Category: archives

  • Student activists work to further vision of social justice

    University teams target state issues By: Jeff Milgram    When and if poor families in New Jersey ever get state money to help pay for child care, they should thank Princeton University student Westra Miller.    "Good care is hard to find and parents who do find a setting that is both clean and staffed with caring…

  • Savvy Depictions

    Watercolor painter Keith Mountford took a leap of faith and found the career of his dreams. By: Amy Brummer

  • Meadow Lakes opens doors

    One year after breaking ground, the Meadow Lakes senior community witnessed the ribbon cutting that signaled the dawn of independent living on the grounds. By: Scott Morgan    On Monday, Meadow Lakes officially opened the doors to its 15 "cottage homes," free-standing houses designed to allow seniors independent living on the grounds of an existing continuing…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Tempering the trauma of divorce with group programs

    By: Judy Shepps Battle    Divorce is an equal opportunity traumatizer.    I don’t know of anyone who enters into matrimony intending anything but lifelong union. Yet it is estimated that half of all first marriages will result in an emotionally painful and financially burdensome separation and/or divorce.    Many of these broken relationships involve children.    About 1.5…

  • DEXA screening urged for osteoporosis

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Dr. Timothy Howard    Eight million women and two million men in the United States suffer from osteoporosis.    One in two women and one in eight men over the age of 50 will have an osteoporotic fracture (broken bone) in her or his lifetime. A woman’s lifetime risk of having an osteoporotic fracture…

  • Witmer still looking to leave

    Schools Superintendent David Witmer is a finalist for a position in another district &#151 again. By: Chris Karmiol        He has not jumped ship yet, but David Witmer, chief school administrator of the East Windsor Regional School District, is one of two finalists for the position of superintendent of the Middletown Township School District in…

  • Jamesburg parents say school aid system unfair

    About two dozen trek to Trenton to protest funding at Statehouse. By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — A demonstration by parents of Jamesburg school students could be a prelude to other demonstrations and possibly participation by other New Jersey school districts.    More than 30 Jamesburg parents and supporters carrying signs picketed in front of the Statehouse…

  • Institute for Advanced Study appoints 3 new trustees

       The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed three new members to its board of trustees.    Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist and politician, has been president of Brazil since 1995, and will serve through 2002.    His early career was as an academic sociologist. An advocate of democratic reform, and opponent of the military dictatorship that ruled…

  • PU, Morrison in strange days as contenders

    Tigers host Penn in key Ivy clash By: Justin Feil    It’s unlikely that the University of Pennsylvania football team won’t pay close attention to Blair Morrison on Saturday. And that’s saying a lot about Princeton’s usual back-up wide receiver.    Last Saturday, however, Morrison more than filled in for injured wide receiver B.J. Szymanski. The junior…