A group of leading animal rights activists will gather in Trenton on Sunday for the Factory Farming Forum and Rally.The conference will feature various speakers, including bioethics professor Peter Singer of the University Center for Human Values.
A group of University students brought girl power to the John Witherspoon School yesterday ? without the Spice Girls.As part of a pilot program they call Girls Empowerment, a group of OWL members invited girls in grades six through eight to take part in an after-school workshop discussing body image and self-esteem issues.Twelve girls participated in the hour-long workshop, which consisted of three stations.
Community volunteers and several local garden clubs dedicated a bed of nearly 7,000 yellow daffodils at Princeton Battlefield State Park last Saturday to all victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Barbara Gallup, a member of The Garden Club of Princeton, with the group's president, Milly King, developed the original idea for the memorial last fall "We felt the need to do something, and a garden would certainly be an appropriate thing," King said.
The University was among several Ivy League schools to see a marked increase in applications for admission this year, Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon said, as decision letters were mailed to prospective members of the Class of 2006 yesterday.Application numbers were also higher at Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth Universities, but dipped at Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.Officials at Brown University declined to release their admissions figures.More than 14,500 students applied to the University this year, a 1.4-percent increase from the 14,287 applications for the Class of 2005.
The appointment of a chief privacy officer at the University of Pennsylvania has generated questions over whether Princeton and other universities should also create a centralized office for privacy concerns.Penn appointed Lauren Barnett Steinfeld as its chief privacy officer on Jan.
Leaving regional job offers behind, Paul Hackwell '02 will head to Oxford University next year to study English on a Keasbey Scholarship.
The Princeton College Democrats will be starting a new liberal publication later this year."The publication is intended to be a voice for democratic issues which are not necessarily voiced on campus," said Clint Wallace '04, communications director for the College Democrats.The organization hopes to publish one or two issues this academic year to develop a platform for next year's issues.However, the publication is still only in the formative phase of development.
An e-mail sent to all upperclass students on Tuesday announced new fire and evacuation procedures that require all students to gather at an emergency assembly point.The introduction of the emergency assembly point is the only difference from the existing system.Despite the strong allusion in the e-mail to the events of 9/11, manager of inspections for the University Housing Department Ken Paulaski, who sent out the e-mail, said this revision of the fire procedure is a normal occurrence.In the wake of the events of 9/11, the fire safety committee ? co-chaired by Garth Walters of University Environmental Health and Safety and Bob Gregory of University Public Safety ? reviewed and amended campus evacuation procedures."It's something that's been in the works, but 9/11 brought it to the forefront," Paulaski said.The e-mail was issued recently rather than earlier, closer to Sept.
A spirit of volunteerism runs through Jacqui Perlman '05's roots. Her grandfather, the late Les Dishy, worked with Nelson Mandela and served as the mayor of Johannesburg.
On Sept. 11, I was campaigning for Brad Hoylman, District One candidate for New York City Council, when the terrorist attacks occurred.My day had started by catching the 5:43 a.m.
Two University students, Daniel Pastor '03 and Rebecca Gifford '03, have been named Truman Scholars, the University announced Tuesday.The Harry S.
When they first met, Jesse Liebman '03 thought his roommate Tyler Crain '03 was just another high school quarterback from Atlanta, Ga.
The Princeton tiger treasures his home. But his home is changing, as the Earth's natural resources are drained by its human population.To address this problem, Princeton's environmentalists say they hope to help save the world's resources, or at least to put the University on the right track."The entire world isn't functioning in a way that can continue sustainably," President of the Princeton Conservation Society Brooke Kelsey Jack '03 said.Though global warming may be debatable, she said, the limits of natural resources ? from trees to petroleum ? are not.Princeton Environmental Action President Bradley Kennedy '05 agreed.Kennedy said she brought back the concept of tree-free paper ? paper made from recycled materials ? from a college environmental conference that she recently attended, titled "Greening of the Ivies.""All the Ivies get together to decide on a few issues that they're all going to focus on," Kennedy said. Kennedy and PEA have been working with administrators to convince departments to purchase more tree-free paper and paper made from sustainably harvested sources.
Last night's USG Minority Issues forum brought together 10 panelists for a discussion on racial self-segregation.A crowd of approximately 100 students and several administrators filled the area in front of the display wall, with audience members trickling in throughout the course of the discussion. Diverse audienceThe Frist Campus Center was chosen for its accessibility and ability to draw passersby, said organizers Sam Todd '04 and Olivier Kamanda '03.The audience, of which more than half belonged to minority groups, was active in the debate and often expressed loud disapprovals of panelists' opinions.
Last week saw an unprecedented flare up in violence in Israel. With several Palestinian bombings, the Israeli military surrounded the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah.
A new campaign to persuade the University to sell its investments in companies doing business in Israel has wrongly linked itself to Amnesty International, University students and Amnesty employees said.The University invests in many multinational corporations with substantial operations in Israel ? including General Electric Co., IBM, Intel and Merck.
The African-American studies program inadvertently released a statement yesterday congratulating Harvard University professor Cornel West GS '80 on accepting a position at Princeton, Vice President for Public Affairs Robert Durkee '69 said.Noliwe Rooks, associate director of the African-American studies program, confirmed last night that "it was just a mistake.""We have been preparing for the day when we could announce that Cornel West is coming back to Princeton," Durkee said.
Andrew Kosove '92 walks intently into a small conference room with windows overlooking the bustling traffic of Los Angeles's Santa Monica Boulevard.
Professors have referred to them as "model students". They are often the first ones to arrive at class.
An N.J. appeals court panel ruled Thursday that the state law allowing municipalities to hire professional hunters to thin herds of deer is constitutional.This ruling supports the controversial decision of Princeton Township to hire sharpshooters to control the deer population.The Township hired White Buffalo, a professional hunting company based in Hamden, Conn., to thin the herd in the municipality this year, which resulted February in the extermination of 300 deer.Although the Township had originally planned to kill 500 deer, that number was reduced after loud protests from several community groups.Four animal rights groups and several individuals filed two lawsuits against the N.J.
