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In Opinion
By Jacqueline Gufford staff writer
Isabella Gomes writes about representing her culture, and Zeena Mubarak discusses introductory-level classes. PAGE 5
Today on Campus 8:00 p.m. The student run non-profit organization Read Record Replay is holding a recordathon to record children’s audiobooks, Frist Multipurpose Room. MICHAEL CHANG :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Archives
Mar. 25, 1996 A University graduate and his brother were convicted of first-degree murder against their millionaire parents. Erik and Lyle Menendez ‘92 allegedly used a shotgun to commit the crime and claimed self-defense due to years of sexual and psychological abuse.
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Actor James Franco strolls around on Princeton’s campus after filming scenes for his upcoming movie, ‘The Sound and the Fury.’
James Franco films on campus By Chitra Marti staff writer
Actor James Franco was in town and later on campus Monday to film scenes for the upcoming film “The Sound and the Fury,” a period drama set in 1910. A portion of Washington Road, between Faculty Road and Route 1, was closed for the movie shooting. The film, which Franco is both directing and starring in, is based on the William Faulkner novel of the same name, film production supervisor Kurt Enger said. Danny McBride, Seth Rogen and Jon Hamm also star in the movie.
The town received a letter from Gentle Films LLC on March 18, the production company behind the film, requesting permission to close the road for the scene. The letter was signed by Enger. The movie itself is set in Cambridge, Mass. However, Princeton was chosen for filming due to its proximity to New York City, as Franco is currently starring in a production of the Broadway play “Of Mice and Men.” Most other scenes were shot in Mississippi or Los Angeles, Enger said, and none were shot in Cambridge. “We chose Lake Carnegie
because it had a similar look to one of the bridges up in Cambridge, at Harvard,” Enger said. Joe Pica, the West Windsor chief of police, said the film crew decided to use the bridge because one of their actors would be walking on the bridge and jumping off into the lake. Although it might not have seemed like the shot would take long, the road was slated to be closed for sixand-a-half hours because the crew was planning to prepare Washington Road to look like a dirt road in the context of the movie, Pica said. However, Enger said they
decided not to create the dirt road, instead removing the traffic lights and planting signs and period cars from 1910 along the bridge to make it fit the scene. “In one of the scenes he walks up the bridge and kind of contemplates suicide, and in another scene he follows through with it. He jumps off the bridge into the water.” Enger said. These two scenes were filmed at the bridge, and one other scene was filmed in the area behind Prospect House, Enger said. In the Prospect House scene, Quentin and See FRANCO page 2
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition movement, Leopoldo López, has roots in Princeton, having graduated from Princeton’s Hun School in 1989. The Hun School is an independent college preparatory school located in Princeton. In Venezuela, López was twice elected the mayor of Chacao. He organized the opposition party in the 2013 election when Henrique Capriles, the opposition candidate, nearly overtook current President Nicólas Maduro in the polls. After graduating from the Hun School, López attended Kenyon College and Harvard’s School of Government before returning to Venezuela. López stood out at the Hun School as a student who wanted to give back and help his native nation of Venezuela, Hun School ESL Department Chair and Director of the International Student Program Dianne Somers said. Somers had taught López when he attended the Hun School. Somers said she remembered a notable moment when López said in class that the purpose of life is to help others. “There was no doubt in my mind ever that he was going to make some kind of change,” Somers said, adding that López provides former and current Hun School students with an example of how one person can change the world. Janine Cadet ’17, a former Hun School student, said See VENEZUELA page 5
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News & Notes Bloomberg View asks why Princeton can’t be more like Harvard Princeton and Yale do not enroll as many low-income students as Harvard does, according to a recent Bloomberg View article. The article, entitled “Why Can’t Yale and Princeton Be More Like Harvard?,” assessed the number of undergraduates at each institution who receive federal Pell Grants, which are provided based on financial need to an average of 41.4 percent of college students nationwide. Although about 10 percent of students at both Harvard and Yale received Pell Grants in 2003-04, Harvard featured 20 percent of such grants by 2011-2012 compared to Yale’s 14 percent. Meanwhile, Princeton offered the grant to about 7 percent of its students in 2003-04 and about 12 percent of its students in 2011-12, Bloomberg View reported. The article also notes that Harvard started a campaign to attract more low-income students in 2004 and suggested that the initiative had a positive impact. Of those students who received the grant in 2011-2012, 75 percent had family incomes of $30,000 or less.
Dinky station installs parking meter system By Anna Windemuth staff writer
The Princeton Station parking lot was outfitted with a new multispace meter system last week, supplementing existing permit spaces and ending a temporary period of free parking in the new lot, Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget announced. The new meter system runs at 30 cents an hour. Unlike traditional meter heads, the multispace parking system allows customers to pay using cash, credit cards or Smart Cards, which are issued by the municipal-
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ity. Parking time can also be replenished using a cell phone. The machines operate on solar energy. Assistant Municipal Engineer Deanna Stockton explained that not all spaces required payment before the transition because the University and municipality were still in the process of deciding whether to adopt traditional, one-head meters or to implement a consolidated system. “We didn’t want to put single head meters out there and then replace them with the multimeter system,” Stockton said, adding that See DINKY page 3
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PPPL launches new magnet experiment By Elizabeth Paul staff writer
A new experiment, the Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiment, is being designed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to further scientists’ understanding of magnetic reconnection, a process relevant to both astrophysical plasmas and plasmas within fusion reactions. PPPL Director Stewart Prager said the PPPL will
host FLARE and operate it during its research phase as well as contribute technical staff and researchers. He noted the experiment is set to be completed in 2016. “This is a terrific opportunity. It will be an extremely important experiment for astrophysics,” Prager said. “It exactly lines up with the mission of the laboratory, to develop our understanding of plasma physics.” This $4.3 million project See PPPL page 3
CHRISTINE HILDRETH :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Students make recordings of children’s books for underprivileged youth around the world.