Princeton is the only Ivy League institution that will not participate in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs' new Yellow Ribbon Program to partially waive tuition for veterans.
That news coming from the Philly Inquirer, which reported today that 700 colleges and universities around the country are taking part in the program.
Last month, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 told the 'Prince' that Princeton decided not to participate because it already provides substantial need-based financial aid.
"The key point in our consideration was that we have a financial aid program that admits students on a need-blind basis," she explained. "We meet the full assessed need of all qualifying students through a generous no-loan program in which grants don't have to be repaid."
Cliatt added that the average student aid grant for next year is expected to reach $36,000, and she said, "Any veteran who applies to Princeton and is admitted would be very generously supported."
Yellow Ribbon is the largest expansion in veteran education since the GI Bill in 1944 and is expected to cost the feds $68 billion over the next decade. The government will pay up to the highest in-state tuition and then match every dollar a school offers in financial aid. To be eligible, veterans must have served three years on active duty or at least 30 days before being discharged for an injury since 9/11/2001.
The program -- which kicks off this August -- could increase the number of vets in college (there are currently 350,000 of them) by 25 percent.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Every Ivy (except Princeton) to participate in Yellow Ribbon
Team USA, Bradley '80 to battle for Confederation Cup
The 2-0 victory of Team USA over Spain on Wednesday afternoon has been called the "Miracle on Grass."
And you can trace it all back to one Bob Bradley '80-- current manager of the U.S. men's national soccer team, and former player for and head coach of the Princeton men's soccer team.
A native of Montclair, N.J., Bradley played for West Essex High School before coming to Princeton in the fall of '76. He would go on to lead the Tigers in scoring his senior year before graduating with a degree in history.
After quick coaching stints at Ohio University and UVA, Bradley came back to his alma mater to coach from 1984 to 1996. During his tenure, the Tigers clinched two Ivy League titles (1988 and 1993) and earned their only bid ever to the NCAA Final Four (1993).
(And Bradley's ties to Princeton don't end there: his brother Scott -- a former Major League catcher for the Yankees, White Sox, Mariners and Reds -- has served as head coach of the Princeton baseball team since 1997).
Bradley then moved to Major League Soccer, where his 124 victories are more than any other coach in league history. He's the only two-time Coach of the Year in MLS history and was also the '03 All-Star Head Coach.
Bradley led his teams to victories in the 1998 MLS Cup and the 1998 and 2000 U.S. Open Cup. In December 2006, Bradley became the 33rd head coach in the history of the U.S. men's national team. The next year, the team captured the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
He'll get a chance to add to that list on Sunday afternoon, when the U.S. takes on Brazil in the title game of the Confederation Cup.
UPDATE: The United States fell to Brazil 3-2 after leaving 2-0 at halftime.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Last lax interview is this afternoon; decision "imminent"
Christian Swezey over at Inside Lacrosse continues to chip away at the story of Princeton's selection process for a new men's lacrosse head coach.
Last night, Swezey added a new name to the mix: Cornell assistant coach Ben DeLuca (pictured here) reportedly interviewed for the position on Wednesday afternoon. DeLuca joins Chris Bates (Drexel), Mike Murphy (Haverford) and Dan Sheehan (LeMoyne) as a candidate for the job.
But sources say there is a 5th person in the mix as well. That person's interview (the last of the five) is scheduled for this afternoon. Swezey describes him as "a Dvision I head coach whose mid-major team has made the NCAA Tournament recently." You'll have to try and figure that one out on your own.
Princeton officials are tightlipped about the whole process, but a decision may well be "imminent."
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sands '09: Females discriminate against females in the theater business
Sands’ lecture, based on her senior thesis, made claims that put a new twist on long-held assumptions. First, Sands explained that women write fewer plays than do men, so producers have a smaller selection of female-written plays to choose from. Next, Sands demonstrated that a play written by a woman is likely to be judged more harshly by artistic directors and literary managers than a play of identical quality written by a man. Sands qualified this conclusion, however, with the revelation that male reviewers judge male and female authors equally, while women are more critical of fellow women than they are of men. Finally, Sands claimed that an analysis of Broadway shows produced over the past 10 years revealed that women do indeed need to write better plays than do men in order to get their work produced. The first claim was based on a sample of scripts on the online database Doollee.com. Sands found that 74 percent of the scripts on Doollee were written by men. The next two claims were backed up by studies modeled on famous experiments. Emulating the study “Are Greg and Emily More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal,” by Marianne Bertran and Sendhil Mullainathan, Sands sent identical scripts to reviewers. Some plays bore a female penname and others bore a male penname. Sands’ third study imitated experiments conducted in the 1960s and '70s that used batting averages to demonstrate that black players needed to be better than white players to play Major League Baseball. Sands showed that average ticket revenues from Broadway shows written by women over the past 10 years were 16 percent higher than revenues from shows written by men in the same time period. Sands’ thesis advisors, Wilson School Dean Christina Paxson and Wilson School professor Cecilia Rouse, praised Sands' work in the Times. But the Times reported that Sands’ interest in theater manifests itself in more ways than one: Sands’ commanding stage presence contributed to an impressive performance that won her a lengthy ovation.
Are female playwrights victims of discrimination in the theater world? Emily Sands ’09 says yes – but females are doing most of the discriminating. Sands presented her research on gender bias in playwriting to an audience of more than 160 playwrights and producers in Manhattan on Monday night. The presentation earned Sands an article in The New York Times as well as amazed reactions from some members of the audience.
Transformers: Live from Princeton, in theaters everywhere
Almost one year to the day after several scenes from the movie were filmed on campus, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" has opened in theaters all across America.
In a trailer on the movie's website, Princeton gets a little -- while brief -- airtime, including these shots of Holder Hall:
Lead actor Shia LaBeouf inside McCosh 50:
And LaBeouf again out by the sundial:
It's unclear where the other collegiate scenes are from, though the film crews obviously attempted to have the whole thing look like Princeton. Rumor has it they may have been shot at a nice little community college in Philadelphia.
Closing in a men's lax coach (...maybe)
Is it three? How about five? Maybe four? Just how many finalists are there for the men's lax job? Inside Lacrosse updated its blog this morning to say it could be any one of those numbers...or maybe even a different one.
IL is sticking by reports from earlier this week that Mike Murphy (Haverford), Chris Bates (Drexel) and Dan Sheehan (LeMoyne) are still on the shortlist. Now there are rumors that "at least one or two other candidates" are interviewing for the job.
The list is also growing of coaches who have withdrawn their names from consideration. Way back on June 19, UAlbany coach Scott Marr announced he was no longer interested in the top job at Princeton. Yesterday, news came Army coach Joe Alberici had decided to stay at West Point. And today, we hear that Stony Brook coach Ricky Sowell -- who The Prox never knew was in the running -- is no longer being considered.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
UPDATE: Number of lax finalists down to three
And then there were three.
That's the word coming from Inside Lacrosse this morning, when it reported Army head coach Joe Alberici has withdrawn his name from consideration and is no longer a candidate become the next men's lacrosse head coach.
IL still believes (from left to right) Haverford coach Mike Murphy, Drexel coach Chris Bates and LeMoyne coach Dan Sheehan are the three finalists for the position.
That means we may be down to just one candidate (Bates) who has been a head coach at the DI level. Murphy coaches Division III Haverford and MeMoyne Division II LeMoyne.
As The Prox reported yesterday, Princeton is believed to be conducting interviews in the next few days and could make a decision by the end of the week.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Inside Lacrosse: Four candidates for men's lax job
There are four finalists to fill the men's lacrosse head coach position. Interviews are being conducted in the coming days. A decision could come by the end of the week.
All that from Inside Lacrosse, which reported this afternoon that "numerous sources" in the lacrosse world are suggesting Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 has narrowed the list of folks he's considering to replace Bill Tierney.
Who are the four? Looking above (from left to right): Army coach Joe Alberici, Haverford coach Mike Murphy, Drexel coach Chris Bates and LeMoyne coach Dan Sheehan.
Haverford may be Division III and LeMoyne Division II, but the experts say it's not unusual for Walters to hire a head coach who's never held the top spot at a Division I school. In fact, he's done it 14 times.
Tierney announced June 8 he was leaving Princeton to become head coach at the University of Denver. Just over a week later on June 16, associate head coach Dan Metzbower announced he was turning down the head coach position and would also leave the program.
Stay tuned as the 'Prince' does it's best to break the news here.
DeGeorge '09 signs with Cleveland Indians
Make that four Tigers who have signed with pro baseball teams this month.
Infielder Dan DeGeorge '09, who led the baseball team this season with a .349 batting average and 53 hits, has signed with the Cleveland Indians and will report to the Class A Mahoning Valley Scrappers.
DeGeorge's decision to bypass the draft is not uncommon among Princetonians. In fact, he's the fourth graduating senior in five seasons to do just that.
With this latest news, there are now nine Tigers playing professional baseball: three at in the Major Leagues and six in the Minor Leagues.
Earlier this month, David Hale, Brad Gemberling and Jack Murphy were all drafted-- by the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks and Toronot Blue Jays, respectively.
Pretty as a (Moving) Picture
If you see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which opens 2 days from now on June 24, you may recognize some of the locations. The film, which is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers, includes scenes filmed on campus last summer.
Transformers is certainly not the only film to take advantage of the campus’ architecture. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists 51 titles which were filmed in Princeton, New Jersey and 13 titles filmed on Princeton University.
Films you may have seen with shots from Princeton include A Beautiful Mind (2001), Across the Universe (2007), Annapolis (2006), Hoop Dreams (1994), One True Thing (1998), People Will Talk (1951) and Scent of a Woman (1992).
The University chooses whether or not to allow filming on campus based on the subject of the film.
"We try to look for synergies with the project," said university spokeswoman Emily Aronson in an interview with the AP. "For instance, our interest in having more young women apply to the university and movies such as `A Cinderella Story,' and `Spanglish,' which featured female characters who apply to Princeton."
While the school may choose to allow filming, crews may change their mind at the last minute, as was the case for a scene in The Interpreter (2005) or in other cases the University chooses to prevent filming and the films move elsewhere. For this reason, you may have seen the 2002 film Stealing Harvard, but not the film originally proposed, that of Stealing Princeton.
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