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Eisgruber ’83: Forbes College could be expanded to allow for student body increase

Eisgruber ’83: Forbes College could be expanded to allow for student body increase

Warren Crandall

University President Christopher Eisgruber’83 suggested that the University may consider either building a seventh residential college or expanding Forbes College in order to handle a potential increase of the student body. Eisgruber floated the idea of expanding the student bodyat the lastCouncil of the Princeton University Community on Sept.

NEWS | 10/10/2013

Q&A: Former Egypt foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr

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.

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News & Notes: Hammer and chisel hitting door identified as source of reported gunshot sounds

Marcelo Rochabrun

A hammer and chisel that were used to repair a door have been identified as the likely source of the reported gunshot sounds on Tuesday evening at Nassau Hall, the University said Thursday.The door repair happened around 20 minutes before a female caller told the University’s Department of Public Safetyshe had heard the sound of gunshots inside the building, according to a press release issued Thursday night.

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Egyptian foreign minister urges patience, understanding on part of international community

Elliott Eglash

“Democracy is not an event. Democracy is a process,” Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr said at a lecture on Thursday afternoon.

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Former University professor James Rothman wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Jasmine Wang and Loully Saney

Former University professor James Rothman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday along with Stanford biochemistry professor Thomas Sudhof and University of California, Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman.

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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.

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President Eisgruber '83 discusses details behind grading policy review

Warren Crandall

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 pointedto the near-constant criticism that surrounds grade deflation as well as recent feedback received from alumni asthe strongest indicators that the policy needs review. “If anybody had said to me on the day that I voted for the [grading] policy … that a decade later this would still be a major topic on campus, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Eisgruber said in an interview Wednesday morning. In the most important policy review so far in his presidency, Eisgruber charged a committee of nine faculty members with reevaluating Princeton’s grade deflation policy on Monday.

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$100 million BRAIN initiative frozen by shutdown, but holds potential benefits for neuroscience at U.

Elizabeth Paul

Pending the end of the government shutdown, University neuroscientists may play a crucial role in pioneering new neurotechnologies through President Obama’s recent $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.

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SURGE powers ahead with efforts to raise awareness about fossil fuel divestment

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Students United for a Responsible Global Environment has continued to advocate for the University to divest any holdings in fossil fuel companies. Since first circulating a petition in February, the student environmental group has beencollecting additional signatures, organizing related events and raising awareness among alumni, according to co-president Stephen Moch ’14.

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Following unfounded gunshot reports, Nassau Hall resumes normal operations

Marcelo Rochabrun

Following a two-and-a-half hour shutdown as a result of unfounded reports of gunshots inside Nassau Hall on Tuesday night, the University’s main administrative building resumed normal operations Wednesday morning. The police search that took place, which included local Princeton Police Department officers armed with rifles, did not damage the building or items within it, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Wednesday evening. The initial 7:55 p.m.

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News & Notes: Yellen nominated to succeed Bernanke

Daily Princetonian Staff

Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the University’s economics department, will step down from his role as chairman of the Federal Reserve at the end of January.

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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.

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Whitman College Night to be held less frequently for more 'high-end' experience

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

College Night at Whitman will now take place every three weeks instead of each Tuesday in response to cumulative student feedback, the Whitman College Council announced in an email to Whitman College this week.

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PFA and Legacy merge as single Christian fellowship

Jasmine Wang

Two of the University's most prominent undergraduate Christian organizations, whose membership had been delineated largely along racial lines, merged this fall, following a lengthy discussion over the previous academic year. At Reunions this past May, Princeton Faith and Action, a campus Christian leadership ministry, and Legacy, a mainly African-American Christian fellowship group, co-hosted a number of religious panels, services and meals.

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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.

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Nassau Hall reopens after reports of gunshot fire determined unfounded

Marcelo Rochabrun

Reports of gunshots at Nassau Hall prompted the Princeton Police Department to close the building and search it for two-and-a-half hours Tuesday evening.

NEWS | 10/08/2013

New research on grade deflation’s impact concerns Eisgruber ’83

Teddy Schleifer

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said "lots of concerns" have been raised by a field study released this summer showing graduate schools do not consider an undergraduate program’s grading policy when evaluating applicants. Eisgruber, whocharged a University committeeMondaywith a wide review of the University’s 10-year-old grade deflation policy, mentioned the study in anevent that nightwith New York City alumni.

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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.

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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.

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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

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