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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
New service
Police department switches to new
communications service. PAGE 17
Holy Week: A transformative journey of faith and hope. PAGE 13
Happy Easter!
Once again, Terhune
Orchards is offering its popu-
lar Bunny Chase to families
from 1-3:30 p.m. on Saturday,
March 30, and Sunday March
31.
Its a free celebration of
spring on the farm, suitable
for children ages 2 to 8.
Follow the treasure hunt
clues and find a spring sur-
prise at the end of the hunt.
Each child can handicraft a
bunny to take home and
enjoy a Terhune Orchards
bunny cookie.
Theres always lots to do at
Terhune. Foods available for
purchase. No registration is
necessary. The event is
weather-dependent, howev-
er. If in doubt, call (609) 924-
2310 or visit terhuneor-
chards.com.
Terhune Orchards is locat-
ed at 330 Cold Soil Road,
Lawrence.
PRINCETON
SPOTLIGHT
Bunny Chase
Special to The Sun
ABOVE: A panel
of poets dis-
cusses written
works at the
Princeton Poet-
ry Festival, held
at the Lewis
Center for the
Arts from March
15-17. Poet
Jorie Graham,
far left, and poet
Stephen Dunn,
left, presented a
reading during
the event.
Princeton Poetry Festival
Library
budget
proposes
increase
By KATIE MORGAN
The Princeton Sun
The Princeton Public Li-
brary board of trustees has
submitted a budget proposal to
the council, asking for an in-
crease in municipal funds.
The 2013 municipal request
totals $4,030,619. With the addi-
tion of funds the library re-
quested for capital projects,
projected 2013 spending totals
$5.6 million, a 4.6 percent in-
crease from last year.
According to library Execu-
tive Director Leslie Burger, 80
percent of the librarys operat-
ing costs are paid with munici-
pal dollars.
That 80 percent is primari-
ly used for salaries and associ-
ated benefits, she said. We
use that money for health ben-
efits, pension contributions
all of the things that go along
with employing someone. It
please see COUNCIL, page 7
By KATIE MORGAN
The Princeton Sun
Riverside Elementary School
has been named a Reward School
by the state Department of Edu-
cation. Riverside is one of only
two schools in Mercer County
and 57 in the state to receive the
designation, which is reserved for
schools that have demonstrated a
level of high overall performance.
Reward schools are defined by
the state DOE website as schools
with outstanding achievement or
growth over the past three years.
Within the Reward School catego-
ry, there are High Performing and
Highest Progress schools.
High Performing schools like
Riverside demonstrate test scores
that are consistently in the top 10
percent of the state for every cate-
gory of students, as well as an
overall proficiency rate of 90 per-
cent or higher in addition to high
graduation rates.
You get this designation
through your performance on
state tests like the NJASK and so
forth, Bill Cirullo, Riverside Ele-
mentary principal, said. They
track you over a three-year period
to see if youre consistent and if
you meet a high standard.
Cirullo credited the Riverside
students for the Reward School
designation.
This is a result of well-de-
signed curricula and expert
teaching, he said. But obviously
we didnt take those tests, the
kids did. Its a great group of di-
verse learners and were very
proud.
Cirullo said the Princeton pub-
lic schools curriculum is well de-
signed to promote learning and
retention in the student popula-
tion.
The people in this district
crafted a curriculum thats mean-
ingful for kids, he said. Were
very fortunate to be one of four
very powerful elementary schools
in Princeton. The curriculum is
based on state core content stan-
dards, but a really fine curricu-
lum evolves from there, and its a
district-wide effort. Its also about
how our teachers interpret that.
Princetons curriculum provides
the base, and through our teach-
ers eyes, that is filtered into a
successful thing.
Cirullo said he feels the teach-
ing staff at Riverside is unique
because the teachers make an
extra effort to understand the in-
dividual learning styles of their
students.
What were striving to do in
Princetons public schools is to re-
member that our expertise as
teachers should be knowing how
children learn, Cirullo said.
Our job is to make adjustments
to help students do that. Thats
one of the big differences Id like
to think we have in our school
system. We do a masterful job
with connecting with how a child
thinks, and therefore how a child
learns. Its about customizing
learning for kids, and if you have
a rich, well-thought-out curricu-
lum to do that, and youve got tal-
ented teachers who are able to
guide that process, then youve
got something.
Cirullo said that while he is
proud of the Reward School
designation, he does not encour-
age Riversides teachers to focus
on preparing students for state
tests.
Theres no area of concentra-
tion in our school that focuses on
tests, he said. It virtually has
nothing to do with us thinking
about a test. It has everything to
do with how kids learn and how
teachers create that environment
for kids to be successful. We seem
to get these kids fully invested in
their learning, and the results are
showing.
2 THE PRINCETON SUN MARCH 27-APRIL 2, 2013
Riverside named Reward School
Primary application deadline nears
The deadline to file an applica-
tion to run in Princetons pri-
mary elections is April 1. There
will be two council seats available
in the November election.
Individuals interesting in run-
ning for council must file a nomi-
nation petition for public office,
which can be found at
www.princetonnj.gov/clerk/Prin
cetonPetition2013.pdf.
In addition to the nomination
petition, candidates must fulfill a
signature requirement. In Prince-
ton, Democrats need 50 signa-
tures, and Republicans need 23
signatures.
Candidates nominated for the
general election by direct petition
need 100 signatures.
The signature requirements
can be viewed at www.princeton-
nj.gov/clerk/PARTY_CANDI-
DATE_SIGN_REQUIRE-
MENTS_2013.pdf.
All forms must be filled out and
returned to the Princeton Munic-
ipal Clerks office at 400 Wither-
spoon St., Princeton by 4 p.m. on
April 1.
In addition, if any individual
wishes to change their part
affiliation for the primary
election, they must do so by April
10. Change of party affiliation
forms are available in the Prince-
ton Municipal Clerks office,
and must filed with the Mercer
County Clerk prior to the dead-
line.
The Lewis Center for the
Arts Program in Visual Arts
presents an exhibition of photo-
graphs by Eliot Gee and paint-
ings by Megan Karande, both
seniors in the program March 27
through 31 in the Lucas Gallery
at 185 Nassau Street. An opening
reception will be held on Thurs-
day, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. in
the gallery. Gallery hours are
Monday through Friday from 10
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The exhibition and reception
are free and open to the public.
Gee is an anthropology major,
doing his senior thesis on educa-
tion issues in rural areas. He
has taught English for two sum-
mers in the rural Hunan
province in China, where he has
conducted much of his research
on the subject.
His senior thesis project in vi-
sual arts is a parallel to his work
in his major in which he will
present a series of more than 60
photographs of the town of
Jishou and surrounding region
where he taught. The photo-
graphs were taken using 35 mm
film and presented as black and
white digital images.
After graduation Gee plans to
return to Asia to teach.
Karandes paintings are large-
scale, measuring four feet by six
feet and explore portraiture and
memory. She uses acrylic paint
on acetate, a thin transparent
film, and paints on both sides,
creating a dimensional quality
to the work.
Karandes exhibition is enti-
tled, I Dont Have the Words,
emphasizing the power of a vi-
sual medium to express what
words cannot about the people
who are the subjects of her
work.
Karande is majoring in Ecolo-
gy and Evolutionary Biology.
To learn more about this
event, the Program in Visual
Arts, and the more than 100
other events presented each
year by the Lewis Center visit
princeton.edu/arts.
Student works part of exhibit
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The Winters Tale at McCarter
McCarter Theatre, in associa-
tion with The Shakespeare The-
atre Company, will present
William Shakespeares The Win-
ters Tale, directed by Rebecca
Taichman, April 2 through April
21. Opening night is Friday, April
5.
Tragic, romantic, hilarious,
and uplifting, The Winters
Tale is a genre-bending master-
piece and one of Shakespeares
most elegant and haunting plays.
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
(Sleeping Beauty Wakes,
Twelfth Night), this gorgeous,
music-filled, and magical classic
celebrates redemption, reconcili-
ation, and the mending of broken
hearts. Princes and princesses,
disguised identities, jealous
kings, oracles, pickpockets, and
one ravenous bear if you
havent seen The Winters Tale
before, dont miss this opportuni-
ty.
The cast features Sean Arbuck-
le, Todd Bartels, Brent Carver
(Tony Award-winner for Kiss of
the Spider Woman), Mark Hare-
lik (Broadway: The Light in the
Piazza, The Normal Heart),
Nancy Robinette, Tom Story, Ted
van Griethuysen, Heather Wood,
and Hannah Yelland (Tony nomi-
nee for Brief Encounters).
The Winters Tale design
team includes sets by Christine
Jones, costumes by David Zinn,
lighting by Christopher Akerlind,
sound by Matt Tierney, original
music by Nico Muhly, and chore-
ography by Camille A. Brown.
about the work, director Rebecca
Taichman said, The Winters
Tale is a study in tonal collision
sliding from tragedy to comedy
and back again. We careen
through the dangerous, moneyed
Sicilian court, into the comic Bo-
hemian countryside, and back
again. The play contains multiple
and ever-shifting webs of mean-
ing. As a director, the visual and
theatrical challenges are, well, ab-
surdly difficult and wonderfully
exciting.
Tickets for The Winters Tale
range from $20-$67, and are avail-
able online at www.mccarter.org,
by phone at 609-258-2787, and in
person at the McCarter Theatre
ticket office (91 University Place,
Princeton).
For a complete schedule, visit
www.mccarter.org.
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Remembering Woodrow Wilson
Princeton marks milestone of the centennial of Wilsons inauguration
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