Princeton undergrads speak up for filibuster
For the past 13 days, Princeton University has become the center of national political controversy, as a group of students have staged a filibuster of sorts outside the university's Frist student center.
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For the past 13 days, Princeton University has become the center of national political controversy, as a group of students have staged a filibuster of sorts outside the university's Frist student center.
Less than one year after he formed the Social Events Management Procedures committee, Dean of the College James Larimore accepted all of the committee's recommendations on event policy in an announcement this week, including stipulations for closed events and "on the fly" party registration. The new procedures will be implemented in the Fall term of 2005.
Veteran journalist and former anchor of "NBC Nightly News" Tom Brokaw will deliver this year's commencement address. The recently retired newscaster will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the College at the commencement ceremony on June 12.
Tuesday evening marked the first Student Assembly meeting following the election of former Vice President Noah Riner '06 as next year's Assembly President. With campaigning out of the way for another year, the Assembly's resolution to extend Baker/Berry library hours until 2 a.m. on weeknights passed uncontested.
Graduate teachers at Yale University and Columbia University began a five-day strike yesterday, refusing to teach classes, grade papers or host review sessions in hopes that the universities will recognize their right to form unions.
Administrators at Colgate University recently issued an ultimatum to members of the university's fraternities and sororities, forcing the Greek organizations to decide between selling their physical plants and relinquishing university recognition.
About 150 students from Yale University's professional schools of art, forestry and environmental sciences marched to provost Andrew Hamilton's office yesterday with signs and posters and clad in red to signify their massive debt. The art students presented the administration with a petition requesting free health care and debt relief, along with other appeals.
More than 70 students from around the Ivy League met this weekend at Dartmouth for the Ivy Council's spring 2005 conference. The event, which began Friday and ended Sunday, allowed members of Ivy League student governments to discuss issues such as alcohol policies and Greek life.
Tensions over students' accusations of harassment by allegedly anti-Semitic professors at Columbia University intensified so greatly in recent weeks that a group of students began to call for Columbia President Lee Bollinger's resignation.
President James Wright signed a letter last week encouraging colleges and universities to become involved in the Ford Foundation's new program encouraging academic freedom, entitled "Difficult Dialogues: Promoting Pluralism and Academic Freedom on Campus."
The floor of the two-room triple that Matthew Chin '07, Kyle Owusu '07 and Benjie Lewis '05 share is strewn with stray socks and unidentifiable bits of food. Two of the beds are covered only partially with sheets, with blue- and white-striped mattresses and foam egg crates exposed. This corner room in Mid-Massachusetts hall could certainly benefit from DormAid, a cleaning service founded by brothers Mike and Matt Kopko, a Harvard sophomore and Princeton freshman respectively.
At the mental health screening session sponsored by Dick's House this fall, counseling representatives escorted a senior female, who wished to remain anonymous, to the appointment station after notifying her that she might suffer from bipolar disorder, she said.
Fred Ochieng '05 is king for a day after narrowly beating Eric Trautmann '07 for the mantle of "Mr. Dartmouth" on Saturday. The first annual competition drew a crowd of about 40 to Filene Auditorium and raised about $45 for the Listen Center, which aids needy families in Lebanon.
An excited audience in Collis Commonground sat in anticipation for 30 minutes last night while Goddess Perlman, Vanessa Hidary, Michelle Citrin and Ophera Eisenberg prepared to take the stage in "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad," a show in which "boldly hilarious young Jewish women trying to shake their reputations as JAPs and Jewish mothers and let their wilder sides emerge," according to the group's website.
While some underclassmen may be nervous about the housing priority numbers they received last week, College administrators insist the numbers do not necessarily determine the type of room each student will be able to secure.
The National Endowment for the Humanities granted philosophy professor Roy Sorensen a prestigious 12-month, $40,000 fellowship that will allow him to work on his new book, tentatively titled "Seeing Dark Things."
With the Winter Carnival holiday subtracting a day from students' class schedules this weekend, more revelry -- and more beer pong -- may fill fraternity basements. But despite bacteria buildup there, College health officials say, the game will not cause more people to become sick on campus.
When students at Princeton University received their fall semester grades last week, some may not have seen the A's they have come to expect. In an effort to reverse the trends of grade inflation and increasing grade point averages, Princeton has launched an initiative to reduce the number of A's given out. Last semester was the first semester in which professors gave grades under the new guidelines.
Harvard-graduate Zac Corker recently returned to his alma mater to become the new special assistant to the dean for social programming. Also known as the new "fun czar," Corker is charged with providing some more exciting social options for the Cambridge school.
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' controversial comments at a conference last week about women in math and science have elicited a swift and fervent response from both male and female academics across the country, including those at Dartmouth.