TRENTON ? New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman gave what is likely to be her final State of the State speech yesterday in the Trenton War Memorial.
For 16 months during the early years of the Clinton administration, Wilson School professor Frank Von Hippel worked with the White House, advising the president on arms control and nuclear disarmament.But he doubts he will be invited back in the near future.And Von Hippel is not alone among those Princeton professors who consider themselves liberals.
Seth Green '01 left the interview uncertain about his performance.An applicant for the Marshall Scholarship, Green felt the opportunity was a perfect fit for his future plans, but he doubted his interviewer would see that match.And so he prepared for the long and anxious wait before the final decision, not expecting to learn who would be awarded the scholarship for several weeks.But the day after his interview Green found out he had won the prestigious scholarship.
Greg Ruiz just wanted to go home. The senior at Jesuit High School in California had been standing on a makeshift assembly-line, passing 60,000 pounds worth of food since 3 p.m.
No Princetonian says, "Penn," without adding "safety school."But at Harvard, students have taken the back-handed remark ? which they direct at arch rival Yale ? one step further into cyberspace.Just in time for the Harvard-Yale football game Nov.
The Supreme Court ruling this summer that the Boy Scouts of America may exclude homosexuals spurred criticisms and debate across the nation.
Everyone knows Princeton is cracking down on grade inflation and academic standards these days. But one visiting professor is so tough that he wouldn't let any auditors ? not even one who was born in the U.S.A.
December 15, 1972 ? Princeton's 1972-1973 Annual Giving fund-raising drive has just reached the $1-million mark, according to its assistant director, William M.
Andrew Baldwin watched awkwardly as his father moved toward him. He saw his father's eyes droop and his body sag as his arms rose to embrace his son.Baldwin cringed.
Between 60 and 70 people gathered in Firestone plaza yesterday to criticize the University for not taking what some viewed as the necessary steps to provide sufficient housing for graduate students next year.Graduate Student Government officers brought the housing question before the U-Council at its meeting earlier this week.
During the summer, the U.S. Congress passed a federal policy addendum granting universities the legal right to inform parents of all student drug and alcohol infractions.
Cecilia Rouse, an associate professor in the Wilson School and economics department, recently co-authored a study on the evidence of sexism in orchestra auditions.
A University student was arrested Tuesday at the U-Store on the charge of shoplifting, Borough Police said yesterday.According to Borough Police Lt.
Four years ago, Dec. 14 was a Saturday. Leaving a music rehearsal in East Meadow, Long Island, I drove down the entrance ramp to the Meadowbrook Parkway.
Fred Greenstein was flipping through the television channels yesterday when he stopped and stared.
In a pair of perfectly scripted, made-for-television speeches, president-elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore brought their epic and conflict-ridden election to a close last night with talk of reconciliation and national unity.Far from the election-night rallies and cheering supporters who usually form the backdrop for victory speeches, Bush spoke from the floor of the Texas House of Representatives, a site, he said, of bipartisan cooperation.Expressing empathy for the vice president and commending him for a lifetime of public service, Bush called for an end to the partisan wrangling that characterized the campaign and its aftermath."We must put politics behind us and work together to make the promise of America available for every one of our citizens," he said.
The USG vice presidency is the stepping stone for the chief's job no longer. Joe Kochan '02 ? who last year failed in his bid to become the USG vice president ? was elected USG president yesterday, decisively defeating David Tukey '02 with more than 70 percent of the votes.And with Brigitte Anderson '02's election to the USG vice presidency yesterday, next year's USG presidential election will again lack a number two seeking to become number one.Anderson, new to the USG, barely slipped by USG senator Rolando Amaya '03 to win the USG vice presidential run-off with 52 percent of the votes.Traci Strickland '02 was elected USG academics chair and West Owens '03 was elected USG social chair.Turnout for the run-off ? 1,917 students voted online ? was higher this year than last year, when fewer than 1,300 students voted in the run-off for USG vice president.No candidate for any of the contested USG executive offices won a majority of votes in the races last week, so a second round of voting was required to elect a USG president, vice president, social chair and academics chair."I'm very excited, clearly," said an ecstatic Kochan, who serves as USG chief of staff.
Dr. Marvin Geller keeps the shades drawn on many of his office's large windows, allowing soft sunlight to filter through while maintaining a subtle sense of separation from the bustling campus beyond McCosh infirmary.Many of the people who have visited Geller's office over the years were struggling with the realities of the world outside his windows.
December 14, 1990 ? Ivy Club and Tiger Inn are now pursuing separate paths in their legal battles with Sally Frank '80 as Ivy has missed its deadline to file a petition with the U.S.
December 13, 1948 ? For the first time in what Dr. Frank Aydelotte, former director of the Institute for Advanced Study, estimated to be 10 or 15 years, excluding the war years, Princeton failed to place a man on the list of Rhodes Scholarships.
