Democrats maintained their sizable majorities in both houses of the state legislature in quiet statewide elections Tuesday night, emerging victorious in a pair of vicious state Senate races in Atlantic and Bergen Counties.
Recently released campaign finance reports revealed that the campaigns of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Rush Holt paid $19,500 each to settle charges by a former election worker who claimed he was fired for hiring minorities.
In the fall of 1967, a team of “special scouts” from The Daily Princetonian and Tiger Magazine went on a trip to eight women’s liberal arts colleges along the East Coast. Their goal: “to select go-go girls for the 1967 ‘Prince’-Tiger Dance,” the ‘Prince’ reported in an article on Nov. 3 of that year. Below the text, the paper had printed the pictures of two of the top candidates — both from Connecticut College — along with self-submitted captions.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have spent the last 16 years trying to understand the process of magnetic reconnection, a natural phenomenon that occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy. In huge bodies such as the Sun and other stars, magnetic reconnection has a very high explosive power.
Cannon Club will be opening earlier than previously announced, according to updates made to its Facebook page and an email sent out to members of the Classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 early Monday morning.
University researchers have discovered new ways to pinpoint the amount of destruction that might be brought by a giant meteorite slamming into the Earth.
“The government has to play a smart investment role in expansion and economic recovery, or we’ll be facing a new normal,” said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, before a crowd of roughly 80 students, faculty and local residents yesterday in Dodd Auditorium.
Two alumni are launching an online service intended to provide college applicants with a more accurate method of assessing the quality of a particular institution and deciding which college is right for them.
Human-driven deforestation has been touted as one of the greatest threats facing wildlife and ecosystems worldwide. But a Princeton research team led by Carla Staver, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has suggested that the loss of savannas to forests as a result of human alteration of climate and landscapes is an equally serious issue.
Following a controversial change in policy, Bank of America has announced that it will be terminating its plans to charge a $5 monthly fee for using its debit card.
If Roy James has his way, Princeton will be host to a 9/11 memorial featuring steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center by Sept. 11, 2012.
The University has pledged to contribute to a study of the local community’s transit needs under an agreement with local government that went into effect on Tuesday. At a reception held in the Dinky waiting room, which the University has reopened under the agreement, officials from the University, Borough and Township celebrated the passage of their memorandum of understanding on transit negotiations.
University news and editorial services director Cass Cliatt ’96 will serve as vice president for college communications at Franklin & Marshall College starting Jan. 3, 2012, according to an Oct. 31 announcement by college president Daniel R. Porterfield.
Former New Jersey Governor and Wilson School visiting lecturer Jon Corzine resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive at MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Nov. 4 while the FBI conducts an ongoing investigation into $633 million of client money that is unaccounted for at the options and futures firm.
As of 8 a.m. on Monday morning, Public Safety confirmed that power had been restored to the Stanworth graduate housing complex and that Route 206 had reopened in both directions after services were halted following a storm during the weekend.
Benjamin Taub ’13, a member of the Katzenjammers currently studying abroad in Italy, advanced to the final 10 of “The Big Audition,” a U.K. talent competition run by jazz musician Jamie Cullum and the PizzaExpress Jazz Club.
Undergraduate Emily Hill ’13 has been announced as a finalist of the Womenetics Advancing Aspirations Global Scholarship, an essay competition that will award a total of $22,000 to 10 undergraduate students.
In an email to Whitman College’s Class of 2014 at the beginning of the year, Whitman master Sandra Bermann described several changes in the college office that happened over the summer. These included Bermann’s new appointment as master of the college — replacing economics professor Harvey Rosen — and Christina Davis’ replacement as Director of Student Life with Devon Wessman-Smerdon ’05.
The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education has launched new internship portals to facilitate its mission of creating unique summer internship opportunities for students interested in engineering and entrepreneurship.
On Nov. 8, residents of Princeton Borough and Township will vote on whether to consolidate into one municipality.
