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Former students flock to campus

Former students flock to campus

While alumni make a well-publicized takeover of campus each spring for Reunions week, every February since 1915 a smaller number have returned for Alumni Day for a more intimate view of the campus. This Saturday roughly 1,100 alumni, their families and guests attended a series of lectures and receptions for one focused day of alumni activities amid the general bustle of campus life.

NEWS | 02/26/2012

Students extol virtues of off-campus housing

While many Princeton students consider Forbes the most secluded residential area on campus, students who live off-campus also claim that it’s worth the walk, and, in some cases, the drive.While these students spend a lot of their time around campus during the day, after class, they retreat to various living spaces that are often very different from a typical college dorm.

NEWS | 02/26/2012

News & Notes: Penn Switches to Gmail

The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences will switch from Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail to Gmail this summer, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last week. The school’s computing department made the decision after learning that over 50 percent of Penn students forward their Hotmail emails to their personal Gmail accounts.

NEWS | 02/26/2012

Raised on the Street

For most of her time at Princeton High School, Elektra Alivisatos ’14 had little interaction with the University social scene on Prospect Avenue. The one time she tried to enter Terrace Club with her friends her senior year, she ended up in the basement of Campus Club instead.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Virus linked to restaurants

Local health officials assessed Thursday that the norovirus that has infected more than 261 University students originated “in the community,” possibly at a local restaurant.David Henry, the Princeton Borough health officer, said the Borough “has not identified any particular restaurant.” Henry noted that cases of gastroenteritis began to appear during the University’s Intersession break, when many students eat off campus. He added, though, that finding a specific source of an outbreak is “very rare.”

NEWS | 02/23/2012

News & Notes: 41 seniors run for Young Alumni Trustee

Fourty-one seniors are running for the Class of 2012 Young Alumni Trustee, the largest number of candidates since the University began keeping records of the YAT elections in 1999. The Young Alumni Trustee is elected annually from the senior class to serve a four-year term on the Board of Trustees.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Startup programs launched for students

Two new summer entrepreneurship accelerator programs have launched in the past few weeks, providing select students with an opportunity to collaboratively develop their startup ideas.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Planned development of graduate student housing to include 9-acre Merwick site

The University submitted site plans to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton last week for new residential housing north of campus. The University plans to develop the 16-acre Stanworth Apartments site, with its 23 buildings built in the 1940s, and the adjacent nine-acre Merwick site as part of its Housing Master Plan to increase faculty, staff and graduate student housing by 2016.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Aspire Campaign raises $1.64 billion

The University’s Aspire Campaign is well on track to completion, University officials said, having raised $1.64 billion — or 94 percent — of the $1.75 billion the campaign is slated to raise by this June.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Greek life committee to delay report

The group charged with determining how to implement the University’s policy banning freshman rush will not issue its recommendations until after midterms, according to committee chair and Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Gender-neutral housing expands to 278 spots

Gender-neutral housing for upperclassmen has been expanded for the upcoming academic year, with a total of 278 beds in the Spelman, Scully, 1901-Laughlin and Foulke dormitories included in the revised program.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Firestone to replace carrels

For seniors and graduate students majoring in the humanities and social sciences, an iconic piece of the Princeton experience is soon to disappear. In light of the increasingly low rate of carrel use, Firestone Library is replacing its 500 metal carrels with newer ones as part of the building’s eight-year renovation plan.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Professor emeritus Malcolm Steinberg passes away at 81

Molecular biology professor emeritus Malcolm Steinberg, who retired in 2005 after 39 years at the University, died on Feb. 7 at his Princeton home, the University announced yesterday. He was 81.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Silberman ’13 enters ‘Iron Chef for Jewish Mothers’

Eric Silberman ’13 has been named a semifinalist in the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off contest, which will present a $25,000 award to the national grand prize winner.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Prospect 12

I met him where he told me, on University Place, and we drove to pick up the paper, this paper, to be delivered all over campus and beyond — all before breakfast. I caught a glimpse of what Princeton is like during this witching hour, and I like to think I’m a little bit wiser for it.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Q&A: National Teacher of the Year

Michelle Shearer ’95, who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2011, returned to campus to speak with students, teachers and local superintendents Wednesday night.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

West GS ’80: ‘I’m having a wonderful time ... getting arrested.’

African American studies professor and civil rights activist Cornel West GS ’80 has kept up a hectic public schedule since announcing his plans in November to leave the University for the Union Theological Seminary in New York City at the end of this academic year.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

First Transit, Occupy collide in dispute

A TigerTransit bus driver was temporarily suspended last week, allegedly as a response to his attempts to start a union, sparking an aggressive campaign from Occupy Princeton to save his job. After being handed a two-day suspension, the driver, only known as “Al,” returned to work last Wednesday.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

Vegetarian co-op takes control of 2D room draw

The Housing Department will no longer control room draw into the University-owned house at 2 Dickinson Street, informally known as 2D.This year, the draw will be controlled by the 2D vegetarian co-op, which cooks and eats meals in the house.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

News & Notes: Princeton MSA responds to alleged NYPD surveillance at other Ivies

Between 2006 and 2009, the New York Police Department went undercover to monitor the actions of Muslim student groups at Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and at least 12 other schools across the Northeast, the Yale Daily News reported on Saturday.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

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