This is the image on Princeton’s homepage that leads readers to a story about the Princeton Environmental Institute/Grand Challenges Summer of Learning Symposium. I challenge you to make sense of this picture–and find a better name for this conference.
Also, apparently the left side is Ethiopia and the right side is a conference room in Princeton. Why, Princeton Communications Office? Why?
With the long-awaited re-launch of Campus Club, which opened as a student center in September, the University is attempting to make an important addition to Street culture: a club facility open to all students.
“While Campus Club will retain the form of an eating club, it doesn’t have the same functions. It’s open to all students, there’s no membership — it serves as more of a campus center,” said club director Dianne Spatafore. “We see ourselves as a complement to the other things that are happening on the Street.” Everyone — from eating-club members to freshmen exploring the Street to graduate students — is welcome, she added.
Read more at the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
For New Jersey’s independent candidate for governor Chris Daggett, the one policy issue looming above all others during a public talk Oct. 7 at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School was the economy – and how to fix it.
Daggett was the only independent candidate to raise enough funds to participate in the gubernatorial debate last week against Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine and Republican candidate Chris Christie, he said.
“The two parties have demonstrated an inability to work together…it’s very discouraging, and part of my reason for running is that I’m so disappointed and disillusioned by both parties,” Daggett said. “And I honestly believe, whichever party is in Trenton, it won’t make any difference.”
To read on, see the Woodrow Wilson School News.
Princeton Dining has its own Twitter account this year–and is hilariously adorable about it, too.
I always appreciate the cute gestures the dining halls make, from hand-written signs to the random bread-y treats the pizza section of Rocky/Mathey makes (Pesto and focaccia? Yes). And also, that one time last November, when the staff dressed up as Obama and McCain and danced down the aisles? I appreciated that, too.
But now they have a Twitter. I’m not a big fan of Twitter, but I enjoy this one. Princeton Dining’s Twitter, which was launched over the summer, doesn’t just tell you when the CJL is closed or when there’s hot pizza at Studio ‘34--it’s also really cute. It’s so earnest! It gets excited! It occasionally makes spelling errors and uses a lot of exclamation points!
(source: wws.princeton.edu)
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke of a friendlier foreign policy and a more trusting “new global order” in a wide-ranging speech at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium on Sept. 23, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
The Prime Minister also touched on regional topics including Turkey’s tense relationship with Armenia, saying that a possible agreement between the two countries could be ratified by Parliament by October 10th or 11th. He said that a relationship between the two countries “can be conducted with mutual respect.”
Erdoğan also clearly expressed a sense of frustration at the continued obstacles to Turkey’s EU accession.
“We have, in that process, something quite peculiar,” he said. “1959 was when we started our discussions with Europe. We are in 2009. Fifty years have passed and there is no other country that has had to wait for that long.”
For the whole story, see the Woodrow Wilson School News.
(source: dbtechno.com)
Princeton University opened the school year with Flu Fest, an annual opportunity for students, faculty and staff members to receive free vaccinations for the seasonal flu.
The clinic, usually set later in the year, was moved up to Wednesday and Thursday this week, in keeping with CDC guidelines to vaccinate the population for the seasonal flu as soon as possible, said university spokeswoman Emily Aronson.
Between Sept. 5 and 11, a total of 6,432 new flu-like illnesses were reported on college campuses, according to the American College Health Association, which has been collecting data about the spread of the H1N1 flu from 253 universities, including Princeton.
For the whole story, visit Centraljersey.com.
Our favorite swine flu image.
Sixteen new cases of flu-like illness were identified by UHS within a 24 hour period between Monday and Tuesday, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said this afternoon. This brings the total number of cases at the University since August 30 to 80. These cases have generally been mild, Aronson said.
“These figures are consistent with what we’ve been told that other colleges have experienced once students return to campus,” Aronson said. “Classes did not start here until last week on Sept. 1, so it was expected that we would experience an increase in flu-like illness once students returned to campus after the summer.”
But on to more important matters:
If you’re wondering what’s in those swine flu kits: “face masks, temperature dots (to allow students to take their own temperature), hand sanitizer, facial tissues, tea, soup mix, and a copy of a UHS instructional flier…” Aronson said.
We can’t be the only ones who think temperature dots sound really fun. What are they? A quick Google search turns up chemical dot thermometers. We are thinking more…stickers for your forehead.
Sophomores and future Masters of the Universe gaze at the financial district from the Hudson River. Hopes and dreams of a lucrative career in finance, and maybe also a yacht, hang delicately in the crisp autumn air.
Now that the recession’s over, we can all do embarrassingly ostentatious things! Like charter a boat with two dance floors around Manhattan, which the Class of 2012 did last week.
But don’t worry, we’re not getting too classy, here: The 500 sophomores who were on the boat took a convoy of school buses to the river –and the “light refreshments?” Pretzels and potato chips.
(source: princeton.edu)
The proportion of “A” grades received by undergraduates finally dipped under 40 percent last year, the Faculty Committee on Grading reported happily today. A smashing success! Welcome back to school!
“A” grades made up only 39.7 percent of undergraduate grades given in the 2008-09 academic year, down more than eight percent from 2002-03, before the grade deflation policy took effect.
(source:thisislondon.co.uk)
If you’re fearing the swine, don’t forget to get your free seasonal flu shot at the University’s Flu Fest clinic, which takes place September 23-24 and October 12.
Health authorities have said that they’re no longer doing regular lab tests to determine if someone has H1N1 flu, so anyone with flu-like symptoms will be asked to follow the same guidelines, University spokesperson Emily Aronson said.
“We’ve always offered the flu clinic, but the date is earlier this year,” Aronson said. “That’s part of the CDC guidance –they’re encouraging any organization that provides flu shots to do so as early as possible so that the population receives the vaccination for seasonal flu.”
After the jump, what happens when you start feeling swiney –and what to do when your roommate gets sick.
Update: All clear issued at 8:48 am.
A few minutes after 8 am, Public Safety sent an email to students about a possible threat on campus (Again?! To all the high school students running around terrified on campus right now: We’re really, really not as bad as Yale.) :
“There is a possible report of a student with a weapon on Princeton campus. This is a real emergency. Public Safety will issue more instructions as information becomes available. Stay inside and be sure to check e-mail and the University home page, www.princeton.edu.”
“Possible report?” Someone maybe, possibly reported it? We’re really not sure, but it’s a possibility that someone told us they saw something suspicious? Anyway, sounds like they’re trying to cover their bases –you know, in case the weapon is a toy.
Elise Anderson '09
Find the “brainy beauties” of Princeton in the August 2009 issue of Marie Claire, on stands now. The magazine stopped by campus last semester as part of its “What I Love About Me” feature.
