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Nassau Inn preparing for expansion

The Nassau Inn is preparing for its first major expansion in more than 20 years as it celebrates its 70th anniversary.Initial plans detail the construction of a six-story addition along Hulfish Street, with new retail space, an expanded ballroom and four floors containing 40 new guest rooms that would adjoin the hotel?s existing wings.

NEWS | 02/03/2008

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Ivies targeted in N.Y. study abroad program investigation

Officials at Harvard, Columbia and Brown remain tight-lipped after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo expanded an investigation of study abroad programs and subpoenaed related information from the three universities last month.Cuomo believes that international programs at the 15 institutions under investigation have improper affiliation agreements with study abroad providers.

NEWS | 02/03/2008

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Harvard?s endowment surpasses $34 billionHarvard?s endowment has risen above $34 billion, a $6 billion increase over the past year, according to The Boston Globe.

NEWS | 02/03/2008

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Political unrest stops Kenya program

Lauren Bartholomew '09 recently learned that her plans to spend next semester in Kenya had been cancelled due to mounting violence and protests within the country in the wake of last December's contentious elections.Bartholomew, along with three other juniors and one sophomore, hoped to take part in the ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) department's Tropical Biology Program in Kenya this spring.

NEWS | 01/20/2008

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Twenty years later, still shaking things up

One day almost four decades ago, Nancy Weiss walked through the doors of Princeton's history department intent on doing something no other woman had done before: getting a job as a professor there.As a Harvard doctoral candidate, she had the credentials for the post, but her gender made her an anomaly among the applicant pool."It isn't that we have a policy against hiring women," then-history department chair Lawrence Stone told the young woman seated in his office.

NEWS | 01/20/2008

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A farewell from the 131st board

As the 131st Managing Board's time at the helm of the The Daily Princetonian comes to an end today, we're talking about the things we're not going to miss about being editors: staying up late, canceling on our friends and family, editing a story that needs lots and lots of work.But that's just so that we don't have to think about all the things that we're going to miss: Late nights spent gossiping once the paper's done and we're procrastinating on our schoolwork.

NEWS | 01/20/2008

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Hungry?

Students stuffed their faces in a pie-eating contest as part of Whitman College's carnival-themed dinner Wednesday evening.

NEWS | 01/20/2008

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Professor may face charges in Poland

History professor Jan Gross is under investigation in his native Poland for slandering the Polish government ? a crime punishable with a prison sentence of up to three years ? after claiming in a new book that anti-Semitism was prevalent in the country after World War II.Gross is being investigated by the Krakow Prosecutor's Office for allegedly violating Statute 132, which prohibits "publicly accusing the Polish nation of organizing or being responsible for Nazi or communist crimes." The conservative League of Polish Families party pushed the statute through in 2006.Gross' book, "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz" was released in the United States in 2006 and published in Polish on Jan.

NEWS | 01/20/2008

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N.J. to give electoral votes electors to winner of popular voteNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation last Sunday that will give New Jersey's 15 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in the 2008 presidential election.New Jersey follows Maryland as the second state to enter into a compact that would diminish the Electoral College's constitutional power to choose the president.

NEWS | 01/17/2008

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Sweating the small stuff

Rob Biederman '08 likes surprises and last-minute organization. Less than an hour before he sent a school-wide email promising an iPod Touch to the winner of a Dean's Date scavenger hunt, he had not yet settled on what items the winner would have to collect.The scavenger hunt was typical of Biederman.

NEWS | 01/17/2008