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Whitman ’77 given $157K by trustees

Whitman ’77 given $157K by trustees

Six of the 38 current members of the University Board of Trustees and three trustees emeritus have donated a total of $156,800 to the California gubernatorial campaign of Republican Meg Whitman ’77, according to campaign finance records made available online by the California Secretary of State.

NEWS | 10/03/2010

University joins Rutgers in mourning death

NEW BRUNSWICK — Roughly 15 undergraduates rode the train one stop north on Sunday evening, where they joined several hundred Rutgers University students and community members for a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyler Clementi.

NEWS | 10/03/2010

Ivy takes only 6 in fall Bicker

Ivy, Tower and Cap & Gown clubs, the only eating clubs to conduct fall Bicker, accepted a total of 61 new members last week. Tower accepted 25 new members out of 47 students who bickered, Tower president Martin Scheeler ’11 said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 10/03/2010

Arts move from 185 Nassau Street to New South

Every week, Meghan Todt ’11 dances in three different studios for the same ballet class.On Tuesdays, she walks to the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. On Wednesdays, the class meets in the first-floor studio of New South Building. On Fridays, it’s back to 185 Nassau Street, but this time in the third-floor studio.

NEWS | 10/03/2010

Richard Kahlenberg on legacy admissions

Richard Kahlen-berg has strong words for preferential admission of alumni children: “fundamentally un-American.”“The revolution was fought in large measure to rid ourselves of aristocracy and inherited privilege, so each individual would rise or fall on her own merits in the United States,” said Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. “The notion of providing a leg up in admissions to a group of students who ... are fairly advantaged to begin with is profoundly unjust.” Kahlenberg attended Harvard for college and law school as a legacy student and is the author of four books about education, equal opportunity and civil rights.

NEWS | 10/03/2010

Singer wins vegetarian debate, 75-35

The University should brace itself for a new wave of vegetarianism on campus, if Thursday night’s 75-35 vote against eating meat on ethical grounds is any indication.

NEWS | 09/30/2010

Crime rate falls across campus

Campus crime has declined across the board over the past year, according to the University’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2009 that was released Thursday.

NEWS | 09/30/2010

After meeting, no change to Dinky

The plan to replace the Dinky with a bus rapid transit system appeared to face a major setback at Thursday night’s meeting of the Princeton Regional Planning Board, after residents voiced near-universal opposition to the plan.

NEWS | 09/30/2010

Touring Tigertown

Mimi Omiecinski, founder of Princeton Tour Company, is a self-proclaimed “Princeton wannabe.” “I’m not a historian, and I didn’t grow up in Princeton, and I don’t have an Ivy League education, but I love to gush about Princeton,” she said.

NEWS | 09/30/2010

Engineering in Huamanzana

Huamanzana is a tiny Peruvian village located an hour’s bus ride from the nearest major city. It has a population of 140 and boasts a single two-room schoolhouse for 40 kids in first through sixth grade. But this village’s residents are equipped with a piece of modern technology one might not expect to find in a place of its size: cell phones.

NEWS | 09/30/2010

New iPhone application syncs with Point

Smartphone applications that cater to Princetonians, such as Fountainhop and Scoop, now have another competitor: MYMapp. MYMapp is an iPhone application created by Matthew Salesi ’11, Michele Capece ’11 and Yu-Han Hsu ’11. The application “grabs” all the events currently listed on Point and runs them through a process that accurately extracts information about each event’s location, Salesi said.

NEWS | 09/29/2010

University Ph.D. programs awarded top rankings

A national assessment of research colleges and universities released on Tuesday ranked many of the University’s 35 Ph.D. programs as among the best in the country. The National Research Council billed the report, titled “An Assessment of Doctoral Programs in the United States,” as a new national resource on graduate education.

NEWS | 09/29/2010

George and West GS ’80 discuss Christianity

Many Princetonians know politics professor Robert George as a rigorous constitutional scholar and an influential Republican. But the Robert George who debated his close friend, religion and African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80, on Wednesday afternoon spoke as a committed Christian first and foremost, explaining that religion can and should strongly inform people’s actions.

NEWS | 09/29/2010

NJ Transit may begin offering wireless Internet on trains

New Jersey Transit may begin offering wireless Internet access on trains and at rail stations, according to a statement released earlier this month. The state’s train system is currently soliciting proposals from wireless service providers.

NEWS | 09/29/2010

MacArthur fellow Dabiri ’01 on jellyfish, energy and Princeton

Biophysicist John Dabiri ’01 was named a MacArthur Fellow on Tuesday, an honor that comes with a no-strings-attached “genius grant” of $500,000 over five years. Dabiri was reached in California just hours after the announcement and talked with The Daily Princetonian about swimming with the jellyfish, making new discoveries and finding inspiration at Princeton.

NEWS | 09/29/2010

FDA approves new 5-day emergency contraceptive

Based on research conducted in collaboration with a University professor, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new emergency contraceptive pill this summer that can prevent pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected sex, two days longer than is possible with the current leading alternative.

NEWS | 09/28/2010

Bogan, Chow sign letter supporting Bush tax cuts

University economics professors Elizabeth Bogan and Gregory Chow, along with more than 300 other economists, signed an open letter to Congress in support of an extension to the tax cuts implemented in 2001 and 2003 under President George W. Bush’s administration.

NEWS | 09/28/2010

Forbes and Whitman will both serve Saturday meals

The University has reinstated Saturday meals at both Forbes and Whitman colleges, a year after it implemented a cost-saving initiative that left only one of the two dining halls open on Saturdays.“A number of the cost-reduction initiatives exceeded our projections,” Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail, citing “the tray-free dining program and modifications to our purchasing program.”

NEWS | 09/28/2010

New printing system causes delays

At the start of the academic year, the Office of Information Technology introduced a single cluster printing queue and deactivated location-specific printing queues in an effort to streamline campus printing. Less than a month later, though, students have reported technical problems ranging from lengthy printing delays to the new queue’s incompatibility with their laptop operating systems.

NEWS | 09/28/2010

West GS ’80 critiques current state of ‘critique’

Cornel West GS ’80 believes that Princeton is “committed to paideia education.”West described paideia as “this cultivation of critique, this bearing witness to love and justice and ... questing for hope, though knowing that we will need help,” in a speech Tuesday before roughly 250 students in McCosh 10. The African American studies professor’s talk, “Cultivating Critique in the Age of Obama,” inaugurated the Signature Lecture Series organized by Wilson College.

NEWS | 09/28/2010

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