The hotly debated proposal for a smoking ban in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township has provoked the New Jersey License Beverage Association to threaten a lawsuit against the Princeton Regional Health Commission.
When it became clear that Barton Gellman '82 would not make his varsity high school gymnastics team, he decided to trade mats and bars for pencils and pads ? and launched a career in journalism that would take him around the world and catapult his byline onto the front page of The Washington Post.Gellman, a Rhodes Scholar, began his career at the Post covering the local court house in Washington, D.C.
The Washington Road elm trees ? which have ushered generations of drivers into Princeton Borough beneath a bough-supported cathedral of branches and foliage ? were listed recently by Preservation New Jersey, Inc., as one of the state's 10 most endangered historic sites.Construction plans for the Millstone Bypass ? a proposed alternate road to U.S.
Susan Taylor, director of Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center for the past 12 years, has been named the new director of the Princeton University art museum.Taylor will take over the reins of the museum in August, succeeding art and archaeology professor Peter Bunnell, who has served as the museum's acting director since Director Emeritus Allen Rosenbaum retired in October 1998.Bunnell, who served on the search committee to find a permanent director, said he is "thrilled" and "excited" about Taylor's appointment."She has great leadership and insight," he said.
When looking to exercise, some students head to the tow path for a jog, hop on the bikes in Dillon Gym's new fitness center or swim a few laps in Dillon's pool.
Students returning from Spring Break may need to empty their wallets to refill their gas tanks because the price of a gallon of gasoline has risen locally in the past few months from $1.25 to more than $1.70.The price of oil has been rising steadily for the past six months and is expected to continue to climb this summer.
With the help of the University's geosciences department and the National Science Foundation, 80 high schools are using hi-tech science equipment as part of a nationwide project to help students better understand earthquakes.Thanks to the Princeton Earth Physics Project ? started in 1993 by geosciences professors Robert Phinney and Guust Nolet ? high school students can collect seismic data and communicate with seismologists and students at other schools."The idea was that we would try to renovate the science curriculums in high school where teachers could collect real science information, and then be able to share and exchange this data with other schools across the country," Nolet said.Nolet said he and other scientists developed the program because they were concerned about the large gap that exists between high school and college science curricula. 'Surprised'"We were surprised that teachers in high schools were not keeping up with modern developments [in science]," Nolet said, referring to technical equipment and laboratory facilities.The National Science Foundation provided a $2-million grant for the first phase of the project.
One year before female students stepped onto campus, sociology professor Suzanne Keller became the first woman to be granted tenure by the University.
The Graduate College has been the site of an unusually large number of false fire alarms during the past few weeks, Sgt.
While hundreds of colleges and universities across the country have decided to ban student use of Napster ? a music search engine that has received national media attention in recent months ? Princeton has taken a more liberal approach in dealing with the issue.According to a list published on the Website of the Students Against University Censorship ? a group that says it will "fight and lobby against the universities' decisions on banning Internet resources" ? 196 schools have blocked Napster from their networks.The University, however, has decided not to restrict use of the service.
After graduation, many University students follow similar paths, pursuing careers in consulting, becoming investment bankers or going to graduate school.But in a journey financed by the Martin A.
You'd have to be living in a bong chamber if you didn't realize that this school's strength is its universal attention to detail.
In an effort to prevent episodes of school violence ? such as the Columbine High School incident ? some government and school officials have been adding metal detectors and armed police officers to their schools.
From Cher to Jewel to even Britney Spears, would-be poet-philosophers have sung about the woes of heartbreak for years.
Princeton does not typically allow undergraduates to major in African-American studies. But that did not stop Stephen Clowney '00."It was their mistake.
Public Safety is conducting an investigation of four small fires set in the Forbes College Main Inn during the past month, according to Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser."We know it's vandalism ? someone walking past and lighting a flier or a poster," Weiser said.
Facing the harsh reality of an unbroken string of primary defeats and a mounting delegate deficit, Bill Bradley '65 threw in the towel yesterday in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and declared his support for Vice President Al Gore in his bid for the presidency.Speaking to supporters and the press in West Orange, N.J., yesterday, Bradley called for Democrats to unify behind Gore.
Spurred by the recent acquittal of four New York policemen responsible for the death of Amadou Diallo, students assembled in Firestone Plaza yesterday afternoon and addressed issues of inequality and prejudice on campus.Attracting a crowd that ranged from 25 to 50 during a several-hour period, speakers at the rally called for renewed efforts to help members of the University community transcend racial boundaries and to advocate equitable treatment of minority groups.Participants said they were frustrated with the apathetic approach their classmates and the administration take toward racial inequality at the University.
Though Rashaan Harris '95 was exposed to a wide range of scholastic knowledge ? from textbooks to professors ? during his four years at Princeton, he still sought other answers he knew he would have to pursue on his own.But he never thought he would find them in South America.Harris served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uruguay from 1995 to 1997.
Yale University's decision last month to upgrade its African-American studies program to a department will not put pressure on Princeton to take similar action, according to Provost Jeremiah Ostriker.But Nell Painter, chair of Princeton's AAS program, said she continues to favor the creation of such a department, and noted that she is "exasperated" and "exhausted" as a result of her efforts to convince the University to make the switch.Ostriker said he had formed a committee consisting of several professors ? including Toni Morrison and Painter ? to recruit specialists in African-American studies prior to Yale's decision. 'Build it up'"We looked at this a while ago," he said of the prospect of upgrading Princeton's AAS program.
