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U. considers challenges of partnerships in Africa, strengthens existing ones in Asia

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U. considers challenges of partnerships in Africa, strengthens existing ones in Asia

Sheila Sisimit

With existing partnerships in Asia—specifically, China — established, expansion of programs in Africaposes the next challenge for the University, Council for International Teaching and Research Director and history professor Jeremy Adelman said at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday evening.There is a lot of demand among faculty and students to create partnerships in Africa, according to Adelman, but "the approach for partnership can’t be the same [as in Asia] because the institutional infrastructure and resource distribution isn’t there [in Africa] in the same way as for other parts of the world.”Beyond expansion of programs in Africa, another challenge facing the University’s international initiatives will be to sustain the council’s existing programs abroad.

NEWS | 11/11/2013

News & Notes: Eisgruber to hold first meeting with town officials

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News & Notes: Eisgruber to hold first meeting with town officials

Daily Princetonian Staff

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 will meet with town officials on Dec. 2 for the first time since his installation in September, The Times of Trenton reported. Eisgruber will meet with Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert and other town officials to discuss current and upcoming University initiatives, according to a town press release.

NEWS | 11/11/2013

Budget flexibility, federal funding are main financial challenges at U., Priorities Committee reports

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Budget flexibility, federal funding are main financial challenges at U., Priorities Committee reports

Lorenzo Quiogue

Two of the biggest financial challenges facing the University are reduced budget flexibility and diminished federal funding for research, provost David Lee GS’99 said in a Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting on Monday afternoon.Lee, who chairs the Priorities Committee, presented the committee’s annual report, which included an operating budget of $1.59 billion, at the meeting.During the meeting, Lee explained that the University used a significant portion of its reserve funds during the recovery from the 2008 economic crisis, and that this move reduced the University’s ability to reallocate resources in the event of a crisis.Due to changes in the economic outlook, the University is now in a “new normal” where it can no longer rely on market growth to sustain the budget equilibrium, Lee explained.“We’re a little bit closer to having to think about trade-offs,” he added.Lee explained that congressional gridlock and the looming need to reauthorize the debt ceiling limit in February could increase economic instability and result in further cuts to federal agencies’ budgets.

NEWS | 11/11/2013

Updated: Newly appointed Executive Director of Career Services to outrank current Director

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Updated: Newly appointed Executive Director of Career Services to outrank current Director

Loully Saney

Just months after former University President Shirley Tilghman called Career Services “a work in progress,” the University announced on Monday the appointment of its inaugural Executive Director, who will not replace but rather outrank the office’s current Director. Pulin Sanghvi — the former Director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a role he started in 2010 — will take up office at the University on Dec.

NEWS | 11/11/2013
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Dinky could be supplemented by additional transit to accommodate town’s needs

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Dinky could be supplemented by additional transit to accommodate town’s needs

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A Saturday morning task force meeting on the Princeton community's transit needs presented preliminary possibilities for replacing the Dinky Line —Princeton’s 173-year-old artery to New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor —with a more modern transit system in the long-term future. The train line has been the subject of contentious community debate over the past few years. Should the Dinky ever be replaced by a more modern transit system, itcould be converted into a streetcar or a light rail line, according to the study team.

NEWS | 11/10/2013

Updated: Seventh Princeton-associated case of meningitis treated at hospital

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Updated: Seventh Princeton-associated case of meningitis treated at hospital

Emily Tseng

A male student was diagnosed with meningitisSundaymorning in the seventh case of the disease associated with the University since March. The student sought treatment at University Health ServicesSaturdayfor symptoms of acute illness, according to a health advisory email sentto all undergraduate students Sundayevening.

NEWS | 11/10/2013

Data department targets voters, helped communicate Obama's 2012 campaign message

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Data department targets voters, helped communicate Obama's 2012 campaign message

Durva Trivedi

Data processing played a pivotal role in the Obama campaign’s ability to target and persuade potential voters in the 2012 election, former campaign data director Ethan Roeder argued in a lecture on Thursday evening. Roeder, who served as data director for both the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns, explained that his department pioneered the use of vast data collection operations to aggregate open-source information about voters’ preferences so that they could be approached and persuaded by volunteers. Using polling data, consumer data and open voter files the data department created models to predict how likely voters were to vote for Obama or be persuaded to support or volunteer for the campaign. “It’s stunning to me how relatively simple data can give us such an edge in predicting where people are at in terms of voting,” he said. Open voter files in the United States contain simple information like voters’ names, addresses, ages, genders, voting histories, party affiliations, and racial backgrounds.

NEWS | 11/07/2013

International students get taste of American culture through Davis Center's Thanksgiving host program

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International students get taste of American culture through Davis Center's Thanksgiving host program

Charles Kyungchan Min

As Thanksgiving approaches and many students head home for the holiday, a group of their international peers will experience American culture firsthand through the Thanksgiving Host Family Program run by the Friends of Davis International Center.The program began four years ago to accommodate students and academic fellows who remained on campus for Thanksgiving, according to Hanna Hand, volunteer liaison to the Davis International Center and the director of the program.

NEWS | 11/07/2013

Challenges of globalization require greater international cooperation, says former World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy

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Challenges of globalization require greater international cooperation, says former World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Harnessing the volatile effects of globalization will demand collaborative changes to the bureaucratic system that currently governs international diplomacy, former head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy argued in a lecture on Wednesday evening. Lamy outlined the various effects of globalization before describing possible avenues — Westphalian, neo-, post- and a-Westphalian — that could be taken to improve the international cooperation system, which he said is “weak” at addressing modern global issues. The lecture included ideas discussed in "Now for the Long Term,"a report released by the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, to which Lamy recently contributed. Although increased globalization improves market efficiency and therefore carries great potential for growth and welfare, the benefits of a more integrated global market are “intrinsically connected” to its deficits, including increased inequality, resource depletion and contagion, Lamy explained. “It works because it’s painful, and it’s painful because it works,” he said of globalization, a tradeoff that characterizes the need for global governance. “The international system at the moment is not up to addressing the challenge,” he added. Lamy began by describing the Westphalian approach to international order, which is exemplified by the United Nations, where countries act as sovereign individuals and attempt to construct a common set of international laws. Lamy described the approach as “slow, painful” and “subject to formative diversity,” as sovereign nations inevitably disagree on establishing universal laws due to differences in “ideological, spiritual and cultural approaches to problems.” Lamy then described the neo-Westphalian approach, which does not focus as much on binding nations together through the rules of law and is therefore sometimes more efficient.

NEWS | 11/06/2013

News & Notes: Democratic incumbents re-elected to town council

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News & Notes: Democratic incumbents re-elected to town council

Daily Princetonian Staff

Democratic incumbents Patrick Simon and Jenny Crumiller were re-elected to the Princeton Council on Tuesday over Republican Fausta Rodriguez Wertz,Princeton Patch reported. Rodriguez Wertz would have been the first Latina on the Princeton Council, but she only received 2,173 votes compared to the 4,190 and 3,971 votes won by Simon and Crumiller, respectively. Crumiller, who was a member of the Princeton Borough Council, told the Patch that her priorities include affordable housing programs, keeping municipal property taxes in check andconcentrating the police force through "right-sizing," which reduces numbers through retirement and attrition.

NEWS | 11/06/2013

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