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Besting Harvard and Yale, U. to go free

Taking a dramatic step toward once again besting Harvard and Yale, the University is to announce today that it is literally going free, eliminating tuition, room and board costs for all undergraduates beginning in the fall semester."Eliminating all expenses of undergraduate study is the greatest thing we could do to attract students from diverse backgrounds to Princeton," President Tilghman said yesterday in an interview.

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'Prince' wins prize for toleranceThe Daily Princetonian ?? which last year pissed off the University, the nation and the world with the Asian-mocking column "Princeton University is racist against me, I mean, nonwhites" by Lian Ji, a rejected applicant for the Class of 2010 ?? has been awarded the Princeton Prize in Race Relations.

Robertson case settled, assets split in half

In order to end rising legal costs, the University and Robertson family have decided to settle. All assets , including Robertson Hall were split.

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Nava '09 sees UFO, converts to Scientology

A month after he drew national attention for claiming he had been threatened for his beliefs and subsequently assaulted with an Orangina bottle, Francisco Nava '09 has reported a still more traumatic experience: alien abduction.Nava claims the kidnapping occurred around 7 p.m.

Frats battle for USG control

Fraternities across campus have started to jockey for positions in the 2009 student government. The past year of authoritarian rule under the Alpha Epsilon Pi political machine has proven that Greek rule is cool on campus, or at least a possibility.Though President Tilghman continues to deny the presence of Greek life at Princeton, the four-year-old Jewish fraternity has seized the top three executive roles in the USG.

Dean's Date Crunch

Nushelle De Silva '11 concentrates on a paper for her freshman seminar in a common area in Bloomberg Hall.

U. receives 20,118 applications for Class of 2012

The University received an all-time record number of undergraduate applications for the fourth year in a row, with 20,118 students applying for admission to the Class of 2012.This year's figure marks a 6 percent increase over the record-breaking 18,942 applicants for the Class of 2011 and constitutes a 22 percent increase in applicant numbers since the Class of 2009.The rise in application numbers comes in the first year after the University dropped its early admission program, which had admitted nearly half of previous incoming classes.

New Jersey primaries may seal nominations

With the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations more hotly contested than ever following the Jan.

Teens damage nearly 500 Jewish graves in New Brunswick

Four teenagers were charged with juvenile delinquency on Wednesday for toppling nearly 500 gravestones in a New Brunswick Jewish cemetery.The youths are being held in the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, awaiting a hearing in county family court.As the investigation of the crime continues, New Brunswick police suspect that the teens were most likely not motivated by anti-Semitism.

Get on board

Students present "The Old Ship of Zion," a play written and directed by Natalia Naman '08, in the Whitman College Theater.

After fire, several residents return

Correction appendedSome of the 34 faculty and staff members evacuated from their homes at the College Road Apartments following a four-alarm fire Thursday have been allowed to move back into their homes.

Fewer A's given for theses, JPs

The University is making progress toward its goal of awarding only 55 percent A-range grades to junior and senior independent work, due in large part to the efforts of large departments, according to a memo sent to faculty by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel on Nov.

Six juniors win SINSI fellowships

Six members of the Class of 2009 have won Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) fellowships, enabling them to spend time working for the federal government before returning to the University to earn a Masters in Public Policy (MPA) degree from the Wilson School.The juniors ? Cyndi Barmore, Shannon Brink, Michael Konialian, Emily Norris, Michael Shapiro and Brendan Reilly ? were notified of their selection last month and are the second group of undergraduates to be accepted into the program.

Playwright Albee leads course on own work

Award-winning writers might be stereotyped as shrouding their creative process in secrecy, but eight University undergraduates got to pierce the veil of mystery this semester, observing and learning from famed playwright Edward Albee as he prepared his latest theatrical opus.The students ? participants in the seminar THR: Special Topics in History and Theory: Albee on Albee, a course offered through the program in theater and dance and co-taught by the playwright himself ? helped Albee prepare his latest play, "Me, Myself, and I," which opened at the Berlind Theatre last Friday.

Township will not charge Nava '09

Francisco Nava '09 will not be charged with filing a false police report and most likely will not face prosecution for sending harassing emails, officials from Public Safety and Princeton Township Police said yesterday.Nava had claimed that he had been attacked in an empty lot in the Township on Dec.

Rubbing elbows with presidential hopefuls across the Granite State

One October morning in 1996, I put on a Bill Clinton mask and went to school. Morningside Elementary in Atlanta, Ga., was holding its annual Halloween carnival, and the year's presidential election was only 10 days away.

A day of primary importance

The week leading up to the New Hampshire presidential primaries may not have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it was certainly close.For the first time since 1928, neither an incumbent president nor current vice president was in the race.

Fire guts faculty housing

A fire raged through a faculty housing complex across from McCarter Theatre yesterday afternoon, leaving several University faculty and staff members homeless but no individuals or pets injured, according to University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96.The fire, which was reported at 2:29 p.m., caused severe damage to Unit 2 of the College Road Apartments, which are located on College Road between University Place and Alexander Street.

Early acceptance rates decline across Ivies

In the first admissions cycle without early admissions at Princeton and Harvard, application numbers soared and acceptance rates dropped across the rest of the Ivy League and at other selective institutions that continue to offer early admissions.Seeking early acceptance at a top school, some applicants who might have applied early to Princeton or Harvard in past years seem to have applied early elsewhere, especially to Yale, which saw a record 4,888 applicants for the class of 2012, a 36 percent jump from the class of 2011.Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in October 2007 that she thought some students had applied early to Princeton for strategic reasons.