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West GS '80 inspires inmates

“I’m here to talk about courage this morning, the courage to wrestle with yourself,” African-American studies and religion professor Cornel West GS ’80 told a solemn crowd of more than 700 inmates at the medium-security Garden State Correctional Facility auditorium in Bordentown, N.J., on Monday morning.

NEWS | 02/09/2009

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Thirteen go to hospital post-Bicker

Sixteen University students required alcohol-related transports to McCosh Health Center or the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) this past weekend. Of them, 13 were admitted to UMCP. The bicker clubs picked up their new members Friday, and several clubs held initiation activities Saturday evening. Officials said the number of alcohol-related Public Safety transportations was higher than it has been in past years for the weekend of bicker-club pickups and initiations.

NEWS | 02/08/2009

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JuicyCampus shuts down

Thursday marked the curtain call for the controversial website juicycampus.com, an anonymous public forum that that became a mechanism for perpetuating gossip online. After its launch in August 2007, JuicyCampus expanded to cover more than 500 colleges in the United States, but funding failed to match the website’s growth.

NEWS | 02/05/2009

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Mullen talks soft power

The exertion of non-military power is crucial to progress in America’s most pressing military engagements, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said to a packed audience in McCosh 10 on Thursday afternoon.

NEWS | 02/05/2009

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'Builderers' secretly scale University towers

The Princeton Buildering Society (PBS) breaks the rules every time its members meet. Buildering — the act of climbing on structures like buildings, poles and statues — has occurred on Princeton’s campus for decades. Every brick scaled and every tower reached, though, marks a violation of the University’s Environmental Health & Safety guidelines, which state that “the use of University structures for ‘climbing’ is prohibited.” The practice, however, survives.

NEWS | 02/04/2009