'Sing-Sing-ing' a different tune
Wellington Richardson Whitaker '89 sat on his bed late Tuesday afternoon after a long day on the job.
Wellington Richardson Whitaker '89 sat on his bed late Tuesday afternoon after a long day on the job.
What you mean what was I thinkin' 'bout? What the hell you think I was thinkin' 'bout? I used to play Madison Square Garden and places like dat.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft reiterated his shocking pledge yesterday to "enforce U.S.
For USG president PJ Kim '01, it used to be all about getting student input. But after announcing yesterday a plan to distribute condoms to all undergraduates free of charge, it's about getting students to put it in.In perhaps one of the boldest and certainly most bizarre initiatives of his administration, Kim has decided to offer prophylactics to all University students who want them ? and even to attractive freshman females who don't."OK, so yeah, this might seem a little crazy, but you can never be too prepared," Kim said, stroking a small packet of Trojan condoms in his right hand.
The landscape of foreign policy has changed dramatically since the last time Donald Rumsfeld '54 served as secretary of defense.
While approximately 125 demonstrators stood outside their Nassau Hall meeting room, the Board of Trustees Saturday approved, 30-4, the return of the Army and Air Force ROTC to the Princeton Campus in September, 1972.The trustees' action, endorsing the proposed contract terms negotiated by the ad hoc committee on ROTC, followed the Dec.
Playing Red Light, Green Light with a sixth grade science class in the halls of Holland Middle School in Trenton, a group of University students from PHY 111: Contemporary Physics, hoped to teach Newton's First Law of Motion with their game example.In lieu of a final exam, professor David Nice gave his students the option of participating in a community outreach teaching program.
Inside the third floor conference room in West College, students, faculty and administrators meet at a wooden oval table.
After graduating from Princeton with 10 varsity letters and an engineering degree, Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Milligan '81 went on to a successful boxing career that included bouts with the likes of Mike Tyson.
Those who have wished the 'Street' could be different, now have an opportunity to do something about it.Prospects, a new student organization on campus, is sponsoring Prospects 2001: Redefining the Street for a 21st Century Princeton, an architectural design competition meant to address the future of Prospect Avenue.Beginning Feb.
Five years ago, when University chemistry professor Bob Cava chaperoned his son Miles' class trip to Gettysburg, he learned a new meaning for the word "bond.""It was pretty hilarious camping out at a state campground with about 100 fifth graders," Cava chuckled.
In "Paradise Lost," Milton justifies his blindness by saying it forced him to look within, so he could "see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight."Like Milton, I justified my disability as other-worldly.
After a successful campaign to overturn a smoking ban in Princeton Borough, the National Smokers Alliance is going to court again.The NSA recently filed a complaint with the local finance board against Katherine Benesch, a volunteer member of the Princeton Regional Health Commission.
Cheng Liao GS was so enthusiastic about his work in computer science that when a problem arose in a program, he could not wait one minute to fix it."I would sometimes ask him about some piece of software that wasn't quite doing what it was supposed to do," said computer science professor Jaswinder Singh, who worked with Liao at firstRain ? an Internet start-up specializing in infrastructure technology for wireless Internet."Soon, he'd be sitting at my desk, pulling up windows and hacking the code right there," Singh said.
Joshua Handler GS was reading the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, when he read that he was being connected with espionage."I was shocked," Handler said in an interview yesterday.
At the end of November, CIT presented its new "Hats" cluster of computer servers to University members.
Borough Police officials are evaluating the legality and feasibility of their recently proposed effort to combat underage drinking in the eating clubs, Capt.
Though many see the Honor Code as a sacred fixture of Princeton tradition, the 107-year-old document has not been immune to change.Recent proposals to change the Honor System follow a decade of increased discussion about the Honor Code and at least four modifications to the Honor System's constitution during the last seven years.Proposed changes ? which include adding faculty advisers, creating a defense advocate pool and expanding the jurisdiction of the code to out-of-class exams ? seem sweeping but may be just another step in a recent line of Honor Code reforms.In 1994, the committee extended the period for an accused student to prepare for his hearing from one day to seven days.Two years later, the guidelines for choosing a defense advocate were modified to include only current undergraduate students and exclude administrators, faculty and graduate students from serving in the position.In 1998, the committee added a clause stating that in the presence of "overwhelmingly convincing evidence," plausibility of method, rather than intent, is enough to convict a student of violating the code.
During the presidential search committee's most recent meeting Saturday, the 18-member panel continued to discuss what characteristics would be desirable in the next University president, according to Paul Wythes '55, committee vice chair."We're just wrapping up the first phase ? gathering input from outside the immediate range of the Princeton community," Wythes said.