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U. advertises for new Executive Director of Career Services

The Daily Princetonian

U. advertises for new Executive Director of Career Services

Ella Cheng

The University has advertised for a new Executive Director of the Office of Career Services to“augment the existing strengths of Princeton's current Career Services leadership," according to a posting on the University's jobs website.The job will be a "new senior position" which reports directly to the Vice President for Campus Life and will work with other senior administrators and alumni leaders,according to the announcement posted on the database of open positions.Beverly Hamilton-Chandler is currently the Director of Career Services, the most senior position at the agency presently.

NEWS | 10/16/2013

News & Notes: U. to test emergency notification system

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: U. to test emergency notification system

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University will test the Princeton Telephone and Email Notification System and the blue-light tower emergency broadcasting system this Friday. The announcement, which was sent to all undergraduates on Monday, comes a week after a report of gunshots in Nassau Hall prompted a major police response and an order to clear the area around the building.

NEWS | 10/15/2013

Seminar explores U.'s little-known connection to slavery

The Daily Princetonian

Seminar explores U.'s little-known connection to slavery

Catherine Duazo

Under the guidance of three instructors, five undergraduate students in HIS 402: Princeton and Slavery are working closely with historical documents in Mudd Library to attempt to understand how slavery influenced the early development of the University. Following the 2003 appointment of theSteering Committee on Slavery and Justiceat Brown by president Ruth Simmons, Princeton is among a number of other universities that are now researching how slavery shaped their own educational institutions. History professor Martha Sandweiss teaches the class alongside University archivist Daniel Linke and postdoctoral fellow Craig Hollander.

NEWS | 10/15/2013
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Princeton branch of falafel restaurant Mamoun's in permit process, may open in January

The Daily Princetonian

Princeton branch of falafel restaurant Mamoun's in permit process, may open in January

Emily Tseng

New York-based falafel restaurant Mamoun’s may open its Princeton location in January, owner Hussam Chater said Tuesday. Chater, who now oversees all aspects of his father Mamoun's business with his brothers Kinan, Galal and Nedal, had previously estimated a fall 2013 opening date for the newest branch of his family’s restaurant chain.

NEWS | 10/15/2013

Former U. President Bowen GS ’58 argues online education is “here to stay”

William Bowen lectures on the future of online education and MOOCs

Former U. President Bowen GS ’58 argues online education is “here to stay”

Evan Draim

Former University President William G. Bowen GS ’58argued that “online education is here to stay”in a lecture in McCosh 50 on Monday night,saying that universities must work to find solutions to the challenges posed by technological advances. The national discourse surrounding the growing prevalence of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, has become increasingly relevant to the University in recent years, where several professors have adopted Coursera, a massive online education platform that allows professors to offer online courses to students off-campus. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, who has indicated his support for a greater role for online education in the past, acknowledged the cost considerations driving the popularity of MOOCs in a May lecture.

NEWS | 10/14/2013

U. debate on threat posed by climate change grows hot

The Daily Princetonian

U. debate on threat posed by climate change grows hot

Greta Shum

The threat posed to humanity by climate change is questionable, University physics professor William Happer GS '64 said in a talk Thursday at the physics department's monthly colloquium. Happer's comments came in response to anannual report on the state of climate changereleased by theUnited Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in September, with whose findings he disagreed.Two weeks earlier, Happer had shared the same views at atalk celebrating Institute for Advanced Study physicist Freeman Dyson’s 90th birthday. Happer’s criticism of the link between greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide contributing to global warming has been a point of contention among the academic community, including his peers at the University. In his Thursday discussion, titled “Why Has Global Warming Paused?”, Happer directly challenged the IPCC report that supported the link between human greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.Contrary to the report, Happer said that increased carbon dioxide emissions would not pose a problem for humanity. Over the past 15 years, temperatures have not risen as high as scientists, including himself, have predicted, Happer pointed out.

NEWS | 10/14/2013

Spilling secrets: Barton Gellman ’82

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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

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