The Council of the Princeton University Community Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was created on Dec.
University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 gave a presentation on campus planning and Provost David Lee GS '99 presented an update about theSpecial Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the first spring meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Communityon Monday. Eisgruber noted that the University is partnering with an outside firm for campus planning.
A second student of Providence College in Rhode Island was diagnosed with meningitis B on Sunday, according to The Providence Journal.The first confirmed case of meningitis at Providence College occurred on Feb.
Founder and chair of the board for Teach for AmericaWendy Kopp ’89 spoke on campus on Monday about the growth of her organization and its role in the community.
Kimberly Shepard GS, Catherine Reilly GS, Yu Deng GS and Evan Hepler-Smith GS were awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship last Thursday. The fellowship is awarded to a University student who has “evinced the highest scholarly excellence in graduate work during the year,” and the students were all nominated by their respective departments. Reilly’s dissertation is titled “Naming Disorder: Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Literary Modernism in Russia and Germany, 1880-1929.” Reilly is a Ph.D.
Teach for America has played a large role in shifting the educational landscape away from social inequity, Wendy Kopp ’89, the founder and chair of the board for TFA, saidduring a lecture on Monday. Kopp, who came up with the idea for the teacher placement organization in her senior thesis, began her conversation by discussing the long-term, fundamental differences TFA has made toward bringing academic opportunities to students in districts with little to no educational resources or facilities.
Former Undergraduate Student Government president Shawon Jackson ’15 said the past year in USG was highlighted by the creation of the Ivy Policy Conference, Princeton Perspective Project and the Leadership Education and Diversity Summit, as well as the second Wintersession and the publishing of the Eating Club Report. The Ivy Policy Conference, which took place on campus last March, attracted more than 80 student participants from all eight Ivy League universities to discuss issues surrounding diversity and equity, Jackson said.
The Department of Public Safety transported seven people to McCosh Health Center or the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro over the weekend for excessive alcohol consumption, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. From noon on Friday to noon on Saturday, four students were transported to the hospital.
Harvard received 37,305 applications for its undergraduate Class of 2019, 3,010 more than for the Class of 2018, according to The Harvard Crimson. The Harvard College Connection, a new program geared toward reaching out to low-income students, may have contributed to the increase in applicants this year, explained William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions.
University Professor Emeritus and Nobel laureate Val Logsdon Fitch died on Feb. 5 in Princeton after a distinguished career in the natural sciences.He was 91. Throughout his life, Fitch worked on the Manhattan Project, won the Nobel Prize in Physics and was a member of numerous science organizations and a mentor to many younger scientists. “He chose his experiments very well and would always try to explain or discover something which was important,” said U.physics Professor Emeritus Pierre Piroue, who noted that Fitch was recognized by scientists all around the world as a top physicist who had made an “astounding discovery.” From Nebraska to Princeton Fitch was born on March 10, 1923, in Merriman, Neb., on a cattle ranch where his father raised purebred Herefords and his mother was a schoolteacher.
While Terrace Club filled after its first round of sign-ins, new members will still be accepted at Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club and Quadrangle Club until the end of the sign-in period on Feb.
Cannon Dial Elm Club was significantly more popular among students this year, with 200 students bickering, up from 143 Bickerees last year for an increase of almost 40 percent, according to Cannon president Connor Kelley ’15. Cannon accepted 105 students in total, up from last year’s 98 accepted students.
Bina Peltz ’15 and Cody O’Neil ’15 were awarded the 2015 fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, which each includes a $30,000 stipend funded by alumni that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Peltz, a politics concentrator from Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and recipient of the ReachOut Domestic Fellowship, will be working with the Harlem Community Justice Center in New York.
The Undergraduate Student Government discussed what it has done so far, appointed a number of non-voting and voting members and discussed communications efforts during its first meeting of the year on Sunday. USG president Ella Cheng ’16 began themeeting with the president's report, which was a brief overview of what USG has been working on so far.
In response to school-wide Title IX policy changes on the issues of sexual and gender-based harassment across the nation, Harvard banned its professors from having sexual relationships with undergraduates this week. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which oversees Harvard undergraduates, emphasized that the rule regarding teacher-student relationships needed to be clearer — specifically, the language now explicitly forbids undergraduates and professors from engaging in romantic or sexual relationships. The restrictions also apply to lab workers and dissertation advisees. Under the previous policy, Harvard’s policy was more vague, only specifying that relationships with “one’s students” are inappropriate — suggesting that relationships between professor and student were prohibited if the student was in a professor’s class, but not necessarily otherwise. The University, along with its peer institutions, was also found in violation of Title IX regulations last year in November. The University and the Office for Civil Rights implemented a resolution agreement in order to review the revised policies to ensure compliance with Title IX.
Professors in the French department discussed the humor found in Charlie Hebdo, a French satire magazine, at a panel discussion on Thursday night. "It is very literally adding fuel to the fire.
The Special Occasions Agency and University Student Life Committee recently partnered to pilot a new grocery delivery service on campus this week, according to Special Occasions chair Jean Wang ’16. The program is geared toward students in independent housing, allowing them to place online orders to the SOA and then receive their groceries shortly thereafter. The only grocery store currently available to order from is Wegmans, mainly because Wegmans offers a comprehensive list of products on its website, Wang explained.
Not many botanists can claim to have won two Emmy Awards, but GlennShepard’87 can. Shepard, an ethnobotanist and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on the indigenous peoples of South America, once worked with the Discovery Channel on a film that ended up winning two Emmys.
New Jersey Governor and ex officio University trustee Chris Christie and members of his administration are the targets of a new investigation by federal prosecutors, the International Business Times reported on Thursday. The Governor’s Office did not respond to a request for comment. The charges were brought after former Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor Bennett Barlyn was allegedly fired shortly aftervoicing objections to the decision of his superiors to dismiss his investigations into and indictments against political allies of Christie. Barlyn filed a whistle-blower lawsuit and has told media outlets that he was given no reason for the dismissal, although he alleges that his superiors, who were appointed by Christie, fired him unjustly. Investigators are still in the "exploratory stage," according to the International Business Times, and it is unclear whether criminal charges will be filed. Meanwhile,Christie has been emphasizing bipartisanship in his public speeches not only in New Jersey but also on the national stage and many have speculated that he could be considering a run for the U.S.
Two Harvard students were expelled for sexual misconduct on Dec. 10, according to a Feb. 4 article inThe Harvard Crimson. Harvard’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael Smith announced the dismissal in a monthly faculty meeting on Tuesday.According to Smith, one student had been the subject of three sexual harassment complaints, and the other was the subject of one. Complaints for both students were reviewed under Harvard’s former sexual harassment policy and procedures, and the school’s Faculty Council voted to dismiss both students in December. The identities of the students remain anonymous. Harvard revised its sexual misconduct policy on Monday.
