This month is election season for alumni positions on the University Board of Trustees. But there has been no campaigning, endorsements or any of the other features of a typical election.
A controversial new line of Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts, which bear stereotypical depictions of Asians, has sparked protest from Asian-American groups nationwide, including organizations on the University campus.The T-shirts which carry slogans such as "Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White," were pulled from store shelves and the company's website Thursday after Abercrombie received a flood of complaints."Many people look at the T-shirts and think they're funny," said Jamie Chan '03, former president of the Asian-American Students Assoc-iation.
McCosh Health Center continues to see a higher number of conjunctivitis cases than normal, Health Services Director Pamela Bowen said.
In the words of Professor Gideon Rosen, one of author Jonathan Safran Foer '99's thesis advisors, "Foer was obviously a writer from the start."Foer's book "Everything is Illuminated" ? based on his creative writing senior thesis ? hit stores this month.
Amid allegations of corruption and illegal campaign contributions, the leading Republican contender for New Jersey's Senate seat has dropped out of the primary race.James Treffinger ? whose campaign manager is Charlie Smith '86 ? withdrew four days after federal agents seized financial records from his office.
The contents of the program for a symposium titled "Exploring Genes to Genomes" would have excited any molecular biology enthusiast.
Seldom has there been so much discussion about campus construction. The University Board of Trustees on April 13 selected Porphyrios Associates ? run by architecture school alumnus Demetri Porphyrios GS '80 ? and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott to design Whitman College.Shortly after, undergraduates and graduates were making presentations of their designs for the University's sixth residential college at the Prospects2 competition held in the architecture school.Aside from these brief spurs of excitement, campus construction ? building new structures and renovating old ones ? is an on-going process.
A report recommending Harvard College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday.After months of debate and discussion among the faculty, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) drafted the report based on the reviews of grading practices that each department had submitted in February.The recommendations ? which include possibly eliminating honors tracks in concentrations and adding statistical information to student transcripts ? will likely be discussed by the entire Faculty at a meeting in May.Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen called the proposal a "draft" last night.The recommendations include reducing the current 15-point grading scale to an eight-point scale, with equal numerical differences between each grade.
The spring USG elections were complicated by two errors on the voting website this weekend that temporarily omitted a candidate's statement and picture and left some candidates off the ballot.For a short period after voting began early Friday morning, the online ballot did not allow students to vote for Milo Adams '04 for social chair of his class or for Aaron Bianco '05, a candidate hoping to be elected to the U-Council."We stopped the voting after a little more than an hour," USG president Nina Langsam '03 said.Soon afterward, Langsam sent a campus-wide e-mail that notified students who had voted between midnight and 1:30 a.m.
At a gathering of New Jersey legislators Friday in Dodds Auditorium, participants gave a positive report of the level of public trust in government.Organized by the University's community and state affairs office, the annual meeting is a chance for local politicians to interact, cement ties with the University and compare notes on an important theme in public service.This year's event ? titled "In Government We Trust?" ? provided ample opportunities for those assembled to showcase their rhetorical skills.Reed Gusciora, a Democrat who represents Princeton's district in the state assembly, quoted Winston Churchill's observation that "democracy is the worst institution, except for all the others."Gusciora said when Democrats were in the minority, they found it easy to criticize the waste and inefficiency Republicans allowed.
Although today is officially Earth Day, campus organizations began activities and events to increase student awareness of environmental issues more than a week ago with the University celebration of EarthWeek.EarthWeek began last weekend with a conference called "Approaches to Environment-alism," co-sponsored by Princeton Environmental Action and the Princeton Conservation Society, which held several lectures and discussions about the environment and conservationism."We have more events, and a greater variety of events, than we have in years past," said S.
A University student was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing a golf cart issued to an injured student, according to a Princeton Borough Police Department press release.Marcus Ford-Bey '04 was caught driving a Textron E-Z-GO electric-powered golf cart at 2 a.m.
More than 1,000 people crowded into Dillon Gym on Thursday for a comedy show sponsored by the USG.
Many institutions and individual investors did not expect their investments in the once-stable energy company Enron to disappear.
Cornel West. K. Anthony Appiah. Carol Gilligan. Jeffrey Sachs.All are defecting to other institutions in what appears to be a mass departure by Harvard's star professors.
Economics department chair and professor Ben Bernanke met Wednesday with President Bush at the White House, Bernake confirmed yesterday.The meeting indicates that he is a top candidate for one of the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.Reuters has reported Bernanke and Federal Reserve staffer Donald Kohn are the front-runners for the positions.
Stan Allen GS '88, a practicing architect and faculty member at Columbia University, has been selected as the new dean of the architecture school, the University announced yesterday.
University students demonstrate in front of Nassau Hall yesterday. The protest, calling for divestment, began in front of the Frist Campus Center.
In September 1987, Laurence Myers '89 slit his wrists and stabbed himself in the abdomen and chest.
Some sought answers, some sought closure, some sought a story.About 70 relatives of those aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed Sept.
