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Beyond the Bubble

Even after lost bid for Senate, Holt enjoys support from University-affiliated donors

Top Donors to Rush Holt from the Princeton community

Even after lost bid for Senate, Holt enjoys support from University-affiliated donors

Catherine Duazo

“There is a bumper sticker that goes around Princeton that says ‘My Congressman is a rocket scientist’. I’ve always felt kind of proud to be able to say that we have someone representing us in Congress with Rush Holt’s intelligence and his scientific background,” former University President Shirley Tilghman said in a November interview, reflecting on Holt’s popularity among Princeton constituents.Holt has represented New Jersey’s 12th congressional district in the U.S.

NEWS | 12/12/2013

As ex-officio trustee, Gov. Christie's role in Princeton affairs unclear

The Daily Princetonian

As ex-officio trustee, Gov. Christie's role in Princeton affairs unclear

Jacob Donnelly and Hannah Schoen

While New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has made several high-profile appearances on campus in recent months, his involvement in University affairs as an ex-officio trustee, relative to those who have held his position in the past, is less clear.As ex-officio trustee, Christie serves on the Board of Trustees by virtue of his role as governor rather than by being elected to the position.

NEWS | 12/12/2013

Lewis ’55: executive, University trustee, marijuana activist

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Lewis ’55: executive, University trustee, marijuana activist

Paul Phillips

Peter Lewis ’55, who, as the CEO of Progressive Insurance, was notable for being a champion of individuals taking charge of their own decisions, conveyed the same message as a young eating club officer at Princeton. As treasurer of the now defunct Dial Lodge Club, which occupied the building that now holds the Bendheim Center for Finance, Lewis once resolved a conflict by appealing the president to make a decision, rather than wait for an informal consensus to be reached.“We had a difficult problem with a lot of hemming and hawing where different solutions were proposed,” Richard May ’55, then-Dial Lodge president and a classmate of Lewis, said.

NEWS | 12/11/2013
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Updated: U. may join First Lady’s initiative to increase low-income students’ access to higher education

The Daily Princetonian

Updated: U. may join First Lady’s initiative to increase low-income students’ access to higher education

Jacob Donnelly

Princeton is in conversations with the White House about taking part in anew educational initiative byFirst Lady Michelle Obama ’85 that seeksto increase low-income students’ access to higher education.Nevertheless, some administrators and faculty said they appreciated the motives behind the new initiative but expressed skepticism about the potential impacts of the initiative if applied to Princeton, noting that the University has already taken a number of measures to recruit low-income students and is already actively working to improve those measures.Obama announced the initiative in November in a speech at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C.

NEWS | 12/02/2013

Unpublished J.D. Salinger story kept in University library leaked illegally online

The Daily Princetonian

Unpublished J.D. Salinger story kept in University library leaked illegally online

Patience Haggin

A previously unpublished J.D. Salinger story housed in the University’s Firestone Library was illegally made public online on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Salinger’s story, “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” provides the backstory to his famous 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by recounting the death of Kenneth Caulfield, the older brother of the novel’s protagonist.

NEWS | 12/01/2013

Alan Krueger speaks on serving 'in the nation's service' as the President's chief economist

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Alan Krueger speaks on serving 'in the nation's service' as the President's chief economist

Paul Phillips

Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Wilson School and former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, reflected on the differences between policymaking and academia in a lecture this past Thursday.Krueger served as chairman of the CEA from November 2011 to August 2013 and came back to teach at the University this fall.Krueger explained that although some skills, including persistence and the ability to write and communicate, are necessary for both academia and policy work, policy makers need quite different skills from academics.

NEWS | 11/21/2013

Reddit founder Ohanian discusses techniques for successful entrepreneurship, power of world wide web

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Reddit founder Ohanian discusses techniques for successful entrepreneurship, power of world wide web

Paul Phillips

Reddit founder Ohanian discusses techniques for successful entrepreneurship, power of Internet. While the earth is most certainly round, the Internet is flat and can be the world’s largest stage from which everyone has the opportunity to learn, Alexis Ohanian, the founder of online forum Reddit, told a crowd of Princeton students on Wednesday in a lecture about Reddit’s founding and the field of entrepreneurship. Having grown up with the World Wide Web, younger generations have had the advantage of understanding the Internet better than the “incumbents,” or older generation — a “huge advantage that we all need to capitalize on,” Ohanian said. Ohanian also offered his advice on entrepreneurship by noting that the difference between entrepreneurs is not whether or not one has great ideas.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

Q&A: Ben-Ami ’84, founder of J Street

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: Ben-Ami ’84, founder of J Street

Regina Wang

Jeremy Ben-Ami’84 spoke on campus Tuesday afternoon about the present-day politics of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Ben-Ami, the founder and president of advocacy group J Street, spoke to The Daily Princetonian about changes in the political climate on campus, particularly regarding Israel-Palestine. The Daily Princetonian: You mentioned that you’ve lectured on campus in the past.

NEWS | 11/19/2013

Vaccine manufacturer Novartis likely not to benefit from emergency deal with Princeton

The Daily Princetonian

Vaccine manufacturer Novartis likely not to benefit from emergency deal with Princeton

Marcelo Rochabrun

The commercial success of Bexsero — the vaccine made by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis that will be offered to Princeton students in December and is not yet licensed for use in the United States — is crucial for the future of the company’s vaccine department, according to a review of financial disclosure forms.But whether Novartis will reap benefits from the University’s emergency use of Bexsero remains uncertain.

NEWS | 11/19/2013

ACLU attorney speaks on NSA: 'The Fourth Amendment in the Era of Mass Dataveillance'

The Daily Princetonian

ACLU attorney speaks on NSA: 'The Fourth Amendment in the Era of Mass Dataveillance'

Chitra Marti

The government’s mass call tracking program violates fundamental civil liberties and rights to privacy, Catherine Crump, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project argued in a lecture on Thursday. Crump began the lecture with a simple question: “How many of you have cell phones?” Virtually every hand in the room shot up. “It used to be practically impossible for the government to track you without expending tremendous resources,” Crump added.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

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Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

Corinne Lowe

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson, a previously only-theorized particle whose existence would validate the currently accepted model of why things have mass, has had enormous implications for physicists’ understanding of how particles acquire mass, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall explained in a public lecture on Monday evening.In March, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, identified a particle bearing the attributes of the proposed Higgs boson.Theoretical physicistsPeter Higgs and Francois Englert received the Nobel Prize in physics last month for their 1964 proposals of the particle.Randall explained that the discovery will pave the way for new research in particle physics.“It really was a spectacular discovery that gives us insight into the Standard Model of physics,” Randall said of the discovery.Randall began her lecture by showing the hall several pictures of the Eiffel Tower at different resolutions, providing an analogy about the importance of scaling in scientific inquiry as well as the need to examine phenomena at both a large and small scale.Randall emphasized the importance of small scaling in scientific examination and how crucial it was to the research being conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.When Higgs boson particles were discovered, scientists didn’t see the Higgs particles themselves, but rather the particles they decayed into, Randall explained.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

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