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Demand exceeds supply at USG coat giveaway

Demand exceeds supply at USG coat giveaway

Gladys Teng

At least 100 people went to thecoat giveaway hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government onThursday, scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m., but only 50 to 60 coats were available, University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow '17 said.“People showed up ... an hour before the event was supposed to start, so it was very difficult to keep track of what people were doing,” Chow said.

NEWS | 10/25/2015

U. hosts memorial service for Nash GS '50 and wife

Myrial Holbrook

The University mathematics department hosted a memorial serviceSaturdayfor John Nash GS '50, a long-time professor at the University and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and his wife, Alicia Nash.

NEWS | 10/24/2015

Lewdness incident reported on towpath

Paul Phillips

A University student reported a lewdness incident at about11:45 a.m.Fridayon the towpath between Washington Road and South Harrison Street, an email announcement by the Department of Public Safety said. According to the email, a female University student saw a man expose himself to her while she was on the towpath.

NEWS | 10/24/2015

News & Notes: Penn employees allowed to take two free classes

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University of Pennsylvania allows Penn employees to take up to two free classes at Penn, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on Wednesday.These classes can be in either liberal and professional studies or in other fields, and enable these employees to learn more advanced career skills or work toward a degree.Charlotte Merrick, a communications officer in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science, explained that young professionals are most likely to take advantage of these free classes.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

Ellis discusses acceptance in LGBT community

Sarah Kim

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, discussed the difference between equality and acceptance in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in a lecture on Thursday.“Regardless of our generational differences or our life experiences, there are things that bind us together.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

Q&A: Charles Swift ’88, Hearst Magazines vice president of strategy and marketing operations

Maya Wesby

Charles Swift ’88, vice president of strategy and marketing operations for Hearst Magazines, home to Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, sat down with The Daily Princetonian to talk about his career in the media industry and the evolution of media in the age of the Internet.Daily Princetonian: How would you describe your time at Princeton?Charles Swift: Spectacular.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

Trick-or-Feed to raise money for charity on Princetoween

Andrew Brazer Drew

The Interclub Council and Community Service Interclub Council will host Trick-or-Feed on Oct.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

DICAB to disband, roles taken up by ISAP

Samvida Venkatesh

The Davis International Center Advisory Board will dissolve and its roles will be taken by the International Student Association of Princeton and International Center leaders, previously known as International Orientation leaders, DICAB president Audrey Chebet ’18 said.Chebet said that DICAB would continue to play its role on campus until February 2016.Valeria Ibarcena ’17, an intern at the Davis Center, explained that the roles DICAB currently plays are being transferred to IC leaders and ISAP.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

Keith Devlin, visiting professor, ‘Math Guy’ on NPR

Abhiram Karuppur

Visiting professor of distinguished teaching in the math department Keith Devlin said that, during his childhood, he did not intend to go into mathematics as a career.“In elementary school, I was particularly bad at math.

NEWS | 10/22/2015

News & Notes: Dartmouth develops new image display methods in collaboration with Disney

Daily Princetonian Staff

Dartmouth College andDisney Research scientists have developed a new method of displaying full-color images, EurekAlert!

NEWS | 10/21/2015

Panelists discuss the relationship between empathy, altruism, happiness

Gladys Teng

If you just stay in empathy without the bigger dimension of compassion and warm-heartedness, you may experience burnout, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard said at a lecture onWednesday. Ricard was joined at the event bybioethics professor Peter Singer andeffective altruist Julia Wise. Ricard defined burnout as feeling intense helplessness and sorrow over the suffering of others. He currently does humanitarian work in Nepal and has authored the books “Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill” and “Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World.” “If you bring the altruistic dimension, it becomes the antidote to burnout,” Ricard explained. He said that he participated in a study in which he went into an fMRI scanner, and the researcher asked him to meditate while concentrating on just empathy.

NEWS | 10/21/2015

Q&A: Nancy Duff Campbell, founder of National Women’s Law Center

Tea Wimer

Nancy Duff Campbell, co-president and founder of the National Women’s Law Center, spoke about women’s economic issues in a lecture on Wednesday.

NEWS | 10/21/2015

Workshop explores climate change and history

Tea Wimer

Fifteen graduate students, researchers and junior faculty from across the country participated in a workshop on campus to examine societal resilience to environmental stress and change by extracting pieces of tree cores. The workshop took place last month as part of a three-year project led by history professor John Haldon andthe Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies’ Climate Change and History Research Initiative. “The idea behind this whole initiative is to look at environmental studies, sciences and history, and try to think about ways that the former environment influenced [human societies] over the last 2,000 years,” Lee Mordechai GS, a Ph.D.

NEWS | 10/21/2015

Bush ’18 launches Uwire, a mobile app that tracks events on the Street

Andie Ayala

Richard Bush ’18 released the mobile application Uwire on Saturdayto give University students information about which eating clubs are open on any given night. The app features a map of Prospect Avenue, with cross icons placed on the eating clubs that are closed and beer icons on the eating clubs that are open.

NEWS | 10/21/2015

USG to host coat giveaway for low-income students

Caroline Lippman

The Undergraduate Student Government’s University Student Life Committee will host its first ever coat giveaway Thursday evening, according to USLC chair Kathy Chow ’17.The USLC partnered with the Princeton Hidden Minority Council to organize the event.Chow said that all students are invited to attend the giveaway, but that the event is targeted at those unequipped for a New Jersey winter.“The idea is not for it to be a flea market type-thing, but to be more for students who genuinely need a coat,” Jessica Reed ’18, a USLC committee member, said.Reed explained the original idea for the coat giveaway stemmed from many students’ lack of preparation for winter, a need for coats on campus that USLC noticed.

NEWS | 10/21/2015

News & Notes: 19 students diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease

Daily Princetonian Staff

Nineteen students in total have now been diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease since the beginning of this academic year as of Tuesday afternoon, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.Thirteen cases had been reported as of last Thursday.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness common among children under five years old.Symptoms include reduced appetite, sore throat and malaise.

NEWS | 10/20/2015

Bernanke lectures on financial crises patterns

Katherine Oh

Having an individual, a company or a central bank willing to lend to banks is crucial in responding to financial panics,Former chairman of the Federal Reserve and former economics department chair of the University Ben Bernanke said in a lecture Tuesday.“Lender of last resort activity is a critical tool to stopping bank runs,” Bernanke said.Bernanke used the 1907 financial panic as an example, explaining that there was no central bank to deal with it as the Federal Reserve had not yet been instituted.

NEWS | 10/20/2015

5 U. alumni find entrepreneurship experience at Venture for America

Myrial Holbrook

Five University alumni have participated in Venture for America, a two-year fellowship program for aspiring entrepreneurs, since the program was founded in 2011.Leandra Elberger, senior communications and development manager at VFA, said that VFA seeks to provide an alternative pathway to other paths such as finance and consulting.She explained that the organization recruits, trains and then helps to match college graduates with startups in 15 cities across the country, including Baltimore, Miami and Philadelphia.

NEWS | 10/20/2015

Forbes Café reopened Sunday after redecoration

Claire Lee

Forbes Café, a small café within Forbes College that sells beverages and snacks, reopened on Sunday. The café was being refurbished over the first couple weeks of school, manager Chanyoung Park ’17 said. Park was appointed manager of the café last fall. Park explained that the café was originally built two years ago and became a functional café starting last year.

NEWS | 10/20/2015

New emergency response app to be launched this academic year

Christopher Umanzor

A new emergency response mobile application that would enable students in dangerous situations to call the Department of Public Safety simply by swiping right will be available during the 2015-16 academic year, Environmental Health and Safety director Robin Izzo announced at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Oct.

NEWS | 10/20/2015

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