Band’s visit to The Citadel draws a frosty reception

Altercation, cadets’ hostile reaction to halftime show seen as evidence of ‘culture war’ between the schools

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

The Princeton University Band has a long-standing tradition of provocative antics, but cadets at The Citadel, where the Tigers played Sept. 20 for the first time, didn’t think the jokes were funny. Instead of laughs, the band was at the center of several...Read more

New ORFE building to be named for longtime trustee Sherrerd ’52

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

  Princeton’s newest engineering building will be named Sherrerd Hall, in honor of the late John J.F. “Jay” Sherrerd ’52, a longtime University trustee and volunteer. Donations from Sherrerd and a family trust funded the construction of the recently opened...Read more

Graduate alumni win MacArthur ‘genius grants’

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

Three scholars with Princeton graduate degrees are among 25 MacArthur fellows who will receive $500,000 “genius grants” over the next five years. Two are on the M.I.T. faculty: John A. Ochsendorf *98, a structural engineer and architectural historian, and...Read more

Rescuing Stevenson ’22’s name from ‘loserdom’

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

The name of Adlai Stevenson ’22 has been bandied about during this election season, but not always in a good way. Writing in November 2007 at Slate.com, David Greenberg wondered whether Barack Obama, like Stevenson, was simply “another high-toned liberal...Read more

University feels impact of Lehman’s fall

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

The Sept. 15 collapse of Lehman Brothers caused a short-term rumble in University finances as interest rates spiked on a Princeton variable-rate bond issue handled by the failed investment bank, showing one example of how the crisis on Wall Street has...Read more

Lecture Circuit

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

Frederick P. Hitz ’61, senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law and former CIA inspector general, urging the CIA to find new ways to gain access to intelligence sources on terrorism during a talk Sept. 25 in Robertson...Read more

FYI – Findings

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

Using a variety of front-line drugs to treat malaria, rather than a single therapy or a cyclical rotation of medicines, could cut the death rate and delay the parasite’s drug resistance, according to a paper by Prince-ton researcher Maciej Boni ’99 and...Read more

Pay rises 8.2% for new grads

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

Of Princeton’s 2008 graduates, 68.5 percent plan to join the workforce, while 21.3 percent are headed to graduate or professional schools, figures comparable to those for the previous three graduating classes, according to an annual Office of Career Services...Read more

In the News

Published in the Oct. 22, 2008, issue

The University received a grade of B in the latest COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT CARD, which rates the campus operations and endowment investments of 300 public and private colleges and universities with the largest endowments. Princeton received grades of A...Read more