Mention the word "U-Store," and many students will immediately think textbooks and high prices ? not of a Princeton institution.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation named three members of the University faculty among the 104 recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowships last Wednesday.
Every University student who took New Jersey's teaching-certification exams last year passed the tests and is now a certified teacher.As part of the state's Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers, the 20 students who completed the University's teacher preparation program and passed the tests earned New Jersey Certificates of Advanced Standing stating that they are now qualified teachers.This is no small feat, considering that each student had to pass all 25 of the rigorous exams.
As the year progresses and dining hall food looks all too familiar, an overwhelming number of students are relying on the Frist Campus Center to spice things up.Though the main gallery, the beverage laboratory and the cafe have added to students' eating options on campus, rising numbers of patrons have created bigger lines for food and a crowded eating environment."The response to services, programs and facilities here has been tremendous," said Paul Breitman, director of the Frist Campus Center.
The University strives to instill an ethic of diligence and excellence within the community. President Shapiro and his wife, Vivian, have recently become even more active contributors to this effort by presenting a gift to the University that will endow an annual award for outstanding academic achievement by firstand second-year students."We wanted to recognize the academic achievements of many students during their first two years at Princeton," Shapiro explained.
At yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, leaders of the Worker's Rights Organizing Committee had a chance to formally present their cause to a large group of University administrators.Despite the choice of venue, the WROC representatives were not targeting their pitch at the entire U-Council.
Raising the stakes in the highly competitive market for top high school students, Dartmouth College ? announcing a $1.6 million initiative last week ? became the fourth Ivy League school to increase financial aid in recent months.More than two months ago, in a small Nassau Hall conference room, President Shapiro ? in what may have been his last press conference as University president before the announcement of his successor this spring ? predicted schools would follow Princeton's ambitious undergraduate aid plans."We had not hoped for a competitive advantage," Shapiro said during the press briefing.
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from a Martin Dale '53 Fellowship, architecture major Amy Anderson '01 will spend next year serving an organization that helped her overcome a personal challenge ? stuttering.Her voice is scratchy from a sore throat, but is otherwise clear, fluid and articulate.
Through their community service projects, the Princeton Project 55 and Princeton University Class of 1969 Community Service Fund help represent domestic violence victims in court, conserve the environment and raise awareness of hunger around the world.But these organizations also provide a service to the people of the immediate area.
Workers, students and professors gathered on the Frist patio yesterday afternoon in an appeal to University administrators to give cost of living adjustments to some University employees.At the rally ? sponsored by the Workers Rights Organizing Committee ? speakers were cheered on with chants, songs and rattles of coin-filled "COLA cans." Employees, faculty and even a state senator voiced their support of the campaign, which argues that increases in living costs should be reflected in workers' wages.The University Priorities Committee will meet today for the second time in a four-meeting-series to discuss the issue."Even if they don't fit it into their budget this year, we hope that Human Resources will include cost of living adjustments into next year's," said WROC leader Nick Guyatt GS.
Despite junior papers and senior theses deadlines looming around the corner, many students ? along with faculty and staff ? devoted last Saturday to a different type of project: volunteering.Campus Volunteer Day ? in which over 50 students, faculty and staff participated ? was sponsored by the Office of Community and State Affairs with the support of Community House.The participants worked at the Princeton Nursery School, Princeton Young Achievers Clay Street Learning Center, Princeton Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Princeton Public Library and Stony Brook Millstone Watershed.Danielle Nunez '02, who helped organize the event, said that past activities have largely been "spring cleanups, some kind of activity that a group of people can do."Nunez said she worked at the nursery school.
For geosciences major Anne-Marie Barrett '03, a hurricane hitting the coast of North Carolina would not be a natural disaster.
The "Yes!" letters are officially out.According to Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon, the University accepted 1,675 of the 14,287 applicants for places in the Class of 2005 ? an 11.7 percent acceptance rate, slightly lower than the 12.2 percent rate for the current freshman class.Of the admitted applicants, just under 51 percent are men and just over 49 percent are women, Hargadon said.Students of color make up 35 percent of the acceptances and 8 percent of the 1,675 lucky high schoolers are non-Americans, he added.Those offered admission include students from all 50 states and 51 countries.Thirty-four percent of the Class of 2005 was admitted in the Early Decision process in December.After endless hours of grueling application reading and decision making, Hargadon celebrated the end of this year's admissions process.
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario: for some ostensibly justifiable reason, you were unable to attend your 8:30 a.m.
When Cynthia Romero '04 met her roommate for the first time, she was concerned about first impressions.
On a website where people have tried to sell their kidneys and even their souls, it might still be surprising to see a Princeton item called "Team Supporter" that might pass as an advertisement for the male version of Vagina Monologues.
University professors and pro-choice advocates Peter Singer and Lee Silver went head to head last night with two pro-life noteworthies ? Princeton professor Russ Nieli and Dan Robinson, a Georgetown University professor ? in a debate on the legalization of abortion.
Salih Eissa '03 has been thinking about ways to coordinate and organize the black community at the University since last summer.Eissa said he felt existing organizations ? such as the National Council of Negro Women, the Black Men's Awareness Group and AKWAABA ? were forced to focus too much time on planning, which drove them away from their individual goals.Hoping to improve the organization of the black community and strengthen ties with the rest of the University community, Eissa founded the Black Student Union last month."The union provides other organizations the time to focus on their issues," Eissa said.
A University faculty committee is preparing to fill the Henry R. Luce Professorship in Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture, a permanent tenured faculty chair funded by a Luce Foundation grant.Though the University provides many opportunities for the study of the specific technical underpinnings of computers, the Internet and neuroscience, there is little opportunity to explore their impact on the human experience, according to an announcement from the University's Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.The Luce professor will investigate how these technologies change culture and history.
Real Networks, along with three major record labels, has announced that it will make music available online for consumers to download.The joint venture, to be called MusicNet, will charge users a monthly subscription fee.
