As the University of Pennsylvania police moved closer to arresting suspects in the case of a Princeton debater who says he was assaulted while sleeping in a Penn lounge on Nov.
When the Princeton Chess Club traveled to Boston on Nov. 3 to compete in the "Top Four" tournament at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the team's expectations were not terribly high.The tournament, designed to pit U.S.
A University activist program is gearing up to put pressure on New Jersey legislature to adopt a new bill that would increase drug users' access to sterile syringes.
Princeton's easy to get into, really. A whopping 1,600 out of 14,500 applicants are accepted each year, about 11 percent.Just compare that to two-and-a-half year olds applying to New York City's 92nd Street Y preschool, which has a seven percent admission rate and quite a standard.
The Athletes' Advisory Board voiced their disapproval of the new seven-week moratorium rule to the USG Senate last night.
Traffic congestion may be a fact of life, but local and state officials are hoping to improve the situation in the nearby Penns Neck area by constructing alternate roadways.Earlier this fall, the circulation subcommittee of the Princeton Regional Planning Board debated solutions to the growing problem of traffic congestion in the downtown and Penns Neck areas of Princeton.A projected increase in business commuters along Route 1 highlights the urgency of the problem.
Richard Jeffrey GS '57, an expert on decision theory and a University professor emeritus, died Nov.
In the 1890s, Jesse Lynch Williams 1892 and Booth Tarkington 1893 not only edited the Nassau Literary Magazine but also held a Coffee House literary club that made poetry and prose an integral part of campus culture.What followed was a Golden Age of literature when work of F.
The University Board of Trustees approved at its November meeting the appointments of five veteran scholars.Linda Colley, Daniel Garber, Daniel Osherson, Nicholas Pippenger and Robert Shapire will be welcomed into the University community as full professors.Because of the depth and prestige of their credentials, a more gradual transition was not considered necessary."We were looking for a good place to spend our horizon years," Pippenger said about his initial reasons for becoming a professor.Although each scholar abandons an esteemed post at another location, the new professors have asserted a common interest in experiencing fresh opinions and personalities.Garber, who headed the philosophy department and twice chaired the Conceptual Foundations of Science during his 25 years at the University of Chicago, applied the word "adventure" several times in explaining what induced him to transfer.Garber said he is simply prepared for a change, especially one that places him within his home state New Jersey.As it happens, Pippenger also makes some tribute to his roots in accepting Princeton's offer.A native of nearby New Hope, Pa., he has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Computer Science and published the paper "Theories of Computability" in the course of a very active career at the University of British Columbia.While he admits a certain degree of ambivalence about leaving Vancouver, he said he welcomes the move, if only for the sake of his wife Maria Klawe, who was named this year dean of Princeton's engineering school.For Osherson, who is lecturing for his sixth year at Rice University, Princeton is the most recent destination in a diverse succession of universities: the Universita Vita-Saluta San Raffaele in Italy, the Institut d'Intelligence Artificielle in France, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.He specializes primarily in psychology and computer science.In stark contrast, Princeton does not draw Schapire from academia but directly from the field as a a member of the technical staff at AT&T.Recipient of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and the MIT thesis Award for "The Design and Analysis of Efficient Learning Algorithms" he has concentrated on artificial intelligence and machine learning.Historian and author Linda Colley will fill a new position in the history department, becoming the Shelby M.
The stars came out on Monday night. Thousands of them ripped through the sky, leaving trails of gaseous beauty for us to gawk at.
While international students across the country are vying for financial aid policies that do not discriminate on a need basis, the University continues to improve its own policy, which has been need-blind for two years.On Tuesday, a faculty committee will make public whether the University will consider funding a second round-trip flight home for Class of 2007 international students on aid, said Don Betterton, financial aid director.Most current undergraduate students said they had been content even with one plane ticket, rather than the two that American students receive."I've only heard people say they were surprised the University would pay for one round trip," said Nikki Vogg '05, a native of Germany.
The 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel gained control of territories now at the center of the Middle East conflict, was the result of poor judgment and a series of misinterpretations on the Israeli and Arab sides, historian and former Israeli official Michael Oren GS '86 said last night in Dodds Auditorium.Oren, author of the bestselling "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East," addressed the "sequence of miscalculation and misinterpretations" that led Israel to go to war against its Arab neighbors and to triple its size, occupying the West Bank, east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip.Using newly declassified documents, Oren concluded that the war "never should have taken place," but rather happened because Arab politicians made poor decisions about their domestic situations in relation to foreign policy and Israeli leaders were too glib about their military power.Oren, who advised former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and is now director of the Middle East history project at the Shalem Center, said the war was the root of the modern conflict.Just yesterday morning in Jerusalem, a suicide bombing killed 11 people and left at least 49 people wounded.The Six Day War broke out on June 5, 1967, when Israel began a preemptive air attack on Egypt's air force and went on to make quick victories all over the Middle East.Prior to war, Oren said, tensions had been escalating between Israel and the Arab nations surrounding it.Arab states were domestically insecure, Oren said, and Arab leaders thought that they could use an anti-Israel position to consolidate domestic support.A Baathist military regime ruled Syria since 1966, President Nasser led Egypt and King Hussein was in charge of Jordan.Syrian-supported Palestinians and Israelis had been exchanging attacks.
If you are looking to join the ranks of Wall Street stockbrokers, playing a varsity sport may be just as powerful as a finance certificate.For some men's sports, a combination of on-the-field experience and strong alumni support draws a disproportionate number of athletes to the business world."I'd say 60 to 70 percent of our guys are there," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.In comparison, about 10 percent of 2002 graduates began working in the financial services sector after leaving school, according to Career Services' annual exit survey.A comprehensive study of college athletics by the Andrew Mellon Foundation ? the basis for "The Game of Life," by former University President William Bowen GS '58 and James Shulman ? found that for 1989 male graduates of Princeton, Columbia and Yale universities and the University of Pennsylvania, nearly twice as many athletes earned MBAs as students at large at the same group of universities.But those students went on to earn more than twice as many Ph.D.s as athletes.Meanwhile, there is almost no difference between the two groups for attaining law and medical school degrees, the study showed.A higher number of athletes in business careers makes sense because of the teamwork, competitiveness and work ethic inherent in high-level sports, several athletic department officials said."[Some of the guys say] big sales are akin to the big game," Tierney said.
As senior computer science major Alex Halderman '03 was presenting his junior paper to a room of scientists Monday, he was thinking about his future career.
'Roundtable Ethics' features University faculty members answering ethical and moral questions solicited from the community.
University economist John Nash GS '50 used his "beautiful mind" on the witness stand at a hearing last week in Gainesville, Fla., the Associated Press reported.Nash, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics and subject of the Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind," told the AP he has never testified as a witness before.Contacted at home, Nash said he did not want to talk about being on the witness stand and declined to comment.The hearing was for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Florida farmers who are suing the DuPont Co. and their former lawyers from a previous case against DuPont involving the fungicide Benlate.The previous lawsuit, claiming that the fungicide had damaged the growers' crops, was settled for $59 million.The growers argue that their lawyers covertly entered into a deal with DuPont before the settlement.
The University plans within the next six to 10 years to reroute Washington Road around the University campus, Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson said last night.The University and Borough are cooperating on a plan, still in its early stages, that would involve rerouting Washington Road traffic from Route 1.Though the University cannot do anything to the road, because it is government property, Public Safety has already discussed student safety on Washington Road with Township authorities, said Jeff Yellin '04, the Undergraduate Life Committee liaison to the Public Safety committee.Vice President for Facilities Jim Consolloy said that the plans are still a long way from implementation, because of concern that it would place too much stress on Harrison Road.Plans to reroute Washington Road have received increased attention following a series of pedestrian accidents on the road this semester.A group of students and faculty toured campus after dark last night, looking for potentially dangerous or hazardous places that can be improved to enhance University safety."Vice President Dickerson believes, and I strongly agree, that we are better off spending money to make the campus safer and prevent injuries and crime than we would be spending the money after a preventable incident," Yellin said.Student concerns include providing transportation or lighting between main campus and the West Windsor Fields, lighting on the stairways behind Frist Campus Center and the hidden crosswalk on Faculty Road.The safety committee, chaired by Dickerson, and consisting of student liaisons from organizations such as the USG, GSG and SHARE, was accompanied by Consolloy and Public Safety Capt.
Joseph Taylor will step down from his position as dean of the faculty July 1 to return to full-time teaching and research as a physics professor, the University announced yesterday.As dean of faculty since 1997, Taylor has been responsible for supervising academic departments and programs in addition to recruiting and retaining new faculty members."The principle thing that was different for me being in Nassau Hall was the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of distinguished people that we have," Taylor said.
After an intense marketing campaign this fall, the University's Educational Technologies Center has seen a significant increase in alumni registering for Courseware ? a multimedia educational program led by University professors.
Few would guess that the big brown building between the Frist Campus Center and McCosh Hall, home to the University's architecture school, has drawn together half the teams competing to redesign the World Trade Center site and lower Manhattan.The six teams, three of which have University-affiliated members, have eight weeks and $40,000 to create a comprehensive vision for lower Manhattan.Seven Princeton-affiliated architects, including five faculty members and two alumni, are on three different teams."It's a huge opportunity to do something with the city, to rebuild the city for the 21st century," said Stan Allen GS '88, dean of the architecture school and a member of the team from the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill."Given how small our faculty is, it's pretty extraordinary that we're represented on three of the six teams," Allen said.Allen attributed the high number of University architects on the teams to the architecture school's focus on exactly the kind of issues the assignment involves.Jesse Reiser, assistant professor and a member of the United Architects group, echoed this idea.
