Category: archives

  • Ernestine Bradley asks, and answers, deep-probing questions

    Wife of former senator to discuss her book, "The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life." By: Jennifer Potash    Going home for Ernestine Bradley involved more than hopping a plane to Germany.    Instead, her journey home prompted the professor and wife of former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley to consider deeper questions of her very…

  • Princeton Packet Boys’ Swimmer of the Year

    WW-P South’s Park adjusted fast to pool By: Justin Feil    Adjusting to a new school is one thing.    Adjusting to a new country is something entirely different.    Jay Park came to West Windsor-Plainsboro South from South Korea, where he had begun swimming as a 7-year-old and grown into a junior national team member in the…

  • Letters to the Editor, March 29

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 29 Forum to examine affordable housing To the editor:     Did you know …    • That the minimum wage in New Jersey is still $5.15 an hour, or $10,712 a year?    • That when the minimum wage goes to $7.15 an hour it will be $14,872 a year?    • That a one-bedroom apartment…

  • A hallowed building’s history

    New book explores Alexander Hall’s 111-year past. By: David Campbell    Princeton University’s Alexander Hall, the lecture and performance hall on campus distinguished by its elaborate Romanesque Revival façade with imposing Tiffany quatrefoil window, is now the subject of a new book published by the university.    The book’s title is "Alexander Hall, Home of Richardson Auditorium:…

  • Third World sweatshop image no longer an accurate one

    Guest Column By: Anne Sweeney    The image of the Third World sweatshop dies hard.    From South America to the Pacific Rim, the picture of the dark, satanic mills of the 21st century informs the media and the message of protesters of globalization.    Women and children work for subsistence wages churning out athletic shoes, sportswear and…

  • WW Community Vision Team candidates slate fund-raiser

    By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and his running mates on the "Community Vision Team" will hold a fund-raiser April 10 at the Super Star East restaurant in the Nassau Park shopping center.    During the buffet lunch, Mayor Hsueh and his running mates, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education member Linda Geevers…

  • Students protest crackdown in Cuba

    New group holds silent march on Princeton University campus. By: David Campbell    More than two dozen Princeton University students held a silent march on campus Friday to protest what they said was a crackdown on dissent in Cuba two years ago in which more than 75 people were reportedly detained as political prisoners.    The march…

  • Student finds escort service to be a hard sell

    Entrepreneur can’t keep his online ad up By: Ryan James Kim    An online advertisement that offered Princeton University students male escorts — and solicited female students to apply for a position — was a joke, but the ad’s author insists the business model is sound.    A business that catered to the community at large likely…

  • Princeton school board set to finalize budget

    Hearing tonight on spending plan. By: Rachel Silverman    At a Princeton Regional Schools’ Finance Committee meeting Monday afternoon, board members began gearing up for tonight’s school budget presentation, in which the district will outline both its $67.1 million base budget and an additional $1.9 million second-question proposal.    "There will be a PowerPoint presentation," Superintendent Judy…