Orientation Calendar

Orientation meals in the residential colleges begin with brunch on Saturday, September 12. Kosher meals will be served at the Center for Jewish Life (70 Washington Road) starting with dinner on Friday, September 11. Meals in the residential colleges will begin for all undergraduate students with breakfast on Monday, September 14.

Saturday, September 12, from 12:30–3:30 p.m. in Dillon Gym. This is a mandatory event because all new students are required to complete an I-9 form for payroll purposes. During the summer you received an I-9 form with instructions. Remember that you must bring acceptable forms of identification that prove both your identity and your eligibility to work. (An unexpired U.S. passport satisfies both requirements.) If you do not have or do not plan to bring your passport, carefully review the acceptable documents list included with the instructions. In particular, note that you must bring original documents. If you have any questions about what forms of identification are acceptable, contact the Student Employment Office at 609-258-3334 or seoffice@princeton.edu.

In addition to Financial Aid and Student Employment, the following departments and organizations will have representatives available: Campus Recreation (Athletics), Career Services, Credit Union, University Health Services, Honor Committee, Library, Office of Information Technology, Pace Center (including Community House and Student Volunteers Council), Payroll, Public Safety, Religious Life, and Voter Registration.

Online academic year registration (verification of your address and personal information) for all students will be conducted via the SCORE website, www.princeton.edu/SCORE, beginning at 7:00 a.m. Monday, September 14, through 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 16 (there is a $75 penalty for late registration!).

Dillon Gym will be open September 14–20 as follows:

Students may pick up their TigerCard at Baker Rink on move-in day. In addition to serving as Princeton University’s official ID card, the TigerCard is the all-in-one campus card. With the TigerCard, students can enjoy their meal plan at dining halls around campus, have access to dorm buildings, check out books at libraries, buy class books, use athletic facilities, make copies, attend athletic events, and much more.

The TigerCard can be used as a budget tool, too. Add cash to your card (Paw Points) to use to purchase tickets, apparel, supplies, and late-night snacks! The TigerCard Office is located on the A Floor in the New South Building. For more information about the TigerCard, visit www.princeton.edu/tigercard.

The Princeton University Store (U-Store) is one of the oldest independent co-ops in the country. It is governed by a board of trustees consisting of students, faculty, alumni, and administrators. Members of the co-op receive a discount on most purchases in the campus store at 36 University Place, in the insignia store at 114 Nassau Street, and online at www.pustore.com. Memberships may be opened at any U-Store register or online.

The U-Store on University Place offers everything a student needs to live and study on campus including school supplies, dorm-approved appliances and dorm furnishings, computer software and tech gear, as well as grocery and convenience items. There is also an ATM, a full-service pharmacy, printing and copying shop, and Clinique and Vera Bradley shops. The University Place store is open 8:00 a.m.–3 a.m. when classes are in session. The insignia store on Nassau Street contains a large assortment of Princeton apparel, gifts, and other Princeton merchandise. The Nassau Street store is open Monday–Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For additional information, please visit the U-Store website at www.pustore.com, e-mail mailorder@pustore.com, or call 609-921-8500 ext. 242.

Labyrinth Books, located at 122 Nassau Street, is an independent bookstore that serves both the University and the local Princeton communities. The store provides faculty and students with all course book needs and sells new releases, discounted remainder-titles, and used books. Labyrinth specializes in academic as well as general-interest books across diverse fields of interest from the humanities, sciences and social sciences, literature, art, architecture, and photography to foreign language and children’s books. It also offers a full program of author events. For hours, events and programs, and other information, please visit www.labyrinthbooks.com or e-mail info-pr@labyrinthbooks.com.

Freshmen and sophomores are not permitted to have cars or other vehicles on campus. TigerTransit, the University’s transportation system, operates on a fixed-route schedule during the academic year, providing safe, convenient, and reliable transportation throughout the Princeton campus and surrounding community. For more information, including route maps, please visit www.princeton.edu/transportation.

The Frist Campus Center is open daily during the academic year. The campus center operates approximately 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, with 24 hours of operation during mid-term, reading period, and finals weeks.

Frist Campus Center is a place where graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni can come together and build campus community. The center is named for the Frist family, including Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr., Princeton Parent ’91 and ’93, and Senator William H. Frist, Princeton Class of ’74. Designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, the center features meeting rooms, a large lecture hall with projection capacity, a film and performance theater, a variety of retail dining spaces, Café Vivian, Convenience Store, Witherspoon’s coffee and ice cream shop, lounges, common areas, a multipurpose room for large conferences and social gatherings, and an outdoor plaza.

Frist also houses the Center Stage Program Board, which offers exciting programming every Thursday and Saturday during the academic year, as well as the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 International Center, the Women’s Center, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, the LGBT Center, the Student Agencies Office, the University Scheduling office, University Ticketing office, the Office of Disability Services, the Pace Center, classrooms, and the Departments of East Asian Studies and Near Eastern Studies. It also provides office space for graduate and undergraduate student governments as well as student organizations.

The campus center has many convenience services, such as computer clusters, ATM machines, all student mailboxes, a billiards room, copy and fax machines, as well as wireless Internet. Frist provides a mix of social and academic activities, extensive late-night programming, and a variety of dining options. Through its diverse array of quality programs, services, and facilities, the center is the place for all members of the Princeton community to become involved in campus life and to interact and learn from one another. For more information, please visit www.princeton.edu/frist.

Do you know how to manage your time well? Do you take effective notes? What if you need extra help in math or chemistry? Regardless of the academic preparation you bring to Princeton, all of you can benefit from the resources available in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Come to our offices in Frist Campus Center and discover a wealth of opportunities for academic support, including workshops and individual conferences designed to address learning preferences, oral communication, time management, study skills, problem solving, test anxiety, and procrastination. Through Study Hall@Frist, we also offer free tutoring for students in introductory chemistry, economics, mathematics, physics, integrated science, and logic. For a schedule of workshops and presentations, or to make an appointment, go to www.princeton.edu/mcgraw/us or drop in Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and stop by our Open House on Tuesday, September 15, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. to learn more about us!

What has more than 70 miles of shelves, 6.6 million volumes, more than 42,000 subscriptions, nearly 25,000 electronic journals, nearly 6,000 videos and DVDs, 200 student and 355 non-student workers, and is much easier to use than you think?

The Princeton University Library invites the Class of ’13 to informal open houses at Firestone Library. Have a snack, meet some of the friendly library staff, find out about jobs at the library, and learn how to make the library work for you for the next four years.

Open house hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thirty-minute tours will leave continuously. Be sure to bring your Princeton TigerCard. For additional library information, check the library’s New Student Orientation page at library.princeton.edu/about/newstudents.php.

Throughout the fall semester, the Main Gallery in Firestone Library will be featuring the exhibition “Liberty and the American Revolution: Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus.” The exhibition featured in the Mudd Manuscript Library will be “‘The Best Old Place of All’: Treasures from the Princeton University Archives.”

Where science meets information. We invite the Class of ’13 to informal open houses at our new science library. See the wonderful Treehouse and other new study spaces, experience the easy access to electronic information, and enjoy the architecture of Frank Gehry. Meet the librarians and staff, find out about jobs at the library, and enter the new age of scientific information in the heart of the University’s science neighborhood.

Open house hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tours will leave at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 2:00 p.m. Meet in the Atrium. For additional information, see the website at scilib.princeton.edu and click on “Freshman Orientation” in the News & Events box.

What every Tiger needs to know! The tour will take you around campus in the footsteps of generations of Princetonians and give you the low-down on obscure facts, famous pranks and hoaxes, campus myths, architectural secrets, and the many time-honored traditions of Princeton University. These historical tours are sponsored by the Orange Key Guide Service and the Princetoniana Committee of the Alumni Council and will take place on Tuesday, September 15, at 11:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tours meet at the Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk.

Whether you are interested in English literature or engineering, you will find yourself using technology services on the Princeton campus. The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides a variety of resources to assist you with discovering and using these services; visit www.princeton.edu/oitstudentservices for details.

For assistance connecting to the campus network or configuring your computer for Princeton’s environment, please contact the OIT Help Desk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 609-258-HELP, e-mail helpdesk@princeton.edu, or visit the OIT KnowledgeBase of answers at www.princeton.edu/kb. For IT assistance in your room, contact one of the Residential Computing Consultants (RCCs) living in your residential college. A list of the RCCs in your college can be found on the RCC Web page at www.princeton.edu/rcc. For information about buying a Princeton-selected and configured laptop computer visit www.princeton.edu/sci. Information about telephone services can be found at www.princeton.edu/telecom.

The OIT Solutions Center in the Frist Campus Center is a full-service facility that can help you with all of your computing and telephone needs, including diagnosis of hardware and software problems, software installation, hardware repair, etc. You may also pick up your Tiger TV cable, purchase student-priced software, and get assistance with your University telephone and voice mail service. The Solutions Center is normally open Monday–Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additionally, the Solutions Center will have extended hours during Orientation Week; please see the technology pages of the Class of 2013 website at www.princeton.edu/welcometigers/infotech for the schedule.

As early as possible during orientation, come to the music department, located at the Woolworth Center, and pick up information sheets concerning private instrumental and vocal lessons, and a schedule of drawings for free Metropolitan Opera tickets. Audition schedules for the Princeton University Glee Club, Jazz Ensemble, and Orchestra are also available. The office is located on the third floor in Room 310, Woolworth Center. Our website is www.music.princeton.edu.