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Cannon Dial Elm Club welcomed 138 members on Saturday, out of a total of 189 students who bickered. The students will be the first class of new members to take their meals in the Cannon clubhouse since the club closed its doors after the 1972-1973 academic year. Cannon was in operation between 1990-98 in the former Elm Club, which now houses the Fields Center. At the time, it was known as Dial Elm Cannon.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Computing center opens at Forrestal

Computing center opens at Forrestal

Michael Granovetter

Creating computational models that depict visualizations of distant galaxies and movements of single atoms will soon become much more feasible with the opening of the University’s High-Performance Computing Research Center, a 47,000-square-foot building located on Princeton’s Forrestal campus.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

News & Notes: Township resident Bill Spadea to run for District Assembly seat

princeton township resident Bill Spadea has announced his candidacy for the 16th District Assembly seat, filling the position of Peter Biondi, who died two days after his re-election in November.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Web Update: Easop '13 wins USG presidency

Class of 2013 Bruce Easop '13 has won the USG presidency in a runoff election against USG vice president Catherine Ettman '13, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky '12 announced in an email to the student body early Friday evening.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Princeton Pitch tests ideas

Carla Javier

“Get ready,” Princeton Entrepreneurship Club co-director of competitions Chenyu Zheng ’12 said each time the giant timer in Dodds Auditorium ticked down to zero. About 150 audience members varying in dress from full suits to jeans and T-shirts waited, eager to hear Princeton’s next big business idea.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Former secretary to the Treasury discusses crisis

Lekha Kanchinadam

Michael Barr, former assistant secretary of the Treasury and one of the main authors of the Dodd-Frank Reform Act of July 2010, spoke at the Wilson School yesterday about the financial crisis and the government reform that has since followed it. Barr, who is now retired from public work, began by describing what he believed to be causes of the financial meltdown in 2008.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies tasked to fund, manage research

Rebecca Zhang

The University announced last week the creation of the new Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, tasked to “oversee, fund, initiate and manage research on all aspects of Hellenic studies, at Princeton and abroad.”

NEWS | 12/01/2011

University encourages women to seek high honors

Luc Cohen

When Kyle Edwards ’12 received an email last spring informing her of fellowship opportunities, she disregarded it.Though she said only students with a specific grade point average or higher are on the fellowship listserv, she rationalized her decision to ignore the email by telling herself that applying to prestigious awards like the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships takes a lot of effort with only a small chance of return.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Brown professor lectures on slavery and the morality of early Americans

Sohee Khim

Brown University history professor emeritus Gordon Wood, the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History, discussed how the issue of slavery cannot explain the outbreak of the Civil War without taking into account its context within the Revolutionary War.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Panel puts spotlight on AIDS

Alaka Halder

A panel of researchers and activists discussed the challenges surrounding the increasing rates of AIDS among young American gay and bisexual men on Wednesday evening in Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Keeping Faith: Shivaji Sondhi

Robert George

The following is the fourth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

News & Notes: Penn student passes away due to cancer

University of Pennsylvania freshman Annie Zhu passed away due to cancer Tuesday morning at her home in Raritan, N.J.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Peck MPA ’94 speaks on recession, consequences

Shreya Nathan

Author and The Atlantic features editor Don Peck MPA ’94 discussed the long-term consequences of the current recession on the crumbling middle class on Wednesday, and he asserted that young adults are hit the hardest by the struggling job market.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Coursekit pilot program receives mixed responses

Carla Javier

In May 2011, former Penn students Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre left college early to focus on developing Coursekit, a new learning management system designed to supplant Blackboard use at universities. Their project moved quickly: Coursekit has been initially launched to 3,500 students in 80 courses, with a writing course at Princeton among the first trial courses to use the new program.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Ge Wang GS ’08: Making music through iPhone apps

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

Ge Wang GS ’08 has turned out some pretty quirky iPhone apps. Ocarina is a touchscreen flute that you play by blowing into an iPhone’s microphone. Magic Piano allows you to play duets with a complete stranger. There’s even I Am T-Pain, an app that autotunes your voice to mimic that of Mr. Pain himself.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Tyson criticizes common views on space exploration

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

Astrophysicist, former University lecturer and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson launched into a passionate criticism of public attitudes toward space exploration and the dominant myth that America was a pioneer in the field in a lecture on American space exploration to a packed audience in McCosh Hall on Tuesday night.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Students create gender-neutral housing petition

Ellie Wilkinson

VanderLinden, along with PEP members Timothy Trieu ’14 and Aleks Taranov ’15, was in charge of drafting and devising the gender-neutral housing petition, which went live Nov. 9 on the website gopetition.com. The petition follows the implementation of a pilot program in Spelman Halls during the 2010-11 academic year, that permitted mixed-gender groups to draw into the dormitory’s apartment-style rooms.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Ordinance could halt construction

Patience Haggin

Borough officials are making a new effort to prevent the University from building its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood. At a meeting on Tuesday evening, members of the Borough Council voted unanimously to introduce a new ordinance that would interfere with the University’s plan to build its Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

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