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Princeton Hindu Satsangam hosts Dharma on the Street

Princeton Hindu Satsangam hosts Dharma on the Street

Mashad Arora

About 30 students gathered in the Mathey Common Room on Friday evening for a “Dharma on the Street” event. The event, which was part of a “Living Dharma Series” by the Princeton Hindu Satsangam, explored Hindu sacred texts and how they could help students approach the University’s social scene with integrity. Students listened as Vineet Chander, coordinator for Hindu Life, talked about his experience as an undergraduate and used creative analogies to relate Hindu teachings to social activities. He talked about how one must really think about what one is after in the social scene and asked students what they looked for when they went to the Street.

NEWS | 10/23/2016

Students petition to allow Barry to teach Wilson School courses

Abhiram Karuppur

Led by Ariana Mirzada '18, a petition aiming to convince the University to allow Research Scholar Michael Barry '70 to offer courses about Afghanistan and the near east through the Wilson School is being circulated among University students. The petitionnotes that Barry's classes were extremely popular, and that some of his lectures on YouTube garnered several thousand viewsin some cases.

NEWS | 10/23/2016

USG discussed Thanksgiving buses, student groups

Jason Fu

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed the Thanksgiving bus project and new student groups in its meeting on Oct.

NEWS | 10/23/2016

Former U. president Bowen GS ’58 dies at 83

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former University President William Bowen GS ’58 died on Thursday.Bowen died of colon cancer.

NEWS | 10/22/2016

From the Archives: Bowen Speak Out on Bowen

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on January 6, 1988 as part of the Daily Princetonian's special William G.

NEWS | 10/22/2016

Green Princeton, Pink House create “upcycled” halloween costumes

Samuel Garfinkle

On Oct. 20, Green Princeton hosted a Do-It-Yourself costume-making event at 99 Alexander Street. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., students were invited to bring clothes and other supplies to trade and fabricate into costumes for Princetoween.

NEWS | 10/20/2016

Schenkkan discusses "All the Way"

Hamna Khurram

Lyndon B. Johnson is a Shakespearean figure in the sense that he was outsized — he was big in his ambitions, his triumphs, his failures, — said Robert Schenkkan in a talk about his play “All the Way.”Schenkkan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “The Kentucky Cycle.” His play “All the Way” won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2014.

NEWS | 10/20/2016

U. community members participate in hunger awareness event

Mashad Arora

Around 100 University students, alumni, and local middle and high school students gathered Thursday evening to discuss food insecurity and prepare bagged goods for a hunger awareness service event.Participants sat around tables and engaged in discussions around hunger and food security in the community.

NEWS | 10/20/2016

Bergstrom discusses negative results in scientific literature

Samvida Venkatesh

"False facts" are being canonized in scientific literature due to the under-publication of negative results, said Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the University of Washington.The lecture, titled “Modeling Scientific Activity,” consisted of a two-part discussion on scientific activity, the first being publication bias leading to the canonization of "false facts," and the second a game theoretic model of the questions that scientists choose to pursue.Bergstrom explained that to accurately accept as true 99.9 percent of facts at a p-value of 0.05, over 40 percent of the obtained negative results need to be published.

NEWS | 10/20/2016

Clinton, Trump face off in final presidential debate

Samuel Garfinkle

The third presidential debate of the 2016 election season took place on Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

NEWS | 10/19/2016

U. professors discuss Kerner Report findings on race

Allie Spensley

University professors Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Imani Perry, and Julian Zelizer gathered on Wednesday to discuss the 1968 Kerner Report — a Johnson-era federal document analyzing race riots occurring across the country — and the ways in which its findings and recommendations are still relevant today.Glaude, chair of the University’s department for African American Studies and professor of Religion and African American Studies, said that of all the Kerner Commission recommendations, the ones focused on policing — more so than those pertaining to education and housing—are the ones that persist in today’s political climate.The underlying causes of the 1960s riots, such as institutional racism and police brutality, are still prevalent in America today, Glaude added.“We are constantly limiting the expression of our values, and the scope of our politics, because we are afraid of triggering racism — which is in fact an explicit acknowledgement that it exists and that we want to leave it alone, that we want to navigate it rather than uproot it,” he said.Imani Perry, University professor of African American Studies, focused on four central points of the Kerner Report: how we historicize riot rebellion, how we situate the document in the midst of a complicated history, the way we talk about the historical pivot to the Black Power movement, and the issues identified by the report that we are still facing.She discussed her transition from focusing on the intent of historical documents such as the Kerner Report to focusing on their real-world function regardless of their often idealistic purposes.“I find myself called to think about the function of these reports in American life,” Perry said.

NEWS | 10/19/2016

U. graduate students vote to affiliate PGSU with educational union

Rose Gilbert

On Oct. 18, University graduate students gathered in McCosh 62 and voted to affiliate the emergent Princeton Graduate Student Union with the American Federation of Teachers, a national union specializing in education.

NEWS | 10/19/2016

U. research scholar, former nuclear launch officers pen letter against Trump

Jessica Li

Joined by nine other former nuclear launch officers, University Research Scholar Bruce Blair penned an open letter Friday questioning the ability of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to serve as commander-in-chief.“The pressures the system places on that one person are staggering and require enormous composure, judgment, restraint and diplomatic skill.

NEWS | 10/19/2016

In exceptional year, men outnumber women 2 to 1 in Shapiro Prize

Marcia Brown

Recipients of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence from 2015-16 were composed of a group of sophomores and juniors who were overwhelmingly male — in a two to one ratio.According to Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler, due to the selection process for the prize, this is an outlier year.

NEWS | 10/19/2016

News & Notes: Harvard graduate students plan to hold vote on unionization

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

Harvard University graduate students reached an agreement with Harvard University to hold an election next month on whether or not working graduate students and undergraduate teaching fellows should unionize, according to The Harvard Crimson.“Graduate and undergraduate Teaching Fellows —teaching assistants, teaching fellows, course assistants,” may vote in the secret ballot election, according to the Stipulated Election Agreement. Undergraduate students serving as research assistants are excluded.The group of pro-union graduate students, Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), presented a petition to the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled this summer that private universities must recognize student assistant unions, according to the Crimson.The Harvard administration has been historically opposed to graduate student unionization. Harvard University President Drew Faust has repeatedly argued that a union of graduate students would change the relationship between students and Harvard from one based on academics to one based in labor, according tothe Crimson. Harvard University is now required to allow its graduate students to engage in collective bargaining, according to the Crimson. Princeton University took a similar stance against unionization earlier this year when itfiled a joint amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board opposing a case calling for the unionization of graduate students . The University "disagrees with the notion underlying the NLRB decision that a graduate student who is engaged in research or teaching in a given semester is transformed during that semester from a student into an employee," according to the Graduate School's frequently asked questions page. However, in a town hall meeting on Oct.

NEWS | 10/18/2016

Singer and George discuss "Ethics in the Real World"

Betty Liu

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, and Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and professor of Politics, engaged in a discussion focused mostly on Singer’s new book, “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter.” The discussion took place in the bottom level of Labyrinth Books.Singer’s book consists mostly of op-ed pieces that he has written for various newspapers over the past 15 years.“What I’ve done for this book is to select some of those columns that seem to me to still have continuing relevance, some of them needed a bit of updating, and I have a paragraph or two at the bottom to update,” said Singer.

NEWS | 10/18/2016

Q&A: Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, creators of TBS's Search Party

Catherine Benedict

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, co-creators, co-writers, and co-directors of new TBS mystery-comedy television show ‘Search Party,’ premiering Nov.

NEWS | 10/18/2016