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Panel discusses immigration policy, demographic trends

Panel discusses immigration policy, demographic trends

Maya Wesby

On Friday morning, a University panel tackled the issue of immigration policy from the perspectives of academia, politics and personal narratives.Moderator and Wilson School Professor Douglas Massey GS ’78 opened the discussion by explaining how the history of immigration policy has impacted today’s demographic trends.

NEWS | 05/27/2016

Panel discusses free speech, microaggressions

Christina Vosbikian

On Friday, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter moderated a panel that focused on the responsibility of universities to enforce individual rights to expression and protection.Panelists included Vice President and General Counsel at Northern Illinois University Jerry Blakemore ’76, Vice President for Ethics and Compliance at Purdue University Alysa Christmas Rollock ’81, freelance journalist Christopher Shea ’91 and Program Coordinator for the Office of Dean of Undergraduate Students Jeanne Laymon ’11.In her opening statement, Minter explained that the University has a deep commitment to freedom of expression and the prohibition of discrimination.“What we are seeing now, culturally, is a moment where those two important values are sometimes coming into conflict,” she said.Shea explained that the most pervasive issues on American college campuses have included the "disinvitation" of controversial speakers, the creation of safe spaces for students, restrictions on microaggressions and the disbandment of fraternities conducting racist actions.He explained that during his time as an investigative journalist on different college campuses, he noticed a trend in how students interacted with notions of safety in relation to free speech.“Students use the rhetoric of safety to describe how they want to feel on campus, and it applies not just to physical safety but to words that make them feel unsafe on campus," Shea said.Shea said at the University, he interviewed students and professors in hopes of finding diverging viewpoints on the necessity of protective safety.

NEWS | 05/27/2016

Q&A: Michael Spence '66, Economist

Q&A: Michael Spence '66, Economist

Abhiram Karuppur

Michael Spence '66 received the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on information flows and market development.

NEWS | 05/27/2016

Purdue President Mitch Daniels '71 discusses liberal arts learning, education inequality

Caroline Lippman

“The proper scope of a university, in one soundbite, is to prepare citizens for a free society.

NEWS | 05/26/2016

Air pellet guns, bow found in U. student dorm

Marcia Brown

Two air pellet guns — one of which was loaded —, a wooden replica sword and a bow and arrows were found in the dormitory of a University student in Little Hallon Sundayevening.The incident was documented as a weapon law violation, according to the Department of Public Safety daily crime log.On Sundayevening, the DPS received a report from a concerned student indicating that she thought another student might have weapons on campus,according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day.The undergraduate made the report after seeing a Facebook photo of another student, capturing the student in question standing in his dorm, holding what appeared to be his senior thesis and various weapons, Day explained.The student in the photo lives in Little Hall, according to Day.

NEWS | 05/23/2016

Smith GS'89, US Consul General in Shanghai, marries Chinese same-sex partner

Marcia Brown

The United States Consul General in Shanghai Hanscom Smith GS'89 recently married his partner Lu Yingzong, also known as Eric Lu, in San Francisco recently while on vacation.

NEWS | 05/23/2016

U. yield reaches 68.5 percent for Class of 2020

Caroline Lippman

With 1,323 students having committed to the University, the Class of 2020 yield rate currently stands at 68.5 percent, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelyesaid. The 1,323 students include 40 students who deferred admission from previous years and 14 students who were admitted this year and have already deferred to the Class of 2021, Rapelye explained. She noted that this number is subject to slight change as students notify the Admission Office of their intent to take a gap year. Although the numbers are not final, Rapelye noted that she can safely say that the 68.5 percent yield is the highest the University has had in many years. “We’re in a very good spot,” Rapelye said of the current number of incoming students for the Class of 2020.

NEWS | 05/16/2016

Communications around parking policy change started in February, according to administration

Jessica Li and Amber Park

Since hitting multiple listserv threads last Tuesday, a petition against the decision to limit undergraduate parking by the Department of Transportation and Public Services has gathered more than 1,200 signatures, spurred upwards of fifty concerned emails addressed to the Undergraduate Student Government, and fueled social media uproar about the lack of transparency.Under the new parking policy scheduled to go in effect next academic year, undergraduates will not be permitted to park on campus unless they receive an exemption for “compelling need.”According to University Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day, discussions around limiting undergraduate parking emerged in the last two years during the course of campus and strategic planning conversations.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Alumni claim U. misrepresented sprint football injury rate

Kevin Agostinelli and Rachel Glenn

Former and current members of Princeton’s sprint football team have joined together in an effort to oppose President Christopher L.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Class of 2019 declares B.S.E. concentrations

Catherine Wang

The Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science continues its reign as the department with the highest number of concentrators, as 103 B.S.E.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

USG Senate discusses referenda and sexual misconduct policies

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government Senate approved new appointments to the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline and discussed referenda and sexual misconduct policies during its last meeting of the semester on Sunday.The Spring 2016 USG elections saw a relativelylow turnout of only 28.5 percent of the student body, according to chief elections manager Sung Won Chang ’18.“There has been a constant downward trend [in turnout] since the Will Gansa campaign,” Chang said, adding that the seniors did not have the motivation to vote.While neither referendum met the third-of-the-student-body threshold, Chang said that the SPEAR referendum came close.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

News & Notes: Unarmed robbery at Forbes

Daily Princetonian Staff

A female undergraduate student was punched twice in the face and robbed by the traffic light in front of the Annex of Forbes College, along Alexander Street, on Sunday at 1:41 a.m., according to a University Department of Public Safety campus safety alert. The male was reported to be wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a white drawstring.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Cannon and Cottage eating clubs temporarily close following graffiti incidents

Maya Wesby

Following recent cases of graffiti markings, Cannon Club and Cottage Club have closed and are off-tap to non-members, but will reconsider re-opening in time for Dean’s Date, according to sources within the club. An unknown person or persons graffitied the cannon located on the front lawn of Cannon with the letters “UCC,” allegedly standing for “University Cottage Club.” The graffiti was easily cleaned off of the cannon with spray paint within a day of it being discovered. Keelan Smithers ’17, president of Cannon, did not respond to requests for comment.Robert Casey ’67, Graduate Board chair of Cannon,was unavailable for comment. On Thursday, graffiti also appeared on the columns of Cottage’s pillars with the letters “CDE,” allegedly standing for Cannon’s formal name, “Cannon Dial Elm.” The damage done to the columns will be difficult to repair, as they are made of aged marble that is difficult to wash.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Women's track prepares for outdoor Heptagonal Championships

Claire Coughlin

This weekend, Princeton will host the 2016 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships for women’s track and field at Weaver Stadium.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Anti-Semitic graffiti appears on Holocaust Remembrance Day

William Liu

Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a restroom in the Friend Center on Wednesday, the first evening of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.According to Elan Sykes ’18, who authored a Facebook post about the incident, the graffiti was found in a bathroom by another student.Sykes said that the graffiti was written in a toilet paper dispenser inside a bathroom stall.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Women's lacrosse prepares for title defense against Cornell

Helen Zhang

The Princeton Tigers (11-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) look to become back-to-back Ivy League Tournament champions this Friday, as they take on a spirited Cornell lineup in the Ivy League women’s lacrosse semifinals.The match comes after the Tigers clinched their third Ivy League Title in consecutive years, with an impressive 8-3 win over Brown last week.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

CV of failures sparks conversation on academic successes

Rachel Glenn

SinceAssistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Johannes Haushofer released a “CV of Failures”on his Twitter in late April, the document has sparked a discussion on success on University campus.On April 23, Haushofer tweeted a link to a document in which he listed his failures, including six degree programs he did not get into, three academic positions and fellowships he did not get, nine awards and scholarships he did not receive, six paper rejections from academic journals and eight opportunities for research funding he did not attain.Haushofer said that he aims to continue to shed light on the invisibility of failures.“I’m hoping that [my CV of Failures] will be a source of perspective at times when things aren’t going well, especially for students and my fellow young researchers,” he said.According to Haushofer, he first wrote a CV of failures in 2011, shortly after a friend and colleague, Melanie Stefan, a lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, proposed the idea in an article in the academic journal Nature.“A friend had had a professional setback and I wanted to show support, and this seemed like a good way of doing it.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Study finds eating less beef crucial to more sustainable future

Ruby Shao

Eating less beef is essential to ensuring a sustainable food supply in the coming decades, according to an April 20 working paper whose co-authors include University affiliates Timothy Searchinger and Xin Zhang."When you count the land use implications of meat diets, and above all beef, the greenhouse gas emissions are much, much, much higher than vegetarian or more vegetable-oriented diets," said Searchinger, a research scholar in the Wilson School.Searchinger serves as a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, the global research organization that released the report.The paper probably offers today's most detailed and accurate global analysis of actual diets and their greenhouse gas emissions and land use requirements, Searchinger said.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Princeton Open Campus Coalition to consider registering as ODUS student group

Claire Lee

Six months after its creation, the Princeton Open Campus Coalition is now considering recognition from the University as an officially registered student group, according to Thomas Dunne, deputy dean of Undergraduate Students. According to Dunne, a campus student-run organization that uses “Princeton” in its group name needs to register with the University and be affiliated with the University.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Ted Cruz '92 drops out of presidential race

Jessica Li

After three weeks of setbacks that culminated in a decisive defeat in the Indiana primaries, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 announced the end of his presidential bid Tuesday evening. “From the beginning, I have said that I will continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory,” he told supporters at an event in Indiana, “Tonight, I am sorry to say, it appears that path has been closed.” Cruz’s withdrawal positions businessman Donald Trump as the possible Republican nominee.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

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