Though life sometimes seems picture-perfect inside the Princeton bubble, things are not necessarily so just outside our doorstep.
University Provost Amy Gutmann approved a policy on Monday to switch all office-use paper to 100 percent post-consumer waste (PCW) recycled materials on April 1, up from the current 42 percent PCW paper.The policy was advocated by the Princeton Environmental Oversight Committee, a group established by President Tilghman in 2002 to monitor the University's relationship with the environment.According to many of the people involved in the passage of the policy, the move to all recycled paper is a small but important step for campus environmental policy, and will raise awareness for other issues Greening Princeton ? the main student group pushing for the change ? is pursuing.The University is ahead of the pack in adopting the 100 percent PCW recylced paper.It is, in fact, one of the first academic institutions in the country to make the switch, said Ilya Fischoff GS, a member of Greening Princeton.
To examine the intersection between the issues of race and sexual orientation, the USG and the LGBT Peer Educators cosponsored a forum Wednesday night at Frist Campus Center."Students of color and LGBT persuasion know the reality," said Matt Margolin '05, USG president, during the event's opening speech.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a multi-million dollar mansion with a bunch of your best friends, where you could spend your days dining on food prepared by a professional chef and otherwise use the space to throw gigantic parties for hundreds of kids on a weekly basis?For a select few University students ? also known as eating club officers ? this dream is a reality.
As part of new series, the 'Prince' will feature interviews with prominent people on campus. Religion professor Cornel West GS '80, is today's feature.Prince: What is your favorite food?West: Potatoes.P: What one book do you think everyone would benefit from reading?W: The Book of Job.P: What one piece of music do you think everyone would benefit from listening to?W: John Coltrane, My Favorite Things P: What is your favorite way to relax?W: Reading.
Annual Giving, the University's flagship fundraising campaign, has collected more donations this fiscal year than at the same point last year, University officials said Monday."It's encouraging to be ahead, but it's sort of like having a two-run lead in the seventh inning," said Bill Hardt '63, director of the Annual Giving.
Two highly regarded professors of cultural studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, and Murray Friedman of Temple University, led a public discussion Tuesday night on African American-Jewish American relations.The McCosh 50 event marked the beginning of "Black-Jewish Relations Week," a project organized by the Princeton Committee on Prejudice."I think that horizontal discrimination between minority ethnic groups is overlooked sometimes and it's important that we're calling people's attention to this issue," said Lauren Phillips '04, moderator of the discussion.The audience was a racially diverse group, primarily of non-students.Both professors spoke of the particular, peculiar relationship between blacks and Jews."Black America needs allies more than it needs absolution," said Gates, chair of the African and African-American studies department at Harvard.
The face of Firestone Library is looking drastically different this spring, its usually prim fa
In a wide-reaching discussion Monday on the University's future, President Tilghman pledged to keep all main University buildings within a 10 minute walk from the center of campus, praised the coming four year residential college as a third option for undergraduates and reaffirmed her commitment to improving the engineering school and expanding the University's creative arts program.
At the age of three, Laurie Kaufmann '99 was "the bag lady" to her grandmother, who coined the prescient nickname because Kaufmann loved to walk around carrying handfuls of bags.
After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended the dinosaurs' reign on Earth, challenging the dominant theory that a single cataclysmic asteroid hit caused their extinction.Though an asteroid or comet could have struck Earth at the time of the dinosaur extinction, it most likely was, Keller said, "the straw that broke the camel's back" and not the sole cause.For more than a decade, scientists have believed the Chicxulub crater ? submerged off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and and more than 110 miles wide ? was the remnant of the dinosaur-killing event.The time of the dinosaur extinction is known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (K-T). Keller's team, working on the problem since the Chicxulub was identified as the K-T impact crater, accumulated data and evidence from more than 100 localities that simply did not fit the popular K-T impact theory."We wanted to find out just what the kill-effect of this impact was, how quickly the mass dying occurred and whether there were environmental changes preceding it that may have contributed to the mass extinction," Keller said.Keller's findings revealed that the asteroid which formed the Chicxulub crater crashed 300,000 years before dinosaurs died out.
Any veteran of an Orange Key tour can rattle off a few historical high points for the University.
The Housing Department announced Monday that it will guarantee a room for every undergraduate, provided that students meet certain conditions.As explained on the department's website, this policy was made "in support of the academic mission of the University and in recognition that residential living is an integral part of the Princeton educational experience."While Princeton has traditionally provided all students with housing for the past 25 years, the new policy makes this common practice official, said Lisa DePaul, assistant director of undergraduate housing.The statement was issued in direct response to the large number of students who were wait-listed last year.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies has recommended assistant professor Michael Doran GS '97 for tenure, department chair Andras Hamori confirmed Monday.Although Hamori could not give any details regarding the department's decision, the announcement is particularly significant because Doran was recently offered a tenured position at Brandeis University.Once a tenure candidate has earned his department's approval, the next step in the process is review by the Committee of Three, composed of six faculty members, the senior deans and the provost.Doran, who received his masters and doctoral degrees from Princeton, teaches courses in "political Islam, Middle Eastern nationalisms, U.S.-Middle East relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict," according to his profile on the NES website.In recent years, Doran, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, has become an increasingly influential figure in Middle East policy.
DENVER ? Early on, at least, everything was going right for the men's basketball team.Midway through the first half, the No.
DENVER ? The sign Becky Farbstein '04 held up said it all:"Plane Ticket From Jersey: $400 Tickets to NCAA Game: $50 Blowing Off Your Thesis To Dance In Denver: Priceless" Sure, the men's basketball team was playing almost 1,800 miles away from campus.
Though the Princeton Shopping Center on Harrison St. is only a stone's throw from campus, Rutgers University students redesigned the complex last semester, and now the township is considering implementing their vision.The students worked on plans to transform the shopping center into a higher density community center.
As of March 1, 180 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement complaints had been filed with the University this school year.
The Russian presidential race ended with Vladimir Putin's landslide victory on March 14, ending weeks of international media speculation surrounding several unprecedented events.In early February a presidential candidate mysteriously disappeared and reappeared in Kiev, only to later drop out of the race.On Feb.
As Zinzi Bailey '06 left for class at Madrid's Universidad Complutense on March 11, her host's cleaning lady told her there had been a train bombing and that at least 30 people had been killed."I was completely horrified," Bailey said in a telephone interview.
