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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

Bezos ’86 announces charity supporting homeless families

Bezos ’86 announces charity supporting homeless families

Rose Gilbert

On Sept. 13, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ’86 and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos ’92, announced the creation of a $2 billion fund to support homeless and low-income families.

NEWS | 09/26/2018

Asian American Studies program faces low enrollment in its first semester

Linh Nguyen

On April 2, the University approved the Asian American Studies certificate program after over 40 years of campaigning, protesting, and lobbying; however, this semester’s enrollment rates in the department were concerningly low.

NEWS | 09/26/2018

Lebanese minister speaks on Syrian refugees

Benjamin Ball

In a talk given to the University community on Monday, Lebanon Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Gebran Bassil had stern words for the international community, repeatedly urging the return of Syrian refugees — 1.5 million of whom have taken residence in Lebanon.

NEWS | 09/25/2018

Dozens gathered Tuesday in memory of Yasmin Abdillahi ’20

Dozens gathered Tuesday in memory of Yasmin Abdillahi ’20

Benjamin Ball

Gathered in a circle of chairs with students, members of the Office of Religious Life introduced the ceremony and spoke about Abdillahi’s positive legacy.

NEWS | 09/25/2018

Suchkov speaks about Russia’s Middle Eastern strategy

Kris Hristov

Maxim Suchkov, a senior fellow at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, spoke at the University on Tuesday about Russia’s actions and future plans for Syria and its policy for the Middle East as a whole.

NEWS | 09/25/2018

Yale’s Gerken ’91 responds to allegations that Tiger Mom groomed female clerks for Kavanaugh

Benjamin Ball

In a letter Thursday to the Yale Law School community, Dean of Yale Law School Heather K. Gerken ’91 responded to reports that Amy Chua, a prominent Yale law professor, advised students seeking clerkships with Brett Kavanaugh on their physical looks.

NEWS | 09/25/2018

CPUC addresses Hugin, grading policy, campus speakers

CPUC addresses Hugin, grading policy, campus speakers

Isabel Ting

During the first Council of the Princeton University Community meeting of the 2018–19 academic year, members discussed trustee Bob Hugin’s controversial U.S. Senate campaign, revised grading policies, and how to deal with controversial campus speakers.

NEWS | 09/24/2018

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