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Justice Kagan ’81 discusses legal analysis, Court's perception

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Justice Kagan ’81 discusses legal analysis, Court's perception

Jacqueline Gufford

One of the most difficult aspects of being a judge is understanding the role and limits of a justice’s position, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan ’81 argued in a discussion on her experiences and judicial views moderated by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on Thursday. Kagan, nominated and appointed to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University, an M.Phil.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Students revive SpeakOut group to promote discussion on sexual assault

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Students revive SpeakOut group to promote discussion on sexual assault

Durva Trivedi

A student group that had gone inactive for the past few years is being revitalized by students who feel that campus lacks a group separate from the administration to discuss and activism regarding sexual assault,SpeakOut president Eliza Mott ’16 said. SpeakOut was created in 2006 in response to some highly publicized cases ofsexual assault related to Tiger Inn but has remained inactive for a number of years.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Wawa, ‘eternal’ Princeton fixture, gives new store a modern look

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Wawa, ‘eternal’ Princeton fixture, gives new store a modern look

Shriya Sekhsaria

The new 7,500-square foot Wawa is set to open its doors on Friday at 8 a.m.. Except for the class banners that used to line the store's walls, the new locale retains most of the features of the old one, along with 14 newly hired employees and added features like modern restrooms and new equipment. The new Wawa, located near the new Princeton Station at 152 Alexander St.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

N&N: Rush Holt to serve as CEO of American Association for the Advancement of Science

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N&N: Rush Holt to serve as CEO of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Congressman and former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Rush Holt will serve as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science after his retirement from the House of Representatives, according to the AAAS’s press release on Tuesday. Holt will assume his new post in February. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.

NEWS | 11/19/2014
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USG hosts debates between presidential, vice presidential candidates

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USG hosts debates between presidential, vice presidential candidates

Aana Bansal

The three Undergraduate Student Government presidential candidates and two vice presidential candidates debated policy, programming and waffle fries at the elections debate on Tuesday night in the Whig Hall senate chamber. Speaking to about 25 audience members, USG presidential candidates Ella Cheng '16, William Gansa '17 and Molly Stoneman '16 presented opposing opinions on the role of USG in student life and emphasized different issues they plan to address if awarded the presidency. Stoneman is the current USG vice president, while Cheng is the Student Life Committee Chair.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

USG begins project to bring more outdoor lighting on campus

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USG begins project to bring more outdoor lighting on campus

Ruby Shao

The Undergraduate Student Government is undertaking a project to introduce more outdoor lighting on campus. According to Ella Cheng '16, the chair of the University Student Life Committee, the idea began with her predecessor Greg Smith '15, who met with the Department of Public Safety to discuss walking through dark areas on campus together last winter. After receiving feedback about certain students not feeling completely safe on campus at night, Cheng said that she decided to tackle the issue. "I thought about the best ways to address it, and then I figured that actually taking administrators on a walk through campus would be the best way to illustrate to them where the need is on campus," Cheng said.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

U. research group creates first LED 3D printer

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U. research group creates first LED 3D printer

Olivia Wicki

After more than two years and an estimated $20,000, a research group in the mechanical engineering department has created the first 3D printer capable of printing LED lights. The venture was led by researcher Yong Lin Kong and Ian Tamargo ’14, and was sponsored by the Air Force of Scientific Research and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. The research group McAlpine, led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael McAlpine,made a breakthroughmore than a year ago after it successfully printed 3D bionic ears, devices that can hear sound frequencies beyond the capacity of a human ear, out of bovine cells. According to the team's website, the 10-person group explores “interweaving biology and nanomaterials” that “could enable the creation of bionic devices, possessing unique geometric, properties and functionalities for a variety of fundamental and applied research directions”. With this new 3D printing technology, the lab has shown the capability of printing “emissive semi-conducting inorganic nanoparticles, elastomeric matrix, organic polymers as charge transport laters, solid and liquid metal leads and a UV-adhesive transparent substrate layer cube of encapsulated LEDs," according to their report. “What we have presented here is an additional method to integrate electronics that can take into consideration the three-dimensional geometry of an object," Kong explained. He added that previously only simple mechanical structures were able to be printed using 3D technology and that McAlpine has presented the first example of the printing of a fully functional electronic device.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

Princeton Battlefield Society opposes once again Institute for Advanced Study housing plan

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Princeton Battlefield Society opposes once again Institute for Advanced Study housing plan

Warren Crandall

The Institute for Advanced Study’s plan to build new faculty housing will face a legal challenge from the Princeton Battlefield Society despite the Princeton Planning Board’s recent 6-0 vote to approve the plan. The planning board’s vote of approval allows IAS to use a special type of zoning for its housing development, meaning that the development will avoid a stream corridor governed by the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

News & Notes: Lawsuit alleges race-based discrimination in Harvard admissions

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News & Notes: Lawsuit alleges race-based discrimination in Harvard admissions

Grant Golub

The legal group Project on Fair Representation announced a lawsuit on Monday against Harvard for “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies” in its admissions decisions, according to The Harvard Crimson. “Harvard’s undergraduate admissions policies and procedures have injured and continue to injure Plaintiff’s members by intentionally and improperly discriminating against them on the basis of their race and ethnicity in violation of Title VI,” according to a copy of the filed complaint obtained by The Crimson. The plaintiff in the case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc., is a newly formed nonprofit law group that includes groups of students and parents who wish to change the use of race in Harvard's admissions policies and proposes an injunction against policies the group says are discriminatory. In November 2006, Jian Li, a Chinese-American student, filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights against Princeton alleging he had been rejected from the University because of his race, despite scoring a perfect score on the SAT and a number of AP tests.

NEWS | 11/17/2014

News & Notes: Lewdness incident reported outside the Chancellor Green Library

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News & Notes: Lewdness incident reported outside the Chancellor Green Library

Grant Golub

The Department of Public Safety sent an email to the University community on Monday announcing that an unidentified male had allegedly been observed masturbating by a student in the lounge outside the Chancellor Green Library on campus. According to the email, the unknown male was in his late 50s or 60s and was encountered by the student at approximately 4:10 p.m. The suspect has light complexioned, dry, rough skin and long white hair, the email said.

NEWS | 11/17/2014

N&N: Research by U. students, faculty recognized at Celebrate Princeton Innovation

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N&N: Research by U. students, faculty recognized at Celebrate Princeton Innovation

Daily Princetonian Staff

The works of University faculty, staff and students whose research would benefit society were honored on Thursday at the annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation event. The three innovations that received the recognition were a method for discovering antibiotics, a mechanism to study developing lungs and a fuel-efficient engine design. Some of the highlighted inventions were created by chemistry assistant professor Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, chemical and biological engineeringassociate professorCeleste Nelson and astrophysical sciences professor Nathaniel Fisch. Two student-led companies formed during Princeton eLab, a summer program run by the Keller Center, were featured: SpaceTouch, which aims to commercialize a technology interacting with computers through hand gestures,andSignSchool, an online platform for learning American Sign Language. The event was held at the Chancellor Green Rotunda, and it offered researchers the opportunity to showcase their innovations to visiting members of the venture capital and business communities.

NEWS | 11/17/2014

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