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Researchers load Pac-Man onto voting machine

Researchers load Pac-Man onto voting machine

When voters visit polling places on Nov. 2, they likely won’t realize that the machines that will count their votes could run at least one video game.Over the summer, computer science graduate student Ariel Feldman and Alex Halderman GS ’09 reprogrammed a Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen voting machine to play the arcade classic Pac-Man in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary. The process took just three afternoons.

NEWS | 10/14/2010

Holt, Sipprelle highlight contrasts as election approaches

When Rep. Rush Holt and Scott Sipprelle took the stage in a Rider University auditorium Thursday, it marked the first official debate of the main contenders for New Jersey’s 12th congressional district. But the physicist-turned-lawmaker and Wall Street banker-turned-entrepreneur have been crossing paths on the airwaves and campaign trail for months in what is the most competitive race since 2002, when redistricting made Holt’s district more solidly Democratic. University students have also played a role in the race, from registering to vote to actively campaigning for their candidates.

NEWS | 10/14/2010

Endowment return rate at 14.7 percent

After its endowment investments lost 23.5 percent during the 2009 fiscal year, the University posted a return of 14.7 percent in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2010, the University announced on Friday. The endowment closed the fiscal year valued at $14.4 billion.“The strong performance of the endowment contributes significantly to the financial health of the University in what remains a difficult economic climate,” Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in the University statement.

NEWS | 10/14/2010

Freshman class president race advances to run-off

The races for the Class of 2014 president, vice president and treasurer will proceed to runoff elections today, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 and USG elections manager Tony Xiao ’12 announced in an e-mail to the freshman class on Friday.

NEWS | 10/14/2010

Experts speak on possible future of Chinese legal system

The rule of law in China is very much a work in progress, speakers said during “Rule of Law Development in China,” a panel attended by roughly 35 audience members in Robertson 016 on Wednesday. A mixture of academics and professionals discussed the progress that has been made in creating and enforcing universal laws in China, as well as many of the challenges that lie ahead.

NEWS | 10/13/2010

Art museum features new video exhibit

Since August, students passing the University Art Museum after dark have been treated to a unique art display: a film of bizarre images, such as foxes, deer, bison and other animals in hotel rooms.

NEWS | 10/13/2010

University now 8th in Trojan rankings

The 2010 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released last week, ranked the University eighth out of 141 colleges and universities nationwide. This is a significant improvement from its 2009 ranking of 61st.

NEWS | 10/13/2010

Firestone Library renovation project still on schedule after summer start

Over the next 15 months, Firestone Library will transition from the Richardson classification system to the Library of Congress call number system — the first phase of a 10-year plan to the renovate the library. The reclassification project, which began over the summer, involves individually relabeling and reshelving the millions of volumes within Firestone.

NEWS | 10/13/2010

Rush up 28 percent for sororities

The number of freshman and sophomore women who began sorority rush jumped to 210 this year, a 28 percent increase over last year.

NEWS | 10/13/2010

‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ ruling raises questions about ROTC

A federal district judge’s order immediately halting the military’s enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy raises questions about the future status of the Princeton ROTC program.

NEWS | 10/12/2010

An extra semester

During the fall semester of his senior year, J.D. Walters ’09 found his interest in graduate school waning. Faced by the high cost of further education and the poor employment prospects for Ph.D. graduates in philosophy and theology, Walters turned to the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation.

NEWS | 10/12/2010

Gender-neutral housing receives positive feedback in 1st month

Elizabeth Cooper ’12 and Sam Borchard ’11 wanted to live together, just like other friends on campus. There was only one problem: Through last year, male and female students could not share a room.

NEWS | 10/12/2010

Students abroad unaffected by European travel alert

The State Department issued a travel alert Oct. 3 that warned U.S. citizens of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Ten days later, some of the 55 undergraduates studying abroad in Europe and European students on campus have said that the alert has not significantly impacted their plans.

NEWS | 10/12/2010

Slovenian philosopher Zizek argues that religious texts support atheism

After a long and laudatory introduction by Wilson College Master Eduardo Cadava, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek tugged on the gray T-shirt he was wearing with blue jeans and told the audience that he was a “miserable presence.”

NEWS | 10/12/2010

Firestone farmers market canceled

Students looking to purchase organic coffee, artisan cheese and fresh bread from the Greening Princeton Farmers Market, which used to take place in Firestone Plaza on Tuesdays, will be disappointed to find that it no longer exists.

NEWS | 10/11/2010

Few attend meeting on Malkiel’s successor

The search committee for the next dean of the college held its only open meeting Monday evening in McCosh 28. Though the meeting’s purpose was to provide a forum for student feedback, only one student not on the committee attended. The committee hopes to name a successor to Nancy Malkiel — who announced in September that she will step down as dean at the end of the year — by the end of January, University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said. This would allow the incoming dean to work in collaboration with Malkiel and other administrators before officially assuming the post on July 1, 2011.

NEWS | 10/11/2010

Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa delivers lecture in Spanish before full crowd

Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and a visiting professor in the Latin American studies and creative writing programs, argued that culture has withered in modern-day society in a speech on Monday evening in Richardson Auditorium.

NEWS | 10/11/2010

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