The annual Reunions Luncheon and membership meeting will again be held on Friday of Reunions, May 29. The traditional panel presentation by alumni veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will follow. This year panelists will include alumni spouses and family members who will share their experiences on issues of care for families and returning veterans ...

Army General David Petraeus *87 will be this year's Baccalaureate speaker. At the recommendation of Class of 2009 officers, President Tilghman selected General Petraeus because in the students words, ''he represents the University's informal motto of 'Princeton in the nation's service and in the service of all nations.''' General Petraeus, who earned in PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1987, took command of the U.S. Central Command in October 2008 after 19 months in Iraq ...

SINCE the Vietnam War, R.O.T.C. programs have been banned from operating on campus at elite universities like Yale and Harvard. These institutions have also long hindered the military’s efforts to recruit their students. But in March 2006, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the military must be allowed back on all campuses. The door is open. More important, the students themselves are ready. I recently taught a course on the obligations of citizenship at Yale, where I also spent three years as a law student. If my university holds some prejudice against military service, its students, in my experience, don’t seem to ....

Congratulations to Army MS IV cadet Stephen Hammer '09, who is one of three Princeton Rhodes Scholars for 2009. A classics concentrator, Stephen is from Carrollton, Texas, and plans to read for an M.Phil. in theology at Oxford. Upon graduation, Stephen will be commissioned into the infantry ...