University’s termination of lease with Nassau Swim Club makes splash of community pushback
Despite pushback from community members, the University’s decision to end the lease of the Nassau Swim Club (NSC) on Tuesday will go forward as planned.
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Despite pushback from community members, the University’s decision to end the lease of the Nassau Swim Club (NSC) on Tuesday will go forward as planned.
At a Princeton Town Council meeting on Monday, March 25, the council announced hefty funding allocations pertaining to improvements to infrastructure and public space in Princeton. These announcements come on the heels of the University’s announcement of a $50 million voluntary contribution to the municipality of Princeton.
The University recently announced its plan to donate $50 million over five years to the Municipality of Princeton and local nonprofits. The largest slated donation will be $10 million over five years to a nonprofit organization to provide property tax relief for lower- and middle-income Princeton homeowners. Eligible households will be based on income limits set by the New Jersey Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters (ANCHOR) Program.
Following a contentious move on Jan. 8 by the Princeton Town Council to consolidate three of its volunteer commissions with little notice, some members of the dissolved committees are questioning the Council’s intentions. In their view, the decision is a reflection of deeper issues of trust within the Council.
In a Jan. 8 meeting, the Princeton Town Council announced plans to consolidate the Civil Rights Commission, Human Services Commission, and Affordable Housing Board into a single 11-member committee. Proponents, including all members of the town council, argue that the move will streamline Princeton’s government, although over 30 Princeton residents expressed opposition and frustration with this decision at a Council meeting on Jan. 22. At that meeting, council members amended the ordinance to increase the number of members of the new committee from seven to nine with two alternates. They also voted to change the name of the committee and the process by which committee chairs are chosen.
Responding to recent town contention around traffic and parking, Princeton’s town council passed an ordinance eliminating free, temporary parking on a section of Witherspoon Street at a Dec. 11 meeting. Council members and community members also discussed the Franklin Maple project, a proposed affordable housing development that would bring the town closer to compliance with its 2020 mandate to build 753 affordable housing units by 2025.
A political group terming itself the Princeton Coalition of Responsible Development has drafted a petition with nearly 1,000 signatures opposing the Municipality of Princeton’s Master Plan. Princeton’s Planning Board prepared the plan, which guides the municipality’s growth and development and informs its zoning, land use decisions, and infrastructure.
Appointment of University faculty is an elaborate process involving several stakeholders, including faculty within their specific departments, the Dean of the Faculty, and other members of the administration. The Daily Princetonian spoke with the chairs of multiple departments about the faculty hiring process.
Content Warning: The following article contains discussion of death and suicide.
It was a major night for elected officials up and down the Garden State. Local Princeton elections were dominated by a long-running controversy about the recent resignation of Princeton Public School Superintendent Dr. Carol Kelley, and an opponent of the superintendent won a seat on the board. Democrats dominated in deep blue Mercer County and notched important wins in tightly contested state legislative elections amid major wins for Democrats nationwide.
Ten years after the creation of the Princeton and Slavery Project, recent events affecting the University and the state of New Jersey have renewed conversations surrounding the project, with a focus on exploring new possible applications.
Improvements to the historically Black Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and a sidewalk on Snowden Street were major topics of discussion when the Princeton Town Council met on Monday, Oct. 23.
Three years ago, the Princeton City Council passed Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) Ordinances, proposing new housing units, including affordable housing, in three of the town’s seven overlay zones.
From catering to textbooks to providing off-campus dining options, businesses on Nassau Street are an essential part of the Princeton student experience. Ongoing construction on the Graduate Hotel, located at 20 Nassau Street, has indefinitely displaced five Princeton businesses, including Jammin’ Crepes, Milk & Cookies, Nassau Barbers, Small Bites by Local Greek, and Sakrid Coffee Roasters. The last two have yet to reopen in their original locations.
The Municipality of Princeton’s Planning Board presented their community master plan at the first of 10 planned listening sessions on Sept. 12.
President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 sent a statement to the University community on Thursday reaffirming Princeton’s commitment to diversity in its admissions policies after the Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of precedent in the use of race in college admissions. Despite emphasizing the importance of having a diverse student body, Eisgruber provided no specific plan as to how the University will pursue admissions in the future, nor any specific hints as to what the strategy might be.
Over the past few months, campus has engaged in a debate over whether the high-aspiration environment at Princeton is beneficial to mental health. The debate was prompted after President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 said in an interview with the ‘Prince,’ “I think high aspiration environments, and that includes academically rigorous environments, are fully consistent with and helpful to mental health.” While students and administrators have weighed in, faculty members set academic standards that some of the questions are empirically verifiable. The Daily Princetonian spoke with two professors about mental health and its connection to academic rigor.
Public lectures at Princeton don’t often fill auditoriums. But even appearing via Zoom, Noam Chomsky drew a packed crowd.
The UMatter bus, a bus that provides weekend late-night service for students to ride home from the eating clubs, has faced a significant decrease in ridership since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some bus staffers attribute the decrease in ridership to the pick-up location and a lack of awareness about the bus.
“It’s a really exciting time here at Princeton to have this effort and focus on space physics,” said Dr. Jamie Rankin, a researcher at Princeton. Rankin was appointed deputy director of science for the Voyager project — NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space — in December 2022.