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University contracts Isaacson, Miller to search for Burstein’s successor

University contracts Isaacson, Miller to search for Burstein’s successor

James Evans

The University continues to search for its next executive vice president, following the departure of former Executive Vice President Mark Burstein at the end of the last academic year. Burstein was named the President of Lawrence University in December 2012 and assumed the post on July 1.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

News & Notes: Daily Meal names U. one of 60 Best Colleges for Food in America

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University was named number 19 on the Daily Meal's list of 60 Best Colleges for Food in America. Bowdoin College took the top spot, followed by Washington University in St.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

Undergraduate charged with drug possession had ecstasy, Prosecutor’s Office says

Marcelo Rochabrun

The undergraduate student charged this month with possession of illegal drugs by the University’s Department of Public Safety was found to have ecstasy, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday. University officials did not publicly disclose the type of drug after the Sept.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

News & Notes: Dismantling of former Princeton Hospital to begin next month

Catherine Ku

Developer AvalonBay will begin to dismantle the former Princeton Hospital next month when it starts removing underground fuel tanks, the Princeton Packet reported. Following a Sept.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

Dinky station canopy collapses onto track bed

Patience Haggin

The Dinky train station’s overhead canopy collapsed and fell onto the track bed at around 4:25 p.m.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

No-P/D/F policy rescinded for COS 126, remains for COS 217, 226

Elizabeth Paul

Following the adoption of a no-pass/D/fail policy for COS 126, 217 and 226 last spring, the computer science department has now reinstated the P/D/F option for COS 126: General Computer Science. In May, a couple months after the policy was announced, Dean of the College Valerie Smith and Dean of the Faculty David Dobkinapproached Andrew Appel '81, computer science department chair, and requested that the department reconsider its implementation of a no-P/D/F policy for COS 126, Appel said. Smith and Dobkin “requested that we reconsider and offered to help in various resource constraints we were running up against,” Appel explained. William O.

NEWS | 09/19/2013

RCAs use new U.-issued credit cards for easy reimbursements

Daniel Johnson

In addition to their yearly training before students arrive on campus in the fall, the University’s residential college advisers learned they would be participating in another University program this year — a credit card initiative.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

"People who blew Princeton" exchange stories in anonymous support group

Anna Mazarakis

“After having severe depression my freshman year that resulted in failing a class, I am so scared to go back to school.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

N&N: Slaughter '80, Schmidt '76, Steinberg '99: universities are slow, old-fashioned

Daily Princetonian Staff

Three highly-placed University alumni spoke openly against the conventional college education system in a public discussion hosted by the New America Foundation.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

News & Notes: Historic Palmer Square post office building placed on sale

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Palmer Square location of the Princeton Post Office has been placed on sale, a year after the United States Postal Service first announced plans to sell the historic building. The Postal Service has occupied the 11,500-square-foot building since 1934.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

News & Notes: Princeton joins Say Yes to Education initiative for low-income students

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

Princeton and 10 other universities have joined the Say Yes to Education program, an initiative that provides high school students with a full ride to college, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

Town council develops resolution to clarify local police non-involvement in federal immigration enforcement

Warren Crandall

A Princeton town council subcommittee is in the process of developing a plan that would clarify local law enforcement’s role — or lack thereof — in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Heather Howard, the Princeton Council’s liaison to the subcommittee developing the resolution, said it would clearly differentiate the role of local police from that of federal immigration officials.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

Crane '17 scales Seven Summits for LGBTQ awareness

Seth Merkin Morokoff

While the start of college is a milestone for most, Cason Crane ’17 had already passed seven others before arriving at Princeton.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

Gellman ’82 discusses interactions with Edward Snowden, NSA disclosures

Gellman ’82 discusses interactions with Edward Snowden, NSA disclosures

Angela Wang

The government has the ability to easily keep track of every citizen’s online activity, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman ’82 said in a lecture at the Wilson School Tuesday.The discussion focused on Gellman’s role in the blockbuster series of stories relating to the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance programs that begun appearing in the Washington Post and in the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper this summer.“There has never been a disclosure of so much information of such high sensitivity,” Gellman said in reference to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked the documents.Gellman is also a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian.Gellman described the backstory of how he became one of three journalists, together with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald and independent documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, with whom Edward Snowden shared highly classified government documents.Gellman said he was first contacted by Poitras, who had begun corresponding anonymously with a source who later revealed himself as Snowden.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

Dorm Room Fund uses undergraduate investors to promote student entrepreneurship

Dorm Room Fund uses undergraduate investors to promote student entrepreneurship

Jean-Carlos Arenas

When FiscalNote, a company founded by Tim Hwang ’14, recently raised $1.4 million in funding, the company's list of backers included Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the venture capital firm New Enterprises Associates.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

Q&A: Alan Krueger on tenure at Council of Economic Advisers

James Evans

Economics professor Alan Krueger served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from November 2011 until August 2013 after being appointed by President Obama.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

News & Notes: Dining Services offers new flexible 30-block meal plan for upperclassmen

Daily Princetonian Staff

Upperclassmen will now have the option to convert their two extra weekly dining hall meals into a flexible 30-block meal plan for $200 a semester, Dining Services announced in an email to a selection of upperclassmen Tuesday morning. Under the original upperclass plan, upperclassmen were allowed two dining hall meals per week, and unused mealsexpired each Saturday after dinner.The flexible 30-block meal plan will allow upperclassmen to use their existing weekly two extra dining hall meals at any time in the semester, for a total of 30 swipes. In addition, flexible meals can be used for eating club meal exchanges, theme dinners, outdoor events like barbecues and other special meals.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

Updated: Vacated USG junior class senator seat to be filled by application

Anna Mazarakis

Members of the Class of 2015 can now apply to be a USG class senator, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announcedMondaynight in an email to the junior class. The appointed junior will fill the seat vacated by Deana Davoudiasl ’15, who stepped down from the position in order to take a semester off, Jackson said in an interview. The new senator will be appointed, rather than elected, in accordance with Section F of theUSG Constitution. The USG president and the class president will nominate the replacement, who then must be approved by the Senate. Davoudiasl was halfway through her second term as Class of 2015 senator.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

Duneier, early Coursera proponent, departs platform amid national debate on role of massive online education

Regina Wang

Less than a year and a half after the the University first began offering online courses through the massive online education platform Coursera, one of its first and most popular courses will be discontinued.Sociology professor Mitchell Duneier was an early champion of Cousera.

NEWS | 09/16/2013

Saitta ’14 discovers new way to distinguish dinosaur sexes

Saitta ’14 discovers new way to distinguish dinosaur sexes

Elizabeth Paul

Evan Saitta ’14 discovered a new way to distinguish between male and female stegosauruses while completing his senior thesis research in central Montana this summer.

NEWS | 09/16/2013

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