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Liz Lempert: Community organizer turned mayor

Liz Lempert: Community organizer turned mayor

Patience Haggin

Liz Lempert, the first mayor of the consolidated Princeton, can seem more like a community organizer than a politician. Nevertheless, Lempert — a mother and local advocate who became known in the community through her involvement with the Obama campaign — has risen to the top of Princeton local politics in just five years.

NEWS | 02/04/2013

40 percent of RCA applicants accepted

Approximately 40 percent of students who applied to be residential college advisors were offered a position this year, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin.Out of 245 applications for 97 available positions, 52 were filled with new students and 45 with returning RCAs. Fourteen of the applicants were chosen to be alternate residential college advisors, or ARCAs.

NEWS | 02/04/2013

Initiative seeks to use digital tools in humanities disciplines

In a new initiative, University faculty and staff are working together to encourage the development of digital tools in the study of the humanities. The Digital Humanities Initiative at Princeton is a project to bring together members of the University community who are working to explore how digital tools may be used to aid humanistic scholars.

NEWS | 02/04/2013

U. announces new Argentina summer program

Only a year after the University launched the Princeton in Brazil program, the University is instituting a new Princeton in Argentina summer study abroad program in Buenos Aires. In a partnership with the Universidad de Belgrano, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and the Program in Latin American Studies will jointly offer one intermediate and one advanced Spanish course exclusively for University students.

NEWS | 02/04/2013

N&N: Police lose sight of couple with rifles; schools placed on lockdown

All schools in Plainsboro and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South were put on lockdown Tuesday afternoon after West Windsor police lost sight of a man and a woman carrying hunting rifles.

NEWS | 02/04/2013

News & Notes: Error leaves SCORE down briefly on Monday morning

Students were unable to access the Student Course Online Registration Engine at the beginning of the formal course add/drop period for less than an hour due to an error made in the Office of the Registrar on Monday morning.

NEWS | 02/03/2013

Housing expands gender-neutral option to residential colleges

Undergraduate Housing has expanded the gender-neutral housing option into the residential colleges for the first time, according to the 2013 Undergraduate Room Draw Guide. The option, which allows students of different genders to live together, will now be available to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors in the residential college draws in addition to the draw already available in upperclass dormitories.

NEWS | 02/03/2013

Freshman seminar donates a total of $50K to five charities

Tasked with donating $50,000 to charities of their choice through FRS 157: Philanthropy, fifteen freshmen voted to give the money to five organizations: Pratham USA, Breakthrough New York, CHOICE Humanitarian, charity: water and Give Me A Shot.

NEWS | 02/03/2013

NY Governor Cuomo nominates Rivera ’82 to state appeals court

Jenny Rivera ’82 was nominated by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the New York Court of Appeals on Jan. 15 and is currently awaiting confirmation by the State Senate. A law professor at the City University of New York who has been in as many classrooms as courtrooms in her multifaceted career, Rivera has a long history of political activism.

NEWS | 02/03/2013

Experts say suit challenging Arts and Transit zoning is unprecedented

Patience Haggin

Local residents who filed a lawsuit against the University late last year stand on unprecedented legal ground, according to legal and policy experts familiar with the case.

NEWS | 02/03/2013

Senate passes $50 billion Sandy disaster relief bill, town seeks reimbursement

Following the U.S. Senate’s approval of an emergency package to fund rebuilding efforts and provide assistance to the victims of Hurricane Sandy on Jan. 28, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said that the town had requested $211,297 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy. The request did not include the cost of debris removal.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

News & Notes: Colleges to pilot residential community program

Mathey and Whitman Colleges will pilot two residential community programs in the 2013-14 academic year centered on the Creative Arts and Humanities or Civic Engagement, respectively. The projects will aim to build a community of students with similar interests and to facilitate interclass mentorship and campus leadership in the arts and public service.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

Aman Sinha ’13 wins Churchill Scholarship

Mechanical and aerospace engineering concentrator Aman Sinha ’13 has been awarded the Churchill Scholarship, the University announced on Jan. 18. The scholarship allows the Ivyland, Pa., native the opportunity to conduct research on information engineering and control theory next year at Cambridge University.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

Terrace takes 183, fills in first round

After taking in a record 183 students as of Sunday, Terrace Club will not take any members in the second round of club sign-ins. The other sign-in clubs declined to release first round numbers.“We’re definitely sticking with one round of sign-in because we’ve had an overwhelming response with the class of 2015,” Terrace president Neal Donnelly ’14 said.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

U.’s RECAP project seeks to broaden public access to federal court documents

Catherine Ku

At a time when public access and privacy in an electronic age has come to the forefront of national attention, a University project to make federal court documents available free to the public has received renewed attention and funding. RECAP, a project of the University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, crowdsources the court documents purchased by its users to give the public free access to them.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

Updated: USG Annual Report Shows $22,500 cost of Silent Disco

In his final email as USG president, Bruce Easop ’13 released the USG’s annual report for 2012 on Feb. 3. The report detailed the initiatives and events of the past year, including Microsoft’s contribution of $20,000 to fall Lawnparties and the $22,500 cost of the Silent Disco.

NEWS | 02/02/2013

Students evacuated from Frist due to gas leak in Gallery

A burner was left on in the kitchen area of the Frist Gallery on Friday evening, leading to a leakage of gas, according to Department of Public Safety Patrolman Alan Lawson, who was the officer in charge at the time.The burner’s pilot light, which would have burned off any gas, was turned off. University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said it is yet to be determined why the light was off.

NEWS | 01/31/2013

Minor storm causes brief town power outages

Local residents escaped rather unscathed from a storm of heavy wind and rain after an unusually sunny day on Jan. 30. Unlike the Southern and Midwestern tornadoes that tossed cars and toppled buildings yesterday, the damage from the storm in Princeton was limited to temporary power outages.

NEWS | 01/30/2013

U. trustees approve $1.58 billion operating budget for 2013-14 fiscal year

The University’s trustees have approved a $1.58 billion operating budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year, according to a statement released by Nassau Hall on Monday. The budget is 4 percent larger than last year’s budget of $1.5 billion and will fund the 12 month period beginning in June 2013.

NEWS | 01/27/2013

Quad raises fees before Bicker week

After significantly lowering its fees to match the cost of a residential college dining hall plan last year, Princeton’s Quadrangle Club has decided to raise its fees for next year's membership. According to an email sent to Quad members and sophomores who have expressed an interest in joining the sign-in club, as well as updates to the Quad and Interclub Council websites, Quad will charge its members $6,600 for the 2013-14 school year — $900 more than this year’s fee of $5,700.

NEWS | 01/26/2013

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