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Princeton town to make Bicycle Master Plan with U. input

Princeton town to make Bicycle Master Plan with U. input

Betty Liu

The township of Princeton is in the process of creating a comprehensive Bicycle Master Plan to create a connected network of bike facilities throughout the town, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said. This plan is being funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the town will be working with the consulting firm WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoffto develop the plan. Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment. WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff program manager for the Bicycle Master Plan Peter Kremer explained that as part of the plan, the firm is currently conducting a survey to gather community input regarding the Bicycle Master Plan.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

USG to initiate bike share program, work on transparency in Lawnparties acts

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government is working to set up a bike share program on campus, U-Councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 said at the last senate meeting of the semester on Jan.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

U. professors launch Microeconomic Insights in collaboration with professors from other universities

Caroline Lippman

Microeconomic Insights, a websitedeveloped by University professors and professors from other institutions worldwide, including Harvard University and the London School of Economics, was launched last week. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a London-based organization, will be hosting the website.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

Career Services hires psychics, encourages changes to LinkedIn profiles*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University’s Office of Career Services has revolutionized its program with an emphasis on unconventionality, including hiring psychics to consult with students about where they should end up. Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi explained that Career Services made the decision to hire psychics because they did not have enough time to process all the students who were sent in to see them and because they thought psychics would do a better job in providing guidance.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

U. introduces strict new political correctness guidelines*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University is instituting a campaign to purge itself of all documents, statements and expressions that do not meet University standards of political correctness. P.C.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

USG candidates debate undocumented emigration from Forbes*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The undocumented migration of students from Forbes College to campus has become a highly prevalent topic in this year’s Undergraduate Student Government elections.Around 60 percent of the students housed in Forbes have abandoned their rooms there and brought sleeping bags to the sidewalk of University Place.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Economics and ORFE independent work advisers found not to exist*

Daily Princetonian Staff

On paper, Jacob Ruijskman was a decorated University professor: a graduate of MIT’s economics program, who had co-authored papers on the Great Depression and the financial crisis and made contributions to applied game theory.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Patton '77 partners with U. dropout to found matrimony app*

Daily Princetonian Staff

“Princeton Mom” Susan Patton ’77 will be partnering with former computer science majors from the University to create Yente, an app to partner college students together in matrimonial bliss.Patton explained that participants in the app will fill out profiles including intended post-graduate job, major, extracurricular activities including fraternities or eating clubs and physical characteristics.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Republican debate to take place on tropical island*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The next Republican debate will feature a new format, that of a survival-of-the-fittest contest, CNBC moderator John Harwood said. Harwood explained that the candidates will be put on a deserted tropical island with provisions, but no weapons.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

U. selects squirrel as its new mascot*

Daily Princetonian Staff

Fifteen hundred students were spotted walking around in squirrel onesies as part of a new protest to make squirrels the new mascot of the University.Callme Nutty ’18, the leader of the Squirrel Movement, said that the movement began in response to some papers found in the Mudd Manuscript Library.The papers claimed that squirrels were supposed to be the mascot for the University, according to proposals drafted by Bruce Wayne ’39.Wayne was unavailable for comment as he was allegedly at war with Catwoman.“Squirrels should be the mascots of this great institution because they’re so cute,” the papers claimed, according to Nutty, “and cats like lions or tigers are too violent.”According to Nutty, the paper went on to detail reasons for choosing squirrels as the mascot, which focused on their preparedness for the future in collecting their food before every winter and forgetting to take out buried nuts, which grew into trees.The original squirrel papers could not be traced as tigers allegedly ate them 50 years ago.Nutty said that the squirrel has always been the University’s official mascot in secret.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Menge arm attributed to tracker device*

Daily Princetonian Staff

Secret injection of trackers along with the meningitis vaccine has been identified as the cause for the painful post-meningitis-vaccine “meng arm” in freshmen, according to an investigation conducted by the Undergraduate Student Government. The first tracker was discovered in Iliketobelieve Imspecial ’19 when he underwent a full body scan for undisclosed medical reasons. “I was looking at my scan reports when suddenly I saw this little device with the Princeton logo embedded in my arm,” Imspecial said. Imspecial added that the device was identified as a tracker by zooming in on and studying the scans, since the device could not be removed. “This is Princeton we’re talking about,” Imspecial said.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

'Prince' to disband due to departure of University spokesperson*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Daily Princetonian will be disbanding at the end of January following University spokesperson Martin Mbugua’s departure from the University, outgoing Editor-in-Chief Anna Mazarakis said.“It’s simple, really,” Mazarakis said, wiping her eyes with an issue of the ‘Prince.’ “Without Martin to decline to comment on our articles, we cannot function as a news organization.”Mbugua declined to comment for this article.Associate News Editor Do-Hyeong Myeong ’17 said that she admired Mbugua’s professionalism and dedication, and that her time at the ‘Prince’ would not have been the same without him.“He declined to comment for me once and it was the most beautifully written thing I’d ever seen,” Myeong said.

NEWS | 01/06/2016

PPD establishes elite force against underage drinking*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Princeton Police Department is training an elite squad of undercover policemen, known as “The Temperance 10,” to apprehend underage drinkers on campus and outside liquor stores in town. “I was put on this earth with one God-given mission in life,” said police chief Carry Nation II, who trained the recruits and was responsible for selecting them.

NEWS | 01/06/2016

USG codifies preppiness on campus*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Undergraduate Student Government has instituted a new dress code stipulating new heights of preppification for University students.USG president Jay Crew ’17 noted that while the dress code is not mandatory, students who are observed not following it will be added to a “Burn Book” which will be put on display in Frist Campus Center.“I think Coco Chanel or someone once said that all the world’s a stage,” Crew said, “and to that can be added that all of Princeton is a costume party.”Under the new guidelines, all students must wear pastel colors on Wednesdays, and students may not wear glasses that do not have thick frames.

NEWS | 01/06/2016

Students protest against expensive items on campus*

Daily Princetonian Staff

Students at the University have convened in an “Occupy Princeton” protest against what they say is the undue expensiveness of the Orange Bubble.The students have pledged to boycott all dining hall food and all food sold in University-run establishments such as the University Store, Studio ’34 and the C-Store, and to boycott books sold by Labyrinth Books.

NEWS | 01/06/2016

McGraw expands tutoring for reading period, finals

Hannah Waxman

The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning will now offer Group Study Hall tutoring sessions during reading period and finals week, according to Geneva Stein GS ’14, assistant director of the McGraw Center.The first tutoring session during reading period will be offered on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

NEWS | 01/05/2016

Institute for Advanced Study rejects offers to preserve historic battlefield

Annie Yang

The Institute for Advanced Studies is moving forward with its plans to build housing on historic Maxwell's Field after rejecting recent attempts of The Civil War Trust to halt construction by purchasing the property, according to Kip Cherry, vice president of the Princeton Battlefield Society.The Civil War Trust is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation of America’s battlegrounds.Alexandra Altman, communications associate for IAS, noted that IAS currently has all necessary approvals and permissions for the project and is moving forward with its Faculty Housing project on the Institute’s campus on Maxwell's Field.Jim Campi, policy and communications director for the Civil War Trust, explained that the Trust first requested to meet with IAS to discuss acquisitions in June 2015.According to Campi, IAS rejected this request as well as the Trust's subsequent attempts to arrange a meeting through third parties.“In November, to further demonstrate our seriousness about acquiring the property, we offered to buy the 22-acre Maxwell’s Field tract for $3.3 million, based on the appraised value of property,” he explained, noting that IAS rejected this offer.Campi said that last December, IAS also rejected the Trust's second offer of $4.5 million, a price nearly 40% higher than the land's appraised value.He added that the Trust supports a stay on construction in order to give the state of New Jersey and IAS more time to explore alternatives.The Trust's offers are the most recent additions to an ongoing effort to stop this construction project.Altman explained that the housing project meets a critical need for the IAS.

NEWS | 01/05/2016

Federal budget changes not to impact U. aid significantly

Marcia Brown

While the recently passedincreases to the federal budget for Pell Grant will not significantly affect current University aid programs, theywould allow forgreater academic spending nationwide, according to Director of Governmental Affairs Joyce Rechtschaffen '75. Rechtschaffen is a former managing editor of the 'Daily Princetonian.' On Dec.

NEWS | 01/05/2016

Gilbert Jr. '09 deemed mentally fit, will stand trial

Christina Vosbikian

Thomas Gilbert Jr. ’09, who allegedly shot and killed his father Thomas Gilbert Sr.

NEWS | 01/05/2016

Lander ’78, innovator in genetics

Abhiram Karuppur

Eric Lander ’78, valedictorian of his class and one of the leading contributors to the Human Genome and Innocence Projects, is the founding director of the Broad Institute, a genomics research institution of MIT and Harvard.Currently a biology professor at MIT, Lander was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of Our Time in 2004.

NEWS | 01/05/2016

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