The University will withdraw next month from the Alliance for Life-Long Learning ? of which it is a founding member ? to pursue an independent long-distance education venture.
This past summer, sociology professor and Wilson College master Miguel Centeno helped establish the Princeton University Preparatory Program, a mentoring program linking area high school students to University community members.
Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea.
Nearly one year after Election Day 2000 and two months after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, President Bush is experiencing the longest successive rally around a president since presidential approval rating polling was first conducted."Now for the seventh successive week he has been between 86 and 90 percent," politics professor Fred Greenstein said as he opened his "consumer reports" analysis of the Bush presidency in Dodds auditorium yesterday afternoon."This is a man, the 43rd President, about whom grave reservations have been or were raised before September 11," Greenstein said.
A recently published study that sought to more accurately pinpoint size, location and number of asteroids asserts there is a decreased probability of an asteroid colliding catastrophically with Earth in the next 100 years.Using data provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ? of which the University is a member ? researchers have found that there are approximately 700,000 asteroids large enough to destroy Earth, as compared with a previous estimate of two million.
In light of the events of Sept. 11, psychology department chair Joan Girgus and researcher Gilda Paul have decided to conduct a study analyzing "how college students are feeling in the wake of the tragedies."On Nov.
The inauguration of a new University president has traditionally signaled an administrative transition period campus-wide.
With the computer's increasing importance in today's workplace, technology institutes such as DeVry are attracting more students than ever.This trend is no surprise.
Frank Gehry will soon be joining the ranks of I. M. Pei and Robert Venturi '47 GS '50 in the list of famous architects who have designed buildings on campus, thanks to a $60 million gift from Peter Lewis '55.Lewis' donation will fund the construction of a new science library, which will be designed by Gehry.
University officials announced yesterday that a suspicious letter found in Robertson Hall did not contain anthrax.
University professors Peter Brown and Alexander Nehamas were among the first five recipients of the Andrew Mellon Foundation's new Distinguished Achievement Awards for scholars in the humanities.The Distinguished Achievement Awards provide up to as much as $1.5 million over three years for deep and extensive research in the humanities by the recipient, and more broadly, their institution and field of specialty."The awards are intended for those who have made major contributions to their own disciplines, whose influence may well have extended more broadly to other fields and whose current work promises to make significant new advances through both teaching and research," according to the foundation's website.The University will administer the funds, which go toward paying for salaries, research expenditures and support for researchers collaborating with the recipients.Brown, the Philip and Beu-lah Rollins Pro-fessor of History, said he was "absolutely stunned" upon learning he had won the fellowship.
When Eric Weisbard '88 arrived at Princeton in 1983, he was interested in Russian and perceived himself to be a Wilson School major.That all changed when, a couple of weeks into school, his friend handed him a tape with "The Velvet Underground" on one side and Lou Reed on the other."It was the idea that there was music this good," Weisbard recal-led about the epiphany that changed the direction of his life.As a freshman, he lived in Holder Hall just above the basement studios of WPRB, Princeton's radio station.
The alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, does not consider the fight against America to be an end, but instead a tactic ? a means of achieving a larger goal ? according to professor Michael Doran of the Department of Near Eastern Studies.Doran, who spoke yesterday to a capacity audience in McCosh 28, articulated that bin Laden's real goal is to spread his radical vision of Islam to Muslims around the world."He believes that the existing order in the Middle East is corrupt and run by apostates," Doran said.
As the Tigers clinched a homecoming football victory in the stadium on Saturday, the larger-than-life statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton's sixth President, was unveiled in a ceremony by East Pyne.The enduring legacy of Witherspoon was appropriately symbolized by the several descendants of the former president and numerous alumni present at the unveiling.
With the impending retirement of University Vice President for Development Van Zandt Williams Jr.
Fifteen years ago, economics professor Uwe Reinhardt and a colleague of his proposed a revolutionary grading system.
A New Jersey state laboratory has not yet determined whether the oily, paint-like substance that was found in a letter opened in Robertson Hall last week contained a biological or chemical agent.
Richard Spies GS '72, the University's vice president for finance and administration, has been named executive vice president for planning at Brown University.Spies will begin his duties at Brown on Jan.
In a small town like Princeton, everyone has a role to play. But the size of the role ? of the Borough government, of the neighborhoods, of the University ? all depends on the angle from which one views the stage, and how closely one listens to the lines.The Arts Council of Princeton ? a non-profit community arts organization located on the corner of Witherspoon Street and Paul Robeson Place ? has proposed an expansion to more aptly perform what it considers to be its role in the community.The proposed expansion, once rejected by the Borough planning board and recently revamped, would more adequately serve the council's more than 40,000 patrons by adding a new performance space, gallery and Communiversity room, as well as completing handicap-accessible building renovations.In the view of many members of the John-Witherspoon community, a mostly black and hispanic neighborhood that abuts the arts council to the north, the expansion would do more to harm rather than serve them.Last December, the planning board voted six to five against the arts council proposal, finding that the proposed building would be an "increased burden" on the neighborhood, "not in harmony with the development of this residential district and detrimental to the adjacent properties on Green Street." The current proposal, a scaled-down version of its predecessor, has yet to be finalized.For African-American members of the John-Witherspoon neighborhood, an expansion of the arts council represents not only an "increased burden," but also another step in a long pattern of injustice.Until the construction of Palmer Square in 1936, the homes of black families extended almost all the way to Nassau Street.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has announced that a trace of anthrax was found inside a letter carrier case at the Palmer Square post office in the heart of Princeton Borough.
