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Holt discusses wilderness preservation, Keystone Pipeline

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Holt discusses wilderness preservation, Keystone Pipeline

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Congressman Rush Holt spoke about wilderness protection, the dangers of using fossil fuel energy and pipeline projects at a talk on campus on Wednesday. Holt, a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, has mainly supported conservationist legislation that includes wilderness protection, promoting the use of alternative energy and capping greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to serving as congressman of New Jersey's 12th district, which includes the town of Princeton, Holt is the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Listing examples such as oil spills, climate change and fossil fuel energy use, Holt said that it is general citizens who have to suffer the damage of such environmental destructions while the companies responsible for the damages often benefit and escape the responsibility. He said that people around the world, as well as in the United States, are “dying early and unnecessarily” because of the way we produce and use energy and the effects of climate change. Holt then explained the importance of the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act, which was introduced to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.He is currently co-sponsoring the act and noted that preserving the wilderness in Alaska is important because “It deserves to be there.” “This Arctic Wilderness Act is a nice designation to have because of all this wildlife, but it is a necessary designation to have because the oil companies are licking their lips at the prospect of being able to extract oil from this area,” Holt said.

NEWS | 04/23/2014

Princeton to build off-campus art storage facility

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Princeton to build off-campus art storage facility

Sarah Kim

The first University-owned, off-campus fine art storage facility will be built in order to accommodate the University Art Museum’s rapidly growing collection. Designed specifically for the purpose of housing art, the 20,000 square foot local storage facility will be located on the University's Forrestal Campus, according to University Art Museum Director James Steward.

NEWS | 04/23/2014

NJ Transit to suspend service to Newark airport

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NJ Transit to suspend service to Newark airport

Alex Jafari

Service to Newark Airport Rail Station along the Northeast Corridor will be suspended for 75 days starting May 1. The closure of the airport train station is related to maintenance work being done on the Newark Airport Monorail, which travels between the terminals and airport parking lots,according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In a written statement, the Port Authority wrote that the closure is needed to allow for repairs to several eroded sites along the monorail's tracks. Instead, riders will be able to take NJ Transit buses to the airport from Newark Penn Station. However, Jack May, vice president of the New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers,said this is not the most convenient solution for passengers, because NJ Transit could run a bus service directly from the Newark Airport train station to the airport itself, rather than from Newark Penn Station. Emergency access roads were constructed near and connected to the NJ Transit/Amtrak/Monorail Intermodal Station when the Monorail was built in 1996. “I think it’s a very poor policy of theirs,” May said.

NEWS | 04/22/2014
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News & Notes: Chance the Rapper cancels performance at Yale’s Spring Fling

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News & Notes: Chance the Rapper cancels performance at Yale’s Spring Fling

Ray Mennin

Chancelor Bennett, more commonly known as Chance The Rapper, has canceled his performance for Yale University’s Spring Fling on Saturday. Chance was expected to perform at the event with electronic-dance DJ Diplo and pop artist Betty Who. According to a letter posted on his Twitter account by his manager Patrick Corcoran, Chance fell ill Friday night following his performance at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas.On Sunday morning, he was hospitalized at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital with a high fever and difficulty speaking. Chance is currently recovering at his home. The announcement that he would not be able to perform at Yale occurred the same day he announced that he would not recover in time for his second set of the closing night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

NEWS | 04/22/2014

Q&A: Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya

Jacqueline Gufford

After his lecture “The Awakening African Lion” on development and change on the African continent, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss current Kenyan politics, his experience as an African Union negotiator in the Ivory Coast’s 2010-11 conflict and the rise of terrorism and terrorist groups in Africa. The Daily Princetonian: Political pluralism was established in Kenya as recently as 1991, and yet the presence of multiple political parties seems to make maintaining a stable state even more difficult.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Former Kenyan Prime Minister discusses development of African continent

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Former Kenyan Prime Minister discusses development of African continent

Jacqueline Gufford

Africa has made economic strides in the last several decades and will expand further in coming years due to political advancement, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga argued on Tuesday, in a lecture on development and change on the African continent. “If the continent you have in mind is of dictators and looters, think again,” Odinga said. Odinga, son of the first Vice President of Kenya, Oginga Odinga, held the position of Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013, when the political position was abolished with the passage of a new constitution.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Huffington urges need to redefine success

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Huffington urges need to redefine success

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Arianna Huffington urged the need for a definition of success that accounts for personal well-being in a panel discussion held on Tuesday.In her latest book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder,” Huffington, chair, president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, claims that people need to stop associating success only with money and power and instead consider “the Third Metric of success.” The Third Metric is constituted of what Huffington calls “four pillars” — well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving.Huffington said that her own collapse in 2007 due to extreme stress allowed her to question the traditional metrics of success.“By conventional definition of success, I was successful,” she said, “but by any sane definition of success, if you are lying in a pool of blood on the floor … you are not successful.”That experience led Huffington to ask herself the questions that “all the philosophers have asked forever — What is good life?

NEWS | 04/21/2014

News & Notes: Email declaring Yale's divestment was a prank

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Email declaring Yale's divestment was a prank

Daily Princetonian Staff

Select members of the Yale community received an email on Mondayafternoondeclaring the university’s decision to divest its assets from fossil fuel companies. The Yale Daily News reported that Yale University Secretary Kimberly Goff-Crews confirmed the email was “not an official Yale communication.” The email appeared to be sent by “Kenneth Wilkinson, Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility.” The Yale Daily News could not find any link to the university. The text of the email described a divestment plan which would last 10 years.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

News & Notes: 2014 Boston Marathon to expect high police presence

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News & Notes: 2014 Boston Marathon to expect high police presence

Daily Princetonian Staff

One year after the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, runners will take to the starting line for the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Last year, two homemade bombs made from pressure cookers detonated near the marathon's finish line on April 15, killing three and wounding more than 260 others. Dozens of University students, faculty, staff and alumni either ran the marathon or attended the celebrations that accompanied the marathon, and were confirmed safe shortly after the bombs were detonated. There will be a higher-than-usual police presence at Monday's marathon, in addition to other security measures, Massachusetts Gov.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

USG discusses expansion of counseling services, Lawnparties

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USG discusses expansion of counseling services, Lawnparties

Durva Trivedi

Guests from the Graduate Student Government and Counseling and Psychological Services spoke at Sunday night’s USG Senate meeting. Dr. Calvin Chin, the director of CPS, addressed ways that CPS and USG can collaborate to spread the message that it's important to “not be afraid to acknowledge vulnerability, and to not be afraid to reach out and get resources.” Chin said that on their end, CPS is expanding counseling services' availability hours in the fall, developing their new initiative which places a CPS wellness outpost in the EQuad for drop-ins, working on a bystander intervention program in partnership with SHARE, putting together training so that students, faculty and staff can be trained to act as allies and working on destigmatizing mental illness. Chin said he wants students to know that “it’s okay to have stress, it’s okay to feel displaced, it’s okay sometimes to feel not okay, it’s okay to feel overwhelmed.” Chin said he hopes to communicate that message through a variety of video projects, including a Princeton Speaks Up initiative of short student, faculty and staff testimonial videos.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

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