When August Wolf ’83 decided to make a run for public office, his first task was deciding whether to run for the U.S.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Ross Haywood ’90 for a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Saturday. The White House Press Office deferred comment to a statement. According to the statement, Haywood is currently serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania, where she has served as Chief of the Appellate Division since 2010. “[Haywood] has shown unwavering integrity and an outstanding commitment to public service,” said Obama in the statement. Haywood graduated cum laude from the University with a degree in economics in 1990 and magna cum laude fromthe University of Michigan Law School in 1994, according to Pittsburgh's Action News. According to U.S.
The Council on Teaching and Learning is currently working to redesign its course evaluation system, according to Dean of the College Jill Dolan. The Council was first charged with the task in late 2015 and has designated it as a committee priority for the 2015-2016 academic year, according to its website.
With regard to his recent comment that the University will not penalize students for possibly holding an event commemorating Osama bin Laden, University President Christopher Eisgruber '83explained that the University is committed to the principles of free speech and will not discipline any members of the University for their political opinions. “We allow students, faculty and others the freedom to express their political opinions vigorously, even if those opinions are controversial or offensive to some,” he said In an interview withThe Indian Express last week, Eisgruber noted that in accordance with principles of free speech, the University will not discipline students even for potentially holding an event to commemorate Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden claimed responsibility for carrying out the terrorist attack of Sept.
Raja Krishnamoorthi ’95, who won the Democratic Party primary on Mar. 15, believeshe has a very good chance to serve in the the U.S.
“Black liberation” describes a world in which African-Americans can live in peace without the constant threat of social, economic and political woes, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor said in a discussion on Thursday. African American Studies Department Chair Eddie Glaude explained that throughout history, movements against racial inequality led by African-Americans in the U.S.
Mircea Davidescu GS, a Ph.D.
With the exception of senior Cecilia Barowski, who will be competing at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Alabama this weekend, women’s track and field concluded their indoor season with a fourth place title at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston last Sunday, earned by the all-freshman relay team of Alie Fordyce, Brighid Leach, Jackie Berardo and Anna Jurew.With a qualification time of 2:03.24 at the Princeton Invitational on Feb.
In what can only be described as heartbreaking, the women’s basketball team saw their 12-game winning-streak come to an end at the hands of Ivy League rival, Penn.
After a hugely successful visit to Harvard last week, the Princeton women’s water polo team (9-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) heads to the San Diego Invitational this weekend to face San Diego State, the University of California at San Diego and Chapman University.This past weekend, the Tigers convincingly swept Iona College, Marist College and rivals Harvard in Cambridge despite dealing with injuries to several key contributors.
The Muslim Advocates for Social Justice & Individual Dignity started an online a petition Wednesday night calling for the University Board of Trustees to denounce New Jersey Gov.
Six University faculty and alumni, along with twenty-six conservative Catholic leaders across the country, released a statement earlier this week in the National Review decrying the presidential candidacy of businessman Donald Trump. University's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George and George Weigel, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, are at the forefront of the movement. George was unavailable for comment. Trump’s campaign office did not respond to requests for comment. “There is nothing in [Trump’s] campaign or his previous record that gives us grounds for confidence that he genuinely shares our commitments to the right to life, to religious freedom and the rights of conscience, to rebuilding the marriage culture or to subsidiarity and the principle of limited constitutional government,” the statement reads. In the statement, the signatories also noted that Donald Trump is unqualified for the presidency on the basis of his vulgar political discourse, his strong advocacy of torture of terrorist suspects and their families and the signatories’ belief that “his appeals to racial and ethnic fears and prejudice are offensive to any genuinely Catholic sensibility.” Stephen Barr GS ’78, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, said that as Catholic morality is rooted in human good, many of Donald Trump’s proposals and character — from his record of being pro-choice on abortion to his solution of mass deportation — lie in contrast to Catholic doctrine and are “inhuman.” Barr added that Trump has demonstrated “a tendency to engage in ad hominem attacks, including mocking people's physical handicaps and physical appearance, which shows a lack of basic decency.” The signatories of the letter acknowledged that Trump does present an attractive option for those who are frustrated and disillusioned with the current state of affairs with the federal government.
The Princeton Councilintroduced an ordinance to designate a historic district in the Witherspoon-Jackson community this past Thursday during a Council meeting. Many former and current employees of the University have lived in this neighborhood, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said. The proposed historic district encompasses neighborhoods on both sides of Witherspoon Street, stretching from its intersection with Wiggins Street to a little past Birch Avenue.
Save Princeton, a coalition of nine national advocacy groups, sent a letter to Charles Simonyi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Advanced Studyimploring for a meeting with IAS to explore alternatives to construction on Maxwell’s Fieldlast Wednesday. “Our organizations respectfully and formally request that the Institute for Advanced Study cease its development plans and pursue alternate building locations for the faculty housing project slated for Maxwell’s Field,” the letter reads. According to Jim Campi, communications director for the Civil War Trust, a signatory organization on the letter, the coalition formed this past Friday.
Dickinson College Professor of philosophy Cripsin Sartwell recently accused University professor Alexander Nehamas GS ’71 of plagiarism and libel. DickinsonCollege has placed Sartwell on temporary leave shortly after the allegation. Sartwell did not respond to requests for comment. Nehamas deferred comment to a statement. In a statement sent to the 'Prince', Nehamas denied Sartwell’s allegations of intellectual dishonesty. “True, Sartwell’s ‘Six Names of Beauty’ came out in 2004 but most of the material in my book had already been published by then,” Nehamas wrote.
In a recent report published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the University wasgiven a red light rating— the lowest in the evaluation scheme — for protecting free speech. Samantha Harris ’99, the director of policy research at FIRE, said the ratings are based solely on the explicitly written policies of the institution. A red light rating denotes that the institution has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech, Harris said.
Professor of chemistry emeritus Edward Taylor has established funds to the chemistry department to provide a full fellowship for all third-year graduate students in chemistry.Taylor said that the funds for his donation come from his invention of the anti-cancer drug Alimta, which is used to treat lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Among the many questions raised concerning intersectionality and human rights in Egypt and Lebanon, none revolved around where to draw the line with sexual and gender oppression.
The Undergraduate Student Government released a Committee on Background and Opportunity V Survey on the last week of February to examine current campus climate and improve student life, according to USG president Aleksandra Czulak ’17. “COMBO is basically a way to gauge how students’ backgrounds and identities impact their experiences on campus, the opportunities that they have here, and their perceived access to resources on campus,” said Natasha Madorsky ’17, project leader for COMBO and member of the USG Diversity and Equity Committee. COMBO V surveys a large range of experiences, she said.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed mental health programming and the calendar survey during their weekly meeting on Mar.
