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Cross-country cross-examination

Cross-country cross-examination

Jake Nebel ’13 and David Chen ’13 have fairly typical part-time jobs for college students, but they don’t have typical commutes. Driving to weekend tournaments — like most assistant high school debate coaches — would be pretty difficult, considering that Nebel coaches for The Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, and Chen works for Palos Verdes High School near Los Angeles.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

Physics quandary breakthrough, 80 years later

In a breakthrough discovery, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Emily Carter and physics graduate student Chen Huang have solved an 80-year-old physics problem.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

Resilient Youth Foundation to hold benefit concert at Cloister

When a friend of Josh Miller ’12 was killed in a drive-by shooting his sophomore year of high school, Miller knew he wanted to do something — but he had no clue that the project would carry on into his years at Princeton.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

USG funds group's porn screening and discussion

The student group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS) plans to hold an event that will include screening clips from pornographic films and a discussion with a porn industry director or actor sometime this semester, LeTS president Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 said.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

NJ Transit price hikes proposed for May

Students and faculty who rely on the Dinky and New Jersey Transit buses may face fare increases of up to 30 percent by May, NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein said on Feb. 18, Bloomberg News reported. To minimize the fare increase, NJ Transit is considering eliminating some bus and rail routes and making staff and salary reductions, Weinstein added.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Princeton will host Ivy Council meeting in fall

Roughly 20 Princeton students traveled to Yale last weekend for the Ivy Council’s tenth annual Ivy Leadership Summit, “Fearless Leadership in the 21st Century,” to participate in panels, workshops and networking events. At the conference, the Ivy Council announced that Princeton will host next year’s summit, council attendee Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 said at Sunday night’s USG meeting.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

USG discusses environmental and service initiatives, grading policy at Senate meeting

On Sunday, The USG released the results of its online long-term priorities survey — which students could answer from Feb. 16 to 19. Also on Sunday, USG officials discussed environmental protection and community service at their weekly Senate meeting.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Cotsen Children's Library gives local kids glimpse of India

Traveling to India usually involves a long plane ride and maybe even a rickshaw. But for two hours on Saturday, local children journeyed to the subcontinent without leaving Princeton.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Building bridges abroad

While many students who were admitted to the University last spring are buried in books, Andrew Finkelstein ’14 is building a cow shelter in India.Finkelstein is one of 20 participants in the University’s pilot Bridge Year Program, which began in August 2009.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Brown proposes engineering school

Brown is on the verge of establishing a school of engineering. Provost David Kertzer approved the school at a meeting in early February, The Brown Daily Herald reported on Wednesday. Faculty members will vote on the proposal in April, and the Corporation of Brown University will make the final decision in May.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

After four months, Taproom Cafe sees little traffic

Though it offers free coffee and has been open since October, the Taproom Cafe is still struggling to lure students into its nook in the Campus Club basement.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Yale to raise fees

Yale will increase undergraduate tuition and room and board fees by 4.8 percent, from $47,500 for the current academic year to $49,800 for 2010-11, The Yale Daily News reported.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

New medical schools to give applicants more options

As they advance through the pre-med path — completing rigorous science courses, volunteering at hospitals, maintaining GPAs and, of course, taking the MCATs — students know that their acceptance into medical school is uncertain. The 93 percent acceptance rate among applicants at the University is among the best in the country, but one in 15 applicants still ends up with a stack of rejection letters.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Eight named Liman fellows

Five undergraduate and three graduate students were named 2010 Arthur Liman Fellows in Public Interest Law, the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) announced on Tuesday.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

YAT primary election period extended, website coding error resolved

The Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) primary election will be extended by one day after a technical glitch initially barred several members of the Class of 2010 from voting, Associate Director of Alumni Education Leslie Rowley said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian today.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Column: The electromagnetic magic inside a prox

It’s 3:15 a.m. Friday morning, and you’ve just gotten back from the Street. Approaching your dorm, you pull out your prox and slap it across the sensor. A light turns green, and, with a click, the door unlocks. For a hazy moment, as the door shuts behind you, you wonder what kind of magic enabled your piece of orange plastic to open doors with a wave.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Professors blog to explore ideas, reach wider audience

In 2007, when art and archaeology professor Chika Okeke-Agulu wanted to address controversy surrounding the 52nd Venice Biennale — a global exposition of contemporary art held in Venice, Italy — he took to the Internet.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Alumni create web service to teach kids personal finance

Raising five children has taught Bill Dwight ’84 that lecturing kids about money is futile. So the computer science concentrator from Palo Alto, Calif. decided to devise a more interactive approach. He is now the CEO of FamZoo, a money management and education website that he launched as a subscription-based service last month after working on it for five years.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

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