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News & Notes: 28 seniors run for Young Alumni Trustee

News & Notes: 28 seniors run for Young Alumni Trustee

Do-Hyeong Myeong

The online primary voting process for a Young Alumni Trustee for the class of 2015 will start on Tuesday, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Twenty-eight seniors are running in the primary election this year. The seniors are Tumi Akinlawon, Jimmy Baase, Elise Backman, Samisha Bansal, Ray Chao, Christina Chica, Albert Choi, Katherine Clifton, Gavin Cook, Catherine Dennig, Laura Harder, Zach Horton, Rana Ibrahem, Shawon Jackson, Adam Klosowiak, Joe Margolies, Zack McCourt, Sydney Montgomery, Phil Mooney, Zhan Okuda-Lim, Cordelia Orillac, Stephanie Rigizadeh, Paul Riley, Hannah Rosenthal, Misha Semenov, Jillian Wilkowski, Tiana Woolridge and Carolyn Yang. Backman is a former opinion columnist forThe Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 03/02/2015

Faculty discuss copyright policy at meeting

Linda Song

The faculty discussed a motion to accept revised guidelines regarding online courses under the University’s copyright policyat the faculty meeting on Monday. The motion was rejected due to a lack of consensus and deferred for later discussion. The University began offering noncredit courses online in April 2012 on Coursera and launched its first massive open online course that summer. The University’s copyright policy says it does not normally make claims on the copyrights of the products of the teaching and research of its faculty.

NEWS | 03/02/2015

Students discuss differences in computer science degrees

Christina Vosbikian

The computer science department’s offering of both an A.B. degree and a B.S.E. degree is rooted in the engineering prerequisites being less applicable than they are to other engineering majors, according to department chair Andrew Appel ’81. The department offers both tracks because many topics and applications within computer science do not rely on required B.S.E.

NEWS | 03/02/2015

WuDunn GS '88, Kristof discuss educating girls at panel

Zaynab Zaman

Focusing on charity’s outcomes and educating girls will help to effect positive change in the world, University Trustee andformer New York Times editor Sheryl WuDunn GS ’88 andNew York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said at a panel discussion on Monday. The panel washeld to discuss Kristof and WuDunn’s book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity,” which focuses on problems faced by women and girls around the world and what can be done to expand their opportunities. Though some aspects of giving and charity are done well globally, there are also a number of things the charitable world does not do well, WuDunn said. “We believe that the charitable world is in need of a revolution,” WuDunn said. There is a need for an increasing focus on outcomes, she said, noting the new trend toward so-called effective altruism. The story of a nonprofit executive, Dan Pallotta, whose foundation raised around $72 million for breast cancer and AIDS relief in 2002 but was taken over by the Avon Products Foundation after criticism surrounding the level of the executive’s compensation, was an example of having the right intentions but leading to an ineffective outcome, WuDunn said.

NEWS | 03/02/2015

USG senate discusses TruckFest, ‘Dear World’ project

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed plans for TruckFest, approved new committee members and reviewed the progress of committee projects at its meeting on Sunday. In light of Mental Health Week, the senate meeting opened by introducing the photographer Robert Fogarty, who will be running the “Dear World” photography project on campus throughout the week.

NEWS | 03/01/2015

News & Notes: Over half of Jewish students have experienced anti-Semitism in first half of 2013-14, study says

Daily Princetonian Staff

Approximately 54 percent of Jewish students had anti-Semitic experiences on campus in the first half of the 2013-14 academic year, according to a study conducted by researchers at Trinity College that was released this week. The online survey consisted of questions regarding the situation and location of each anti-Semitic experience.

NEWS | 03/01/2015

Ph.D. candidates at elite schools have advantage in academic job market, study finds

Zaynab Zaman

Ph.D. students at elite schools like the University have a systematic advantage in being hired on the academic job market, according to a recent study. Elite schools have shown a trend of hiring Ph.D.

NEWS | 03/01/2015

U. may implement anonymous discrimination reporting system for students

Zaynab Zaman

The University may soon have a system for students to anonymously report discriminatory or offensive comments made by professors and preceptors, Asanni York ’17, co-chair of the Council of the Princeton University Community’s Working Group on Structure and Support, said.Though there are already processes in place to report discrimination, many students don’t know about them, York said.

NEWS | 03/01/2015

Most women elected eating club presidents since 2002

Most women elected eating club presidents since 2002

Jessica Li

Four women in the Class of 2016 are eating club presidents or presidents-elect, the most since the Class of 2002, when there were also four. When theSteering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadershipreleased its final report in 2011, only one woman in the Class of 2011 was president of an eating club.

NEWS | 03/01/2015

News & Notes: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory finds success with 3-D printing technology

Annie Yang

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is using 3-D printing technology to create custom parts for experiments with support from the U.S.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Black History Month: Looking back at the early 2000s and today

Shriya Sekhsaria

The last 15 years have seen the Carl A.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Members of the Class of 1977 start crowdfund to express support for sexual assault victims

Christina Vosbikian

A donation fund launched by members of the Class of 1977 this Monday called“Not the Princeton Mom”on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com, has raised $5,444 as of Thursday night, exceeding the fund’s original $5,000 goal.The money will be donated to the University's Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office.According to an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian, members of the Class of 1977 were emailed on Tuesday night about the fund.The email said the fund's goal was to express solidarity with victims of sexual assault in the face of what they perceived as offensive remarks by Susan Patton '77.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Battlefield Society to appeal Institute plans to build faculty housing

Battlefield Society to appeal Institute plans to build faculty housing

Proposed IAS faculty housing project The Princeton Battlefield Society intends to appeal the Institute for Advanced Study’s plans to build faculty housing on what they contend to be hallowed and historically significant ground. The Institute for Advanced Study is not affiliated with the University but has long been a fixture of the town, once hosting scientists such as Albert Einstein, J.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

National Science Foundation renews funding for U. Center for Complex Materials

Katherine Oh

The National Science Foundation this week renewed its funding for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials until October 2020.The funding for the University totals about $6.4 million.NSF awards follow a six-year cycle, and the grant is conditional on following the research rules associated with the funding.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Lakeside Graduate Housing project to open on June 1 after delays

Do-Hyeong Myeong

While the Lakeside Graduate Housing project is scheduled to open on June 1 after a year-long delay, some graduate students say that lack of communication, financial burden and less-than-optimal living conditions in temporary housing for the affected students have been problematic.The Lakeside complex was originallyslated to open in July 2014, but was delayed to September, then to December and finally to June 2015.Students who originally planned to live at Lakeside in the 2014-15 academic year were instead offered temporary housing at Butler Apartments, which were slated to be demolished during summer 2014, and at Stanworth Apartments.The delays were rooted in the complexity of the contractual relationships among the parties working to build the project, according to an October 2014 article in The Daily Princetonian.Christine Philippe-Blumauer GS, chair of the Butler Committee and a Butler Apartments resident, said that although the complex has many advantages, such as cheap rent, good location for some purposes and a family-friendly atmosphere, the insulation and furniture are in suboptimal conditions.“[The] Butler [Apartments complex] was always supposed to be temporary housing,” Philippe-Blumauer said.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Black History Month: Looking back at the 1980s and 1990s

Shriya Sekhsaria

Affirmative action was the political backdrop of African-American student life on campus in the 1980s, with some students and alumni questioning its place.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Q&A: Former Texas state senator Wendy Davis

Ruby Shao

FormerTexas state senator and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis gave a public lecture on campus on Wednesday addressing her recent campaign and women's rights.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

News & Notes: Two Princeton residents charged in connection to crash

Grant Golub

A Princeton resident has been charged in connection to a car crash on Saturday in which the pair’s vehicle allegedly struck two houses on Hamilton Avenue after flipping over, the Times of Trenton reported. Kyle Froehlich, 18, the driver of the vehicle, was charged with filing a false police report in relation to the accident, which took place at 2 a.m.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Simpson GS '60 donates funds for new macroeconomics center

Pooja Patel

Louis Simpson GS ’60 donated $10 million to the University to establish the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics, the University announced on Monday. The center will be formally dedicated in October with a lecture featuring Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, who chaired the University’s economics department from 1996-2002. “We already have an excellent [macroeconomics] program," economics professor Gene Grossman, chair of the economics department and director of the International Economics Section, said.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Davis discusses gubernatorial campaign, women's rights at lecture

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Politicians need to stop damaging women’s lives in their political games and instead design policies to support women’s rights and true gender equality, formerTexas state senator and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis said at a lecture on Wednesday. Davis gained nationwide attention for her 11-hour filibuster in June 2013 to block a bill restricting abortion rights that was ultimately signed into law by Texas Governor Rick Perry. Gender equality, despite some remarkable advances during the past century, is currently losing ground in the U.S., Davis said.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

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