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(02/20/14 9:06pm)
Town Mayor Liz Lempert said that the Princeton Council could appoint a new police chief to replace disgraced former police chief David Dudeck as early as next month, the Princeton Packet reported. Dudeck signed a separation agreement with the town last year after facing numerous allegations of administrative misconduct.
(12/10/13 8:12pm)
Three men contracted to perform work on Lake Carnegie were rescued after their boat became stranded on a dam, according to a Princeton Police Department press release.
(12/03/13 7:17pm)
The most frequently given grade at Harvard College is an A and the median grade is an A-, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris told attendees of a monthly faculty meeting on Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson reported. He said his remark was based on grading data from fall 2012 and several previous semesters.
(11/05/13 7:30pm)
The town of Princeton has received a AAA bond rating from the financial services firm Standard & Poor’s, its first credit rating since the Borough and Township consolidated in January, The Times of Trenton reported.
(10/07/13 5:07pm)
The University’s controversial grade deflation policy — which stipulates that no more than 35 percent grades given out in anydepartment should be A's — will come under review over the next year, the UniversityannouncedMondaymorning.
(10/03/13 7:49pm)
The federal government remained shut down on Thursday, and University faculty and students reliant on federal funding began to feel the pinch of the budget standoff in Washington.
(10/01/13 9:25pm)
After congressional gridlock resulted in a government shutdown at midnight on Tuesday, The Daily Princetonian spoke by phone with Joyce Rechtschaffen '75, director of the University's D.C.-based Office of Government Affairs, who serves as the primary liaison between the University and lawmakers in Washington. Although she characterized the shutdown as a negative development, Rechtschaffen explained that much of the office’s work on longer-term initiatives—such as lobbying for increasing federal funding for scientific research in the face of the sequester—would continue anyway.
(09/23/13 9:10pm)
Researchers from two think tanks faced off in a debate on Monday over whether the United States should intervene in the ongoing Syrian civil war. The discussion included audience voting to gauge members' progressing reactions. While 43 percent of the audience initially voted against intervention, this number increased to 61 percent by the end of the debate, all while the number of undecided votes decreased.
(09/19/13 7:40pm)
The town of Princeton announced Thursday that it will pay for the legal defense of Former Princeton police chief David Dudeck, against whom a suit has been filed by seven police officers over numerous allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination throughout his tenure as Chief of the Borough department and subsequently of the consolidated police department, The Princeton Packet reported.
(09/18/13 4:05pm)
Princeton and 10 other universities have joined the Say Yes to Education program, an initiative that provides high school students with a full ride to college, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The other new members are Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, Rice University, Denison University, Pomona College, Hamilton College, Rhodes College, Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks and Sewanee: The University of the South.
(09/15/13 12:02pm)
Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s Saturday announcement that the United States and Russia reached an agreement for the international control of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, The Daily Princetonian spoke briefly by phone to U.S. Representative Rush Holt, a former arms control expert for the State Department, to discuss his position on the viability of the agreement. Holt explained that while it was still too early to tell whether the involved parties would stick to the agreement, the possibility of a diplomatic solution was far preferable to previous arguments for U.S.-led military strikes on the war-torn country.
(09/02/13 8:19am)
Following President Obama’sSaturdayannouncement that he will seek Congressional authorization to retaliate against the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against its own people, The Daily Princetonian spoke briefly by phone to U.S. Representative Rush Holt, a former arms control expert for the State Department, to discuss his position on the Obama administration’s case for intervention in Syria. Holt explained that, in his view, a compelling case had not yet been made for intervention and that U.S. action must happen within a multilateral framework.
(01/15/12 11:00pm)
The University has begun installation of the new solar photovoltaic panel field in West Windsor Township after clearing 27 acres of land and obtaining the necessary local, county and state permits and utility company approvals.
(12/07/11 11:00pm)
The University is set to expand its South Asian Studies certificate program’s linguistic offerings with a new Urdu language program, which will be offered for the first time next fall.
(11/29/11 11:00pm)
Astrophysicist, former University lecturer and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson launched into a passionate criticism of public attitudes toward space exploration and the dominant myth that America was a pioneer in the field in a lecture on American space exploration to a packed audience in McCosh Hall on Tuesday night.
(11/14/11 11:00pm)
The Council of the Princeton University Community convened to discuss the Arts and Transit Neighborhood project and University finances on Monday evening in the Friend Center. President Shirley Tilghman presented the opening remarks and recognized the USG and class officers for their organization of the Orange and Black Ball.
(11/13/11 11:00pm)
The sudden birth of the Arab Spring took even the most seasoned State Department diplomats by surprise, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine said in a lecture titled “A Time for Every Season: Assessing the Arab Spring” in Jadwin Hall on Saturday morning.
(10/17/11 10:00pm)
Christopher Dye, director of health information in the World Health Organization’s Office of HIV/AIDS, spoke about global health policy to a full audience in Dodds Auditorium on Monday afternoon.
(10/03/11 10:00pm)
Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering spoke about the need for diplomacy in addressing Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to a full audience in Robertson Hall on Monday night. The public lecture was titled “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Can Diplomacy Help?” and was co-sponsored by the Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security.
(09/25/11 10:00pm)
Construction of the University’s new West Windsor solar panel field is set to begin next week after months of planning and permit-seeking from local, county and state authorities. The project’s completion has been scheduled for summer 2012.