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Women in STEM discuss gender stereotype threat

Women in STEM discuss gender stereotype threat

Samvida Venkatesh

One student spoke out about her feelings on Princeton’s environment. “I tell myself that Princeton is not a normal space and the things I am experiencing are very abnormal – this is not a regular experience,” she said. “The reason I am not happy is not about me, it is because Princeton sucks.”

NEWS | 02/22/2017

LAPA public forum discusses Trump immigration ban

Alexander Stangl

“Islam hates us,” he claimed, is the primary message being put out to American citizens by the current administration. Sultan noted that, ever since Trump was inaugurated, there have been an increasing number of cases of the immigration ban being misapplied, with Muslim Americans facing extra security checks at airport security.

NEWS | 02/22/2017

Town animal control officer arrested

Marcia Brown

The sexual assaulted occurred at Pat Livezey Park in Solebury Township and involved a 13-year-old child. The charges include “involuntary sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, sexual assault, indecent assault, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communication facility,” according to the press release.

NEWS | 02/22/2017

Journalists, scholars discuss "fake news" in "post-fact era"

Marcia Brown

“Journalism proper has seized to exist,” Wampole said. “American news often infantilizes its audience.”

NEWS | 02/22/2017

Gates Cambridge Scholars include Krieger, Turkmani, Williams, and Cao

Audrey Spensley

Penina Krieger ‘17, Natasha Turkmani ‘17, Charlotte Williams ‘17, and Erica Cao GS ‘13 were awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship on Feb. 8 to pursue postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge.

NEWS | 02/21/2017

Eisgruber '83 Discusses Annual Letter at CPUC

Audrey Spensley

“In the case of this executive order on immigration, I have spent much of my life as a scholar of religious freedom, and it mattered to me that this order was, in my judgment, a threat to religious freedom and a betrayal of principles that define this polity and should define this polity, and I thought I was able to speak to that,” he said. “I was also able to speak to it on the basis of my personal experience as the child of immigrants to this country.”

NEWS | 02/20/2017

Anthropologist discusses biology of love

Jisu Jeong

Fisher said that “we’re moving into ... an era of slow love. I think people today are terrified of divorce.” Thus, she said, people take a long time before they get married, even though they have sex quite early on. She called the occurrence “fast sex: slow love.”

NEWS | 02/20/2017

Former detainee Mihara discusses cause of Japanese internment during WWII

Ruby Shao

Japanese internment camps existed because of prejudice, hysteria, and failures in leadership, former detainee Sam Mihara argued at a Monday lecture. A San Francisco native, Mihara was first taken to a temporary camp in Pomona, California.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

Men's hockey loses winning streak

Jack Graham

Following a six-game stretch in which it did not suffer a single defeat, the Princeton Men’s Ice Hockey team endured a setback this weekend with consecutive losses to RPI and No. 7 Union College.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

Tigers sweep road trip, win streak increases to 7

Chris Murphy

As basketball season inches closer to its conclusion, the Tigers continue to find ways to win and now have an inside track at the Ivy League regular season title and the number one seed in the league’s inaugural postseason tournament.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U.-funded expert explains 'vaccine court'

Samvida Venkatesh

In response to an audience question on whether the government was being unethical in forcing children to be given vaccines that could harm their bodies, Kirkland explained that any vaccines approved for use must go through a rigorous approval process mandated by the FDA and were deemed to be safe in clinical trials run on tens of thousands of children. She agreed with an audience member who noted in response that the diseases that the vaccines were preventing children against, such as measles, pertussis and whooping cough, were themselves incredibly harmful and often caused death.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U. affiliates contribute to C-SPAN historians’ survey of presidential leadership

Daily Princetonian Staff

C-SPAN released its third annual survey by historians of presidential leadership. The survey polled 91 historians, include three University historians, to rank the “43 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership,” according to a press release from Media Relations Specialist Robin Newton. University affiliates who participated include Politics Professor emeritus Fred Greenstein, author and Edwards Professor of American History, emeritus Nell Irvin Painter, and George Henry Davis 1866 Professor of American History, and Professor of History Sean Wilentz.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

USG discusses student group recognitions, position appointments

Jason Fu

In their first weekly meeting of the second semester, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed new position appointments and student group recognitions on Feb. 19. The Student Group Recognition Committee’s Chair Aaron Sobel ’19 presented newly recognized student groups, a distinction that grants groups access to an email listserv and deems them legitimate. As legitimate student groups, they are eligible for funding from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

PEI hosts conference on relationship between climate and consumption

Jackson Artis

Caring about sustainability does not imply action. It's not enough that people care about sustainability because sometimes caring doesn't catalyze them into action, according to Richard Waite GS ’79, who presented on how to make eating habits more sustainable at the Feb. 17 conference on "Changing Climate, Changing Appetites.”

NEWS | 02/19/2017

Day of Action coalition produces 550 postcards against Trump immigration policies

Audrey Spensley and Allie Spensley

On Friday, February 17th, Princeton Advocates for Justice held an ‘Immigration Day of Action,’ an event for students to voice concerns about President Trump’s executive orders and other national political actions regarding immigration.

NEWS | 02/19/2017

MASJID, DREAM Team organize rally, teach-in for immigrant rights

Christopher Umanzor

On Thursday, Feb. 16, the Muslim Advocates for Social Justice and Individual Dignity and the DREAM Team, two student groups on campus, came together to host a Solidarity Rally and Teach-In.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

Pyne Prize awarded to Gold, Salazar

Pyne Prize awarded to Gold, Salazar

Rose Gilbert

Solveig Gold, ‘17, and Marisa Salazar, ‘17, were named co-winners of the 2017 Moses Tyler Pyne Honor Prize Feb. 16, the highest general honor awarded to undergraduates by the University.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

Michael Froman '85, co-creator of the TPP, discusses U.S. trade policy

Michael Froman, Assistant to the President and Dep. National Security Advisor for Int'l Economics, in his office at the EEOB, in Washington, May 1, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

Michael Froman '85, co-creator of the TPP, discusses U.S. trade policy

Allie Spensley

World trade policy can’t be advanced in the future without a stronger focus on workers displaced in an economically uncertain world, Michael B.G. Froman ’85, retired Ambassador and former U.S. Trade Representative under President Barack Obama, said in a lecture Thursday. The lecture responded to steps President Trump has made to change existing United States trade policy by withdrawing from the negotiation stage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

NEWS | 02/16/2017

Dillon Gymnasium celebrates seventieth anniversary

Alexander Stangl

The University’s Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium, constructed in 1947 and home to renowned athletes such as Bill Bradley ‘65, gold-winning captain of the 1964 US Olympic basketball team and current US senator, celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year. Having recently undergone renovations, Dillon Gym has recently reopened all of its A-level facilities this year.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

State of the University letter highlights U.'s progress

Abhiram Karrupur

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 affirmed the University's responsibility to contribute impartial scholarship and durable truths to the world in his first annual State of the University letter. The idea for the letter came out of Eisgruber's conversations with members of the University community after the Board of Trustees released a strategic framework last year.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

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