Nearly a dozen students required medical transport by University and Borough authorities for intoxication during Houseparties weekend.Ten University students ? six females and four males ? were transported for intoxication, said Public Safety Sgt.
A century ago, the appointment of Woodrow Wilson 1879 as University president signaled the greatest period of reform in the University's history and brought forth a vision that has come to define the institution.At his inauguration in 1902, Wilson saw a college trailing its rivals in academic prestige and helped transform it into a university unmatched in its focus on undergraduate education.
While FristFest gatherers waited in line for free cotton candy and popcorn on the South Lawn Thursday, Rosa Poetes '05 took center stage and raised a large cardboard check as an award for her mother's Mediterranean chicken recipe.As winner of dining services' "There's No Place Like Home!" recipe contest, Poetes won $250 toward the cost of flying her mother from Germany to Princeton to sample dining services' preparation of her family recipe on May 14, when all four award-winning recipes will be served.Dining services director Stuart Orefice said the purpose of the contest ? co-sponsored by the USG and open to undergraduate and graduate students who have purchased a meal plan with dining services ? was to add variety to meals as well as gain feedback from students."It's nice to hear from our customers ? our students," he said.
For any University student attending a Houseparties ball, Marie DePinto is the fairy godmother of flowers.DePinto, who works at The Flower Market off Witherspoon Street, offers motherly wisdom to girls on boutonniere selection and helps boys decide whether to buy a corsage or a bouquet ? corsages are out, she says: relics of the '70s."Irises, Gerber Daisies, and Orchid buds will fall apart," she said.
Princeton students, faculty and a former president of the University have been collecting a bevy of honors, gaining recognition and financial support for a wide variety of projects.History professor Peter Lake, electrical engineering professor Vincent Poor GS '76 and politics professor Howard Rosenthal received the annual Guggenheim Fellowship.
A panel met yesterday to discuss and evaluate the recent presidential primary election in France, in the second bowl of Robertson Hall.In a vote that shocked French citizens and people around the world, Jean Marie Le Pen ? the far-right candidate with a history of staunch nationalism and Nazi sympathy ? defeated the popular Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin.
Ask Jim Consolloy about any plant on campus. The University grounds manager since 1989, he knows the stories behind virtually every tree and shrub.He is charged with envisioning and executing beautiful landscapes ? and making sure they are protected.He said proudly that he has bought every tree since he became grounds manager."It's a living campus.
Cornel West GS '80's departure from Harvard University and his appointment at Princeton last month reflect new dynamics in the relationship between race and higher education, according to social scientists and professors who have followed the West story in recent months.Personal disagreements between West and Harvard president Lawrence Summers, arising from Summers' questioning West's recent scholarship, have been widely cited as a major factor driving West to leave.But David Carrasco, a Harvard Latin-American studies professor and close friend of West, said differing views on the goals of education led to West's departure as much as Summers' questioning of his academic contributions."West embraces a love of knowledge and education," he said.
Nestled in the row of stately mansions on Prospect Street one finds the unlikely Third World Center, soon to be renamed the Carl A.
Instead of working this summer, 44 local high school honor students from low-income families will study for six weeks at the University.The University Preparatory Program, a three-year program initiated last year by sociology professor Miguel Centeno, provides educational resources for Mercer County high school students from economically disadvantaged families.The program serves to help these students qualify for admission to top universities, where the competitive admissions process tends to favor students with financial advantages, Centeno said."The problem is that the competition for admission has become so intense that anyone from the working class or below is working at a very serious disadvantage because of the advantages that class provides," he said.This year 21 rising sophomores, chosen on the basis of socio-economic level and performance on the Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment standardized test, will join the 23 rising juniors returning from last year.The students are taught by local high school teachers under the guidance of the University's teacher preparation program.
This summer Andrew Peek '03 and Sam Spector '03 will travel to the Middle East for an 18-day program on terrorist threats to democracy and freedom.Based in Israel, the program ? sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy ? allows students to interact with political and military leaders from around the world.Along with 38 students from various universities in the United States and Canada, Peek and Spector will hear lectures from terrorism experts and officials from Israel, India, Jordan, Turkey and the United States.The stay in the Middle East begins a year-long fellowship sponsored by the FDD for the students to raise awareness about the threat of terrorism."I think its an incredible opportunity to be able to spend time in Israel, which is at the front lines, as far as I'm concerned, of the war on terrorism," Spector said.For both Peek and Spector the fellowship is a continuation of their University and extracurricular studies.Peek is majoring in politics with an emphasis on the Middle East.
A yacht. A big yacht to sail to Greece.That was the request of Nathan Damianos in a mass e-mail sent to the entire University community Sunday.Titled "To the kind people of Princeton University," the e-mail directed readers to Ificandream.com and asked them to sign a petition to support his effort to buy a $1 million yacht and sail around the world.The mass e-mail left the Office of Information Technology confused about how Damianos infiltrated the directory and what changes they can make to prevent spam, or junk e-mail."What he is doing is reprehensible," said Rita Saltz, associate director of information services.
SHARE, the Women's Center and several other campus organizations sponsored an open forum on the circumstances and options surrounding sexual harassment, Tuesday night in the Frist Campus Center.The forum, "Anything But an Open Book: Sexual Harassment in Academia," focused on defining and identifying sexual harassment, During a question-and-answer session that followed, panelists described the methods the University uses to prevent and combat sexual harassment."After reading the report [on women's issues] released by USG, I was shocked at how little people knew about sexual harassment," said Hannah Haviland '04, who organized the forum.
This summer, Fernando Delgado '04 will teach children who live on the streets in Brazil. Lindsay Dell '05 will work in Bolivia to help women find jobs.
Each fall, entering freshmen bring many more college survival items than they need, lugging to campus stereos, clothing and of course, extra-long twin sheets.
For his last assignment in WRI 106: Contemporary American Prose, Brian Muegge '05 wrote an opinion paper about the need for "alcohol-free" housing on campus.The secondary affects of some students' overconsumption of alcohol ? unclean housing and bathrooms, noise and harassment ? led him to write the paper, he said.After turning in the paper in January, he forwarded copies to various administrators on campus.
Asbury Park comes alive in Bruce Springsteen's reverberating rock anthems. But the beach town's "Glory Days" are long gone.The condominiums are abandoned and crumbling.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has abandoned its early decision admission program.
Princeton Borough officials said they are looking to the University to take the lead in combating student drinking on campus and at the Prospect Avenue eating clubs, following a recent rise in alcohol-related incidents."When the clubs started taking measures to combat drinking, the result was more drinking in the dormitories," Borough Mayor Marvin Reed said.
In the midst of face painting, food stands and performance troupes during Communiversity on Saturday, about 120 University students ? including groups from the cheerleadering team, eating clubs, Agape and diSiac ? joined local volunteers at a bone marrow drive organized to find a match for a local high-schooler with lymphoma.A ninth-grader at Princeton Day School, Andrew Coles was diagnosed with the cancer last August and, after recently coming out of remission, has been searching for a suitable donor for a marrow transplant.Saturday's drive at the Community Park School, which was the second local event put together by the Coles family to find a match for the 14-year-old, drew a total of 600 volunteers from the Princeton area."It was a real cross section of the community," said Robyn Coles, Andrew's mother.
