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When Will Fisher '10 has a cookie, he skips the milk. Fisher, like a few other students on campus, is a vegan. Vegans make up a mere 3 percent of the undergraduate population, Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail. Though they do not consume meat, fish, poultry or animal products and by-products like eggs and dairy, students said that campus dining options — though limited — are still conducive to a vegan lifestyle.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Diemand-Yauman ’10 wins Pyne Prize

Diemand-Yauman ’10 wins Pyne Prize

Former USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 has been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University announced this morning.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Local charter school to offer Mandarin program

This September, some local grade schoolers will be learning more than the basics on their first day of class when the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) opens its doors — and debuts its Mandarin Chinese immersion program — to 170 students.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

U. still plans to break ground on construction projects

President Tilghman addressed the immediate future of the University through the lens of fiscal conservatism.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Audio: The extremes of room draw

Eben Novy-Williams '10, Associate Editor for Sports Emeritus, takes a look at both extremes of room draw in a piece he produced for Back Story, a radio show produced by undergraduates in Dan Grech '99's fall journalism course, The New Audio Age of Journalism. The complete show will air Feb. 14 at noon on WPRB.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Sculpture, sketching and stereotypes

Princeton’s art and archaeology department reflects the field’s changing demographics, with a predominantly male faculty and a primarily female student body.

NEWS | 02/08/2010

Labyrinth Books closed Saturday, citing weather and parking policies

Students who trudged through the snow to Labyrinth Books on Saturday were greeted by a sign that read, “Labyrinth will be closed due to weather and the town’s absurd parking policy.”

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Tower has record 219 bickerees

With 219 bickering, Tower Club set a new record for the largest bicker class in the University’s history. The previous record of 217 was set by Tower in spring 2008.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Alcohol transports fall for weekend of pickups

Five intoxicated students were transported to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) last weekend, the Department of Public Safety reported.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

USG-funded concerts to resume at spring Lawnparties

The USG will sponsor a spring Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, after having donated its fall social budget to the Pace Center, USG social chair John Wetenhall ’11 said at the USG’s first meeting of the semester Sunday afternoon.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Google awards $500,000 to professors for web projects

Google announced last Tuesday that it will award five Princeton professors combined grants of $500,000 for their promising research on Internet energy efficiency and privacy.

NEWS | 02/07/2010

Authors decry gender inequity

Sheryl WuDunn GS '88 and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke about their new book “Half the Sky” before a packed crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon. The nonfiction work identifies gender inequity as the moral challenge of the century.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Children learn through Legos

Thousands of students apply every year for the opportunity to study engineering at Princeton. But roughly 40 students bypassed the application process altogether and began their first class Thursday night. The select few were eight-year-olds who spent an hour building cars out of Legos at the Princeton Public Library, under the mentorship of four undergraduate engineers.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Art Museum attracts with late night hours

The Princeton University Art Museum’s portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton went missing last night. But it was found within the hour, thanks to the detective work of roughly 45 undergraduates participating in the museum’s scavenger hunt Thursday evening.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Cottage drops pickups

Raucous chanting, door-banging and shaving cream spraying have routinely ushered in the first Friday of the spring semester in recent years, as bicker clubs pick up new members from their dorm rooms.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Late-night eating options cater to different tastes

Long after the eating clubs have stopped serving dinner and the dining halls have turned off their lights, hungry students in search of a late-night snack still have many places they can turn to to satisfy their cravings.

NEWS | 02/04/2010

Forrestal will house new computer research center

The University is planning to build a new data center facility to accommodate its growing computing needs. Set to open in 2011, the new facility will house general administrative and academic computing systems, as well as the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science Center (TIGRESS).

NEWS | 02/03/2010

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