The first round of sign-ins for Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Terrace Club, and Quadrangle Club ended Saturday, Jan.
The next president must be someone who rejects Washingtonian politicking like themselves, both Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expressed in Thursday night’s Republican debate three days before the Iowa caucus. Christie argued that voters must send someone from “outside of Washington to Washington.” “I need a Washington-English dictionary converter,” he said, describing the political jargon that surfaced during crossfires in the debate.
Due to heavy snow and hazardous travel conditions, all campus events scheduled forSaturdaywere either moved up toFriday, delayed or cancelled, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day. The Office of Communications issued anannouncementaround6 a.m.Saturdaymorning saying that the University was closed for non-essential personnel.
A federal court judge has determined that a University student who filed a lawsuit against the University for mishandling his suicide attempt in 2012 may remain anonymous during the discovery phase of the trial. This decision reverses a decision issued by a magistrate judge last summer that dictated that the student, currently identified by the initials W.P., should disclose his name in full. U.S.
Two University undergraduates, Ella Cheng ’16 and Tyler Rudolph ’16, as well as three alumni, Lucas Briger ’12, Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic ’14 and Yung Yung (Rosy) Yang ’13 have received the Schwarzman Scholarship in its inaugural year. The scholarship, funded by the co-founder and chairman of the investment firm Blackstone Group Stephen A.
The Historical Society of Princeton, an organization founded in 1938 dedicated to interpret the town’s history, reopened its museum on Jan.
The University has assigned temporary affinity rooms in the Fields Center to the black, African-American, Latinx, Asian, Asian-American, Arab and Middle-Eastern student communities, Vice President for Campus Life W.
The township of Princeton is in the process of creating a comprehensive Bicycle Master Plan to create a connected network of bike facilities throughout the town, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said. This plan is being funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the town will be working with the consulting firm WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoffto develop the plan. Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment. WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff program manager for the Bicycle Master Plan Peter Kremer explained that as part of the plan, the firm is currently conducting a survey to gather community input regarding the Bicycle Master Plan.
The Undergraduate Student Government is working to set up a bike share program on campus, U-Councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 said at the last senate meeting of the semester on Jan.
Microeconomic Insights, a websitedeveloped by University professors and professors from other institutions worldwide, including Harvard University and the London School of Economics, was launched last week. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a London-based organization, will be hosting the website.
The University’s Office of Career Services has revolutionized its program with an emphasis on unconventionality, including hiring psychics to consult with students about where they should end up. Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi explained that Career Services made the decision to hire psychics because they did not have enough time to process all the students who were sent in to see them and because they thought psychics would do a better job in providing guidance.
The University is instituting a campaign to purge itself of all documents, statements and expressions that do not meet University standards of political correctness. P.C.
The undocumented migration of students from Forbes College to campus has become a highly prevalent topic in this year’s Undergraduate Student Government elections.Around 60 percent of the students housed in Forbes have abandoned their rooms there and brought sleeping bags to the sidewalk of University Place.
On paper, Jacob Ruijskman was a decorated University professor: a graduate of MIT’s economics program, who had co-authored papers on the Great Depression and the financial crisis and made contributions to applied game theory.
“Princeton Mom” Susan Patton ’77 will be partnering with former computer science majors from the University to create Yente, an app to partner college students together in matrimonial bliss.Patton explained that participants in the app will fill out profiles including intended post-graduate job, major, extracurricular activities including fraternities or eating clubs and physical characteristics.
The next Republican debate will feature a new format, that of a survival-of-the-fittest contest, CNBC moderator John Harwood said. Harwood explained that the candidates will be put on a deserted tropical island with provisions, but no weapons.
Fifteen hundred students were spotted walking around in squirrel onesies as part of a new protest to make squirrels the new mascot of the University.Callme Nutty ’18, the leader of the Squirrel Movement, said that the movement began in response to some papers found in the Mudd Manuscript Library.The papers claimed that squirrels were supposed to be the mascot for the University, according to proposals drafted by Bruce Wayne ’39.Wayne was unavailable for comment as he was allegedly at war with Catwoman.“Squirrels should be the mascots of this great institution because they’re so cute,” the papers claimed, according to Nutty, “and cats like lions or tigers are too violent.”According to Nutty, the paper went on to detail reasons for choosing squirrels as the mascot, which focused on their preparedness for the future in collecting their food before every winter and forgetting to take out buried nuts, which grew into trees.The original squirrel papers could not be traced as tigers allegedly ate them 50 years ago.Nutty said that the squirrel has always been the University’s official mascot in secret.
Secret injection of trackers along with the meningitis vaccine has been identified as the cause for the painful post-meningitis-vaccine “meng arm” in freshmen, according to an investigation conducted by the Undergraduate Student Government. The first tracker was discovered in Iliketobelieve Imspecial ’19 when he underwent a full body scan for undisclosed medical reasons. “I was looking at my scan reports when suddenly I saw this little device with the Princeton logo embedded in my arm,” Imspecial said. Imspecial added that the device was identified as a tracker by zooming in on and studying the scans, since the device could not be removed. “This is Princeton we’re talking about,” Imspecial said.
The Daily Princetonian will be disbanding at the end of January following University spokesperson Martin Mbugua’s departure from the University, outgoing Editor-in-Chief Anna Mazarakis said.“It’s simple, really,” Mazarakis said, wiping her eyes with an issue of the ‘Prince.’ “Without Martin to decline to comment on our articles, we cannot function as a news organization.”Mbugua declined to comment for this article.Associate News Editor Do-Hyeong Myeong ’17 said that she admired Mbugua’s professionalism and dedication, and that her time at the ‘Prince’ would not have been the same without him.“He declined to comment for me once and it was the most beautifully written thing I’d ever seen,” Myeong said.
The Princeton Police Department is training an elite squad of undercover policemen, known as “The Temperance 10,” to apprehend underage drinkers on campus and outside liquor stores in town. “I was put on this earth with one God-given mission in life,” said police chief Carry Nation II, who trained the recruits and was responsible for selecting them.
