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Mullen to teach WWS seminar in fall

Mullen to teach WWS seminar in fall

The former highest-ranking official in the American Armed Forces, Admiral Mike Mullen, will join the Wilson School faculty next semester. Mullen, who served 43 years in the United States Navy and rose to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will teach WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy, an undergraduate seminar which will be offered next fall.Upon his retirement last September, Mullen was presented with many potential jobs, Stephen Kotkin, vice dean of the Wilson School, said in an email. But Kotkin said the Wilson School recruited Mullen “vigorously” and secured him as the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

News & Notes: Injured woman sues U-Haul and Yale student

A woman who was injured in a U-Haul truck accident during the annual Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven, Conn., in November is suing both the U-Haul Company of Connecticut and Yale junior Brendan Ross, who was driving the truck. The incident injured two women and killed another.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

A career in calculus review sessions

Few students are eager to attend a three-hour 7:30 p.m. review session, but every Tuesday evening this semester, a group of around 30 students assemble in Fine 214 completely of their volition. Few classrooms are so packed well before the arrival of the instructor. Then again, few lecturers are like Adrian Banner GS ’02, whose entrance brings a hush over the chatty room.This is one of Banner’s typical weekly review meetings for MAT 103: Calculus I and MAT 104: Calculus II. He has been conducting these reviews since late 1999 when he was a third-year graduate student, and since then their popularity has spread, making Banner’s name well-recognized among students across different academic disciplines.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

Former CEO criticizes Princeton Review

The Princeton Review, the test-preparation company whose services have been used by students across the country, has announced its decision to sell the assets of its Higher Education Readiness Division. In an official press release dated March 27, the Princeton Review — which is not affiliated with the University — announced its entrance into a “definitive agreement” to sell the assets to Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, for $33 million. The decision comes after several years of declining stock prices. The company’s founder and former CEO, John Katzman ’81, said in an email that the corporate decisions since his departure were “definitely ... a move for the worse,” and added that the sale was a good decision. “Anything that takes the company out of the hands of Bain Capital is a good thing,” he said. Katzman left the company in 2007.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

News & Notes: Study finds TX top-10 rule hurts Hispanics

A study conducted by professor of sociology and public affairs Marta Tienda and associate professor of sociology and African American studies Angel Harris concluded that admission policies in Texas universities mandated by state law are hurting Hispanic applicants.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Va. teen wins race relations prize

The first white student to lead his high school’s Black Student Union has been awarded the 2012 Washington, D.C., Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The regional award is given by a volunteer alumni committee in Washington, D.C. to recognize high school students’ efforts to improve race relations and increase diversity.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Butler-Wilson serves 3 times more diners than Forbes

Long lines are a common feature of the Butler-Wilson dining hall at dinnertime. Over the past year, Butler-Wilson has received the most card swipes, on average, for both breakfast and dinner, while Rockefeller-Mathey gets the most students for lunch.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Culture shock for Rogers ’95

When congressional candidate Hayden Rogers ’95 moved into campus in the fall of 1988 after a childhood spent in the mountains of North Carolina, it was instantly clear that he was a little out of place.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Public library to change legal status

As the Borough-Township consolidation moves forward, the Princeton Public Library will be changing its legal status. Now one of only six joint municipal libraries in New Jersey — meaning it serves two or more municipalities — following the January 2013 consolidation the library has decided to lose the “joint” in its title.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Sexpert: April 12, 2012

This week, she discusses forgetfulness.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

U.’s highest salaries lower than peers’

A review of University tax filings shows that Princeton’s highest-paid officials and professors receive comparatively lower salaries than their counterparts at some peer institutions.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

News & Notes: Joshua Katz selected one of best 300 professors

Classics professor Joshua Katz was included in “The Best 300 Professors,” a book published by the Princeton Review last week, the only Princeton University professor named in the rankings.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

Will GS ’68 discusses election

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and University Board of Trustees member George Will GS ’68 argued in a lecture Tuesday afternoon that the clash between liberals and conservatives was actually a difference in ideological focus between equality and freedom.Prefacing his lecture with a disclaimer that he was not going to make any predictions about the winner of the 2012 general election, Will lectured on the policy issues that will divide Republicans and Democrats in the election season.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

Taleb lectures on market fragility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the writer of the highly acclaimed book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” talked about the fragility of systems, notably the U.S. financial system, on Tuesday night.Taleb, who spent 20 years as an options trader on Wall Street, wrote “The Black Swan” in 2007 about the huge influence of rare and unpredictable events and the human tendency to offer simplistic explanations for the events afterwards. This is, in hindsight, a possible explanation for the 2008 financial crisis.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

News & Notes: Multiple vandalism incidents on Frist elevator

Several incidents of graffiti — including one involving a racial slur — have been found in an elevator at Frist Campus Center over the past month, according to the Department of Public Safety.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

Borough and Township councils approve budget

Members of the Princeton Borough and Township Councils, in addition to the Transition Task Force for the Consolidation of Princeton Borough and Township, approved Tuesday night a $140,000 consolidation budget to cover the costs of the January merger.The TTF also heard a brief public presentation, received reports from various subcommittees and reviewed its policy on potential conflicts of interest.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

TigerDeals sees large turnout in first event

The inception of TigerDeals, a student discount program created by the USG’s Campus and Community Affairs Committee, sparked an unprecedented response of 400 University ID card-wielding students at Fruity Yogurt on Monday.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

In U. groups, faces reemerge

Last October, the University announced the six undergraduates who would join two professors and three deans on the Freshmen Rush Policy Implementation Committee. University officials said at the time they specifically selected members of Greek organizations in order to ensure a diversity of opinion at the decision-making table.The selection of these students highlights the politics of picking the policymakers that sit on University committees, task forces and working groups.

NEWS | 04/10/2012

Updated: News & Notes: Chemistry graduate student charged with aggravated assault

Daily Princetonian Staff

Chemistry graduate student Steven Wulfsberg GS was arrested at 2:33 a.m. at the University Medical Center at Princeton on Saturday for allegedly committing aggravated assault, according to the Borough police.

NEWS | 04/09/2012

Case named interim dean

Economics and Wilson School professor Anne Case GS ’88 will succeed Christina Paxson as the acting dean of the Wilson School, effective July 1, President Shirley Tilghman announced Monday.

NEWS | 04/09/2012

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