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News & Notes: Harris-Perry to host MSNBC show

News & Notes: Harris-Perry to host MSNBC show

Melissa Harris-Perry, a former African American studies professor at the University, will begin a new weekend program on MSNBC.Harris-Perry left the University last February after claiming that ?[her] colleagues did not value [her] intellectual contributions,? as she told The Daily Princetonian at the time.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: 2010 U. graduates leave with second-lowest debt

US News & World Report named the University as having the second-least 2010 graduate debt in the country. The average University student graduated with $4,385 in debt, while the average 2010 graduate nationwide graduated with about $25,000 in debt. The University ranked after only Alice Lloyd College, a small private college in Kentucky, where the average student graduated $3,108 in debt. No other Ivy League school appeared in the “10 Schools with Least 2010 Graduate Debt” rankings.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Industry, departments partner on environment

Michael Granovetter

Through an initiative to strengthen ties between the industrial and academic domains of sustainable energy and environmental technology, the University established the Princeton Energy and Environment Corporate Affiliates Program earlier this semester. PSEG, the parent company of the nation’s largest electric and gas company PSE&G, became the program’s first charter member as of Nov. 30.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Gwen John paintings, worth more than $500,000, discovered

Launa Greer

A collection of watercolor paintings and drawings that had been sitting unidentified for 60 years in the University Library’s Manuscripts Division has been recognized by University of Reading professor Anna Gruetzner Robins as the work of renowned 20th century Welsh artist Gwen John.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Princeton area trails receive federal grant

Three nearby parks and trails were among 49 in New Jersey to receive federal recreation money from the Federal Highway Association, New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Bob Martin announced on Dec. 26.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Bobby Flay to open Burger Palace in MarketFair Mall

Television celebrity chef Bobby Flay will be opening a “Bobby’s Burger Palace” in the Princeton MarketFair Mall later this year. The restaurant will be the 10th in the growing chain of upscale fast food joints, which serve a mixture of hamburgers, fries and shakes.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: 60 apply for four spots on consolidation transition team

The Borough and Township took another step closer to merging the two municipalities, with nearly 60 local residents expressing interest in being part of a team that would facilitate the transition.The Borough received 28 applications last month, while the Township received 31.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

726 offered early admission

Catherine Duazo

The University has offered admission to 726 students out of a pool of 3,443 candidates for the Class of 2016, or 21 percent, through its new single-choice early action program. Decisions for early action admissions were released online Thursday afternoon. These students are expected to make up between 31 and 36 percent of the total number of applicants who will be admitted to the incoming freshman class.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Lewis ’82 to talk at 2012 Baccalaureate address

Ellie Wilkinson

Writer and journalist Michael Lewis ’82 will speak at the Baccalaureate ceremony on June 3, Class of 2012 president Lindy Li announced in an email to seniors on Thursday morning.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Tigertones visit the White House, perform for Obama

Sohee Khim

While most University students scrambled to pull the last assignments of the semester together, members of the Tigertones came back late Wednesday night after singing in the West Wing of the White House for President Barack Obama and his guests.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Web Update: Emergency units respond to attempted steam tunnel descension

Fire and rescue special operations units descended on campus early Friday morning after several students allegedly removed a manhole cover and tried to climb down into a tunnel near Dillon Gymnasium, according to law enforcement and rescue officials.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

New lockout policy decreases help calls

Luc Cohen

The number of lockouts reported to the Department of Public Safety has declined dramatically since the implementation of a new policy that fines students for calling Public Safety to be let back into their rooms after business hours.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

News & Notes: Harvard accepts 18 percent of 4,231 early applicants

Harvard accepted 772 of 4,231, or 18 percent, of early applicants to the Class of 2016, according to an announcement made on Thursday.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Borough considers new zoning district

Patience Haggin

Supporters who advocated against the University’s plan to move the Dinky station southward are looking for other ways to bring public rail transit further into town. Some seek to create a special committee concerned with the University Place corridor in hopes that this would facilitate the far-off possibility of replacing the Dinky with a light-rail system running as far north as Nassau Street.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

News & Notes: Princeton named most selective college in Eastern U.S.

Princeton is the most selective college in the Eastern United States, according to The Business Journals’ On Numbers blog.Harvard University came in second, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and Columbia.

NEWS | 12/14/2011

Newberry ’13 distributes petiton on animal rights, responding to rat treatment

Henry Rome

A psychology concentrator circulated a petition last week calling on the University and other institutions to “increase the standard of treatment of lab animals.” This represents the latest incident of public outcry following allegations that University staffers mistreated primates and rats.

NEWS | 12/14/2011

Keeping Faith: Eric Gregory

Robert George

The following is the final installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.Eric Gregory is a religion professor and a Reformed Protestant. His research includes religious and philosophical ethics.

NEWS | 12/14/2011

Students cite concerns with recent spate of listserv spamming

Caleb Kennedy

The volume of emails sent on the Princeton network can bring an unwelcome distraction: lots of spam. As many students spend hours checking their inboxes, some are beginning to complain about the number of unnecessary emails they are receiving, particularly from residential college listservs.

NEWS | 12/14/2011

Redistricting mulled at meeting

Monica Chon

On Wednesday evening, the Mercer County Board of Elections held its second general public meeting for Princeton residents with the purpose of presenting two possible scenarios for new election districts in the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton.As requested by the University, in the potential election districts map presented to the audience, all the undergraduate and most of the graduate dorms were drawn into one district, with the main campus covered by only two districts.

NEWS | 12/14/2011

Panel discusses perspectives on civil rights

Shreya Nathan

In a public conversation on Tuesday afternoon, senior members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee discussed their experiences with the Civil Rights Movement alongside current efforts to transform economic and racial inequality in present-day America.

NEWS | 12/13/2011

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