The space shuttle disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronauts on Saturday also destroyed more than one hundred scientific experiments.
The University discontinued a race-based summer program at the Wilson School yesterday because its admission policy could not be defended in court, Vice President for Communications Robert Durkee '69 said."If you are committed to diversity, what you don't want to do is to defend a program that would put [diversity] at risk," Durkee said of the decision not to wait until a legal challenge arises.No suit has been filed against what University officials called a "successful" program, he added.For 18 years the Woodrow Wilson School Junior Summer Institute has hosted only minority undergraduate students outside the University in the hopes of encouraging graduate study in public and international affairs.Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said about half of the minority graduate students in the school participated in the summer program.The program may continue, but the minority-only admission policy has been dropped, Durkee said.The decision comes amid the growing debate on how the Supreme Court will rule in two cases that challenge the race-conscious admission policies at the University of Michigan.
Princeton Borough Police said a perceived tolerance for underage drinking at the eating clubs prompted their undercover investigations last semester, which led to charges against four Colonial and Quadrangle club officers.Undercover police officers entered several clubs in late November.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced last Thursday at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that President Bush has decided the United States will enter negotiations to determine its role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.The project aims to determine the viability of exploiting cold fusion as an energy source around the world.
Going miniature is the trend of the new millennium, and electrical engineering professor Stephen Chou is leading the way.
By day, famed economist Paul Krugman could pass for any other prestigious professor, humbly lecturing his ECO 102 students on the finer points of price systems.
In one of their last meetings, Gabor Katona GS and S. Pamela Lewis GS were planning a reading course on philosophy for this semester.
In an attempt to improve its economic viability, Forrestal Village, a Plainsboro outlet mall, will be modified for the third time in 15 years.Managers of the University-owned property plan to fill current vacancies with professional services that will draw potential shoppers.It is hoped that those visiting doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, insurance agents, stockbrokers and health clubs will also stop at retail stores.The changes, approved last month, required the University to alter the lease.A food court, along with stores such as Nine West, Famous Footwear, S&K Menswear, Workbench Furniture, Vitamin World, Bass Shoe and Casual Corner Outlet are currently located in the traditional buildings that line the two pedestrian-bare streets.Both the University and Plainsboro Township approved plans to reduce retail space from 200,000 to 90,000 square feet and use the remaining space for businesses."The University demanded that there be some retail, not solely an office complex, first and foremost because it was designed to function as an amenity for the rest of Forrestal," said David Knights, director of marketing for Princeton Forrestal Center, a private firm responsible for developing the property.Plainsboro Township required that the first level be filled entirely with retail stores rather than offices.However, the township views the upcoming changes as a short-term fix.
The federal government may relax a regulation that requires colleges and universities to maintain equal opportunities for women in athletics.The regulation, Title IX, requires gender ratios of athletes to correspond to the makeup of the student body.
Princeton Borough Police brought charges against four officers of Colonial and Quadrangle clubs yesterday resulting from a November undercover investigation into serving alcohol to minors on the Street, according to police reports."We are stepping up our enforcement efforts," Borough Police Lt.
"No blood for oil!" the signs said. "One, two, three, four, we don't want your oil war!" they shouted.About two dozen University and community members gathered by Palmer Square yesterday to challenge a potential war in Iraq as a war about oil.Cars honked and some people walking by joined in the protest, while others quietly accepted fliers and moved on.Sponsored by the Princeton Peace Network, the rally was one of more than 100 held to mark the Day of Action suggested by a website, Target Oil.The website said demonstrations took place at over 100 gas stations around the United States and United Kingdom.
On Jan. 10, in a show of political defiance aimed in part at the United States, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty which it had signed in 1985.
Four of the University's nine Nobel laureate faculty members signed a statement last Tuesday before the State of the Union address condemning a "preventive" war against Iraq.The short declaration cautions that a war with Iraq would undermine U.S.
The Robertson family filed papers yesterday in opposition to the University's motion to dismiss the lawsuit to reclaim the funds of the Robertson Foundation, the $550 million endowment for the Wilson School.The plaintiffs claimed in their opposition papers that there was no basis for a dismissal of the lawsuit and argued that there were factual errors in the motion."Defendants' motion shows that they have lost sight of their moral and legal obligations as the stewards of the Robertsons' extraordinary gift," the plaintiffs argued.
While the Inter-Club Council has tried to provide more options for students who are denied a bid by Bicker clubs, the large numbers of first-round sign-ins suggest that second-round options may be limited.This year, sign-ins saw a rise in participants.
Susan Wolf GS '78 may now be distinguished as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award recipient, but when she graduated from Princeton her backup profession was pastry chef.Wolf ? who received a Distinguished Achievement Award in November ? certainly did not know right away that she would become a philosophy professor.
The Texas '10 percent plan' for college admissions, heralded as a race-neutral alternative to affirmative action, does not succeed in boosting minority enrollment at the state's two flagship universities, according to a study conducted by University professor of sociology Marta Tienda.President Bush has asserted that the Texas system is better than ones that use racial preferences.
Dean Georgia Nugent '73 has been chosen to serve as the 18th president of Kenyon College in Ohio, David W.
As students invest this week in the textbooks they will need for the new semester, the number of book buying options continues to grow.
