For the first time this year the Student Computer Initiative, through which students can purchase selected models of computers at discounted prices, did not include a desktop option.
These past few weeks, many have entered the Frist Campus Center convenience store in search of items such as cereal, jelly or a bottle of shampoo, only to find empty shelves.Though all frustrations can now be put aside ? the shelves are in the process of being restocked ? students have wondered why the convenience store no longer seemed to carry some of the goods it used to.Before the start of the academic year, the convenience store's principal supplier, Miller-Hartman, went out of business without notifying Frist, according to David Goetz, director of Dining Services at Frist Campus Center."We checked with them the Monday after Labor Day and it turned out that they went out of business," Goetz said."It really caught us by surprise.
A state-backed alcohol ordinance in New Jersey towns, which supporters laud as a key tool in fighting underage drinking, has not been widely enacted throughout the state.
Since antiquity, philosophers and political theorists have been obsessed with the idea of morality.
In conjunction with investigations following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Service have asked more than 200 universities and other higher education institutions for help.The FBI has asked schools to turn over financial and academic information about students ? particularly foreign students ? according to an ongoing survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.At least one of the suspected hijackers in last month's attacks was in the United States on a student visa.The FBI has contacted at least 144 institutions in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, while the INS has contacted at least 56 colleges, according to the survey.
Kirk Varnedoe, chief curator of of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, will join the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in January.
Leonard Milberg '53 hunted in archives, collections and college libraries for unpublished works of some of the greatest writers in Jewish-American history.
A small Georgian-style brick house is nestled between the Princeton Garden Theater and P.J.'s Pancake House on 158 Nassau Street, just beyond FitzRandolph Gate.The style of the house is similar to that of another brick house ? the Maclean House next to Stanhope Hall on campus? that may be more familiar to students.
New Jersey has taken center stage in what is becoming a national anthrax scare as federal officials rush to respond to a growing number of reports of infectious biological agents.Suspect packages have arrived at Rockefeller Center in New York, the American Media, Inc., building in Florida, Senate offices in Washington and a Microsoft subsidiary in Nevada.
The current exhibit at the Historical Society has met positive reviews from community members, tourists and press alike.
Three professors affiliated with the greater Princeton community shared the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, which was announced last Thursday.
Ravan Farhadi, the United Nations representative of the Afghan Northern Alliance, called for the United Sates to give Afghanistan $30 billion in aid in a speech Friday in McCosh 50."This is a country completely destroyed by more than 20 years of war," Farhadi said.
Adrienne Hadley '04 began her college search early into her junior year at Brookstone School, a private kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade institution in Columbus, Ga., and became "literally ob-sessed" for the next year.In addition to collecting such notorious texts as "A is for Admission" and the ubiquitous Kaplan and The Princeton Review guidebooks, Hadley also attended information sessions, visited websites, made appointments with counselors, teachers and older friends, and charted out two separate campus tour trips ? a 'Northeast' route and a 'Southeast' route ? all before entering her senior year of high school."I knew that I needed to have it all figured out by the beginning of senior year," Hadley explained, "so that I could apply early somewhere."While Early Decision is a program encouraged only for students who have a definite first-choice school, Hadley's decision to participate in Early Decision preceded her decision to apply early to Princeton.
Patricia Ireland's road to political and feminist activism began in the 1960s while she was working as a flight attendant for PanAmerican Airlines.
Freshmen will continue submitting their first essays in the new required writing program this week, having completed several writing exercises since the beginning of the semester.
In light of declining Borough support for the proposed alcohol ordinance, administrators are currently making no plans to amend the University's alcohol policy.They have, however, several concerns about the possible impact of the new Borough policy, were it to be passed, on undergraduates."We're certainly going to wait and see what the Borough decides," Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan said.
Members of the University community, less than 50 miles from the World Trade Center, were able to see the devastating details of the Sept.
The moment was one that I had been waiting for my whole life. I don't mean that in the cliche, "This is so cool.
The proposed alcohol ordinance, which threatens to have a dramatic impact on students' social lives, may not be as powerful as many have previously imagined.If passed by the Princeton Borough Council, the ordinance would allow police to cite "any person under the legal age who . . . knowingly possesses or knowingly consumes an alcoholic beverage on private property," according to state law, which permits municipalities to enact such an ordinance.
Ravan Farhadi was serving as a diplomat for the Royal Government of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C., in 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated.
