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Soyinka discusses the literal and metaphorical role of trees in human history

Soyinka discusses the literal and metaphorical role of trees in human history

Catherine Wang

Trees have played an intimate and even dynamic role in the development of human history, especially on the African continent, said Wole Soyinka in a lecture on Monday.Soyinka, who is from Nigeria, became the first African Nobel laureate when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

NEWS | 04/18/2016

TruckFest raises around $33,000

Hannah Waxman

Approximately 5,000 students and community members flocked to Prospect Avenue this past Saturday to attend TruckFest, an annual event hosted by University eating clubs and organized by the Community Service Inter-Club Council in conjunction with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.CSICC co-chairs Cason Crane ’17 andRachel Margulies ’16 noted that earnings from this year’s event came out to $9,000 more than the earnings from last year. Judging by ticket sales, Margulies estimated that this year’s profit was around $33,000.

NEWS | 04/18/2016

UMCPP and PHS sued for allegedly mishandling employee's HIV status

Claire Lee

An HIV-infected hospital employee whose medical records were allegedly breached by a coworker recently sued the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro and its parent company Princeton Healthcare System for privacy violations and workplace discrimination. UMCPP provides medical services not available to University members at McCosh Health Center, such as alcohol detoxification and intensive care.

NEWS | 04/18/2016

Ziegler '16 leads referendum calling for disciplinary process reform

Kiara Rodriguez Gallego

Justin Ziegler '16, an Honor Committee member for three years, submitted a referendum calling for the creation of a task force to reform the disciplinary processes currently administered by the Honor Committee and the Committee on Discipline.The referendum enumerates the following three objectives for the Task Force: that it should review the current standard of punishment, determine the possibility of finer gradations of punishment and consider the role of mental health when adjudicating cases.Despite the objectives, the referendum itself, according to Ziegler, does not advocate for any specific changes, but rather asks the administration, in a neutral manner, to re-evaluate the current ways in which the disciplinary system works on campus.Ali Hayat '16, Chair of the Peer Representatives, noted that though it is "absolutely necessary" that the University has an honor code, some of the penalties are too high and there should be more varied formed of punishment.Hayat is a former columnist for the Daily Princetonian.As the referendum states, currently the standard penalty for the first violation of academic integrity is suspension for two semesters and the standard penalty for the second violation is expulsion.Ziegler said the Committee on Discipline finds that there is an academic violation in close to 70 percent of the cases brought before the group.Nicholas Horvath '17, former Clerk of the Honor Committee, also noted thatcurrently, neither committee is allowed to consider the role of intent in an alleged violation.

NEWS | 04/17/2016

New online room draw app attracts more than 1,900 students

Rachel Glenn

Over 1,900 students have used the “Student Room Guide,” an upgraded version of a TigerApp released by the Undergraduate Student Government in early April to ease confusions in the room draw process, according to USG Housing Project member Pooja Patel '18. Patel is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian. The upgraded app serves as a tool to help students when choosing rooms for the 2017-2018 academic year.

NEWS | 04/17/2016

Communiversity attracts over sixty community organizations

Samvida Venkatesh

Over sixty different student groups and local artists performed on Sunday at the 46th annual Communiversity ArtsFest organized by the Arts Council of Princeton,which connects students from the University to the town of Princeton along Nassau Street. "Communiversity is a wonderful partnership between the municipality, the University, and the Arts Council.

NEWS | 04/17/2016

USG discusses tiger chef challenge, student life improvements

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed the Tiger Chef Challenge and the Princeton Perspectives Project at its weekly meeting on Apr.

NEWS | 04/17/2016

Panel and exhibit feature civilian torture and execution by Syrian government

Rachel Glenn

Thirty graphic photographs and five panelists highlighted the horrors of civilian torture under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an exhibit and a panel on Thursday. The explicit photographs on display were just thirty of over 55,000 photographs that make up a traveling exhibition known as “The Caesar Project,” according to a press release by the Wilson School.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Women's tennis to complete Ivy slate

David Xin

The women’s tennis team has a busy week ahead of it as it wraps up the Ivy League Conference. The Tigers will open the week by hosting Columbia at home on Friday and will then get a day of rest before traveling to Ithaca to close conference play against Cornell. These two games will be crucial for the Princeton squad, particularly the match against Columbia.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Christie ’16 to join coalition of NJ Republican delegates supporting Trump

Kevin Agostinelli

Andrew Christie ’16 has joined the growing coalition of New Jersey Republican delegates supporting businessman Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential Nomination.In the upcoming New Jersey Republican Primary on Tuesday, June 7, Andrew Christie will be one of 12 at-large delegates — delegates chosen by official Republican state committee members — who are backing the New York businessman for president.On that same list of at-large delegates is Andrew Christie’s father and current New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, an ex-officio trustee of the University, as well as former members of Christie’s senior staff.Andrew Christie did not respond to multiple requests for comment.Trump’s campaign office in New Jersey did not respond to requests for comment.11 of New Jersey’s twenty-one Republican county chairs are also on the list of delegates for Trump, both as district delegates and alternate delegates.This notice follows Christie’s announcement in February that he would be endorsing Trump for the Republican presidential nomination and that he would be encouraging other Republican political leaders in New Jersey to do likewise.New Jersey is a “winner-take-all state,” which means that the majority winner of the Republican primary will receive the state’s entire district and at-large delegates.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Benjamin Jealous to join Wilson School

Annie Yang

Benjamin Jealous will join the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as the John L.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Men's tennis to take on Columbia, Cornell as Ivy League competition continues

Miles Hinson

Fresh off of a difficult weekend on the road, the men’s tennis team will look to get back on track this Friday and Sunday, as they take on Columbia on the road and Cornell at the Lenz Tennis Center.The Tigers (14-8 overall, 2-2 Ivy League), having started out strong in the first weekend with back-to-back wins against Brown and Yale, now find themselves in the middle of the conference standings.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Women’s Lacrosse Fights For First

Claire Coughlin

The top four teams in the Ivy League standings for women’s lacrosse will square off against each other this weekend; among them are the Princeton Tigers.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Council candidate confronts Mayor Liz Lempert over potential conflict of interest

Amber Park

Princeton council candidate Anne Neumann publicly confronted PrincetonMayor Liz Lempert on her conflict of interest with the University during Monday night’s council meeting.Neumann noted that Lempert’s husband, Kenneth Norman, is employed by the University andworks in the Department of Psychology as well as in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.This connection would impact any mayoral decisions that involves the University, Neumann said.Neumann said a conversation with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs on April 11 brought up the Local Government Ethics Law.“No local government officer… shall act in his official capacity in any matter where he [or] a member of his immediate family… has a direct or indirect financial or personal involvement that might reasonably be expected to impair his objectivity or independence of judgment,” she said, citing the law.Lempert said she did not find legitimacy in Neumann’s suggestion of the conflict of interest.Sheadded that she is unaware of why Neumann is levying these allegations against her.“My husband is a tenured professor at the University.

NEWS | 04/14/2016

Vargas discusses immigration, empathy

Andie Ayala

At a lecture on Wednesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas explored how to develop empathy and understanding in an increasingly diverse country. “I traffic in empathy,” Vargas said. Since coming out as a gay, undocumented immigrant, Vargas has written about his story in numerous news publications, including the front cover ‘We Are Americans’ issue of Time Magazine.

NEWS | 04/13/2016

SPEAR leads referendum on divesting from private prisons

William Liu

Princeton Students for Prison Education and Reform has submitted a referendum calling for the Council of the Princeton University Community and the Princeton University Investment Company to divest from private prisons. The referendum readsthat the University should “dissociate and divest from corporations that draw profit from incarceration, drug control and immigrant deportation policies.” These corporations include Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group, G4S and financial entities that exclusively contract correctional facilities like Global Tel Link, JPay, Securus and Corizon, according to the referendum. Julie Chen ’17, co-president of SPEAR, noted via an emailed statement that when prisons are privatized, correction companies often lobby the government for higher mandatory minimums and bed quotas to keep more people in prison. “While we can't change the system right now, we can decide that it is against our university's values to invest in a corrupt system of incentivized incarceration," she added. According to data reported by the Department of Homeland Security, there have been rapid increases in the number of inmates held by private prisons.

NEWS | 04/13/2016

Number of drug violations increased; policies remain unchanged

Jessica Li

The number of documented drug-related violations that occurred at the University this academic semester has doubled compared to those recorded between February and April of 2015.All such violations with the exception of one case have resulted in the arrest of the offender, a marked departure from the combination of administrative referrals and arrests observed in the past.Four incidents of drug-related violations were recorded between February and April of 2015.

NEWS | 04/13/2016

Bazelon discusses changing legal landscapes

Kevin Agostinelli

The increasingly political nature of prosecutors has transformed the country’s legal practices, journalist Emily Bazelon said in a lecture Wednesday.Bazelon is a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School and a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine.Bazelon noted how, after the general expansion of government administration capacity in the 1930s, the elected position of prosecutor began to evolve into a stepping-stone for a higher political office, citing Earl Warren, Robert F.

NEWS | 04/13/2016

U. professor files amicus brief in support of Clean Power Plan

Marcia Brown

Michael Oppenheimer, professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Wilson School, filed an amicus curiae brief on early April in defense of the Clean Power Plan, to be ruled on this June.

NEWS | 04/13/2016

U. virtual campus tour attracts more than 6,000 visitors

Catherine Wang

Within 30 days of its launch, 6,494 people visited an interactive virtual tour of the University's campus, according to Dena Stivella, Client Relationship Manager of YouVisit, the media company that helped create the tour.According to a University press release, the Office of Admission and the Office of Communications worked together with YouVisit to create the tour.YouVisit was founded in 2009 and has created virtual reality tours for Harvard University and Yale University, which launched in October 2014 and October 2011 respectively.The University's tour, which includes 23 sites like iconic buildings, academic centers and student and recreational facilities, was turned live by the University on Feb.

NEWS | 04/12/2016

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