Spring Bicker and sign-ins ended in February with 392 students joining Bicker clubs and 116 students joining sign-ins on the second round.
Students get "Stoned" at Princeton all the time.The lure of the 18th-largest library in the country, Harvey S.
Don't worry if you have no idea what courses you want to register for in the fall ? your academic advisers may help you feel a little less clueless.Under a system implemented in 1997, approximately 60 faculty members serve as advisers, with each counseling about 30 freshmen and sophomores.In each college, 10 faculty members advise freshmen while five are assigned to sophomores.
In the wake of an increased graduate school admissions rate and rising real estate prices in Princeton, the University has slated Lockhart dormitory for unmarried graduate student housing for next year, according to Assistant Director of Housing for Graduate Housing Patricia McArdle.Lockhart ? located between the University Store and 48 University Place ? originally was scheduled for renovations next year, along with Dod Hall.
The very idea of engineering at Princeton is enough to send chills down the spines of many A.B. majors.
Meredith Moroney '02 leaned out her window in 1901 Hall with her camera to catch Oscar Award winner Russell Crowe in action during the filming of "A Beautiful Mind" on campus in April.
Under the austere portraits of George Washington and King George II, flanked by President Harold Shapiro and trustees executive committee chair Robert Rawson Jr.
President Shapiro announced the allocation of nearly $400,000 ? the remaining balance of the President's discretionary fund for the 2000-2001 year ? to increase selected University staff salaries in one his final acts as president in May.The announcement was made during the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on May 1 and supplemented a PriCom recommendation to provide up to $1.5 million to further increase salaries next year."I think that the findings of the Priorities Committee are pressing and important," Shapiro said.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ? known to students as "Woody Woo" ? provides research opportunities for juniors and seniors in domestic and foreign policy.
Princeton Borough officials targeted underage drinking at the University's eating clubs this year following the adoption of a N.J.
Never in the course of human events have so few caused so many so much pain.The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.They leave out one important fact, however: Unless your name happens to be Houdini, you will be hard-pressed to sample even a few of them.If you have any intention at all of getting something resembling an education for your $120,000, you are going to be very busy for the next four years with your work alone.Never fear, however, because there are a variety of tactics available for dealing with course chagrin, paper paralysis and homework hysteria.There is, of course, the most obvious and initially painless option: sloth.
This past April, the University Board of Trustees approved the tennis courts south of Dillon Gymnasium as the site for the construction of a sixth residential college, according to Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62.The trustees also accepted in full the Final Report of the Sixth Residential College Program Committee, which calls for 100 upperclassmen to be housed in the new residential college and 100 in each of two other existing colleges."The trustees have approved the final report, but the planning work is not finished," Wright said.
The University accepted 1,675 of the 14,287 applicants for places in the Class of 2005 ? an 11.7 percent acceptance rate, slightly lower than the 12.2 percent rate for the previous freshman class, according to Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.Hargadon added that the University saw a higher-than-expected yield, with 1,198 initially accepting offers of admission versus the University's target of 1,165.Of the admitted applicants, just under 50 percent are men and just over 49 percent are women, Hargadon said....Students of color make up 35 percent of the acceptances and 8 percent of the 1,675 high schoolers are international students, he added....Those offered admission include students from all 50 states and 51 countries.Thirty-four percent of the Class of 2005 was admitted in the Early Decision process in December.
The sixth annual Spirit of Princeton Awards were presented to six undergraduate students at a reception and dinner in Palmer House Wednesday.The six recipients were Aime Scott '01, Devon Keefe '01, Teddy Nemeroff '01, Robin Stennet '01, Brooke Freidman '01 and Amanda Brandes '02.
Chinese authorities formally charged Li Shaomin GS '88 with espionage Tuesday for allegedly spying on behalf of Taiwan, according to a U.S.
President Shapiro may not be black, he may not be a private dick and, from what the 'Prince' has heard, the only chick he's a sex machine to is Viv, but his name starts with the same three letters as Shaft, star of the 1970s Blaxploitation films.
What color does one turn when one blushes? What director had a recurring role on "The Sopranos?" Who wants to be a millionaire?
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., will visit Princeton Borough this weekend to promote their church's anti-gay views and to protest Center for Human Values professor Peter Singer's writings on bestiality.The 200-member church is known for its vituperative views on homosexuality.
President Shapiro announced the allocation of nearly $400,000 ? the remaining balance of the President's discretionary fund ? to increase selected University staff salaries as early as July 1.The announcement was made during the Wednesday Council of the Princeton University Community meeting and supplemented a PriCom recommendation to provide up to $1.5 million to further increase salaries next year."I think that the findings of the Priorities Committee are pressing and important," Shapiro said.
When Andrew Carnegie realized that he had more money than he could give away, he established the Carnegie Corporation of New York to do it for him.
