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Barmeier ’10 wins Rhodes Scholarship

Barmeier ’10 wins Rhodes Scholarship

Henry Barmeier ’10, a Wilson School major earning certificates in environmental studies and Spanish, is the University's sole Rhodes Scholarship recipient for 2010. There are five winners from Harvard, two from Yale and one each from Brown, Columbia and Princeton.

NEWS | 11/22/2009

‘Daily Show’ comic entertains crowd

“Good evening, elitists,” John Oliver said in greeting to a raucous audience in Richardson Auditorium on Saturday night.Oliver noted that his performances at colleges were not usually in front of a marble mosaic backdrop, and he even ridiculed the medieval font of the exit signs. Dubbing the audience “Sarah Palin’s worst nightmare,” he joked that Princeton students were too comfortable eating their arugula and brie to worry about pressing national issues like job security and the economy.

NEWS | 11/22/2009

Cross-dressed to the nines

Around midnight on Friday, a male student in a Lawnparties-worthy sundress — complemented by a string of pearls, a headband and a beard — practiced his handstand in a small room in Terrace Club, revealing black spandex beneath his dress.

NEWS | 11/22/2009

At SpeakOut event, students urged to take sexual assault seriously

The University and its members don’t adequately recognize the seriousness of sexual crimes, Princeton students and victims of recent sexual assaults told a crowd of roughly 25 students gathered outside 1879 Arch on Friday evening.

NEWS | 11/22/2009

U-Store hit with $133K loss in fiscal year 2009

The U-Store, which recently extended its hours of operation to 4 a.m., reported a net loss of $133,829 for the fiscal year ending in June.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

In police force, dearth of alumni

Princeton in the nation’s Service” may be the University’s unofficial motto, but the widespread enthusiasm for service among Princetonians does not extend to state law enforcement. Alumni participation in this profession has been sparse, with only a handful of active police officers listed on TigerNet, Princeton’s alumni database.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Students fined $640 for painting rooms

When Sierra Schelegle ’11 checked her student bill this fall, she was surprised to find a $640 charge for “painted walls.” She was confused, since no such charge had been included in her fire inspection notice.Schelegle is one of several undergraduates who expressed confusion about the University's rules against students painting their dorm rooms, though administrators insist there has been no change in policy.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

UHS administers 860 of 2,000 H1N1 vaccines

University Health Services saw a lower than expected student turnout at the Nov. 16 H1N1 vaccine clinic, administering only 860 vaccines of the available 2,000. “We are concerned that eligible students are not taking advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated for H1N1 flu,” UHS Executive Director John Kolligian said.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Freshman seminar placement determined by algorithm

More than 1,200 total applications were received for the 75 freshman seminars offered this year, after freshmen submitted applications for the spring seminars last week.

NEWS | 11/19/2009

Spreading goodwill, spoke by spoke

Last year, Lorne Applebaum GS saw a flyer on campus for a bike co-op that led him to a tiny room in the basement of Forbes College. One year later, Applebaum is a volunteer with the co-op, since renamed Cyclab, which has become a spot for students and community members to share their knowledge of and enthusiasm for the bicycle.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

U. eschews hiring outside financial consultants

Despite the growing trend among colleges of hiring outside management consultants to help trim their budgets, the University has no plans to take that action for financial counsel, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn

A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwish was cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event’s sponsors, Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, withdrew their sponsorship, citing her criticism of Islam.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

Weidmann looks at Afghan election fraud

Wilson School postdoctoral researcher Nils Weidmann has uncovered substantial evidence of voter fraud in last August’s presidential election in Afghanistan. And he didn’t have to interview a single Afghan voter.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

University names new Public Safety director

Paul Ominsky, the director of public safety at Mount Holyoke, Smith and Hampshire, has been named Princeton’s next Public Safety director.

NEWS | 11/18/2009

News & Notes: Center for African American Studies announces summer internships

The University announced this week that the Center for African American Studies is launching an internship program this summer for students interested in working on issues of race and public policy.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Amazon CEO Bezos '86 to speak at Baccalaureate

Jeff Bezos ’86, founder and CEO of the online retail giant Amazon.com, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on May 30, Class of 2010 president Aditya Panda announced Tuesday in an e-mail to all seniors. Bezos, a former Quadrangle Club member, graduated summa cum laude from the University as a concentrator in computer science and electrical engineering. After college, he worked in finance for several years before founding Amazon.com in 1994.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

USG handbook inconsistent with constitution

USG officials distributed an elections handbook at their meeting Sunday evening that is inconsistent with both the current USG constitution and the bylaws of the Council of the Princeton University Community. The inconsistencies relate to the election of class senators and U-Councilors.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

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