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As a freshman, Ravi Sangisetty ’03 did not strike friends as a natural candidate for Congress. Now he has tossed his hat into the ring as the sole Democrat in the race for Louisiana’s third congressional district and one of a handful of alumni running for Congress as first-time politicians.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

U.S. men’s soccer team hires security for training camp

U.S. men’s soccer team hires security for training camp

When the U.S. men’s soccer team conducts its training camp in Princeton later this month to prepare for this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa, students will have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the squad.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Sally ’12 elected social chair

Jake Sally ’12 was elected USG social chair and Peter Favoloro narrowly defeated incumbent Austin Hollimon for Class of 2012 treasurer in runoff elections, USG elections manager Tony Xiao ’12 announced in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday. Stefan Kende and Kevin Mantel will face each other in a run-off for Class of 2013 vice president after garnering 113 and 70 votes, respectively, in a re-vote.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Reserved passion: Kagan ’81

Elena Kagan ’81 got drunk on election night in 1980. Standing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music with her vodka and tonic, she watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept. Three decades later, Kagan is the first female solicitor general of the United States and one of the leading candidates for President Barack Obama’s nomination to fill the seat of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who is due to retire when the court’s term ends this summer.

NEWS | 05/02/2010

Teaching outside the classroom

Markus Brunnermeier had seen this game play out before. The intense trading, the pronouncements of indefinitely rising prices, the herd mentality — everything about the real estate markets seemed reminiscent of of the dot-com bubble that had popped not so long ago.

NEWS | 04/29/2010

Recognition or prohibition? The future of Greek life

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

In October 2008, a Princeton freshman should have died. During a reunion of Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni at a campus tailgate, a freshman pledge was made to consume dangerous amounts of Everclear. Later that day, the pledge was rushed to the University Medical Center at Princeton, where doctors found he had a blood alcohol level of 0.40.

NEWS | 04/29/2010

Gutmann decries gap in admission

In her first public address at Princeton since leaving in 2004, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann challenged universities to combat the underrepresentation of middle-class students on college campuses and to act in a “publicly defensible way.” Gutmann, a former Princeton provost, spoke Thursday afternoon to an audience of several hundred people in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory and delivered a lecture titled “Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges.”

NEWS | 04/29/2010

Taormino speaks about feminist pornography

“Can there be such a thing as sex-positive, meaningful porn?” prompted the blurb advertising the talk given by Tristan Taormino in McCosh 10 on Thursday. Taormino said yes, in a controversial USG-funded forum sponsored by the campus group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS).

NEWS | 04/29/2010

Alumna sends controversial e-mail to friends at Harvard Law School

An e-mail written by Stephanie Grace ’07 has sparked controversy across the country for suggesting that intelligence directly correlates with race.

NEWS | 04/29/2010

Rocked by recession: A department's dilemma

Members of the economics department, consistently ranked among the top few in the world, agree that the leadup to the financial crisis, and the recession that followed, have revealed flaws in their field’s approach.Some of economists’ core assumptions — that people act rationally and that market prices reveal true value — did not hold during this tumultuous era. But rather than disavow their techniques, which rely on the use of such assumptions to understand complicated issues, members of the department have maintained faith in their approach, albeit with a larger dose of caution.

NEWS | 04/28/2010

Volcanic eruption disrupts travel for faculty members

The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano two weeks ago spewed clouds of ash 11,000 meters into the atmosphere above northern Europe, rendering trans-Atlantic air travel impossible for a week.The largest peacetime disruption to air travel in history, the explosion cost the aviation industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Some members of the University community were among the passengers whose travel plans were disrupted by the roughly 100,000 cancelled flights.

NEWS | 04/28/2010

Website's goal: Get students what they need, and quickly

Princeton students are willing to pay $20 for a ride to Quaker Bridge Mall, $10 for a club soda and $5 for a phat lady sandwich from Hoagie Haven. And through nowineed.com, a new website that officially launches today, they can get what they want.

NEWS | 04/28/2010

NCAA mandates sickle cell trait screening

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that all Division I student athletes must be tested for sickle cell trait, or sicklemia, effective at the start of the 2010-11 academic year, unless athletes show proof of a previous test or sign a waiver exempting themselves from the test.

NEWS | 04/28/2010

Swearing the oath: Inside St. A's

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

Each Thursday evening, 45 Princeton students cloaked in black robes meet by candlelight and swear an oath of loyalty to a hooded figure known to them as Most Noble Archon.“Si vis perfectus esse, vade, vende quae habes et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo; et veni, sequere me.”

NEWS | 04/28/2010

Average GPA is 3.0 at public universities, 3.3 at private schools

The average GPA is 3.0 at public universities but 3.3 at private institutions, according to the results of a survey of 160 American colleges and universities.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Adjusting to America

When Chern Han Lim ’11 arrived on campus, adjusting to the American education routine of homework and class participation was jarring. At his high school in Malaysia, Lim had been on the British track, in which course grades were based almost solely on exams. “I wasn’t used to working hard. I could just afford to slack off the entire semester and cram before exams,” he explained.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

The road less taken

While many of his peers spend their time behind desks, Robert Marshall ’13 will be spending his summer tending a herd of cattle, renovating a cabin and working at an auto shop. Elizabeth Hopke ’10 will be working for her local county Parks and Recreation department in Williamsburg, Va., where she has worked every summer since she was 12 years old, and Brian Lesh ’12 will apprentice for an acoustic instrument shop learning to make basic repairs.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Six years of silence: Shirley & the Greeks

Matt Westmoreland and Josephine Wolff

Six years ago this spring, in a second-floor classroom in Frist Campus Center, there was a meeting that may have been the first of its kind. It was also the last.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Eighty percent respond to census

The University had an estimated 80 percent response rate for the 2010 census among undergraduate and graduate students living in on-campus dormitories.

NEWS | 04/27/2010

Obama ’85 will not attend 25th reunion

Every spring, Princetonians return in droves for their 25th reunion, donning orange-and-black class jackets, to reunite with classmates, march in the P-Rade and sing “Old Nassau.” But the highest-profile member of the Class of 1985 — First Lady Michelle Obama — will not join her classmates.

NEWS | 04/26/2010

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