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Zipcar founder: Entrepreneurs should learn from failure

Starting a business is a daunting task, but the key to an entrepreneur's success is not letting the challenges of the endeavor squash ambition, Zipcar founder and former CEO Robin Chase said to a few dozen students during a lecture in

USG launches new web tool to gauge students’ priorities

Princeton students care a lot about late meal options, according to a new feature launched on Point this week by the USG."Which do you want more?" is an interactive feature that combines suggestion box and survey features to gauge the relative priority students assign to different campus issues.

Casting a spell to capture the past

As many students were gearing up for a night out on Princeton Halloween, David Clark was teaching his class about werewolves - but not as a costume idea.Clark, a visiting lecturer in the history department, studies demonology, which includes the study of magic, witchcraft and, of course, demons.

Panel: It won’t be easy for new president

Though Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and the Democrats swept to a decisive victory in Tuesday?s election, many questions remain about the future presidential administration, race relations, the American electorate and the Republican brand.There was a standing ovation as Obama?s name was first mentioned in a panel discussion Wednesday on the aftermath of the 2008 election, but panelists and audience members alike questioned what his victory will mean for the future.The panel consisted of Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80, religion and African-American studies professor Cornel West GS ?80, Wilson School professor Julian Zelizer and Columbia comparative literature and African-American studies professor Farah Griffin.Religion and African-American studies professor Eddie Glaude GS ?97 moderated the panel, which was sponsored by the Center for African-American Studies and the Graduate School?s Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity.The panelists agreed that the coming months will be a test for Obama.?He has to be able to project strength, but also a new kind of humility and posture,? Slaughter explained.Of the trials he could face in the future, Slaughter said that addressing terrorism and national security may be the most difficult.?I expect that Al Qaeda will put him in a position where he has to kill Muslims,? she said, explaining that this would force him to walk a fine line between support in the Middle East and the expectations of the American people.She added that Iran could find this ?the perfect time to rattle its sabers.? Russia, damaged by economic crisis, might also try to stir something up on the Ukrainian border to deflect criticism from its own administration, she noted.Even without unforeseen foreign policy issues, Obama will have a tough time with the global financial collapse when he takes office, Slaughter said.

Nov. 7, 1968 | Nixon victorious

Hubert H Humphrey conceded the presidential election to Richard M. Nixon shortly after noon yesterday to end one of the closest elections in history.Earlier, two of the major networks had given Illinois?s 26 electoral votes to Nixon, thus raising his unofficial total to 290 ? 20 more than a majority.Although Humphrey apparently won in two other doubtful states, Texas and Missouri, his total of 203 electoral votes, combined with the 45 votes won by George C.

Nov. 9, 1960 | Kennedy win expected, but welcomed

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Princetonians from sea to shining sea

Mitch Daniels ?71 (R-Ind.)

Jeff Merkley '82 still in tight race

Oregon Speaker of the House Jeff Merkley GS ?82 (D-Ore.) was running neck-and-neck with incumbent U.S.

Obama triumphs in historic election

As Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) captured a resounding victory Tuesday night, becoming the nation's first African-American president, Princeton students who lined up at polling places and sent in absentee ballots had their role in making history.As of press time, Obama had won 349 electoral votes, surpassing Sen.

Nov. 7, 1984 | Reagan wins big

President Reagan swept to an overwhelming reelection victory yesterday, garnering 525 electoral votes as of late last night, but Republicans struggled to ride his coattails toward a working majority in Congress.Democratic candidate Walter Mondale appeared to be winning a total of only 13 electoral votes ? Minnesota and the District of Columbia ? in a race that represents the greatest margin of victory since Nixon?s defeat of McGovern in 1972.The three major television networks predicted a landslide Regan victory of 59 percent to 41 percent of the popular vote at about 8:15 p.m.

Professors predict Obama landslide

A panel of four Wilson School and politics department faculty members correctly predicted Tuesday evening that Sen.

Thrill of voting for the first time undampened by rain

The risk of soggy campaign posters didn?t stop three teenagers from the Princeton Friends School from standing at a curb near the Trinity Church polling station late Tuesday afternoon.

Nov. 4, 1964 | LBJ sweeps nation

President Johnson?s sweeping defeat of Sen. Goldwater was evident early last evening ? and the President?s margin kept growing all night long.Soon after the polls closed on the Eastern seaboard, it became clear that Mr. Johnson would celebrate an unprecedented victory in the six New England states.Thereafter the Johnson bandwagon rolled from Vermont, which had never before in its history given its support to a Democratic Presidential candidate, to California, which gave its 50 electoral votes to Richard Nixon in 1960.Technically, the election was over at 10:11 p.m.

Amid Obama euphoria, Republican students reflect on loss

At the onset of a historic election day, pessimism was brewing among campus Republicans, as chances of a victory for Sen.

Nov. 5, 1980 | Reagan triumphs over Carter easily

Ronald Wilson Reagan, a one-time movie actor turned politician, captured the highest office in the land yesterday, battering Jimmy Carter throughout the country to become the 40th President of the United States.The popular vote was less close than had been expected, but the real surprise of the day came in the electoral count, where Reagan scored a stunning victory.As of 2 a.m., Reagan had garnered 452 electoral votes, to Carter?s 45.

All eyes turn to Michelle Obama '85

Michelle Obama ?85?s college friend, Hilary Beard ?84, was at dinner one night when a white student from her RCA group called something ?nigger-rigged.? Beard, who is African American, stared at him for a few moments before asking, ?What did you just say??In 1981, the year Michelle began her studies, Princeton was not an easy environment for an African American.

Big faculty donors for this election cycle

Princetonians, Democrats win big in New Jersey races

Senate | LautenbergSen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has been elected to a fifth term in office, beating Republican challenger Dick Zimmer.Lautenberg has represented New Jersey in the senate for all but two of the last 26 years.In his campaign, Lautenberg had positioned himself has an opponent to the policies of the Bush administration.

Nov. 10, 2000 | SUNSHINE VOTES

With the results of one of the closest American presidential elections in history hinging on the state of Florida, some University students who hail from the Sunshine State are kicking themselves over and over again for not exercising their constitutional right to vote.?I didn?t, and I feel like a complete idiot for doing that,? said Devon Keefe ?01, who calls Orange County, Fla.

Majority of University community states support for Obama, according to poll

Roughly 79 percent of University undergraduates preferred Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president, according to a poll recently conducted by Nassau Research, a new student-run research organization.The poll, which invited 1,000 randomly selected undergraduates to complete an online survey, was conducted from Oct.