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Candidates for USG elections announced

Candidates for USG elections announced

Daily Princetonian Staff

There are 22 candidates in the upcoming USG elections, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 announced in an email to the student body on Monday.Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian.Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Grant Golub ’17 and Simon Wu ’17 are running for USG president.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

News & Notes: Harvard bomb threat leads to evacuation of 4 buildings

Daily Princetonian Staff

Students evacuated Harvard’s Science Center, Sever, Emerson and Thayer Halls in response to an emailed bomb threat to the Cambridge Police Department at approximately 12:30 p.m.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Simon concedes election, Zwicker officially wins

Zaynab Zaman

New Jersey Republican Assembly member Donna Simon conceded defeat to Democratic candidate Andrew Zwicker in the 16th District of the New Jersey AssemblyMonday.Zwicker emerged on topNov.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Authors lecture on history, current state of Medicare, Medicaid programs

Samvida Venkatesh

The story of Medicare and Medicaid is one in which the public sector has helped to finance the growth and development of the private sector, Wilson school professor Keith Wailoo, co-editor of the new book “Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care,” said in a panel discussion onMonday.The panel discussed the original vision behind Medicare and Medicaid, the momentous transformation events since their initiation and how the two programs are likely to unfold in the future.Wailoo explained that Medicare was initially designed to evade criticisms that had been built up against national healthcare.“So the elderly were identified as a deserving part of the population, out of the workforce and unable to afford healthcare; benefits were defined very narrowly and linked to social security,” he said.He added that the motivation for Medicaid stemmed from the federal system becoming a limiting factor; the federal government had to negotiate state by state the benefits of the program because the rubrics for benefits were not standardized.Wailoo explained that although it was well defined what would fall under the rubric of Medicaid coverage, Medicaid ended up covering gaps that any national policy had been reluctant to cover over the decades, including HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, children’s health in the 1990s, disability and mental health.Speaking of the challenges faced by Medicare and Medicaid, sociology professor Paul Starr, a contributor to the book, said that there were many elderly who believed that Medicare was “their” program and were not open to the idea of it being expanded to everyone.Wilson school professor Uwe Reinhardt, another contributor to the book, also explained that financial profit amongst private health care providers was a strong barrier to repealing the program.Wilson school professor Julian Zelizer, co-editor of the book, added that once the policies were in place, health spending per elderly person grew less rapidlyover timecompared to health spending per young person.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

PICS expands to offer 167 paid summer internships

Andrew Brazer Drew

The Princeton Internships in Civic Service alumni initiative has managed to nearly double its number of opportunities in the past two years to offer 167 internships in the summer of 2016.PICS provided 114 internships in the summer of 2015 and 93 in the summer of 2014.“A lot of hard work went into making this expansion possible,” Chairman of the PICS Board Chuck Freyer ’69 said of the jump to 167 internships for summer 2016.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Treuer '91 lectures on Native American experience in inaugural Speaker Series

De Vann Sago

The University's Native American inclusion and recruitment efforts have improved since 1991 but still fall short, Dr. Anton Treuer ’91 argued in the inaugural lecture for the Native Leaders Speaker Series on Friday.Treuer said that the Native American experience is usually one of marginalization and invisibility.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

U. students studying abroad in Paris recount experiences of Friday's attacks

Maya Wesby

In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, at least 10 University students have been identified as studying abroad in the city this semester, and some said they have been impacted from living in the city during the attacks.At least 129 people have died as a result of Friday’s attacks in Paris as of Sunday.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

SINSI to add separate undergraduate internship program

Gladys Teng

The Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program will be broken up into two programs, Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse said.Rouse explained that the first would be a summer internship program open to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, and the second component would be the SINSI graduate program, which is open to seniors and will involve two years of the Wilson School’s Master of Public Administration program and two years of federal service.The program is currently a six-year commitment, and accepts students in their junior year.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

USG senate discusses changes to elections handbook

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed changes to the elections handbook during the weekly meeting on Sunday.The senate voted to split the elections handbook into two separate handbooks, one governing candidacy and the other governing referenda specifically.The senate then approved voting and passing thresholds for referenda, making it necessary that at least one-third of the student body vote on a referendum for that referendum to be on the ballot and that of those students, more than 50 percent must vote in favor for the referendum to pass.Some members of the senate said that it would be desirable to have referenda only during regular USG election cycles instead of allowing students to vote on referenda at any point during the year.“I think this is a reasonable action to take,” U-councilor Ethan Marcus 18 said.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

News & Notes: New U. of Missouri interim president named following protests

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former law professor Michael Middleton was announced as the interim president of theUniversity of Missouri on Thursday after Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Four incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct reported in first 6 weeks of academic year

Maya Wesby

There have been four reported campus-related incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct during the first six weeks of the 2015-16 academic year, according to Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky. The first case was when an unidentified male grabbed the buttocks of a female student near the Friend Center on Sept.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Admission office sees 9.4 percent increase in early action applications

Jessica Li

The University received 4,164 applications for admission to the Class of 2020 under the single-choice early action program as of Nov.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Honor Committee announces changes to constitution

Samvida Venkatesh

The Undergraduate Honor Committee has made an amendment to its constitution to allow it to be more accessible to students,Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 said. The amendment was approved on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

U. aims to launch new application platform with coalition of colleges

Jessica Li

The University, joined by over 80 other colleges and universities including all members of the Ivy League, is part of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, which aims to create a new college application and portfolio platform for high school students. The new system involves the creation of a platform for high school students to create an online portfolio, allowing them to think more about the college application process at an early age and have more access to counseling from college admissions officers, University Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. Rapelye added that the participating institutions will be issuing a new application, and that the application is in the preliminary stages. The coalition is open to public institutions with affordable tuition and need-based financial aid for in-state residents and private colleges who provide sufficient financial aid for all domestic students they admit.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Student arrested on burglary, sexual contact charges

Do-Hyeong Myeong

A student was arrested on Thursday on charges of third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Public Information Officer Casey DeBlasio said. According to DeBlasio, an investigation by the Department of Public Safety identifiedRonbo Fan ’18as a suspect in an incident that took place on campus on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Zwicker elected as first Democrat in NJ 16th district

Kristin Qian

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Head of Science Education Andrew Zwicker became the first Democrat elected to represent central New Jersey’s 16th Legislative District on Monday.Zwicker narrowly won his New Jersey Assembly seat by beating incumbent Republican Donna Simon by 78 votes, or 16,308 to 16,230 votes.

NEWS | 11/11/2015

Seyed Hossein Mousavian: Iranian expert, former diplomat

Abhiram Karuppur

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at the Wilson School, originally studied engineering, but he is probably most known for playing an important role in the 2003 and 2015 negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program. His career plans changed during his undergraduate years at Sacramento State University. “It was in 1979, two months before the Revolution, that I got one semester break in order to go back to my country and see what was happening,” Mousavian said, describing when he returned to Tehran and witnessed thousands of people protesting in the streets against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. “Practically two months after my arrival, the Revolution was over and the Shah had left the country.

NEWS | 11/11/2015

Grand Challenges promotes global sustainability

Claire Lee

Since its launch in 2007, the Grand Challenges Program has been addressing global environmental issues through interdisciplinary approaches, while providing research and learning opportunities for undergraduate students. The program is managed by the Princeton Environmental Institute, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wilson School and many other departments participate in the programs, Dean of SEAS Vincent Poor GS ’77 noted. The initiative features three platforms: Climate and Energy Challenge, Development Challenge and Health Challenge.

NEWS | 11/11/2015

Polls show support increase for Cruz ’92, decrease for Christie

Zaynab Zaman

New Jersey governor and ex officio University Trustee Chris Christie’s support has decreased in the four latest national polls predicting the Republican nominee for president, while Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 has seen a sharp increase in popularity. Christie has consistently wavered in polls, peaking at 3 percent in mid-September, according to Huffington Post opinion polls.

NEWS | 11/11/2015

Cruz ’92 proposes dissolution of IRS at presidential debate

Myrial Holbrook and Nahrie Chung

U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz ’92 proposed the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the fourth Republican presidential debate on Tuesday.The eight current GOP frontrunners — including businessman Donald Trump, Ben Carson, U.S.

NEWS | 11/10/2015

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