The temporary Dinky station closed on Monday, and the new Dinky station will open on Nov. 17. A bus service will transport train riders from campus to Princeton Junction fromNov.
Climate change is having an intensifying impact on human rights in developing countries,former President of the Republic of Ireland Mary Robinson said in a lecture on Tuesday. Noting the rapid deterioration of natural environments in Africa and numerous multinational conferences on combating climate change in the past two decades, Robinson said the audience, especially University students, should take immediate and personal responsibility for protecting the environment. Robinson served as the first female President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and is currently the Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Robinson said the year 2015 was critical to mitigating climate change because the United Nations will replace the current “millennium development goals” with a new set of “sustainable development goals,” which will be a blueprint that will guide every country. “There are extraordinary years of human history, and 2014 and 2015 are two years with the same magnitude in changing our lives as 1914 and 1945,” she said.
A student in Forbes College reported seeing someone outside the window while taking a shower in a shared bathroom on the first floor on Saturday, according to an email by Housing & Real Estate Services sent to Forbes College students on Sunday. According to the email, the person outside the bathroom might have been looking into the window while she was showering. The email said that the Department of Public Safety officers did not find a suspect and advised students to safeguard their privacy by keeping windows closed when using showers. On Sept.
Politics plays an important role in environmental policy, former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman said at a lecture on Monday. Whitman set political records when she became New Jersey’s first female governor from 1994 to 2001.
A new University websiteoutlining the roles of strategic planning task forces and their preliminary reports will allow community members to stay informed about the planning process and provide input, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said during this month’s Council of the Princeton University Community meeting. Eisgruber launched the strategic planning process in January with the purpose of creating a flexible, iterative and dynamic framework for future decision-making by January 2016. The new website will be updated periodically and includes summaries of each task force and a list of its members. “There will be both formal and informal opportunities to comment on what the task forces are doing,” Eisgruber said, noting that the community can contact task force members directly or submit a comment to the website, which will be redirected to the appropriate correspondent. “You’re free to make it your homepage,” Eisgruber said, spurring laughter from the audience. The final strategic planning document will highlight the University’s priorities; identify challenges, opportunities and risks; and describe the University’s resource envelope, Eisgruber said. “[The document] is a way to evaluate choices rather than a statement of what the choices are and will be,” Eisgruber said, adding that he expects different task forces to operate on varying timelines. The task force recommendations do not automatically become part of the campus plan but are first vetted and judged against the University framework, Eisgruber explained. Task force members were chosen based on their expertise regarding the specific issue and include undergraduate and graduate students for projects such as graduate student housing, Eisgruber said. He also said the University will be paying close attention to the opportunity costs of various decisions, especially given the recent impact of the financial crisis. “We need to be thinking about what sorts of options we have and how the selection of one option or another option is going to constrain choices in the future,” Eisgruber said. He said that individual departments also engage in planning on a regular basis and that he expects additional task forces to be formed in the future as new issues arise. University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said the University is currently in a solid financial position with a market endowment value of $21 billion as of June 2014 and a very solid credit rating. “We have for quite some time had a very generous donor base,” Lee said.
The Department of Public Safety and firefighters responded to Elm Drive and Chapel Drive after a TigerTransit bus spilled diesel fuel on Monday. Chapel Drive was closed for two hours, while the circle at the end of Chapel Drive was closed for longer, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Chapel Drive was affected by the spill in its entirety, while Elm Drive was affected in the immediate vicinity of Edwards Hall. Around 12:20 p.m., the bus was towed away while cleanup was still in progress and vehicles were passing through one lane. Dirt had been poured over the oil spill while first responders awaited the arrival of a cleanup crew. As of 4:40 p.m., a cleanup crew accompanied by DPS officers was cleaning up the scene.
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The Undergraduate Student Government discussed changes to Career Services, the Integrated Course Engine and Restaurant Week during its weekly senate meeting on Sunday night. Executive Director of Career ServicesPulin Sanghvi began the meeting by speaking to the senate about planning a major overhaul ofCareer Services. Several senate members said that Career Services should do more to invite recruiters from fields beyond finance and computer science. “Our ... focus is to start putting the infrastructure in place to proactively reach out to a much broader and more diverse range of employers and alumni,” Sanghvi said. He added that Career Services will encourage alumni to create internship and job opportunities for students within their companies. Sanghvi said that Career Services hopes to become more feedback driven, adding that the Career and Life Vision workshops have received very positive student responses. USG president Shawon Jackson '17 addressed the Princeton Perspective Project, an initiative to drive conversation about struggling at the University,in his presidential report. “The Princeton Perspective Project is obviously a top priority for me,” he said. Since its launch last week, the website has received more than 1,650 views; nearly 50 students attended the Princeton Perspective Projectopen house last Friday, Jackson said. According to the meeting's agenda, the members of thePrinceton Perspective Projectare now planning a summit in which students, alumni and staff can discuss their personal experiences. The USG also discussed the Integrated Course Engine, the popular TigerApps course planning system that will be replaced by Course Planner, a feature of the University’s new student portal, TigerHub. While the University hopes to eventually incorporate most of ICE’s features into TigerHub, academics committee chairJames Baase ’15 explained that some features, such as customized color schemes and sharing features, will not be carried over. ICE has been maintained by Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10, who built it for his COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques project; according to Baase, he has expressed a desire to retire the app. While information technology chair Clement Lee '15 said the USG is trying to convince Choi to maintain the application for spring course offerings, it is unclear at this time whether Choi will agree. Baase also discussed a recent meeting with the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study aboutpotential changes to requirements for the molecular biology concentration.
The Yale faculty voted in favor of bringing Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I, to New Haven on Thursday at the faculty meeting, according toThe Harvard Crimson. The course would be called “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” andis likely to be offered in fall 2015. The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course. Harvard CS50 Professor David J.
Four rail tunnels connecting New York to New Jersey will be taken out of service in a phased process for repairs, due to damage caused by saltwater from Hurricane Sandy, Amtrak said in a press release last month.
Approximately 5.4 percent, or 72 of 1322 eligible B.S.E.
Over 450 students and faculty have signed competing petitions in the last week about whether or not Princeton should divest from companies involved with Israel. Forty-eight faculty members urged the University last Wednesday to divest its endowment funds from all companies that "contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continued siege of Gaza." The petition, which was published in The Daily Princetonian as an advertisement, has elicited mixed responses from the University community.
Approximately 56 percent of undergraduate students at the University engage in study abroad programs between semesters and summers abroad, and 27 percent do it more than once, according to Director of Study Abroad in the Office of International Programs Mell Bolen. However, the number of students that spends a full semester abroad or more is much smaller.
African-American studies professor emeritus Cornel West GS’80discussed problems facing the present-day Black population in a lecture on Thursday, saying that Black people need to confront the injustice against them by refusing to give in or compromise early, and turning to love and justice rather than anger. Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of religion and African-American studies and chair of Center for African-American studies, and Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies, joined West for the conversation. West was recently detained by police during a scuffle at the Ferguson Police Department. West said that the truth about life as a Black person in the United States is too often hidden because Black Americans are too scared to take a risk by telling it.
A study conducted by Harvard on classroom attendance last spring by secretly photographing 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring came to light Tuesday night at a faculty meeting. During the meeting, Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol remarked that the Initiative for Learning and Teaching installed cameras to record attendance, and pictures were scanned by a computer program to count the number of empty and occupied seats. Bol said the study was not meant to identify any individual, and the lack of prior notification was intended to avoid bias, according to The Boston Globe. Bol said that the study went through the university’s review board beforehand. The students whose images were captured were not notified until this Wednesday afternoon, and some students and faculty said the research was an invasion of privacy. “You should do studies only with the consent of the people being studied,”Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis saidin an interview with the Globe. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Harvard President Drew Faust said that she will have the case reviewed by a panel that oversees the newly established electronic communication policies.
Tiger Inn is expected to remain open while its Graduate Board and the University conduct separate investigations into allegations that a TI officer distributed a picture of a female student performing oral sex on a male student within the club’s dance floor.
Journalist leaks are in the public interest and do not necessarily pose a major threat to national security, former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson argued at a lecture Thursday. Abramson, who started her career as an investigative reporter for Time Magazine, spent 17 years in senior management at The New York Times, becoming the first female managing editor in 2003 and later the first executive editor.
Princeton will have to reexamine at least 11 cases of sexual misconduct, all of them adjudicated internally by the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the past three academic years. The U.S.
The Lewis Center for the Arts has launched a series of outreach initiatives in its attempt to engage the Princeton community through the arts. The initiatives, which include campus activities and “breakout” trips in collaboration with the Pace Center of Civic Engagement, are an attempt to allow University students to utilize their creativity as a means of civic engagement, according to the Lewis Center's outreach website. “We want to bring the University students with at-risk kids in town and Trenton or Newark through the Lewis Center,” Fanny Chouinard, special outreach projects manager for the Lewis Center, said.
A debate on the case for same-sex marriage between politics professorStephen Macedo and Sherif Girgis ’08 ended on the same platform from which it started: The case for same-sex marriage has a limiting principle, one side said, while the other argued changing marriage law accordingly would strengthen the institution of marriage. The debate was moderated by religion professor Eric Gregory. A limiting principle is a principle, often unquestioned, that may limit the explanations one comes up with. Girgis, who took a class taught by Macedo in 2006, majored in philosophy at the University where his senior thesis on sex ethics was awarded the title of best thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy. Macedo, who argued for same-sex marriage, said that gay people will benefit both physically and psychologically through the realization of their marriage commitments.
