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Princeton University's Class of 2011 emerged through the FitzRandolph Gate today, the culmination of days of reunions, class day events, and memorable speakers.

Princeton University will abandon plans to locate a proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood at the Dinky Station,  after failing to gain the approval of the Township and Borough at a joint meeting Monday night. Princeton University Vice-President Bob Durkee said that instead, the university will begin working on designs for the arts complex in locations that would not need zoning approval.

Leslie-Bernard Joseph, Dean of Students at Coney Island Prep, tells about his sixth grade student who, unable to answer any questions on a quiz, had simply written “I need help” instead of an answer. Joseph keeps the note in his office to remind himself of his mission as a teacher.

Joseph - a 2006 Princeton alumnus – was part of a panel discussion titled “Education as the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time,” which discussed educational reform in the United States and the role of undergraduates in the reform movement.