As an Ivy League school that has consistently topped U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" list, the University is used to garnering praise.
Racist fliers distributed by the white supremacist group The National Alliance were found along Princeton Borough's Jefferson Road last weekend, Borough Police Lt.
Several University organizations are collaborating to examine socioeconomic class and how it relates to campus issues.The University library system and Dialogue@Princeton, have brought Cris Cullinan, a University of Oregon administrator, to Princeton this week to help set up dialogue groups that focus on socioeconomic class.Cullinan is the Training and Development Administrator at University of Oregon and "a nationally recognized expert in the field of diversity," the Library Human Resources website said.Dialogue@Princeton was developed in fall 2002 with the financial support of the Bildner Foundation, which supports new intergroup programming efforts, such as those of Sustained Dialogue.The program is designed to support projects that "promote honest, ongoing dialogue on many topics ? race, ethnicity, gender, faith, class differences, social justice ? among Princeton students, faculty, staff, and members of the larger Princeton community," the website for the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life said.Fleurette King, who most recently ran the Office of Diversity Education at DePaul University in Chicago, is coordinator of Dialogue@Princeton.Cullinan and King both attended a brainstorming session yesterday to develop further discussion on campus about class and socioeconomic status.Through its "Mosaics" initiative the library staff aims to "understand and appreciate each other better" by examining the different ethnic backgrounds of their fellow employees.As part of this initiative, the library's dialogue group has decided to join Dialogue@Princeton and Cullinan's efforts.The Dialogue Group Facilitators' training and luncheon, "Talking Across the Great Divide: How Do We Create a Learning Environment in Dialogues About Class?" will be held today from 10:00 a.m.
Last winter, the University witnessed its first campus suicide in about a decade. Few suicides occur at Princeton, but suicide rates of college students nationwide have been increasing since the 1960s.Even though suicides on campus are rare, each year several University students attempt suicide.Since September, five or six students have been hospitalized for suicidal tendencies, including one student yesterday morning, said Daniel Silverman, University chief medical officer.To reduce the number of attempted suicides, the University has expanded its counseling services and provided individualized treatment in recent years.Attempted suicide is not specifically tracked, Silverman said.
The 2006 class government is altering its structure by organizing five student committees, each headed by a class officer and focusing on a specific class concern.The Alumni Relations, Social, Newsletter, Publicity, and Community Service/Color Wars committees will each comprise four to five members meeting once per week.The idea to form committees arose after the 2006 class officers devised a mission statement outlining their plans for the year.
When some people think of a feminist, they think of a left-wing, radical man-hater. In a recent poll, three out of four described the word "feminist" as an insult.
A three-member panel discussed the reconstruction efforts in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan in Frist Campus Center yesterday afternoon.The members of the panel were Robert Finn, GS '78, former U.S.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has traveled through time ("Terminator"), given birth to a baby ("Junior") and has saved the free world a million times over (every other Schwarzenegger movie conceivable) and now he can add one more item to his resume: Governor of California.Gov.
Dune-jumping in South Africa's Red Desert, hillwalking in the Scottish Highlands or visiting ancient ruins in Jordan don't sound like typical spring break activities.
A Princeton employee driving a University vehicle hit a moving vehicle and then two parked cars on Friday at about 4:15 p.m., according to a Princeton Borough press release.Kenrick Butler, 51, of Trenton, a delivery driver employed by the University, was charged with driving while intoxicated after Borough Police investigated the incident, according to the press release.Butler's case is set to be heard on Oct.
An organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Princeton alumni, students, faculty and staff called the Fund for Reunion ? and the University's LGBT Student Services ? recently launched a new series of 12 lectures about LGBT topics this year, known as the Fund for Reunion LGBTQ Lecture Series."The intent was to begin an annual series of lectures.
In an article in yesterday's Daily Princetonian, there were several errors regarding two separate events to be held this Saturday: the Inter-Club Council's upcoming "Street Fair" and the USG concert featuring George Clinton.The article misidentified those eating clubs that will participate in the street fair Saturday afternoon.
After weeks of catchy posters, intense lunch table campaigning, smiles and platforms, the results of the Class of 2007 student government elections were announced yesterday.Freshmen voted P.G.
Despite uncertainty over the participation of Ivy and Cottage clubs, a street fair to improve the eating clubs' image among Borough residents is slated to go forward this Saturday.Cap and Gown, Charter, Colonial, Terrace, Tower and Quad clubs, as well as Tiger Inn, will offer food and carnival games in a street fair on Prospect Avenue.
Though unrecognized by the University, four sororities on campus ? Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi ? concluded rush last Friday.About 140 girls started rush, but some dropped out leaving about 115 at the end of the week, said Hannah England '04, chair of the Panhellenic society on campus.She said roughly 100 new members joined sororities.The rush process takes four nights.
Though the Princeton campus provides the ideal backdrop for many clothing ads, Victoria Young Lanier '99 modeled with a famed clothing designer only after exiting FitzRandolph Gate.Lanier is one of 23 young adults who are promoting their causes through the Polo Jeans Company's Fall 2003 G.I.V.E.
It may soon be the end of the line for the University's beloved Dinky as New Jersey Transit and other local development agencies are looking to replace the commuter rail system along the Route 1 corridor."[New Jersey Transit] has been looking at transit alternatives for the Route 1 corridor," said operation research and financial engineering professor Alain Kornhauser, who specializes in transporation issues.
A new task force started by President Tilghman will consider issues of health and wellbeing, including potential renovation of the McCosh Health Center and the restructuring of the scope of campus health services."For a university of Princeton's stature, with its caliber of students, staff and faculty, we deserve not only a state-of-the-art building, but a state-of-the-art state of mind in our medical services," said Nancy Newman '78, the University trustee who chairs the Board of Trustees' committee on health issues.The task force will look into supplemental health and wellbeing programs, as well as the extent to which the University should provide health care to faculty and staff.
"And that would be an uninvited visitor," Georgia Whidden said, pointing to a Daddy Long Legs spider hanging onto the door frame of the entrance to Fuld Hall, the main building of the Institute for Advanced Study.Even for curious insects, it's tough to gain entry into the secluded think-tank known as "The Institute," located on Einstein Drive just beyond the Graduate College here in Princeton.
The number of students involved in incidents of intoxication illness during the first month of the school year increased to 17 this year ? up from 11 students last year ? according to Public Safety.During a two-week period last month, police issued 30 citations to students on Prospect Ave.
