Steven Healy has been the University's director of Public Safety since Jan. 1. Before coming to Princeton, Healy was the police chief at Wellesley College.
The University's undergraduate admission office witnessed a large drop in early decision applications received this fall, the number declining by between 23 and 25 percent from last year, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.The decline follows last year's all-time high, when the office received 2,350 early applications for the Class of 2007, an increase of 11 percent over the Class of 2006.Though Rapelye confirmed the University had received fewer early applications this year, she warned that the figure is merely an approximation and that last-minute submissions and a postal workers' strike in the United Kingdom mean applications are still trickling into 110 West College.Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities all saw significant changes in their early application numbers as well, The New York Times reported.Harvard saw early numbers drop 47 percent while Yale and Stanford witnessed the opposite swing, with their early numbers rising 42 and 62 percent respectively.Some admissions officials and college counselors said they believe this year's fluctuation in applicant numbers has to do with the revamped structure of early admissions programs at these schools.Last year, both Yale and Stanford had early decision programs that required applicants to matriculate if accepted.
The University might be alien and intimidating to most freshmen first setting foot on campus, and one might guess that, for home-schooled students who have never spent a day in a classroom, the experience seems earth-shattering.
This weekend the University Triangle Club will celebrate its 113th anniversary as it performs this year's fall show, "For Love or Funny," at McCarter Theatre.
Four Princeton scientists and faculty members are involved in a new center that will be founded to focus on the behavior of plasma: Dr. Maasaki Yamada and Dr. Hantao Ji from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and Professors Jeremy Goodman and Russell Kulsrud from the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.Plasma is a hot, charged gas prevalent throughout the universe.
The University demonstrated its love for tigers this week when the it agreed to give $10,000 to aid the transport and housing of 24 Bengal tigers confiscated on Tuesday from a compound in Jackson Township, N.J., by the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection, said Director of Community and State Affairs Pam Hersh."We were also encouraged to help by members of the University community who recognized our institutional attachment to the tiger as our mascot and symbol," Hersh said in an email.The tigers, which are considered an endangered species, were seized in a raid by a unit of the State Division of Fish and Wildlife that included a sharpshooter, The New York Times reported.The compound belonged to Joan Byron-Marasek, a former zoo performer with the nickname "Tiger Lady" who in 1976 founded the Tigers Only Preservation Society, according to the Times.New Jersey has been trying to remove the tigers from the Jackson Township compound since January 1999 when one was discovered roaming loose in the streets, the Times reported.After winning a legal battle to gain possession of the tigers, however, the state encountered the problem of funding an evacuation that will cost approximately $240,000.Hersh said the DEP approached the University with a request that it financially aid the transportation of the tigers to the Wild Animal Orphanage near San Antonio, Texas, some 1,300 miles from Jackson Township."The DEP is an agency with whom we work extensively and [we] often ask them for help and advice," Hersh said.
The Princeton Justice Project, a student group designed to address social injustice, removed itself from the sponsorship of the Pace Center for Community Service after the University raised concerns about the partisan nature of the group.The PJP has now registered as a student group with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
She makes it to the front stoop of the eating club and comes to a stop. She didn't forget her pass; she has her University ID card.Eloise Salmon '07 can't enter the club because of the three steps blocking her way.
In her first year, new admission dean Janet Rapelye has overseen the revamping of the University's viewbook for prospective students, which now includes extensive, detailed course descriptions.
Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, raised questions to make students rethink their daily ethical choices this past Tuesday in the second of a series of ethics discussions sponsored by the Office of Religious Life.Singer ? whom Wilson College assistant master Eliot Ratzman GS introduced as "the most influential intellectual in the field of ethics" ? focused the discussion on issues of ethical spending and humane treatment of animals."What is it that entitles us to treat nonhuman animals as badly as we do?" Singer asked his audience, and compared the mistreatment of animals today to the treatment of black slaves in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Singer said that though he does not label himself a staunch vegan, he chooses to live a vegan lifestyle in all possible situations.
Nearly 40 percent of upperclassmen aren't in an eating club? Surely not!It's closer to 25 percent, according to the University.
Believe it or not, electronic music can get even more experimental than Radiohead ? and that music will find a home on Princeton's campus this weekend.Listening in the Sound Kitchen, a festival celebrating the world of electronic, electro-acoustic, and computer-generated music, will run from today through Saturday and will include musical performances and panel discussions.The event ? organized by doctoral candidate Tae Hong Park and USG social chair Christoph Geiseler '04 ? will explore the social and cultural ramifications of this genre of art and will attempt to bring recognition to the music and the artists who create it, Park said.The festival features composers, musicians, scientists, scholars and music enthusiasts from all over the U.S.
Originally the title of an oration delivered by Woodrow Wilson 1879 at the University's sesquicentennial, "Princeton in the Nation's Service" speaks to Princeton's devoted patriotism.
In its second year, Princeton in Latin America hopes to build on its early success and continue to provide opportunities to seniors and graduates in Latin America.This year, PiLA aims to add three more yearlong fellowships to work in Costa Rica and Bolivia.
The University Library is considering making music available through its website in an effort to legally distribute recordings to community members.In what would be an extension of the e-reserve system, the University Library may subscribe to a service which would provide streaming audio to users, said Assistant Music Librarian Daniel Boomhower.
Both George Kennan '25 ? the diplomat whose containment strategy guided the U.S. through the Cold War ? and Yale University diplomatic historian John Lewis Gaddis are known for their tough-minded acuity in navigating the complex relationship between the U.S.
Peace in the Middle East requires the existence of Israel and Palestine as two sovereign nations, said Amos Oz, Israeli author and collaborator in the creation of the so-called Geneva Accords.Oz expressed his desire for the end of the conflict, saying he hopes "to become one day a former peace activist." The Geneva Accords, a comprehensive document detailing a model peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, may make this hope a real possibility, he said.Constructed jointly by both Israelis and Palestinians over a period of two years without any publicity, the Geneva Accords, said Oz, represent the first time in the history of the conflict that all issues, even the most "explosive," have been addressed.
Jim Dwyer, a New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient, spoke Monday about his career as a journalist and his experiences as an embedded reporter in Iraq in the first Rockefeller College Master's dinner.Dwyer, a biology major and premed student at Fordham University, became interested in journalism through a twist of fate.
Last week several Princeton trustees and prominent alumni signed their names to an advertisement urging President Bush to "stay the course" in Iraq and the war on terrorism.The statement, which was signed by about 50 prominent individuals, was published in The New York Times and The Washington Post."We are doing this just as Americans or as individuals participating in the American process of trying to do our part and our bit in our democracy," said Dennis Keller '63, a University trustee who signed the statement.The advertisement was not affiliated with any institution; however, a few Princeton alumni were active in asking others to support it, according to Wilbur Gantz '59, one of the signatories."I look on this as something that's not likely to change the course of history, but it's likely to make a statement and an expression of support," Gantz said.The advertisement read, "We believe history has demonstrated the necessity of a worldwide, unrelenting fight against terror in all its forms.
The rift between Islam and the Western world calls for dialogue, friendship and compromise, said Lord George Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Church.
