One weekend will have to be big enough for two student-run women's activism groups.The Organization of Women Leaders and the National Council of Negro Women are hosting separate conferences on March 29.
The Worker's Rights Organizing Committee held the University's first student-organized employee appreciation day yesterday, but the presentations by student leaders and workers suggested that the University does not appreciate workers enough.WROC's student leaders took the day as an opportunity to broadcast the results of a 92-question worker survey it conducted last April, which received responses from more than 400 of 600 unionized employees."We wanted to let everyone know what the results of the survey were," WROC president Kate Jordan '03 said.
Professor John Bahcall, a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study and a lecturer at the University, has been awarded the Dan David Prize for the Future of Cosmology and Astronomy for his longterm groundbreaking work in astrophysics.The prize, which includes a $1 million award, is "granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, and distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, and humanities that have made an outstanding contribution to humanity," according to the Dan David Prize website."I'm delighted," Bahcall said, "And my family is delighted."Though Bahcall has worked on a number of problems within the field of particle astrophysics, he said he believes the work that most directly prompted his receipt of the prize is his study of neutrinos' behavior in relation to the sun.Neutrinos, Bahcall explained, are special particles that have almost no mass.
Stephen Forrest, an electrical engineering professor, and Dudley Saville, a chemical engineering professor, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, joining 15 other University faculty members already in the Academy.Membership in the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest honors in the engineering field, and 77 new members were elected this year.
At the end of the first day of the Office of Information Technology's Information Village Fair, the event's success could be measured in popcorn ? 600 boxes of it.
To welcome someone in the Twi dialect of Ashante, you would greet them with a friendly "Akwaaba," not coincidentally the name of a newly-revived African student group which held its first open meeting during a dinner discussion on Monday.The organization, originally founded in 1996 as a "home away from home" for African students, is being reintroduced largely through the efforts of two freshmen, Amaka Megwalu '06, whose parents live in Nigeria and New York, and Daniel Scher '06, a resident of South Africa.Megwalu said the group aims to bring Africans together for "solidarity and a place to feel at home," but also plans to involve non-Africans in discussions about issues affecting the continent.She emphasized that the group is open to the entire University community.
While others watch the war in Iraq on CNN, a few members of the University and Borough community are experiencing wartime military duty firsthand.Two University employees ? whose names remain confidential for privacy reasons ? are currently on military leave, though one is expected back within 30 days, Human Resources representative Vikki Ridge said.Unlike many other municipalities and cities around the country, however, the Borough police and fire departments have not suffered a manpower shortage due to the war."Several people have already done their time," said Borough Police Lt.
As the nation turned its attention to Iraq this past week, I arrived at the South Korean embassy in New York City looking for answers about the Pacific component of Bush's "axis of evil." In my interview with Ambassador Wonil Cho, the Counsel General of the Republic of Korea, I sought to investigate the unique relationship between North and South Korea for my Foreign Correspondence seminar term project.
Despite the current military action in the Middle East, plans for a mid-June trip to Israel led by Rabbi Diamond of the Center for Jewish Life are still on."We won't go until the middle of June, but if it is like this we won't go," Diamond said.
Those enjoying the warm spring weather this week may have discovered a new place to bask in the sun ? the newly renovated, tree-lined Scudder Plaza and redesigned Wilson School fountain.Work at the neighboring Robertson Hall necessitated rebuilding the plaza, Grounds Manager Jim Consolloy said, but the University took the opportunity to work creatively with the space."[The changes] have really opened up the area," Consolloy said.
Princeton lawyers filed a statement on Mar. 14 reiterating that the University did not misuse the Wilson School's $550 million endowment as members of the Robertson Foundation have alleged.The University had filed a motion to dismiss the allegations on Nov.
Members of Princeton Students United for Peace staged a die-in yesterday on the lawn in front of the Frist Campus Center to protest the war in Iraq.Five students lay on sheets splashed with red paint, holding up signs with images of a soldier and his fiancée, a wounded Iraqi child, Arlington Cemetery and a scene of New York City meant to signify possible retaliation.
After Maurice Cohill Jr. '51 performed his usual humorous monologue as "Princeton Charlie" at a football game in 1950, Ed Sullivan asked him to appear on his show.
"Alma Mater keeps in eternal memory her sons who laid down their lives for their country." Engrained on each page of the Princeton Alumni WWII Book is this inscription, a promise to alumni who died during the Second World War.
The University must address copyright infringement concerns immediately after receiving an official complaint against a user of the campus network, said Rita Saltz, OIT security expert, yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.Colleges and universities are hotbeds of piracy, said Clayton Marsh '85, a University lawyer, and the entertainment industry has begun to take more aggressive measures against individual violators of copyright law.According to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the University is a service provider and not liable for violations of the law.
"These are frightening times," Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, dean of the Wilson School, told an overcapacity audience at Dodds Auditorium yesterday.
Stephen LeMenager, removed from the University admissions office last summer after breaching a Yale University admissions website, has been appointed new director of planning and administration for campus life.LeMenager has been a University administrator since 1983, spending 18 years in the admissions office and rising to the position of Director of Admission.LeMenager received much of the blame last summer when it was discovered staffers of the University admissions office had breached Yale University's admission website, the 'Prince' reported.He was removed from the office last August, and has since worked as senior director of special projects in the communications office, according to a University press release.LeMenager's new position, in the office of Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, will include financial planning, work on the 500-student increase recommended by the Wythes Committee, and planning for the campus health and wellness center, according to the press release.The University announced LeMenager's appointment on the University website during break.
No changes are planned in the University schedule because of the war with Iraq.University officials say, however, that they are strengthening security and disseminating emergency guidelines while health and religion officials stand ready to help members of the community in need.Students return to class today from Spring Break during a military conflict that has claimed several dozen allied lives in its first four days and revealed some of the worst ground fighting in a generation.
Brown students stage walkout in protest of warPROVIDENCE, R.I. (U-WIRE) ? At noon on Thursday, cruise missiles pummeled the city of Baghdad, protestors gathered by the thousands worldwide and at Brown University, President Ruth Simmons walked unnoticed past several hundred students on her way to University Hall, newly barricaded by wire fences.
Princeton students last month found an email survey in their inboxes. The survey, which began by asking students to take a time out to fill in the circles, wanted to know how much time students spend on various activities out of the classroom.
