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IN PRINT: For many N.J. students, graduating from college means accumulating thousands of dollars in debt
Sunday, 27 March 2011
by Angela Wu
Princeton University sophomore Ben Levenson still has two years before he gets his degree. But he knows what is waiting after graduation: $50,000 of debt. Levenson, who wants to be a teacher, said his parents told him he will be responsible for the $50,000 in loans he estimates he will need to cover tuition and
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Advocates for homeless lauded in Princeton
Friday, 09 October 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Israel Maldonado remembers seeing the scores of homeless people in Penn Station twenty years ago. He bought bags of bagels and handed them out, but he still didn’t feel like he was doing enough. But Maldonado, the outgoing chair of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, stood in front of a crowded room of supporters
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan speech stresses peace, “new global order”
Monday, 28 September 2009
by Angela Wu
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke of a friendlier foreign policy and a more trusting “new global order” in a wide-ranging speech at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium on Sept. 23, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The Prime Minister also touched on regional topics including Turkey’s tense relationship with Armenia,
IN PRINT: Princeton University opens the year with free flu vaccines
Friday, 25 September 2009
by Angela Wu
Princeton University opened the school year with Flu Fest, an annual opportunity for students, faculty and staff members to receive free vaccinations for the seasonal flu. The clinic, usually set later in the year, was moved up to Wednesday and Thursday this week, in keeping with CDC guidelines to vaccinate the population for the seasonal
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Tom Kean is Mad at Congress; Terrorism Inspires Morbid, Stoic Humor
Sunday, 05 April 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Tom Kean, former Governor of New Jersey and the co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, delivered the keynote speech at the somewhat terrifyingly named conference, “Emergency Preparedness in the Region: What Have We Done & What is Still Needed?” This reporter was hoping the answers were Everything and Nothing, respectively. Sadly, they were not. Here are
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Chabad gets a New Torah, Hilarity Ensues
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
If the celebration that traipsed its way through Mathey-Rocky this past Sunday afternoon is any indication, new Torahs are a big deal. Chabad, the Jewish center run by the Hassidic Lubavitz movement, got its first Torah on Sunday, and members of Chabad made their jubilation known. Highlights of the ceremony and subsequent parade: The strange
- Published in In Print