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Krugman argues against austerity at alumni conference

Krugman argues against austerity at alumni conference

Joseph Sheehan Joe

Economics professor Paul Krugman explained the danger of attempting to reduce budget deficits in a time of recession in a lecture for the "Many Minds, Many Stripes" alumni conference on Friday afternoon. Speaking to a packed auditorium of graduate alumni, Krugman discussed “intro economics” in the context of the Great Recession. The winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory, Krugman is known nationally for his twice-weekly columns in The New York Times.

NEWS | 10/19/2013

With demonstrators in the audience, Heritage Foundation fellow Anderson ’04 urges traditional understanding of marriage

With demonstrators in the audience, Heritage Foundation fellow Anderson ’04 urges traditional understanding of marriage

Regina Wang

Heritage Foundation fellowRyan T. Anderson ’04 argued for a traditional conception of marriage as a union between one man and one woman in an event sponsored by the Anscombe Society and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Thursday evening.

NEWS | 10/17/2013

Hayley Gorenberg ’87 leads effort to overturn New Jersey's same-sex marriage ban

Hayley Gorenberg ’87 leads effort to overturn New Jersey's same-sex marriage ban

Allison Kruk

The New Jersey Superior Court ruled to overturn the ban on gay marriage late last month, arguing that the civil union system violates both the 14th Amendment and the New Jersey Constitution.

NEWS | 10/17/2013

Alumnus Cochrane ’81 becomes Princeton Public Schools superintendent

Alumnus Cochrane ’81 becomes Princeton Public Schools superintendent

Jasmine Wang

The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education appointed Stephen Cochrane ’81 superintendent of Princeton Public Schools earlier this month.

NEWS | 10/16/2013

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng advocates universal human rights

Jacqueline Gufford

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng called for the worldwide recognition of universal human rights and proposed measures to end to the Chinese government’s repression of its people in a lecture delivered at the University Wednesday night. Speaking through a translator, Chen emphasized the need to examine human rights from a global perspective in an increasingly interconnected society.

NEWS | 10/16/2013

Booker wins Senate seat

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Booker wins Senate seat

Hannah Schoen

Newark Mayor Cory Booker defeated former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan in the race to fill the seat vacated by Senator Frank R.

NEWS | 10/16/2013

Spilling secrets: Barton Gellman ’82

Spilling secrets: Barton Gellman ’82

Angela Wang

Barton Gellman ’82 has always been a secret breaker.As an undergraduate at Princeton, Gellman decried secrecy inNassau Hall in his first column as the chairman of The Daily Princetonian — a position roughly equivalent to what is now known as editor-in-chief.“We've been far too tolerant, as well, of Nassau Hall’s idiosyncratic preference for secrecy and closed-door decisions on the most basic issues facing Princeton,” Gellman wrote in February 1981.

NEWS | 10/13/2013

Booker and Lonegan to vie for Senate seat in special election

Hannah Schoen

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan will face off for a U.S.

NEWS | 10/13/2013

Q&A: Former Egypt foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr

Lydia Lim

Before his lecture at the Wilson School on Thursday afternoon, former Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss the challenges facing the Egyptian government and the likelihood of a transition to a legitimate constitutional democracy in the wake of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s removal from power in June. The Daily Princetonian:What is the biggest challenge facing the Egyptian government today? Mohamed Kamel Amr:I think the biggest challenge facing Egypt today, it is what they call a “road map” for, you see, moving forward.

NEWS | 10/10/2013

Obama administration nominates Stengel ’77 for under secretary role at State Department

Jacqueline Gufford

As a result of the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, the confirmation process for Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel ’77, who was nominated by President Obama on Sept.

NEWS | 10/10/2013

Q&A: Washington Post reporter and Wonkblog editor Ezra Klein

Loully Saney

After reports of gunshots at Nassau Hall prompted attendees of Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein’s lecture to evacuate to the Whig-Clio Senate Chamber, Klein spoke to The Daily Princetonian in the crowded basement about his passion for blogging, views of American politics and obsession with charts. The Daily Princetonian:What sparked your interest in journalism? Ezra Klein:I got in through kind of a backdoor.

NEWS | 10/09/2013

Singer criticizes “speciesism” at animal rights panel

Singer criticizes “speciesism” at animal rights panel

Ruby Shao

“It's not species that makes a difference,” bioethics professor Peter Singer said in a three-person panel on animal rights on Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/09/2013

Klein tells audience “why Washington is horrible”

Loully Saney

Award-winning Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein spoke on increasing polarization in Congress and ways to fix systemic problems within the government in a lecture titled “Why Washington is Horrible (In Charts)” Tuesday night.“Americans agree.

NEWS | 10/08/2013

Vargas Llosa claims Latin America is a step closer to democracy and equality

Charles Kyungchan Min

Latin America is improving and undergoing transformative democratization, Mario Vargas Llosa, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said in a conversation Tuesday with visiting lecturer in the Program in Latin American Studies Enrique Krauze Kleinbort.

NEWS | 10/08/2013

Q&A: Maen Rashid Areikat, PLO chief representative to the United States

Jacob Donnelly

Before his lecture at the Wilson School, titled “Twenty Years After Oslo: Lessons Learned and Future Options?”, Maen Rashid Areikat, the chief representative of the delegation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his work and the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Palestine facilitated by the United States.

NEWS | 10/08/2013

PLO representative Areikat: Palestine must stop concessions to Israel

Jacob Donnelly

While Palestine continues to engage Israel in negotiations for an independent state, the nation cannot make any more territorial concessions, Maen Rashid Areikat, chief representative of the delegation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, said in a Monday evening lecture titled, “Twenty Years After Oslo: Lessons Learned and Future Options?” “When we call for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as its capital, we are accepting a Palestinian state of 22 percent of what used to be historic Palestine," Areikat said before a packed Dodds Auditorium.

NEWS | 10/07/2013

Federal funding for U. research grinds to halt after government shutdown

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

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.The shutdown was immediately felt at the Office of the Dean for Research, where the system for submitting and reviewing proposals for federal funding has effectively ground to a halt, Dean for Research Pablo Debenedetti said.

NEWS | 10/03/2013

Senate candidate Booker runs, buys ice cream for Princeton voters

Senate candidate Booker runs, buys ice cream for Princeton voters

Hannah Schoen

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj9uqJD1Nuo] In the midst of a crowd of 50 students who were moving fast enough to breeze by pedestrians — but not so fast that they missed a word that he said — jogged Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark and candidate for U.S.

NEWS | 10/03/2013

Student health plan not affected by Affordable Care Act

Daniel Johnson

While the federal government remained shut down Wednesdayafter Congress failed to agree on the terms of a continuing resolution, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Health Exchanges are just opening for business and leaving their marks within the Orange Bubble.

NEWS | 10/02/2013

Q&A: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt on government shutdown

Q&A: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt on government shutdown

Hannah Schoen

After the federal government shut down at midnight on Tuesday, The Daily Princetonian spoke to U.S.

NEWS | 10/02/2013

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