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Princeton Quadrangle Club will be lowering its membership rates significantly for students who sign a contract with the eating club for the 2012-13 school year, president Katie Knorr ’13 and president emeritus Julia Blount ’12 announced in a press release on Thursday.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

High Inquisitor bans groups

High Inquisitor bans groups

Following the completion of the Task Force on Undergraduate Student Intelligence, University Headmistress and High Inquisitor Shirley Tilghman and the members of the Inquisitorial Squad have issued a number of sweeping reforms to campus social life.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

Students protest magic distribution

In a surprising turn of events at the normally apathetic University, a small number of students have taken issue with the high concentration of magic on campus and have staged a protest just inside the front gates.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

SPEW! accuses U. of house elf violations

The University has been found guilty of a number of nonhuman rights violations, according to an investigation by the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare!.Representatives from the group, who were interviewed when all four members of the organization stormed into The Daily Prophet office demanding attention, said that they had found a number of emaciated and “clearly abused” house elves caged in the University’s basement.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named seizes Hufflepuff

Following the recent break-in at the Ministry of Magic, the forces of the Dark Lord moved into Princeton Township, using their curses to hex, pillage and murder any foolish civilian that stood in their way.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

University officials, Yaro ’12 caught in sex sting

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NEWS | 01/12/2012

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NEWS | 01/12/2012

News & Notes: Gabinus Debenedettus steps down

It is with great regret that The Daily Prophet announces the retirement of former editor-in-chief Gabinus Debenedettus, who was found wandering the woods with no memory of who he was after what appeared to be a traumatic incident with a fire-breathing hellcat in the Forbidden Forest.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

Hogsmeade Council, Hogwarts decide nothing

Following another dead-end discussion between University officials and the Hogsmeade Council, the decision to move the Hogwarts Express station two-Dumbledore-lengths south to make way for the school’s new Center for Tea Leaf Studies and Magical Mental Health has been postponed indefinitely. This is the 17th time in the past four months that such a meeting has completed absolutely nothing. Trust us; we’ve reported on all of them.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

Nearby Buddhist temple will expand

Carla Javier

Not many students know that the home to the western hemisphere’s largest Samadhi statue of Buddha is located less than six miles from campus, right off Route 27.On the same nine-acre property, owned by the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara, is a building the size of a one family house, where three Buddhist monks currently live.

NEWS | 01/10/2012

News & Notes: PPPL begins upgrade of fusion facility

The Department of Energy cleared plans on Jan. 9 for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to upgrade a test facility for the development of nuclear fusion as a fuel source for the United States.

NEWS | 01/10/2012

Campus reacts to federal Plan B distribution ruling

Cerena Chen

Last month, on Dec. 7, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius publicly overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives to young teenagers.

NEWS | 01/10/2012

Goldfarb blasts University, Tilghman

Marcelo Rochabrun

After 21 years on the Borough Council, former councilman David Goldfarb marked his last night on the municipal government last Tuesday with a public speech denouncing the way the University administration has handled its relations with the Borough.

NEWS | 01/10/2012

Physics professor traces origins of unique crystal to outer space

Catherine Lei

A recent University study found that quasicrystals, a form of rock previously thought not to form in nature, actually originate from outer space.

NEWS | 01/10/2012

Study: Uninformed group can help achieve consensus

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

While it is a commonly appreciated theory that more vocal and persuasive individuals can successfully win the vote of those who are either unsure of or uncommitted to an opinion, a Princeton research team suggests that an uninformed group of individuals actually tends to side with the numerical majority, thus helping to achieve a democratic outcome.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

U. to pay more to municipalities

Patience Haggin

Every year, the University makes a voluntary contribution to the Borough and the Township operating budgets in addition to its tax payments. This year, the University has increased its total community contribution — also called a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT — to $2.475 million, University officials announced last month.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Famed MAE professor dies

Sin-i Cheng GS ’52, a former professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a pioneer in the study of aerodynamics, died on Dec. 6. He was 89.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Members of task force selected to address long-term transit needs in Borough, Township

Monica Chon

Princeton Borough, Princeton Township and the University have each selected representatives for a six-member transit task force and the nine-member board of trustees for the Mass Transit Trust Fund. The task force members will study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning long-term transit needs of the Princeton community, especially in light of the development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood. The trust fund trustees will be charged with planning and implementing improvements to the transit system in Princeton.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Local residents discuss new voting districts

A single voting district would encapsulate all graduate and undergraduate housing under a new zoning plan reportedly favored by local residents to create districts for the newly consolidated Princeton.Before Princeton residents approved consolidation at the polls on Election Day, student housing was split between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and consequently different students would report to different polling locations to vote.There are currently 3,057 eligible voters in the larger of the two University voting districts, which was the part that was located in the borough.Under the new plan, there would be 22 voting districts in total in the consolidated Princeton, with larger districts in the western portions of what is now the Township and smaller ones in the more densely populated areas near Nassau Street in what is now the Borough.The plan was designed by the Mercer County Board of Elections with input from a public meeting held on Dec.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: New SHARE director takes office

Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse was named director of the University?s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) office in December.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

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