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News & Notes: East Asian Studies professor dies at 66

News & Notes: East Asian Studies professor dies at 66

University professor of East Asian studies Richard Okada died of natural causes on April 4 at the age of 66. Known for his work on Japanese literature and culture across a broad range of time periods and disciplines, Okada received his Ph.D. from UC, Berkeley, in 1983 and joined the University faculty in 1985 after serving as the director of the Program in Asian Studies at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

USG discusses elections, new student groups and community initiatives

The USG is currently planning to launch a “restaurant week” that will offer students a fixed-price dinner at eating locations in town, the USG announced at its Senate meeting Sunday night. The Princeton Restaurant Week will take place the week before winter break.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

Breaking: Professor awarded Pulitzer

On her 40th birthday, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Tracy K. Smith was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book “Life on Mars,” a collection of poems published in 2011.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

From Princeton to White House, sharing a love of bees

Members of the Princeton BEE Team — a student group formed in fall 2009 which maintains two beehives across from Carnegie Lake, tends them once a week and makes honey and lip balm — visited the hives outside the White House last weekend. These hives were added to the White House gardens in 2011, reportedly with the support of President Barack Obama, and now provide the honey used by the White House pastry chef.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

Referendum could retool freshman class government

A USG referendum on the spring ballot would, if passed, change the structure of the freshman class government. Sponsored by Class of 2012 social chair Tulio Jose Alvarez Burgos ’12, the referendum would create a council of five officers for the freshman class and delay the election of the president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and social chair until the end of freshman year.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

1 year after suicide, new details emerge about Calvo’s suspension

1 year after suicide, new details emerge about Calvo’s suspension

Marcelo Rochabrun

A year has passed since senior lecturer Antonio Calvo committed suicide in his Manhattan apartment, and gone are the affectionate notes posted by students, colleagues and friends that lined his door in the days following his death. But his old office in East Pyne Hall still sits empty and unused.

NEWS | 04/15/2012

Dodgeball costs $12,000

Insanity once again took over Dillon Gymnasium Thursday night as University clubs and teams battled fiercely in the annual contest for intramural glory. The Colosseum Club’s annual dodgeball tournament drew 103 teams this year, with brackets including residential colleges, eating clubs, sports teams and a variety of other student groups.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

History department claims more errors in thesis printing process from Pequod

Several seniors who used Pequod, the University’s on-campus printing center, to print their theses claimed they encountered issues during the thesis binding process.Undergraduate Program Administrator for the Department of History Etta Recke, one of four departments that required thesis submission on April 3, said at least half a dozen students found many errors in the final printed versions of their theses. Recke said she saw roughly three or four times more errors from Pequod than she had seen in previous years.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

Mullen to teach WWS seminar in fall

The former highest-ranking official in the American Armed Forces, Admiral Mike Mullen, will join the Wilson School faculty next semester. Mullen, who served 43 years in the United States Navy and rose to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will teach WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy, an undergraduate seminar which will be offered next fall.Upon his retirement last September, Mullen was presented with many potential jobs, Stephen Kotkin, vice dean of the Wilson School, said in an email. But Kotkin said the Wilson School recruited Mullen “vigorously” and secured him as the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

News & Notes: Injured woman sues U-Haul and Yale student

A woman who was injured in a U-Haul truck accident during the annual Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven, Conn., in November is suing both the U-Haul Company of Connecticut and Yale junior Brendan Ross, who was driving the truck. The incident injured two women and killed another.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

A career in calculus review sessions

Few students are eager to attend a three-hour 7:30 p.m. review session, but every Tuesday evening this semester, a group of around 30 students assemble in Fine 214 completely of their volition. Few classrooms are so packed well before the arrival of the instructor. Then again, few lecturers are like Adrian Banner GS ’02, whose entrance brings a hush over the chatty room.This is one of Banner’s typical weekly review meetings for MAT 103: Calculus I and MAT 104: Calculus II. He has been conducting these reviews since late 1999 when he was a third-year graduate student, and since then their popularity has spread, making Banner’s name well-recognized among students across different academic disciplines.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

Former CEO criticizes Princeton Review

The Princeton Review, the test-preparation company whose services have been used by students across the country, has announced its decision to sell the assets of its Higher Education Readiness Division. In an official press release dated March 27, the Princeton Review — which is not affiliated with the University — announced its entrance into a “definitive agreement” to sell the assets to Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, for $33 million. The decision comes after several years of declining stock prices. The company’s founder and former CEO, John Katzman ’81, said in an email that the corporate decisions since his departure were “definitely ... a move for the worse,” and added that the sale was a good decision. “Anything that takes the company out of the hands of Bain Capital is a good thing,” he said. Katzman left the company in 2007.

NEWS | 04/12/2012

News & Notes: Study finds TX top-10 rule hurts Hispanics

A study conducted by professor of sociology and public affairs Marta Tienda and associate professor of sociology and African American studies Angel Harris concluded that admission policies in Texas universities mandated by state law are hurting Hispanic applicants.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Va. teen wins race relations prize

The first white student to lead his high school’s Black Student Union has been awarded the 2012 Washington, D.C., Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The regional award is given by a volunteer alumni committee in Washington, D.C. to recognize high school students’ efforts to improve race relations and increase diversity.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Butler-Wilson serves 3 times more diners than Forbes

Long lines are a common feature of the Butler-Wilson dining hall at dinnertime. Over the past year, Butler-Wilson has received the most card swipes, on average, for both breakfast and dinner, while Rockefeller-Mathey gets the most students for lunch.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Culture shock for Rogers ’95

When congressional candidate Hayden Rogers ’95 moved into campus in the fall of 1988 after a childhood spent in the mountains of North Carolina, it was instantly clear that he was a little out of place.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

Public library to change legal status

As the Borough-Township consolidation moves forward, the Princeton Public Library will be changing its legal status. Now one of only six joint municipal libraries in New Jersey — meaning it serves two or more municipalities — following the January 2013 consolidation the library has decided to lose the “joint” in its title.

NEWS | 04/11/2012

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