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University implements new Sabbath key policy

University implements new Sabbath key policy

Jewish students who do not use electricity on the Sabbath recently received metal dorm keys to use from sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays. Since religious restrictions prohibit the use of electricity on the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays, in past years prox access machines have been left unlocked for the first 10 minutes of every half hour each Sabbath to allow students observing the holiday to enter their dorms without swiping their proxes.

NEWS | 10/08/2009

Latinos mull census boycott

The University hosted a forum on Sept. 30 to discuss a possible Latino boycott of the 2010 U.S. Census as a means to advocate for immigration reform. As the April 1 commencement of the census approaches, some Latino activists have encouraged illegal immigrants to boycott the count in hopes of encouraging change in immigration policy.

NEWS | 10/08/2009

Vice President Dickerson to retire in June

Janet Dickerson, Princeton's first vice president for campus life who oversees the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Department of Athletics, University Health Services, the Office of Religious Life and the Pace Center, will retire in June.

NEWS | 10/08/2009

Princeton ranks eighth among world universities

Harvard is named the best educational institute in the world for the sixth year in a row, followed by the University of Cambridge, Yale and University College London. Imperial College London and University of Oxford tie for fifth, while the University of Chicago comes in just ahead of Princeton in seventh place.

NEWS | 10/08/2009

U. announces printing quota

The University will begin a year-long pilot printing quota on Oct. 15 as both a sustainability initiative and cost-cutting measure.

NEWS | 10/08/2009

Slow start for voter registration project

With five days left before New Jersey's voter registration deadline, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s New Voters Project — a group whose mission is to “[stand] up to powerful interests” — is trying to reach its registration goal of 800 student voters.

NEWS | 10/07/2009

Chin ’75 postpones Google settlement

Both sides of the ongoing Google Books dispute now have until Nov. 9 to prepare a revised settlement for U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin ’75. Chin had previously approved a motion to postpone the date for submitting the revised settlement to Oct. 7.

NEWS | 10/07/2009

Cornel West GS ’80 releases memoir

Leaning forward on his hands with a huge grin on his face, the tailored black suit, the intense bearing, the distinctive hairstyle — all are signature “Brother West."

NEWS | 10/07/2009

Planning Board signs off on Neuroscience site

The Regional Planning Board approved the University’s plans for its neuroscience and psychology complex, despite lingering logistics and construction concerns.

NEWS | 10/07/2009

Recession hits Labyrinth Books

Textbook sales at Labyrinth Books have dropped 13 percent this fall in light of the economic downturn, said Dorothea von Moltke, the bookstore’s co-owner. One reason for lower revenue is that “about 80 fewer classes than last fall are using any books at all,” she explained. But Labyrinth, only a few years into its lease on Nassau St., must also grapple with a systemic change to its industry that has shuttered bookstores across the country: the rise of online textbook sources.

NEWS | 10/07/2009

Lewdness incident is year’s fifth

Students reported seeing a shirtless middle-aged white male expose his genitals outside Charter Club on Monday evening, according to a campus safety alert issued by e-mail to the University community on Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Finance is focus for town hall meeting

At the town hall meeting on Tuesday, the third held this calendar year, several audience members took advantage of the chance to ask questions of University administrators, focusing on the budget cuts and the necessary layoffs that will result.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Humanities sequence an academic ‘rollercoaster’

The University has offered its intensive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture course, known to students and faculty as the humanities sequence or “HUM,” to freshmen and sophomores since 2003. The sequence consists of four classes that split equally between two semesters and fulfill four distribution requirements while giving students a thorough grounding in Western intellectual traditions.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Number of flu-like cases reaches 260

There have been a total of 260 cases of influenza-like illness on campus, University Health Services Executive Director John Kolligian said at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Campus Club gets little weekend action

At Campus Club for most of last Saturday night — from 10:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. — there was one thing missing: students. Except for the two baristas who gave out free water to the 25 or so people that wandered in at various times and usually left a few minutes later, Campus Club was empty.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Job market better for seniors than last year

Job prospects for members of the Class of 2010 may be sunnier than those of members of the Class of 2009, as the economic climate begins to show some signs of stabilizing.

NEWS | 10/06/2009

Kemper '02 stars on ‘The Office’

Nothing was going right for Ellie Kemper ’02. She was doing a one-person comedy show, and every joke she told was falling flat.

NEWS | 10/05/2009

Local hotels raise room prices during Commencement

As members of the Class of 2010 and their families begin planning for this year’s Commencement weekend, many local hotels are raising their prices more steeply than they have in past years to compensate for a loss of profits during the economic downturn.

NEWS | 10/05/2009

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