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U. reinstates full transfer program, accepts 13 transfer students for fall 2018

Clio Hall, which houses the admissions office

U. reinstates full transfer program, accepts 13 transfer students for fall 2018

Rose Gilbert

Last Wednesday the University announced that it admitted 13 transfer students for fall 2018 entry, and has reinstated the transfer admissions program that was phased out during the 1990s. Now, transfer students will be admitted on a regular basis.

NEWS | 05/13/2018

USG discusses budget surplus, Projects Board

USG discusses budget surplus, Projects Board

Isabel Ting

The Undergraduate Student Government held U-Council Chair elections and gave end-of-year updates during its final weekly meeting of the semester on Sunday.

NEWS | 05/13/2018

U. community gathers in support of Xiyue Wang

U. community gathers in support of Xiyue Wang

Albert Jiang

On Friday evening, over a hundred University faculty, staff, and students, as well as community members, congregated on the North Lawn of Frist Campus Center in solidarity and support of imprisoned graduate student Xiyue Wang.

NEWS | 05/13/2018

Philosophers discuss whether a business can deny service to a gay couple based on religious beliefs

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

On Wednesday, five philosophers debated where to draw the line between religious liberty and discrimination, using the high-profile pending Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission as a main example.

NEWS | 05/10/2018

ICC presidents are combating declining membership at sign-in eating clubs

ICC presidents are combating declining membership at sign-in eating clubs

Nick Shashkini

According to the Interclub Council, the percentage of people choosing to join non-selective, “sign-in” eating clubs has been declining. This year, 325 sophomores participated in the first round of the sign-in process, a 14 percent decline from the spring of 2017.

NEWS | 05/10/2018

Workers' testimonies reveal mistreatment, sexual misconduct

Students and YDS members holding signs at town hall.

Workers' testimonies reveal mistreatment, sexual misconduct

Ivy Truong

On Wednesday, May 9, campus staff members shared testimony of job uncertainty, low wages, and sexual harassment with a crowd of community members gathered for a town hall organized by the Young Democratic Socialists and Service Employees International Union, Local 175 in light of the upcoming contract negotiations in June.

NEWS | 05/10/2018

Faculty-Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct releases fourth annual report

Allie Spensley

The Faculty-Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct released its fourth annual set of University policy recommendations on Thursday morning. This year’s 22-page report is larger and more extensive than reports from past years — reflecting the committee’s new tactics to gather more widespread sources of input — and touches on sexual misconduct policies including training, transparency, penalties, and power differentials.

NEWS | 05/10/2018

Naked man exposes himself to female student on towpath

Naked man exposes himself to female student on towpath

Isabel Ting

On Monday, May 7, an naked man exposed himself to a female student while she was running on the towpath between Harrison Street and Washington Road.

NEWS | 05/09/2018

Students gather at town hall to ‘Ban the Box’

Isabel Ting

On Tuesday, student organizations hosted the “Ban the Box” town hall to encourage student discussion and awareness about the University’s inquiry about applicants’ conviction history in the undergraduate application process.

NEWS | 05/09/2018

University workers’ rights to be discussed at YDS town hall

University workers’ rights to be discussed at YDS town hall

Linh Nguyen

After having private conversations with University employees and the labor union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 175, Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) organized a town hall for campus workers to share their concerns about low wages, temporary work status, and job uncertainty with the student body.

NEWS | 05/09/2018

Potowski debunks myths surrounding Spanish in US

Potowski discussed the social consequences of grammar.

Potowski debunks myths surrounding Spanish in US

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

Presenting five statements about Spanish in the U.S., Kim Potowski, professor of Hispanic linguistics in the Hispanic and Italian studies department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, asked the audience: “¿chisme o verdad?” True or false?

NEWS | 05/08/2018

CPUC discusses divestment process, renaming campus spaces, graduate student life

President Eisgruber opened the CPUC meeting.

CPUC discusses divestment process, renaming campus spaces, graduate student life

Linh Nguyen

During the final Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting of the academic year, representatives from the Resources Committee, the Committee on Naming, the Campus Iconography Committee, and the Graduate Student Government addressed University divestment from private prisons, initiatives to honor diverse individuals from the University’s history, and plans to improve graduate student life on campus.

NEWS | 05/08/2018

U. commissions 8 new portraits to honor diversity in notable alumni and professors

U. commissions 8 new portraits to honor diversity in notable alumni and professors

Julia Ilhardt

Last Thursday, the University announced plans to commission eight new portraits of notable alumni and faculty in an effort to diversify the art and iconography on campus. These portraits are an addition to two portraits, of professor Toni Morrison and the late professor Sir Arthur Lewis, already commissioned last year.

NEWS | 05/06/2018

Liz Fuller-Wright takes circuitous path to science writing at the U.

Liz Fuller-Wright, science writer for the Office of Communications

Liz Fuller-Wright takes circuitous path to science writing at the U.

Katie Tam

Science writer Liz Fuller-Wright pinpoints her interest in science writing to her freshman year in college. Confused by a concept in her environmental chemistry course, she went door to door looking for someone who could help her. She was stunned by the number of people who said they couldn’t do science or didn’t want to do science.

NEWS | 05/06/2018

Spring 2018 headliner really Staples Lawnparties together

Vince Staples performs at spring Lawnparties 2018

Spring 2018 headliner really Staples Lawnparties together

Benjamin Ball

On this surprisingly rainless Sunday, May 6, the Undergraduate Student Government hosted the spring 2018 Lawnparties on Prospect Avenue.

NEWS | 05/06/2018

Co-ops, independent students host second Yardparties at Two Dickinson Street Co-op

Co-ops, independent students host second Yardparties at Two Dickinson Street Co-op

Benjamin Ball

The first Yardparties took place two years ago. However, according to Gottlieb, independents and co-op members were unable to get funding for Yardparties last year. This year, with the help of funding from USG, they were able to hold the event for a second time.

NEWS | 05/06/2018

One year of committees, nearly 50 years of women

One year of committees, nearly 50 years of women

Ivy Truong and Benjamin Ball

In the spring of 1967, University President Robert Goheen ’40 thought he was off-the-record in an interview with Bob Durkee ’69 for The Daily Princetonian. He was wrong.

NEWS | 05/04/2018

When Bob Durkee ’69 broke the news about going co-ed, it was a ‘bombshell’ story

Rose Gilbert

Robert K. Durkee ’69 is the Vice President and Secretary of the University, but in May of 1967, he was the news writer for The Daily Princetonian who broke the story that President Robert Goheen thought “coeducation was inevitable” at the all-male University. Durkee said that while student opinion steadily shifted in favor of coeducation, President Goheen’s claim about the inevitability of coeducation was a “bombshell.”

NEWS | 05/04/2018

USG president Rachel Yee ’19, Myesha Jemison ’18 talk women’s leadership at the University

Mallory Williamson and Katie Tam

USG president Rachel Yee ’19 and former president Myesha Jemison ’18 sat down with the ‘Prince’ to talk about women’s leadership at the University and their roles as female presidents of color.

NEWS | 05/03/2018

20 years of female leadership on Prospect Avenue

Four of the women leading their eating clubs

20 years of female leadership on Prospect Avenue

Ariel Chen

Some of the first female eating club presidents were elected in 2000, and this year, nine of the 11 presidents are female. Students on campus are taking note and are thrilled to see strong leaders working hard to promote the eating clubs at the University. Former and current club presidents feel that female leadership is a self-reinforcing cycle and will strengthen opportunities for women across all of campus.

NEWS | 05/03/2018

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