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Princeton Poetry Festival celebrates opening of new arts complex with verses from around the world

On Thursday, Oct. 5, the third biennial Princeton Poetry Festival kicked off the grand opening for the new Lewis Center of the Arts complex with a lyrical bang. Free and open to the public, the Festival brings together a diverse and highly acclaimed group of 12 poets from around the world to the Berlind Theater in the McCarter Theater Center. During the event, which will continue on Oct. 6, the poets read their work aloud and share their experiences in discussion panels called Verse and Adversity.

Mauritius President Gurib-Fakim talks food, nutrition security in changing climate

“It’s a race against time,” said Her Excellency Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, president of the Republic of Mauritius, about the African continent’s efforts to conserve its unique biodiversity and the rich tradition of natural medicine that follows from it. On Oct. 5, the University hosted Gurib-Fakim as part of Campus Dining’s Food and Agriculture Initiative, a multi-faceted effort to explore the complexities of global food-related consumption, production, and distribution to be sustainable and smart consumers of food.

University purchases 48 Steinway pianos for new Lewis Center

When the new Lewis Center for the Arts officially opens this weekend, 48 new Steinway & Sons pianos will be among the complex's new features. Selected and purchased over the course of two years, these instruments were specifically chosen from a pool of 200 possible instruments by University faculty and students, according to the University Office of Communications.

U. welcomes Warrior Scholar program for first year

As a national nonprofit, the Warrior Scholar Project focuses on helping GIs and Veterans transition into college life and make full use of their skills in the civilian setting of academia. Many of the veterans assisted by the project have been on active duty for four or five years minimum, and some are retired after 20 to 30 years of active duty. 

Lewis Center for the Arts festival preview

The transformation of the former Dinky station’s location to a state-of-the-art performance center for the University is complete. The Lewis Center for the Arts, replete with 146,000 square feet of space for students in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts, will become a brand new arts hub.

In dinner discussion, Kruse talks politics, racism post-Charlottesville

Silent Sam is the supposedly innocuous name of a statue erected on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus in 1913. Its benefactors, however, had less than innocent intentions upon donating the statue of the Confederate soldier, labeling it as a tribute to the cause of the Confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War.

Roxane Gay discusses superheroes, social justice

Roxane Gay said in a talk on Wednesday that she broke tradition in writing the story of two black women who love each other for Marvel. As her speech showed, however, she broke tradition long before that.

U. affiliates win physics Nobel Prize

Rainer Weiss, who was a postdoctoral researcher at the University, received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday alongside Kip Thorne ’65. They received the award “for decisive contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector and the observation of gravitational waves” according to a press release by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Q & A: FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny

The 'Prince' sat down with FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny.

Student activist talks Chinese LGBTQ human rights issues

With this success under her belt, Xia hopes that even though she cannot necessarily change the government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights, she can slowly inform the Chinese public that LGBTQ+ people are not diseased.

MOOC proponent Sanjay Sarma discusses the problem with lectures

U. professor emeritus Krugman falsely claims cholera outbreak in Puerto Rico

Schwartz '72 runs for Nevada governor, stresses independent voice

Dan Schwartz ’72, Nevada’s State Treasurer, is a Republican candidate running to replace Brian Sandoval, the state’s term-limited Republican governor.  Time and time again, Schwartz was not afraid to challenge Sandoval and those who he refers to as Sandoval's “lackeys in the Nevada legislature.” Schwartz’s rugged independence is a quality that he has spent a lifetime cultivating. Back in the early 1970’s, when Schwartz was a student here at Princeton, he exhibited many of the same qualities. 

136 families charged double tuition due to TigerPay error

Due to a processing issue on Aug. 21, 2017, duplicate electronic tuition payment requests were sent to the banks of 136 University tuition payers. These payers were temporarily charged double the cost of their tuition bill before the Office of Finance and Treasury was notified of the problem and authorized reversal transactions. 

Student organizations use innovative methods to raise funds, awareness for Puerto Rico hurricane relief

“I’m not giving up. I’m going to keep pushing everyday,” Negrón-Reichard said.

Princeton Christian Fellowship ditches the label 'evangelical'

 Some people don’t know what 'evangelical' means, or others may hold the aforementioned beliefs, but not identify as evangelical. Others associate it negatively with certain political positions. The definition of evangelicalism has morphed and taken on “too much cultural baggage,” Boyce said, including the assumption of a political agenda. 

Recent disaster relief fundraising efforts find success on U. campus

Recent natural disasters in Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico have inspired a tremendous wave of campus activism. Various initiatives led either fully or in part by Princeton students have already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the wake of several earthquakes and hurricanes that have torn a path of destruction through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. 

Individual struck by train at Princeton Junction station

A train passing through Princeton Junction station reportedly struck an unknown individual around 3 p.m. today. The individual’s condition is unknown at the time of publication. 

Kyle Lang completes transcontinental run, averages 40 miles a day

 “I’d wake up between 5:15 and 5:30 — my parents would wake up between 4 and 5 — we’d get on the road around 6,” he said. “I’d run 20 miles until about 11 o’clock, and then take an hour break. And then noon to 4, I’d cover 13 to 15 miles, take an hour break, and then in the evening cover between 7 and 10 miles, depending on the day. I ended at 7 p.m. and then we drove to wherever we spent the night.” 

Refugee Resettlement Organizations Across U.S. Prepare for Historically Low Refugee Cap

Refugee agencies across the nation are bracing themselves for President Trump’s presidential deliberation on the refugee cap for the coming fiscal year. An official decision is due on Oct. 1, but the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the cap will be lowered to 45,000.  This would be a drastic cut from the 110,000 permitted under the 2016 fiscal year budget, and the lowest ever since the Refugee Act was signed into law in 1980.