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(12/09/13 6:14pm)
The Ivy season starts at the beginning of reading period, but Ancient Eight teams still have plenty of games left before they begin to play each other. A week before they head off on a break that will be full of basketball, here’s how the Ivy League women’s basketball teams stack up:
(12/08/13 11:05pm)
Fencing: Tigers win 7 of 8 at Sacred Heart Duals
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Small World Coffee, the popular coffee shop with two locations on Nassau and Witherspoon streets, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its move to Princeton on Dec. 22, 2013, according to The Times of Trenton.
(12/05/13 9:06pm)
Graduates of the University have some of the lowest student debt loads in the nation, according to a report released by the Institute for College Access and Success. The average debt of graduates from the Class of 2012 was $5,096.
(12/05/13 3:49pm)
The University’s voluntary contribution to the town of Princeton's municipal budget for next year will not be lower than last year’s contribution of $2.475 million, University officials confirmed. Discussions of the amount will resume in January 2014, according to UniversityVice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69.“No one feels any particular time pressures to come to agreement,” Durkee said, as the town will officially structure its budget in the spring. For the time being, the University has confirmed to town authorities that the payment will be no less than it was last year and has encouraged them to structure the 2014 budget with the expectation that the University will contribute the same amount or higher.The annual payment has commonly been referred to by community members and experts as a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT. However, Durkee has indicated that this payment cannot be deemed a PILOT because the University pays the taxes required of a nonprofit institution, in addition to voluntary taxes on its graduate housing buildings.“I would still use the term 'PILOT,'” Daphne Kenyon, a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy said. Kenyon co-authored a 2010 report onsimilar agreements in which large nonprofit institutions make contributions to local municipal budgets and considers the University’s payment to fit her definition of a PILOT.The University’s PILOT is the largest of its peer institutions by percentage of the $60 million municipal budget, according to Kenyon’s research. While most contributions make up less than one percent of the municipal budget, the University's constitutes more than four percent. Kenyon said Princeton’s situation —in which community members allege that the University has used its PILOT as leverage to promote its interests in local politics —is very unusual.“The typical situation is that the nonprofit feels like it could possibly be threatened by the locality,” she explained. “Princeton was the one case where we saw that flipped.”“I’d say that, just generally, to have this voluntary payment be a very high percentage of the municipality’s budget is a bad thing,” she explained, as it can lead towns to become dependent on the payment.When discussions enter full swing, an agreement that would fix the University’s contribution for the next several years may come about. Between 2005 and 2011, annual payments were made according to a six-year schedule of gradually increasing amounts. In the past two years, as the former Borough and Township were undergoing the process of consolidation, the University has made its payments in single-year agreements.An agreement of several years would be beneficial for both parties, as it would facilitate long-term planning and eliminate the need for annual meetings, Durkee said.Several community members, including former councilman David Goldfarb, said they would like to see the University increase its contribution considerably during the University’s ongoing construction of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood in order to compensate for the disruption caused by the project. He suggested that between the project’s start and its scheduled completion in 2017, the University should make a payment between 20 and 50 percent of the total taxable value of the University’s land. This would amount to about $5.8 million to $14.5 million, based on a 2010 assessment of the value of the University’s tax-exempt properties.Bernard Miller, president of the town council, declined to comment on the negotiations. He, along with council member Patrick Simon and Town Administrator Robert Bruschi, represent the town in discussions with the University over the amount. Simon and Bruschi did not respond to requests for comment.Former council member Roger Martindell said that he would like to see the town’s negotiating party make more rigorous demands of the University this year.“There was no negotiation that was worthy of the term [last year]. It was a handout. That may be appropriate for distributing presents at Christmas for the family, but it’s not an appropriate way to run a business. The municipal government is a business,” he said. He agreed with Goldfarb’s position that the University should make a greater contribution during the time of its construction project.“If the University wants something badly enough, then as a municipality, we should be fairly rigorous in our negotiation because they certainly can afford it and they’re not going anywhere,” he said of the town’s response to zoning requests. “It doesn’t mean that we have to be unreasonable, but we shouldn’t just be giving away the public assets for the benefit of one of the world’s richest private education institutions. That doesn’t make any sense.”Durkee and Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget have met with the town’s negotiating team twice this year. Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, who is married to a University professor,recusedherself from discussions for the coming year’s budget to avoid a conflict of interest.A lawsuit alleging that the University has in the past given its voluntary contribution in exchange for zoning rights for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood is still pending. Martindell said he suspects that University officials may have postponed the negotiations into the spring because of the suit.“I can reasonably guess that the University would want to get a meeting from the judge in that lawsuit as to what that judge thinks regarding the alleged sale of zoning rights to the University before the University wants to commit to what it wants to do in the future, because it might make a big difference,” Martindell said.At a public meeting in 2011, former University President Shirley Tilghman announced that the project would be relocated if a consensus could not be reached that evening. Although this statement was later revised and the project was approved in its original location in December of that year, some community members have said they believed Tilghman had threatened to withdraw or decrease the payment if the town did not grant the University’s requested zoning.“I know it’s frequently said, but it’s not true,” Durkee said of the allegations regarding Tilghman’s comments. “What she was saying was that the University has been very supportive of the community’s priorities, but we need you to be supportive of our priorities.”The lawsuit has not affected discussions of the payment, Durkee said.
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In a study examining how the commercialization of online data has personalized web users’ experience, researchers at the University and Belgium's KU Leuven have released "bots" that mimic the behavior of real people online, according to "Freedom to Tinker," a blog hosted by the University's Center for Information Technology Policy.
(12/04/13 3:42pm)
Princeton formally donated $4.1 million to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro in fiscal year 2012. The charitable contribution, however, did not function as a donation, but rather was used to complete the sale of a parking lot, whose price had been agreed upon before the recession and has since dropped dramatically.
(12/04/13 10:55am)
1. The music to the Honor Code song so they can never sing it again.
(12/03/13 10:55pm)
The Ivies are off to a great start this basketball season, and most of the teams look like they will be boasting excellent records when they start Ivy play. Here's how the Ancient Eight breaks down after the first few weeks of competition against non-league opponents:
(12/03/13 7:17pm)
Princeton is not the only school experiencing an outbreak of meningitis B.
(12/02/13 9:16pm)
A few weeks into the season, Ivy League teams are getting a taste of life outside the Ancient Eight. Here’s how they’ve fared so far as they begin their seasons with non-league play:1. Princeton (3-4): The Tigers are still the favorites to win the Ivy League for the fifth year running, though they’ve recently run into some tough opponents. The offense has picked up where it left off, putting up a stout 76.3 points per game, but Princeton has also been prone to allowing lots of scoring, giving up 75 points per game. These numbers may grow further apart once Ivy play begins.2. Harvard (6-1): A six-game winning streak was finally snapped by St. John’s over the weekend, but the Crimson is still sitting pretty. Harvard leads the league in scoring offense while also topping the three-point shooting defense, a combination that makes it perhaps the most powerful threat to Princeton’s crown.3. Cornell (4-3): With the second-best scoring defense in the league, the Big Red is tough to score on. Senior Allyson DiMagno, second in the league in steals and third in rebounds, spearheads that effort while also leading the offense with 12 points per game. Still, there is work to be done—Cornell did not defeat Princeton, Harvard or Penn last year and will need to play those opponents much tougher this season in order to shake up the Ancient Eight.4. Penn (1-2): Don’t let the mediocre record fool you —the Quakers are a serious contender. Their two losses came in the form of a close loss to St. Francis Brooklyn and a 22-point defeat by one of the top-ranked teams in the nation. Though the sample size is small, Penn fans can start to get excited about freshman Sydney Stipanovich, whose 75 percent field goal percentage is currently the best in the Ivy League.5. Brown (3-3): The Bears have had an impressive start despite not having reached double-digit wins last season. Long-range shooting has been huge for the Bears as they are a league-best 44 percent from beyond the arc. Ellise Sharpe and Sophie Bikofsky have led the team in this regard, having made a combined 28 from downtown and are both ranked in the top three in three-point field goal percentage.6. Yale (3-4): The Bulldogs have lost three in a row since starting the season off 3-1. The team is fourth in the league in points per game despite only having one player ranked in the top 20 of scoring. While the depth is good for the Bulldogs, they will need guard Sarah Halejian, ranked sixth in the league with 14.3 points per game, to do even more to get a struggling Yale team out of its slump.7. Dartmouth (1-4): The Big Green has had arguably the most disappointing start to the season among the Ivy League teams. Dartmouth was predicted to finish fifth in the conference in the preseason poll but has failed to even live up to those expectations through the first five games of the season. The Tigers are in a similar situation, but the Big Green doesn’t have the excuse of a really tough strength of schedule and also has not really been in most of its games.8. Columbia (1-6): The Lions only won five games last season and are not expected to do much better this season. They only won their first game of the season by three against a winless Long Island squad and have since lost six straight by at least eight points. The Lions do not play their first Ivy League game until the middle of January, however, so they will have some time to find their rhythm before the more important games.
(12/02/13 4:10pm)
As University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 met publicly with town leaders and residents on Monday night for the first time since his September installation, the discussion touched on old town-gown tensions but also addressed ways to improve the University’s relationship with town government.
(12/02/13 9:51am)
Students will be able to select all spring-semester precepts and lab sections directly in SCORE during course selection, University Registrar Polly Griffin announced in an email to the student body on Monday. This new enrollment system, which was piloted the past two semesters, will be instituted for all courses next semester.
(12/01/13 8:34pm)
Twenty tons of food waste from University dining halls could be sent to a plant in Lawrence Township, N.J., each week to be cycled through a new waste handling process involving mass fermentation, The Times of Trenton reported on Friday.
(12/01/13 12:50pm)
The wrestling team picked up a pair of wins on Sunday to sweep the “Grapple at the Garden” tournament in Madison Square Garden. The Tigers, now 2-0 this season, earned a 21-14 win over Drexel in the morning before defeating Army 21-15.
(11/25/13 7:57pm)
Men’s basketball: Princeton looking to extend winning streak
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The University has made a donation of $100,000 to the stewardship fund of the town's public library. The head of the library announced the donation on Thursday, Planet Princeton reported.
(11/25/13 7:40pm)
Reports of a gunman on campus brought Yale University under a daylong shelter-in-place lockdown order Monday.
(11/25/13 12:00pm)
The two $1,000 first prizes for Princeton Pitch went to the creators of “splash,” a free application that allows users to share media based on location, and the developers of “Saheli,” a catering service that aims to help Indian women escape the sex trade.