Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Maria Flores-Mills arrived on campus in August to begin her new job.
Robert Accordino '03 is living out a dream. In 1997, Accordino attended the most recent installment of the Trilogy Series: a charity concert series that features three a cappella groups: the Princeton Tigertones, Harvard Krokodiloes and Yale Whiffenpoofs.
The road less traveled has been particularly long and rocky for University computer science professor Edward Felten.Since developing an innovative method of breaking the code intended to protect digital music files from being copied, Felten has been involved in a complicated legal battle with some of the record industry's most powerful forces who threatened to sue if he published his research.On Nov.
The Board of Trustees appointed new faculty members earlier this year to accommodate new areas of research and fill vacancies in several departments.
University Public Safety reported year 2000 crime statistics last week.With American patriotism surging in the wake of the terrorist attacks last month and University pride swelling with the installation of the academy's 19th president Shirley Tilghman, Princetonians are riding high on a wave of freedom and seem unconcerned with petty thefts and larcenies.But the increasing numbers in this year's crime report reveal it may be the campus' relative openness that allows these statistics to grow.
For several years, University Public Safety has used student workers to respond to the numerous lock-out calls it receives each day.Director of Public Safety Jerrold Witsil said that for as long as he has worked at the University ? 26 years ? his department has used student workers to help with lockouts at night.However, the use of students in this capacity might become more common this year.
Princeton is famous for scientific innovation, but few people know that the University runs one of the most efficient power plants in America.The plant, an unassuming structure just south of the MacMillan building on Elm Drive, was built just to power campus.
As next month's elections draw near, the heat is beginning to turn up on Steven Abt '04's run for Princeton Borough Council.
In their daily travels to and from classes, practices and meetings, Princeton students cannot help but encounter a myriad of construction projects in various quarters of the Princeton campus.
Wilson School Dean Michael Rothschild announced yesterday that he will step down this summer, after six years as head of the School of Public and International Affairs.
Twelve-year-old Janet bounded through the aisles of the public library on Witherspoon Street. She muttered to herself in Spanish.
If anything can be concluded from last night's American Whig-Cliosophic Society forum on a possible Borough ordinance concerning underage drinking, it is that controversy over campus drinking problems is far from dead.Representatives from the Borough government, Borough Police, eating clubs and counseling agencies all met for the first time in a formal setting to discuss the ordinance.
For Li Shaomin GS '88, a brief passport check by an immigration officer in Shenzhen, China, turned into a five-month journey through the Chinese legal system.Li discussed the Chinese legal system and his "participatory observation" of it with a crowd of more than 200 in a speech at the Frist Campus Center last night.
Wilson School visiting professor Christopher Wren had not originally planned to broach the topic of terrorism in his class, HUM/WWS 447: Politics and the Media: Covering International Intrigue, until four or five weeks into the semester.After the horrific events of Sept.
In a ceremony on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, molecular biology professor and former director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Shirley M.
Four years ago, armed with nothing more than a table and a phone, Justine Stamen set out to fulfill her dream.
A new student group, the Ideas in Action will kick off this afternoon a series of lectures concerning justice in America.This afternoon's speaker, Randall Kennedy '77, a Harvard Law School professor and a specialist on race and the law, will speak in McCosh 50 at 4:30 p.m.
Grammy Award-winner and honorary member of the Princeton Class of 1949 Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform on campus today as part of the celebration to commemorate the installation of Shirley M.
When it came time for Shirley Caldwell to think about college scholarships, she decided to apply for only one.
When the Princeton football team takes the field tomorrow night under the lights for the home opener of the Ivy League season, the stadium will be packed with students, alumni and faculty.However, missing among those orange-and-black-clad fans will be many graduate students.Unlike University undergraduates, graduate students do not receive complimentary tickets to athletic events ? like tomorrow's game ? or to other social events on campus.Tickets to such events are not complimentary for graduate students because there is no comparable fee to the undergraduate student fee which provides financial support."I'm not sure how many [graduate students] are affected by this," said Matt Fouse GS, president of the Graduate Student Government, "but I think they would like to be involved."Though some graduate students will make their way between the prowling tigers guarding Princeton Stadium because the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni will give away free tickets at its annual tailgating party, Fouse said he sees this as part of a bigger problem."Little things [like free tickets] add up," Fouse said.Other graduate students do not hold this view."Graduate students are a community of very interesting people who do not have a lot time on our hands," said Elliot Ratzman, a graduate student in the religion department.
