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Nava '09 sees UFO, converts to Scientology

Nava '09 sees UFO, converts to Scientology

A month after he drew national attention for claiming he had been threatened for his beliefs and subsequently assaulted with an Orangina bottle, Francisco Nava '09 has reported a still more traumatic experience: alien abduction.Nava claims the kidnapping occurred around 7 p.m.

NEWS | 01/15/2008

Frats battle for USG control

Fraternities across campus have started to jockey for positions in the 2009 student government. The past year of authoritarian rule under the Alpha Epsilon Pi political machine has proven that Greek rule is cool on campus, or at least a possibility.Though President Tilghman continues to deny the presence of Greek life at Princeton, the four-year-old Jewish fraternity has seized the top three executive roles in the USG.

NEWS | 01/15/2008

Dean's Date Crunch

Nushelle De Silva '11 concentrates on a paper for her freshman seminar in a common area in Bloomberg Hall.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

U. receives 20,118 applications for Class of 2012

The University received an all-time record number of undergraduate applications for the fourth year in a row, with 20,118 students applying for admission to the Class of 2012.This year's figure marks a 6 percent increase over the record-breaking 18,942 applicants for the Class of 2011 and constitutes a 22 percent increase in applicant numbers since the Class of 2009.The rise in application numbers comes in the first year after the University dropped its early admission program, which had admitted nearly half of previous incoming classes.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

New Jersey primaries may seal nominations

With the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations more hotly contested than ever following the Jan.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Teens damage nearly 500 Jewish graves in New Brunswick

Four teenagers were charged with juvenile delinquency on Wednesday for toppling nearly 500 gravestones in a New Brunswick Jewish cemetery.The youths are being held in the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, awaiting a hearing in county family court.As the investigation of the crime continues, New Brunswick police suspect that the teens were most likely not motivated by anti-Semitism.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Get on board

Students present "The Old Ship of Zion," a play written and directed by Natalia Naman '08, in the Whitman College Theater.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

After fire, several residents return

Correction appendedSome of the 34 faculty and staff members evacuated from their homes at the College Road Apartments following a four-alarm fire Thursday have been allowed to move back into their homes.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Fewer A's given for theses, JPs

The University is making progress toward its goal of awarding only 55 percent A-range grades to junior and senior independent work, due in large part to the efforts of large departments, according to a memo sent to faculty by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel on Nov.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Six juniors win SINSI fellowships

Six members of the Class of 2009 have won Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) fellowships, enabling them to spend time working for the federal government before returning to the University to earn a Masters in Public Policy (MPA) degree from the Wilson School.The juniors ? Cyndi Barmore, Shannon Brink, Michael Konialian, Emily Norris, Michael Shapiro and Brendan Reilly ? were notified of their selection last month and are the second group of undergraduates to be accepted into the program.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Playwright Albee leads course on own work

Award-winning writers might be stereotyped as shrouding their creative process in secrecy, but eight University undergraduates got to pierce the veil of mystery this semester, observing and learning from famed playwright Edward Albee as he prepared his latest theatrical opus.The students ? participants in the seminar THR: Special Topics in History and Theory: Albee on Albee, a course offered through the program in theater and dance and co-taught by the playwright himself ? helped Albee prepare his latest play, "Me, Myself, and I," which opened at the Berlind Theatre last Friday.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Township will not charge Nava '09

Francisco Nava '09 will not be charged with filing a false police report and most likely will not face prosecution for sending harassing emails, officials from Public Safety and Princeton Township Police said yesterday.Nava had claimed that he had been attacked in an empty lot in the Township on Dec.

NEWS | 01/13/2008

Rubbing elbows with presidential hopefuls across the Granite State

One October morning in 1996, I put on a Bill Clinton mask and went to school. Morningside Elementary in Atlanta, Ga., was holding its annual Halloween carnival, and the year's presidential election was only 10 days away.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

A day of primary importance

The week leading up to the New Hampshire presidential primaries may not have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it was certainly close.For the first time since 1928, neither an incumbent president nor current vice president was in the race.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

Fire guts faculty housing

A fire raged through a faculty housing complex across from McCarter Theatre yesterday afternoon, leaving several University faculty and staff members homeless but no individuals or pets injured, according to University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96.The fire, which was reported at 2:29 p.m., caused severe damage to Unit 2 of the College Road Apartments, which are located on College Road between University Place and Alexander Street.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

Early acceptance rates decline across Ivies

In the first admissions cycle without early admissions at Princeton and Harvard, application numbers soared and acceptance rates dropped across the rest of the Ivy League and at other selective institutions that continue to offer early admissions.Seeking early acceptance at a top school, some applicants who might have applied early to Princeton or Harvard in past years seem to have applied early elsewhere, especially to Yale, which saw a record 4,888 applicants for the class of 2012, a 36 percent jump from the class of 2011.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in October 2007 that she thought some students had applied early to Princeton for strategic reasons.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

Princeton Ph.D.s: The fast track

As undergraduates buckle down to write their papers for Dean's Date, many graduate students are wrapped up in far more extensive writing projects: their dissertations.Though grad students at the University complete their dissertations more quickly than average, according to recent findings by the Council of Graduate Schools, Princeton's ethos of speedily finished degrees can be a mixed blessing, grad students and alumni said.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

USG to consider Dillon options

President Tilghman discussed how the University administration views the USG during a question-and-answer session with the outgoing USG administration yesterday.Speaking during the last USG Senate meeting of the semester, Tilghman cited two main areas in which she said the USG was most valuable.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

Red Cross opens center

The Red Cross of Central New Jersey opened its disaster relief center in Princeton Township on Wednesday.Designed as a headquarters to organize relief efforts for the surrounding counties and possibly serve as a shelter for affected families in the case of a disaster, the Alexander Road center will serve Middlesex, Mercer and Hunterdon counties as well as the southern part of Somerset County.The 5,000 sq.

NEWS | 01/10/2008

Long shots strive for influence

Manchester, N.H. ? Their hangout: the backseat of a minivan. Their beds: three mattresses on the floor and bunked beds in the corner.

NEWS | 01/08/2008

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