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Group urges University trustees to oppose Prop. 8

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Group urges University trustees to oppose Prop. 8

A new student organization, Equality Action Network (EAN), is seeking to employ a USG referendum to persuade the University?s Board of Trustees to sign a statement against California?s Proposition 8, which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.The proposed referendum ?states that the undergraduates of Princeton University support equal protection under the law for homosexual partners vis-a-vis the recognition of homosexual marriages? and requests that the Board of Trustees file an amicus brief with the California Supreme Court in support of overturning the proposition, according to an e-mail from founder Jacob Candelaria ?09 announcing the group?s formation.Two hundred undergraduate signatures are required for the referendum to be placed on the ballot for the upcoming USG election.

NEWS | 11/30/2008

Choreography outside the classroom

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Choreography outside the classroom

When most professors head to the library or a laboratory to conduct research, instructors in the University?s dance program catch the train to New York and take to the stage to direct, choreograph or perform.Acting dance department head Rebecca Lazier founded a contemporary dance company, Terrain, in New York in 2001.

NEWS | 11/30/2008

Attacks in Mumbai shock Indian students

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Attacks in Mumbai shock Indian students

Last week?s terrorist attacks in Mumbai have hit close to home for several Indian students at the University and have generated discussion throughought the community.?I have friends that had both of their parents killed in the attacks,? Mumbai native Nikhil Seth ?11 said.Seth added that that he is ?more shocked than most? because he worked in a building near one of the hotels struck by the terrorists.?I would go and eat lunch at the hotel and spend time in the coffee shop, and it was right there where so many people were killed,? he said.For some Indian students, last week?s attacks added to fear and frustration over the growing number of terror-related incidents in their country.?I think these attacks were the final straw,? Jahnabi Barooah ?11 said in an e-mail.Seth noted that though there have been numerous smaller attacks in India, ?these attacks felt like they were on a greater scale because they encompassed so large an area.?Barooah noted that she is fortunate not to have had any members of her family injured or killed in the attacks.

NEWS | 11/30/2008

U. Rabbi mourns friends slain in Chabad House

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U. Rabbi mourns friends slain in Chabad House

Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, both good friends of University Chabad chaplain Rabbi Eitan Webb, were killed late last week in a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.The couple had moved from Brooklyn to Mumbai about five years ago with the goal of managing a Chabad House, a synagogue and social hall run by the Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

NEWS | 11/30/2008

Princeton, Interrupted

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Princeton, Interrupted

One afternoon midway through the fall of her freshman year, Mary ?10 was walking through her common room when her roommate turned to her and said, ?It?s great how you?re so happy all the time, Mary.

NEWS | 11/25/2008
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Orszag ’91 selected to direct Obama’s budget office

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Orszag ’91 selected to direct Obama’s budget office

Peter Orszag ?91 has been named director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Obama administration, President-elect Barack Obama announced Tuesday.Orszag, who resigned as director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the same day, will be a key member of the president-elect?s economic team, advising the president on a variety of issues including federal spending programs and managing the federal budget.

NEWS | 11/25/2008

Post-midterms, advisers help frosh

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Post-midterms, advisers help frosh

Many students do not seek advice from their assigned residential-college academic advisers, even as the start of spring 2009 course selection approaches for freshmen and sophomores.Nathan Brown ?12, a Wilson College resident, said that because his four freshman-year classes were required, he had little need to discuss class choices with his adviser.

NEWS | 11/24/2008

Romer to be chair of Council of Economic Advisers

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Romer to be chair of Council of Economic Advisers

Christina Romer, an economics professor at UC-Berkeley who taught at the Wilson School from 1985 to 1988, has been appointed the chairman of President-elect Barack Obama?s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).The CEA, established in 1946, is tasked with ?[providing] the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues,? according to the White House?s website.Romer received her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary in 1981 and her doctorate from MIT in 1985.

NEWS | 11/24/2008

Wu Hall celebrates 25th year with gala

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Wu Hall celebrates 25th year with gala

Wu Hall turned 25 in style on Friday when a formally dressed crowd of students and faculty celebrated with a panel discussion, lunch and toast in the Wu dining hall.Butler College sponsored the panel, which featured University trustee and the building?s namesake Gordon Wu ?58, former University Architect Jon Hlafter ?61 and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, who designed the building.

NEWS | 11/23/2008

Orszag '91 said to be Obama’s pick for budget director

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Orszag '91 said to be Obama’s pick for budget director

Peter Orszag ?91, Congress? budget office chief, is rumored to be President-elect Barack Obama?s choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget.The New York Times and the Associated Press both reported Democratic sources saying that Orszag is likely to accept Obama?s offer despite his initial reluctance to leave the budget office midway through his four-year term.An economics major at Princeton, Orszag was an economist in Bill Clinton?s administration and later founded an economic consulting firm.Projections for the fiscal year, which began Oct.

NEWS | 11/23/2008

Malkiel and USG talk grading policies

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Malkiel and USG talk grading policies

There is no evidence that grade deflation has harmed students? employment or graduate school opportunities, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said at Sunday night?s USG Senate meeting, at which she agreed to appear at the USG?s request.?All the data we have for the last period of time since the grading policy went into effect tell us that there are no negative, worrying results in terms of fortunes of Princeton students in the post-graduate world in which people wish to pursue opportunities,? she said.She noted, ?medical school [acceptance] rates went up slightly? since the policy was implemented.

NEWS | 11/23/2008

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