A grateful University gave a warm send-off to Vice-President for Development Van Zandt Williams '65 in the Frist multipurpose room last month.
In his third address to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush pledged last week in his State of the Union address to continue to fight the war on terrorism, protect national security, defeat the recession and create a new national spirit of volunteerism.The issues brought up in his speech reflected the universally recognized transformation of the Bush presidency in its first year.
A $30 million gift by Meg Whitman '77 toward the construction of the sixth residential college will allow the University to expand the undergraduate student body and institute a new four-year college program, the University announced yesterday.The gift supports just less than one-third of the $90-100 million project to build a new college on the tennis courts behind Dillon Gym, President Tilghman said in an interview yesterday.The donation is the largest gift by an alumna of the University and comes during Whitman's 25th reunion year."I had a great time as a Princeton undergraduate," Whitman said in a press release.
Peter McDonough was appointed Jan. 26 to lead the University's legal team as successor to General Counsel Howard Ende.
On the set for MTV's "The Real World," a show which documents the daily conflicts of seven unlikely roommates living together in one house, Kyle Brandt's roommates usually defer to his judgement, much as his Princeton football teammates came to expect big plays from him as the star half-back.Brandt, aggressive on the football field in college, often takes charge on the MTV set as a leader and protector, though he confesses that his unabashed confidence can sometimes be a problem.
Whitman College, named after Meg Whitman '77, will be one of three four-year colleges starting in 2006 and fully operational in 2010, the University announced yesterday.
The Board of Trustees voted last week to increase the total fees to attend Princeton by 3.94 percent.
An even distribution of students among the sign-in clubs and a high number of Bickerees ? especially to Cottage Club ? have marked the advent of 2002 Bicker and sign-ins.Celebrating a New England Patriots Superbowl victory and a successful sign-in process, members from the six sign-in clubs arrived at the doors of 335 sophomores last night to welcome them to Prospect Avenue.Similar to last year, Charter Club led the sign-in numbers, accepting 94 students with 21 on the wait-list.
NEW YORK ? "It feels like they're coming down on me," Carl Wu said as his eyes widened and his arms stretched up to the illuminated night sky.
The University secured a victory during Intersession in the contest to attract renowned African-American studies professors when it named Kwame Anthony Appiah as a professor for the Center for Human Values and Laurance S.
With this issue of The Daily Princetonian, the 2003 Managing Board begins its year-long reign.Leading the pack is 126th Editor-in-Chief Bill Beaver '03, who hopes to continue the spirit of excellence that the 'Prince' has seen in the past year.Beaver has taken the unprecedented step of appointing three managing editors to run the paper's news department.
"There are something like six or seven sentences . . . that are the sentences of other writers."These sound like the pleading words of a college student accused of plagiarism, trying to minimize the significance of his appropriation of others' words.
The University's Board of Trustees approved last week an $800 million budget which included several new measures designed to improve life on campus.Among other initiatives, the budget included a decision to increase the length of late lunch at Frist by 15 minutes.Brad Simmons '03, a member of the U-Council, served on the Priorities Committee ? a group of students, faculty, staff and administrators who prepare the operating budget each year for approval by the president and trustees."Extended hours and enhanced programming at Frist will probably be the most significant result of the new budget for undergrads," Simmons wrote in an e-mail.
The 125th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian leaves 48 University Place with this issue. The 'Prince' will resume publication on Feb.
The recent controversy over Cornel West GS '80's status as a professor at Harvard University has attracted attention to Princeton University's Program in African-American studies.The program ? founded in 1969 ? awards certificates, but not degrees, to seniors, who must major in another department.
Politics professor Robert George was named Wednesday to President Bush's Council on Bioethics, a new panel that will explore the ethical consequences of scientific research.
It's funny how much aesthetics matter at this school.Princeton is supposed to be filled with great minds that are able to grasp complex theories and higher levels of thinking that are on the cutting edge of education and morality.
Shortly before the beginning of winter break, FBI agents made sample copies on all 45 of the University's publicly accessible copying machines as part of the bureau's on-going anthrax investigation.Ted McLaughlin, who runs the Photographic Services office in Firestone Library, is in charge of publicly accessible machines on campus, which allow anyone with a pre-paid access card to make copies.
The Rev. Ernest Gordon, a former prisoner of war who was University chaplain emeritus and dean of the University Chapel from 1955 to 1981, died Wednesday morning at Princeton Medical Center.
With only three months to go before the scheduled event, the USG has abandoned plans for a spring concert in the University stadium, according to a student government official familiar with the stadium concert discussions.The decision was made during the first week of reading period in a closed-door session of the USG Senate."The USG leadership just decided that they hadn't done their homework on getting a good band," the official, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
