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USG passes resolution regarding Verdú sexual harassment case

USG passes resolution regarding Verdú sexual harassment case

Jacob Gerrish

After weeks of allegations and petitions, the Undergraduate Student Government has passed a resolution regarding the sexual harassment case against electrical engineering professor Sergio Verdú. Graduate student Yeohee Im alleged that Verdú sexually harassed her on multiple occasions over a two-month period. In response, the University required Verdú to attend an eight-hour training session. Verdú remains employed by the University. U-Councilor Pooja Patel ‘18 presented Senate Resolution 5-2017 at the Senate meeting on Nov. 19, urging the University to “elevate its disciplinary actions” against Verdú, who was found responsible for sexual harassment in a recent Title IX investigation.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

Bhatia-Gautier ‘86 announced as Baccalaureate speaker

Aviva Kohn

Bhatia-Gautier is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. As an undergraduate, Bhatia-Gautier concentrated in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He was a member of the Princeton Democratic Students Association and Student Council and participated in the student movement against apartheid in South Africa. This early political engagement carried over into a long career in American and Puerto Rican public service.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

ICE raids take place in downtown Princeton

Linh Nguyen and Hannah Wang

Planet Princeton reported in a previous article that the raid only resulted in three arrests. The raids took place on Witherspoon Street and John Street, according to Planet Princeton. Officials confirmed that they had federal criminal warrants for all the men who were arrested. A follow-up investigation from the Princeton Human Services Department has determined that the men do not have any spouses or children.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

U. professor discusses U.'s complicity in antebellum slavery

Linh Nguyen

“It’s the responsibility of everyone here to understand this history,” said Akash Kushwaha ‘21. “We are history at the end of the day.”

NEWS | 11/27/2017

Former graduate student alleges U. visiting professor discouraged Title IX reporting

Ivy Truong

In a Facebook post dated Nov. 5, Latta alleged that while she was a graduate student in Berkeley's comparative literature department, she was sexually harassed, assaulted, and raped by a visiting professor. The accused professor taught at Berkeley in 1985 and is currently professor emeritus at Stanford University. He denies any wrongdoing.

NEWS | 11/27/2017

Druid argues stance-driven trances enhance fans' circumstance through physiology, not happenstance

Benjamin Ball

“People report visionary states, prophecies, and deal with many personal issues as well,” said Lawer. “Many people experience heart rate going up and blood pressure drops. This is sometimes known as a Shamanic Death state…but that normalizes right away.

NEWS | 11/27/2017

U. townhall on punishment for sexual misconduct

Rose Gilbert

The audience was tense, and seemed frustrated with the Title IX office’s numerous privacy constraints, including their inability to discuss specific cases or precedence. Many, like first year Electrical Engineering graduate student Michael Soskind, appreciated the value of holding meetings but also hoped that the town hall would generate “more tangible recommendations that can be implemented by the University.”

NEWS | 11/27/2017

International student numbers increase despite national trend

Audrey Spensley

For the first time in its 12-year history, the 2017 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange found that the number of international students enrolling in U.S. universities has decreased. For the 2016-17 school year, international enrollment fell by about three percent, or about 10,000 students.

NEWS | 11/27/2017

U. promotes campus diversity through veteran matriculation

Victor Hua

Compared to recent graduating years, the Class of 2021 contains a much higher number of students who are veterans — a number which will only increase in the following years, explained Tyler Eddy ’21, a former U.S. Marine and current first-year student.

NEWS | 11/26/2017

Diagon Alley event draws 'magical' crowds

Neha Chauhan

On Saturday, 25,000 Harry Potter enthusiasts flooded Spring Street in Newton, N.J. — just about an hour from Princeton — to witness its transformation into Diagon Alley for the afternoon.

NEWS | 11/26/2017

Elite degrees, but at what cost?

Marcia Brown

Nearly all of the female students interviewed said the culture of the department had led them to seek therapy. “We used to joke that the women in our department all went to therapy to deal with the men in our department,” said one former graduate student who was in the department in the 2000s. Still, those in charge say the department is ultimately a positive environment for women.

NEWS | 11/22/2017

Colburn named U.'s next vice president for communications and public affairs

Isabel Ting

Colburn worked as the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, national communications director of the 2012 Obama for America campaign, assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and director of external affairs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He now serves as the primary communications strategist, manager, and spokesperson for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician and educator Dr. Priscilla Chan that aims to promote equal opportunit

NEWS | 11/22/2017

Asian American Studies program to be created by September 2018

Rebecca Ngu

University faculty are working to create an Asian American Studies certificate program by September 2018. The creation of the program will be the culmination of the work of University students, alumni, and faculty who have researched, petitioned, protested, negotiated, and advocated for the creation of an Asian American Studies program for nearly 30 years.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Book Review: I Hear My People Singing

Book Review: I Hear My People Singing

Benjamin Ball

Ultimately, I Hear My People Singing presents the deep-rooted racism that did and still does exist in America. The focus, however, is always on the people. Watterson presents the Witherspoon community and its residents as vital to Princeton’s past history and present story today.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Graduate and undergraduate students frustrated with U. handling of sexual harassment case

Rose Gilbert, Ivy Truong, and Linh Nguyen

Dozens of graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty members gathered on Monday, Nov. 20 in Maeder Hall to discuss a petition demanding that the University elevate its disciplinary action against Sergio Verdú, a Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was found guilty of sexual harassment in a Title IX investigation earlier this summer. Over 650 undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have signed the petition.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Philosophy professor named new dean of the graduate school

Benjamin Ball

The Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and alum of the graduate college herself, Leslie was appointed by President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and the Board of Trustees at their Nov. 17 meeting. A search committee composed of faculty members and graduate students proposed her selection.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Slavery symposium panels discuss Southern legacy at U.

Isabel Ting

“I think universities miss the point when they hide the light,” said Prairie View A&M University Interim President Ruth Simmons. “Hiding the light means we become corrupt and scheming like other institutions, [and that is] very harmful to us as institutions. There are intruders that want to uncloak the dishonesty of the University. Our best defense is to do it in the light and with the utmost integrity because others will uncloak that if we don’t.”

NEWS | 11/20/2017

USG discusses Puerto Rico resolution, Verdú statement

Jacob Gerrish

“There is just a huge disparity in power between a Ph.D. student and advisor that can affect you really for the rest of your professional career,” Patel said.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Morrison delivers Princeton and Slavery Symposium keynote address

Isabel Ting

Through her own research, Morrison concluded that, while slavery in all civilizations was inevitable due to its lucrative nature, what was not inevitable was the “powerful, bloody social movement” against abolition, as seen from the bloodied attacks on abolitionists by the University’s students to the journeys of the University’s founders, trustees, and nine presidents who owned slaves. Morrison compared navigating between slavery and the University’s history to “navigating between a swamp and an iceberg.”

NEWS | 11/19/2017

Foner, Allen panel discusses Princeton's slavery legacy

Samvida Venkatesh

Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia, noted that Princeton’s commemoration of such a history in the Princeton and Slavery Project was truly in the nation’s service, encouraging the real historical practice of critical inquiry in a time when “fake history is emanating from the highest offices in the land.”

NEWS | 11/19/2017

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