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As program increases in size, Humanities Sequence adds mentors, event organizers

As program increases in size, Humanities Sequence adds mentors, event organizers

Shriya Sekhsaria

The Humanities Sequence at the University has undergone many changes since last year, including doubling in size and doing away with applications.The Council of the Humanities has also set up a team of student mentors called Humanities Mentors, social event organizers called Symposiarchs and interns called Scribes.Kathleen Crown, executive director of the Council of the Humanities, said the Humanities Sequence of HUM 216-219 is an intensive yearlong double course taught each semester by six faculty members from the disciplines of literature, philosophy, history, music, art and classics.

NEWS | 10/04/2015

News & Notes: Safety advisory issued to all colleges in Philadelphia area following online threat

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have issued

NEWS | 10/04/2015

Cannon accepts 13 out of 19 bickerees, Tower accepts 15 of 52

Daily Princetonian Staff

Cannon Dial Elm Club and Tower Club, the two eating clubs to have completed Bicker so far this year, saw a total of 71 bickerees.This fall, Cap & Gown Clubdid not participate in fall Bicker, while Ivy Club will begin conducting its Bicker sessions this week.Tiger Inn and Cottage Club have historically foregone fall Bicker.The number of bickerees at Tower almost doubled, rising from 27 in 2014 to 52 in 2015, according to Tower president George Papademetriou ’16.

NEWS | 10/04/2015

Principedia, wiki of courses offered at U., launches

Zoe Toledo

Principedia, a community-sourced wiki of courses offered at the University, was launched at a hackathon event called Hackademics on Saturday.Principedia gathers knowledge by inviting contributions from the community, similar to Wikipedia, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Learning Program Nic Voge said.

NEWS | 10/04/2015

USG senate talks referenda reform, diversity efforts

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate introduced the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life’s work for diversity and inclusion during its weekly meeting on Sunday.Vice President for Campus Life W.

NEWS | 10/04/2015

News & Notes: Deadly shooting at Oregon community college

Do-Hyeong Myeong

A shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.on Thursdayleft 10 people dead andseven people wounded, The New York Times reported. Local law enforcement officials identified the gunman as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer.

NEWS | 10/01/2015

Panelists discuss psychological factors of student achievement gap

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Being stereotyped destabilizes an individual’s self-esteem and affects performance, Columbiapsychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns said at a panel onThursday. “[Negative bias] calls into question that I’m a good, important person who is able to control important outcomes,”Purdie-Vaughns said.

NEWS | 10/01/2015

Murray-Dodge Café relocated to Fields Center due to renovations

Zaynab Zaman

Murray-Dodge Café will be housed in the Carl A. Fields Center on Prospect Avenue during the 2015-16 academic year, Office of Religious Life Operations and Events Coordinator Joanne Sismondo said. The entire Murray-Dodge building, which dates to 1900, is undergoing significant renovations in order to satisfy fire code regulations and become handicapped accessible, Sismondo said, noting that there will be handicap-accessible bathrooms in the basement and on the second floor, and an elevator that will go to all levels of Murray-Dodge Hall. “Smoke alarms will be going in, and sprinklers, and all that 21st century kind of stuff,” Dean of Religious Life Alison Boden said. The Office of Religious Life, also housed in Murray-Dodge Hall, has temporarily relocated to Green Hall.

NEWS | 10/01/2015

USG report brings change to dining hall hours, food options

Zoe Toledo

Late Meal and dining hall weekend brunch hours have been extended, and dining hall food options will now more closely reflect student preferences in response to recommendations from an Undergraduate Student Government University Student Life Committee report released last March.Sunday brunch now begins at 10 a.m.

NEWS | 10/01/2015

U. to start offering courses on edX this fall

Jessica Li

The University will partner with online open course provider edX beginning this fall to launch courses in response to the changing needs of students and faculty, Jeffrey HimpeleGS ’96, Director of Teaching Initiatives and Programs at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning,said. Himpele explained that edX allows the University to integrate online learning into campus courses in new ways to make online and classroom experiences more interactive.

NEWS | 10/01/2015

News & Notes: Bomb threat called into John Witherspoon Middle School

Daily Princetonian Staff

A bomb threat was called in at John Witherspoon Middle School at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a Princeton Police Department press release.A computer-generated telephone threat was sent to the main office reporting a bomb in the building.

NEWS | 09/30/2015

Wilson School professor discusses potential threat China poses to United States

Katherine Oh

While China’s power may not yet be comparable to that of the United States, China could still pose a significant threat to U.S.

NEWS | 09/30/2015

Number of reported crimes increased by 38 percent between 2013 and 2014

Paul Phillips

There were 77 crimes reported on the University's main campus in 2014, an increase from 56 crimes reported in 2013, according to the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released Wednesday.The increase was mainly caused by an uptick in the number of motor vehicle thefts reported – there were 16 motor vehicle thefts reported in 2014, compared with four in 2013 and one in 2012.

NEWS | 09/30/2015

Renowned creative writing professor dies at 78

Kristin Qian

C.K. Williams, acclaimed poet and respected creative writing professor, died of multiple myeloma on Sept.

NEWS | 09/30/2015

Following adviser’s retirement, pre-law advising anticipates changes

Nahrie Chung

Lyon Zabsky, long-time pre-law advisor at the Office of Career Services for over 15 years, retired from the University on Sept.

NEWS | 09/30/2015

News & Notes: Michelle Obama ’85, Gross ’75 appear on The Late Show

Daily Princetonian Staff

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.

NEWS | 09/29/2015

Rustow receives MacArthur Fellowship

Jessica Li

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.

NEWS | 09/29/2015

Chris Hedges lectures on inverted totalitarianism, fall of capitalism

Charles Kyungchan Min

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.

NEWS | 09/29/2015

Former student sentenced to 5 years on various drug charges

Do-Hyeong Myeong

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.

NEWS | 09/29/2015

1 in 3 undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior at U.

Christina Vosbikian

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.

NEWS | 09/29/2015

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