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"Project Shop Smart, Shop Princeton" Earns Education Foundation's Kudos
ALISON
FOX
Princeton Education Foundation
JANE MURPHY
Princeton
Education Foundation and
Princeton Parent-Teacher Organization
Council
Plentiful Suburban Food Supply Makes Killing of Deer a Sisyphean Exercise
SALLY
HILDICK
North Harrison Street
Expansion of University's E Quad Seen As Contrary to Princeton's Master Plan
Note: the following is a copy of a letter sent to the Borough Mayor and Borough Council.
ANDREA
and RICK STIN
Murray Place
"Project Shop Smart, Shop Princeton" Earns Education Foundation's Kudos
To the Editor:
The Princeton Education Foundation would like to thank all the shoppers, performers, and merchants for their participation in the first annual "Project Shop Smart, Shop Princeton."
Everyone's effort and generosity were much appreciated, and the community spirit added to the success of the event. We think that this collaboration between the Princeton Education Foundation, the Princeton Parent-Teacher Organization Council, and the Borough Merchants Association, which began the day after Thanksgiving and ended on Christmas Eve, was a wonderful success, and we look forward to joining the merchants in making this a yearly Princeton event. We would additionally like to thank Kathie Morolda, of Cranbury Station Gallery, and Anita Fresolone, Palmer Square Management, for all their hard work and enthusiasm.
Our special thanks to the participating enterprises: Go for Baroque, Steppin' Birkenstock Shoes, Bowhe and Peare, CG Gallery, Craft Cleaners, Cranbury Station Gallery, Giselle Dancewear, Nick Hilton Studio, Hulit's Shoes, Jazams, Kitchen Kapers, J. McLaughlin, Mehek Restaurant, Micawber Books, The Papery, Pryde Brown Photographs, Subway, Thomas Sweet, Triangle Repro, White Lotus, Wilson House Books, and Learning Express.
ALISON FOX
Princeton Education Foundation
JANE MURPHY
Princeton Education
Foundation and
Princeton Parent-Teacher Organization Council
Plentiful Suburban Food Supply Makes Killing of Deer a Sisyphean Exercise
To the Editor:
A few letter writers to Town Topics have said that we should continue killing deer in our backyards using rifles, captive bolt pistols, and arrows because there are no longer any natural predators.
We haven't had natural predators for 100 years. Yet the proliferation of deer has occurred only in the last 20 years. The reason for the deer proliferation isn't a lack of natural predators, but that overdevelopment and suburban sprawl over the past 20 years have provided ideal food and habitat for deer to browse and breed. Deer reproduce to accommodate the food supply, and mass slaughter of deer leaves plenty of food and space for the survivors to reproduce at an increased rate.
Rather than blaming deer proliferation on a lack of predators, we should accept the blame for not speaking up about overdevelopment and the cutting down of forests, which have also reduced bird populations while increasing the deer population.
Deer reproduce themselves faster than we can kill them. Eliminating deer, without eliminating suburbia's huge food supply, is futile.
Rather than promoting more deer culling, suburbanites should be insisting on the implementation of nonlethal alternatives: immunocontraception, roadside wildlife warning reflectors, and community education about deer resistant landscaping.
SALLY HILDICK
North Harrison Street
Expansion of University's E Quad Seen As Contrary to Princeton's Master Plan
Note: the following is a copy of a letter sent to the Borough Mayor and Borough Council.
To the Editor:
We were dismayed to learn last week that Borough Council is considering relaxing zoning standards to allow for a significant expansion of the Engineering School (E Quad) next to a vibrant residential neighborhood.
Taller buildings, increased density, and the greater proximity of huge buildings would lower the property values of residents who pay taxes; greatly decrease the quality of life for residents by blocking sunlight, increasing noise from large heating and air-conditioning units on top of buildings, and creating an ugly mass outside our back windows; put more traffic on our already busy street; and increase emissions from the laboratories, adversely affecting health and safety.
Fifteen years ago, this very scenario was prevented, to a large extent, when Borough Council, the Planning Board, and Murray Place area neighbors worked with the University to develop the E3 zoning that provided protection to the neighborhood but allowed for a significant expansion of the E Quad.
Our question now is: Why must this zoning be changed? Why is increased development needed and how does the Borough benefit from it? We hear talk among Council members of allowing for the relaxed standards in exchange for a greater monetary contribution in lieu of taxes from the University. Why, though, must Murray Place be the pawn in that debate? The future of our neighborhood must be decided on its own merits and within Princeton's own master plan. That master plan 15 years ago called for putting a priority on protecting residential neighborhoods against large-scale development. We hope that the same principle applies today.
ANDREA
and RICK STIN
Murray Place
