The Oct. 13 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly includes a brief statistical snapshot of the Class of 2014. How does Princeton's freshman cohort compare with those at the other Ivies? Check out the chart below for a side-by-side overview.
Sources: Princeton.edu, Brown Alumni Magazine, Columbia.edu, Cornell Chronicle, Dartmouth Now, Harvard Admissions, Harvard Gazette, Daily Pennsylvanian, Yale Daily News
Shawn Du '14, left, and Jiho Lee '13 compete in the "Wii Wars" portion of Cane Spree, a nontraditional part of Princeton's traditional fall showdown between the freshman and sophomore classes. The Sept. 27 events, which included the Nintendo Wii games, proved to be a turning point for the Class of 2014. The freshmen took their first lead in the standings and held on for victory Sept. 29. (Photo by Habin Chung '12)
Three Princeton scholars gathered on Sept. 27 to discuss the proposed New York City Muslim center Park 51, previously known as Cordoba House (or, to some, the “Ground Zero mosque”), and the controversy surrounding it.
The panelists – Professor Mark Cohen of Near Eastern studies, Professor Amaney Jamal of politics, and Provost Chris Eisgruber ’83, a professor in the Woodrow Wilson School – approached the controversy from different angles. Each concluded that the proposed Islamic cultural center near the former World Trade Center site should not only be allowed but embraced for the cultural understanding it could foster.
Cohen began by highlighting the claims some have made that the name Cordoba House invokes a symbol of Islamic conquest. The reference is to the city of Cordoba, Spain, which Muslims conquered in the eighth century. In fact, Cohen said, that claim of symbolism is inaccurate because Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived alongside one another in peace in the city of Cordoba under Muslim rule.
“Can Cordoba serve as a symbol for tolerance and mutual understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims today?” Cohen asked. “Yes it can … as long as we remember the shared culture [in Cordoba] that created bonds between Muslims, Jews, and Christians.”
For Van Jones, simply establishing a green economy is not enough. Instead, America must establish what he calls “equitable ecocapitalism”: a clean energy economy that provides equal opportunity and new jobs. An economy, Jones said, “that Dr. King would be proud of.”
Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein and parliament member for West Belfast, provided a broad assessment of the Irish Conflict – and conflict resolution in general – in a Sept. 24 lecture in Dodds Auditorium. “No conflict is intractable,” he said. “Conflicts don’t just happen on the earth. There is reason and cause, and in many cases the causes are similar.”
It’s that time of year again – sunshine, kettle corn, funnel cake, and an overload of preppy pastels and popped collars.
This fall, the Undergraduate Student Government brought B.o.B. and Super Mash Brothers to Quadrangle Club for Lawnparties. Before the bands got started, The Weekly Blog asked several attendees – current students, alumni, and guests from other colleges – to sum up their Lawnparties experience in one sentence. Here’s what they said.
Samantha Miller ’13 remembers being a freshman at the Student Activities Fair just a year ago – or, rather, arriving at the Dillon Gym and turning right back around to return to her dorm room. “I entered and was totally overwhelmed,” she said.
There may not seem to be much in common between a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a graduate student more than 40 years ago and an Olympic gold medalist who’s still an undergraduate. But when George Will *68 and Joey Cheek ’11 shared the podium in McCosh 50 Sept. 15, they delivered similar messages, pushing the Class of 2014 towards civic engagement.
Memorial services for emeritus professors Marvin Bressler and Robert Tucker will be held on campus in October.
The service for Tucker will take place Friday, Oct. 1, at 2 p.m. in the University Chapel.
The service for Bressler will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall. A reception will follow from 5 to 7 p.m. at Prospect House.
Tucker, a professor of politics and international affairs who wrote two widely read biographies of Joseph Stalin, died in Princeton July 29. He was 92.
Tucker gained his expertise on the Soviet Union first-hand, traveling to Moscow in 1944 for what would be a nine-year stay at the U.S. embassy. At Princeton, he served on the faculty from 1962 to 1984 and was the founder and first director of the Program in Russian Studies.
Bressler, a popular teacher and adviser in the sociology department who left a lasting mark on the University’s curricular and extracurricular offerings, died July 7 in Skillman, N.J. He was 87.
Bressler served on the Princeton faculty for 30 years, including 20 as the sociology department chairman, and headed the Commission on the Future of the College in the early 1970s. He was a longtime mentor for the men’s basketball team and inspired the Academic-Athletic Fellow Program, which connects faculty and staff with varsity sports teams. Three Princeton classes -- 1968, 1971, and 1982 -- inducted Bressler as an honorary member.
Details about contributing to the Bressler Fund for Studies in Education are included in the University's announcement of the Oct. 10 memorial.
Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel will step down from her position at the end of the 2010-11 academic year, the University announced Sept. 8. Malkiel is entering her 24th year as dean of the college, the longest period of service for anyone in that post. Only Andrew Fleming West, the graduate school dean from 1901 to 1928, served longer as a Princeton dean.
Malkiel, a historian who joined the Princeton faculty in 1969, has been a driving force in a range of initiatives at Princeton, including the four-year college system, freshman seminars, and the writing program. In recent years, she led the University's effort to curb grade inflation through a set of guidelines adopted by the faculty in April 2004.
President Tilghman said in a University release that Malkiel "has had an enormously positive impact on undergraduate students at Princeton, by her focus on the quality of the instruction they receive and their experience in the residential colleges." Provost Christopher Eisgruber '83 added that Malkiel's leadership in the residential college initiatives "enabled Princeton to achieve goals that date from Woodrow Wilson's day."
Eisgruber, who will head the search for Malkiel's successor, said that the University hopes to select a new dean by the end of January.
PAW will take a closer look at Malkiel's legacy at Princeton in the Oct. 13 print edition.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized Princeton University for a major violation involving impermissible payment for a women's tennis player's educational expenses. According to a Sept. 8 NCAA release, an alumnus provided approximately $33,000 for tuition and books for one varsity player over the course of three semesters in 2007-08. Neither the player nor the alumnus were named.
Two penalties were levied by the committee: public reprimand and censure; and vacation of the student-athlete's individual records for the three semesters in question -- fall 2007, spring 2008, and fall 2008. Because the violation was limited in scope and self-reported by the alumnus and the University, the committee "imposed only minimal penalties," the NCAA release said, and chose not to put the women's tennis team on probation. This was Princeton's first major infraction case, according to the Public Infractions Report.
President Tilghman responded to the ruling in a Princeton release. "We looked closely at the circumstances surrounding this isolated and inadvertent infraction and at the relationship between the alumnus and the student's family, and we are convinced that even though the alumnus is a long-time supporter of tennis at Princeton, he was acting only with the interest of helping a family friend pursue an educational opportunity for which her parents were not willing to provide financial support," Tilghman said. "We do not believe that this should have been characterized as a major violation, but we certainly regret the infraction and remain firmly committed to complying with all NCAA rules."
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