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Spreading goodwill, spoke by spoke

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Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn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

Princeton in Africa opens to other schools’ alumni

The Princeton in Africa Program has begun accepting applications from students from any nonprofit college or university in the United States, breaking with its established precedent of only taking Princeton alumni.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Yale early apps drop 5.2 percent

Early admission applications to Yale dropped 5.2 percent from last year, from 5,556 applications in 2008 to 5,265 this fall, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel announced on Monday.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

News & Notes: Herbst ’83 to become Colgate president

Colgate University announced this week that Jeffrey Herbst ’83 will be its next president, starting in the summer of 2010. Herbst will succeed interim president Lyle Roelofs.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Tiger in the nude

Stereotypical images of Princeton students often include pastel lawn dresses, collared polo shirts and neatly pressed khakis. But one Princeton sophomore, featured nude on the cover of the first official issue of Diamond magazine, is challenging those stereotypes.

NEWS | 11/17/2009

Not-so-safe sex: STIs at Princeton

Though the University dropped from 29th to 61st on the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card this year, the rates of STIs among students on campus are on par with those at other colleges and universities in the United States, based on the fall 2008 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) II and data provided by UHS to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 11/16/2009

Admins: Data suggest law, medical school admissions unaffected by deflation

Princeton graduates continue to be successful in gaining admission to the most selective law schools and medical schools, despite the University’s grading policy, administrators said at the Monday meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

NEWS | 11/16/2009

New rules check fans at tailgates

Township police officers were called Saturday to help enforce new University rules restricting tailgating before sporting events. The call came shortly after Public Safety officers broke up a “violent” fight among two freshman males, authorities said.

NEWS | 11/16/2009

Tiger teachers not deterred by low pay

"Really? Do you really want to be a teacher?” This is a question Marlise Jean-Pierre ’12 and other Princetonians interested in becoming educators often face. For people who pose that question, the teaching profession’s low salary and prestige may seem incongruous with the high cost of a Princeton education.

NEWS | 11/16/2009

Husband and wife awarded Kyoto Prize

Peter and Rosemary Grant, two emeritus professors in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, were awarded the 2009 Kyoto Prize in the field of Basic Sciences on Tuesday, Nov. 10. They are the first husband-and-wife team to receive the Kyoto Prize, which includes a diploma, a 20-karat-gold Kyoto Prize medal and a cash gift of 50 million yen, roughly $550,000.

NEWS | 11/16/2009

Renovated Whig Hall reopens

Around 70 people gathered on Saturday at Whig Hall, home to the oldest collegiate political, literary and debating group in the country, to celebrate the formal reopening of the building, which just underwent its first major internal renovations since 1972.

NEWS | 11/15/2009

Counting pennies at Princeton

Caitlin Caldwell ’12 always dreamed of becoming a doctor. So when she learned she had been accepted to Brown University’s eight-year medical program, which includes both undergraduate and graduate education, she was ecstatic. But Princeton had offered her full financial aid. Without a credit history or a loan co-signer, the $2,000 annual cost she would have to cover at Brown made her decision easy: She came to Princeton.

NEWS | 11/15/2009

Public Safety handcuffs freshman at tailgate

Public Safety officers broke up a fight between two freshman males near the tailgating lot off Broadmead Road before Saturday’s football game. Neither student was arrested, but both have been referred to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students for disciplinary action. One student, who put the other in a chokehold, was placed in handcuffs, though he was not being arrested.

NEWS | 11/15/2009

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