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Borough Council, community members discuss Dinky

Borough Council, community members discuss Dinky

The Borough Council, community residents and University representatives met at the Council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the University’s requested zoning for the proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the future of the Dinky train and the memorandum of understanding released last week as a result of negotiations between the Borough and the University.

NEWS | 05/10/2011

Wilson School hosts panel on bin Laden

The Wilson School held a panel titled “After bin Laden: The Implications for Foreign Relations and Policy” in Robertson Hall on Monday.

NEWS | 05/10/2011

Faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

Four University faculty members were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the University announced last Tuesday. The Academy is often considered the nation’s most prominent elected body of scientists, and The New York Times has described the distinction of being elected as “an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize.”

NEWS | 05/10/2011

News & Notes: Former sociology professor passes away at 93

Former university professor Harold Garfinkel passed away from congestive heart failure last month at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home at the age of 93.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

News & Notes: Kahneman, Blinder ’67 honored by American Economic Association

Wilson School professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman and Wilson School professor Alan Blinder ’67 were among four economists named to the American Economic Association’s list of 2011 Distinguished Fellows.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

DADT repeal does not change University's ROTC policy

The University has not made any changes to its recognition of the campus ROTC program despite decisions by several of its peer institutions to reinstate official college-sponsored corps.Several Ivy League universities have reconsidered their relationships to their ROTC programs in the wake of the December repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The 17-year-old policy forbade the military from asking men and women serving in the military about their sexual orientation and forbade gays, lesbians and bisexuals from revealing their sexual orientations.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

Petraeus GS ’87 nominated for CIA post

President Barack Obama nominated General David Petraeus GS ’87 to serve as director of the CIA on April 28, two weeks after a White House leak noted that the nomination would be forthcoming.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

News & Notes: New type of transcript unveiled at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In an effort to combat grade inflation, the Faculty Council at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved a new policy that would include median grades for courses on students’ transcripts.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

Obama and Duncan honor Shearer ’95 with National Teacher of the Year prize

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day on May 3, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented Michelle Shearer ’95 with the 61st annual National Teacher of the Year award. Shearer, an AP Chemistry teacher at Maryland’s Urbana High School, received the honor at a ceremony held at the White House Rose Garden.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

Judge halts deportation of Velandia

After a legal fight that has spanned more than the entire length of the school year, Joshua Vandiver GS and his husband Henry Velandia can finally breathe a temporary sigh of relief. On Friday, a Newark immigration judge suspended the deportation of Velandia, a native of Venezuela, until at least December.The ruling came after United States Attorney General Eric Holder intervened in a similar case involving a same-sex couple in New Jersey.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

USG names 6 students to Honor Committee

The USG Senate approved the appointment of six students to the Honor Committee and three to the Committee on Discipline at the last USG Senate meeting of the semester on Sunday evening.

NEWS | 05/08/2011

Greek-affiliated students respond to recommendation

Students in fraternities and sororities, along with nonaffiliated allies, are taking steps to try to dissuade the University from banning freshman rush. The ban, which was recommended in a report issued Monday by the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life, would need the approval of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students in order to be implemented.

NEWS | 05/05/2011

Former mathematics professor Steven Orszag GS ’66 passes away at 68 years old

Steven Orszag GS ’66, who taught mathematics at Princeton from 1984 to 1998, passed away on Sunday at the age of 68. Those who knew him said he was a brilliant thinker who found joy in sharing his love of learning.

NEWS | 05/05/2011

Memo on transit negotiations released Thursday

Patience Haggin

A memorandum released by the Borough Council yesterday — after two months of negotiations between the Borough, Township and University over community transit issues — outlines a plan for a right-of-way easement that would allow for a potential light rail system running all the way to Nassau Street should a new system ever replace the Dinky.

NEWS | 05/05/2011

Graduate application numbers increase

The Graduate School received 11,689 applications for the 2011-12 academic year, up 5 percent from last year. A total of 1,197 graduate students were accepted, for a 10.2 percent overall admissions rate, slightly lower than last year’s admissions rate of 10.7 percent.By the April 15 postmark deadline, 623 — or 52 percent — of admitted students accepted the University’s offer of admission, slightly down from last year’s yield of nearly 54 percent.

NEWS | 05/05/2011

After scandal, Spitzer ’81 rebounds

The former governor of New York makes no excuses about his past.“Life is a series of chapters, and you live and you learn and you go on,” he said. “I make no bones to people that I’ve seen peaks and I’ve seen valleys.”But Eliot Spitzer ’81 — activist USG chairman, widely praised state attorney general, disgraced and scandalized former governor of New York, and now host of a primetime CNN talk show — also refuses to make excuses about his future.

NEWS | 05/05/2011

Social life group recommends freshman Greek affiliation ban

In a report released on Monday, the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life, established by University President Shirley Tilghman in September, proposed prohibiting students from rushing fraternities or sororities until their sophomore year. The group recommended a minimum penalty of suspension for participating in or conducting rush for freshmen.To be implemented, the policy would need to be approved by the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 said in an email to The Daily Princetonian. Durkee, who co-chaired the group along with Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, added that there is currently no specific timetable for the implementation of the new policy.

NEWS | 05/03/2011

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