Two of New Jersey?s most prominent newspapers ? The Star-Ledger and The Times of Trenton ? will be forced to sell or close by early January if management cannot successfully negotiate with unions and non-union employees by Oct.
As the University-funded Free B jitney pilot program comes to a close, officials involved with the program say it has had mixed success, mainly because of its low ridership.The Free B was established last spring with the goal of reducing rush-hour traffic in Princeton Borough by providing free public transit throughout the downtown area and the Dinky Station.
The University band (PUB) faced physical abuse, harassment and taunting on Saturday while accompanying the football team to its away game against The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C.
For alumni who have not truly left the Orange Bubble, keeping in touch with each other and their alma mater usually isn?t too difficult.
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld and his wife Sara, who will spend this year at the University as part of the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC), aim to support Jewish learning on a non-denominational campus through weekly courses and informal interaction with students.?Being a religious student of any religion at a modern university is something that can be tremendously challenging and tremendously rewarding, and there are opportunities to grow ... as one is getting a college education,? David said.
A New Yorker with a proclivity toward cupcakes will probably swear by Magnolia Bakery and Crumbs. A Princetonian with that particular type of sweet tooth might now swear by the House of Cupcakes, newly open for business at 30 Witherspoon St.Behind the zebra-print partition and lime-green walls are ovens hard at work, baking nearly 30 different varieties of cupcakes from ?Coconut Snowball? to ?Brooklyn Black Out.?The House of Cupcakes, which opened in late August, already has a steady base of customers.
Deep in the bowels of Frick Lab a light bulb went on above the head of postdoctoral researcher David Nicewicz of chemistry professor David MacMillan?s group.
Four hundred and sixty feet may not be a long walk for most college students. The furor of Princeton residents over the proposed relocation of the Dinky Station, however, may force the University to substantially redraw its current plans for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood.At an open house at the Arts Council of Princeton last night to discuss plans for new University neighborhood, residents and Borough Council members rose to express their vehement opposition to the move.?You are saying that this is a development for the community, but I am going to say that this is really a development that is happening to the community,? Borough Councilman Andrew Koontz told Neil Kittredge, an architect for Beyer, Blinder, Belle, the architectural firm hired by the University to lay out the new site.?There are plenty of expendable University buildings down there that have no artistic value and can go [to make room for the development],? Koontz argued.
Princeton lagged behind both Harvard and Yale in a new Princeton Review survey ranking colleges and universities based on their environmental impact.
Sgt. Kenneth Riley, a 17-year veteran of the Princeton Borough Police Department and former Borough Police Officer of the Year, was indicted on six felony counts by the Mercer County Prosecutor?s Office last Friday.The charges brought against him are two counts of third-degree computer criminal activity, two counts of third-degree unlawful access and disclosure of computer data, and two counts of second-degree official misconduct.
This week, as the shock wave from the Wall Street meltdown reverberated worldwide, the University took a direct hit.University Controller Kenneth Molinaro told Bloomberg News on Wednesday that interest rates on some of the bonds issued by Princeton have more than quadrupled in the last week, costing the University about $8,000 per day.
Architects and University administrators presented detailed plans last night for transforming the southwest portion of campus into the Arts and Transit Neighborhood envisioned in the Campus Plan.At an open house held at the Arts Council of Princeton, a team of architects ? accompanied by University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69, creative writing professor and director of the Lewis Center for the Arts Paul Muldoon and Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget ? walked observers through a forest of poster boards illustrating the substantial development slated for the area south of McCarter Theatre.The centerpiece of the plan is a 130,000-square-foot arts complex that will comprise three connected buildings facing a fountain.
Green HallSept. 11, 11:46 p.m.A DPS staff member reported being stopped by a student about an individual urinating in a bush outside the building.
Students packed into Robertson Bowl 001 on Tuesday evening to hear two Rhodes scholars and other conservative alumni discuss how to stay true to conservative beliefs amid a general campus atmosphere that they said is too liberal.The discussion, moderated by politics professor Robert George, included Rhodes scholars Sherif Girgis ?08 and Christian Sahner ?07, Cassy DeBenedetto ?07, Daniel Mark ?03 GS and Cason Cheely ?03.The panel members gave advice on how to overcome the ?double standard? of being conservative in a liberal campus environment, including the social concerns they faced when they arrived at school.
Molecular biology professor Ileana Cristea has been named one of the three inaugural recipients of the $2.5 million Avant-Garde Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health.The award grants each recipient $500,000 annually over the course of five years and is aimed at encouraging research into high-impact HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in drug abusers.Cristea?s research focuses on virus-host interactions for Sindbis fever using a methodology she developed that ?allows tracking of protein localization and elucidation of interacting partners? and can be applied to HIV as well, a NIDA statement said.Cristea, who joined the University in February 2008, will use
Justin Harmon ?78 has returned to Princeton as director of development communications after spending the last eight years at Wesleyan University.Harmon was Princeton?s director of communications from 1987 to 2000, when he left for a position at Wesleyan.
Timothy Shields, recently named the new managing director of McCarter Theatre, will take the helm in January with plans to focus on increasing attendance in spite of the recent economic downturn.?The challenges are always ones of trying to be relevant to a broader audience,? Shields explained in an interview.
