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Students invest in local produce

Students invest in local produce

The Princeton Farmers? Market, held Tuesday for the first time this year, is adding a new service to help bring organic food from local vendors directly to students? dorm rooms: box shares that are delivered weekly to the local market for pickup by students and other community members.Students who buy a box share for the fall season are purchasing ?shares in the bounty of the farm,? said Sherry Dudas, one of the owners of Honey Brook Organic farm, which grows herbs and vegetables and is one of the suppliers for the Farmers? Market.She explained that because the box share entitles the purchaser to part of the season?s harvest, the customer ?assumes some of the risk of farming,? noting that the contents of each week?s box will vary depending on the harvest.

NEWS | 09/16/2008

Top marks fall across programs

The total percentage of undergraduate A?s fell from 40.6 percent between 2004 to 2007 to 40.4 percent between 2005 and 2008 as the University?s controversial grading policy inches closer to its target.Between 2001 and 2004, the three years before the implementation of the grading policy, A?s comprised 47 percent of the grades in undergraduate courses.In a statement during the faculty meeting Monday afternoon, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced the progress of the four programs ? engineering, social sciences, natural sciences and humanities ? in bringing down the number of A?s distributed.Malkiel could not be reached for comment Tuesday.According to a University statement, ?[i]n humanities departments, A?s accounted for 45.5 percent of the grades in undergraduate courses in 2005-08, down from 55.6 percent in 2001-04.

NEWS | 09/16/2008

Students fear Ike’s destruction

For students hailing from coastal Texas, the start-of-classes malaise that often supplants the elation of Lawnparties weekend was overshadowed by far stronger anxieties about the state of their homes after the destruction unleashed by Hurricane Ike.The tropical cyclone made landfall early Saturday morning on the island of Galveston as a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

Municipalities divided over debt issues

Monetary disputes between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have exploded in the past month, as the Borough has sought to receive reimbursements from the Township for costs that the Borough bore in administering agencies that serve both communities.The Princeton Packet reported that in July, the Borough had received a $1.68 million payment from the Township.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

Joint Borough-Township meeting reveals residents' discontent with recreation facilities

Princeton residents expressed frustration with the current status of Princeton?s recreation facilities and urged both municipal governments to take action at a meeting with Borough and Township officials last night.Teri McIntire, a Township resident, told members of the municipal governments to ?step out of the sandbox, stop kicking sand at each other and get [park improvements] done.??We have 6-year-olds peeing in the bushes,? McIntire said, noting the need for restrooms in Princeton parks and the deteriorating condition of Community Park Pool.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

ORFE department welcomes new building

Though the new home for the operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) department and the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) was scheduled to hold classes this fall, the building?s construction has not been completed in time.?Even though [we] moved into the building last week, offices and hallways are cluttered with boxes, and the classrooms, studios, labs and lounges are not finished yet,? ORFE professor Rene Carmona said.Though classes and seminars could not be scheduled as planned for the building this fall, Carmona said that faculty are looking forward to ?the tremendous potential for change offered by the new synergies and interactions which the new building will enable.?Despite the delay, the University has secured funds from a soon-to-be-disclosed donor, ORFE professor and department chair Robert Vanderbei explained, adding that the donor and the building?s names will be revealed soon.Located between Mudd Library and Wallace Hall, the 46,000-square-foot structure will house offices for faculty and graduate students, research studios, conference rooms, a large lecture hall and a number of smaller classrooms.Carmona noted that this construction comes at an opportune time, as there have been unexpected increases in the number of ORFE majors over the past few years.?A good number of incoming freshmen had heard about ORFE while in high school,? Carmona said, explaining that ?some of them chose Princeton because of [the program].?Erhan Cinlar, ORFE?s founding department chair, said in an e-mail that the ?growth in the size of the faculty and research staff? was another reason for the new building.Cinlar lauded architect Fred Fisher for doing a ?superb job? in creating a design that satisfies the need for both ?private research space? and interactive commons areas.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

Alums face hazy future after Lehman Brothers collapse

Just three weeks into her full-time job, Anita Gupta ?08 sat at her desk Monday and wondered how she would continue to pay the rent on her newly leased New York City apartment if she suddenly became unemployed in the wake of one of the largest Wall Street shakeups in decades.After graduating last spring, Gupta joined the ranks of more than 100 University alumni employed at Lehman Brothers, the financial firm that officially filed for bankruptcy early Monday morning after failing to find a buyer.Over the course of the weekend, employees said, it gradually became clear that no potential buyer would be willing to merge with the firm without assistance from the federal government.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

Lance GS ’82 runs for seat in Congress

New Jersey State Senator Leonard Lance GS ?82 has been in the state?s service since 1991, but come November, the Wilson School alumnus hopes to finally be in the nation?s service.Lance, a New Jersey native who received his MPA from the Wilson School, was first elected to the State Senate in November 2001, after serving on the General Assembly since 1991.

NEWS | 09/15/2008

Campus patrols get new three-wheelers

Officer Luke Miller used to cover his walking patrol zone about twice each shift. Now he can make that trip five or six times and respond to emergency calls more quickly on a T-3 Motion personal mobility vehicle.Public Safety purchased two T-3s last spring to help officers cover the campus while remaining approachable and environmentally friendly.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

Man struck and killed by NJ Transit train

Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, New Jersey Transit (NJT) train 7887 on the Northeast Corridor Line scheduled for arrival in Trenton at 1:32 a.m., ?struck and fatally injured an adult male trespasser on the track west of the Princeton Junction station,? NJT spokeswoman Courtney Carroll said.The train engineer saw the trespasser, 28-year-old South River, N.J., resident Kevin Greim, standing on the tracks, Carroll said, explaining that the engineer then proceeded to blow the horn and initiated emergency procedures but was unable to stop in time.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

'Girls' Night Out' gives frosh preview of the Street

Rather than putting on makeup or pre-gaming, about 30 freshman women prepared for their first night at the eating clubs last Thursday evening by asking for some friendly advice.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

U-Store offers more food, technology

Three flights of stairs no longer impede students from satisfying their late-night snack cravings at the U-Store, and the completion of renovations this summer has made the store a consolidated, 24-hour establishment that U-Store president James Sykes said he believes is much more focused on student needs than it was in the past.In an interview, Sykes said that he is most excited about the added convenience that the U-Store will give students this year.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

New Muslim, Hindu advisers seek to mentor

Following announcements made last year and over the summer, three religious leaders on campus ? Coordinator for Muslim Life Sohaib Sultan, Coordinator for Hindu Life Vineet Chander and Chabad chaplain Eitan Webb ? have begun their first weeks in their University-appointed positions.Sultan?s appointment follows the departure of the first Muslim chaplain, Khalid Latif, two summers ago.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

Organization advocates against same-sex marriage

In an effort to fulfill what they perceived as a need for a national conservative organization devoted solely to marriage issues, politics professor Robert George and conservative author Maggie Gallagher founded the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in 2007.

NEWS | 09/14/2008

April opening set for Campus Club

Though the University had circulated flyers and announcements last semester proclaiming that Campus Club would reopen this month as a multipurpose student space, structural problems discovered during summer construction have delayed these plans.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

An ambassador for Princeton

Editor's note:The print version and initial online version of this article were affected by the inadvertent deletion of the paragraph that introduces Professor Moravcsik's statements about Shanghai during the Chinese New Year, resulting in the lack of appropriate context for those statements.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

Judaic Studies given $4.5 million donation

Students and scholars interested in Judaism and Judaic Studies are already beginning to benefit from the additional resources provided by a $4.5 million gift from the Tikvah Fund earlier this summer.Peter Schafer, director of the Program in Judaic Studies, said that the grant, which will launch the Tikvah Project on Jewish Thuoght, will make Judaic Studies a ?lasting force for Princeton.?A significant part of the fund is geared toward improving teaching, and Schafer will focus his energies on creating new courses.The Tikvah project, dedicated to promoting Jewish ideas, specified that the University?s grant should be used to bring visiting scholars and fellows to campus, sponsor new courses, host summer institutes and workshops, and increase the interdisciplinary approach of courses that focus on Judaism or Jewish thought.Michael Fishbane, a visiting research scholar from the University of Chicago and the inaugural Tikvah fellow, will be teaching a freshman seminar titled ?The Problem of Evil and the Book of Job? this semester.?We are very grateful to the Tikvah Fund for their generous support,? Leora Batnitzky GS ?96, project coordinator and religion professor, said in a recent statement.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

Spring SCORE to open at 7:30 a.m.

Please see the note from the Editor-in-Chief regarding this article.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

Lupe Fiasco to perform at Lawnparties

Grammy-winning rap and hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, best known for his hit song ?Superstar,? will be the headline act at Lawnparties this Sunday.After signing with Atlantic Records in 2004, the Chicago native got his first big break in the music industry with a verse in Kanye West?s hit single ?Touch the Sky.? He has since gone on to record two solo albums, collaborating with stars like Jay-Z, Soundtrakk and Fall Out Boy?s Patrick Stump.The concert, which begins at 3:30 p.m.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

Butler construction on schedule, half done

Less than a year from its scheduled completion, construction of the new Butler College is halfway done, and the college is on schedule to open next fall, project manager Bill Zahn said during a media tour this summer.

NEWS | 09/11/2008

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