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In Opinion Evan Draim responds to the recent Opinion coverage of his Tory blog post, and David Will discusses the importance of the wall recently erected as part of the course ART 439: Durer’s World. PAGE 5
In Street This week, Oliver Sun sits down for a Q&A with conductor Michael Pratt, and Chitra Marti talks to Grind Arts Company.
Today on Campus 9:30 p.m.: Late night comedy show with, “the world’s first and only stand-up economist,” Yoram Bauman at Campus Club.
The Archives
Apr. 16, 1964 Three undergraduate students were arrested by Borough police and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly turning on 12 fire hydrants.
PRINCETON By the Numbers
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The number of University faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
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STUDENT LIFE
LOCAL NEWS
Bed bugs an ongoing AvalonBay will problem in Holder not face appeal By Ruby Shao staff writer
By Jacob Donnelly staff writer
Bed bugs continue to be a problem in Holder Hall and Forbes College. Following two reports of bed bugs last September, at least four reports were confirmed this March. The students have been temporarily moved to graduate housing, a move different from last year, when four students were moved to single rooms in 1915 hall, in Butler College. Only the infestation in Holder Hall was disclosed to students. Residents in Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges received emails informing them of the situation. “It makes sense for you to avoid visiting Holder Hall until further notice,” an email sent to Mathey students on Tuesday by Mathey College Office administrator Patricia Byrne read. Students in Forbes College did
not receive any email, according to students consulted. University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua explained that cases of bed bugs were reported in Holder Hall on March 22, March 25 and March 31. The University also confirmed another report in Forbes College on April 10, Mbugua said. Mbugua noted that all of the affected Holder Hall rooms have been chemically treated, and that monitoring of the affected adjacent rooms is ongoing. The affected room in Forbes will be treated this week, he added. However, according to an email sent to Rocky residents by Housing and Real Estate Services manager Kenneth Paulaski, at least the Rocky rooms will actually commence treatment on Wednesday morning. It remains unclear if Paulaski and Mbugua were referring to the same cases, or whether more
cases have been reported recently. “Any time there is an email, I’m assuming there is a separate room being treated,” Rohan Bhargava ’14, a Rocky residential college adviser, said, adding that he was unsure whether the Tuesday email signified that additional students would be moved out. Jacob Sackett-Sanders ’16, one of the affected students, has been living in Stanworth Apartments graduate housing for about two weeks. “It’s fine; it’s not that far of a walk,” Sackett-Sanders said. Sackett-Sanders said a friend in a different room told him he had bed bugs in his room soon after returning from spring break, but he wasn’t acting on the problem. He said he immediately reported the issue to his RCA, who passed it along to the Rocky College Office. “They got him out of his room See BED BUGS page 3
STUDENT LIFE
Discussions ongoing on development of electronic meal exchange system By Ruby Shao staff writer
The USG is in discussions with the Interclub Council and Dining Services to develop an electronic meal exchange system for upperclassmen in eating clubs and dining halls. By digitizing the system, the USG is aiming to streamline the meal exchange process, University Student Life Committee chair Ella Cheng ’16 said. Under the current sys-
tem, students have to manually fill out cards, stating the eating club and the dining hall where the meal exchange will be fulfilled. “It can record where your meals are supposed to be, and it just makes the system a lot easier, and also easier for data collection so you can know how many were used and have everything in one place, and it automatically generates the monthly report they have to do,” she said.
Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. One of the project leaders, USLC member Alec Regulski ’16, described the current paper-based system as chaotic. “I used to work in Dining Services at the office, and I used to be in charge of matching the cards together, and stuff always gets lost; people fill out cards incorrectly, so this would just be a lot easier,” he said. “I know it’s definitely See DINING page 4
A group of local residents who oppose AvalonBay, the controversial developer that wants to build residential units at the former University Medical Center at Princeton site, will not appeal a decision that affirms the rights of the company to develop the zone. The Association for Planning at Hospital Site LLC had sued Avalon Bay on Sept. 30 but received a final unfavorable ruling from Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson on Feb. 25. Jacobson dismissed all five counts. The group had previously not publicly announced whether they would appeal or not. “Our focus is going to be, going forward, the environmental issues,” said Areta Pawlynsky, a plaintiff and member of APHS. The original lawsuit had argued against the way zoning assignments had been changed to favor AvalonBay, the overburdening of infrastructure and the adverse health impacts that would be caused by the development. The hospital development controversy began in December 2012, when the Princeton Planning Board, which oversees local land use, rejected AvalonBay’s first application. A group of residents called Princeton Citizens for Sustainable Neighborhoods consequently formed against AvalonBay. However, legal costs caused PCSN to end its campaign in July 2013, and, soon after, the Planning Board approved AvalonBay’s second application. APHS plaintiff Evan Yas-
sky said AvalonBay has lost all credibility throughout the past years. “They’ve been duplicitous, and they’re putting forward information that’s not really accurate. They’ve said that they would address things and then never followed up on them. I mean, sort of at every turn, we feel like they have shown no interest in public health, safety and welfare, and only interest in maximizing profits,” he explained. Planning Board attorney Gerald Muller, representing one of the defendants in APHS’s original lawsuit against AvalonBay, as well as Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, the municipality, the Princeton Town Council and the Planning Board said Jacobson’s decision validated the Planning Board’s reasoning. “We took all the recommended environmental conditions that our environmental consultant at the first set of hearings had set forth in his report, and we incorporated those as conditions in the approval at the end of the second set of hearings,” he explained. “We felt we had a pretty good set of environmental conditions that Avalon had to comply with — they were as broad as we felt we could make them. And basically the judge agreed with that, that we had addressed the environmental issues that were before us.” He noted that because no one ever presented evidence of environmental contamination prior to AvalonBay’s second application, the Planning Board lacked the power to enforce the broader testing that APHS had demanded. See HOSPITAL page 3
U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S
U. and PPPL receive $3.5 M grant for nuclear disarmament research By Anna Windemuth staff writer
The University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will be pursuing nuclear research under a five-year, $3.5 million grant as part of the Center for Verification Technology. They
will use the grant to continue developing a protocol for testing whether a warhead has nuclear content. The Center is a consortium of 13 universities and eight laboratories funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. The group investigates both the
technological and policy dimensions of nuclear disarmament, and includes a strong educational component, Alexander Glaser, assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and in the Wilson School, said. “One of the best things
about it is that Princeton is very strong in having both scientific and technical capability along with the Woodrow Wilson School,” Vice President of the PPPL A.J. Stewart Smith said. He added that he is very excited about the potential of the new development.
Top researchers in the field of nuclear treaty verification were chosen for the project, Consortium Director and Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan Sara Pozzi said in an email. She See PPPL page 2