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Updated: U. to keep Woodrow Wilson's name on buildings, change informal motto

Updated: U. to keep Woodrow Wilson's name on buildings, change informal motto

Amber Park

The University Board of Trustees announced Monday morning that it had approvedrecommendationsfrom the Wilson Legacy Committee’s report.Included among the decisions was that the Wilson School and Wilson College will continue to be named after Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and that the University will change its informal motto.Other approved recommendations include establishing a pipeline program to encourage more underrepresented students to pursue doctoral degrees and diversifying campus art.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

Wilson School to hold exhibition on Woodrow Wilson's legacy

Christopher Umanzor

The Wilson School will be holding a public exhibit in Robertson Hall titled “In the Nation’s Service?

NEWS | 04/03/2016

USG discusses the Passport to the Performing Arts program

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed the Passport to the Performing Artsprogram during their weekly meeting onApr.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

HackPrinceton brings in around 500 student programmers, entrepreneurs

Kevin Agostinelli

HackPrinceton, the University’s biannual hackathon hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, drew around 500 student programmers and entrepreneurs from more than 100 universities this past weekend.Participants faced the challenge of creating functioning software or hardware projects from scratch in 36 hours, with the best teams earning prizes such as printing pens and Bluetooth keyboards at the closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon.“HackPrinceton provides students with the unique opportunity to learn new technical skills and take advantage of mentorship and hardware resources, all while being surrounded by hundreds of like-minded students,” Zachary Liu '18, a co-director of HackPrinceton and computer science major at the University, said.Liu, who organized his fourth HackPrinceton this semester, said that he is motivated to continue improving the already successful hackathon."My personal goals for HackPrinceton are trying to focus even more on the attendee experience and providing the best possible outlet for hackers to not only to learn more, but also to simply connect with other people at the hackathon," he said.Monica Shi '18, another HackPrinceton co-director, did not respond to requests for comment.After the 36 hour deadline passed, ten teams were selected as finalists and presented their projects in front of a large crowd to a panel of judges from various business and technological backgrounds.The following projects reached this final stage: Windsong, Cliqur, Lucy, Moralit.ai, Chrono | Emergency, SafeWalk, EIR, StockTalk, EyePhone and Spin to Win.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

U. responds to congressional inquiry on endowment spending

Marcia Brown

University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 released a letter in response to an inquiryfrom several members of the U.S.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

Angela Davis discusses gender violence, historical erasure of women's activism

Kevin Agostinelli

Political activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis said that violence is an indication of the impossibility of imagining livable futures in a lecture Thursday.Davis described several harrowing experiences of gender and sexual violence in the United States, including both instances that she has witnessed firsthand and others that were experienced by victims for which she has worked to defend and raise awareness."I ... remember, as a child, a late night walk on our front door by a woman who was fleeing a man, who I later found out had raped her," she said.Recalling whispered conversations in elementary school about children who were the victims of sexual assault, Davis said she found it strange that these children were perceived as partly responsible for the sexual assaults.Davis noted that she also picked up a woman from the side of the road who had been raped in another situation."A police [officer] had come by, and she thought that she was going to get help from the police officer, but he had also sexually assaulted her and left her there," she said.A Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Davis was closely affiliated with the Black Panther Party through her participation in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

Women's tennis takes to the road against Brown, Yale

David Liu

Princeton women’s tennis (9-7 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) has caught fire as of late with wins over the University of Houston, Rice University and Penn.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

Layden discusses negative aspects of pornography

Annie Yang

In a lecture Thursday, Mary Anne Layden said that pornography, which is a visual invasion of a person’s body, is not a victimless crime.Layden is a psychotherapist and author based at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program as well as the Social Action Committee for Women’s Psychological Health.According to Layden, selling the body is considered sexual exploitation and stealing the body is considered sexual violence."Sex is now a product, and the body is now a commodity," she said.She added that sexual exploitation and sexual violence are a seamless, interconnected continuum.Layden said that there are many studies that provide scientific evidence of the negative consequences of porn.According to Layden, brain images of porn users look similar to those of teenagers and cocaine users, only with less gray matter."Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine," she said.Moreover, according to Layden, about 58 percent of all male pornography users, with an average age of 25, had erectile dysfunction when engaging in sexual relations with women but not while viewing pornography.Layden said that there are many false messages in pornography, including the idea that sex is adversarial or a one-way street.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

U. to limit remote printer access

Betty Liu

The Office of Information and Technology and other departments are in the process of limiting printer accessibility to users on campus in order to improve security against attacks, according to Associate Chief Information Officer for Office of Information Technology Support Services Steven Sather.Sather added that this reconfiguration has been occurring throughout this academic year and that the transition is scheduled to be completed over the summer.Last week, anti-Semitic posters were sent to printers at University, as well as several other colleges throughout the country.These posters were the work of Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, a known white supremacist and computer hacker.In an earlier interview with The Daily Princetonian, University Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day said that Auernheimer’s actions did not constitute hacking in the sense that they did not breach security.Acting Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy Nick Feamster said that the attacks were a consequence of how many printers on campus are configured.“It’s not something that was a new vulnerability or anything like that.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

U. admits 6.46 percent of applicants for Class of 2020

Caroline Lippman

The University has offered admission to 1,894 students out of an applicant pool of 29,303 candidates, marking a record-low acceptance rate of 6.46 percent. This year’s applicant pool is also the largest the University has seen to date, breaking the record number of 27,290 set by the class of 2019. Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained that theOffice of Admissionhas been making efforts to recruit students from every socioeconomic background, which might have contributedto the large applicant pool this year. “We’re doing more outreach to students,” she added. Of the 1,894 admitted students, 785 were accepted in the early application process.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

Gender fluidity conference at Theological Seminary faces public opposition from school's graduate

Maya Wesby

Carmen LaBerge, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, publicly opposed the Seminary's handling of gender identity and fluidity during a conferenceon gender and theology.In an interview with the The Christian Post, LaBerge said that the Seminary is “irresponsible” for advancing ideas that run contrary to Biblical beliefs.

NEWS | 03/30/2016

MSA holds annual awareness week to promote interfaith dialogue

Claire Lee and Kiara Rodriguez Gallego

The Muslim Students Association is hosting a number of events this week in honor of Islam Awareness Week, an annual, nation-wide effort to promote understanding and awareness of Islam.Rather than just promoting awareness of Islam, though, the goal of this week’s events is also to promote dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims at the University, said Amir Raja ’18, president of the MSA.

NEWS | 03/30/2016

Yik Yak posts target U. Muslim students after Brussels terrorist attacks

Claire Lee and Kiara Rodriguez Gallego

Islamophobic comments targeting students on campus have appeared on Yik Yak, a mobile app that allows anonymous postings visible to users from the same geographical region,after the terrorist attacks in Brussels.Student leader of the University's Religious Life Council Nabil Shaikh ’17 noted that he saw a post earlier this week on Yik Yak that alleged that half of the world’s Muslims are radical and that there are even some Muslims at the University that fit this description.

NEWS | 03/30/2016

U-Store, C-Store depart from non-competition agreement, to fix discrepancies in pricing

Jessica Li

The Princeton University Store and the C-Store have departed froma non-competition agreement, according toU-Store president Jim Sykes. Skyes noted the U-Store has been selling select school supplies in bulk to the C-Store at a discounted price since 2015.

NEWS | 03/30/2016

Caspersen '99 charged for fraud

Catherine Wang

Wall Street financier Andrew Caspersen ’99 was arrested on Saturday and has been charged with fraud by federal prosecutors, according to a statement from the U.S.

NEWS | 03/30/2016

Lloyd Shapley GS '53, mathematician and Nobel Laureate, passes away

Amber Park

Nobel Laureate and mathematician Lloyd Stowell ShapleyGS '53passed away of natural causes on Saturday, March 12, at the age of 92 in Tucson, Arizona. Shapley, who resided in Pacific Palisades, served as emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

NEWS | 03/29/2016

News & Notes: Peter Marks enters Princeton mayoral race as a second candidate

Christina Vosbikian

Peter Marks, a native of the town of Princeton, has announced his intent to enter into the town's mayoralelection. According to an article on Planet Princeton, Marks has indicated that he will run in the GOP primary this June.

NEWS | 03/29/2016

U. to potentially provide upholstered furniture in residential colleges

Amber Park

All six Residential College Offices announced this week that the University has been investigating the possibility of providing upholstered furniture in student rooms in the future. Emails were sent out to the residential college listservs informing students of the furniture samples currently available for viewing at the Housing and Real Estate Services Office.

NEWS | 03/29/2016

Rawlings GS '70 named Acting President of Cornell

William Liu

Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 was unanimously appointed the Acting President of Cornell University by the school's Board of Trustees on Mar.24. Cornell’s thirteenth PresidentElizabeth Garrett, the first woman to hold the position, passed away on Mar.

NEWS | 03/29/2016

U. changes course selection, academic advising system for upperclassmen

Andie Ayala

The University recently implemented the Department Academic Planning Form as the new system through which rising juniors and seniors across all departments select fall courses and meet with academic advisors, according to Christina Davis, faculty chair of the Wilson School's Undergraduate Program.Davis explained that the DAPF system is currently being used in residential colleges by underclassman, but in April the system will be transferred to upperclassmen to replace the Course Enrollment Worksheet.

NEWS | 03/29/2016

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