Spence Miller '02 ? senior class president, assistant minister at large in Aquinas, varsity swimmer, Orange Key tour guide and devoted friend ? will graduate having left his mark on the Princeton community.
Though Princeton Borough Police issued two summonses during the weekend for alcohol serving violations ? the first such citations within three years ? officials say that there has not been a change of policy toward underage drinking at the University.The recent charges do not represent a police crackdown on underage drinking at the 'Street,' Borough Police Capt.
As the current USG administration reaches the half-way point of its term in office, President Nina Langsam '03 and her core group of officers are already well on their way toward achieving many of their goals for the University.Having already considered issues ranging from precept reform to the treatment of women and minorities on the street, the USG has been working to improve both academics and social life for University students."They're doing a great job," former USG president Joe Kochan '02 said.
Sharpe James emerged victorious yesterday from a hotly contested race against politician newcomer Cory Booker to win an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of Newark.Booker, a member of the Newark City Council, vowed to run for mayor again in four years.With 99 percent of precincts reporting, James had 28,363 votes, or 53 percent, and Booker had 24,869 votes, or 46 percent.Though the media has focused on the contested Newark race, New Jersey politicians are also preparing for statewide elections.
The University named Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government professor Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 new dean of the Woodrow Wilson School yesterday.
During the first meeting of our freshman seminar, Dr. Jem Spectar told us why he was there in that classroom teaching us about the "International Politics of AIDS in Africa."Spectar has dedicated his life to stopping the spread of AIDS in Africa, but not by lobbying politicians on Capitol Hill or providing people with anti-retroviral drugs from an African clinic.His less conventional, more thoughtful approach, is integral to spawning the world-wide realization that solving the AIDS epidemic is a global obligation.
The Borough Police issued two summonses to Ivy Club officers early Friday morning in connection with an underage drinking incident.Borough Police charged club president Robert Neely '03 with serving alcoholic beverages to a minor and house manager Hugh Lippincott '03 with obstructing the administration of the law.
Cloister Inn and the Quadrangle Club both suffered incidents of vandalism this past week.An unknown student damaged a wall in Quad after it had closed last Sunday, the final day of Houseparties.
Consider our technological lifestyles ? driving to work in SUVs, flying abroad for a vacation and heating our homes to a comfortable 70 degrees.
Internet technologies are playing a growing role in University functions, and future applicants may soon be able to submit some forms online.Part of the college application, financial aid forms and student billing information are all planned to be transformed into web services, said Tim Hogan, OIT information specialist.As web services, these forms could be filled out and sent in electronically over the Internet, without the use of paper forms.
Zena Hitz GS walks down paved paths lined with peeling beech trees everyday to get back home. For the last few weeks, the idyllic Princeton lifestyle has been offset by a growing anxiety about housing next year.Hitz lost her Hibben apartment off Faculty Road, where she lived for four years in this year's room draw.
University mathematics professor Elias Stein will receive the National Medal of Science next month at the White House.
The humdrum of reading period and examinations will be broken by several campus productions over the next month ? including performances of BodyHype Dance Company, the University Concert Choir, Triangle Club and the Student Playwrights' Festival.BodyHype will hold their spring show this weekend at Frist Theatre.
A wave of dumpster fires seemingly caused by arson has struck campus during the past two months, including three incidents in the last five days, said Barry Weiser, Public Safety crime prevention specialist.The fires have occurred most frequently around Spelman Hall and the "junior slums" dormitories."At this time, there is what is perceived to be a problem with dumpster fires," University Fire Marshall Bob Gregory said.
This past April 15th finds me at the pro-Israel rally in Washington, D.C. The first truly hot day of spring.
Ben Bernanke, chair of the economics department, made national headlines Wednesday when President Bush nominated him to one of seven positions on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.Bernanke, 48, will represent the Atlanta District on the board.
History professors Anthony Grafton, Hendrik Hartog and Robert Tignor received The Daily Princetonian Award at the newspaper's annual banquet Wednesday night.The professors won the award for their efforts to engender intellectual discussion after Sept.
On a drizzly spring afternoon, David Podrasky '05 leads a group of 20 prospective students and their families across the University campus, guiding them through the muddy greenery.In most respects, this tour is like any other.
Ben Bernanke, chair of the University's economics department, will today move one step closer to the desk of Alan Greenspan.The White House is expected to announce officially today that Bernanke has been nominated for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, senior White House officials said yesterday.President Bush has decided to nominate Bernanke to one of two vacant positions on the seven-member board.
Peter and Rosemary Grant would fare well on "Survivor."Living alone on a small, uninhabited island, communicating with the mainland only by radio and relying on a national park service's monthly delivery of drinking water have become second nature for this husband-and-wife research team.Since 1973, the University ecology and evolutionary biology professors have made a yearly trip to Daphne Major in the Galapagos Islands, staying anywhere from six weeks to six months each time.Part of the archipelago originally made famous by Charles Darwin, Daphne Major provided the Grants an ideal location for tracking evolutionary patterns in native animal populations.With the help of the Darwin Research Station and the Galapagos National Parks authority, they gathered data with relatively few obstacles or interruptions.Their resulting study, recently published in the journal Science, is "one of the true classics of evolutionary biology," John Burke, an Indiana University professor, said in the article.Over three decades, the Grants focused their study on two indigenous species, the cactus finch and the ground finch."They were already famous in evolutionary biology before we started our work, and they seemed to us the most suitable group of birds for our ecological and evolutionary studies," Peter Grant said in an e-mail from Switzerland.They found that the average beak size of the ground finch changed slightly according to food availability.In 1977, a major drought hit the island, and many small-seeded plants were killed.
