I grew up with the dispute between India and Pakistan constantly in the news. Poverty in India, a nation of one billion people, was and continues to be a distant second in media coverage.
When my generation was growing up, we heard our Pakistani families heatedly discuss the India-Pakistan conflict, the dangers of war and the waves of internal political and social unrest ? all of which combined to leave a deep impression on our young psyches.After 50 years of independence, the same issues repeatedly return to haunt us Pakistanis because we never moved forward from square one.
I've been going to the Arab section of Jerusalem's Old City every other week for the last two months, even though the university where I'm studying tells us it's not safe to do so.
At a meeting last week to explore potential traffic solutions in the West Windsor area, President Tilghman said the University would not develop the land it is purchasing from the Sarnoff Corporation during her tenure.Later in the meeting, the head of the Penns Neck Environmental Impact Statement Partners Roundtable ? the group that organized the meeting ? resigned for unrelated reasons.These meetings aim to balance development and environmental concerns in central New Jersey, where traffic congestion has soared during the past decade.The University agreed in October to purchase 90 acres of Sarnoff's West Windsor campus.The land will not be purchased, however, until West Windsor Township approves Sarnoff's overall development plan, said Robert Durkee '69, the University vice president for public affairs.Since the beginning of the University's discussions with Sarnoff, he said, the University has said the land would not be developed in the near future.
Donald Clayton Spencer, mathematics professor emeritus, died of a heart attack on Dec. 23 in Durango, Colorado.
The 125th 'Prince' editorial board ends its tenure in one week. for good or for bad, much has happened in its year at the helm of the paper.
President Tilghman's first semester in office has seen significant turnover among the top officers of the University administration.
Princeton's newest student-run magazine released its inaugural Winter 2001 issue last week.Two seniors, editors-in-chief Dan Hafetz and Jon Harris, founded Troubadour Magazine as both a travelogue and a commentary about life beyond the gates of Princeton."Troubadour is founded on the assumption that travel is a state of mind, not a state of being somewhere," Harris said.The magazine features selections from student essays and journals ? vignettes of first-hand accounts of foreign environments.
While she officially took over the University presidency during the summer, last week marked 100 days since President Tilghman's official inauguration in September.And despite the challenges she has faced during a tumultuous first semester, many University administrators and alumni say she has skillfully handled her transition into office.So far, Tilghman's short tenure has seen the terrorist attacks of Sept.
A private man, once known only in mathematics and economics circles for his intellectual side, has been yet again thrust into the spotlight.
The debate over Princeton Township's deer population management program heated up over the past few weeks with new legal developments.A coalition of Princeton residents have challenged the Township's plan to cut the deer population from about 1,600 to around 300 over the next few years.
For the biotechnology industry, New Jersey is an exciting place to be. The area around Princeton is teeming with biotech companies whose cutting-edge research is at the vanguard of progress in their fields.These companies like the Princeton area for several reasons.
The holidays met hundreds of high school students with a special surprise this past December: They received "Yes!" letters from Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.For these students, who Hargadon said probably will make up about 45 percent of the Class of 2006, the holidays were spent basking in the glow of being accepted to the University under its early decision program.Though the University was flexible this admissions season because of anthrax-related mail delays, the deadline for students applying early was Nov.
At midnight Monday, students smoked cigarettes in Holder Courtyard or tramped home from the library.
Newly appointed vice president for development Brian McDonald '83 has explored careers in investment banking, management and production in the music business, sculpture and the restaurant industry since his graduation from the University more than 18 years ago.
Though tension between Harvard University President Lawrence Summers and African-American studies professor Cornel West has eased, West's decision to stay in Cambridge has yet to be finalized.West, who received his graduate degree from Princeton in 1980 and served as director of Princeton's Afro-America studies program, met with Summers Thursday evening after media reports that West was planning to leave Harvard for Princeton...."President Summers and Professor West had a good conversation that cleared the air.
Paula Clancy, head librarian for reserves and general periodicals, remembers that when she first arrived at the University 15 years ago, the A-floor reserve reading room was packed with students, especially at nights and during exam periods.There was a lot of talking and long lines to use the campus phone in the library.
Dean of the Wilson School Michael Rothschild, who had previously announced he would resign at the end of the academic year, has decided to leave his post one semester earlier, effective Feb.
History professor James McPherson's popular American Civil War lecture began like any other.At about 1:30 Wednesday afternoon, bantering students filled McCosh, discussing their upcoming Gettysburg field trip and impending final exam.
Two students have fallen out of their bunk beds this semester, prompting the housing department to send an e-mail to all undergraduate students to warn them of the potential dangers of bunk beds.According to assistant director of undergraduate housing Lisa DePaul, the accidents have prompted the University to explore possible housing policy changes."We will be reviewing the furniture policy as it relates to bunk beds," DePaul said in an e-mail.
