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Redistricting begins for consolidated Princeton

Redistricting begins for consolidated Princeton

Monica Chon

On Wednesday evening, the Mercer County Board of Elections held the first of three public meetings regarding the new election district map for the consolidated Princeton. Open to the public, the meeting was led by the Chairman of the Board Dominic Magnolo.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Women entrepreneurs share experiences

Regina Wang

Women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists discussed their personal experiences and the environment women entrepreneurs face today before a crowd of mostly community members on Wednesday.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

University offers new Urdu program

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

The University is set to expand its South Asian Studies certificate program’s linguistic offerings with a new Urdu language program, which will be offered for the first time next fall.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Spitzer ’81 speaks on current events

Carla Javier

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 discussed issues affecting the U.S. government in a talk on Wednesday moderated by Ferris Professor of Journalism and former Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

15 Princetonians awarded Fulbright

Brendan Toole

Fulbright grants were awarded to nine students from Princeton’s graduating Class of 2011, four graduate students and two other recent alumni. The grants enable them to study or teach abroad for the 2011-12 academic year. All 15 Fulbright scholars are currently in their host countries.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

News & Notes: Sims suggests solutions for Euro crisis

Nobel Prize Winner Christopher Sims has called for a number of measures to help the European economy recover, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

NEWS | 12/07/2011

Brokaw talks future of U.S.

Caleb Kennedy

Legendary broadcast journalist and author Tom Brokaw presented a lecture titled “The Time of Our Lives” about the American dream and how the United States should focus on service.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

News & Notes: Tilghman ranked 45th for university presidents’ salaries

According to a report released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, University President Shirley Tilghman was paid $910,626 in 2009, ranking 45th of all of the university presidents surveyed for the report.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

Breakout provides positive experiences

Lekha Kanchinadam

Most Princeton students have heard of the Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips organized by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Known on campus as Breakout Trips, the trips take place during fall and spring break, though planning for the trips start months earlier. Many Princeton students noted that, while the trips are good learning experiences, they are also a significant time commitment and are by no means a relaxing way to spend fall break — particularly for trip organizers.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

Gansa speaks on working in television industry

Luc Cohen

Alex Gansa ’84, the executive producer and head writer of the current Showtime series “Homeland” and a writer/producer of “Entourage,” “24,” “The X-Files” and “Dawson’s Creek” spoke on Tuesday about his career path and the experience of working at both network and cable shows.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

Borough approves Arts and Transit zoning

Patience Haggin

The University can now move forward with its plans to build its long-planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood. On Tuesday evening the Borough Council approved a zoning ordinance granting the University the right to build its $300 million developments, ending a contentious six-year process.

NEWS | 12/06/2011

Applicant numbers show impact of University, Harvard policy

Nine days before the University announces its early-action admission decisions, Ivy League universities and experts are assessing the impact of Harvard and Princeton’s recent move to reinstate early-action programs.This year, Princeton received 3,547 early-action applications, and Harvard received 4,245. The shift by the two universities created a ripple effect across the Ivy League, admissions experts said, most notably at Yale and Columbia.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

News & Notes: Borough Police crack down on drunk driving

Starting on Monday, the Princeton Borough Police will be conducting additional patrols and checkpoints as part of the annual statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

News & Notes: Mann named theatrical ‘Person of the Year’

Playwright and Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Emily Mann has been named the 2011 Person of the Year by the National Theatre Conference.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Filmmakers discuss role of documentary during ‘hyper-saturated’ media environment

Launa Greer

Documentaries are a rich form of storytelling with the ability to mobilize the public and shape public policy, argued documentary filmmaker and editor Purcell Carson and TV producer and human rights law scholar Emily Holland ’01 in a panel Monday evening titled “The Role of Documentary in Shaping Public Policy.”

NEWS | 12/05/2011

News & Notes: Timothy Downs named director of Facilities, Finance and Administrative Services

The University’s Facilities Organization has appointed Timothy Downs as the new director of Facilities Finance and Administrative Services, effective Nov. 1.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Experts discuss the ‘art’ element of sustainability

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

In a Monday evening panel discussion titled “The Art of Sustainability! Why We Need Art to Make Progress on Environment,” participants Fritz Haeg, Subhankar Banerjee and Jenny Price ’85 discussed how manipulating art can enact changes in environmental policies and practices.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Students question enforcement of furniture rule

Marcelo Rochabrun

A number of students are complaining that Undergraduate Housing has implemented a new University furniture policy without adequately informing undergraduates — or at least begun to enforce an older policy without notifying students of its existence.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Easop ’13 wins USG presidency in runoff

Regina Wang

Bruce Easop ‘13 has won the USG presidency in a runoff election against USG vice president Catherine Ettman ‘13, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ‘12 announced in an email to the student body early Friday evening.Easop won by a vote of 1,064 to 982. Ettman won the majority of votes in every class, except for the Class of 2013.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Researchers use bubbles for better batteries

Catherine Lei

According to University researchers, the elusive solution for storing energy in electric vehicles may have been discovered in an unlikely place: bubbles.Porous graphene membranes for lithium-air batteries have been found to store more energy than conventional graphene sheets, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

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