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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

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Nearby Buddhist temple will expand

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

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U. to pay more to municipalities

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

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

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

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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

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News & Notes: 2010 U. graduates leave with second-lowest debt

US News & World Report named the University as having the second-least 2010 graduate debt in the country. The average University student graduated with $4,385 in debt, while the average 2010 graduate nationwide graduated with about $25,000 in debt. The University ranked after only Alice Lloyd College, a small private college in Kentucky, where the average student graduated $3,108 in debt. No other Ivy League school appeared in the “10 Schools with Least 2010 Graduate Debt” rankings.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

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Industry, departments partner on environment

Through an initiative to strengthen ties between the industrial and academic domains of sustainable energy and environmental technology, the University established the Princeton Energy and Environment Corporate Affiliates Program earlier this semester. PSEG, the parent company of the nation’s largest electric and gas company PSE&G, became the program’s first charter member as of Nov. 30.

NEWS | 01/08/2012