Long way from home
Adae Romero '02 spent much of her first semester on campus in tears. While her classmates chatted excitedly, eager to make new friends, she found comfort in the soft voices of her relatives thousands of miles away.
Adae Romero '02 spent much of her first semester on campus in tears. While her classmates chatted excitedly, eager to make new friends, she found comfort in the soft voices of her relatives thousands of miles away.
November 28, 1990 ? A 19-year-old sophomore was seriously burned early yesterday morning after he touched a live power line atop the Dinky at the Princeton train station.Bruce Miller '93, who was listed last night in critical condition at St.
A recount of the votes in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District began yesterday after a tally Wednesday indicated that Democratic Rep.
The University's familiar mascot has appeared on campus in a new and ingenious form ? two giant tiger "Chia pets" now guard the entrance to Princeton University Stadium.Just as a new Chia pet comes out of the box bald but eventually sprouts stems around its midsection, these new tigers do not yet host the ivy that will grow from their torsos.
Come March, University students may have more to look forward to than simply summer: Russell Crowe and Ed Harris will be visitors on campus during the filming of Ron Howard's latest cinematic project, "A Beautiful Mind."The drama ? which will focus on the life of John Forbes Nash GS '50 ? will include scenes filmed in Princeton and New York City.
In 1993, playwright Eve Ensler was walking past a newsstand in Manhattan when a photo on the cover of Newsday caught her eye.It was a picture of six women who had just returned from a camp in Bosnia.
PJ Kim '01 campaigned for class senator his freshman year by going door-to-door in tiger-striped pajamas.
Amid talk of possible court challenges by both parties, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris declared George W.
Editor's Note: With this article, The Daily Princetonian launches a 10-part series on how race affects the lives of Princetonians.James Wiley '01 wasn't used to losing.
Behind the plain-looking door of E-Quad room D334, is a place that could be taken out of a child's fantasy world.Giraffes and tigers, carousels and Kit-Kat clocks, baseball bats and cacti, all surround mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Robert Jahn '51.Though an avid collector and animal lover, at first glance, Jahn appears to be an average engineer.
November 27, 1974 ? President Ford has accepted Princeton's invitation to present the Rockefeller Public Service Awards in Washington on Dec.
The election deadlock between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore has affected more than just American students at Princeton.Even though international students ? who make up roughly 5 percent of the student body ? could not vote in this month's elections, many say they still have a paramount interest in who wins.Rebecca Simson '04, who is from Sweden, said that despite the current deadlock, the eventual winner will play an important role in shaping America's international image."I see the American president's role first and foremost from an international perspective, and from this perspective the presidential candidate and the values he [or] she stands for is extremely influential in world politics," she said in an e-mail.Also at stake is what the eventual president might do for some international students' native countries.Tim Allen '04, who lives in South Africa, said in an e-mail, "I was hoping Al Gore would win, as he has far better policy with regard to South Africa, having been there a number of times, and knowing our president as he does."Others expressed concern that the unresolved election has disrupted Wall Street and financial markets in other countries.Thais Melo '04, who is from Brazil, decried the legal battles raging in Florida.
November 22, 1966 ? Clinch H. Belser Jr. '67 and Stephen A. Oxman '67 last night explained their positions on Bicker and the proposal of the Bicker Study Committee before an assembly of about 300 sophomores in Alexander Hall.Oxman, chairman of the Undergraduate Council, stressed the need for the proposal to gain the support of "a sizable number of the sophomores." He noted that the "clubs on Prospect Street are extremely interested in the sophomore response to the proposal" and that if a significant number of sophomores favor the proposal, the graduate boards might be more responsive to calls for its adoption from the club members themselves.Belser, this year's Interclub Committee chairman, countered by stating that the sophomores still really have no objective basis to judge Bicker because "you haven't been through the process yet." He added that discussion of changes in Bicker could best be carried out after Bicker, because at that time "three-fourths of the student body has been through Bicker, not just one-half."Oxman further noted that he hoped that seven or eight clubs would adopt the proposal.
Springdale Golf Course officials are planning to relocate the clubhouse and redesign parts of the golf course following a meeting with University officials, Club Manager Donna Dilorenzo said yesterday.University trustees have identified the location of some of these course renovations as one of three possible construction sites for the sixth residential college.The other sites include the area south of Dillon Gym and the area north of McCarter Theater.Trustees and University officials are hoping to begin construction on the new college within the next few years to provide housing for the 500-student increase outlined in the Wythes proposal, which was approved last April.University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62 said yesterday he was aware University administrators had met with country club officials to discuss possible renovations, but said the construction was not necessarily proposed to provide space for a new residential college."I believe this discussion of construction in the area north of Forbes has led Springdale to determine that they should relocate the clubhouse and several holes," Wright said.
Most people think of carbon dioxide as either the stuff they breathe out after taking in oxygen or the stuff that will eventually turn the planet into a furnace through global warming.
The uproarious atmosphere of indignation ignited by members of the John-Witherspoon community at a Borough Council meeting on overcrowding and quality-of-life issues Oct.
On the third floor of the E-Quad, there is a small but bright and airy office filled with shelves and shelves of files.In a deteriorated state and in need of preservation, the room fittingly is the office of civil and environmental engineering professor George Scherer, who is teaching a lab science course in art conservation offered for the first time this semester.For Scherer, who used to work as a materials scientist at Dupont and Corning research labs, teaching at Princeton is a pleasure.
All in one sitting, students today can contact a professor who is never in his office, get a message to a high school friend at Stanford and purchase discount airplane tickets.And they do it all without picking up a phone, and certainly without licking a postage stamp.Princeton, like most American institutions of higher education, has embraced e-mail and has not looked back.
When time spirals down in the fourth quarter or the offense is stalling on third and long, the Princeton football team turns to the guidance and strength of its captain.
Harrison Ongwenyi was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing at the Graduate College at 2:20 a.m.