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Four years after grade deflation ends, GPAs still on the rise

Four years after grade deflation ends, GPAs still on the rise

Benjamin Ball

“Grading and assessment are among the most complex but important actions the faculty undertake,” Dolan wrote in an email to the The Daily Princetonian. “Students deserve to be given a clear sense of their work in a class and over the course of their educational careers at Princeton. Being clear and transparent about standards for assessment works in the best interests of both faculty and students.”

NEWS | 10/03/2018

Frances Arnold ’79 becomes first female U. graduate to win Nobel Prize

Emily Spalding

University alumna and California Institute of Technology professor Frances Arnold ’79 made history on Wednesday, Oct. 3, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making her the first female Princeton graduate to win a Nobel Prize.

NEWS | 10/03/2018

Award-winning historians discuss suburbs, elections, voting

Hannah Baynesan

“Revolt of the Suburbs in the 1968 & 2018 Elections,” an Oct. 2 panel of three award-winning historians, deconstructed the shift of the U.S. suburban population over time and their current influence. Kevin Kruse, a Princeton history professor, moderated the panel between Lily Geismer, professor at Claremont McKenna College, and Matthew Lassiter, assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

NEWS | 10/03/2018

Panel discusses freedom of speech, Rosen course

Oliver Effron

A five-person panel at the Carl A. Fields Center turned fiery on Tuesday night, as a discussion on campus free speech transformed into an appraisal of Lawrence Rosen’s cancelled course on cultural freedoms.

NEWS | 10/02/2018

U. students write, sign letter on Kavanaugh hearing

Bipartisan letter on Kavanaugh hearings circulates around University.

U. students write, sign letter on Kavanaugh hearing

Zachary Shevin

On Oct. 1, a letter involving the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began circulating among University students. It was directed at the U.S. Senate and President Donald Trump.

NEWS | 10/02/2018

Famed architect Shimada talks environment, utility

Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Dante Sudilovsky

In a lecture hosted by the School of Architecture on Monday, renowned architect Yo Shimada stressed the importance of considering a project’s natural environment. He also advocated for building to match society’s needs. Many of Shimada’s own designs have been shaped by the strictness of Japan’s earthquake damage protection laws. And because he pays close attention to the particular natural surroundings where he builds, Shimada said the houses he designs have very little in common with each other. One house built in a city will look very different from one built in the mountains.

NEWS | 10/02/2018

SINSI co-director discusses communal approaches to global peace

SINSI co-director discusses communal approaches to global peace

Rebecca Han

Former U.S. diplomat and current Wilson School lecturer Rick Barton discussed his book “Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World,” as well as the United States’ role creating sustainable peace in a book talk on Monday. Barton, the co-director of Princeton’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, stressed the need for more community-focused diplomacy.

NEWS | 10/02/2018

Princeton Gerrymandering Project paper wins national prize

Isabel Ting

Neuroscience professor Samuel S. Wang uses his mathematical skills and legal passions to help ensure voters choose their politicians, not the other way around. His team’s paper, “An Antidote for Gobbledygook: Organizing the Judge’s Partisan Gerrymandering Toolkit into a Two-Part Framework,” won a top prize at a gerrymandering competition last week.

NEWS | 10/02/2018

Prof. Sean Wilentz speaks about new book on slavery and the Constitution

Audrey Spensley

“There is no other more central or urgent topic in our history than slavery,” University history professor Sean Wilentz stated at a Sept. 28 panel discussion on his most recent book, “No Property in Man: Slavery and Anti-Slavery at the Nation’s Founding.”

NEWS | 09/30/2018

USG talks Campus Dining, fall budget proposal

Ivy Truong

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed Campus Dining, the fall semester budget, and the progress of various committees during its weekly meeting on Sept. 30.

NEWS | 09/30/2018

Princeton music festival features post-classical, contemporary pieces

Isabel Ting

The festival lineup also included the electro-country performers, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves; Korean-American composer and multi-instrumentalist, Bora Yoon; the percussion duo, Arx Duo; Anaglyphs; SMPL; Triplepoint Trio; New Jersey songwriter, Matt Trowbridge; the punk-jazz band, Joy on Fire; and the New York City-based ensemble, Desdemona Quartet.

NEWS | 09/30/2018

U. celebrates Facilities department with annual picnic

Linh Nguyen

On Friday, Sept. 28, the University hosted its annual Facilities Appreciation Picnic to celebrate the Facilities staff for their year-round work.

NEWS | 09/30/2018

Naked man wearing surgical mask exposes himself to woman on towpath

Naked man wearing surgical mask exposes himself to woman on towpath

Ivy Truong

According to a campus safety alert, released by the Department of Public Safety, the incident occurred at approximately 7:15 a.m. The reporting party said that the man had hidden behind a tree and “revealed himself as she ran past.” Apart from a surgical mask, the suspect was wearing no clothing, and his genitals were exposed.

NEWS | 09/30/2018

Injured construction worker first found by crew team has died

Injured construction worker first found by crew team has died

Claire Thornton

A critically injured construction worker first discovered by crew team members near Shea Rowing Center this morning has died from his injuries after receiving medical treatment in Trenton. Members of the lightweight women’s crew team first discovered him at approximately 8:20 a.m.

NEWS | 09/29/2018

U. confirms Verdu's dismissal following misconduct investigation

Marcia Brown

On Friday night, Assistant Vice President for Communications Dan Day confirmed that professor Sergio Verdú was dismissed from the faculty as of Sept. 22 following a University investigation into his conduct in relation to University policies that prohibit consensual relations with students and require honesty and cooperation in University matters.

NEWS | 09/29/2018

Campus responds to controversy over Hugin’s eating club remarks

Katja Stroke-Adolphe

Controversy arose this month over the statements University Trustee Bob Hugin ’76 made against the inclusion of women and gay students in eating clubs in 1976, while he served as president of Tiger Inn. The statements resurfaced in light of Hugin’s current campaign for U.S. Senate as a Republican against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).

NEWS | 09/28/2018

53 percent of students who rushed joined a sorority

Benjamin Ball

After a busy and exciting rush week last week, 57 percent of students who began the rush process received a bid from one of the University’s three sororities, and 53 percent of students who began the rush process chose to accept a bid and join a sorority.

NEWS | 09/28/2018

Penn professor discusses discrimination in Asian-American communities

Julia Ilhardt

Themes of his book include the phenomenon of “racial melancholia” — an estrangement from American culture surrounding racial norms — as it relates to depression and suicide among model minorities. Still, in the years after his early work on racial melancholia, Eng started to notice different behaviors in the students of his Asian-American literature and culture classes.

NEWS | 09/27/2018

Columbia’s Hart dispels opioid misconceptions

Isabel Ting

“Drug education in America is primarily miseducation,” said Hart. “The American public is constantly bombarded with lurid misinformation that isn’t designed to educate [but] to terrify.”

NEWS | 09/27/2018

Religion and African American Studies professor Eddie Glaude talks Twitter advocacy

Religion and African American Studies professor Eddie Glaude talks Twitter advocacy

Benjamin Ball

Despite the occasional brevity, Glaude’s ultimate goal when approaching social media is to present information in such a way that his following can think more carefully about “the issues at hand.”

NEWS | 09/26/2018

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