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Students campaign against online ‘Prince’ comments

Students campaign against online ‘Prince’ comments

Roughly 60 students campaigned on Monday against online comments posted on a Daily Princetonian article about the Dec. 5 fight at the Fields Center. The students spray-painted T-shirts with excerpts from some of the comments: “moves in packs,” “prone to violence” and “less deserving candidate.” Several students said they found the excerpts, which reference people involved in the fight, to be “racist” and “ignorant.”

NEWS | 12/14/2009

Stanford admits 753 in restrictive early action program

Stanford University has accepted 13.5 percent of its early applicant pool, admitting 753 applicants to its Class of 2014 out of a pool of 5,566 early applications, the university announced Monday.

NEWS | 12/14/2009

Research team aids cancer treatment

A team of Princeton researchers led by molecular biology professor Saeed Tavazoie has developed an algorithm to chart the genetic behavior of cancerous cells that will allow for more targeted cancer treatments.

NEWS | 12/14/2009

Straying from the Street

Michelle Wu and Aaron Hosios

During his junior year, Ted Price ’10 had trouble finding time for regular meals at Ivy Club, where he was a member. He was a distance runner on the track team, and he found himself spending large sums of money on food, beyond his Ivy membership dues.

NEWS | 12/14/2009

Tilghman forms committee on female leadership

On Monday morning, President Tilghman announced the creation of a new 19-member Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership at Princeton.

NEWS | 12/14/2009

The expense of the Street

Michelle Wu and Aaron Hosios

During her sophomore spring, Kaitlyn Hay ’10 wanted to join Charter Club, along with many of her friends. Despite the University’s financial aid programs, cost proved to be a barrier for her.

NEWS | 12/13/2009

Vote on N.J. gay marriage bill postponed

Just weeks after New York lawmakers defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage, supporters of gay marriage in New Jersey are pushing to get a similar bill passed by the State Senate in time to reach Gov. Jon Corzine before he leaves office next month.

NEWS | 12/13/2009

Students build menorah of cans for formals charity drive

Inspired by the actions of Jewish chaplaincies on other campuses across the country, Princeton’s Chabad House launched the “Giving Back at Formals” initiative by collecting more than 1,000 cans to construct a menorah, which was displayed outside Quadrangle Club during Winter Formals on Saturday. The cans will be delivered to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen this week.

NEWS | 12/13/2009

Wu ’13 selected to carry Olympic flame in Calgary

Many people have watched the Olympic flame make its international journey on television, but in January, Derek Wu ’13 will actually get to carry the torch in the torch relay for the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

NEWS | 12/13/2009

Course on children’s literature draws 450

If SCORE enrollment is any indication, ENG 335: Children’s Literature is where the students will be. With an enrollment of 450 students, the course, to be taught by English professor William Gleason, is currently the largest planned for spring 2010. In addition to such classic children’s stories as Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” the lecture’s sample reading list includes J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.”

NEWS | 12/10/2009

Warming warnings exaggerated, physics professors claim

Two Princeton physics professors are leading a campaign for the withdrawal of the 2007 statement of the American Physical Society, which claims that the evidence for global warming represents an immediate national emergency.

NEWS | 12/10/2009

U. to refund painting fees temporarily

Students who have already been fined for painting their dorm rooms this year will have those fines waived, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Thursday afternoon.

NEWS | 12/10/2009

Foreign students face tax on financial aid stipend

Though they may not be U.S. citizens, some international students on financial aid still have to pay U.S. taxes.

NEWS | 12/10/2009

Altman ’11, Yaroshefsky ’12 head to runoff

USG presidential candidates Jack Altman ’11 and Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 will move on to a runoff that begins today after Jack Lindeman ’11 was eliminated in the first round of voting.

NEWS | 12/10/2009

Inside the Vault: Where do we go from here?

After last year’s market turbulence, the Princeton University Investment Company, headed by its president Andrew Golden, is re-examining its investing strategy with the aim of increasing liquidity.

NEWS | 12/10/2009

Ordiway ’81 fired, effective June 2010

Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, who oversees the University's postgraduate fellowship program, has been fired, effective June 2010.

NEWS | 12/09/2009

Whitman janitor featured in ‘The Philosopher Kings’ film

Platonic philosophers don’t just give lectures or sit in desks listening to them. Sometimes, they may emerge only when the room is empty, long after the students and professors have left the classroom.

NEWS | 12/09/2009

Suspects charged in assault of two students

Borough Police have charged two men with the alleged aggravated assault of two University students early Sunday morning on Prospect Avenue.

NEWS | 12/09/2009

Bone marrow drive to honor Culbreath

After hearing that star running back Jordan Culbreath ’10 had been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a condition in which bone marrow does not sufficiently replenish blood cells, Caitlin Alev ’10 decided to take action by organizing a bone marrow drive on campus. The purpose of the drive, supported by the National Bone Marrow Registry, is to match potential donors with Culbreath and others around the world in need of marrow transplants.

NEWS | 12/09/2009

Inside the Vault: Manager of Managers

Despite its name, the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) doesn’t do any investing directly. Founded in 1987 to manage the University’s assets, PRINCO creates broad guidelines for its investment portfolio and then selects outside investment managers to give funds to, until the portfolio resembles PRINCO’s target. Instead of being an investment manager, PRINCO is more of a “manager of managers.”

NEWS | 12/09/2009

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