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Students to present their independent work during Princeton Research Day

Students to present their independent work during Princeton Research Day

Kristin Qian

The first annual Princeton Research Day, a campus-wide celebration of student research, will be held on Thursday and features over 160 presenters who have been selected to give talks and show their independent creative and artistic works.This event differs from other type of undergraduate or graduate research poster session because the event aims to give students the opportunity to explain their research in everyday language, rather than in specialist, technical terms.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

Aronson '16, Fouquet '16 selected as Class Day student speakers

William Liu

Anna Aronson ’16 and Martina Fouquet ’16 have been chosen as the student speakers for Class Day 2016.This is the first time in the University history in which all three class day speakers are women.The speakers were chosen by a panel consisting of students, administrators and the undergraduate Class of 2016 Student Government.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

CPUC discusses updates on cybersecurity, FSI

Maya Wesby

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 opened Monday’s Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting with an agenda to provide developments on works from the CPUC Resource Committee, updates on stronger University cybersecurity and from the Freshman Scholars Institute with the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.A brief Q&A session started the meeting, where U-Councilor Pooja Patel ’18 raised the question on why University fraternities and sororities do not have official access to resources from Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education, noting that 15-20 percent of University students are involved in Greek life.Patel is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.Vice President for Campus Life W.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

New parking policy to ban U. students from having vehicles during school year

Amber Park

Undergraduate students will not be permitted to have a vehicle on campus during the academic year, including on holidays and weekends, according to a new Undergraduate Student Parking Policy announced by Transportation & Parking Services.This new policy will be effective starting September 2016.Kim Jackson, director of Transportation & Parking Services, deferred comment to Daniel Day, assistant vice president of the Office of Communications.“The decision on student parking was made in the larger context of the University’s campus planning initiative to study and plan how best to use University space over the next decade.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

U. Responds to Concerns About Lead in Campus Water

Jessica Li and Myrial Holbrook

The University has not yet found elevated levels of lead concentration in drinking water on campus, according to University Media Specialist Min Pullan.Concerns about lead concentration in campus drinking water surfaced in April whenreportsemerged that elementary schools in the area had water supplies that contained higher concentrations of lead.Princeton Health Officer Jeffrey Grosser explained that Johnson Park elementary school, in particular, had drinking water that tested above the EPA maximum contaminant level for copper.

NEWS | 05/01/2016

Undercover Officer continues to arrest U. students for underage drinking

Amber Park

Undercover Princeton police detective Adam Basatemur continues to make arrests of underage alcohol buyers outside Varsity Liquors this year, according to police reports. In early March of last year,the Daily Princeton reportedthat Basatemur operated outside of Varsity Liquors and has made over 100 related arrests over the past two years.Basatemur has arrested at least 20 students and has been repeatedly reported to observe students walking into the store and follow them as they leave, according topolice and court records. The Princeton Police Department declined requests for comment. Varsity Liquors owner Arun Goel did not respond to a request for comment. The Daily Princetonian spoke anonymously to a student who was recently arrested near the Varsity Liquor store. According to the student, a few weeks ago, hehad gone to Varsity Liquors with a friend who was 21 years old, the legal drinking age. While his friend was inside purchasing alcohol, he had opted to wait outside and, on the way back, his friend asked him to carry two six-packs of beer that he had bought, the student said.He added that he didn't notice the detective, who had beenfollowing the student and his friend across the street as they were walking. As soon as the friend put the alcohol in the student's hands, the detective crossed the streets and asked to see their identification cards. The student and his friend were then charged with underage possession of alcohol and serving alcohol to minors, respectively.

NEWS | 05/01/2016

David Calone '96: From USG to US Government

David Calone '96: From USG to US Government

Abhiram Karuppur

David Calone ’96 decided to launch his bid for the House of Representatives this year after realizing that the current Representative for his district, Lee Zeldin, did not have a strong environmental or job creation record. “To see someone currently in office in Congress who has not cared about these kinds of issues was troubling to me,” Calone said.

NEWS | 05/01/2016

Cohen '16, Cheng '16, Ziegler '16 selected as finalists for Young Alumni Trustee

Andie Ayala and Kiara Rodriguez Gallego

Azza Cohen ’16, Ella Cheng ’16 and Justin Ziegler ’16 were selected as the finalists for this year’s Young Alumni Trustee.Each year, one member of the graduating senior class is elected to represent their year on the University Board of Trustees for four years.

NEWS | 04/28/2016

Clothesline Project seeks to spread awareness about interpersonal violence

Catherine Wang

Sixty-six white shirts with messages expressing solidarity with victims of sexual assault are currently hanging outside of Frist Campus Center, as part of the Clothesline Project,a national initiative which was started in order to raise public awareness about interpersonal violence. The overarching aim of the project is to put up displays nationwide to show support for victims of sexual assault while also raising public awareness about crimes against women, according to theClothesline Project’s official website. Emily Kraeck '17, the vice president of education for Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education, was largely involved in organizing the project on campus.

NEWS | 04/28/2016

Survey finds 72 percent of undergraduates in favor of moving fall semester finals before winter break

Caroline Lippman

A survey about the academic calendar, administered by the Undergraduate Student Government Academics Committee this past March, found that 72 percent of undergraduate respondents would prefer to have fall term finals before winter break, according to Academics Committee Chair Shannon Osaka ’17. In March the Academics Committee partnered with the Graduate Student Government and the Office of the Dean of the College to compile and administer a survey to undergraduates, graduate students and faculty about the current academic calendar.

NEWS | 04/28/2016

Smoke detected in Cap and Gown Club, no reported damage or injuries

Smoke detected in Cap and Gown Club, no reported damage or injuries

Annie Yang

Smoke from a burning cigarette in Cap and Gown Club resulted in an emergency responseon Thursdayafternoon, according toDaniel Day, assistant vice president for Communications for the University. Robert Gregory, director of Emergency Services for the town of Princeton, confirmed on site that there was emission of smoke in the back of Cap as a result of an unattended burning cigarette. "Firefighters had doused [the cigarette] with water," he said. According to Gregory, there was no damage as a result of the smoke and no reported injuries. Most of the firefighters had exited the building around2:55 p.m.and emergency vehicles had cleared the scene at approximately3:05 p.m.

NEWS | 04/28/2016

Ted Cruz '92 selects Carly Fiorina as presidential running mate

Jessica Li

Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 announced former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate in the upcoming presidential election at a rally in Indianapolis earlier today. The announcement follows businessman Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in five state presidential primaries Tuesday night.

NEWS | 04/27/2016

Dozens of bikes abandoned near boathouse, origins unknown

Marcia Brown

A growing pile of more than a dozen seemingly abandoned bikes can be found near the Shea Rowing Center, home of the University’s crew teams.Some of the bikes in the pile appear fully functional and crew team members walk by them everyday.

NEWS | 04/27/2016

Updated: Wilson mural to be removed from Wilcox dining hall

Jessica Li and Annie Yang

A mural of former University and United States President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, will be removed from the wall of Wilson College dining hall over the next few days. The photograph, commonly referred to as a mural, depicts Wilson throwing the first pitch for a baseball game and covers one wall of the Wilcox dining hall.

NEWS | 04/27/2016

U. improves search function for website

Myrial Holbrook

The University launched an improved search function on its website Monday.The search field covers both the main University web page and other University web properties, including departmental websites, the Research at Princeton website and the Alumni Association of Princeton University website.

NEWS | 04/27/2016

Update: Causes of reported gastrointestinal illnesses not found yet

Claire Lee and Maya Wesby

There have been no conclusions made concerning the particulars of the connection between the reported gastrointestinal illnesses among students and their having eaten at Colonial Club, according to Assistant Vice President of Communications Daniel Day.Multiple students reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illnesses last Thursday and Friday after dining in Colonial, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said.The students who reported to McCosh Health Center with gastrointestinal illnesses all confirmed eating at Colonial within the prior 48 hours, according to Pullan.The cause of the illness has not been determined but sanitizing procedures have been carried out, she said.Day added that administrators will produce a more comprehensive response as to the source of students' illnesses as soon as more information becomes available.Manager of University Health Services Kristen Palkovich did not respond to request for comment.Jeffrey Grosser, health officer for the town of Princeton, did not respond to requests for comment.Colonial President Christopher Yu ’17 did not respond to requests for comment.Colonial House Manager Andrew Ruchames ’17 did not respond to requests for comment.In an email sent to members of Colonial, Yu said he received replies from almost 30 people who reported being sick with food poisoning, diarrhea and vomiting.

NEWS | 04/26/2016

Individuals peering into residential windows reported on campus

Marcia Brown

The University’s Department of Public Safety sent a Campus Safety email alert to University affiliates on Tuesday afternoon about two incidents of individuals peering into residential windows on campus. According to the email, both incidents were recorded by a University student, one on April 2 and another on April 24. The firstincident was reported to DPS by a female student.

NEWS | 04/26/2016

Men's tennis ends season with close loss to Penn

Hamza Chaudhry

The Princeton’s Men’s tennis team capped off its regular season with a tough loss against Penn.

NEWS | 04/26/2016

Palestinian diplomat Areikat discusses Palestinian-Israeli relations

Kevin Agostinelli

“I do not see any other solution to the Palestine-Israeli conflict other than an independent, sovereign, viable, contiguous Palestinian state – and when I say sovereign I mean a state that will enjoy all attributes of sovereignty,” Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, chief representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, said in a lecture on Tuesday.During the lecture, Areikat gave an overarching view of his position as a major Palestinian diplomat, offering a variety of reasons as to why a two-state solution is not just the best answer for Israel and Palestine – it is the only one.Areikat referenced the existing state of affairs with the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which has grown even tighter as a result of what he refers to as “the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel.”According to Areikat, the growing number of legal Israeli settlements within Palestine is an indication that pulling out of Palestine is not on the Israeli government's agenda."You can see it with your own eyes,” Areikat said.The ambassador described in greater detail what the terms of the proposed two-state solution would be in order for Palestine to be able to obtain its own legitimate autonomy.“The reason in the past that our people had refused Israeli offers was because Israel wanted to continue to control the Palestinian people even after they [the Palestinians] established their own Palestinian state,” Areikat explained, “That’s why all the negotiations have failed – because Israel did not want the Palestinians to have sovereignty of the Palestinian state.Areikat listed some of the terms of a two-state solution including no presence of the Israeli military in the future Palestinian state, no control of air space or international checking points and no control of local or natural resources.He explained that the question now is not so much whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will support the Palestinian state – rather, it is what kind of Palestinian state Netanyahu would potentially approve of that is at odds with Palestinians' own wishes.“Imagine the occupiers turning into peacekeepers after nearly 50 years," Areikat added.

NEWS | 04/26/2016

Program of Archaeology approved as a certificate program

Andie Ayala

The Program of Archaeology was approved as a certificate in Monday's faculty meeting, according to Program Director Nathan Arrington '02.Dean of Faculty Deborah Prentice deferred comment to Dean of the College Jill Dolan.

NEWS | 04/26/2016

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