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Eating club assets rise despite recession

Eating club assets rise despite recession

The assets of the 11 eating clubs jumped by nearly $15 million over the course of the recession, according to the most recent tax returns filed by the clubs. This substantial increase in combined club assets may reflect the recent slew of capital campaigns undertaken by some of the clubs on the Street.

NEWS | 12/05/2012

State investigates Princeton High School attendance records

With their alma mater under investigation, some Princeton High School graduates said the practice of adjusting attendance records for students in danger of not graduating is frequent at the high school.

NEWS | 12/05/2012

U. organizes conference for LGBT alumni in April

The University will host its first-ever conference for LGBT alumni this April. The event comes at the heels of the “She Roars” conference held for women alumni in spring 2011 and a gathering for black alumni held in 2009.

NEWS | 12/05/2012

Tam ’13, Stouffer ’13 win Sachs Scholarships

Stephanie Tam ’13 and Kaitlin Stouffer ’13 won this year’s two Sachs Scholarships, the University will announce today. Tam received the Sachs Scholarship at Worcester College, University of Oxford and will study there next year, and Stouffer received the Sachs Global Scholarship and will spend next year working in South Africa.

NEWS | 12/04/2012

News & Notes: Committee suggests Yale should offer online courses

A Yale committee has recommended the school offer online courses to students and community members in the future, continuing the trend of colleges and universities looking to online education to enhance their course offerings.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

Over past year, TTF worked to unify two governments

The Transition Task Force published a draft of its final report on Monday as the process of preparing Princeton Borough and Princeton Township to merge on Jan. 1, 2013, approaches its last stages.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

Adelman hosts precept via Coursera integrating Princeton, abroad students

History professor Jeremy Adelman and seven Princeton students participated in their first global precept with six Coursera students from around the world for HIS 201: A History of the World since 1300 on Tuesday morning.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

At storm's peak, a rescue effort impeded

It was the height of Hurricane Sandy, and much of Princeton lay in pitch darkness, countless roads were closed and even the town's emergency operations center — created to manage the crisis response — lost power for a time. Click here for an interactive graphic — pairing police dispatch recordings and maps of Princeton — detailing the attempt to reach the house of William Sword '76.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

Wilson School group finishes up consolidation report

For the past 12 months, Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have been attempting to combine two governments into one, a process that, though complicated and occasionally contentious, has provided a local case study to a group of Wilson School graduate students studying municipal governance.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

News & Notes: Terrace, Quad, Cloister and Charter elect leadership

Each sign-in eating club on the Street except Colonial Club has elected its leadership for the next year. Neal Donnelly ’14 will serve as president of Terrace Club, Branden Lewiston ’14 of Quadrangle Club, Paul Popescu ’14 of Cloister Inn and Sam Halpern ’14 of Charter Club. Colonial will choose its officers in January.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Office of Religious Life quietly expands international humanitarian efforts

Dean of Religious Life Rev. Alison Boden will speak at a meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges in Geneva next week, discussing how the UN can work with faith-based organizations without sacrificing its secular nature. The speaking engagement reflects the Office of Religious Life’s broader reorientation toward international humanitarian efforts since Boden’s appointment in 2007.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Teacher Prep program to offer new urban-related certification track

This coming spring, the Program in Teacher Preparation will implement a new certificate track called "Urban Concentration," which focuses on issues in urban education. Students pursuing a certificate in teacher prep will be able to choose this subject for specialized study.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

1 month until consolidation, TTF hears feedback from public

The Transition Task Force — the body tasked with facilitating the January consolidation between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township — unveiled the final draft of its report at a town hall-style meeting held to discuss the process with local residents on Monday night.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

News & Notes: 245 apply for RCA positions

The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students received applications from 245 sophomores and juniors interested in becoming Residential College Advisers next year, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Student shipping agency in Frist closes its door

The Shipping and Packing Agency in Frist Campus Center has been closed permanently due to a lack of sales, according to Aaron Hoffman, assistant to the director of Student Agencies in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Slaughter ’80 reflects on her article in The Atlantic on balancing work and family

Anna Mazarakis

University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 spoke about her reasons for writing the highly controversial article in The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," and the responses the article received at a public lecture at the Wilson School on Monday. The article discussed the struggle Slaughter believes all women face to maintain their professional and family lives. Slaughter wrote about her decision to leave her position as the first woman to serve as the director of policy planning for the State Department in order to spend more time with her family.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

USG debates 'invisible primaries' that lead to unopposed elections

The USG discussed the high number of unopposed races in the recent elections at the Senate meeting last night. Senior USG members had previously suggested that the prevalence of unopposed races indicated the USG’s failure to adequately publicize the elections.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Kuhn ’13, Pasricha ’13 win Princeton Pitch; team of three freshmen wins social entrepreneurship category

The developers of "11th Hour Tutors," an online service that would pair students in need of immediate problem set assistance with graduate students capable of helping them, won $1,000 Friday night at the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s annual Princeton Pitch event.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

News & Notes: After Harvard cheating scandal, Yale discourages take-home exams

Following the news that 125 Harvard students unfairly collaborated on a take-home exam, Yale College Dean Mary Miller '75 recommended to Yale faculty that they not distribute take-home exams during this semester’s finals period, according to the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Watching from the skies of Princeton

When Ted Price ’10 was flying back from a trip to the Hamptons to attend Reunions in June 2010, just before his graduation, he encountered a huge storm.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

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