The Undergraduate Student Government senate introduced the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life’s work for diversity and inclusion during its weekly meeting on Sunday.Vice President for Campus Life W.
A shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.on Thursdayleft 10 people dead andseven people wounded, The New York Times reported. Local law enforcement officials identified the gunman as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer.
Being stereotyped destabilizes an individual’s self-esteem and affects performance, Columbiapsychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns said at a panel onThursday. “[Negative bias] calls into question that I’m a good, important person who is able to control important outcomes,”Purdie-Vaughns said.
Murray-Dodge Café will be housed in the Carl A. Fields Center on Prospect Avenue during the 2015-16 academic year, Office of Religious Life Operations and Events Coordinator Joanne Sismondo said. The entire Murray-Dodge building, which dates to 1900, is undergoing significant renovations in order to satisfy fire code regulations and become handicapped accessible, Sismondo said, noting that there will be handicap-accessible bathrooms in the basement and on the second floor, and an elevator that will go to all levels of Murray-Dodge Hall. “Smoke alarms will be going in, and sprinklers, and all that 21st century kind of stuff,” Dean of Religious Life Alison Boden said. The Office of Religious Life, also housed in Murray-Dodge Hall, has temporarily relocated to Green Hall.
Late Meal and dining hall weekend brunch hours have been extended, and dining hall food options will now more closely reflect student preferences in response to recommendations from an Undergraduate Student Government University Student Life Committee report released last March.Sunday brunch now begins at 10 a.m.
The University will partner with online open course provider edX beginning this fall to launch courses in response to the changing needs of students and faculty, Jeffrey HimpeleGS ’96, Director of Teaching Initiatives and Programs at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning,said. Himpele explained that edX allows the University to integrate online learning into campus courses in new ways to make online and classroom experiences more interactive.
A bomb threat was called in at John Witherspoon Middle School at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a Princeton Police Department press release.A computer-generated telephone threat was sent to the main office reporting a bomb in the building.
While China’s power may not yet be comparable to that of the United States, China could still pose a significant threat to U.S.
There were 77 crimes reported on the University's main campus in 2014, an increase from 56 crimes reported in 2013, according to the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released Wednesday.The increase was mainly caused by an uptick in the number of motor vehicle thefts reported – there were 16 motor vehicle thefts reported in 2014, compared with four in 2013 and one in 2012.
C.K. Williams, acclaimed poet and respected creative writing professor, died of multiple myeloma on Sept.
Lyon Zabsky, long-time pre-law advisor at the Office of Career Services for over 15 years, retired from the University on Sept.
First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 and Julie Raynor Gross ’75 appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night.In addition to commenting on the challenges of being the first lady, Colbert read a letter written by former first lady Laura Bush that asked for advice for the first gentleman if a female president were elected.
Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at the University, is among the 24 scientists, artists, scholars and activists who received this year’s MacArthur Fellowship.The distinction, sponsored by the John D.
The world is spiraling into a inverted totalitarian political system in which the anonymity and the assault by the corporate state will bring about the fall of capitalism, Chris Hedges, prominent socialist, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize journalist, said at a lecture on Tuesday. Inverted totalitarianism, Hedges explained, describes a form of social organization in which corporations have purported to pay fidelity to the common people but silently possess agendas that are against them.
A former member of the Class of 2016 was sentenced to five years in jail for multiple drug possession and distribution charges, according to NJ.com.Julian Edgren, 21, will begin serving his sentence on Nov.
Undergraduate women experience the highest instance of inappropriate sexual behavior among students at the University, according to the summary report for the 2015 survey "We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton," released by the Universityon Tuesday. According to the results, approximately one in three undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior in comparison with an estimated one in five graduate women, one in seven undergraduate men and one in 18 graduate men. Fifty-five percent of undergraduate women and 62 percent of undergraduate men indicated that they told someone about the incident of inappropriate sexual behavior, while 43 percent of graduate students told someone, according to the report. The report explained that students not thinking what happened to them was “serious enough to talk about” was among the most frequently cited reasons that students did not tell anybody about their experiences of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Brown University has rescinded Bill Cosby’s honorary degree awarded in 1985, the Brown Daily Heraldreported.Brown has never before revoked an honorary degree. Alumnus David Ray circulated a petition online pushing to revoke the degree due tosexual assault allegations put forth against Cosby by 35 women.
In 2007, only 13 years after his first trip through the Northwest Passage, David Thoreson said he was stunned to see little to no ice along the water route, a sharp departure from the rough pack-ice that prevented him from passing through the Passage on his original attempt in 1994.“We were absolutely shocked,” he said at a lecture onMonday.An explorer, photographer and sailor from Iowa, Thoreson began sailing on glacial lakes that were the product of natural climate change in Iowa.
Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics and former Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs Aristides Baltas visited Wilson College on Monday to host a discussion of Greece's political turmoil over the past months.
Sandalwood incense sticks and holy books line shelves along the wall.
