Lyon Zabsky, long-time pre-law advisor at the Office of Career Services for over 15 years, retired from the University on Sept.
First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 and Julie Raynor Gross ’75 appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night.In addition to commenting on the challenges of being the first lady, Colbert read a letter written by former first lady Laura Bush that asked for advice for the first gentleman if a female president were elected.
Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at the University, is among the 24 scientists, artists, scholars and activists who received this year’s MacArthur Fellowship.The distinction, sponsored by the John D.
The world is spiraling into a inverted totalitarian political system in which the anonymity and the assault by the corporate state will bring about the fall of capitalism, Chris Hedges, prominent socialist, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize journalist, said at a lecture on Tuesday. Inverted totalitarianism, Hedges explained, describes a form of social organization in which corporations have purported to pay fidelity to the common people but silently possess agendas that are against them.
A former member of the Class of 2016 was sentenced to five years in jail for multiple drug possession and distribution charges, according to NJ.com.Julian Edgren, 21, will begin serving his sentence on Nov.
Undergraduate women experience the highest instance of inappropriate sexual behavior among students at the University, according to the summary report for the 2015 survey "We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton," released by the Universityon Tuesday. According to the results, approximately one in three undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior in comparison with an estimated one in five graduate women, one in seven undergraduate men and one in 18 graduate men. Fifty-five percent of undergraduate women and 62 percent of undergraduate men indicated that they told someone about the incident of inappropriate sexual behavior, while 43 percent of graduate students told someone, according to the report. The report explained that students not thinking what happened to them was “serious enough to talk about” was among the most frequently cited reasons that students did not tell anybody about their experiences of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Brown University has rescinded Bill Cosby’s honorary degree awarded in 1985, the Brown Daily Heraldreported.Brown has never before revoked an honorary degree. Alumnus David Ray circulated a petition online pushing to revoke the degree due tosexual assault allegations put forth against Cosby by 35 women.
In 2007, only 13 years after his first trip through the Northwest Passage, David Thoreson said he was stunned to see little to no ice along the water route, a sharp departure from the rough pack-ice that prevented him from passing through the Passage on his original attempt in 1994.“We were absolutely shocked,” he said at a lecture onMonday.An explorer, photographer and sailor from Iowa, Thoreson began sailing on glacial lakes that were the product of natural climate change in Iowa.
Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics and former Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs Aristides Baltas visited Wilson College on Monday to host a discussion of Greece's political turmoil over the past months.
Sandalwood incense sticks and holy books line shelves along the wall.
The UMatter initiative, a University-wide health communication campaign aimed at enhancing bystander intervention, was launched at Campus Club on Friday.The program aims to address three tenets of health and safety on campus: high-risk drinking, mental health distress and interpersonal violence and abuse, according to its website.The four key themes of the campaign are ‘Action Matters,’ ‘Respect Matters,’ ‘Connecting Matters’ and ‘Limit Matters,’ UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 explained.“We were looking for an umbrella framework that could encompass some key higher risk areas and cultivate specific programming for each,” executive director of University Health Services John Kolligian said.The campaign is directly partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Promotion and Prevention Service and Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education office.UMatter Project Manager and Director of the SHARE Office Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said the planning for the initiative began when she arrived at the University in 2011 and began to collaborate with Kathy Wagner, Health Educator at University Health Services, to conceive a new bystander intervention system.Bystander intervention is a multi-step process that includes stages of identifying problematic situations, recognizing personal responsibility and taking action to intervene and therefore tasks individuals to prevent situations from escalating into dangerous behavior, Deitch-Stackhouse explained.While other projects, such as the annual freshman orientation play that addresses sexual consent, were in place when she arrived, they sought to create a project that would pull these initiatives together to create a cohesive campus-wide campaign, she said.“Not only is [UMatter] giving us, as UHS, a brand for all the different outreach and education, but it's also being honest about how connected everything is,” Cellon said, regarding UMatter's significance in making visible the connections between different health-related initiatives on campus.One of the challenges was deciding whether to teach individuals just intervention skills or to teach individuals intervention skills in conjunction with the issues these skills could address, Deitch-Stackhouse added.
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma discussed the rise of Africa at a lecture on Sunday, saying that Africa has come a long way in terms of establishing peace and democracy. Zuma noted that while there were only eight democracies in the continent of Africa in 1991, two-thirds of the countries in Africa are now democracies.
Two-hundred forty-six students registered for sorority rush and about 170 students were offered membership in a sorority last week, three years afterfreshmen were banned from rushing on campus, the University’s Panhellenic Council president Caroline Snowden ’17 said.Around 60 students were offered bids for Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta and around 50 were offered bids for Kappa Kappa Gamma, Snowden said.Pi Phi president Cameron Ruffa ’16 said that 58 students ended up pledging, or accepting bids, with Pi Phi while sources within the other two sororities said that 58 students pledged with Theta and 32 students pledged membership with Kappa.Around 100 of the initial rush registrants did not join any of the three Panhellenic societies.This year’s recruitment process had a lower number of students registering for rush thanlast year, when 283 sophomores, juniors and seniors registered.
A delegation of University students attended the mass conducted by Pope Francis at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday.The mass was expected to draw as many as one million participants, according to USA Today.Francis told attendees that holiness, similar to happiness, is always contained in little gestures.
The Class of 2016 has raised $2,300 for the FEED Foundation through online credit card and cash donations at its Senior Dinner on Friday.All donations from the night will be used to provide meals through FEED to fight food insecurity, both domestically and abroad, class treasurer Richard Lu ’16said.According to Lu, the event was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the 2016 Class Government.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed their fall budget and their goals for the semester during their first meeting of the year on Sunday.USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that she is pursuing a joint town hall with Dean of the College Jill Dolan and Vice President for Campus Life W.
The Princeton High School main office respondedto a bomb threaton Friday, according to a press release from the Princeton Police Department.
The University ranks the first in return on investment among the top 20 private universities in the United States, according to a new report released by Lexington Law, a law firm specializing in credit repair services. According to the report, thelifetime earnings estimate for University graduates is $4,935,817, compared to the University's four-year cost of $223,328. The University’s return on investment is 2,110 percent, slightly higher than MIT’s 2,004 percent. Lexington Law researched the top 20 public and private universities using data from the most recent U.S.
Students no longer need to apply to enroll in journalism courses starting this semester.The Ferris McGraw Seminars in Journalism, administered by the University’s Council of the Humanities, are taught by distinguished professional writers and journalists and cover topics ranging from magazine writing to investigative reporting.
The Office of Sustainability, Building Services and Campus Dining have partnered so that food scraps from the dining hall are now handled by a local company, AgriArk, which will process them into fertilizer at a local facility. Director of the Office of Sustainability Shana Weber explained that, for a long period of time, local options for composting food scraps were unavailable, with the closest facility located in Wilmington, Del.
