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Taste of Nassau offers local cuisine at reduced prices

Taste of Nassau offers local cuisine at reduced prices

Nassau Street's pricier restaurants will be more affordable this week, as today marks the start of Taste of Nassau, a joint venture by the USG and area merchants designed to give Princeton students a chance to sample local cuisine."This is an event we hope will introduce freshmen and all undergraduates to the exciting restaurants that exist in the town," USG campus and community affairs chair Cindy Hong '09 said.With discounted prix-fixe meals and special student savings continuing through Thursday, the four-day promotion will allow students to "treat themselves to a nicer meal out," she said.Zach Kwartler '11 said he may do just that.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Court awards Cottage tax-exempt status

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that Cottage Club is eligible for property tax-exempt status and that Princeton Borough must reimburse the club for its tax payments, totaling more than $300,000 since 2001.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Thesis: Better 27 years late than never

Almost three decades after he should have started it, Josh Kornbluth '80 has finally finished writing his senior thesis.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Notaro revisits campus for frosh week laughs

Comedian Tig Notaro returned to Princeton on Thursday for the third time, performing to mixed reviews before an audience of 1,000 students in Dillon Gym.The Mississippi native wasted no time launching into her opening joke as she took the stage.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Saltine Olympics

Students chow down on saltine crackers during one of the events featured at the first annual Whitman Olympics, held Friday.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Despite criticism, University stays in rankings game

For the eighth consecutive year, Princeton ranked first on U.S. News & World Report's list of top universities, which the magazine released last month.Newsweek and Kaplan, meanwhile, called the University the "Hottest for Liberal Arts" on its "Hottest Universities" list, in which 25 institutions are singled out for excellence in a particular category.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Activities fair

Freshmen attend the fall activites fair in Dillon Gym, where hundreds of student organizations attempted to attract new members.

NEWS | 09/16/2007

Whitman College by the numbers

Cost: $136 million Size: 250,000 sq. ft. Buildings: 10 Residents: 500 undergraduates, 10 graduate students, one faculty fellow Bedrooms: 405 (301 single bedrooms and 104 double bedrooms) Dining rooms: One main hall and two semiprivate halls Building materials: 6,000 tons of fieldstone and limestone (175,000 pieces of fieldstone and 38,000 pieces of limestone) Trees: 219

NEWS | 09/12/2007

An insider's tour of the newest residential college

Though its Gothic spires have drastically transformed the campus landscape, Whitman College is uncharted territory for many members of the University community.Composed of 10 buildings and spanning 250,000 sq.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Whitman unveiled

It took two years to plan, three years to construct and $136 million to fund. Now Whitman College ? equipped with a state-of-the-art dining hall, a digital photo lab and plentiful greenery ? is finally open.Two hundred freshmen, 100 sophomores, 200 upperclassmen and 10 graduate students have moved into the college that promises to transform life at Princeton by kicking off the four-year residential college system.Despite Whitman's 10 buildings and impressive facilities, two challenges still face its incoming residents."At Whitman, we have been blessed with a fabulous infrastructure," said economics professor Harvey Rosen, who will serve as the first master of Whitman."On the other hand, we have no shared history or traditions.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

From Waffles to Whitman

Move-in, 2007: I parked in Lot 23 and walked up the familiar slope of Elm Drive. I could see piles of rubble from the destruction of the Butler Quad from far away, and I immediately felt a sense of loss, of sadness.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Meet Meg Whitman '77

In 2002, eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman '77 donated $30 million to the University, putting her name on the residential college that opened this fall following five years of planning and construction."Princeton had an enormous impact on my life, helping to define the person I am today," Whitman said in a recent email to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

A possible alternative to the Street?

At first glance, Princeton's newly established four-year residential colleges resemble those that have existed for years at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and scores of other institutions.But, in trying to replicate its peer schools' systems, the University faced a unique challenge: the 10 eating clubs clustered near Prospect Avenue.Almost as long as the clubs have existed, the University has periodically tried to replace them with a residential college system.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Who bought the buildings that compose Whitman College?

When Whitman College holds its official grand opening Sept. 26 and 27, students and administrators will pay tribute to the dozens of University alumni who contributed more than $136 million toward the creation of the newest residential college.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Colleges search for a niche in services

With massive Gothic towers, mottled stone and gleaming sod, students returning to campus this fall have found it all but impossible not to notice that the construction site at the south end of Elm Drive has been transformed into the mammoth Whitman College.Awed by seeing the project finally completed, excited about living there or envious of those who do, students may overlook the overall transformation of the residential college system.Common spaces and dining halls in Forbes, Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges have been renovated in the last few months, the dorms of the Butler College quad have been demolished and some undergraduate rooms in each college have been converted into as many as 10 graduate student suites.But the changes to the system run much deeper, allowing each college to specialize and develop its own identity, from updated college shields to new menus unique to each college's dining hall.

NEWS | 09/12/2007

Jacob '08 dies after long struggle with cancer

Lindsay Jacob '08, a comparative literature concentrator, died June 15 in Philadelphia after a long battle with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

NEWS | 09/10/2007

News & Notes

U.S.News ranks U. first for eighth consecutive yearFor the eighth consecutive year, Princeton took first place in U.S.

NEWS | 09/10/2007

Mass bomb threats discredited

The University received two anonymous bomb threats on Aug. 27 and Sept. 1, and both were determined to be hoaxes.Princeton was one of a slew of schools across the country to receive e-mailed bomb threats in recent weeks, prompting security concerns, especially in light of the sixth anniversary of Sept.

NEWS | 09/10/2007

Esfandiari released from Iranian prison after eight months

Former Princeton lecturer Haleh Esfandiari was allowed to leave Iran and reunite with her family in the United States last week after eight months of detainment in Iran, including four months of solitary confinement in the country's notorious Evin prison."I'm really disappointed that this happened to me," Esfandiari, who taught Persian language and literature at the University from 1980 to 1994, said at a press conference yesterday.

NEWS | 09/10/2007

Frist '74 to teach health policy

Less than a year after beginning "a sabbatical from public life," former Tennessee senator Bill Frist '74 will join the University as a visiting professor in the Wilson School.Frist, the first practicing doctor to serve in the Senate since the 1920s, will teach a course on health policy during both of his semesters at the University, one in the fall for graduate students and one in the spring for undergraduates.Nolan McCarty, interim dean of the Wilson School, said in an e-mail that he believes that students "will benefit from [Frist's] real-world experience," adding that Frist's time spent as a practicing physician, heart surgeon and Senate majority leader have informed his views on "important matters [such as] domestic healthcare policy and global health issues."Frist said that he wants to use his experience in politics to highlight what he views as the incalculable benefits of engaging in public service.

NEWS | 09/10/2007

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