It was 1986. The Bangles belted "Manic Monday" from radios nationwide as yuppies cruised around cities in their BMWs, and Phyllis Schlafly told women to leave corporate America to raise their children.
When I sauntered into Pequod at 3:50 p.m. last Monday, two other English majors were frantically grabbing their bound volumes and running out the door.
Tshepo Masango is an African-American freshman from Atlanta. She returned to live in her parents' native South Africa when she was two years old.
As a crowd of jostling professors and students tried to push their way into McCormick's lecture hall, a small man with thinning white hair stood alone to the side of the swarming mass, holding his briefcase with both hands.He stepped forward and whispered to one of the eager participants in a slight accent, "Would you mind if I could just sneak through?"Moments later, the crowd began to charge in the opposite direction ? the lecture had been moved to McCosh 50.
The Trustee Initiative on Alcohol Abuse had two goals ? to provide alternative social activities for students and to curb excessive drinking at the University.And three quarters of the way through the academic year, after the University has spent about three quarters of the $100,000 in allotted funds, opinions remain mixed on whether the initiative has succeeded in accomplishing its first objective ? providing social alternatives to drinking.The most high-profile of these alternate events was Jon Stewart's recent performance in Dillon Gym, which administrators deemed a success."If you look at the turnout for that event, it certainly shows that there is a willingness for students to diversify their social patterns," Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne said.USG treasurer Joe Wheatley '01, who serves on the Trustee Initiative Funding Committee, agreed.
Incumbent U-Council chair Teddy Nemeroff '01, along with class officers and nine other U-Councilors, were elected yesterday in races that drew 1,115 voters.New to the U-Council are Rolando Amaya '03, Jacob Glass '03, West Owens '03, Ryan Salvatore '02, Bob Studley '03 and Tom Vessella '01.
Though the loud, impassioned message of a quiet and sensitive man will no longer be heard in the classroom, it will never cease to echo in the halls of the politics department and resound in the minds of the students, colleagues, friends and family of professor Gerald Garvey GS '62.Garvey, a professor in the University's politics department since 1968, passed away Sunday.Though his physique was tall and frail, Garvey's commitment to teaching and to those he loved was unparalleled in strength.
The Episcopal Church at Princeton announced this weekend that Steve White will assume the position of Episcopal chaplain beginning in the fall of 2000.
Classics professor Josiah Ober said yesterday that no final decision about the fate of the Chancellor Green rotunda will be made without input from undergraduates.Preliminary plans call for the conversion of the rotunda into library space, according to Ober, who chairs the committee on the East Pyne and Chancellor Green renovations."The architects have presented preliminary plans that have been reviewed by the president and informally by the trustees and chairs of departments," Ober said yesterday.
A younger breed of students has been populating the University this week, doing everything from kicking around soccer balls to reading original poetry.The events are part of the Student Volunteers Council's Youth Reach 2000, which offers area students of all ages the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities in concert with the University, culminating in Communiversity on Saturday."The main purpose of Youth Reach is to celebrate the talents of youth in the community and to bring University students in contact with students in the community," coordinator Laura Kaplan '01 said.
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki sees himself as a crusader for peace.Despite an ongoing 22-month war with neighboring Ethiopia, the passionate leader is cool and confident, even while discussing the deaths of thousands of his countrymen.
One-hundred-hour work weeks aren't as fun as they might seem. I know: I spent last summer in the office, working for Morgan Stanley in its investment banking division.
Janet Dickerson, Duke University's vice president for student affairs, has been tapped by Princeton to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Dean of Student Life Janina Montero ? and then some.With Dickerson's arrival, Montero's old position will be broadened both in name and function.
Last summer, Moeed Yousaf '00 slaved away in an office building, working long hours and finding out what the world of Wall Street was really like.
David Duchovny '82 twists his body sideways, legs crossed, hunching his shoulder up and curling his arm over his head so it creates a space, shielding him from the room and the people in it who are watching him.
Marc Brodherson '00 was placed on conditional probation for six months yesterday after not offering a plea in response to a drug possession charge that had been reinstated recently.The municipal judge also fined Brodherson $500 during the hearing at Borough Hall.During the probation period, Brodherson cannot be found in possession of any controlled substances without facing jail time or additional fines, the judge said.In addition to the probation and fine, municipal prosecutor Marc Citron proposed a 30-day suspension of Brodherson's driver's license.
Members of the Princeton Wildcats, an all-female University a cappella group, were met with an unexpected reception while at the University of Pennsylvania last Thursday.During the group's performance at the annual spring show of the Pennsylvania Six-5000, several members of a Penn fraternity allegedly streaked the stage, according to Wildcats president Jessica Williams '01.The Penn Six-5000, an all-male a cappella group, invited the Wildcats to perform at the April 6 show ? titled "Busted Interface." The invitation was made after the Penn group performed at Princeton on March 25 with the Roaring 20, another Princeton a cappella group.In a draft of a letter Williams plans to send to Penn president Judith Rodin, Williams said the Wildcats "were slightly wary of accepting the invitation due to the tasteless antics of the Penn Six-5000 when they performed at Princeton the previous month."But the Wildcats, "in good faith," said Williams, decided to do the show in Penn's Irvine Auditorium anyway.
Humanities professor Charles Kenneth Williams is a man who understands that great writing obeys no limits.He spent more than 30 years crafting a single poem, and his students say publishers have had to make books wider and taller so the extra-long lines he wrote would not be broken in the wrong place.Yesterday, Williams was rewarded for his unique style of writing, receiving the poetry Pulitzer Prize for his collection titled "Repair.""It's great, just great," Williams said excitedly, after mentioning his plans for a celebration tomorrow with his family and friends."Repair" is a collection of poems on hurt and healing that addresses a range of topics including the Holocaust and American race relations.
U-Council resource committee chair Jeffery Herbst recommended at a U-Council meeting yesterday the University continue efforts with the Fair Labor Association, rejecting anti-sweatshop student activists' requests that the University also join the more aggressive Worker Rights Consortium.The University joined the FLA last March to improve working conditions in factories producing University-licensed clothing."There are few issues more important to us than how the Princeton name is used," said Herbst, who is director of the African studies program.
With the late afternoon sun warming her corner of the Cottage Club study, an elderly Dorothy Bingham quietly sits between her money-crazed son and her smooth lawyer.
