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“In Print”
is a running roster of published articles written by Press Club members that are available online

How cool does that look? Seriously!

How cool does that look? Seriously!

Big news this week from the “national lottery overseers” (possibly the most terrifying description for a fairly benign group of people) – Powerball, the 31-state lottery sensation, is coming to the Dirty Jerz!

I know what your saying. But isn’t Mega Million, the 12-state lottery program New Jersey already participates in, enough?

The answer is no. Because the first rule of lottery is that you can never have too much lottery.

(The second rule of lottery? YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT LOTTERY!)

Anyways, our own Kiosk at one Palmer Square gets a shout out in the full article here.

martint The article is basically the print edition of this earlier blog post. But I couldn’t deny you the sublime commentary of USG Treasurer Trevor Martin, who confirms that yes, we’re going to be just fine:

“As students, (budget cuts) are not really going to affect our day-to-day lives,” said Trevor Martin, treasurer of the Undergraduate Student Government. “We’re somewhat sheltered from the cuts.”

Amen, Trevor. Amen!

Full story at nj.com.

With the long-awaited re-launch of Campus Club, which opened as a student center in September, the University is attempting to make an important addition to Street culture: a club facility open to all students.

“While Campus Club will retain the form of an eating club, it doesn’t have the same functions. It’s open to all students, there’s no membership — it serves as more of a campus center,” said club director Dianne Spatafore. “We see ourselves as a complement to the other things that are happening on the Street.” Everyone — from eating-club members to freshmen exploring the Street to graduate students — is welcome, she added.

Read more at the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

800px-Cloister_Spring1Lawnparties, Sept. 20: On Prospect Avenue, all was well. Clothes were pastel. The sun shone bright and warm.

But as dusk drew its curtain on the end-of-summer blowout, one could just make out, on the horizon, something hazy, new, indistinct. Perhaps it was a flareup at a refinery down the turnpike. Maybe, though, it was Change.

Read more in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Cie Stroud /For The Times

Cie Stroud /For The Times

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 Thursday night on the second floor of the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts and said he no longer feels hopeless.

“We’re on our way to ending homelessness in Mercer County tonight,” said Maldonado.

The Alliance honored volunteers, politicians, and corporations and outlined an aggressive plan to combat homelessness over the next five years

Read the full story at nj.com.

Princeton University has cut in half the number of layoffs it had previously expected to make, according to Lianne Sullivan-Crowley, vice president for human resources, who spoke at a campus town hall meeting Tuesday. She credited the university’s budget and cost-savings initiatives.

Ms. Sullivan-Crowley reported that a voluntary retirement program had succeeded in cutting 145 employees. The program allows employees whose job hours are reduced by 20 percent or more to voluntarily leave their position in exchange for a severance package. These employees will leave between Oct. 15, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

As a consequence, Ms. Sullivan Crowley said, earlier estimates of 150 to 200 layoffs have been halved. One facilities employee said he was dissatisfied with Princeton’s move to cut some double-time hours — such as on snow days when facilities personnel are called in early — to time-and-a-half pay.

”While you’re nice and warm, some of us have to come here at 5 a.m. and clear the roads for you,” he told Executive Vice President Mark Burstein.

Read the entire article at the Princeton Packet here.

For New Jersey’s independent candidate for governor Chris Daggett, the one policy issue looming above all others during a public talk Oct. 7 at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School was the economy – and how to fix it.

Daggett was the only independent candidate to raise enough funds to participate in the gubernatorial debate last week against Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine and Republican candidate Chris Christie, he said.

“The two parties have demonstrated an inability to work together…it’s very discouraging, and part of my reason for running is that I’m so disappointed and disillusioned by both parties,” Daggett said. “And I honestly believe, whichever party is in Trenton, it won’t make any difference.”

To read on, see the Woodrow Wilson School News.

image source: http://www.colmhenry.ie/gallery/show/64

image source: http://www.colmhenry.ie/gallery/show/64

John Bruton, the European Commission’s ambassador to the United States, spoke in Dodds Auditorium at the Woodrow Wilson School on Oct. 1 about the challenges facing U.S. and European relations.

To learn why Bruton believes the U.S. should keep their noses out of the E.U.’s membership business and why Americans need to get our “act together before December,” read the article at Woodrow Wilson School News here.

800px-Clio_Hall.JPGA Danish caricaturist is making his first tour of the United States since the 2005 publication of his cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked fury across the Muslim world, according to a Danish press freedom group that is promoting the trip.

Read more at the New York Times.

photo: Geir Thorarinsson

(source: wws.princeton.edu)

(source: wws.princeton.edu)

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, saying that a possible agreement between the two countries could be ratified by Parliament by October 10th or 11th. He said that a relationship between the two countries “can be conducted with mutual respect.”

Erdoğan also clearly expressed a sense of frustration at the continued obstacles to Turkey’s EU accession.

“We have, in that process, something quite peculiar,” he said. “1959 was when we started our discussions with Europe. We are in 2009. Fifty years have passed and there is no other country that has had to wait for that long.”

For the whole story, see the Woodrow Wilson School News.

Curt Daniels of Islandia, N.Y. based Blue Sky Amusements (The Sun Never Sets on the Fun)   sets up on Thursday, September 24, 2009 for the 10th Annual Italian American Festival. Martin Griff / The Times

Curt Daniels of Islandia, N.Y. based Blue Sky Amusements (The Sun Never Sets on the Fun) sets up on Thursday, September 24, 2009 for the 10th Annual Italian American Festival. Martin Griff / The Times

I woke up with this voicemail early Wednesday morning:

“Spencer Gaffney. This is the godfather. John Scarpati. I hear you want to talk to me. Okay, give me a call.”

Turns out Scarpati is indeed the godfather and founder of one of the largest cultural events in Mercer County. Organizers say that they expect over 100,000 people to visit Mercer County Park this weekend.

The tenth annual Italian American festival will run today from noon to 11 p.m. and tomorrow from noon to 9 p.m.

What’s there, you ask? How about great food, strange cultural exhibitions, and two stages of entertainment. And tons of Italian Americans.

For a complete writeup, click here.

(source: dbtechno.com)

(source: dbtechno.com)

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 flu as soon as possible, said university spokeswoman Emily Aronson.

Between Sept. 5 and 11, a total of 6,432 new flu-like illnesses were reported on college campuses, according to the American College Health Association, which has been collecting data about the spread of the H1N1 flu from 253 universities, including Princeton.

For the whole story, visit Centraljersey.com.