowded rooms on the Firestone Library's C Floor, there is an alternate universe ? one revolving around the public and private papers written and received by Thomas Jefferson during his lifetime.The collection, titled "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," has been gathered over a period of more than 60 years and published in multiple volumes by the Princeton University Press.Headed by Barbara Oberg, a history professor and general editor of the collection, most of the editorial staff started work on the project six years ago.The team of editors is currently working on the period leading up to the bitterly partisan election of 1800.
Telemarketing firms continue to target students despite University policies against unsolicited phone calls and student complaints."Hi, I'm a representative from Clout, offering to send you a deactivated credit card and information package after you answer a short series of questions," the pitch begins.The representatives advertise that the credit card incurs no costs or annual fees and encourages students to sign up now and decide later.
The Undergraduate Student Government hopes that a survey on race relations issued last spring ? to which 55 percent of the undergraduate student body responded ? will lead to a comprehensive report later in the semester on how students feel about minority affairs on campus.The online survey ? primarily initiated by the Undergraduate Life Commitee ? was sent out in February to assess the student body's view on campus minority relations."We determined that having a quantitative study as opposed to anecdotal evidence would accurately gauge the nature of relations at the University," said Matt Shapiro '05, co-chair of the committee that reviewed the responses.
The surge of cell phone use around the world over the past few years has not bypassed the University community.
The Princeton Borough council unanimously passed a resolution addressing immigration reform in the community Tuesday.The resolution outlines the need for undocumented immigrants to feel comfortable contacting local police without fear of deportation and recognizes the Borough's commitment to restoring trust among residents, municipal government and the police department.After the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested eight illegal immigrants living on Witherspoon Street last month, the Hispanic community and local activists have pushed the Borough to reform its relationship with immigrants, who provide a major source of inexpensive labor in the area.The main problem cited by community members is the distrust between local police and the Hispanic community, which stems from the police's presence at the Oct.
President Tilghman's salary, $533,057 for the 2002-2003 fiscal year including benefits, is in line with nationwide trends in college presidents' salaries and matches up with the pay of Ivy League presidents, a new report shows.Tilghman makes more than the presidents of Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth, and less than those at Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale.Nationwide, salaries for college presidents have increased dramatically: 19.2 percent between 2002 and 2003.Tilghman's salary increased at a more moderate 9.5 percent from the $486,672 she earned in 2001-2002.
The University's Priorities Committee met Monday night to discuss shortfalls in the University's operating budget during what Provost Christopher Eisgruber '83 called "constrained times."Due in part to high energy prices, Eisgruber said "the news on the budget front is a little gloomier" this year than it has been in past years.He specified that the committee, which makes recommendations to distribute discretionary funding, is looking at a $4 million dollar deficit in its operating budget.And because the administration is concerned about deficits in next year's budget as well, University community members will notice increased discipline on the "consumption side of the budget," Eisgruber said.If the University can't slow spending, it will have to decrease its renovation budget, Eisgruber said, adding that a 10 percent cut in renovation spending would "pull the budget back into balance." He noted that such cuts in renovation would be "hard, but easier than administrative cost cuts.""When times are good, the amount of money available can be a couple of million dollars," Eisgruber said.
