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Parody heightens campaign tensions

Parody heightens campaign tensions

The Borough mayoral candidates are facing off over a disco challenge. At a meeting of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization on Oct. 16, Democratic candidate Yina Moore ’79 sang a parody of the 1978 Gloria Gaynor song “I Will Survive” with some of the lyrics altered to refer to Princeton Borough and to her Republican competitor Jill Jachera.

NEWS | 10/20/2011

Man exposing self reported near campus

A man reportedly exposed himself to two female students Thursday night while they were running in the West Windsor fields, the Department of Public Safety announced in a campus-wide email.

NEWS | 10/20/2011

Web Update: West GS ’80 arrested again

African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 was arrested on Friday afternoon, the second arrest this week, several outlets reported on Friday evening.

NEWS | 10/20/2011

Public Safety launches liaison program with eating clubs

At clubs up and down Prospect Avenue, there may be a new guest at lunch — Public Safety. To develop stronger relationships with the clubs and their leadership, Public Safety officers have now been paired for the first time with each eating club to act as official liaisons.

NEWS | 10/20/2011

Students occupy Wall Street

As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations continue in New York City, a number of University students have decided to witness the movement firsthand. Throughout last week, these students traveled to the city to take part in an experience that Amina Yamusah ’13 described as “motivating” and “emotional.”

NEWS | 10/20/2011

News & Notes: SAEN names U. third worst of ‘Worst Primate Labs’ in U.S.

Stop Animal Exploitation Now!, an animal-rights activist group, has named the University as the third worst of the “Worst Primate Labs” in the United States, according to a press release from its founder, Michael Budkie.

NEWS | 10/20/2011

News & Notes: PEI announces 7 new projects

The Princeton Environmental Institute announced seven new two-year projects, with a total of $1.1 million in funding, that will allow faculty to investigate climate, renewable energy and carbon sequestration.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

1 driver in Washington Road car crash hospitalized

Henry Rome

A three-car, rear-end accident on Washington Road left one person in the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

Students discuss consolidation

Patience Haggin

Community members brought the ongoing debate over municipal consolidation to the University at a panel in Robertson Hall Wednesday evening, with representatives from the joint Borough-Township consolidation committee presenting their endorsement of the consolidation proposal.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

Eskandari speaks on American mosques

Regina Wang

Former Associate Director of the American Institute of Architects Maryam Eskandari discussed the roles of gender, architectural functionality and modernity in a public lecture before an audience of about 25 on Wednesday night.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

ISS offers reformers experiences, support

Catherine Ku

Those interested in social, economic and political issues will be pleased to find a rapidly expanding pool of research and support beyond the stacks of Firestone Library. Created in 2006, Innovations for Successful Societies is a research program for public servants, policy makers and scholars alike — and not necessarily just University students.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

On weekend nights, Frist pizza transforms

Teddy Schleifer

Last Thursday night, hundreds of students returned from a night at the eating clubs and trekked to the Food Gallery of Frist Campus Center to celebrate a peculiar part of the University’s weekend and drinking culture: late-night pizza.

NEWS | 10/19/2011

Jachera in support of consolidation

As Princeton residents ponder the issue of Borough-Township consolidation for a few more weeks, Republican candidate for Borough mayor Jill Jachera has announced her support for consolidation while Democratic candidate Yina Moore ’79 has reaffirmed that she will not take an official position.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

Ford family donates to athletics department

Emily Tseng

The University athletics department received a gift from the Ford family, the University announced in a press release Tuesday. William Clay Ford, Jr. ’79 and Lisa Vanderzee Ford ’82 have endowed the director of athletics position, which will now be known as the Bill and Lisa Ford Family Directorship of Athletics.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi discusses gender stereotypes after 9/11

Jonathan Dec

Journalist and author Susan Faludi discussed the underlying American social problems revealed and affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, in a lecture titled “9/11 at the 10-Year Mark: A Decade of Fear and Fantasy” held on Tuesday night in McCosh 50.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

Officer sues Borough police

Henry Rome

A 20-year veteran of the Borough police is suing the department under the state whistle-blower protection law, claiming that he was fired in an attempt to “silence him” for investigating another officer. Sgt. Kenneth Riley was placed under internal investigation and indicted by a grand jury in 2008. He was later fired.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

‘Pandemic of our time’: WHO leader talks AIDS threat

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

Christopher Dye, director of health information in the World Health Organization’s Office of HIV/AIDS, spoke about global health policy to a full audience in Dodds Auditorium on Monday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/17/2011

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