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Bringing back the lending circles: MacArthur Fellow José Quiñonez GS '98

The Daily Princetonian

Bringing back the lending circles: MacArthur Fellow José Quiñonez GS '98

Catherine Benedict

On Sept. 22, José Quiñonez GS ’98, founder and CEO of microfinance nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, became one of the four University alumni named as a MacArthur Fellow.The annually awarded fellowships, colloquially referred to as “genius grants,” entail a $625,000 cash prize paid over five years by the John D.

NEWS | 10/03/2016

New Dinky Restaurant and Bar seeks to preserve historic nature of space

The Daily Princetonian

New Dinky Restaurant and Bar seeks to preserve historic nature of space

Jisu Jeong

The stone building that used to serve as the waiting room for the New Jersey Transit Princeton train station is now the Dinky Bar & Kitchen, whichopened for full service in early August. The establishment is a "welcoming and simple bar offering locally-sourced, ingredient-driven snacks, small plates and more," according to its website. The bar is owned by Fenwick Hospitality Group, which also runs Agricola, a restaurant located on Witherspoon Street.

NEWS | 10/02/2016
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Safety on the Street: What our eating clubs have been doing so far

The Daily Princetonian

Safety on the Street: What our eating clubs have been doing so far

Samvida Venkatesh

In light of the national media coverage of the Stanford sexual assault case, The Daily Princetonian decided to look into the existing measures in eating clubs to ensure healthy and safe nightlife on campus.Just last week, Charter Club began to ask students to read a consent pledge — a piece of paper that says, “Consent is asking for and receiving affirmation before and while engaging in anyone’s personal space or belongings, and can be revoked at any time,” — before they could enter parties at the club.The move was met with overwhelmingly positive responses, according to Lorena Grundy ’17, president of Charter.“While I was on duty that night, a lot of people came up to thank me for it, and not just girls but people of all genders,” she said, adding that former members and alumni of the club had also reached out to express their approval.The idea to introduce the pledges came from Will Rose ’17, Charter’s House Manager and Technology Chair.

NEWS | 09/29/2016

IAS continues plan to build housing units on Maxwell's Field

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IAS continues plan to build housing units on Maxwell's Field

Charles Kyungchan Min

The Institute for Advanced Study is continuing to put out bids for construction of 15 units of facultyhousing on the historic Maxwell’s Field.The Institute’s plans date back to earlier this year, when they rejected attempts at halting the construction projects.A statement on the IAS’s website noted that the site of Maxwell’s Field is no longer valuable as an archaeological site.

NEWS | 09/28/2016

Access Expanded: A look into U. Spanish program's departure from access code

The Daily Princetonian

Access Expanded: A look into U. Spanish program's departure from access code

Maya Wesby

Starting from this academic year, the University’s Spanish Language Program stopped using “Sol y viento,” a textbook published by McGraw-Hill that requires an access code. Catalina Méndez Vallejo and Sylvia Zetterstrand, acting co-directors of the Program, described several issues that they were having with the textbook and its complementary online platform. “[Students were] paying so much for this textbook that costs so much, doesn’t arrive on time, comes in black and white, we have all these issues with the website, and we weren’t really 100 percent happy with the kind of text that was in the textbook anyway.

NEWS | 09/28/2016

CPS enables online appointment scheduling

The Daily Princetonian

CPS enables online appointment scheduling

Annie Yang

Starting this semester, students can schedule appointments with the University's Counseling and Psychological Services online, according to Director of CPS Calvin Chin. Previously, students had the option to schedule appointments via phone or in-person. “With online scheduling, students can schedule an appointment right away, during those moments when students are ready to reach out, instead of waiting until CPS is open again,” he said. Chin explained that CPS explored ways to implement the online scheduling last year and used this past summer to refine the process.

NEWS | 09/28/2016

Misrach and Galindo give lecture on artwork inspired by U.S.-Mexico border

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Misrach and Galindo give lecture on artwork inspired by U.S.-Mexico border

Simone Downs

American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo discussed their photographs and music pieces on the U.S.-Mexico border at a lecture on Tuesday.The audience in attendance was composed of students, professors, and other University academics, looking at a table full of wires, bottles, shotgun casings, and other artifacts from the U.S.-Mexico border that had been transformed into instruments.Misrach is an acclaimed photographer who pioneered color photography in the 1970’s, which earned him numerous accolades including four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.Misrach proceeded to present his photos of the U.S.-Mexico border, the first half of his collaborative project with Guillermo Galindo.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

New GSG committee to conduct research on unionization

The Daily Princetonian

New GSG committee to conduct research on unionization

Marcia Brown, Rose Gilbert, and Jeff Zymeri

After the Aug. 23 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board allowing graduate students to form unions on private university campuses, the Graduate Student Government organized a Unionization Fact Finding Committee to provide answers to questions graduate students might have about the possibility of unionizing.“We’re trying to show students exactly what unionizing means,” Daniel Vitek, chair of the committee, said.Vitek is also the Academic Affairs chair of the GSG.While the GSG is constitutionally bound not to encourage graduate student unionization, Vitek noted, it has focused on providing impartial information on the issue of unionization for students interested in the issue.“We’re not unionizing, we’re fact-finding,” he said.Vitek added that there’s “not a lot of institutional knowledge among our peer private institutions about how do you go about unionizing.”The committee will conduct an impartial research on the relevant questions and compile the results into a report before the end of fall semester.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

Gray shares findings from SOCCOM program in lecture

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Gray shares findings from SOCCOM program in lecture

Alexander Stangl

Alison Gray, a postdoctoral fellow at the program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, presented her work on the ongoing Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program in a lecture Monday afternoon.SOCCOM seeks to fill in the gaps left by prior in situ studies of the Southern Ocean, which have had limited available windows for sampling, especially in the winter, due to the harsh conditions of the Antarctic.Gray noted that current estimates allot to the Southern Ocean approximately 50 percent of the total global ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO­­­­2, despite only accounting for 30 percent of the total global ocean surface area.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

Panelists provide context before Presidential debate

The Daily Princetonian

Panelists provide context before Presidential debate

Marcia Brown, Jeff Zymeri, Mashad Arora, Simone Downs, and Sarah Malik

Before the first Presidential debate of the 2016 contest, the University hosted a panel discussion of six University affiliates in Richardson Auditorium to provide the University community with a better context for the debate.Panelists included Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School Cecilia Rouse, politics professor Amaney Jamal, politics department chair Nolan McCarty, classics professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06, and former congresswoman Nan Hayworth ’81.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

CPUC establishes Committee on Naming, discusses diversity and inclusion

The Daily Princetonian

CPUC establishes Committee on Naming, discusses diversity and inclusion

Marcia Brown

During the Monday's Council of the Princeton University Community meeting, University trustees referred West College and Robertson Hall atrium to the newly establishedCommittee on Naming.Director of Media Relations John Cramer deferred comment to the University’s statement.A new policy on naming programs, positions, and spaces that “do not currently bear names honoring donors or other individuals or groups” was established over the summer, the statement said.The statement noted that the atrium in Robertson Hall is the “principal entryway into the Woodrow Wilson School.” Moreover, West College, located west of Cannon Green near Nassau Hall, is not yet named to honor any individual, family, or group.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

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