The USG approved funding for a free monthly Zumba event for undergraduates and discussed issues such as improvements to TigerApps, Lawnparties and the Summer Storage Initiative at the USG Senate meeting on Sunday night.
Last Monday, the University formally adopted a new policy of open access for Princeton-produced scholarly publications. This policy will authorize Princeton faculty members to post their published articles on their own websites, an online University repository or other free archives for the general public.
Twenty-four-year-olds aren’t supposed to be able to raise $450,000. Yet Ricky Gill ’09, the Republican candidate for Congress in California’s 9th Congressional District, has done just that as he mounts a threatening campaign against a well-liked third-term incumbent.
Last week, Princeton’s Council for International Teaching and Research announced four new Global Scholars who have been awarded three-year appointments at the University beginning in the years 2011-12 and 2012-13. The four individuals are scholars of different academic disciplines and all are from different parts of the globe.
The campaign team of Jill Jachera, the Republican candidate for the Princeton Borough mayorship, held a meeting at 9 p.m. on Wednesday in Guyot 10. Around 20 University students attended the meeting. A community leader and former lawyer, Jachera is running in what will be the first contested election in 12 years.
The Borough and the Township prepared a memorandum of understanding outlining a plan for a right-of-way easement that, should a new transit system ever replace the Dinky, would allow for a potential light rail system running all the way to Nassau Street.
Candidates for this November’s Borough Council election discussed consolidation and town-gown relations at a public debate on Tuesday evening. Most of the candidates opposed the University’s plan to move the Dinky station and supported requests that the University increase its annual contribution to the Borough.
The College Board announced earlier this month that more students in the high school class of 2011 took the SAT than in any previous class, though scores reached their lowest levels in decades.
Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, discussed the importance of innovation and the formation of an education system to favor innovation in a speech and dialogue with computer science professor Jaswinder Singh.
In an unusual take on the typical campus book talk, professors, students and community members gathered for a reading of LGBT-themed children’s books on Tuesday night in recognition of Banned Book Week.
On Tuesday night in McCosh 28, the College Republicans hosted a lecture by Richard Bagger ’82, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s chief of staff. Bagger began by examining the changes in the political climate of the United States since his time as an undergraduate before moving on to discuss the current problems confronting New Jersey as well as the nation at large.
34 student members of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad and the 11 members of the Princeton Student Firefighter Association regularly break routine to serve the Princeton community at large, building relationships with residents and learning more about the region’s character and history in the process.
Katzenjammer member Benjamin Taub ’13 has been selected as one of 50 finalists out of over 7,500 contestants in the U.K. talent competition “The Big Audition.”
The decision regarding the fate of the former Valley Road School will be delayed until June 2012, according to a Sept. 21 statement by Princeton Regional Schools.
Local residents from the Princeton Borough and Princeton Township discussed the merits of the proposed municipal consolidation at a joint meeting of the Borough Council and Township Committee at a meeting Tuesday evening.
Grammy-winning jazz record producer, archivist and historian Frank Driggs ’52 passed away of natural causes on Tuesday in his Manhattan home at the age of 81.
Rep. Rush Holt announced on Monday that the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education will receive a sizable grant under the federal Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs program. The grant is expected to be extended for six years, and the state will receive $3,978,424 in its first year.
Benjamin Griswold IV ’62 and his family have gifted the Center for Economic Policy Studies with a substantial endowment, the University announced on Monday. Founded in 1989 by economics professor Alan Blinder ’67, the center has committed itself to supporting research and conducting seminars on the many intersections of economics, business and government.
All of the four candidates for the Princeton Township Committee this fall support the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, as they explained in last night’s debate. All but one of the candidates supports municipal consolidation.
Students and community members gathered in McCormick Hall on Monday afternoon for a panel discussion titled “Judging Around the World.” Chief Justice of New Zealand Dame Sian Elias and former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice Miguel Poiares Maduro headlined the panel, which was hosted by the University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.
