A gaping hole on Elm Drive has closed the road between Lot 21 and the Public Safety guard booth adjacent to Butler College.
It's all about the competition. And recently, competition has grown stiffer than ever before.It's not the rivals that have become tougher.
The University is suspending delivery of outside mail, two days after the discovery of a small amount of anthrax prompted the closure of the main Princeton post office, which is located off of Route One.Lauren Robinson-Brown '85, University Director of Communications, explained that the University's mail normally flows through the now-closed facility."There's no reason to believe, unless there is a suspicious letter that meets the guidelines we have posted on the website, that any mail we receive has anthrax contamination," she said.
With under two weeks to go before Election Day, New Jersey's gubernatorial race is entering its final stretch in an uncertain voting environment."Honestly, we have no idea what will happen," said Monika McDermott, the associate director of the Eagleton Institute Rutgers/Star-Ledger poll.The race pits conservative Republican candidate Bret Schundler ? the current mayor of Jersey City ? against Democratic Woodside mayor Jim McGreevey.
The University is asking any student who develops flu-like symptoms ? fever, muscle aches and cough ? to report to McCosh infirmary, three days after a suspicious powder found on a keyboard in the Frist Campus Center was removed by a hazardous materials team.Meanwhile, Uni-versity officials are working with local and federal law enforcement agencies.
Harvard University's Dean of Undergradu-ate Education Susan Pedersen announced Oct. 16 that she will request all academic departments to assess their grading policies and practices and to submit their findings to her office, a statement from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
With mid-terms coming to an end and fall break just around the corner, many University students will soon be en route to Newark International Airport.
University officials announced Monday that the white powdery substance found a week ago on a keyboard in the Frist Campus Center has tested negative for the presence of anthrax.
Though it has been open for only one year, the Frist Campus Center is fast becoming a hub of student activity.
Vanessa Rodriguez '03 sat restlessly in her SUV waiting out the traffic to New York. It was not until she looked to her left to see the smoking southern tip of Manhattan that she fully grasped the transformation through which her home city had gone on Sept.
Since 1987, astrophysics professor and associate chair of the astrophysics department David Spergel has investigated elusive scientific phenomena, such as dark matter and the origins of the universe.
It will be at least two more days before the University finds out whether a suspicious powder found on a keyboard in the Frist Campus Center Monday night contained anthrax.Meanwhile, some members of the University community and health professionals are questioning the University's response to the incident.Lauren Robinson-Brown, the University's director of communications, explained that the suspicious powder is now waiting to be tested for the presence of anthrax at a state facility.
I wasn't afraid of the needles.That was what I told Charlotte, and it was the truth. Charlotte was a robust, beautiful blonde nun with blue eyeshadow and a southern drawl; she was a beacon of contented serenity.She was also a licensed acupuncturist, and on the day in question, she was about to pierce my tender flesh with half a dozen sharp needles.
It may seem that a door handle isn't a big deal. But David Podrasky '05 knows differently.Just like the rest of his freshman classmates, Podrasky tackles the challenges of navigating around a campus setting.
The Class of 2005 leadership is now in place. Results in the runoff election were announced to the freshman class via e-mail yesterday afternoon.
The recent national and local anthrax scares ? including the incidents of multiple letters containing anthrax postmarked in West Trenton and Monday night's scare at the Frist Campus Center ? have brought to light the ease with which the substance can be produced and used as an agent of bio-terrorism.It has also prompted a flurry of citizens and University students to seek more information about its effects.University molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler, a specialist in pathogens, said that producing small, or even large, quantities of anthrax is not very difficult."A person with some microbiology skills could grow it in a flask," Bassler said.
Ed Tenner '65 majored in history and even went on to get his Ph.D in European history at the University of Chicago.
When the Princeton Model Congress holds its annual conference this fall in Washington, D.C., fewer high school delegations will attend than usual.Five or six schools ? representing about 10 percent of the attending student population ? have withdrawn from the program following the events of Sept.
The University Environmental Safety and Risk Management Committee recently created the Emergency Preparedness Task Force to review and update the University's policy of responding to emergencies on campus.According to director of environmental health and safety Garth Walters, one of seven staff members on EPTF, the task force was created to ensure the University is ready to handle emergencies that might surface."The world has changed since Sept.
More than 30 years ago, at the height of the Vietnam War, Harvard University sent its Reserve Officer Training Corps program into exile.
