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.
A U-Store employee was arrested last week for stealing and aiding the theft of more than $4,000 in cash and merchandise in what is suspected to be an extended network of such crimes.Borough Police charged Cherisse Iverson-Russell of Ewing with theft by deception after she allegedly voided customers' transactions, keeping their money, and allegedly let accomplices take merchandise without paying, Borough Police Lt.
Editor's Note: Some names have been altered to conceal the identities of persons interviewed in the article.When Napster lost its ability to allow users trade commercial music online in June 2000 after a court injunction, many programs sprung up to fill the void.Hugh Merola '05 said he first switched to the program Morpheus after Napster.He now uses Kazaalite, an advertisement-free version of Kazaa in addition to getting music off the campus network.Napster let millions access to a large range of music files at no cost.
University of Pennsylvania police continue to investigate an incident Saturday on the Penn campus, in which a Princeton debater says he was threatened, kicked and had motor oil thrown on him."This is still an ongoing investigation," said Frank Demeo, detective supervisor with the Penn police.Police questioned one individual about the incident, who was then released, said Lori Doyle, a Penn spokeswoman.
In the middle of last winter, Ashley Marlenga '05 would often wake up two-and-a-half hours early to walk down to the boathouse.
A team of molecular biologists at the University, led by associate professor Yigong Shi, and the U.S.
Wellesley College police chief Steven Healy was named the University's director of Public Safety on Friday.Donald Reichling, a 23-year veteran of Public Safety, will serve as acting director until Jan.
A Princeton debate team member was assaulted early Saturday morning while staying in a dormitory at the University of Pennsylvania.John Brantl '05 was sleeping in a dormitory in the Undergraduate Quadrangle with other Princeton debate members when five individuals entered his room and kicked him, doused him with motor oil and threatened him, Brantl said.About 15 members of the Debate Panel were attending the Penn Pro-Am debate tournament, said Jeff Sandman, a Penn freshman and host of the students in his building.Penn Police officials did not return phone calls yesterday afternoon, and a detective for the department declined to comment last night.Around 3 a.m.
In the 1980s, before history professor Stephen Kotkin arrived at the University, the politics department offered a popular course on Soviet politics.Then, in his first semester at Princeton in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the topic "ceased to exist as a contemporary issue," according to Kotkin.Though the politics course is no longer offered, Kotkin continues to teach some of the same material in HIS 362: The Soviet Empire, while also adding recent events.Kotkin begins the course in the year 1900 and continues until the present day ? 13 years later than when he began teaching here.Like Kotkin's class, other University courses adapt to changing times by both preserving traditional subject matter and adding new material.
"Who wants a free cheeseburger?" a student yelled, as he ran up and down the aisles in McCosh 50 Thursday night.
