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Planning Board opposes Dinky move

Planning Board opposes Dinky move

Patience Haggin

Planning authorities in Princeton expressed opposition to the University’s planned move of the Dinky as they considered the University’s requested zoning for a new arts district.The Regional Planning Board of Princeton voted 7-2 to send the ordinances back to the Borough Council and Township Committee with some minor recommended changes. The planning board will consider the ordinances again after they are reintroduced by the governing bodies.

NEWS | 10/06/2011

Friedberg appointed adviser to Romney

Luc Cohen

Professor of Politics and International Affairs Aaron Friedberg has been appointed to former governor Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team, the candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination announced on his campaign website. “America and our allies are facing a series of complex threats,” Romney said in a press release.

NEWS | 10/06/2011

Grandmaster explores chess combinatorics

On Wednesday night in Peyton 145, Harvard mathematics professor and chess problem-solving Grandmaster Noam Elkies presented a lecture titled “Mathematics in Chess,” hosted by the Princeton Chess Club.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

Prospect Avenue manhole cordoned off

An ongoing issue related to the University’s steam distribution system has culminated in hot plumes of steam billowing from a manhole on Prospect Avenue.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

Greek life committee members announced

Six undergraduates, two professors and three deans will constitute the committee charged with articulating the details of the ban on freshman rush for Greek organizations, the University announced on Tuesday.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

Brooks Brothers features University in clothing line

Despite uncertainty generated by conflicting summer reports, Princeton-themed merchandise is indeed being sold by Brooks Brothers as part of its new Collegiate Collection.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

82 receive prize for academic excellence

This year, 82 students from the freshman and sophomore classes received the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. The students were honored at a banquet held in the Garden Room of Prospect House on Sept. 27.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

News & Notes: Steve Jobs passes away

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of and quintessential persona behind Apple Inc. passed away on Wednesday at the age of 56.Jobs stepped down from his office as chief executive of Apple on Aug. 24 following a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer and a 2009 liver transplant.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

Rosen, George recall time in politics, D.C.

Politics professor Robert George and economics professor Harvey Rosen traded anecdotes from their service in Washington D.C. at a panel discussion with 20 students in Lewis Library on Wednesday afternoon. The panel was organized by College Republicans President Brian Lipshutz ’12.

NEWS | 10/05/2011

Citizens file lawsuit over Dinky move

Patience Haggin

A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging the University’s proposed move of the Dinky station. The complaint, filed on Tuesday to the Superior Court of New Jersey in Trenton, challenges the University’s right to move the station. The complaint requests that the court permanently enjoin the University from moving the station.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Council approves U.-town memorandum

Patience Haggin

The Borough Council voted 3-2 to approve the memorandum of understanding on the Dinky on Tuesday evening. If passed by the Township Committee, the memorandum of understanding would secure the community a right-of-way easement that would allow for a potential light rail system and would also promise to contribute funds to a study of the community’s long-term transit needs and a study of the community impacts of the University’s expansion.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Governor refutes 2012 run

Teddy Schleifer

New Jersey Governor and University ex-officio trustee Chris Christie officially ended months of relentless speculation about his presidential aspirations on Tuesday when he announced at a Trenton press conference that he would not be a Republican candidate for president in 2012.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Lin discusses past and present projects

Catherine Duazo

Architect Maya Lin presented a lecture discussing her past and present projects at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday. Lin is most well known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Creative writing changes see mixed reviews

Alaka Halder

This fall marks the early stages of the spring 2011 policy change in the Program in Creative Writing, with enrollment in poetry, translation and screenwriting workshops no longer requiring applications for courses at the 201 level and below. But as the add/drop window closed only recently, it is still too early to fully assess many of the effects of the removal of the application process, according to program director Susan Wheeler.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Nwabueze named University ombuds officer

Wokie Nwabueze was named as the University’s ombuds officer last week, the University announced in a recently distributed press release.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

United Left group seeks to provide framework for liberal discussion

Regina Wang

Princeton United Left, an organization started by Seongcheol Kim ’14, is a left-wing group currently seeking recognition from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. The organization, Kim said, is separate from the College Democrats and other campus organizations with similar political views. He described PUL as a broad-based left-wing political party on campus that operates outside of the existing political space while at the same time participating in campus-based actions.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Tiger Inn completes renovations

Luc Cohen

Nearly seven years after it first began its capital campaign, Tiger Inn has nearly completed the first major renovation to the club’s facilities since it opened its doors in 1895. The expansion, which has increased the size of the building by over 5,000 square feet, will potentially accommodate around 50 new members.

NEWS | 10/04/2011

Students look to create new co-op

Catherine Ku

In the spring of 2010, Carlyn Cook ’13, Teddy Eyster ’13 and the rest of the sophomore class had a decision to make about their eating plans for the following year. As Cook did not want to join an eating club, buy a residential college meal plan or become independent, her remaining option was to join a co-op — and Eyster opted to do the same.

NEWS | 10/03/2011

Cannon Club offers discounted fee option

Luc Cohen

Still short of its goal to recruit 75 to 100 upperclassmen to become social members this spring, Cannon Club will now be offering a discount to members of the Class of 2013 who decide to join the reopening club.

NEWS | 10/03/2011

All-campus ball resurrected

Luc Cohen

The Orange and Black Ball will return to the University this fall after an absence of more than over four decades, members of the junior and senior class governments confirmed. The ball will take place on Nov. 11, though the location has not yet been finalized.

NEWS | 10/03/2011

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