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.
Three years after the University banned the Nude Olympics, the sophomore class and West College have finally agreed on an alternative class bonding activity.Recent discussions between 2004 class officers, the Interclub Council and the University administration have resulted in a plan to hold the first day of Bicker and sign-ins in the nude at all clubs, according to ICC advisor Alice Teti '00."Some of the sophomore class officers had approached me with this idea a couple of months ago," Teti said.
In a stunning development, the University Jewish community has decided to boycott Tower Club Bicker in early February.
She forcefully opened the door and rushed to her seat. Outside, the wind gently howled, picking up not one or two, but many leaves on its way to the Atlantic.
Shortly before the beginning of the winter recess in December, FBI agents came to campus to make sample copies on all 45 of the University's publicly accessible copying machines.The FBI is investigating letters containing anthrax bacteria, which were mailed from the Trenton area in October.
TRENTON ? James E. McGreevey was sworn in as New Jersey's 51st governor yesterday in a ceremony at Trenton's War Memorial.Declaring in his inaugural speech that New Jersey and the nation are facing a time like none other, McGreevey called upon New Jersey residents to build upon the spirit of community that was forged after Sept.
Rutgers University photocopiers were examined by FBI agents Friday for possible links to the four letters laced with anthrax that were mailed through a Trenton-area post office last year.The tainted letters were addressed to prominent politicians and journalists and were mailed just a few weeks after the Sept.
