The Princeton Community Democratic Organization held a public meeting on Sunday night, advertised as a forum on “Commun-Adversity,” to discuss the recent difficulty of negotiations between the University and the Borough and Township.
Borough residents are suing the University and the Borough to force the University to pay taxes on certain properties that are currently tax-exempt.
Politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Perry delivered the keynote address at the annual Take Back the Night event held on Friday on Frist Campus Center’s South Lawn. Despite the cold weather, roughly 100 people turned out for the open-air event, which featured several survivors of sexual assault who shared their stories alongside Harris-Perry’s talk.
Incumbent Class of 2012 social chair Aparajita Das will not be able to run for re-election after her appeal was rejected at the USG meeting on Sunday night. Das was eliminated from the race by election managers Laura Eckhardt ’14, Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 and John Zumpetta ’11 after she failed to turn in her candidate forms on time due to a miscommunication about a change to election rules.
Re-verb Apparel, a clothing company cofounded by University alumni and current students, officially launched its spring line, “Re-lease,” on April 1. The company aims to raise awareness about different issues through creative clothing designs.
Two members of the University faculty, history professor Michael Gordin and music professor Simon Morrison, have received 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships, the University announced this week.
By summer 2014, the University said it hopes to open a new graduate student residential community south of campus, increasing the area’s capacity by more than 200. The plans for the site, named Hibben-Magie, were presented to the Princeton Township Regional Planning Board last week.
The spring USG elections ballot will feature a referendum proposed by Dan May ’11 which would end the current practice of automatically granting the freshman class president a seat on the Honor Committee.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign a bill today that includes only modest cuts to scientific research funding, a major victory for scientists and activists who feared that extensive reductions would significantly affect the United States’ scientific productivity.
Karen Katz, president and chief executive of the Neiman Marcus Group, delivered a talk Thursday night before a packed audience in Robertson 001. Her talk, which provided an introduction to Neiman Marcus in the context of the broader retail world, was a part of the Business Today seminar series.
John Marburger ’62, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, described the challenges of reconciling the often conflicting opinions of the scientific community and the general public at a lecture hosted by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society in Whig Hall on Thursday evening.
Daniel Catan ’77, the first Mexican composer to have an opera produced in the United States, passed away last Friday at the age of 62 from unknown causes.
The Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room, decorated with floral confetti, white drapery and event schedules decorated with silver borders, looked fit for a wedding on Thursday afternoon at the “Speak Now for Marriage Equality” panel and discussion session organized by the Princeton Equality Project.
A commission of representatives from the Borough and Township met on Wednesday night to discuss the possibilities of merging municipal services and debts.
Actress and model Brooke Shields ’87 will deliver this year’s Class Day address, Class Day cochairs Kristen Davila ’11, Nell Diamond ’11 and Nikhil Basu Trivedi ’11 announced in an email to the senior class on Wednesday morning. Class Day will take place on May 30.
While two newcomers in the race for USG social chair and challengers for positions in the Class of 2012 and Class of 2014 promise some new faces, the majority of candidates in this year’s spring USG elections are running unopposed.
The University will no longer be represented by the 15th District legislative delegation that has represented the University in Trenton for the last 10 years, according to the new district map approved and released by the independent redistricting commission on April 3.
For the second time in just over a year, the Chase bank on Nassau Street was targeted by an out-of-state suspect allegedly aiming to cash a fake check.
National Organization for Marriage social media strategist Louis Marinelli has resigned from his role, announcing in a post on his personal blog that he now supports civil marriage equality.
Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler spoke on freedom and constraint in modern society at the seventh annual Donald S. Bernstein ’75 lecture in McCormick Hall on Tuesday.
