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Polls receive student voters

Over a thousand students will head to the polls in Princeton today to cast their vote in New Jersey?s presidential primary, results of an e-mail survey conducted by The Daily Princetonian show.The unscientific survey also found that Sen.

NEWS | 02/04/2008

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Art Museum director leavesSusan Taylor will leave her position as director of the Princeton University Art Museum at the end of the academic year.

NEWS | 02/04/2008

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CIA releases classified files of former director

Nearly 8,000 pages of documents covering the tenure of Allen Dulles, Class of 1914, the CIA?s longest-serving director, are now available online through the University website.Having access to online material will benefit faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students engaged in research projects, history professor Julian Zelizer, who specializes in American political history, said in an e-mail.?It is a very valuable source of material,? Zelizer said.

NEWS | 02/04/2008

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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