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Graduate school alum discusses five-month detention in China

Graduate school alum discusses five-month detention in China

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.

NEWS | 10/01/2001

Professors alter teaching plans to incorporate terrorist attacks

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.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Tilghman installed as 19th president in stately ceremony, evening gala

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.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Princetonians help launch foundation

Four years ago, armed with nothing more than a table and a phone, Justine Stamen set out to fulfill her dream.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Harvard Law School professor to begin week of lectures

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.

NEWS | 09/30/2001

Mary Chapin Carpenter to perform at installation

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.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Discovering Shirley Caldwell

When it came time for Shirley Caldwell to think about college scholarships, she decided to apply for only one.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Graduate students without football tickets express ambivalence over role on campus

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.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

University to install Tilghman

Shirley M. Tilghman will be formally installed as the 19th president of the University today at 3:30 p.m.The administration expects that over 1,000 students will attend the ceremony, based on its online RSVP service.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

The ultimate experience: Rogow '02 recounts summer fighting the 'gators

What would it take to get you to submerge yourself in a swimming pool with a 9.5-foot alligator, capture the animal, haul it out of the water and wrestle it on the nearby sand?For Bryce Rogow '02, it was a wage of eight dollars an hour, guaranteed free insurance for any personal injuries during the activity and the promise of adventure.This summer, Rogow ? a native South Floridian ? spent four months at a mock Seminole Indian village in Hollywood, Florida, at a tourist attraction for deepwater alligator wrestling."I'd seen alligator shows since I was a child and always wanted to try it," Rogow said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 09/27/2001

Learning and meeting people from around the world

After an eight-hour flight, a two-hour bus ride and hauling my bag up the stairs, I was exhausted.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

Report gauges impact of aid

During an annual report presentation to the faculty on the status of undergraduate admissions last week, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said last week that the University's change in financial aid policy last January greatly affected the composition of the Class of 2005.Malkiel noted that 46 percent of the freshman class is receiving financial aid ? the highest percentage of all the Ivy League schools and a significant jump from the 40 percent of the Class of 2004 receiving financial aid.Malkiel also said there was an increase in the racial diversity of the freshman class.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

Depressed markets sour senior hopes for employment

In the midst of their final academic year at the University, seniors have already begun to plan ? if not finalize ? their immediate post-college plans.But the world that members of the Class of 2002 will enter when they walk out FitzRandolph Gate is a decidedly different one from the world that members of recent classes entered.For a number of reasons, the members of the Class of 2002, whether they are joining the work force or continuing their education in graduate school, will be facing a more competitive, uncertain and deliberate process.According to economics professor Elizabeth Bogan, the combination of an economy that has been slowing since the end of last year and the uncertainty generated by the attacks of Sept.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

High-tech Friend Center opens to students

No longer a hole in the ground surrounded by construction tape, the Friend Center for Engineering Education is finally open for University business.Named for donor Dennis Keller '63's high school friend and Princeton roommate Peter Friend '63, who died their junior year, the center is intended to be a facility that will bridge the gap between engineering and the liberal arts.From the open lobby to the facade made up almost entirely of windows, every detail of the Friend Center is meant to project an inviting air.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

University admissions officers resume travel

The University Admission officers will resume regional information sessions Sunday, after suspending travel on Sept.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

Launching the new community service center

Last spring Princeton announced the establishment of the University Center for Community Service.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

Charter fund raiser to aid housekeeper and family displaced by devastating fire

For three years Charter Club has benefited from club housekeeper Nelly Cardose's constant smile and cheeriness.

NEWS | 09/26/2001

New vice president Leydon ready to direct revamped OIT

In mid-June, as many Princeton students were working hard at internships, in classes around the world, or at jobs in their hometown, Betty Leydon was working hard on the Princeton campus, busily reorganizing and preparing for the return of students.Leydon, however, is not the administrator in charge of Freshman Week or Outdoor Action or manager of the U-Store.

NEWS | 09/25/2001

Infected by virus, E-Reserve system crashes for first two weeks of classes

Students who expected to access their course reserve materials electronically last week discovered that, even in the age of the Internet, paper is still the most reliable print medium.The Electronic Course Reserve System ? which gives students online access to course reserve materials ? was shut down on Sept.

NEWS | 09/25/2001

Three more alumni confirmed dead

Three additional alumni have been confirmed dead after the attack on the World Trade Center.Robert Cruikshank '58, Martin Wohlforth '76 and Jeffrey Wiener '90 were all killed in New York on Sept.

NEWS | 09/25/2001

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