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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Economist Vitali Naishul discusses Russian modernization

Vitali Naishul, economist and president of the Institute for the Study of the Russian Economy, spoke about Russia’s history of political institutions in Burr Hall on Tuesday evening.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

News & Notes: Princeton ranked 13th out of world’s best universities

Princeton has been ranked 13th in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent ranking of the world’s best universities, moving down from its 10th place ranking in 2010 and eighth place in 2009.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

Burmese monks hold meditation session

Regina Wang

Exiled activist and Buddhist master U Pyinya Zawta and two of his companions led meditation and Q-and-A sessions on Tuesday as part of a three-part program to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the 2007 Saffron Revolution in Burma.

NEWS | 10/18/2011

RNA and Juliet: Science students try hand at playwriting

Alaka Halder

Students and community members gathered in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on Monday evening for the staged readings of four winning plays from this year’s Science Playwriting Contest. The plays were directed by Jeff Kuperman ’12 and performed by student actors.

NEWS | 10/17/2011

‘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

Lawyer criticizes revisions to sexual assault regulations

Luc Cohen

In the wake of two series of changes made to its sexual misconduct policies in September, the University administration has asserted that its procedures are fully in line with the protocols enumerated in Title IX.

NEWS | 10/17/2011

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