The 'Prince' elected Bill Beaver '03 (l.) as the 126th editor-in-chief Friday. Mary Beth Hubner '03 will serve as business manager.
Five University students were transported from the campus area to Princeton Medical Center late Saturday night between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m., according to Public Safety shift supervisor Lt.
There might be whispers about that one girl who every day in the dining hall fixes a salad with nothing but lettuce and vinegar, or a suspicious glance as someone switches to the treadmill after spending 45 minutes on the elliptical machine in the Stephens Fitness Center.
The Class of 2004 has taken a leadership role in Arts Alive, a developing community service program that seeks to engage University students in the New York city community by helping city youth enjoy the arts in the aftermath of the Sept.
With Internet access at American high schools now commonplace, admissions offices at universities around the country are considering moving some parts of the college application process online.Many universities have already set up online systems that allow students to apply over the Internet.
When Associate Dean of Religious Life Sue Anne Steffey Morrow interviewed for and received a job offer from the University in 1981, she was not initially going to accept.Bringing a plethora of experience ? as a United Methodist minister from western Pennsylvania and active advocate of women's rights who had been the dean of student affairs at Duke Divinity School and served parish Methodist churches of Pittsburgh and Chicago ? she had decided that Princeton just was not the place for her to thrive.After being interviewed by an all-male group, Morrow went home and wrote a letter to the University, explaining why she did not feel it was the place she should be.
As hard as he may try, Bob Dylan can't seem to escape Princeton. The poet-songwriter received an honorary degree from the University in June 1970 and wrote his song "Day of the Locusts" based on the event ? hint to those who picked the Frist Campus Center quotes: The comparison of Princeton Commencement to the Apocalypse is not a complimentary one.He gave a concert in Dillon Gymnasium on Nov.
On Saturday evening, Katharine Buzicky '02 and Lillian Pierce '02 were among the 32 American students named Rhodes Scholars.
This Sunday, nearly three months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Princeton community will come together in a University Chapel memorial service to remember the 13 alumni who perished in the attacks.The Alumni Council organized the service, to be held at 1:30 p.m., and explained that the delay was a courtesy to grieving friends and family of the victims."We wanted to make sure they were ready," said Margaret Miller '80, a member of the council.Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal stated that the council did not want to interfere with private services held in victims' hometowns immediately after the tragedy.In addition to family and friends, all of the victims' Princeton classmates were notified of the service.
"Alas, I would not vouch for Harvard and Yale, where men, naturally, are rather more desperate than are their Princeton peers and, thus, more easily exploitable."Everybody likes Yale-and-Harvard-bashing, and this was one of economics professor Uwe Reinhardt's pickup lines to trick bored ECO 102 students into liking the class.
Despite years of skeptical tour groups, the Chapel Choir's weekend concert confirmed the Orange Key guides' translation of Dei Sub Nomine Viget - God does go to Princeton.
Thousands of letters and packages held at the contaminated Hamilton postal facility will be irradiated to destroy anthrax bacteria before being delivered to the University, student financial services manager Keith Sipple said yesterday.
In a panel discussion yesterday in the Frist Campus Center, University officials declined to say whether student records have been subpoenaed in the post-Sept.
At 8 p.m. last night, a small crowd of students began to form in the area between the 1879 arch and McCosh Walk, where an American and Israeli flag had been hung side by side on the thin branch of a tree.Approximately 30 members of the Princeton community came to take part in a vigil in memory of the 26 victims of the terrorist attacks in Israel last weekend.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is providing the University with a $450,000 grant to catalog 400 of 500 ancient religious manuscripts and then digitize their images.
The Third World Center held a forum last night to discuss a possible name change for the organization.
USG election results were released yesterday afternoon. Because no candidate for president garnered 50 percent of the vote, David Gail '03 and Nina Langsam '03 will face each other in a run-off election to be held this weekend.Only one other executive committee position was contested."It's just a great feeling, to see . . . people trust you," Langsam said.
"All of us are wearing the same expression every American wears here, of wonderment mixed with self-satisfaction at having cleverly removed ourselves from the quotidian discomforts and dangers of life in America while at the same time bravely exposing ourselves to the exigencies of foreign money, a difficult language, and curious food . . ."In Le Divorce, Diane Johnson offers a brief look at Americans living abroad by chronicling the lives of two young American women in Paris.
The number one school in the country, huh? According to U.S. News and World Report, that is exactly where I go.
When Mark Shapiro '89 was a senior at Princeton, he had as much of a plan for his long-term future that a number of current seniors have: Absolutely none whatsoever."I left college without a definite direction," Shapiro said, pointing out that he started working in the corporate world, toying with the idea of Wall Street before eventually getting into real estate development.He quickly grew tired of the real estate business, however, having been turned off by the menial number-crunching inherent in the job."I decided to try to focus on the things I felt passionate about in life," Shapiro said.And that meant one thing ? baseball.The 34-year-old Baltimore native is now executive vice president and general manager of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, the second youngest general manager in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees' 33-year old Brian Cashman. Though he is the son of prominent majorand minor-league agent Ron Shapiro ? a man who has counted Cal Ripken, Jr., Kirby Puckett and Eddie Murray among his clients ? Mark Shapiro literally worked his way "from the ground up" with the Indians.He started as a baseball operations assistant, doing grunt work for the then-struggling franchise."I was researching contracts sometimes, but most of the time I was filing or doing other office work, basically menial tasks," Shapiro said.
