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Harvard will slash budget by $220 million

Harvard will slash budget by $220 million

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will cut $220 million from its budget over the next two years, FAS dean Michael Smith announced this week. Administrators will cut 19 percent from the university’s budget as they prepare for a projected 30 percent loss in the value of the school’s endowment, which was valued at $36.9 billion in June 2008.

NEWS | 04/16/2009

Alumni, professors working for Obama reveal income sources

Several University alumni and professors appointed to serve in President Obama’s administration have divulged personal financial details in a series of recently released tax returns.

NEWS | 04/16/2009

Trustee nomination of Castaneda ’73 angers alum

The recent nomination of New York University politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies professor Jorge Castaneda ’73 to the University Board of Trustees has sparked some controversy among alumni.Castaneda has been accused of working with Cuban intelligence during his service with the Mexican government in the late 1970s and early 1980s, though he has repeatedly denied the reports, calling them “categorically false” in a 2008 interview with the Los Angeles Times.

NEWS | 04/16/2009

Emerald Initiative fights marijuana use penalties

A new proposal called the Emerald Initiative is challenging campuses across the country to reduce penalties for students caught using marijuana. President Tilghman said in an e-mail that she had “heard nothing” about the petition and therefore had “no opinion whatsoever” about signing it.

NEWS | 04/16/2009

Israeli Supreme Court president talks human rights

Israeli Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch lectured about the importance of protecting human rights in an age of terror to a packed Dodds Auditorium on Thursday evening. Beinisch said that Israel is constantly struggling with the balance between ensuring security and protecting human rights, noting that the judicial branch’s primary duty is guaranteeing the security of Israelis.

NEWS | 04/16/2009

Entrepreneurs juggle school with business

With fewer jobs available for graduating seniors, some students are looking to create their own. “I think that it’s the best time to start [a company],” said Carter Cleveland ’09.

NEWS | 04/15/2009

Gender gap persists in sciences

When Joan Girgus arrived for her first day as a psychology professor at the University in 1977, she immediately became an “object of curiosity” for her colleagues. She was only Princeton's eighth female tenured professor.

NEWS | 04/15/2009

Study: Eliminating SAT increases diversity

Eliminating standardized test scores as a factor in the college admissions process would lead to more racially and socioeconomically diverse undergraduate populations, according to a recent study by two University researchers, sociology professor Thomas Espenshade GS ’72 and Office of Population Research statistical programmer Chang Chun.

NEWS | 04/15/2009

Excess food totals 600 tons yearly

In a typical day, 500 to 600 students dump their food waste into the trash cans in Rocky-Mathey dining hall. Over the course of a year, these bins accumulate 600 to 700 tons of excess food, Director of Building Services Jon Baer said.

NEWS | 04/15/2009

Graduate students angered by transit cuts

The University’s announcement last Thursday that it was reducing services of the TigerTransit system has been met with criticism from many graduate students who regularly depend on the shuttle service.

NEWS | 04/15/2009

Near Eastern Studies student Rabb GS awarded Carnegie Scholarship

Intisar Rabb GS is one 24 winners of the 2009 Carnegie Scholarship, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced Tuesday. Rabb, who is finishing her final year of graduate studies in the Near Eastern studies department, will receive up to $100,000 over two years from the Carnegie Corporation to complete a project titled “Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Internal Critique.”

NEWS | 04/14/2009

USG will institute election reforms

The USG has revised its election rules following the controversy surrounding the vice presidential election last December. The new guidelines limit which officials have access to the results prior to their verification as well as the timeframe in which those results can be contested.

NEWS | 04/14/2009

Red tape at ODUS frustrates student groups

Several student group officers said that working with ODUS is unnecessarily bureaucratic and that the University’s reimbursement process moves too slowly.

NEWS | 04/14/2009

Alum leads '24' on FOX as carbon-neutral TV show

Every week, Jack Bauer’s high-octane stunts on the action-packed show “24” blow viewers’ minds as well as massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But last month, the show’s producers, including executive producer Howard Gordon ’84, announced that the production of this year’s season finale was carbon-neutral.

NEWS | 04/14/2009

NOM starts $1.5 million ad campaign

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), co-founded in 2007 by politics professor Robert George and based on Nassau Street, has launched a $1.5 million ad campaign in several states to energize opponents of same-sex marriage.

NEWS | 04/14/2009

Leach ’64 may be next ambassador to China

Visiting Wilson School professor Jim Leach ’64 is a serious contender to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to China, Foreign Policy magazine reported last Friday. Former assistant secretary of defense and National Intelligence Council chairman Joseph Nye ’58, famous for his theory of “soft power,” is widely considered to be Obama’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Japan.

NEWS | 04/13/2009

News & Notes: Students excel in Chinese Competition

Three university students placed in a Chinese-language speech competition held in New York on April 11.

NEWS | 04/13/2009

Cannon Club to stay closed until 2011

The timeline for the renovation of Cannon Club — scheduled to open in February 2010 as of last October — has been pushed back yet again, and the club will not open its doors until at least two years from now, Dial Elm Cannon (DEC) graduate board treasurer Ralph Wright ’88 said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 04/13/2009

Professor salaries rank third nationally

The average full professor at Princeton earns $180,300 annually, up from $172,200 last year, according to an annual report published by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) on Monday. The University’s overall national rank for full professors’ salaries rose from fourth to third since the association’s last survey was published in April 2008.

NEWS | 04/13/2009

‘Aspire’ campaign tops $991 million in donations

The University’s ‘Aspire’ capital campaign has raised a total of $991.2 million as of April 13, which represents 56.6 percent of its total goal of $1.75 billion. The University has raised $66.2 million since late October, when the campaign stood at $925 million.

NEWS | 04/13/2009

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