For probably the next two decades the person President Tilghman introduced as the new admission dean in March will shape the Princeton student body.
Throughout the months leading up to the war with Iraq and during the war, the University remained subdued, acknowledging changes in the national alert level and accommodating campus discussion and protest.There were no great flareups.
The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.
Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Psychology professor Daniel Kahneman took a Nobel last October for his research in behavior.
The very idea of engineering at Princeton is enough to send chills down the spines of many A.B. majors.
"Who could ever have imagined that we would reach a point where a student with a straight B average would rank 923 out of a graduating class of 1079 ? or where a student with a C average would rank 1078?"This question appears in bold text on the first page of a report sent to faculty members in late February after a University committee analyzed trends in grades given to undergraduates in the last three decades.The report, a copy of which was obtained by the 'Prince', warns that both grade inflation and grade compression ? narrowing of the range of grades given ? are ongoing trends that are not being reversed despite recent administration efforts to combat them."We could leave it alone, [but] is it responsible to let the trend line go up?" said Nancy Weiss Malkiel, dean of the college and member of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing, which authored the report.
Beginning this fall with the Class of 2007, freshmen will no longer be granted campus parking permits because of space restraints."With consultation from the members of the Undergraduate Life Committee, it was decided that, effective this September, freshmen will not be permitted to bring cars on campus," said Laurel Harvey, director of the Office of Risk Management."Students with special needs, supported by medical documentation, may submit parking waiver requests to Maria Flores-Mills in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students," Harvey said.Freshmen who bring cars to campus will have to follow general guidelines for visitor parking.
Campus Club president Jonathan Chou '04 announced May 11 that the club will abandon this year's semi-selective sign-in process in favor of Bicker.
Approaching the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory from Washington Road, one is met with a long, uniform facade of pale concrete.
Each April, when sophomores declare their majors and choose certificates ? like minors at other universities ? the smaller certificate programs seem to come out of the woodwork.Certificate programs draw students from many different areas of academia.
What began as an isolated reaction against the University of Michigan's race-based admissions policy has resulted in a flurry of debate and policy change at academic institutions throughout the country, and at Princeton.White applicants rejected from Michigan brought a suit against the university last year claiming they were denied equal protection rights.
If you thought you came to college to learn something practical, forget it. Princeton is one of the last bastions of the high-minded, esoteric and abstruse ? the liberal arts education.Come September, when you arrive at this small liberal arts university in central New Jersey, it will be time to begin your new life as an A.B., a candidate for Princeton's Bachelor of Arts degree.Ignore your calculator-toting roommates when they casually mention their courseload of "Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics" or "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids," ad nauseam.
There was a run on Diet Coke and Starbucks Double Shots in April as members of the Class of 2003 churned out pages and put the final touches on the pi
In an effort to consolidate technical support on campus, the Office of Information Technology opened the OIT Solutions Center on Wednesday.The service, located on the 100 level of Frist Campus Center, combines four areas of support that used to be spread out across campus.At one location, students, faculty and staff can now bring in malfunctioning laptops for repair, purchase hardware and software and sign up for phone services and Tiger TV.
Efforts by Princeton Borough officials to curb underage drinking on the 'Street' escalated this year with police conducting undercover operations in the eating clubs and charging several club officers with alcohol-related offenses.Undercover investigations in November led to charges in February against the presidents of the Colonial and Quadrangle clubs as well as two Colonial officers.The Colonial and Quad presidents were each charged with three counts of making alcoholic beverages available to minors and one count of maintaining a nuisance, while the two Colonial officers were charged with serving alcohol to minors.The undercover investigations were prompted by a perceived tolerance for underage drinking at the eating clubs, several Borough officials said.Chief of Princeton Borough Police Charles Davall said that during meetings earlier in the fall, club officers had assured him that their security measures, including the use of wristbands, would prevent underage drinking at the clubs.
Astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott is continuing in Albert Einstein's route of research in general relativity.
The national debate over file-sharing and online music theft hit the University personally this past term when the Recording Industry Association of America ? a trade group representing major record labels ? sued Daniel Peng '05 for what could have been billions of dollars.Peng had been operating a website on the campus network known as "Wake," which let users search for shared files.
In preparation for the June Ivy League presidents' meeting that could lead to league-wide reform of the seven-week athletic moratorium, athletics officials have come to a loose consensus on the changes they will propose later this academic year.Gary Walters '67, the University's athletic director, said that officials have reached a broad framework for compromise that, as its centerpiece, would restrict practice to four days a week between the traditional and nontraditional seasons.
Though the relationship between the Borough and the University is in some areas harmonious, two issues ? student alcohol abuse and the University's financial commitment to the Borough ? draw attention to the difficulties of having a wealthy, elite institution in a quiet town known for its affluent neighborhoods.Disagreement over how to curb some students' risky drinking habits has led to police investigations on the Street and the proposal of an alcohol enforcement ordinance.These high-profile events reflect a struggle over whether it is the University or the Borough that will interpret students' rights and protect them when they endanger themselves."The goal is to create a safe environment, where no one is served so much alcohol that they can die," said Charles Davall, Borough police chief.
A Chinese student who gained international recognition as the first female winner of the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad and who was slated to start freshman year at Princeton cannot enter the United States to study because her student visa application was rejected four times this summer by American officials in Beijing.University administrators said Wu Jie's visa applications were denied because consular officials in China believed Wu, who comes from a working-class family, would illegally stay in the U.S.
