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At storm's peak, a rescue effort impeded

At storm's peak, a rescue effort impeded

It was the height of Hurricane Sandy, and much of Princeton lay in pitch darkness, countless roads were closed and even the town's emergency operations center — created to manage the crisis response — lost power for a time. Click here for an interactive graphic — pairing police dispatch recordings and maps of Princeton — detailing the attempt to reach the house of William Sword '76.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

Wilson School group finishes up consolidation report

For the past 12 months, Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have been attempting to combine two governments into one, a process that, though complicated and occasionally contentious, has provided a local case study to a group of Wilson School graduate students studying municipal governance.

NEWS | 12/03/2012

News & Notes: Terrace, Quad, Cloister and Charter elect leadership

Each sign-in eating club on the Street except Colonial Club has elected its leadership for the next year. Neal Donnelly ’14 will serve as president of Terrace Club, Branden Lewiston ’14 of Quadrangle Club, Paul Popescu ’14 of Cloister Inn and Sam Halpern ’14 of Charter Club. Colonial will choose its officers in January.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Office of Religious Life quietly expands international humanitarian efforts

Dean of Religious Life Rev. Alison Boden will speak at a meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges in Geneva next week, discussing how the UN can work with faith-based organizations without sacrificing its secular nature. The speaking engagement reflects the Office of Religious Life’s broader reorientation toward international humanitarian efforts since Boden’s appointment in 2007.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Teacher Prep program to offer new urban-related certification track

This coming spring, the Program in Teacher Preparation will implement a new certificate track called "Urban Concentration," which focuses on issues in urban education. Students pursuing a certificate in teacher prep will be able to choose this subject for specialized study.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

1 month until consolidation, TTF hears feedback from public

The Transition Task Force — the body tasked with facilitating the January consolidation between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township — unveiled the final draft of its report at a town hall-style meeting held to discuss the process with local residents on Monday night.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

News & Notes: 245 apply for RCA positions

The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students received applications from 245 sophomores and juniors interested in becoming Residential College Advisers next year, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Student shipping agency in Frist closes its door

The Shipping and Packing Agency in Frist Campus Center has been closed permanently due to a lack of sales, according to Aaron Hoffman, assistant to the director of Student Agencies in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

Slaughter ’80 reflects on her article in The Atlantic on balancing work and family

Anna Mazarakis

University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 spoke about her reasons for writing the highly controversial article in The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," and the responses the article received at a public lecture at the Wilson School on Monday. The article discussed the struggle Slaughter believes all women face to maintain their professional and family lives. Slaughter wrote about her decision to leave her position as the first woman to serve as the director of policy planning for the State Department in order to spend more time with her family.

NEWS | 12/02/2012

USG debates 'invisible primaries' that lead to unopposed elections

The USG discussed the high number of unopposed races in the recent elections at the Senate meeting last night. Senior USG members had previously suggested that the prevalence of unopposed races indicated the USG’s failure to adequately publicize the elections.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Kuhn ’13, Pasricha ’13 win Princeton Pitch; team of three freshmen wins social entrepreneurship category

The developers of "11th Hour Tutors," an online service that would pair students in need of immediate problem set assistance with graduate students capable of helping them, won $1,000 Friday night at the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s annual Princeton Pitch event.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

News & Notes: After Harvard cheating scandal, Yale discourages take-home exams

Following the news that 125 Harvard students unfairly collaborated on a take-home exam, Yale College Dean Mary Miller '75 recommended to Yale faculty that they not distribute take-home exams during this semester’s finals period, according to the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Watching from the skies of Princeton

When Ted Price ’10 was flying back from a trip to the Hamptons to attend Reunions in June 2010, just before his graduation, he encountered a huge storm.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Internationalizing Princeton

Over fall break, University President Shirley Tilghman and four other administrators traveled to South America and formally signed a strategic partnership with the University of Sao Paulo. And by the end of this academic year, the University will have concluded three strategic partnerships — the other two with Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Tokyo — and intends to pursue at least a few more.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Community criticizes U. plan for new art complex

The University’s plan to build a new complex of arts buildings came under fire at a meeting of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday evening as opponents of the plan spent two hours under oath criticizing the University’s plan to move the Dinky station.

NEWS | 11/29/2012

Times' Steinberg, Rapelye talk admissions reforms

Summer experience is a “wildly overrated” portion of college applications, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said at a talk Thursday night with Jacques Steinberg, editor of The New York Times blog “The Choice,” which focuses on college admission.

NEWS | 11/29/2012

Presidential transition may be stable as no top administrators plan exit

While University President Shirley Tilghman plans to step down from her post in Nassau Hall this June and eventually rejoin the faculty, none of her fellow top-level administrators are planning to step down from their posts alongside her, according to interviews with them this week.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

With Dartmouth announcement, Princeton stands alone in Ivy presidential search

Princeton is now the only Ivy League school still searching for a new university president following Dartmouth’s announcement Thursday that Philip Hanlon, a top administrator at the University of Michigan, would be the school’s 18th president. Dartmouth’s announcement is just three weeks after Yale named its current provost, Peter Salovey, as its next leader.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

News & Notes: Harvard early applications jump by 15 percent

Harvard received 4,856 applications to its single-choice early action program, a 15 percent increase over the last year, when it first reinstated an early admission option.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

Former head of World Bank encourages Wilson School students to look beyond data

Robert Zoellick, who was president of the World Bank during the global financial crisis and held that position until this past June, challenged public policy students not to simply analyze a problem but to actually solve it in a lecture hosted by the Wilson School on Thursday.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

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