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In latest Annual Giving campaign, undergraduate alumni account for 80 percent of donations

In latest Annual Giving campaign, undergraduate alumni account for 80 percent of donations

James Evans

The University’s last Annual Giving campaign raised $57,019,138,the second-highest total in the program’s history in nominal terms,just short of the $57,246,302 mark set the previous year.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

News & Notes: Prosecutor’s Office downgrades drug possession charge in ecstasy case

News & Notes: Prosecutor’s Office downgrades drug possession charge in ecstasy case

Marcelo Rochabrun

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the case of the freshman charged with drug possession back to the Princeton Municipal Court, Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday.The Prosecutor's Office downgraded the charge againstJoseph Gauvreau '17 frompossession of controlled dangerous substances — the initial charge made by theUniversity’s Department of Public Safetyearlier this monthafter searching the student's Holder Hall room — to failure to dispose of CDS.The new charge is considered a disorderly persons offense under New Jersey law.The Municipal Court had originally elevated the case to the Prosecutor’s Office because of the nature of DPS's initial charges.DeBlasio also released a copy of the complaint against Gauvreau that indicates he was allegedly found with "Molly," a name for ecstasy usually found in powder or crystal form.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

Catholic chaplaincy Aquinas Institute relocates to house on Charlton Street

Catholic chaplaincy Aquinas Institute purchased a house closer to Princeton University to better serve its ministry

Catholic chaplaincy Aquinas Institute relocates to house on Charlton Street

Ella Cheng

The Aquinas Institute, a local Catholic chaplaincy that provides services to Princeton students, relocated to a newly-bought house on 24 Charlton St., north of the Friend Center, on Aug.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

Mass. Gov. Patrick endorses Booker for Senate

Mass. Gov. Patrick endorses Booker for Senate

Lydia Lim

Massachusetts Gov.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

BuzzFeed COO and pres. Jon Steinberg '99 assesses media trends, defends cute animal-stuffed posts

Buzzfeed President and COO Jon Steinberg '99 speaking at Princeton

BuzzFeed COO and pres. Jon Steinberg '99 assesses media trends, defends cute animal-stuffed posts

Monica Chon

“If someone says they don’t like the cute animals on BuzzFeed, you should turn to them and ask if they are a robot,” Jon Steinberg ’99, the president and COO of BuzzFeed, said jokingly during a lecture he delivered on Tuesday night. But it was not just a joke.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

Debate on U.S. intervention in Syria exposes clash of worldviews, audience opposition to military action

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

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.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

News & Notes: Delays, failure to download attachments affect Gmail service

Daily Princetonian Staff

Gmail, the email service offered by Google that also hosts the University's @princeton.edu addresses for students, experienced technical difficulties on Monday. According to thetechnology blog TechCrunch, Google experienced problems with delayed emails and attachments that failed to properly download.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

Locals' challenge to Arts and Transit zoning begins trial

Patience Haggin

A lawsuit challenging the legality of the zoning granted to allow the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood went to trial in the Superior Court of Mercer County on Monday. The suit, brought by a group of local residents led by Walter and Anne Neumann, challenges the zoning ordinances granted by the former Princeton Borough and the Princeton Township to allow for the construction of the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

Moving and Storage Agency stores double last summer's items, has not yet received any lost item claims

Seth Merkin Morokoff

When Gabe Banevicius ’15 and his roommates returned to their new quad on campus at the beginning of the semester, they found a refrigerator and a mattress that didn’t belong to them.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

News & Notes: Ted Cruz '92 profiled as a "wacko bird" in GQ

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University was an alien environment for Texas Senator (R) Ted Cruz ’92 when he first stepped on campus, according to aprofile of Cruz in the October issue of GQ. "I did not know anybody there; I didn't know anybody who had gone there," he told the magazine.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

Intentional effort to remove Dinky canopy went awry, contractor says; council calls for full investigation

Patience Haggin

The collapse of the old Dinky station’s overhead canopy on Thursday was the result of an intentional effort to remove the awning, a spokesman for the University’s contractor working on the project, Turner Construction Company, said Monday.

NEWS | 09/23/2013

In installation, Eisgruber argues liberal arts education is worth the cost

Teddy Schleifer

As Kathryn Hall ’80 stepped forward to deliver the opening remarks for the installation of Christopher Eisgruber ’83, the man of the hour grabbed her arm and pointed at a chair. Should he remain standing as she spoke or sit in the outsized wooden throne on the Nassau Hall stage, Eisgruber seemed to ask, as 1,200 audience members laughed. Hall, the chair of the Board of Trustees, motioned for him to sit.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

One year after freshman Greek ban, Class of 2016 recruits "more self-selective" and rush-savvy

Elizabeth Paul

The Class of 2016 will get its first chance to rush fraternities and sororities next month, as the first class to do so under the administration’s ban on freshman participation in Greek activities. Presidents of Greek organizations say the ban has had a noticeable impact on this year’s class of pledges, increasing students’ interest in Greek life and attracting a more dedicated rush-savvy class of recruits.Sorority recruitment will begin on Monday, Sept.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

News & Notes: Colleges may continue to pay international recruiters on commission, but under new guidelines

Daily Princetonian Staff

The National Association for College Admission Counseling approved a new set of guidelines under which U.S.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

As part of expanding neuroscience program, new complex to open next semester

Greta Shum

Construction of the University’s new neuroscience and psychology complex, Peretsman-Scully Hall, is slated to be completed by Nov.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

Bagneris ’15 voted to replace Davoudiasl as Class of 2015 senator

Anna Mazarakis

The USG voted unanimously to appoint Mariana Bagneris ’15 as the new Class of 2015 senator at the first meeting of the year Sunday evening.Bagneris will fill the Class of 2015 senate seat that was vacated by Deana Davoudiasl, who stepped down from the position in order to take the semester off. After USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 sent an email to the Class of 2015 last Monday advertising the opening, nine students applied for the position, he said.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

News & Notes: Sikh Columbia professor attacked in possible hate crime

Daily Princetonian Staff

Columbia University professor Prabhjot Singh was assaulted Saturday night, Reuters reported. The New York Police Department is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, The Huffington Post reported. Singh, a Sikh, has a beard and wears a turban.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

News & Notes: Harvard launches $6.5 billion fundraising campaign

Daily Princetonian Staff

Harvard announced on Saturday its first major fundraising campaign in over a decade. With a $6.5 billion target,the push is believed to be the largest campaign ever by a university, according toReuters. According to the university, roughly 45 percent of the funds will go toward teaching and research, a quarter will be allotted to financial aid and student life, 20 percent to building projects and 10 percent to flexible funding.

NEWS | 09/22/2013

Mass. governor Deval Patrick to speak at Whig-Clio

Daily Princetonian Staff

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick will speak at the American Whig-Cliosophic Society at12 p.m.

NEWS | 09/20/2013

Wilson School adds nine research seminars among host of changes to curriculum

Angela Wang

After switching to a nonselective admission process last year, the Woodrow Wilson School admitted a record 163 students from the Class of 2015 and has introduced a number of changes to the school’s curriculum, among them the addition of nine new skills-based research seminars that will replace one of the two previously mandatory task forces. Previously, all juniors in the Wilson School were required to participate in a policy task force each semester and wrote their junior papers in tandem with the task force.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

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