More than two years after the University purchased 90 acres of land across Route 1, the administration has yet to develop a longterm plan for its use.
The USG has established the Residential Advising Review and Recommendation Committee to review the current status and objectives of the advising programs and examining the effectiveness of the programs, said USG Undergraduate Life chair William Robinson '04, who chartered the committee.A primary focus of the committee is how well the advising programs serve minority students and promote an inclusive, diverse community, Robinson said.
Though the campus' thousands of squirrels enjoy the grounds' acorns and food throwaways, these unofficial mascots of the University face many unfortunate, fatal hazards.Bicycles, cars, and golf carts whizzing by, hawks circling above and massive trees from which to fall all provide for a grim responsibility of University groundskeepers: disposing of squirrel remains.Hundreds die on campus every year."My guess is somewhere around twice a week," Grounds Manager Jim Consolloy said of the frequency with which his staff finds a deceased squirrel.
Jessica Brondo '04, the Women's Issue Liaison for the Undergraduate Life Committee, has made several proposals to University health education and women's groups to raise eating disorder awareness on campus.According to "Focus on Women," the USG Committee on Women's Issues 2001 report, eating disorders are prevalent at the University."It has also been estimated that 10-25 percent of Princeton women have eating disorders, although forty percent of women surveyed believed that estimate to be too low," the report states.In addition, the report suggests such behaviors may be a result from the especially high-pressured campus environment.Brondo said she has three new initiatives in mind to treat individuals currently suffering from eating disorders and to prevent future cases.
Foreign Minister of Germany Joschka Fischer discussed yesterday American-European relations and the need for the two countries to work together toward the destruction of totalitarian institutions."America and Europe can master the crises of the 21st century, only if we work together," he said.Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 and professor Wolfgang Danspeckgruber of the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination introduced Fischer, who, in addition to serving as foreign minister under Gerhard Schroeder, is the vice-chancellor of Germany.Fischer is "the quintessential foreign policy maker of Europe today," Danspeckgruber said.Fischer identified three qualifications for better trans-Atlantic relations and security.First, he said, the European Union and the United States should remain "unconditional to our fundamental values" such as democracy, free markets, and freedom.In addition, the two powers should respect international values and shared values in lieu of force, Fischer said.Finally, he said, political deterrence is necessary to destroy totalitarian organizations like al Qaeda. The EU's potentialFischer spoke of the tremendous potential of the EU in global economic and political situations.
A successful Iraqi democracy will in large part depend on which Islamic Shi'ite leader garners the most support in the coming months, said the eminent Islamic scholar Roy Mottahedeh in a lecture last night.Comprising nearly 60 percent of the Iraqi population, the Shi'ite community is not unified in support of any religious cleric.In southern Iraq, where the Shi'ite community is most concentrated, Ayatollah Ali Sistani seems to have the most support among the more liberal, educated, and middle-class Shi'ites.
"Would the press leak a classified plan to track down Saddam Hussein? What about a memo indicating that the top Defense official does not believe Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction?"Kevin Baine '71, a lawyer who devotes much of his practice to First Amendment and media litigation, posed these questions yesterday in Robertson Hall in the third lecture of the series, "Secrecy, Security, and Self-Government."Sponsored by the Wilson School and the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Baine's lecture centered on the legal boundaries of unauthorized disclosure in the press."The fact that there is uncertainty among legal boundaries for leaking secrets is not a bad thing," Baine said.
Joseph Nye '58, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and University president emeritus Harold Shapiro GS '64 will be honored by the University on Alumni Day next February for their professional accomplishments.On Feb.
Before Josh Probst '06 even arrived at Princeton as a freshman in the fall of 2000, he knew he would not be coming back the following year.Probst, originally a member of the Class of 2004, has spent the past two years fulfilling a promise he made to himself a long time ago: to voluntarily spend a portion of his life in the service of his church, acting as a missionary in the developing world."I really feel that I owe so much to God . . . [Taking] two years of my life [to be a missionary] wouldn't be really sacrificing anything but gaining something," Probst said.After completing his freshman year at the University, Probst set out to spread the gospel ? one of approximately 60,000 missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A new way of lifeProbst's assignment to the LDS Church's mission in Brazil meant he would have to learn Portuguese, the nation's official language.He and his fellow young missionaries ? most of whom were under the age of 25 ? underwent two months of training in S
It's surprising that John Andrews '65, who has edited editions of Shakespeare's plays and several scholarly journals, wasn't always a Bardophile.
As part of its increasing effort to improve intellectual life on campus, the undergraduate U-Council is dubbing this week ? Nov.
A five-day festival celebrating Czech cinema and food will seek to educate the University community on what organizers see as a little-known but incredibly rich culture.Initiated by members of last year's freshman seminar titled "Prague, Vienna, and Cultures of Central Europe," the week began last night with a viewing of a documentary highlighting the seminar's trip to Czechoslovakia.Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Mirjam Fried and her seminar students realized the importance of gaining firsthand exposure to Czech culture last year when they journeyed to the country as part of their course work."The Festival became part of the planning for the trip itself," Fried said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor praised the late Justice John Marshall Harlan '20 last night for the "legacy of respect" he built during 16 years on the nation's highest court ? years defined by a states' rights advocacy O'Connor has inherited.As an audience including Harlan's daughter, two federal judges and three New Jersey Supreme Court justices looked on in Richardson Auditorium, O'Connor highlighted the pragmatic aspects of her predecessor's record in the inaugural Harlan Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication of the Program in Law and Public Affairs."In his respect for tradition, the individual liberties of all people, the federal system of government, the separation of powers and the craft of constitutional adjudication itself, Justice Harlan is a model for all of us who have been given the delicate task of interpreting the Constitution," said O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.At times, it was hard to escape the parallels between the judicial philosophies of Harlan and O'Connor.
Interest in the study of Africa ? both on campus and through study abroad ? has grown significantly in recent years, demonstrated by the University's increased funding of the African Studies program and the growth of faculty and student involvement in the area.By founding the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, which provides added resources to the African Studies Program, the University demonstrated administrative interest through funding, program director Emmanuel Kreike said.The additional monetary support follows the steady increase in the number of faculty members in the African Studies program, which has grown from 12 in 1997 to 22 this year, Kreike said.The growth did not necessarily result from a centrally planned effort, Kreike added."Individual departments on their own added African specialists," he said.
Kevin Carranza '05 is king of the dining hall. And he is always ready to rule.Nobody is sitting at the card checking station outside Rockefeller College dining hall one recent Thursday night at 5:30.
University Geophysicist W. Jason Morgan GS '64 received the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony on Nov.
Public Safety officers discovered nine burglarized cars parked in student parking lots 21, 23 and 23A Thursday and Friday, Steven Healy, director of Public Safety, said.The cars showed evidence of forced entry that suggested the suspects broke a window to enter the vehicles and stole radios, removable radio plates and other miscellaneous items such as CDs, Healy said."We believe between two and three individuals came to campus between Wednesday at 11 p.m.
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.
