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Panel debates media, U.S. Supreme Court

Panel debates media, U.S. Supreme Court

The more people know about the U.S. Supreme Court, the less they like it, correspondents who cover the judicial body explained to a packed Robertson Hall on Wednesday. The panel discussion, which C-SPAN also broadcasted live, was moderated by sociology professor Paul Starr. “Full Court Press: The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Understanding” included New Yorker writer and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin, Slate.com writer and editor Emily Bazelon, New York Times correspondent Adam Liptak and Slate.com editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick.

NEWS | 11/11/2009

University to invest $40M in sustainability

The University will invest more than $40 million over the next 10 years to reduce utility usage by at least 25 percent as part of its Energy Master Plan, according to the Report on Sustainability released on Tuesday.

NEWS | 11/11/2009

OIT may consider outside e-mail provider

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) has begun discussing a possible plan to outsource the University e-mail service to third-party providers, also called cloud providers, OIT associate director Steven Sather said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 11/11/2009

Notes on Nunokawa

English professor and Rockefeller College master Jeff Nunokawa’s has been at the University for more than two decades. He was filled with excitement as he began to talk about the community he has overseen for two years.

NEWS | 11/10/2009

NOM denied restraining order

A district court judge ruled on Oct. 28 to deny a motion made by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for a restraining order against the Maine ethics commission, which is currently investigating NOM’s finances.

NEWS | 11/10/2009

Breakout trips teach service

While many students caught up on sleep and TV over Fall Break, others spent their week immersed in civic engagement. The Breakout Princeton trips, organized by the Pace Center, drew 73 participants, making this fall’s program the largest yet. But because of escalating demand, only 61 percent of the 120 applicants could be accommodated, said Andrew Nurkin, the senior program coordinator at the Pace Center.

NEWS | 11/10/2009

From Frist to the farm: An unconventional path

Steve Slovenski ’09 works with cattle and horses on a ranch in California. As the economic downturn weakened job prospects for recent graduates, Slovenski decided to pursue an unconventional solution.

NEWS | 11/10/2009

Kiplinger: University education is affordable, high quality

Princeton offers the second-best value among private colleges for providing academic excellence at an affordable price, according to rankings published by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine last week.

NEWS | 11/10/2009

Four students arrested for allegedly stealing parking meter

Four male students have been charged with criminal attempted theft, criminal mischief and resisting arrest by flight after they allegedly tried to steal a parking meter on Prospect Avenue on Oct. 26.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

Where the women aren’t

In 2001, there were four female eating club presidents, but that number has slipped since. When Stephanie Burset '09 was deciding whether to run for Tower Club president, Savannah Sachs ’08 of Cloister Inn was the only female eating club president. Burset would go on to become the only female eating club president of her graduating class. This year, all 10 club presidents are men.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

Force commander envisions changes in modern peacekeeping

"War in the classic sense and peacekeeping in the classic sense don't seem to work," Romeo Dallaire, a former force commander of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda, said to a packed Dodds Auditorium at a lecture on Monday.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

Few minorities among University's senior ranks

When Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson retires in June, the University will lose a devoted and caring administrator, President Tilghman and students told The Daily Princetonian last month. But the University will also lose the only African-American member among its senior administrators.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

The Nude Olympics: 10 years after the ban

Around this time each year as the weather gets colder, a few knowing residents of Holder Hall look at their courtyard and acknowledge its relative emptiness. One night each year for at least a quarter of a century until 2000, that area was full of naked sophomores honoring the year’s first snowfall. For the last 10 years, though, the snow has fallen on jackets and hats alone.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

University reduces searches for new faculty by two-thirds

The University will authorize only about one-third as many searches for new faculty as it has in the past, Provost Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 said on Monday at the annual public meeting of the Priorities Committee. Eisgruber also announced the University has reached its goal of making 200 staff reductions between June 2008 and June 2010.

NEWS | 11/09/2009

Beecher ’13 elected class president

Zachary Beecher has been elected Class of 2013 president, USG senior elections manager Addie Darling ’12 said in an e-mail to the freshman class on Friday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/08/2009

Indian film crew shoots scenes on campus

On Saturday afternoon, Bollywood came to Princeton. Indian dance music resounded across Firestone Plaza as critically acclaimed Indian filmmaker Gautham Menon brought his crew to campus to shoot scenes for his upcoming film “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya,” or “Will You Come Down From the Sky?” in English.

NEWS | 11/08/2009

From Jeeps and Jaguars to jellyfish

Spongebob is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish for 12 hours,” Squidward the Octopus exclaimed in an episode of the animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Squidward clearly has not heard of John Dabiri ’01, who is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.

NEWS | 11/08/2009

Lewdness reported in women's locker room

An unidentified male entered the women’s locker room in Caldwell Field House and recorded himself performing a lewd act using unattended camera phones, Senior Associate Director of Athletics Erin McDermott said in an e-mail sent on Friday to the members and head coaches of the women’s athletics teams.

NEWS | 11/08/2009

Students seek approval to do human research

While most seniors working on their theses lock themselves up in Firestone Library and spend their days scouring the dimly lit stacks for research material, others are looking elsewhere for their primary research material. Sociology, economics and politics majors, as well as psychology majors in particular, are choosing to focus on humans, rather than books, as research material for their theses.

NEWS | 11/08/2009

Middle of the Road: Students' Reactions to Midterm Stress Vary

Students respond to midterm week.

NEWS | 11/02/2009

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