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A Princeton Profile 2001-02

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Residential Life
 

All first- and second-year students at Princeton live and dine in one of five residential colleges. Each college consists of a cluster of dormitories (housing between 450 and 500 students) and a dining hall. The colleges have libraries and study spaces, game rooms, seminar rooms, coffeehouses, theaters, and computer clusters.

A senior faculty member serves as master of each college. The staff includes a dean and director of studies, who are responsible for academic advising; two graduate students, who serve as assistant masters; juniors and seniors, who serve as resident and minority affairs advisers; and a senior faculty fellow.

More than 97 percent of Princeton undergraduates live on campus. Approximately 75 percent of juniors and seniors take their meals at one of 11 private, coed eating clubs. Six are open to all students on a sign-in basis; five are selective.

Other juniors and seniors cook their own meals in dormitory kitchens, dine in the residential colleges, join a cooperative, or make other arrangements. They may also dine at Frist Campus Center. Princeton's Center for Jewish Life houses the University's kosher dining facility.

The Third World Center, the Women's Center, and the International Center are important resources and gathering places for Princeton students. In addition, the University recognizes more than 200 student organizations.

Frist Campus Center, which opened in fall 2000, provides dining and eating facilities, services, and programs to the entire campus community. Princeton's new Center for Community Service is located in Frist.

Athletics

Princeton offers 38 varsity sports and nearly 40 club teams, and more than 2,300 students (50 percent of the undergraduate enrollment) participate in intercollegiate competition (varsity and club combined).

Last year the Tigers finished 24th in the Sears Directors' Cup Division I standings, which ranks overall athletic success. Princeton has been the highest ranking nonscholarship school seven times during the Cup's eight-year existence, including three Top-25 finishes.

Each of the past two years Princeton has claimed 14 Ivy League titles, the most by any school since the league was founded in 1954. Based on the "unofficial" Ivy League composite standings in 33 sports, Princeton had the highest overall finish of any Ivy school for the 15th consecutive year. Additionally, 19 of Princeton's 33 Ivy teams finished first or second in the league, and the Tigers have won at least one national championship in each of the last 15 years. There were two team national championships and three individual national champions in 2000-01.

In the last four years, Princeton has had 12 Academic All-Americas, 101 All-Americas, 21 Ivy League players of the year, and 18 league rookies of the year and has won an unprecedented 50 Ivy League titles and seven national championships.

Nearly 600 teams participate in the intramural sports program, which schedules team competition among eating clubs, residential colleges, independent groups, and faculty and staff. In addition, a wide variety of noncredit physical education activity courses are offered each semester.

Princeton offers students a wide range of competitive and recreational athletic opportunities and facilities. In 1998, the University completed a two-tiered football and outdoor track complex. This new Princeton Stadium, with a seating capacity for approximately 30,000 spectators, plays host to Tiger football, soccer, and lacrosse events. The adjacent Weaver Track and Field Stadium has an eight-lane Olympic track. A common structure, with seating for 2,500, joins the two facilities, thus creating the new complex.

Recently the University expanded and renovated its landmark boathouse and crew facilities, which are now known as the Shea Rowing Center. The crew programs use the University-owned Lake Carnegie and its Olympic racing course.

Jadwin Gymnasium is a multipurpose facility that provides 250,000 square feet of indoor space for intercollegiate basketball, track, fencing, squash, and tennis, in addition to large practice areas for outdoor field sports.

The new Stephens Fitness Center in Dillon Gymnasium provides a centralized facility where men and women can pursue many personal health objectives with trained supervision. Dillon has facilities for aerobics, basketball, conditioning and weight training, dance, martial arts, recreational swimming, squash, volleyball, and wrestling.

The Olympic-size DeNunzio pool, next to Jadwin, provides complete facilities for competitive swimming and diving (it has one- and three-meter springboards and a 10-meter platform).

Caldwell Field House recently underwent an expansion, adding 16 new locker rooms that provide dressing and athletic training quarters for Princeton and visiting teams.

Baker Rink, constructed in 1923, is an historic venue for hockey and skating. The outdoor facilities include 27 tennis courts and eight lighted courts at the Lenz Tennis Center, the Class of 1895 Field for softball, Clarke Field for baseball, an 18-hole golf course, and various playing fields used for soccer, lacrosse, and rugby as well as many intramural sports. Lourie-Love Field, used for intercollegiate soccer, provides a lighted facility for nighttime contests. The Class of 1952 Stadium is a lighted, artificial-surface facility that accommodates approximately 4,000 spectators and is used primarily for field hockey, lacrosse, and intramural sports.

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