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Eating clubs will now use a fully electronic meal exchange system

Eating clubs will now use a fully electronic meal exchange system

Bill Huang

Meal exchanges between eating clubs are now fully electronic, and the days of carrying around those blue meal exchange slips are officially over. Following the electronic meal exchange, the eating clubs will now be using the system for all exchanges.

NEWS | 04/03/2018

Firestone renovations expected to be completed by end of year

Joe Kawalec

The 14-year endeavor to transform Firestone Library is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018. Finishing touches on the B and C floors is anticipated to be completed by Commencement.

NEWS | 04/03/2018

New Klub seeks to live like the Kardashians

Student poses with her prize after winning a meme Kontest. Image Credits: Kardashian Lifestyle Klub.

New Klub seeks to live like the Kardashians

Ivy Truong

When Kylie Jenner named her baby Stormi in Feb. 2018, Kristen Starkowski GS was adamant that no one make fun of the baby’s name. She suggested to Allegra Martschenko ’20 that the two start a club on campus to show their support for the Kardashians.

NEWS | 04/03/2018

Calendar reform, American Studies certificate discussed at faculty meeting

Isabel Ting

According to Dean of the Faculty Sanjeev Kulkarni, the faculty is expected to officially vote on the proposed calendar revisions on April 23.

NEWS | 04/03/2018

University research produces patents; entrepreneurship grows in importance

Neha Chauhan

“Entrepreneurship is becoming more important on campus in general,” said OTL New Ventures Associate Anthony Williams. “A high proportion of University IP is now being licensed to startups.”

NEWS | 04/03/2018

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel named Princeton Artist-in-Residence

Gustavo Dudamel will serve as artist-in-residence at Princeton.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel named Princeton Artist-in-Residence

Julia Ilhardt

According to Princeton University Orchestra conductor Michael Pratt, Dudamel is “one of the most important musicians in the world.” Pratt hopes to use next year’s music outreach efforts to connect Princeton musicians with young musicians in Trenton.

NEWS | 04/02/2018

Tree clean-up and damage assessment continues following March snowstorms

Albert Jiang

In addition to the 15 trees that were brought down by the snow across campus, there were dozens of fallen branches from both coniferous and deciduous trees, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day. For comparison, Day said that Hurricane Sandy felled a record 110 trees.

NEWS | 04/02/2018

Black Lives Matter leader DeRay McKesson discusses blackness, ‘quiet trauma’

Julia Ilhardt

Mckesson explained that he isn’t deterred by death threats and criticism, and he is constantly looking for ways to use his social power and media attention as platforms for bridging the ideological racial divide. Mckesson said that he is trying to give a voice to the oppressed regardless of the discomfort. “Freedom is not only the absence of oppression, but the presence of justice and joy,” he said.

NEWS | 04/01/2018

Princeton Student Climate Initiative crafts carbon policy with NJ state assemblyman

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Princeton Student Climate Initiative crafts carbon policy with NJ state assemblyman

Katie Tam

“This isn’t just about this one piece of legislation. First of all, we’re trying to be part of a comprehensive energy package for the state of New Jersey. But it’s also about reimagining the environmental movement as a whole as being something more representative of the people actually impacted by climate change,” said Amanda Eisenhour ’21, political director of the Princeton Student Climate Initiative.

NEWS | 04/01/2018

U. students win mass media fellowship

Benjamin Ball

University graduate students Irineo Cabreros and Tim Treuer have been selected for the 2018 Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program. Cabreros and Treuer are Ph.D. candidates in applied mathematics and ecology and evolutionary biology, respectively.

NEWS | 04/01/2018

U. and peer institutions file additional amicus brief against Trump travel ban

Ivy Truong

On March 30, Princeton and 30 other colleges and universities filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in an ongoing battle to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to bar immigration from numerous majority-Muslim countries.

NEWS | 03/30/2018

French theatre lecturer Guillaume Gallienne discusses teaching philosophy, life, and art

Katja Stroke-Adolphe

“I’m there to tell them they are not alone. I think that’s my job. The purpose for me of theater is to say that we’re not alone, or that we’re not separated,” explained Guillaume Gallienne, sociétaire of the renowned French theatre company Comédie-Française and winner of multiple César Awards for his autobiographical film “Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!”.

NEWS | 03/30/2018

Musicologist Frank Lehman deconstructs Star Wars motifs

Julia Ilhardt

Frank Lehman, an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Tufts University, knows the score of the iconic music of “Star Wars” as well as anything in his life. In his lecture, part of the Musicology Colloquia Series, Lehman criticized the practice of over-interpreting “Star Wars” music for plot details, but also explained the musically complex use of motifs throughout the score.

NEWS | 03/30/2018

Trump administration considers limiting student visas from China

Natalie Nagorski and Roberto Hasbun

“There will be no benefits with this restriction,” said Yang Shao ’20, another Chinese international student. “It is unnecessary and inefficient to not allow international talents to realize their potential.”

NEWS | 03/29/2018

Alumnus Peruvian president resigns in wake of scandal

Benjamin Ball

Kuczynski announced his plans for resignation just days before he was set for his second impeachment hearing in three months. The hearing would likely have ousted him from office, as the opposition party appeared to intend to oust him from office, according to the Wall Street Journal.

NEWS | 03/29/2018

Keller Center Entrepreneur Greg Olsen discusses space journey

Hector Afonso Cruz

Imagine you were living the dream of almost every child on Earth. You’re snug inside your Kevlar suit, wearing your fishbowl helmet, and someone straps you into your chair and seals the capsule hatch. Then, all of a sudden, you feel the cabin rumble. The rocket engines underneath your capsule roaring to life. You stare out the window, watching the sky turn from light blue, to navy, to pitch black. You’ve just joined an exclusive club of humans who have left terra firma to stare back at the little rock you call home.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

U. students participate in ‘March for Our Lives’ rallies in Washington, D.C., New York City

Rose Gilbert

Saturday, several University students attended one of the major “March For Our Lives” events in Washington, D.C., and New York City to call for improved gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took place this February.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

CPS offers team of professionals for help with eating disorders

Benjamin Ball

The team includes three psychologists, a psychiatrist, the University’s nutritionist, several medical providers, an advanced practice nurse, a physician, and an athletic trainer, according to Chin.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

U. offers admission to 5.5 percent of students in most selective year yet

Mallory Williamson

Overall, the University admitted 1,941 students out of an applicant pool of 35,370, representing a 5.5 percent acceptance rate.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

One University alum and one graduate student each win Hertz Fellowships

Kris Hristov

On March 26, Dina Sharon '14, who majored in chemistry at the University, and Colin Defant, a first-year Ph.D. student studying mathematics, received the Hertz Graduate Fellowship Award. They were among the 10 Hertz fellows selected out of 700 applicants from across the United States.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

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