Every semester is the same: Students enroll in an English class they want to take and come home from the U-Store with about 10 books.
Despite less-than-hospitable temperatures Monday night, students and supporters brave enough to venture into the chill were treated to a rousing arch sing organized by the Princeton Pride Alliance as a lively kickoff to this year's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness Week.Blair Arch was alive with song well into the night as the voices of various student groups ? such as Shere Khan, The Roaring 20 and The Firehazards ? joined with those of the New Jersey Gay Men's Choir in celebration and anticipation of this week's events.The Pride Alliance, which began in 1972 as the Gay Alliance of Princeton and was later renamed the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance, is now a large and widely influential group with the means to coordinate a multi-faceted week-long event.This year's Awareness Week ? the 10th of its kind at the University ? runs from Oct.
Princeton Borough, though small in size, is proving to be the scene of an intense political battle in a race for two seats on the Borough Council.This year, Democratic incumbents Wendy Benchley and Margaret "Peggy" Karcher are defending their Council seats against Republican Rodney Fisk and Independent Dorothy Koehn.As part of her campaigning, Benchley said she spends much of her time focusing on alleviating Princeton's "intolerable" traffic situation.She also frequently speaks out in support of the variety of smalland large-scale merchants in downtown Princeton.Benchley ? who was elected to the Princeton Borough Council last year for a one-year term and is now running for a three-year term ? said she wants Princeton students to take advantage of all that the town has to offer, specifically area shops, restaurants and theaters.
University officials said yesterday the package delivery delays in the new Frist Campus Center have been remedied.To that end, all freshmen and sophomores will pick up their packages in Dod Hall instead of Frist for at least the remainder of the fall semester ? a switch made last week in response to the campus center's inability to handle the volume of incoming parcels ? according to Keith Sipple, manager of student financial services for the University and director of campus mail services.But despite these important strides, the mail system still has its problems, as Lisa Sotelo '01 learned firsthand.Yesterday, Sotelo arrived at the Frist mail room about 3:30 p.m., a package delivery notice in hand, expecting to pick up an important check.
On a March day two years ago, leaders of Students for Progressive Education and Action stood on the steps of Nassau Hall shouting anti-sweatshop slogans and pumping their fists in the air.
Surrounded by classmates dressed in traditional Korean clothing, high school freshman Kwan Jin Rho sang a rendition of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" while walking through the University's campus.Rho visited Princeton with 83 schoolmates from the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy near Kangwon, South Korea ? one of the nation's top boarding schools.The academy's freshman class ? a total of 84 students ? is on a two-week tour of top universities in the United States.
On the heels of recent sexual harassment incidents on campus, the University will offer female students, faculty and staff an intensive 15-hour Rape Aggression Defense course ? a non-martial arts program now taught in colleges across the country.Beginning Friday and open to 10 participants, the class ? sponsored by Public Safety and by Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources and Education ? will be taught by newly certified RAD instructor and Public Safety Sgt.
As an architecture major at the University, Arthur Cotton Moore '58 GS '60 was required to design a building for his senior thesis.
Playfully leaning back in his chair while sitting in his modest, dimly lit office, molecular biology professor John Hopfield talks about his creation with all the enthusiasm of a proud parent.Hopfield's work area does not seem like the kind of place where the finishing touches would be made to an artificial organism, but that is exactly what he and Carlos Brody, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Neural Science at New York University, have done.And last week, they introduced the world to their virtual creation ? the sand mouse, or mus silicium.For this project, Hopfield and Brody created a computer simulation of 660 artificial cells that behave exactly like real brain cells.
Princeton High School senior Adam Segaller watched for years as his classmates traveled to the University's campus to take math and science classes.But this weekend Segaller ? a student whose strengths lie mostly in the humanities ? was able to step into a Princeton classroom for the first time as part of the Princeton Humanities Symposium.The University hosted the event Friday and Saturday to recognize exceptional high school seniors such as Segaller who are talented in the humanities.
Bill Bradley '65 is at the crossroads of a journey ? defeated in the Democratic presidential primary last spring and now set to shift in a new direction.
BRANCHBURG ? Former Republican Congressman Dick Zimmer spent most of his time trying to lay claim to the political middle ground, while incumbent Democrat Rep.
Ten years ago, when renowned author Edmund White was a tenured professor at Brown University, his lover became ill.
EDISON ? With 29 days to go until election day, the two candidates for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring New Jersey Sen.
What was once a monastery has now become a "brothel."Enter through the open door to T2 in the Rockefeller College side of Blair.
Public Safety e-mailed a campus alert last night asking students to be on the lookout for an individual who harrassed a female University student Wednesday night.The suspect was described as a white male, about 25 years old, and weighing about 230 pounds.According to Public Safety Lt.
The campus was alive with commotion yesterday during the three hours that President Clinton was in town.
Hello, Brothers. My name is Oliver C. Williams, and I am the president of the Princeton chapter of Kappa Upsilon Lambda.Chartered in 1869, our fraternity was founded upon the principle that most men are created equal.
In his third trip to Princeton during his time in the White House, President Clinton visited campus yesterday to give the keynote address in a two-day conference on the American progressive tradition.Clinton's helicopter landed on Poe Field just before 2:30 p.m.
Taking a necessary step for campus growth, University officials presented a master plan for future construction projects to the Princeton Regional Planning Board at a meeting yesterday night.The planned 500-student increase in the size of the undergraduate student body within the next six to eight years will necessitate the addition of several new facilities, according to University officials."We are very cautious and conservative in considering Princeton's expansion," Vice President for Public Affairs Robert Durkee '69 said at the meeting.
