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Zuckerman lectures on social media

Zuckerman lectures on social media

Launa Greer

To appreciate the role that social media plays in the Arab Spring, London revolts or Occupy movements, we must first understand how larger media networks function and encourage civic participation, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, who spoke in a lecture Thursday night in Sherrerd Hall.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

3,547 students apply Early Action

James Chang

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

Foer ’99, Oates, discuss writing, Jewish identity

Rosaria Munda

“I remember sitting in class here,” Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 said as he sat down with creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates for an armchair discussion, “Writing Life,” in McCosh Hall 50 on Thursday. “It’s strange and exciting to be back and on stage.”

NEWS | 11/10/2011

News & Notes: University Professor emeritus Falk declines debate

Politics professor emeritus Richard Falk rejected a debate challenge from Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz over a book titled “The Wandering Who?”, by Gilad Atzmon, after Falk endorsed the book and Dershowitz described it as “anti-Semitic.”

NEWS | 11/10/2011

Q&A: Raga ’11 publishes teen book

Kathy Sun

For most Princeton students, senior year is a hectic blur of job-hunting, thesis research and figuring out what life after graduation will look like. But alumna Suzanne Raga ’11 spent her last year at the University working on an e-book for music-loving tweens. Her book, titled “YOU ROCK! How to Be A STAR Student & Still Have FUN,” offers study tips for academic success and will “put the cool back in school,” according to its description. Raga spoke with staff writer Kathy Sun on Thursday about the writing process.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

Satok ’14 establishes Voices of Change site

Sohee Khim

Last semester, Voices of Change founder Ari Satok ’14 made the quintessential freshman mistake: He showed up to the wrong class. Instead of going to the international news reporting class he had signed up for, Satok ended up in a radio journalism class by accident.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

Siegel, Greenhouse discuss abortion, politics

Alaka Halder

Yale law professors Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize winner, explored the polarization of America’s abortion debate on Thursday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

University uses skewed income bracket

Teddy Schleifer

The University defines low-income students as those coming from households making $60,000 a year or less, a figure markedly greater than the 2009 national household median income of $49,777.

NEWS | 11/10/2011

Keeping Faith: Amaney Jamal

Robert George

The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.

NEWS | 11/09/2011

USG launches 3C initiative

Caleb Kennedy

The USG Community Service Committee is revamping community service on campus with a new Campus Community Challenge, or 3C, initiative.

NEWS | 11/09/2011

News & Notes: Bassler wins For Women in Science Award

Molecular Biology professor Bonnie Bassler is the second Princeton recipient of the For Women in Science Award, which is presented by UNESCO and L’Oreal. President Shirley Tilghman was the University’s first recipient in 2002.

NEWS | 11/09/2011

Blumenfeld ’13 locked in close school-board race

Andrew Budnick

Andrew Blumenfeld ’13, who is running for a position on the La Canada Unified School District governing board, is 12 votes behind incumbent Jeanne Broberg as of Wednesday night in the election that took place on Tuesday.

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Lockhart Breakfast Project offers new social environment

Catherine Ku

A group of upperclassmen spanning all available campus eating plans has been gathering in Lockhart’s kitchen at 8:30 each morning from Tuesday to Friday to share their morning meal.

NEWS | 11/09/2011

Borough rejects transit-use-only zone

Patience Haggin

The Borough Council discussed the possibility of zoning the area where the train track currently lies as a rail-transit-use-only zone at a meeting on Tuesday night.

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News & Notes: U. receives 3547 applications for Early Action

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced on Wednesday that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program, the first year of the program’s reinstatement since it was canceled four years ago.

NEWS | 11/09/2011

Starr and Wailoo discuss U.S. health care

Daniel Santoro

On Tuesday night, sociology professor Paul Starr and history professor Keith Wailoo gave an informal talk on the different perspectives of the current healthcare situation in America. Both professors presented introductions of their previous works on the topic and shared their insights on past, present and future issues involving American healthcare.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Democrat Moore ’79 elected Borough mayor

Patience Haggin

In two close votes cast on Tuesday, Borough residents elected Yina Moore ’79 as their next mayor and voted to merge with the Township into a single municipality, according to unofficial results.

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News & Notes: Harvard students stage walkout

Around 70 Harvard students walked out of their Economics 10 class last Wednesday afternoon to show solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City and to express their displeasure with the conservative “bias” they perceive in the class, which is taught by economist Gregory Mankiw ’80.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Township elects Democratic candidates

Patience Haggin

Voters reelected incumbent Democrats Bernard Miller and Sue Nemeth to the Township Committee. Miller received 2,739 votes, and Nemeth received 2,682.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Mayor of Jerusalem speaks about experiences

Regina Wang

Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the software company BRM, nonprofit company Snuneet and educational website Start Up Jerusalem, spoke about his experiences and plans as mayor of Jerusalem in a ticketed talk on Tuesday in Robertson Hall.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

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