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Silberman '13 awarded $25,000 grand prize in national cook-off

Silberman '13 awarded $25,000 grand prize in national cook-off

Eric “Ricky” Silberman ’13 was named the national winner of the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off on Wednesday, taking home a grand prize of $25,000 in cash and prizes after preparing his dish alongside four other finalists for a live audience in New York City.All five finalists were given one hour to prepare and present their original recipes in front of seven judges and an Upper West Side audience of family, friends, Jewish community members, media and Manischewitz employees. Entries were judged — in order of importance — on taste, ease of preparation, appearance, originality and creativity.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

Rapper Childish Gambino to headline spring lawnparties

Rapper Childish Gambino will headline this spring’s USG-sponsored concert at Lawnparties, according to a representative of Glassnote Records, who declined to be identified.Donald Glover, who uses Childish Gambino as a stage name, is well-known for his premier studio album, “Camp,” released this past November. Glover stars as Troy Barnes on NBC’s hit show “Community.”

NEWS | 03/29/2012

OIT issue delays room draw

Freshmen in Butler, Mathey and Whitman colleges scheduled to participate in room draw between 10:00 a.m. and noon on Thursday were unable to select a room due to “technical interruption of service” on the Housing Office website, according to an email sent by the Housing Office to freshmen whose draw times had to be rescheduled.Students originally scheduled to draw today, in Wilson, Forbes and Rockefeller colleges, have been rescheduled to a future date. The draw will most likely be rescheduled for the week of April 16, the email said. Students will draw at the same assigned times on a different date.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

Katsevich '14, Sinha '13 awarded Goldwater

Aman Sinha ’13 and Eugene Katsevich ’14 were selected to receive the 2012 Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that gives scholarships to sophomore and junior undergraduates who excel academically in the sciences. Both were notified on Tuesday by email from Deirdre Moloney, the Office of International Programs Director of Fellowship Advising.The award is given to students who plan to pursue careers in science, mathematics and engineering.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

News & Notes: Kate Fukawa-Connelly selected as new associate director of HPA

Kate Fukawa-Connelly selected as new associate director of HPA continuing the sea change in the leadership of Health Professions Advising, Dean of the College Valerie Smith announced in an email Thursday that Kate Fukawa-Connelly would become the group’s new Associate Director. She will begin her tenure on May 1.Last week, Smith announced that Glenn Cummings, the director of HPA, had suddenly resigned and been replaced by Jess Deutsch ’91, who vacated the Associate Director slot in January that is now being filled by Fukawa-Connelly. After only one month in her new position as the Director of Student Life in Forbes College, Deutsch resigned from that position as well. Deutsch has now returned to HPA as director part-time.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

U. accepts 7.86 percent

The University offered admission to 7.86 percent — or 2,095 students — out of the 26,664 who applied for a spot in the Class of 2016.The total number of applications includes the 3,443 students who applied to the single-choice early action program in December. 21.09 percent of those students were admitted for the first time since 2006, the last time the University offered an early round of admission.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

2 town officials to retire after 30 years

After more than 30 years of service for Princeton Township, Township Administrator Jim Pascale and Chief of Police Robert Buchanan annouced their plans to retire publicly.The governmental positions in the consolidated Princeton have not yet been determined, though there is speculation that the administrator will be current Princeton Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi, which would leave Pascale without a job.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

Breaking: Childish Gambino to headline spring Lawnparties

Rapper Childish Gambino will headline this spring's Lawnparties, according to a representative of Glassnote Records, who declined to be identified.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Breaking: U. admits 7.86 percent of applicants

The University accepted 7.86 percent of applicants for the Class of 2016, offering admission to 2,095 of the 26,664 applications, according to a post on the University website at noon on Thursday.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Q-and-A: Cecile Richards discusses birth control, women's health

Cecile Richards began as a patient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and since 2006 has served as its president. Following her lecture Wednesday afternoon, she discussed her career and her organization with The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Planned Parenthood chief argues health care

With public safety officers stationed at the two doorways on either side of the stage, Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, discussed the politicization of women’s health care in a lecture on Wednesday.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Transition task force discusses logistics of municipality employment

Representatives from the Township and the Borough convened Wednesday evening for a meeting of the Transition Task Force to discuss options for hiring and letting go municipality personnel following the creation of the consolidated municipality.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

News & Notes: Report predicts increase in post-grad hires

A new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts a 10.2 percent increase in the hiring of new college graduates compared to the hiring of the Class of 2011. Last year, the Job Outlook Spring 2011 Update projected a hiring increase of 19.3 percent, the first increase since 2007.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Dean selection criticized

A group of 25 architecture graduate students voiced their disagreement with the selection of Alejandro Zaera-Polo as the new dean of the School of Architecture to University President Shirley Tilghman Wednesday morning.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

News & Notes: Harvard to recognize ROTC on campus

After more than 40 years of excluding the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from its campus, Harvard announced last week that it will formally recognize the group.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Ehud Olmert lectures at Wilson School

Ehud Olmert, the 12th prime minister of Israel, discussed his willingness to compromise with Palestine, the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Arab Spring on Wednesday evening.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Racism claimed in student arrest

William “Mandela” Sheaffer ’13 was arrested by police in Bowling Green, Ohio, on Saturday morning, sparking a growing social media campaign claiming that his arrest was an “injustice” that resulted from racial profiling. The police have refuted this claim.The incident, which occurred one month after a black teenager in Florida was killed by a neighborhood watch captain in what some activists have called a hate crime, has prompted renewed concerns on campus about racial tensions nationwide.

NEWS | 03/28/2012

Borough Council discusses UMCP move

The Borough Council met on Tuesday evening to discuss the logistics of relocating the University Medical Center of Princeton to Plainsboro off Route 1 and the recent string of car burglaries that occurred north of Nassau Street earlier this month.

NEWS | 03/27/2012

OIT warns of malicious emails sent to students and faculty members in scam

Last Thursday, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 malicious emails were sent out to the University community in an attempt to access and collect personal information from both students and faculty members, according to Princeton’s Office of Information Technology.

NEWS | 03/27/2012

News & Notes: Bernanke, former U. professor, briefly returns to academia

Former University professor and current Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke will make a brief return to academia this month, teaching a series of four lectures at George Washington University School of Business.

NEWS | 03/27/2012

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