PrincetonUniversity
A Princeton Profile, 2004-05
The Undergraduate College (cont.)
Campus Life
All first- and second-year students at Princeton are required to 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 a 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. Five are open to all students on a sign-in basis; six 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 the Frist Campus Center. Princeton's Center for Jewish Life houses the University's kosher dining facility.
The Fields Center, the Women's Center, and the International Center are important resources and gathering places for Princeton students. In addition, the University has more than 250 registered student organizations.
The Frist Campus Center, which opened in fall 2000, provides dining and eating facilities, services, and programs to the entire campus community. The Pace Center for Community Service, located in Frist, strives to instill civic responsibility in students by providing them with an array of educational, experiential, and leadership development opportunities in service through collaborations with other University entities and external community partnerships.
Athletics
Princeton offers 38 varsity sports and nearly 40 club teams; more than 2,300 students (50 percent of the undergraduate enrollment) participate in intercollegiate competition (varsity and club combined).
Princeton teams won 11 Ivy League championships during the 2003-04 season. Yasser El-Halaby's national squash championship gave Princeton at least one team or individual national championship for the 18th straight year as well. Princeton has now won 117 Ivy League championships in the last 10 years, 51 more than the next closest school.
Princeton also finished in 33rd place in the annual Directors' Cup standings, leaving the Tigers as the only non-scholarship school in the Top 50. Princeton was the top non-scholarship school for the 9th time in 10 years.
Princeton had an exceptionally dominating spring season, when Tiger teams won six Ivy League championships and saw both lacrosse teams, the baseball team, and the women's open crew make a huge impact nationally. The season culminated with the selection of five Princeton players in the first 20 rounds of the Major League Baseball draft.
Princeton teams that won Ivy League championships in 2003-04 were field hockey, men's indoor track and field, men's and women's swimming, men's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, women's open crew, baseball, and men's and women's golf.
The women's lacrosse team finished as national runner-up while serving as the host for the NCAA championship, and the men's lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA Final Four for the 10th time in the last 13 seasons. The women's cross country team finished 9th nationally, while the women's soccer team advanced to the NCAA tournament for the 5th straight year, making Princeton one of 19 schools nationally to have done so.
Lacrosse player Ryan Boyle won the Roper Trophy as the outstanding senior male sportsman, while lacrosse/soccer player Theresa Sherry, field hockey player Claire Miller, and distance runner Emily Kroshus shared the von Kienbusch Award as the top senior female sportswomen.
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: Princeton Stadium, which, with a seating capacity for approximately 30,000 spectators, hosts Tiger football and in 2003-04 hosted regular-season men's and women's soccer and the NCAA women's lacrosse championships. 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.
In 2000, 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, wrestling, and tennis, in addition to large practice areas for outdoor field sports. Jadwin has 6,854 seats for basketball, and a brand-new indoor track surface was installed in the summer of 2004.
Dillon Gymnasium has facilities for group fitness, basketball, conditioning and weight training, dance, martial arts, recreational swimming, squash, volleyball, and wrestling. The Stephens Fitness Center in Dillon provides a centralized facility where men and women can pursue many personal health objectives with trained supervision.
The Olympic-size DeNunzio pool, next to Jadwin, provides complete facilities for competitive swimming and diving, and water polo (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 teams -- especially women's teams -- and visiting teams.
Baker Rink, constructed in 1923, is an historic venue for hockey and skating.
The outdoor facilities include 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, rugby, and many intramural sports.
Lourie-Love Field, used for intercollegiate soccer, provides a lighted facility for night-time contests. The Class of 1952 Stadium is a lighted facility that accommodates approximately 4,000 spectators and is used primarily for field hockey, lacrosse, and intramural sports.
Army ROTC
Army ROTC is a nationally standardized program of precommissioning officer education and training that is offered at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the United States. Army ROTC serves as the primary source of commissioning for U.S. Army officers.
The focus of the ROTC program is leadership dev-elopment. Students learn problem-solving techniques, decision-making skills, planning and organizing skills, interpersonal communications skills, professional ethics and responsibilities, and other management and leadership skills. Leadership labs and field training exercises supplement classroom work with practical leadership training and experience. Students receive developmental counseling routinely from their U.S. Army officers and noncommissioned officer (NCO) instructors.
Army ROTC sponsors a centralized training and development Advanced Camp conducted each summer at Fort Lewis, Washington. Successful completion of Advanced Camp is a prerequisite for commissioning. Cadets are encouraged to participate in Army ROTC extracurricular activities such as the Ranger Challenge Team or the Princeton Color Guard. Cadets may also choose to attend professional development training programs each summer, such as Airborne School, Air Assault School, Northern Warfare School, Mountain Warfare School, or Cadet Troop Leadership Training. Army ROTC provides students with an opportunity to receive merit-based scholarships for full tuition plus Undergraduate Student Government (USG) fees. Scholarship cadets also receive a monthly stipend of $250 for freshmen, $300 for sophomores, $350 for juniors, and $400 for seniors. A $300 book allowance per semester is granted to all scholarship cadets. High school students may apply for a four-year scholarship, and Princeton students may apply for either a three- or a two-year scholarship.
Air Force ROTC (AFROTC)
Princeton students may enroll in the Air Force ROTC (AFROTC) program based at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Most program courses are taught at Princeton. Students who complete this program are commissioned as a second lieutenant.
Enrollment in AFROTC involves no military commitment during the freshman year. AFROTC scholarships for two, three, and four years are available through this program on a competitive basis. The scholarships cover full or partial tuition and fees, a book allowance each semester, and a graduated $250-to-$400-per month, tax-free subsistence allowance during the school year.
There are many career opportunities in today's Air Force, including those of pilot, navigator, lawyer, doctor, and engineer.
For more information, please call (732) 932-7706. Additional information is available on the Web at www.afrotc.com.
Seniors' Plans
Of the 1,104 graduates in the Class of 2004, approximately 97 percent (1,070 students) responded to the Career Plans Survey in May. Sixty-three percent of the respondents planned to enter the workforce in the coming year. Over 13 percent of those choosing employment accepted positions in extended internships that involved teaching and/or service in domestic and international settings for a period of one to two years. Of the 26 percent who were planning to continue their education, 20.3 percent accepted admission into doctoral programs, and 26.2 percent enrolled in master's programs; 11.5 percent accepted positions in medical, dental, and veterinary schools, and 19.6 percent went into law school. An additional 29 students were accepted into graduate and professional schools but chose to defer enrollment for at least one year in order to pursue internships, fellowships, and employment. Close to 8 percent of the class followed other pursuits, including military service, professional sports, and travel.