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Council announces small tax increase for Borough

Council announces small tax increase for Borough

At Tuesday’s meeting, the Borough Council reviewed this year’s municipal budget and discussed the difficulties it might face if the University chooses not to make a voluntary contribution this year. During its closed session, the Council also prepared for negotiations with the University regarding its Arts and Transit Neighborhood zoning proposal.

NEWS | 03/08/2011

Panel discusses issues facing Yemen in wake of Middle East strife

A panel discussion sponsored by the Wilson School titled “Yemen: Thinking Outside the [al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula] Box” was held in Dodds Auditorium on Monday. The panel featured Wilson School lecturer Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen; Michael Ryan, senior research associate at the Jamestown Foundation; and Wilson School professor Jacob Shapiro.

NEWS | 03/08/2011

Global Seminars take only 75 students

The University’s Global Seminars initiative accepted 75 students out of a total of 215 applicants this year, according to Mark Beissinger, acting director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

NEWS | 03/08/2011

Students launch wiki site for U.

A group of students recently launched a wiki website called Princeton Panda that aims to compile University information, such as calendars and contact information, into one organized website.

NEWS | 03/08/2011

Less than 32 percent chosen to be RCAs

This year, 81 full-time RCAs and a “handful” of Assistant RCAs were selected out of a record applicant pool of 256 students, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Cole Crittenden GS ’05 — who oversaw the application process — said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

Colleges sponsor Friday trip to infamous Spider-Man show

This time, Spider-Man flew. No falls. No broken wrists. No hospitalizations.Last Friday, around 96 students from Forbes, Mathey, Rockefeller and Whitman colleges went on a residential college-sponsored trip to a preview of the $65 million rock musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” at New York’s Foxwoods Theatre.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

News & Notes: School Board releases budget report for 2011-12 school year

The board of education for Princeton Regional Schools approved a tentative budget for the upcoming academic year.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

31 seniors vie for Young Alumni Trustee position

The University announced on Thursday that 31 seniors have been confirmed as candidates in the annual Young Alumni Trustee election. Starting July 1, the winner of the race will serve a four-year term as a part of the 40-member Board of Trustees.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

'Priority Mail': Messages with sticking power

The little white stickers are hard to see. Yet upon closer examination, they are everywhere: tucked behind a printer in Blair, underneath a shelf in Firestone, on a telephone pole in front of the U-Store and even on a window on the Dinky. “Color your existence,” one says. “You are beautiful,” another reads.The phrases, written on U.S. Postal Service priority mail labels, are the brainchild of an anonymous person who goes by the name Priority Mail, or PM.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

CJL meets to take official Israel stance

The Center for Jewish Life moved closer to defining its policy on Israel-related issues at a student board meeting forum on Sunday night in an effort to clarify the relationship between the campus’ Jewish religious organization and the political objectives central to its mission, members of the CJL explained.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

Councilman Goldfarb announces mayoral run

Princeton Borough Councilman David Goldfarb announced his candidacy for Borough mayor this weekend after 20 years on the Council.

NEWS | 03/06/2011

News & Notes: Dartmouth columnist comes out in support of grade deflation

The Dartmouth, the college’s student paper, published an op-ed on Thursday revealing that, for the first time in the school’s history, more than half of grades awarded at the school are A’s or A-minuses.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

Wilson School takes 90 of 180 applicants

The Wilson School accepted 90 sophomores out of about 180 who applied, Professor in Public and International Affairs Stanley Katz told The Daily Princetonian on Thursday, when decisions were announced.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

News & Notes: Rutgers University implements gender-neutral housing policy

Rutgers University announced last week that it would offer a gender-neutral housing option for students beginning in the 2011-12 academic year.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

Pulitzer prize-winner discusses political reporting

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer gave a talk titled “Political Reporting in the 21st Century” before an audience of roughly 50 students and community members in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber on Thursday night. The talk was sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

Canadian judge speaks on global justice

Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada delivered the annual John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication to a nearly full Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Thursday night. Her talk, titled “Global Justice: The Power and the Pity,” was hosted by the Wilson School’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

Admission news comes early for some

Though under one month remains until the University’s deadline to notify its 27,115 applicants for the Class of 2015 of the decision regarding their admission, a small number of students have already been informed that they should expect to have a spot in the incoming freshman class.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

Moving forward, arming options

Called to campus in summer 2009, Borough police officers readied their patrol rifles and began searching the campus for a gunman. Walking alongside the Borough officers were the University’s Public Safety officers. But instead of carrying the handguns and assault weapons as did the Borough officers, Public Safety officers were unarmed.

NEWS | 03/03/2011

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