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USG discusses dining options, residential college system

USG discusses dining options, residential college system

Jason Fu

The Undergraduate Student Government met with Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef and Dean of Rockefeller College Oliver Avens to discuss dining plan options in their meeting on Sunday.Haneef and Avens are co-chairs of the Board Plan Review Committee, which is dedicated to creating options that meet the needs of a diverse student body.

NEWS | 10/09/2016

U. endowment earns 0.8% gain for 2016 fiscal year

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

The University reported that the endowment earned a 0.8 percent investment gain for the 2016 fiscal year, with the endowment standing at $22.2 billion.

NEWS | 10/09/2016

LGBT Center launches poster campaign throughout campus

Allie Spensley

The LGBT Center launched a major poster campaign presenting portraits and quotes from students about their experiences being LGBTQIA on campus.The campaign, which began on Oct.

NEWS | 10/09/2016

Breaking: U. students receive white supremacist email campaigning for Trump

Kirsten Traudt

Members of the Princeton University Latinx Perspectives Organization, among other University students, received a pro-Donald Trump email from a probable member of a white supremacy group named “White GeNOcide Project” Saturday afternoon. The email, which had the subject line “Vote against ‘NO CHILD LEFT WHITE’- Vote Trump!” was sent from a non-University email address by an individual using the name “John Albert Willis.” The email was addressed to the University community, stating that “Princeton teaches its White students that they are immoral and contemptable if they don’t support White Genocide,” among similar remarks. The email additionally read that “Princeton professors say they're anti-racist.

NEWS | 10/08/2016

BREAKING: U. endowment earns 0.8 percent investment gain

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

The University reported that the endowment earned a 0.8 percent investment gain for the 2016 fiscal year.

NEWS | 10/07/2016

Peralta discusses immigrant experiences

Kirsten Traudt

Classics Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06 discussed his book on the lives of immigrants in the United States in a lecture Thursday.Although Peralta’s memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, ends shortly after his graduation, he said that his struggle with American immigration authorities continues today.

NEWS | 10/06/2016

U. removes dumpsters to improve campus aesthetics, walkability

Ruby Shao

Trash bags are awaiting collection outside rather than in dumpsters, starting this academic year.

NEWS | 10/06/2016

Bergen talks international, homegrown terrorism

Sarah Malik

International terrorism is a lesser threat to America than homegrown violent extremism, said Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, at a public lecture Thursday.Bergen, a seasoned foreign policy and security expert who even interviewed Osama Bin Laden, shared with the audience a few concerns he had about the future of international terrorism.

NEWS | 10/06/2016

Murray-Dodge Café reopens in its original location

Katherine Wang

After a full year of renovations, the Murray-Dodge Café, dubbed Princeton’s hole-in-the-wall space, has resumed its cookie-baking.The Café, located in the basement of Murray-Dodge Hall adjacent from the University Art Museum, was moved to the Carl A.

NEWS | 10/06/2016

PICS launches new "Leave Your Legacy" endowment

Audrey Spensley and Alice Vinogradsky

Princeton Internships in Civic Service launched a new endowment called the Leave Your Legacy campaign, a separate initiativefrom its original endowment established within Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University’s larger endowment.The original PICS endowment was based largely on donations from the Class of 1969 after its 25th Reunion.

NEWS | 10/06/2016

LeBlanc '99 discusses privacy, consumer protections in telecommunications

Norman Xiong

Chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Bureau of Enforcement Travis LeBlanc ’99 discussed the necessity of privacy and consumer protections in a lecture and Q&A session on Wednesday afternoon.LeBlanc’s talk underscored the need for both preventative and enforcement measures against violations of rights for American consumers online and in telecommunications.

NEWS | 10/05/2016

Q&A: Travis LeBlanc '99, chief of the FCC Bureau of Enforcement

Ruby Shao

Travis LeBlanc '99 has advised President Obama’s administration as a Department of Justice attorney, and currently serves as Chief of the Bureau of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission.

NEWS | 10/05/2016

U. professor accuses Islamic preacher in exile of orchestrating Turkish coup, calls for his expulsion

Samuel Oh

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies Michael Reynolds GS ’03 published an article on the Foreign Policy Research Institute on Sept.26 that accused supporters of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen of allegedly orchestrating the attempted Turkish coup in Jul.Reynolds further called for Gülen’s expulsion from the United States.Reynold’s essay outlined the existence of a struggle between pro-government forces led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and underground, “insidious” forces purportedly led by exiled Gülen.Gülen is an Islamic cleric currently residing in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

NEWS | 10/05/2016

Feature: MacArthur Fellow Subhash Khot GS '03, computer scientist

Mashad Arora and Alexander Stangl

Subhash Khot GS ’03, an alumnus of the University’s graduate computer science program, has received the MacArthur Fellowship for his pioneering work in computational complexity.Khot is currently a professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

NEWS | 10/05/2016

U. committee to review campus dining options, get student input

Rose Gilbert

A new University committee is hosting a series of focus groups to generate student input on meal plans and dining options on campus in an effort to recommend more efficient and more flexible options that best suit the University’s diverse student body.The Princeton University Board Plan Review Committee was created last semester as an extension of the University’s strategic planning process and the strategic planning task force on the residential college model.

NEWS | 10/05/2016

Q & A with Sonya Satinsky, Director of Health Promotion and Prevention Services

Ruby Shao

Sonya Satinsky began serving as the director of health promotion and prevention services for University Health Services on Sept. 26. She sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her personal perspective on health, sexuality, and gender issues, and a holistic approach to wellness.

NEWS | 10/04/2016

University releases new trial date, witness list for property tax trial

Marcia Brown and Jessica Li

The trial brought against the University over its tax exemption status will begin on Oct.

NEWS | 10/04/2016

U. employee reports terrorist threats, deemed not credible

Alice Vinogradsky

The Department of Public Safety responded to a report of "terroristic threats" incident on Sept.

NEWS | 10/04/2016

Q & A with F. Duncan Haldane, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Emily Spalding

The Daily Princetonian sat down with University professor F. Duncan Haldane. Haldane was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." He joins the likes of Philip Anderson, Joseph Taylor, Daniel Tsui, and David Gross as University faculty members who've received a Nobel Prize in physics.

NEWS | 10/04/2016

Updated: U. Professor Haldane wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

Emily Spalding and Samuel Oh

University professor Frederick Duncan Haldane was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct.

NEWS | 10/04/2016

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