The University stepped up financial aid awards on Jan. 14 and both Yale and Stanford followed suit with increases of their own.
College activism is not dead.In contrast to recent criticism that the era of social movements has come and gone, students began to reinitiate Princeton's chapter of the NAACP during a Tuesday meeting in the Third World Center.In an effort to "energize the campus with new activism," University chapter president Misha Charles '01 and secretary Martha Pitts '01 said they are seeking to reestablish an active National Association for the Advancement of Colored People membership at the University.
Within the week, students will have to head to a slightly different location to enjoy their Abel bagels.The bagel bakery is moving one store over in the Witherspoon Street building where it currently resides, according to owner Alfie Kahn.Having served the Princeton area for 14 years, the bagel shop will reoccupy its smaller, original location, Kahn said.
The USG Senate officially endorsed the creation of the student-run Committee on Examinations and Standing, one that parallels the faculty version of the same committee.The faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing is the only committee that does not include student participation, mainly because the "vast majority (of work) involves looking at student academic records," Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said.The primary goal of the student committee will be to include students in general academic discussions that the faculty committee may have, USG academics chair Todd Rich '00 said.The two committees will have to meet at least once every year, according to "Rules and Procedures of the Faculty of Princeton University.""Whenever the Undergraduate Student Government shall establish a committee parallel to a Faculty committee, the parallel committees shall at least once a year meet in joint session," the bylaw reads.In forming the committee, the USG wanted to "ensure that students will be able to meet along with the faculty members and ensure that a student voice is heard in all substantive discussion," Rich said. 'Substantive issues'USG members agree that students should not review student records or violate the privacy of other students, Rich said.
In the week since a faculty committee issued a report both documenting and criticizing a meteoric rise in grade inflation over the last two dozen years, reactions have run the gamut.With the USG lining up on one side as stalwart defenders of a trend towards higher grades, and the report's authors ? the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing ? lining up on the other as critics of grading standards gone awry, the lines have been drawn for a wide-ranging discussion about what the importance of grades.And everyone has an opinion.The USG's responded to the committee's findings in a memo issued yesterday."Apart from the desire to differentiate artificially between Princeton students, the report offers no compelling reason to explain why grades need to be re-centered," wrote USG president David Ascher '99 and academics chair Todd Rich '00.
No longer do students have to shuffle through numerous flyers, emails and voice mail messages to remember their activity schedules.
America must strike a foreign policy balance between isolationism and activism by using its technological prowess, Norman Augustine '57 GS '59 told students and faculty last night at Dodds Auditorium."We need to find out how to avoid becoming '911 America,' and also not standing by while friends suffer," said Augustine, the former CEO of Lockheed-Martin.Augustine suggested that America must continue its investment in technological military innovations, but not ignore the importance of its troops."The technological contribution is significant, but only one ingredient," said Augustine, who is currently a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Longterm developmentThroughout his speech, Augustine continued to stress the need for America to invest in the longterm development of new technologies.
New and improved kick-lines have been a spring staple for more than a quarter of a century, but next year Triangle Club will only produce one original show each academic year.
The results for fiscal 1997 are in, and the University's endowment ranks fourth among U.S. colleges and universities.
The Program in Jewish Studies has appointed an internationally renowned scholar in hopes of molding the three-year-old program into one of the University's more accessible and diverse undergraduate curricula.Peter Sch
It has been a rough week for electronic communication on campus.Most recently, the University voice-mail system crashed for a total of 75 minutes on Sunday.
It is common knowledge that starting your own business can be a difficult task. It can be even harder if the organization you are starting is another campus food delivery service.The Hoagie Haven Delivery Agency, created by Tom Johnson '00 and Josh Greenhill '00, has run into more than a few problems with the University's regulations regarding student-operated businesses and it only began business last night."The Student Agencies office hasn't been very helpful," said Dan Lips '00, an employee of the organization.
The trailer next to the fence in Lot 23 has been parked there for more than a month without a permit.
A University student studying abroad in South Africa was robbed and threatened Friday after a man broke into her house.Alison Bartlett '99 was alone in her Mowbray home when an unidentified man in his early twenties broke into the house searching for money, she said.To gain entry, the suspect kicked in a rear door ? the only means of egress without steel bars ? after jumping a locked fence that surrounds the property."I heard something in the back of the house.
In the spirit of its ongoing "Excellence in Neuroscience at Princeton" initiative, the Class of 1943 has established an award to be given to a senior demonstrating exceptional work in that field.The Class of 1943 Senior Thesis Prize in Neuroscience will go to the senior whose thesis is judged by the Department of Psychology to be the best in that area of study, according to Barry Jacobs, psychology professor and director of the interdepartmental program in neuroscience.Fifty-fifth Reunion co-chair Ted Rockwell '43 said that his class is interested in helping Princeton's neuroscience program grow, noting that the University has no separate department devoted to the subject."Ending the 'Decade of the Brain,' Princeton ought to be leading the field," Rockwell said.The award will be given at commencement ceremonies each year.
Pre-Columbian coins, 500-year-old letters from Christopher Columbus and 17th century maps of Latin American expansion are currently on display in the main gallery of Firestone Library.The exhibition, "The Search for Latin America: Sources at Princeton," compiles the University's resources on Latin America with a journey through a thousand years of Latin American history.
This Friday, almost a year after the death of Tigertone Rick Modica '99, Princeton's a cappella groups will convene to celebrate his life.All eight of the arch-rotation singing groups will participate in the memorial concert.
Princeton's spectacular rise this season to No. 8 on the ESPN/USA TODAY coaches' poll has made the Tigers' Cinderella story a popular topic of conversation for anyone with even passing interest in NCAA men's basketball.Newspapers, radio stations and television networks from a number of cities, including Seattle, Milwaukee, St.
Controversy continues to surround the Projects Board, as the senate haggled over grants to student groups last night.
Humility was the buzz word in the Wilson School yesterday as 1997 Physics Nobel Laureate Stephen Chu delivered the fifth annual Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture entitled "Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms and Biomolecules.""Many Nobel Laureates' greatest strength is humility," said Jack O'Leary, Chairman of the Management Services Council.
