Before the grand opening of the new Frist Campus Center, its planners carefully considered every detail.
Maurice Sendak's face resembles, in a benevolent way, the expressive features of the wild monsters he drew in his award-winning book "Where the Wild Things Are." The similarity is not surprising given that Sendak modeled the monsters in his book on the unkind aunts and uncles that he remembers from his childhood.Sendak, one of the leading visionaries in children's literature, spoke yesterday evening to a crowd of all ages at McCosh 50 in a speech and question-and-answer session sponsored by the Council for the Humanities.When Sendak's most famous book, "Where the Wild Things Are," came out in 1963, it was considered by some critics too scary for children with its drawings of grotesque monsters hanging from trees and beating pots and pans in a dark wood.Other critics believed that the book was inappropriate for children because it was about a boy who disobeys his mother and tells her, "I want to eat you up." Despite the criticism, however, the book was incredibly successful."Adults were critical of the book, but children loved it," Sendak said.Sendak has written and illustrated 19 books and has illustrated more than 60 others.
Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader '55 filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in Boston against the Commission on Presidential Debates, claiming the CPD violated his civil rights by barring him from attending the first presidential debate.According to the suit, the CPD used police to prevent Nader from entering a viewing room because of his affiliation with the Green Party and because he had publicly criticized the commission and his opponents' parties.Nader was excluded from attending the debate between Texas Gov.
With election day approaching, polls continue to pique public interest. Journalists ply their articles and television reports with numbers from Gallup and CNN.
An underlying anxiety and apprehension pervades the career search and student recruitment process these days.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation yesterday released its environmental assessment of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed ? a document several years in the works and the next major hurdle on the path to constructing the controversial Millstone Bypass.The bypass is a proposed alternate road to U.S.
Justin Nyberg '01 recalled a moment, two years ago, when he and Arthur Whitman '01 were walking into the Mathey dining hall for dinner.
An increasing number of University students are deciding that applying for jobs via the information superhighway beats the overwhelming paperwork and time-intensive traveling often associated with job hunting.The developing trend toward e-recruiting and online job applications indicates that these technological advances offer many new advantages for both the companies offering jobs and the students seeking them.
While faculty and students alike embraced recent warm temperatures, such pleasant weather apparently brought with it an invasion of microscopic proportions.Insects, it seems, are everywhere.Anyone who has ventured outside or flung open the windows within the past couple of weeks likely has been involved in some sort of unpleasant insect encounter.
The history of the Earth's climate and atmosphere is one of the longest untold stories, a great puzzle in the overall picture of the planet's evolution.
Former Republican Congressman Dick Zimmer ? now a candidate for New Jersey's 12th District congressional seat ? stressed the importance of a strong relationship between the United States and Israel and denounced the actions of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a McCosh 50 speech last night."[Israeli-American relations] is something I'm deeply involved in, deeply care about and it's certainly timely," Zimmer, a former lecturer at the Wilson School, said in an interview before the speech.Sam Spector '03 ? president of the Princeton Israel Public Affairs Committee, which hosted the event ? concurred.
In their last chance to duke it out on national television, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov.
When Amy Holmes '94 was an undergraduate at Princeton, she founded an animal rights group called "Ahimsa" ? a Hindu word meaning "peace to all creatures." She distributed leaflets opposing animal testing and organized vegetarian nights at a local health food store.
Dressed in a crisp blue jacket with his white hair neatly combed, renowned journalist Russell Baker looked like he was about to give a serious academic speech.Yet, from his first words during a lecture in McDonnell last night, he made the audience chuckle again and again with witticisms aimed at his colleagues ? members of the news media.Baker would probably take offense at being categorized as a part of the media, however ? a group that he feels has "nothing to do with news."Part of the Princeton University Lectures Series, Baker's talk, titled "The Age of the Superstory," addressed the evolution of journalism.
Erica Shein '04, one of a few teenagers who testified at yesterday's New Jersey state assembly meeting, said she experienced nervous excitement while defending her emphatic belief that minors should have the right to seek abortions without parental consent.Up for discussion was an initiative that requires parents of minors to be notified of all medical procedures, including abortion, performed on their children.The initiative ? which may appear on the November 2001 ballot if approved by the state assembly ? is opposed by many pro-choice activists, including Shein."The point I was trying to make was that maturity and responsibility and wisdom do not have anything to do with age," Shein said.Susan Wilson, executive director of the Network for Family Life Education at Rutgers University, introduced Shein and two New Jersey high school students who also testified before the assembly.
As discussion of the possible alcohol ordinance lags in Princeton Borough Council's public safety committee, an overwhelming majority of key players expressed hesitation about pushing the issue further.The public safety committee tabled discussion Friday morning of the state law ? which allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit police to cite underage drinkers on private property.
The votes have been sorted and counted: Eli Goldsmith and Rishi Jaitly will assume the presidency and vice presidency of the freshman class after a two-day runoff election, the USG announced yesterday.Fifty percent of the freshman class voted in the elections, choosing between Goldsmith and Nicole Apollon for president and Jaitly and Emily Minkow for vice president.After being notified yesterday evening, Goldsmith said, "I'm tremendously excited . . . Just getting [into Princeton] was such an honor and such a shock ? [Winning the class election] is almost too good to be true."Jaitly also said he was excited to take on his new responsibilities and meet the students and other class officers with whom he will be working.
Russell Eckenrod '01 is facing a tough decision. In a few months, he, along with many of his classmates, will have to sign on the dotted line and choose between public service, consulting and law school.Eckenrod says he is inclined to seek employment in the public sector, working for the government, a special interest group or a nonprofit organization.
As news of the supposed terrorist bombing of a U.S. ship in Yemen on Thursday sent Princetonians racing to their televisions and computers, history professor Jeremy Adelman had a sobering suggestion.In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, he recalled, many Americans were quick to conclude that the attack was the work of a Middle Eastern terrorist."Well, guess what?" Adelman said.
Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader '55 last night gave the Princeton community an hour-long social commentary ? and the audience loved every bit of it."It's nice to be back," Nader said.
