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At Least 200 Protest Grand Jury Decision on Michael Brown Shooting
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
by Spencer Parts
At least 200 Princeton University students protested on Prospect Avenue late last night after a St. Louis County grand jury brought no criminal charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO, a suburb of St. Louis. The protest took place between 12:00 am and
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Will Gansa is Crashing Yik Yak
Monday, 24 November 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
Will Gansa, the sophomore USG presidential candidate, is currently exploding on Princeton’s Yik Yak. Gansa’s campaign, which centers on the issues of unripe fruit and lack of waffle fries in the dining halls as well as a call for campus bike reform, has garnered a cult-like following among Princeton students. Gansa has poked fun at
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“Smart deodorant” is now a thing, thanks to two PU grad students
Sunday, 23 November 2014
by Matthew Silberman
We’ve got smartphones, smart cars, smart locks, smart watches, and more than enough other smart things that promise to make human intellect obsolete. What’s next, smart…deodorant? Oh, wait. It looks like our mechanical overlords-in-the-making will soon have access to your armpits, too, thanks to ClickStick, a Kickstarter project by Princeton grad students Carla Bahri and
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3 Princetonians Win Rhodes in 2014
Sunday, 23 November 2014
by Oren Fliegelman
The Rhodes Trust announced today this year’s 32 American winners of the Rhodes Fellowship. Princeton had 3 winners — two seniors and one graduate — ranking only behind Yale in the number of awardees, which had 4. Below are their profiles, as announced by the Rhodes Trust: Joseph W. Barrett, Port Washington, graduated summa cum
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One Wa Closes, the Other One Opens
Friday, 21 November 2014
by Oren Fliegelman
Updated at 12:20 PM At exactly 8 AM this morning, the old Wa shut its doors for the last time in over 40 years of business. Simultaneously, the new Wa opened up for the first day on the job. At 7:50 AM at the new Wa on 152 Alexander Street, around 20 students, community members,
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First Look: The New Princeton Station
Monday, 17 November 2014
by Andrew Sondern
The new Princeton Station was inaugurated this morning with pouring rain and its first train: the 4:51 am Dinky from Princeton Junction. Princeton University’s Office of Communications was on hand to record the train’s arrival, posted below on Vine: The new station, which was inaugurated with a catered breakfast, features a modern waiting room complete
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Former NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson Speaks at Princeton
Sunday, 16 November 2014
by Louise Connelly
Last Thursday, the University Press Club was honored to host former Executive Editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson, on campus to give a lecture titled “In Defense of Leaks: Why a Free Press Matters More in the Age of Terror,” in which she discussed the role of government leaks in American history, and
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IN PRINT: University Carillon – Learning to Play, High in the Sky
Sunday, 09 November 2014
by Dana Bernstein
Alec Payne ’16 was dizzy by the time he arrived at his first music lesson of the academic year. It was hot and humid, and he had climbed 137 narrow, spiraling steps to the top of Cleveland Tower at the Graduate College. Awaiting him was Princeton’s 36.5-ton carillon: As Payne’s teacher, University carillonneur Lisa Lonie,