It is a little after 2 a.m. on Dean's Date and one place outside study rooms is clearly hopping: U-2, the U-Store's convenience store.At this time last year, U-2 would have been closing for the night.
A little over half of Americans vote for President, less than a third for members of Congress ? most say it's because their vote doesn't matter.
Sophomores or juniors awakened by jackhammers and cement mixers working on the "ellipse" dormitory next to Poe Field over the last two years might feel happier about the construction this spring, when the brand-new rooms become available for upperclass room draw.Though the 220-bed dorm will not be officially completed until September move-in, floor plans will be available online from the housing department before room draw, said George Olexa, assistant director of physical planning.Olexa gave The Daily Princetonian a tour of the $27 million building, which is on schedule and on budget, though still in need of extensive interior work.The ellipse dorm ? named for the shallow curve it forms, along with Scully and the Carl Icahn Laboratory, against Poe Field ? features 15 four-room, four-person suites as well as many single rooms and singles connected by a bathroom, as in Scully.But unlike Scully, the ground floor suites will be accessed by entryways like those in the Gothic dorms, the single rooms will be larger by an average of 30 square feet and all rooms will feature hardwood flooring.The architecture is more ornamented than in Scully."I love the roofline.
At least 18 students who ate at Colonial Club went to McCosh Infirmary Wednesday night for acute gastric enteritis.
January 22, 2004Provost Amy Gutmann, who has been President Tilghman's second-in-command for two-and-a-half years, will leave the University on June 30 to become the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania, capping a 28-year Princeton career.Tilghman will scramble to find a replacement to serve as her chief academic and budget officer as Gutmann finalizes her work here and makes plans for Penn.Gutmann's priorities for Penn include raising the profile of its undergraduate college and growing its endowment, which is a third the size of Princeton's despite Penn enrollment being five times as large, she said.Because of Penn's strong graduate schools, "the undergraduate college can tend to be overshadowed," Gutmann said today in an interview in her Nassau Hall office.
An interim report issued by the recently appointed Task Force on Health and Wellbeing has found "significant deficiencies and ample room for improvement" in campus health services.The task force noted that greater information and counseling about nutrition is needed for students so they can make healthier food choices.
When Julia Friedlander '06 traveled to Manchester, N.H., last October to spend a weekend campaigning for Gen.
The band Fountains of Wayne, best known for its hit single "Stacy's Mom," is coming to McCarter Theatre on Feb.
In the midst of a stressful week of finals, sophomores are studying, writing papers, taking exams and contemplating their meal options for the next two years.
Vincent Vitale '04 has won the 2004 Daniel Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, enabling him to study for the next two years at Oxford University.Vitale, an A.B.
Borough Police raided Stanhope Hall early yesterday morning after receiving a tip from an anonymous Tory staff writer that there was evidence of widespread drug abuse in the building that houses Public Safety's main office.According to the police report, the caller described a "cloud of marijuana smoke" that was "billowing" from several ground-level windows in the building.The police were greeted by several visibly intoxicated proctors, one of whom was obviously delusional.
The University is expected to announce today that a significant number of transcripts ordered through the registrar's website in December were never sent because of a computer glitch, an official in the registrar's office said, putting seniors' graduate school and fellowship applications at risk.The official, who asked to have his name withheld, said the problem began Dec.
Matt Margolin '05 was coronated yesterday, officially taking the reins of power from outgoing USG president Pettus Randall '04 in a ceremony in Nassau Hall.
Health Services is planning a series of new initiatives for February, beginning with Condom Fest the first Saturday of the new term. Nurses"Our nurses have been identifying a significantly higher proportion of pregnancies among undergraduates, and we are concerned," said Daniel Silverman, director of Health Services whose email address, silvermd@princeton.edu, notes his qualification. Childbearing"Although statistics show that when a child is the result of the copulation of two alumni, levels of contributions to the University tend to be high, we don't think childbearing is another task already busy undergraduates need here at Princeton." Flu FestCondom Fest will be held in the multipurpose room of Frist Campus Center, following in the footsteps of Flu Fest, with a range of delights including pina coladas, bananas and edible contraceptives.
Yesterday was Dean's Date, which meant for students turning in a paper at the last moment. As has been the tradition, students ran past McCosh Hall, but this year not everything went according to plan.Two students were injured and sent to McCosh Infirmary yesterday.
Jeff Bezos '86, CEO of Amazon.com, has pledged $8 million to Whitman College, making the top two donors to the planned college both dot-com executives."I couldn't be happier to give back to Princeton," Bezos said in an interview yesterday.University administrators were equally happy to have secured additional funding for the $110 million project.Bezos and eBay CEO Meg Whitman '77, for whom the college is named, share more than being the college's sponsors.
ClarificationsThe Tuesday and Thursday issues of the 'Prince' . . . well, we forgot about them this month.There was a misplaced apostrophe in yesterday's 'Prince': "(singing) If it's a contraction, it's IT-apostrophe-S, but if it's possessive, it's just IT-S . . . scalawag."An article about the Tory in yesterday's 'Prince' incorrectly stated that membership of the Tory was open to all races.
"I called my parents five minutes after I got the phone call, and I wasn't very coherent. I was like, 'I . . . uuh . . . got the scholarship.' But they thought I was crying, so they tried to console me, until I finally made it clear I had won.
One day after the New Jersey Senate's decision to legally recognize gay and lesbian domestic partners, the University announced Friday that the Student Health Plan will extend coverage for same-sex domestic partners.The University "felt it was the right thing to do," Associate Director of University Health Services Janet Finnie said.Only a small portion of the graduate and undergraduate student body will be affected by the change in Student Health Plan, but "for those it does effect, it [is] important."Finnie said the University's announcement was independent of the State Senate's vote.On Jan.
Robert Mulcare '04 and Cynthia Romero '04 are two of 12 college students nationwide to win the 2004-05 Mitchell Scholarship, a prestigious award funding one year of study at any college or university in Ireland or Northern Ireland, the U.S.-Ireland Alliance announced yesterday.Mulcare plans to earn a master's degree in economic policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Romero plans to work toward a master's degree in comparative ethnic conflict at Queen's University in Belfast.
