For more than three decades, the little white door sandwiched between 128 and 129 Nassau Street has guarded Princeton males' best kept secret ? the men behind the clean cut.
During junior year, most students spend much of their time sitting in a library, studying and reading.
After nearly two hours of intense debate, the USG senate approved measures Monday night clarifying ill-defined elections rules that have provoked disagreement between candidates and the USG elections committee in the past.Beginning with the upcoming spring class officer elections, USG candidates will be informed of their right to appeal elections committee decisions ? a provision that technically existed but has not been used in recent years.
Students shedding their winter clothes and preparing to enjoy warmer weather may have more to worry about than just sunburn.
The history department's undergraduate office is a flurry of activity. Faculty are bustling about, checking their mailboxes and confirming schedules, and two seniors are complaining about their imminent thesis deadline.
The Indigo Girls will be the featured act in this year's spring concert, a publicist for the band said yesterday.
University economics professor Alan Blinder '67 recently completed a report on the relationship between the Internet and the American economy.
Matt Rubach '02 was desperate. Thoroughly convinced through the entire college application process he would be enrolling at Yale, the time came to decide on a school and his resolve disintegrated.
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.
