Late Sunday evening, Rutgers canceled all classes on its New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses.
Then The College of New Jersey closed its campus at 5 am this morning.
Then all local school districts declared it a snow day.
After we’d hoped all night for the expected “8-14 inches of snow” to bury Princeton’s Gothic buildings and cancel –or at least delay!– classes, imagine our disappointment when we woke up to a measly 6-7 inches and…a full day of classes. Beginning at 8 am.
A University of Minnesota student is dropping out of a race for a City Council position after the university’s daily found that he lied about attending Princeton.
Charles Carlson, who also faked a British accent and, actually, a British life, apparently falsified a transcript from Princeton and Phillips Exeter, but was found out when the bullshit mounted too high (ref.: “[Hillary] Clinton shared a crème brûlée torte with him [in England]“).
Sure it seems ridiculous, but Carlson joins a number of other fakes that love the Princeton name. Remember Nava? And maybe you’ve heard of Princeton’s biggest gaffe – admitting con-man James Hogue, a.k.a. Alexi Santana.
Additionally, the article reports that Carlson said he has “schizophrenia affective disorder, which impacts an individual’s ability to accurately judge reality.” Guess he should’ve just said he worked for the Prince.
Jarrett Kerbel, executive director of The Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton, speaks at a forum on food policy in Mercer County
How hard is it to buy fresh, local produce in Trenton? Harder than it should be, say organizations like the Crisis Ministry and Isles.
A group of Mercer County residents–professors, farmers, college students and parents–gathered at Labyrinth Books last week to open up the discussion on food policy in Mercer County.
We use the term food democracy,” said Mark Winne, who writes, speaks and consults on food policy councils and subjects ranging from hunger to agriculture. “It’s a concept that we as consumers should have some say in what we’re eating.
