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U. sees dip in applications

The University received a total of 26,663 applications to the Class of 2016, as announced in a press release last week, marking a 1.93- percent decrease in the total number of applications over last year’s numbers. Last year’s regular admission applications totaled 27,189.This year’s total includes the 3,476 applications received in November for the single-choice early action program, which was reinstated in 2011. 

NEWS | 02/05/2012

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Charter fills, eliminates waitlist

The five sign-in clubs saw only minor fluctuations in first-round membership numbers this year. As in previous years, Charter was the only one to fill to capacity in the first round of sign-ins, offering membership to 100 sophomores.Now in the second year of its point system, Charter accepted 100 of 144 sophomores in the first round, but discontinued its wait-list policy. 

NEWS | 02/05/2012

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Quad to lower member fees

Princeton Quadrangle Club will be lowering its membership rates significantly for students who sign a contract with the eating club for the 2012-13 school year, president Katie Knorr ’13 and president emeritus Julia Blount ’12 announced in a press release on Thursday.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

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High Inquisitor bans groups

Following the completion of the Task Force on Undergraduate Student Intelligence, University Headmistress and High Inquisitor Shirley Tilghman and the members of the Inquisitorial Squad have issued a number of sweeping reforms to campus social life.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

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SPEW! accuses U. of house elf violations

 The University has been found guilty of a number of nonhuman rights violations, according to an investigation by the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare!.Representatives from the group, who were interviewed when all four members of the organization stormed into The Daily Prophet office demanding attention, said that they had found a number of emaciated and “clearly abused” house elves caged in the University’s basement.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

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Hogsmeade Council, Hogwarts decide nothing

 Following another dead-end discussion between University officials and the Hogsmeade Council, the decision to move the Hogwarts Express station two-Dumbledore-lengths south to make way for the school’s new Center for Tea Leaf Studies and Magical Mental Health has been postponed indefinitely. This is the 17th time in the past four months that such a meeting has completed absolutely nothing. Trust us; we’ve reported on all of them.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

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Nearby Buddhist temple will expand

Not many students know that the home to the western hemisphere’s largest Samadhi statue of Buddha is located less than six miles from campus, right off Route 27.On the same nine-acre property, owned by the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara, is a building the size of a one family house, where three Buddhist monks currently live.  

NEWS | 01/10/2012