Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon's recent announcement that women make up 50 percent of the students accepted to the Class of 2004 may seem a final symbolic step on the path to gender equality at the University.
Stanford University professor and race relations expert George Fredrickson is charting the history of racism during a three-part lecture series at Princeton this week, beginning with a look at discrimination in medieval Europe and continuing through to the 20th century.Fredrickson, who attended Harvard University and is a historian by trade, has spent much of his life studying the problems of racism in societies, both in America and elsewhere."I started out as a historian of American intellectual life in the Civil War," he said in an interview yesterday, explaining he soon became interested in exploring the views white people held toward blacks.
I am attending my last Princeton class today. After four years of alternately embracing and struggling with my academic experience, I like to think I have learned a trick or two.
For the past five years, Joe Lemay '89 has been one of the best distance runners in the United States at distances from 10,000 meters to the marathon.
After making a quick joke, Tyrone rushes to stack newspapers before the Saturday night crowd swarms the registers with hoagies and Bolis.
What if our universe were just one of many floating around in a larger mega-universe?Though it may seem out of this world, this conjecture by University physics professor Lisa Randall and Stanford University professor Raman Sundrum is now a generally accepted theory that explains forces in the universe.
One year after launching a comprehensive "climate assessment survey" to evaluate the atmosphere for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at the University ? and the week after Pride Week ? members of the Princeton Pride Alliance say they are pleased with the progress Princeton has made in increasing gay awareness.Lesbian Gay Bisexual Concerns Coordinator Ryan Foley said two goals emerged from the survey ? goals that the Pride Alliance has focused on during the past academic year.The first goal, he said, was to secure continued support from the University for Pride Alliance activities.
The $3 fee the Registrar's office charges for all transcripts will soon become history as the office prepares to launch an automated, Web-based transcript request system this fall.The fee will be eliminated July 1, Acting Registrar Joseph Greenberg said yesterday.
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" blares from the television overhead. But the song's normal lyrics ? "He takes a whiskey drink, he takes a vodka drink, he takes a lager drink, he takes a cider drink" ? are noticeably different.Clean-cut Wawa employees with perfectly tuned voices perform carefully choreographed dance moves as a short, balding manager cabbage-patches in his office."He takes a fresh kiwi, she takes a large coffee, he takes a ham shorti, she takes a hot sizzli," they sing in a disturbingly cheerful tone.This instructional video for Wa trainees serves a crucial role in Wa employee training, teaching them Rule No.
Typical small-town police forces are not trained in Israeli military martial arts. The police forces of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, however, are far from typical.In May, some of the area's police officers will supplement their law-enforcement skills with Krav Maga ? the martial art designed in the 1930s specifically for Israeli defense forces.David Kahn '94, who is coordinating the workshops, first suggested training Borough and Township police in the martial arts after returning to Princeton from a trip to Israel earlier this year.
Princeton firefighters, First Aid and Rescue Squad, Public Safety and Borough Police responded to a kitchen fire that interrupted Passover dinner at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday at about 6:50 p.m.According to Public Safety Lt.
To those who do not know them, sophomores Jonathan and Vanessa Wong appear to be dating. They walk together to class, they are both members of Charter Club and they even appear physically complementary.But the two are not sweethearts ? they are twins."We spend so much time together that the first assumption people make is that we're boyfriend and girlfriend," Jonathan said, adding that he sees his twin sister ? who lives two entryways away from him in Holder Hall ? many times each day.While the Wong twins view attending the same school as normal, twins at the University are far from ordinary.
A county judge set a $400,000 bail Monday for the man accused of shooting his wife in the parking lot of the Merwick Rehabilitation Unit on Oct.
Though writer Michael Lewis '82 worked at a high-profile investment bank after graduating from the University, he did not spend his college days preparing for 60-hour work weeks and dinners at the office.Instead, as an art history major, Lewis examined the works of famous artists and wrote his senior thesis on Donatello's use of antique and classical sources.And despite a prominent writing career that includes two books ? "Liar's Poker" and "The New New Thing" ? Lewis admits that he occasionally thinks about his thesis."I still have dreams about it," Lewis said.
Borough Police arrested one man and two juveniles early Sunday morning for allegedly stealing as many as nine coats from the Colonial Club coat room, Borough Police Lt.
Expanding her sphere of influence beyond Rockefeller College's freshmen and sophomores, Rockefeller College Director of Studies Carol Porter will be working with underclassmen from all residential colleges beginning next year as the new associate dean of the college.Porter, who will assume her new post July 1, will succeed Harold McCulloch.
When the three most recent USG presidents posed together for a picture at a party in Tower Club last semester, they contentedly joked about the scene being captured on film ? a multi-ethnic Mount Rushmore for 1990s Princeton.David Ascher '99 is Jewish and a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
After several eating clubs submitted written objections to an ordinance banning smoking in Princeton, the Regional Health Commission agreed during a meeting last week to consider an amendment that would exempt eating clubs and other private social clubs from the ban.But since that decision, some local business owners and opponents of the ban have raised questions about the validity of exempting private establishments while including public bars and restaurants.
Borough Fire Official William Drake said yesterday that the investigation of the March 23 fire at the Frist Campus Center has led him to all but conclude that the blaze was sparked by rooftop cigarette smoking by one or more contractors."We did find a lot of cigarette butts up there," he said.Drake added that his department initially believed the fire ? which destroyed insulation and roofing materials valued between $25,000 and $30,000 ? had been caused by cigarettes, and further investigations have supported these preliminary theories.
In addition to their highly publicized approval of the 500-student increase in the size of the student body, the University Board of Trustees recently offered eight professors the opportunity to call Princeton home ? permanently.At their April 15 meeting, the trustees bestowed the title of professor on Athanassoios Panagiotopoulos of the University of Maryland and Elizabeth Gould of the University psychology department.
