News & Notes: Salt shipment arrives in town in time for new snowstorm
The town of Princeton received salt shipments this week which will be used to keep roads from icing and facilitate snow plowing, the Princeton Packet reported last week.
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The town of Princeton received salt shipments this week which will be used to keep roads from icing and facilitate snow plowing, the Princeton Packet reported last week.
Students at residential colleges will no longer have to sort their recyclable trash. The rest of campus is expected to follow suit by the end of 2014.
1. Winked at
Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson dismissed a claim against real estate developer AvalonBay on Tuesday, the Trenton Times reported. A citizens’ group called Association for Planning at Hospital Site had gone before Judge Jacobson with the claim that AvalonBay, which hopes to convert the former Princeton hospital on Witherspoon Street into housing, had not properly addressed issues of dust levels, asbestos and medical waste disposal.
1. Career Services pursues a technology strategy inspired by eHarmony; Susan Patton expresses approval
The primary election for the Young Alumni Trustee position will have 17 current seniors on the ballot, the University announced on Tuesday.
Town attorney Edwin Schmierer will step down from his position after a town council meetingon Monday, according to the Princeton Packet.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s job approval among the residents of the state has dropped 15 points since the Bridgegate Scandal, according to Monday’s Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll.
Traditional health insurance companies will be replaced with Accountable Care Organizations by 2025, Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania said to a packed lecture hall on Monday.
Attorneys for two former aides of embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will appear in court next month to argue why their clients should not comply with subpoenas issued to further investigate the Fort Lee bridge lane closures, The Star-Ledger reported.
Women’s Squash:
1. Patton ’77 to release book in March; possible titles include:“Dr. Strangelady or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Patriarchy”
Barton Gellman ’82, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes for The Washington Post, was one of 30 recipients to receive the George Polk Award for national security reporting, according to The National Post.
1. dolphingirl23@hotmail.com
Theresa O’Shea ’16 won her semifinal round competition of Jeopardy! College Championship last night, moving on to the final round with a chance to win up to $100,000.
U.S. Rep. Rush D. Holt of New Jersey, who has represented the 12th congressional district — including Princeton — in the U.S. House of Representatives for the last 16 years, announced that he will not seek reelection to Congress.
Palestinians should continue to pursue self-empowerment, legal justice and peaceful resistance in their ongoing territorial conflict with Israel, international law professor emeritus Richard Falk said during the 11thannual Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture.
A total of 1,162 eligible individuals received the second vaccination dose against meningococcal-B on Monday, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. An additional 305 individuals received the second dose last month, which included some student athletes as well as students who were going abroad for the semester.
The women’s basketball team comfortably won a pair of Ivy League matchups to keep pace with Penn and Harvard in the standings. Princeton (15-6 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) beat Brown 81-70 on Friday before dominating Yale 96-75 on Saturday. Junior guard Blake Dietrick’s back-to-back career-highs of 27 and 28 vaulted her into second place in conference play scoring.
1. McCosh Infirmary.