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Freshman charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault

A freshman male has been charged by the Princeton Borough Police with kidnapping, aggravated assault, endangerment of an injured victim and making terroristic threats, The Times of Trenton reported on Saturday.The Times article, which covered the defendant?s bail hearing in Trenton on Friday, reported that Mercer County Superior Court judge Thomas Kelly has banned the defendant, Malik Little, 19, from University premises and cut his bail in half to $200,000 but refused to reduce it to the $20,000 requested by the defense.Little was no longer enrolled at the University as of April 10, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ?96 said in an interview, adding that Public Safety ?is fully aware that Mr. Little is not permitted on campus.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

The Daily Princetonian

USG election process confuses voters

Correction AppendedSeveral members of the USG expressed confusion at last night?s USG Senate meeting about changes in the election process for U-Councilors, concerned that neither they nor the student body was informed of the change before voting began yesterday at noon.?I was a little surprised when I logged on to vote,? U-Councilor Maria Salciccioli ?09 said.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

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‘Spirit of Princeton’ prize awarded to eight students

Last Friday, eight students received notification that they had won the Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors undergraduates whose contributions to the University have had a positive influence on campus and in the community.Anna Almore ?08, Katy Andersen ?08, Karen Bailey ?08, Andy Chen ?09, Josh Loehrer ?08, Sian Ofaolain ?08, Agatha Offorjebe ?09 and Meaghan Petersack ?08 will be honored at a dinner on May 9, at which they will receive a certificate and book prize.

NEWS | 04/27/2008

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University calendar reform still out of reach

Though consensus on academic calendar reform at the University is hard to come by, Harvard has already finalized its revamped calendar, leaving Princeton the only school in the Ivy League to hold fall term exams after winter break. University administrators tabled calendar reform last November after circulating a survey asking students to choose one of several calendar options.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Composing while Computing

"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung," Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849. Music professor Dmitri Tymoczko now begs to differ: According to his research, there's an entire world of complex geometric poetry underlying the language of music. Tymoczko, together with music professors Ian Quinn and Clifton Callender of Yale and Florida State universities, respectively, has found a way to literally illustrate the close connections between music and mathematical topology.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

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Top N.J. McCain aide forsees win

New Jersey State Senator Bill Baroni thinks Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has a great shot at winning over Garden State voters come November, arguing yesterday afternoon at a talk sponsored by the College Republicans that the bitterly divided Democratic Party will continue to work in McCain's favor.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

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Panel outlines domestic socioeconomic problems

Princeton religion and African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, visiting politics fellow Nadia Urbinati and Columbia law school professor Patricia Williams addressed the left wing?s view of the coming presidential election last night in Dodds Auditorium.The Pace Center coordinator for civic engagement learning and moderator of the discussion, Andrew Seligsohn, opened the lecture by expressing his surprise at the duration of the Democratic primary.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

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News & Notes | April 25

The former president of the Phi Kappa Tau (PKT) fraternity at Rider University has settled a civil suit filed by the family of Gary DeVercelly, who died of alcohol poisoning at a PKT party in March 2007.

NEWS | 04/24/2008

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Borough Police: Assailants were gang members

The Borough Police has released the names of three gang-affiliated men charged with aggravated assault in connection with an altercation at the Wilson College BlackBox on Friday, April 18. Princeton residents Vonzell Kelley, 20, and John Hayes, 20, as well as Lawrence resident Bernadino Guervil, 21, were all charged with aggravated assault and each held on $25,000 bail.

NEWS | 04/23/2008

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Armstrong: Minorities, women overrepresented on M.D. TV

The ethnically diverse array of doctors who star on television shows like ?Scrubs? and ?Grey?s Anatomy? does not accurately portray the population of doctors in the real world, according to a study presented by sociology professor Elizabeth Armstrong to a small group of students at an intimate dinner discussion in the Wilson private dining room yesterday evening.Armstrong?s study looked at 50 years of primetime television shows involving either ?medical settings or ... medical characters as primary characters? and attempted to ?compile a census? of this population and compare it with the real world population of physicians.By the 1990s, 13 percent of recurring physician characters on primetime network television were minorities, and 26 percent were women, Armstrong said.

NEWS | 04/23/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Juniors get free one-year memberships to Princeton Club of New York

There?s a little piece of orange and black on West 43rd Street, and the Class of 2009 gets to enjoy it for free.The Class of 2009 student government officers announced in an e-mail yesterday that beginning in June 2008, rising seniors will receive a year?s worth of free membership to the Princeton Club of New York (PCNY).While University alumni organizations span the country, PCNY is the largest and is also the only one with its own clubhouse, co-chair of PCNY?s alumni committee and club governor Zach Goldstein ?05 said.

NEWS | 04/22/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Canada program offers social, academic support

For the Canadian students at Princeton who may feel homesick, the Canadian Club can help serve as a proxy for home.The club partners with the Canadian studies program to run a variety of Canada-related activities, including celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving every October, taking trips to hockey games and hosting distinguished Canadian speakers.?We?re all just trying to have a good time,? Kyle Hagel ?08 said.

NEWS | 04/22/2008

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