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About a week before their theses were due, a group of seniors working feverishly in the basement of Dod Hall suddenly reached what Sarah Outhwaite ’09 called a “collective mental epiphany.” They copied the text of their theses — each between 80 and 100 pages in length — and pasted the text into wordle.net.

NEWS | 04/20/2009

Five U. scholars elected to Academy of Arts & Sciences

Five U. scholars elected to Academy of Arts & Sciences

Five faculty members have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the organization announced on Monday. History professors James McPherson and William Jordan GS ’73, sociology professor Paul DiMaggio, architecture professor Guy Nordenson and politics professor Philip Pettit were among the 210 fellows elected for their leadership in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs and the non-profit sector.

NEWS | 04/20/2009

Charter trial commences

The trial of Charter Club on charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance began in Princeton Borough Municipal Court on Monday. No ruling has yet been reached, and the trial is scheduled to continue on April 30.

NEWS | 04/20/2009

Breaking News 5:59 p.m.: Arrest made in Alexander Beach incident of criminal sexual contact

Borough Police arrested a man this afternoon in connection with a report of criminal sexual contact that occurred at roughly 3:20 a.m. at Alexander Beach last Sunday. A female University student reported that she had been assaulted by a man who physically restrained her and “reached under her clothes to touch her,” according to a campus-wide safety alert e-mail sent on Sunday morning.

NEWS | 04/20/2009

U.N. Secretary-General urges 'global multilateralism'

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the urgent need for multilateral approaches to solving global issues in a lecture at a packed McCarter Theatre last Friday. Calling 2009 a “make or break” year, Ban explained that in this age of globalization it is more important than ever for countries to come together to solve international problems.

NEWS | 04/19/2009

USG supports canceling fall Lawnparties concert

The USG Senate voted unanimously on Sunday night to ask the student body to cancel the USG fall Lawnparties concert and contribute the USG’s social budget to the University’s Annual Giving campaign.

NEWS | 04/19/2009

When Castro came to campus

Fifty years ago today, when Edward Shaw ’58 met Fidel Castro at Princeton, the Cuban leader seemed like a “good friend of the American way.” With rumpled fatigues, a warm handshake and a thick cigar clamped between his teeth, the man who would go on to become a notorious dictator actually made Shaw believe there might be hope for what was then a politically ravaged Cuba.

NEWS | 04/19/2009

Students report cases of lewdness, harassment

One case of sexual assault and two cases of harassment were reported by three female students to the Department of Public Safety last weekend.

NEWS | 04/19/2009

Four cases of whooping cough spark health warning

University Health Services has notified the student body of four confirmed on-campus cases of pertussis, the highly contagious infection also known as whooping cough. “In the past two weeks, four students have been identified with symptoms of pertussis, which is a respiratory illness that starts like a cold and develops into a severe cough within one to two weeks,” UHS associate director Janet Finnie ’84 said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 04/19/2009

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

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