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News & Notes: Princeton resident disrupts Durban climate talks

News & Notes: Princeton resident disrupts Durban climate talks

Abigail Borah, a Princeton resident currently a junior at Middlebury College in Vermont, was ejected from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, after her interruption of the U.S. negotiator attending the conference on Thursday.

NEWS | 12/11/2011

Increasing bug infestations go unreported

Anjali Menon

When Wilson College resident Karen Wang ’14 woke up one day and got out of bed, she heard a suspicious crunch beneath her feet. She looked down and saw a cockroach scrambling away with its body half-squashed.

NEWS | 12/11/2011

Music lesson subsidy cut remains after upturn

Buyan Pan

Two years after the Department of Music decided on a cost-cutting measure that would eliminate subsidies for private lessons for University music students, members of Princeton University Sinfonia and other student musicians are still feeling the effects of the reduced funding, despite the recent improvement in University finances.

NEWS | 12/11/2011

Waring ’12 wins Sachs

Sohee Khim

Olivia Waring ’12, a chemistry major with a Chinese language certificate, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2012 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

Decades later, Princeton’s Earle ’83 returns to his home stage

Cerena Chen

Karmonitchni: It means “organic” and “fitting well together” in Russian and represents the harmonic spirit of performance that Hobart Earle ’83 works to coax out of his orchestra.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

Martin discusses career and comedy in packed lecture

Jonathan Dec

Comedian and actor Steve Martin discussed his career and comedy, documenting the rise of his life in stand-up comedy, before a packed McCosh 50 on Thursday night.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

News & Notes: Two reported dead following Virgina Tech campus shooting

Two people were shot and killed on Thursday afternoon at Virginia Tech, bringing back memories of the campus’ 2007 shooting, which left 33 people dead and was the deadliest campus shooting in the nation’s history.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

Occupy movement hits campus

Louise Connelly

Around 20 students staged a protest and walkout at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs recruiting events held on campus Wednesday and Thursday. The demonstrations were part of the Occupy Princeton movement founded this fall in response to the national Occupy Wall Street campaign.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

Res college funding decided by population size, not endowment

Daniel Santoro

Despite the popular perception that newer residential colleges, such as Whitman and Butler College, have larger endowments to fund more expensive student activities, several University representatives explained that the colleges’ budgets are determined by the number of student residents.

NEWS | 12/08/2011

McClellan examines opportunities for improving health care

Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, presented a lecture on Wednesday titled "Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Pathway to Real Reform,” in which he illustrated opportunities for improvement on the issue based on his experiences.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Keeping Faith: Paul Cuff

Robert George

The following is the fifth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Paul Cuff is an electrical engineering professor and practicing Mormon. His work focuses on information theory.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Redistricting begins for consolidated Princeton

Monica Chon

On Wednesday evening, the Mercer County Board of Elections held the first of three public meetings regarding the new election district map for the consolidated Princeton. Open to the public, the meeting was led by the Chairman of the Board Dominic Magnolo.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Women entrepreneurs share experiences

Regina Wang

Women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists discussed their personal experiences and the environment women entrepreneurs face today before a crowd of mostly community members on Wednesday.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

University offers new Urdu program

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

The University is set to expand its South Asian Studies certificate program’s linguistic offerings with a new Urdu language program, which will be offered for the first time next fall.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Spitzer ’81 speaks on current events

Carla Javier

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 discussed issues affecting the U.S. government in a talk on Wednesday moderated by Ferris Professor of Journalism and former Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

15 Princetonians awarded Fulbright

Brendan Toole

Fulbright grants were awarded to nine students from Princeton’s graduating Class of 2011, four graduate students and two other recent alumni. The grants enable them to study or teach abroad for the 2011-12 academic year. All 15 Fulbright scholars are currently in their host countries.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

News & Notes: Sims suggests solutions for Euro crisis

Nobel Prize Winner Christopher Sims has called for a number of measures to help the European economy recover, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Brokaw talks future of U.S.

Caleb Kennedy

Legendary broadcast journalist and author Tom Brokaw presented a lecture titled “The Time of Our Lives” about the American dream and how the United States should focus on service.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

News & Notes: Tilghman ranked 45th for university presidents’ salaries

According to a report released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, University President Shirley Tilghman was paid $910,626 in 2009, ranking 45th of all of the university presidents surveyed for the report.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

Breakout provides positive experiences

Lekha Kanchinadam

Most Princeton students have heard of the Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips organized by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Known on campus as Breakout Trips, the trips take place during fall and spring break, though planning for the trips start months earlier. Many Princeton students noted that, while the trips are good learning experiences, they are also a significant time commitment and are by no means a relaxing way to spend fall break — particularly for trip organizers.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

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