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European Union head pushes integration

European Union head pushes integration

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called for further integration of Europe’s economy and described the European Union as the world’s “indispensable partner” in a talk at the Wilson School on Thursday afternoon.Barroso was appointed president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, in 2004 and was reelected in 2009. Before his tenure at the Commission, Barroso served as Portugal’s prime minister from 2002 to 2004.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

On medical school entrance exam, students get early start to stay ahead

Emily Tseng

Amy Li ’14 had two summer jobs, but her work did not end when she went home for the day. She spent half of her summer at a clinical internship in Alabama and the other half on campus doing molecular biology research.Li was also registered to take the Medical College Admissions Test in September, so she spent her nights self-studying biology, chemistry, biochemistry and anatomy.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

Tilghman sought to close gender gaps

Shirley Tilghman might have been the University’s first female president, but she was also the University’s most vocally feminist president, directing much of her administrative agenda to tearing down glass ceilings that impeded women both inside and outside Nassau Hall.When Tilghman retires this June, she will leave behind an ongoing campus conversation about gender at Princeton, a discussion that was built and promoted by Tilghman’s social activism. While Tilghman’s gender certainly helped define her setting priorities as president, feminist leaders on campus were quick to note that gender issues were not the sole focus of her presidency.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

After 3 years, neuroscience building construction to be completed next fall

All of the structural components of the new neuroscience and psychology complex have been completed and the two buildings will be fully operational next fall, according to program manager in the University’s Office of Design and Construction Mark Wilson.The construction company Barr & Barr — the same firm that worked on Lewis Library and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, among other buildings — broke ground on the new site in 2010, and the construction is expected to be fully complete by spring 2013.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

U. leadership talks politics

The week after she announced her retirement, University President Shirley Tilghman discussed the perceived amount of political apathy on campus at a panel discussion on Thursday afternoon, saying the campus is alive with hidden activism that may not resemble the student activism of her generation.Tilghman was joined on the panel by University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69, history professor Sean Wilentz and politics Ph.D. candidate Daniel Mark ’03.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

Presidential search committee to convene in October

The committee to find a replacement for retiring University President Shirley Tilghman hopes to present a final recommendation to the University Board of Trustees by late March or early April, according to the USG. The committee will consist of two student representatives from the Class of 2013.

NEWS | 09/27/2012

As Tilghman plans departure, an African American studies department gives thanks

In the fall of 2005, Tilghman appointed a committee of eight faculty members led by philosophy professor K. Anthony Appiah to deliberate over the future of African American studies at Princeton.

NEWS | 09/26/2012

News & Notes: Artist Ai elaborates on travel restrictions

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who designed the sculptures currently on exhibit outside Robertson Hall, expressed frustration at the Chinese government’s continued hold on his passport that is preventing him from visiting Princeton next month in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian early Wednesday morning.The renowned sculptor and sharp critic of the Chinese government said in the interview, partially conducted in Chinese, that nobody has told him why his passport is held, who made the decision to hold his passport or who currently has it.

NEWS | 09/26/2012

A Petraeus GS '87 presidency?

David Petraeus GS ’87, the director of the CIA who earned his Ph.D. from the Wilson School 25 years ago, harbors a serious interest in one day serving as University president, according to multiple people familiar with Petraeus’ thinking, potentially placing him as a leading outside candidate to replace retiring University President Shirley Tilghman.Petraeus, who has been an active University alumnus and who returned to campus as recently as this past spring, has publicly voiced interest in the Princeton presidency in the past, but seemingly as a joke used to deflect questions regarding his interest in the presidency of the United States. But sources close with Petraeus, who declined to comment at length for this article, indicate that his interest in University leadership is very real and that he is actively considering leading Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 09/26/2012

Wang's statistics blog forecasts 2012 election

As the University enjoys its last year under the current president, the rest of the country is preparing to elect its next one. This coming election season, a subset of the University community will do more than cast its vote and wait expectantly — these students will be actively documenting and predicting the outcome on a day-by-day basis, up until the very night the results are in.Since the 2004 presidential election, the Princeton Election Consortium, a blog run by molecular biology and neuroscience professor Sam Wang, has given political junkies a place to visualize and interpret massive amounts of polling data under one streamlined, statistically consistent roof.

NEWS | 09/26/2012

With Tilghman retirement, search committee begins

Following the announcement Saturday afternoon that University President Shirley Tilghman would retire from her post effective this June, the University has begun the process of assembling a search committee to find her successor.

NEWS | 09/25/2012

U-Store employee accused of engaging in prostitution after hours

A U-Store employee was charged by the Borough Police this week for allegedly engaging in prostitution in the store after it closed.Eric Everett, 23, of Chesterfield, N.J., had worked at the U-Store for three years and held a nighttime manager position at the 36 University Place location. U-Store President Jim Sykes discovered him allegedly stealing food items from the store accompanied by Brittany Smith, 20, of Keyport, N.J.

NEWS | 09/25/2012

Twitter founder Dorsey pitches entrepreneurship

Twitter co-founder and billionaire Jack Dorsey urged students to pursue entrepreneurship and “see ideas spread around the world,” as part of a Tuesday presentation sponsored by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club.“The future is in this room. It’s in your head, and your job is to distribute it around the world,” he said to students.

NEWS | 09/25/2012

3 terms, 3 Lawnparties

After what will likely be his last Lawnparties as USG social chair, Benedict Wagstaff ’14 said there is still a lot more he hopes to accomplish and will continue to work on until the next election.Wagstaff is not planning on running for social chair again after his term ends in December, although he jokes that he may change his mind as elections draw closer.

NEWS | 09/25/2012

DREAM Team grows from small to big, enters immigration policy debate

When Yessica Martinez ’15 saw how many people had abandoned the DREAM Team, a student organization that intends to empower undocumented immigrants and inform debate about immigration reform, she decided to revive it.The DREAM Team got its name from the DREAM Act, a piece of legislation that would have created a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who attend college or join the armed forces.

NEWS | 09/25/2012

Student charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly taking "sexually explicit" photos

The Borough Police have charged Richard Tuckwell ’15 with one count of invasion of privacy after he allegedly took sexually explicit photographs of another student in a room in 1939 Hall during Lawnparties.

NEWS | 09/24/2012

News & Notes: Society files suit to prevent battlefield construction

Six months after the Regional Planning Board granted permission to the Institute for Advanced Study to build a faculty housing development on contested property, the Princeton Battlefield Society, a local preservationist group, is filing another lawsuit to prevent the construction. The Battlefield Society stated that it believes the land is where the Battle of Princeton was fought in 1777.

NEWS | 09/24/2012

The Theory behind the Big Bang

Before each episode of "The Big Bang Theory" is filmed, David Saltzberg '89 receives a draft of the script. The script is incomplete, with the words "science to come" in brackets at many points throughout the draft. That's where Saltzberg comes in.

NEWS | 09/24/2012

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei's planned visit to Princeton in jeopardy

Chinese political critic and sculptor Ai Weiwei, who designed the sculptures outside Robertson Hall and plans to speak at the University next month, may be unable to leave his country because Chinese authorities are still holding his passport, the artist told The New York Times on Tuesday. On Tuesday night the University said it does not plan to intervene in the case.

NEWS | 09/24/2012

From the Editor: How we covered Tilghman's retirement

Saturday's unexpected news that Shirley Tilghman will be retiring from the University presidency sent The Daily Princetonian into overdrive.

NEWS | 09/24/2012

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