In April 1978, 210 students streamed out of their hiding places in the basements of McCosh and Dickinson halls to take over Nassau Hall, beginning a three day sit-in to urge the University to divest itself of holdings in apartheid South Africa.
Ann Crittenden, a former Pulitzer-Prize nominee who left The New York Times to raise her son, was stunned by the generally negative response to her decision to become a full-time mom.On one occasion, she said, someone at a Washington cocktail party said, "Hey, didn't you used to be Ann Crittenden?""I was tremendously unprepared for the fall in status," Crittenden said yesterday to a near-capacity crowd of mostly women in Dodds Auditorium."Bragging about your skills as a parent is like bragging about your skills at group sex."Cosponsored by the Wilson School and the Gender and Development Policy Network, the lecture was held in honor of International Women's Day, which is Saturday.Crittenden's dismay at the low status accorded to primary caregivers moved her to research and write "The Price of Motherhood," her third book. Unacknowledged roleIn her talk, Crittenden spoke passionately about the "unacknowledged, unrecognized, virtually invisible role of women [in motherhood] . . . which is the most important job in the economy."Crittenden, a former economics reporter, explained that human capital, which makes up 59 percent of the wealth in developed countries, is the single most important factor in the economy.Though economists agree with this, Crittenden said they overlook the degree to which development takes place in early childhood."Life does not begin with Head Start," she said.
When The Princeton Tory's financial manager checked the magazine's bank account Friday, he found it was almost $10 million richer.The financial manager, Ira Leeds '06, registered for online access to The Tory's alumni board account at PNC Bank on Friday to track the magazine's debit cards online.But on accessing the site, he saw that the magazine had $9.9 million in University funds, according to a Tory statement.Not only did Leeds have access to The Tory's account, but also to a University one.
Last week, one of the 61 students arrested last year on charges of fraudulent test-taking on the Test of English as a Foreign Language was convicted and may soon be deported, said Sarah Gurka, spokeswoman for the U.S.
"More than anything else, we are the AIDS generation." Adam Frankel '03, co-founder of the University's chapter of the Global AIDS Campaign, pauses for a moment, brow furrowed, before he continues.
The University administration has come out against a bill banning all forms of human cloning that the House of Representatives approved Thursday.The bill, which requires Senate approval, would criminalize cloning human cells for medical research and for creating cloned babies.
The job market for this year's seniors remains as weak as last year's, as companies maintain scaled back recruitment, University Career Services officials said.Though 65 companies came to campus to recruit seniors this year ? fewer than the 110 companies that sought University seniors three years ago ? Career Services is projecting this year's senior employment rate to be slightly higher or roughly equal to last year."Generally speaking, it is the same as last year," assistant director of Career Services Rebecca Ross said.Despite the job boom that occurred four years ago, companies have been scaling back in the last two years in response to the economic downturn, Ross said.Last year, seniors experienced a 27-percent drop in job offers, said Beverly Chandler, director of Career Services.
For those who question the merits of the liberal arts system in preparing students for the hazards of the professional world, one needs only to look to 28-year-old Theola Labbé '96 for inspiration.Labbé now works for The Washington Post where she covers mostly local educational issues.Growing up on Long Island, New York, Labbé realized she was destined to write even before her Princeton career began."I always knew I wanted to write," joked Labbé. "I definitely fulfill the stereotype of the journalist who can't do math."When she came to Princeton in 1992, one of her first priorities was to find a writing class that was more "journalistically inclined."And though she was a religion concentrator, several key experiences at Princeton helped Labbé direct her career toward journalism.Labbé turned to a class taught by Anne Matthews in which Matthews introduced a type of "literary nonfiction," which Labbé said she thoroughly enjoyed.It was in this class that Labbé was introduced to the work of John McPhee '53, who by chance is also a Princeton professor.Labbé's first experience with the author was "Travels in Georgia," but this initial encounter did not inspire her.She recalls, "I didn't even like that first work I read."Later, Labbé actually took a course in the geology department where she read McPhee a second time.
The Greek playwright Aristophanes would no doubt be surprised ? and probably flattered ? to know that one of his plays is still stirring debate over contemporary events more than 2,300 years after his death.The bawdy comedy Lysistrata, one of 11 surviving plays by the dramatist, was performed last night at the University and, in what was billed as the "first-ever worldwide theater event for peace," at more than 1,000 locations around the world.As part of the N.Y.-based, antiwar Lysistrata Project, an 18-member cast of students, faculty and community members staged a dramatic reading of the play, in which the women of Athens and rival Sparta decide to withhold sex from their husbands until the men end the Peloponnesian War peacefully.An audience of more than 100 members from the University and community filled the lobby of the new Carl Icahn Laboratory to capacity, lining the walls around the production area after all seats were taken.The hour-long play, which used as props only a small wooden box and, for the Acropolis, the hollow, room-sized Frank Gehry sculpture bubbling from the middle of the lobby, was "staged" level with the audience.
Almost every University student has had to buy a Pequod packet ? the bound, photocopied readings professors assign for courses ? at some point.
Two systems at the University deal with related disciplinary issues, the Honor System and the Committee on Discipline.
Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed downplayed the possibility of a moratorium on undercover police action on Prospect Avenue and would not commit to a stance on the proposed alcohol ordinance at a USG meeting held in the Frist Campus Center yesterday evening.USG president Pettus Randall '04 presented Reed with a resolution last night calling for a moratorium on undercover operations on the Street.
At the end of last night's USG Senate meeting, president Pettus Randall '04 said that USG senator Jonathan Chavkin '05 will petition for support for his proposed changes to the Honor Committee.In an interview after the meeting, Chavkin confirmed that he is preparing the petition."I'm waiting to get more student awareness, more discussion and just get a variety of perspectives," he said.There are two methods of changing the honor system constitution, Chavkin said.The Honor Committee itself can make changes, or reforms can be made through a student referendum, he said.For a student referendum to occur, a petition for changes must be signed by 200 students and then submitted to the chair of the USG's Undergraduate Elections Committee, Chavkin said.Three-quarters of students voting in the referendum must favor the proposal for the changes to be approved."There will be a referendum.
Worried about a perceived rise in excessive drinking by students, University officials asked the Student Safeguarding Agency to stop working as bouncers at the eating clubs, preferring that the clubs find groups unaffiliated with the University to provide security, the agency's manager said.The agency used to work regularly on Prospect Avenue but has not done so for more than a year, said manager Noah Kaye '03.Kaye said that the University was concerned that the agency's employees would not have the training to deal with an alcohol-related accident or illness."They're obviously pretty concerned about the safety risks at the street," he said.Because the office of the dean of student life oversees the student agencies, the University also wanted to avoid liability for the clubs actions, Kaye said."Given the legal problems that are going on out there, the University wants to maintain its distance from the clubs," he said."If somebody gets hurt, who was in charge for how they got hurt is going to be on the line," he added. AgreementThe administrators and the agency worked out an agreement whereby the agency would not work at the eating clubs, unless a class government or the University trustees sponsors the event, he said.Many of the agency's employees still work on Prospect Avenue, but through other management, Kaye said.The agency currently works primarily to provide security and monitor access to USG and athletic events, he said.
Jessica Munitz '03 and Daniel Stover '03 learned Friday that ReachOut 56 Fellowships ? an effort by the Class of 1956 to promote volunteerism for nonprofit organizations ? granted their proposals to pursue public service projects next year.Now in its second year, the fellowship program will award each winner $25,000 to allow him or her to focus exclusively on service work.Munitz, a religion major, will work at the University's International Institute for Sustained Dia-logue, focusing on extending the University's Sustained Dialogue program to other colleges.Sustained Dialogue, designed by Harold Saunders '52 H '02 is "a process to deal with deeply rooted human conflict," Munitz said.In the Sustained Dialogue system, group participants engage in discussion ? often of sensitive issues ? led by an impartial moderator.
The Princeton and Oxford debate teams met in Whig Senate Chamber last night for a debate entitled "Is England America's Tool in the War on Terror?"The montage of international concern and playground humor ? in which the debaters referenced the Notorious B.I.G.
Two days after comments concerning Asian-American self-segregation ? which some Asian students found offensive ? appeared on the gank.princeton.edu website, administrators and students are searching for the appropriate response.The message, which included the last names of several Asian students drawing into Spelman Hall, was posted to the website Tuesday evening and removed later that night.Niraj Bhatt '03, the site's administrator and a minority affairs adviser in Butler College, issued an apology on the website Wednesday. 'Constructive'More than 50 students crowded into the International Center last night for a forum sponsored by the Asian American Student Association on the controversy.
MBA means business, and the Minority Business Association is launching a comeback on campus after three years of inactivity.
Canada has a knack for coming up with sports. First it was hockey. Now, the Canadian sport of broomball has claimed the attention of people around the world, from Moscow to Japan to Taiwan ? to Princeton.Like hockey, broomball is played on ice, and the two games have similar rules.In professional leagues, padded sponge rubber shoes are used to maneuver on the ice, but on Baker Rink sneakers will do.The ball is fairly large ? somewhere between a soccer ball and a softball ? and is moved around with brooms of wood or aluminum, as per the rules of the United States Broomball Association.The USBA lists 38 colleges that play broomball competitively.
Last amended in 2000, the University honor system constitution may face further revision if the proposed amendments of class senator Johnny Chavkin '05 are successful.Chavkin said he is planning to collect signatures for a petition in support of his proposed changes to the Honor Committee.The committee investigates alleged violations of the Honor Code, which covers in-class examinations.
