In the wake of yesterday's sobering events in New York and Washington, D.C., the first impulse of many at Princeton and across the country was to get in touch with loved ones in these two targeted areas.
In response to the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, University administrators spent Tuesday organizing relief efforts for students, faculty and staff.Though local universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University have canceled classes and closed offices, Princeton University remained open Tuesday."We made the decision that we would continue to operate the University on a normal schedule, for the very simple reason that the express purpose of terrorism is to disrupt people's lives.
Welcome to the world of advanced electronic resources.While your parents are still struggling to program the DVD player, at Princeton you will be able to research your term paper, send email to your friends or tour a museum in Paris ? all from the comfort of your own dorm room.All you need is a computer and a network connection to tap into the University's Dormnet system.So instead of becoming a "have-not" on an information-driven campus, overcome your computational phobias and learn about the electronic resources available to you as soon as you arrive at Princeton.
If you thought you came to college to learn something practical, forget it. Princeton is one of the last bastions of the high-minded, esoteric and abstruse ? the liberal arts education.Come September, when you arrive at this small liberal arts university in central New Jersey, it will be time to begin your new life as an A.B., a candidate for Princeton's Bachelor of Arts degree.Ignore your calculator-toting roommates when they casually mention their course load of "Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics" or "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids," ad nauseam.
Kiera Duffy can't escape the music. In her world, it's everywhere.Tenors and sopranos echo in the chapel as an audience waits attentively upon every rise and fall in intonation.
Singles (and even attached) females in search of a good-looking, educated male beware.Millions of people saw him each week, and he has been hailed as the universal, ideal boyfriend.
Shirley Tilghman was named the 19th president of Princeton University by the board of trustees in a special meeting held May 5 in Nassau Hall.Tilghman is the first woman to hold the University's highest office and the first president not to hold a degree from Princeton in more than a century."It is a deep honor and privilege to be able to serve the University I love so much," Tilghman said during a press conference following the annoucement in the Nassau Hall Faculty Room, where she was elected by acclamation less than an hour earlier.
If you thought getting into Princeton was hard, wait until you see what you have to do to get out.Every spring, college seniors across the nation break out the sunglasses, play frisbee, drink beer and work on their tans.
Kerry Walk jokes that her new favorite color is orange. Walk, former assistant director of the writing program at Harvard University, is surrounded by it since she took her new post as director of Princeton's writing program last semester.Beginning this fall, freshmen ? and sophomores who have not yet completed the existing writing requirement ? will be required to take one course through the new writing program, which Walk will head, to fulfill the University's new writing requirement.
Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Electrical Engineering professor Daniel Tsui won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for his discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.Molecular biology professor Eric Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995 with two other researchers for their work on fruit fly genetics.In 1994, senior research mathematician John Nash shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two research teammates for their work on game theory.Creative writing professor Toni Morrison, physics professor Joseph Taylor and researcher Russell Hulse, who works at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, all won Nobels in 1993.Morrison, who also won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved," coordinates the Princeton Atelier, a program that gives undergraduates the chance to collaborate with famous professionals in the creative world such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Physics professor Val Fitch won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for his discoveries about high-energy subatomic particles.
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.
