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Gangs of Princeton: trouble in paradise

Updated May 10On Halloween night 2004, a group of about 50 teenagers traveled along Bayard Lane and Hodge Road in Princeton Borough, beating up children who were trick-or-treating and flashing gang signs to police officers, the Town Topics reported.This episode was only one of a series of gang-related incidents that have plagued the Borough and Township in recent years.

Discovery paves way for spintronic technology

The weather may be heating up as summer approaches, but thanks to the discoveries of a group of University researchers, computers may soon be cooling down.

Student group seeks to dispel myths about Tibet and China

In response to the Human Rights Torch Relay outside of Princeton Borough Hall on April 24, Ke Wan GS decided to organize a display in Frist Campus Center to counter anti-China sentiment on campus and promote understanding of Chinese culture, history and current events among students.Wan said in an e-mail that on the night of the torch relay he overheard ?somebody mention our campaign to support [the] Olympics as a campaign against human right[s]. I think they misunderstand our goals, and they may need more knowledge about China.?Wan, who founded the student group Airs of China last November and currently serves as its president, set up a ?Background of Tibet? exhibit to combat ignorance.

COMBO survey: Consider campus pub

In efforts to break down barriers between students of different social groups and to encourage more responsible drinking on campus, both the USG?s Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) and the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) have proposed that the University re-examine the possibility of a permanent on-campus pub.?I think [a pub] would be a fantastic addition to the Princeton campus,? former USG president Rob Biederman ?08 said.

Vote early, vote single transferably

Voters in British Columbia, when asked on a 2005 ballot whether they supported switching to a Single Transferable Vote (STV) system like the one used in the USG?s U-Council elections, chose not to make the switch.

Panel addresses violence in Tibet

Internal violence persists in the Buddhist regions of Tibet and Burma because the ruling governments continue their attempt to socially and politically unite culturally diverse populations, Columbia professor Robert Barnett and Rutgers professor Josef Silverstein explained in a dinner discussion last night.Following protests by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in mid-March, the Chinese government?s policies in Tibet have been a focal point of news coverage leading up to this summer?s Olympics in Beijing.?The Chinese government is trying to push the idea that monks are violent,? Barnett explained.

Psychology building to replace Lot 20

Co-director of the University?s Neuroscience Institute David Tank and University architect emeritus Jon Hlafter ?61 revealed plans for new neuroscience and psychology buildings, to be built south of Icahn Laboratory, at a meeting with community members last night at Princeton Township Hall.

New Cafe Viv to offer organic food

A new, more eco-friendly cafe will open its doors next fall in Frist Campus Center to replace Cafe Vivian, bringing a variety of organic breads and meats, as well as vegetarian and vegan options.The new cafe will complement the redesigned C-Store and new Witherspoon?s Cafe, which took over the original Cafe Viv?s coffee-serving function in April.The aim of the new venture is to capture ?the spirit of the Healthy Eating Lab,? USG vice president Mike Wang ?10 said, describing the new cafe as ?an organic Subway.? He explained that Dining Services ?want[s] to move toward a more sustainable model.?Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) president Jenny Palmer ?09 praised the move, noting in an e-mail that ?Plant-based foods are the healthiest and most sustainable foods you can eat.??A sustainable cafe that does not promote veganism and vegetarianism is a contradiction in terms,? PAWS vice president Alex Barnard ?09 added.This move will result in a menu that is ?more sustainable and organic by design,? Frist and University Scheduling Director Thomas Myers said in an e-mail, adding that the new menu will include items like flatbread pizza and sandwiches.Myers noted that the new cafe will retain the name Cafe Vivian and will continue to allow students to pay for their purchases by charging their University accounts or using Paw Points.Dining Services is considering extending the new cafe?s hours compared to those of the old Cafe Vivian and the rest of Frist, Wang said.He added that Dining Services Director Stu Orefice and his design team were also considering making the new cafe ?independent from Frist? by blocking off the east entrance from the rest of the building to allow the cafe to keep longer hours without affecting the rest of the campus center.

Brobot Broll Call

In 1590, settlers from the Broanoke colony disappeared in search of it. In 1895, President Brover Cleveland signed an executive order granting it Most Favored Weekend status, granting a three-day Milwaukee?s Best tariff suspension and establishing generous subsidies for wooting.

The father of all student groups

With the more than 200 student organizations that currently exist on campus, it?s difficult to imagine an interest that is not represented formally by one group or another, but the Student Groups Recognition Committee (SGRC) makes sure that group founders with unrepresented interests are given the opportunity to receive University recognition.The committee usually meets every other week to decide which prospective student groups can join the other 200 organizations that already exist on campus.

More than half of voters say administrators ignore student opinion

Students have mixed views of administrators? performance, the results of the referendum included on the USG?s spring ballot show.

Bermann retains '09 presidency

Incumbent Class of 2009 president Grant Bermann defeated challenger Alec Williams ?09 by only 11 votes to retain his post, ending a day of uncertainty sparked by a technical snafu that delayed confirmation of the race?s outcome.

Campus sees gastroenteritis spike

Mixed reception for RGS program

Every Sunday afternoon, a group gathers in Whitman College to marvel at the parlor room intrigues of Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse and other iconic Jane Austen characters while munching treats like Bent Spoon cupcakes.But the assembly of Austen fans ? known as the Whitman College Jane Austen Society ? is also interested in another, closer-to-reality social ambition: bridging what many see as a stark divide between undergraduates and graduate students at the University.

Students debate legacy admissons

Arguing that legacies should not receive any preference in Princeton admissions, Mike Shih ?09 and Daniel Rauch ?10 won Whig-Clio?s 1876 Prize Debate, defeating Jason Sheltzer ?08 and Sean Durkin ?11.Both sides? arguments focused on the purpose served by preferential treatment for legacy applicants and whether these goals could be achieved other ways, as well as whether it would be beneficial or harmful to continue the practice.

Paterson proposes technology to aid poor

With 37 percent of global deaths attributable to neonatal complications and 19 percent to acute respiratory infections, technological solutions for the developing world are essential to achieving the United Nation?s millennium development goals (MDGs), Kurt Paterson, co-director of the D80 Center at Michigan Technological University, said yesterday afternoon in a lecture on air quality in the developing world.?The poorer you are, the shorter your life, and the more of your kids are going to die,? Paterson said.Though he considers himself an idealist, Paterson said he nevertheless believes that ?the chances are good that these problems will still be around? for a long time.

Graduate students find chances to let loose both on and off campus

Yaron Ayalon GS remembers the first time he attended Class Day, the ceremony at which the outgoing undergraduate class celebrates its four years at Princeton by, among other things, granting honorary class memberships.?Grad students,? he said, ?were never mentioned, [except to say that] we also had grad students here and there.?The perception, Ayalon explained, was that graduate students ?didn?t speak any English so we didn?t know what they said.?Ayalon, the Near Eastern studies department?s representative on the Graduate Student Government (GSG), noted that ?this [attitude] really represents the essence of the problem, of this disconnection between undergrads and grads.?Maybe it?s because of age, schedules or interests, but graduate students agree that graduate school brings with it a social environment that contrasts markedly with that of undergraduates.Many graduate students interviewed recognized that while some of the difference is natural, some of it is also spurred by structural and perceptional distance between undergraduate and graduate social settings.

Grants, stipends fuel academic pursuits

The recent national discussion about the affordability of higher education has centered on undergraduate funding following the flurry of financial aid policy changes at several institutions.

College Democrats endorse Obama

Sixty-five percent of the students at the College Democrats? endorsement party last night voted for Sen.

USG election results delayed by code mixup

Voters and candidates in the USG election were left waiting for results yesterday after USG webmaster and Class of 2009 senator Bruce Halperin changed the scripting language used to create the online ballot.In addition, USG officials acknowledged that last year?s election for U-Council violated both Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) bylaws and the USG constitution.As a result of Halperin?s unilateral change, the Office of the Registrar was not able to verify the election results in time to release them last night.