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Following in the year-old footsteps of the University and other peer schools, MIT announced Monday that it will divest from companies that it believes are complicit in the mass death occurring in Darfur."MIT invests for the purpose of preserving the capital of MIT's endowment and earning a return on capital that is consistent with MIT's longterm investment horizon," a statement released by the school's news office read.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Former professor detained in Middle East

Former professor detained in Middle East

After months of virtual house arrest and detention in Iran, a former Princeton Near Eastern studies professor was arrested in Tehran last week on charges that could carry the death sentence.Haleh Esfandiari, who taught Persian classes at the University from 1980 to 1994, stands accused of "crimes against national security." She is under suspicion because of her affiliation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank where she directs the Middle East Program.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Crime around campus

Lot 16, April 2, 1:11 a.m.A Public Safety staff member reported observing three individuals looking in car windows in the parking lot.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

After outcry, ACS restores members

In the wake of complaints from scientists worldwide, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced Friday that it would reinstate chemists in Iran and Sudan whose memberships it had previously revoked on legal grounds.The organization had initially barred 36 Iranian members and its one Sudanese member on the grounds that their membership violated U.S.

NEWS | 05/15/2007

Township and borough get MLUC grant

Princeton Borough and Township have received a $60,000 grant to study energy use and generation in local public buildings.Awarded by The College of New Jersey's Municipal Land Use Center (MLUC), the Building Livable Communities grant is expected to be used over a period of 18 months under the guidance of a steering committee of the Princeton Environmental Commission's Sustainable Princeton initiative.Part of the grant will be used to conduct an energy audit on Borough, Township and Princeton Regional School buildings to determine how to increase their energy efficiency.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

On the prowl for study spaces

As Dean's Date approaches, many students are ensconced in their favorite study spots. Some pick a table in Firestone's C-Floor atrium, while others commandeer a classroom in Frist Campus Center or lounge on the front lawn of an eating club.The most difficult challenge, students say, is finding a good spot in a popular study space or a place that is open late at night.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

Much ado about nada

Members of the Triangle Club perform in Rude Olympics IX: The Devil Wears Nada. The show ran from Thursday through Saturday.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

Colonial off tap for rest of semester

Correction appendedCharges have been filed against Colonial Club president Tommy Curry '08 for serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance after an intoxicated student told Borough Police that she had been drinking in the club.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

Suspected thief arrested at Cap

Borough Police arrested a sophomore at Cap & Gown Club on Saturday night after a member observed him rifling through jackets in the club's coatroom.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

Splashes of color

South Asian students celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi on Saturday by dousing each other with colored water and powders.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

Students protest torture method

A group of about 10 students gathered near the Frist Campus Center's South Lawn on Friday afternoon to protest the United States' use of an interrogation method known as "waterboarding" that many charge amounts to torture.During the demonstration, Jean Beebe '10 was cuffed by her ankles, lying face-down on a stretcher, with her head made to appear submerged in a bucket of water.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

U. completes emergency system test

With a digital flood of communication, Princeton tested the Connect-ED emergency notification system around 1 p.m.

NEWS | 05/13/2007

University confirms high radon levels in Forbes

Air quality tests performed in the Forbes basement library measured radon levels of 7.5 picocuries per liter (pCi/L), University officials announced in a press release Wednesday.

NEWS | 05/10/2007

USG names Langberg '09 U-Council chair

The USG approved nominations for U-Council Chair and USG Executive Committee members and discussed funding for student groups yesterday at its last meeting of the year.Sarah Langberg '09 will replace Liz Gough '07 as U-Council chair next semester.

NEWS | 05/10/2007

OA, CA to offer full financial aid

The University announced this week that it will expand its financial aid commitment to the Outdoor Action (OA) and Community Action (CA) programs.

NEWS | 05/10/2007

N.J. may end death penalty

The State Judiciary Committee voted by a margin of eight to two yesterday in favor of abolishing the death penalty, moving New Jersey closer to becoming the 13th state to abolish capital punishment.Governor Jon Corzine has said that he will sign the bill into law if the Democrat-controlled state legislature approves it.A small group of Princeton students representing the Princeton Justice Project's Coalition Against Capital Punishment (CACP) attended yesterday's Senate hearings, joining New Jersey Against the Death Penalty to show their support for the bill.The hearing included testimony from both proand anti-death penalty advocates, as well as testimony from members of a state commission created to study the death penalty system in New Jersey.The trip to the hearing in Trenton state house was organized by CACP members David Christie '10 and Sam Fox Krauss '10.

NEWS | 05/10/2007

Research symposium honors senior scientists

How does a concerned ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) major communicate the perils that green sea turtles face on a daily basis?

NEWS | 05/10/2007

News and Notes

Joan Jett to perform at 2007 Dean's Date concertRockers Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will headline the USG's spring concert on Dean's Date, bringing rock 'n' roll to campus just as students have handed in their final papers and problem sets.Jett will perform on Tuesday, May 15, at 5:15 p.m.

NEWS | 05/08/2007

Protesters orchestrate bloody display

Correction appendedEleven undergraduates stripped down to their undergarments, smeared themselves with stage blood and pretended to be pieces of packaged meat in a demonstration co-organized by the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on the Frist Campus Center South Lawn yesterday."We wanted to force people to make the connection between the animal on their plate and the animal that it was before ? with bones and blood, just like people," PAWS president Jenny Palmer '09 said.The human meat tray display was intended "to create an image people can't look away from," PETA senior vice president Dan Mathews said in an interview.

NEWS | 05/08/2007

Anonymous art donor comes forth

Art history professor John Wilmerding came forward Friday as the previously anonymous donor of a large collection of pop art to the University Art Museum in 2004.The collection's nearly 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper include many rare pieces by 1960s American artists such as Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann.Wilmerding's disclosure, which came at a reception and dinner in honor of his retirement Friday evening, has stimulated philanthropic responses in his honor.

NEWS | 05/08/2007

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