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HackPrinceton site What Would I Say passes 1 million hits, gains national attention

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HackPrinceton site What Would I Say passes 1 million hits, gains national attention

Joseph Sheehan Joe

“We lured a girl into the Large Hadron Collider.” “Herman Cain has already received a carefully groomed mustache.” "We tried to eat our spectacular students." These are just three examples of the randomly generated non sequiturs produced by What Would I Say, a website developed by seven Princeton graduate students during last weekend's HackPrinceton event.

NEWS | 11/13/2013

Proposed amendments to separate class governments from Senate shows tensions between two bodies

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Proposed amendments to separate class governments from Senate shows tensions between two bodies

Anna Mazarakis

The USG Senate and class governments could become two independent bodies if the Senate passes several amendments in its upcoming meetings. The proposed amendments were discussed and written jointly by the class governments and members of the Senate, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.

NEWS | 11/13/2013

Arts and Transit Neighborhood restaurant seeks additional liquor license, though town limit has already been reached

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Arts and Transit Neighborhood restaurant seeks additional liquor license, though town limit has already been reached

Elliott Eglash

A restaurant that will be locatedin the Arts and Transit Neighborhood is attempting to obtain a liquor license, even though the state has already given away its maximum number of licenses to the town of Princeton. To get around the lack of available licenses, Raoul Momo, head of Terra Momo Restaurant Group, applied for a concessionaire’s permit, a special kind of permission granted to businesses that the state deems to be of public benefit.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

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Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

Corinne Lowe

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson, a previously only-theorized particle whose existence would validate the currently accepted model of why things have mass, has had enormous implications for physicists’ understanding of how particles acquire mass, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall explained in a public lecture on Monday evening.In March, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, identified a particle bearing the attributes of the proposed Higgs boson.Theoretical physicistsPeter Higgs and Francois Englert received the Nobel Prize in physics last month for their 1964 proposals of the particle.Randall explained that the discovery will pave the way for new research in particle physics.“It really was a spectacular discovery that gives us insight into the Standard Model of physics,” Randall said of the discovery.Randall began her lecture by showing the hall several pictures of the Eiffel Tower at different resolutions, providing an analogy about the importance of scaling in scientific inquiry as well as the need to examine phenomena at both a large and small scale.Randall emphasized the importance of small scaling in scientific examination and how crucial it was to the research being conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.When Higgs boson particles were discovered, scientists didn’t see the Higgs particles themselves, but rather the particles they decayed into, Randall explained.

NEWS | 11/12/2013
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Students with an evening exam followed by a morning exam the next day will now qualify for rescheduling

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Students with an evening exam followed by a morning exam the next day will now qualify for rescheduling

Anna Mazarakis

Students who have a final exam at night followed by an exam the next morning will now be able to reschedule their morning exam for the afternoon, according to the Office of the Registrar’s website. "Students who have an in-class night exam (7:30 p.m.) followed by an in-class morning exam (9:00 a.m.) the next day may request that the morning exam be rescheduled to the afternoon (1:30 p.m.) of the same day," the policy reads. The change is the result of efforts from the USG Academics Committee, whose chair Dillon Sharp ’14 presented a series of recommendations for the final exam period to the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

University to hire chief information security officer

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University to hire chief information security officer

Warren Crandall

Princeton recently began a search to appoint an inaugural chief information security officer to lead and oversee University policy and strategy for its informational security, according to a recent job posting. The University currently employs an information technology security officer, Anthony Scaturro, although he is not a “chief.” University Spokesperson Martin Mbuguadeclined to compare the newly created position with the old one, arguing that such a comparison wasn’t useful.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

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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