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  • Teen arrests in Princeton bring call for talks

    Human Service Commission seeks to meet with police, school officials By: Courtney Gross    In response to civil rights complaints made by the parents of four Princeton High School students charged with complicity to robbery last week, the joint Princeton Human Service Commission is attempting to set up a meeting between the Princeton Borough Police Department…

  • Princeton Unniversity professor awarded prize from Italian town

       Pietro Frassica, a Princeton University professor of French and Italian, has been awarded the "Premio Val Comino" prize from the town of Alvito, Italy, for his recent book, "Varianti e invarianti dell’evocazione (Variants and Invariance in Memory)."    The book analyses the works of a number 20th-century Italian authors.    "In the work of Primo Levi, for…

  • University’s drive for equity turns to eating clubs

    Cost of membership goes against focus on fairness By: Hilary Parker    The cost of membership to the eating clubs frequented by Princeton University undergraduates is currently providing members of the university community with a little food for thought.    Given Princeton’s ever-increasing focus on equity — including a Sept. 18 decision to end its early admissions…

  • PU football roles coming together

    Tigers make plays for another comeback win By: Justin Feil    Two weeks into the 2006 season, the Princeton University football team is starting to show they have some players they can depend on game in and game out.    Jeff Terrell is taking the lead. The senior quarterback threw for a career-high 261 yards and tied…

  • Grace Marie Eames

       Grace Marie Eames, 96, of Harbourton died Saturday at home.    Born in Long Island, N.Y., she had resided in Harbourton since 1954.    She was a medical secretary for her late husband, Dr. William N. Eames, who died in 1996.    Daughter of the late Marcus B. and Marie Byrnes Ketcham and wife of the late Dr.…

  • Family Slides

    The Trachtenburg Family entertains with song, delivering a vegetarian, anti-cell phone and anti-gender stereotype message. By: Anthony Stoeckert    If you’re at someone’s house and are asked if you’d like to see some slides, it’s generally acknowledged that you’re about to be bored by images of family vacations and old block parties — that is, if…

  • Police nab man suspected of lewd acts

    Edison man charged with three counts of lewdness. By: Joseph Harvie    Police have in custody a 36-year-old township man who they say is suspected of having exposed his genitals to five women along the Route 1 corridor since June.    South Brunswick Police spokesman Detective James Ryan said at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday that police are not…

  • PU football rallies again

    Tigers overcome Lafayette in fourth quarter By: Justin Feil    Think the Princeton University football team’s 26-14 win over Lafayette on Saturday wasn’t big?    Think again.    "It’s kind of gratifying to see," said PU head coach Roger Hughes before checking his emotions, "the culture change that we’ve tried to induce around here come to fruition. I…

  • District students make the grade

    School passes NCLB tests By: Lacey Korevec    The Cranbury School has once again passed the test.    According to Cranbury School Principal and Chief Administrator Carol Malouf, the district has met all 40 requirements in the Adequate Yearly Progress standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act, but she has concerns about the way the…