Lindy Li ’12 is running to represent Pennsylvania's Seventh Congressional District in the U.S.
Members of the Class of 1977 have been discussing whether Susan Patton ’77 should be removed as alumni class president due to some concerns regarding her alleged abuse of the office. The critical point in these discussions occurred when Patton allegedly censored classmates who criticized her on the class Facebook page, Robert Gilbert ’77 said. Patton gained fame for writing aletter to the editorof The Daily Princetonian in March 2013 encouraging female students to find a husband on campus before graduation.
Thomas Roberts ’16 was awarded a 2015 Truman Scholarship, which will support his graduate studies in public policy and international affairs. Roberts is currently concentrating in astrophysical sciences with a certificate in Russian and Eurasian studies. This year, the Truman Scholarship was awarded to 58 students from a pool of 688 candidates, according to information released by the Harry S.
Yale will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent, or 200 students per class, with the addition of two new residential colleges, according to Yale's website. The colleges mark the first expansion of the residential college system since 1961, bringing the total number of colleges up to 14, and the enrollment increase will significantly increase the student body for the first time since Yale became co-ed in 1969. At a ceremony on April 16, Yale president Peter Salovey, Yale president emeritus Richard C.
The Undergraduate Student Government senatediscussed possible updates to the Honor Committee constitution on Sunday. U-councilor and Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 suggested a provision that would destroy any evidence concerning a case, should a student’s appeal prove successful.If the provision were to pass, there would be no record that the student had appeared before the Honor Committee after a givendecision is overturned following an appeal. “Destruction of evidence is personally good for the students who have a graduate school or employer who ask for disciplinary records,” U-councilor Danny Johnson ’15 said. Johnson is a former senior writer for The Daily Princetonian. However, U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 said he was wary of the deletion of evidence, since it is important for accused students to understand that there have been successful appeals in the past.
The Daily Princetonian sat down with Congressman Adam Schiff, eight-term representative of California’s 28th District, who in January became the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Many students are interested in the idea of having a Hindu prayer space on campus, according to Rishika Dewan ’16. Dewan spearheaded an initiative withPrinceton Hindu Satsangam to send out a survey last month to students to see if there was interest on campus for the creation of a Hindu prayer space. “There is an interest from both Hindu students and non-Hindu students alike,” Dewan said.
Congress faces an unprecedented conflict between national security and individual privacy given the post-Edward Snowden era and emergence of a new brand of global terrorism, Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said at a lecture on Friday. “It’s a really challenging time for our work on the Intelligence Committee for many reasons, not the least of which is in the wake of the Arab Spring we have greater instability than any time in the last half-century,” Schiff said. He referenced a number of conflicts occupying the attention of the Intelligence Committee, including high casualties from the catastrophe in Syria, the ongoing war in Iraq, party clashes and terrorist profiteers in Libya, government crackdowns in Egypt and, more recently, the growing conflict in Yemen, where Saudis and Iranians have a new battlefield to clash in. U.S.
The student band Valley Academy, which features David Lind ’18, Yaw Owusu-Boahen ’17 and Ben Falter ’17,won the inaugural Battle of the Bands event on Friday. The event, hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government’s social committee, was organized to decide the opener for the main act at Lawnparties. The Battle of the Bands line up included student bands St.
Stanford will not divest from companies operating in Israel, according to the Stanford Daily. The announcement was madeon Tuesdayafternoon by the Stanford Board of Trustees in response to a request from the Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine, who had asked Stanford to divest from a list of companies that allegedly profited from human rights abuses in Palestine. According to the statement, the Board believed that any action to divest would create deep divisions among the Stanford community.
A moral compass can be determined to be valid or invalid based on whether Jewish people are treated fairly, and Islam may not pass this test, Jewish radio hostDennis Prager said at a heavily attended discussion moderated by jurisprudence professor Robert George on Thursday. Prager drew ananalogy between the few number of Germans who were actually mass killers during the Nazi era and the few number of Muslims who are actually terrorists,adding that just as a few Germans were Nazis did not excuse Germany from having a Nazi problem, few Muslims being terrorists does not excuse Islam from having a terrorism problem. Israel is now a target of annihilation just like Jewish citizens in Germany once were, Prager said. Prager also said he believed that Jewish and Christian conservatives have more in common now than with liberals in their own religions. Prager recalled an incident in which a caller was giving a rabbi who was a guest on a radio show a hard time about the chosen status of Jewish people, and a Catholic priest called in to say, “God chose the Jews.
The Humanistic Studies Program will no longer require prospective freshmen students to apply to the intensive year-long Humanities Sequence. Students, including non-freshmen, can instead reserve a spot by emailing Lin DeTitta,the program manager for Humanistic Studies and Journalism. The Humanities Sequence is a year-long sequence of courses that is designed to represent an interdisciplinary approach to examining Western literature from antiquity to the 20thcentury. Originally, the emphasis on faculty-led precepts forced limits on the number of students who could enroll, saidKathleen Crown,executive director of the Council of the Humanities. The program has evolved over time in regard to the number of faculty and students involved with the program, she added. “There is nothing in the origins of the sequence to indicate that the HUMSequence should be limited to a select group," Crown said.
After an unknown individual emailed Yik Yak with a request to showcase posts from the University on the application's "Peek" feature, a Yik Yak support agent replied that the company is considering banning all future posts in the area. Yik Yak is a Twitter-like application that allows users within a certain area to share anonymous posts from their phones.
The current 2014-2015 Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline has six male and two female undergraduate members.
Police have charged Steven Cruz, the driver who hit chemistry student Nyssa Emerson GS on April 8, with careless driving and failing to yield to a pedestrian, The Times of Trenton reported. The Toyota Prius collided with Emerson as she was walking across Washington Road at approximately 9:32 p.m.She suffered serious injuries, including broken bones.
A newly adopted statement in the University’s “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” upholding “academic freedom of expression” triggered debate among students and faculty this week. The statement, which originated as a petition pioneered by professor of mathematics Sergiu Klainerman, has been incorporated into the University’s Principles of General Conduct and Regulations and is located immediately adjacent to sections on academic integrity and diversity and community, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. In response to recent controversies surrounding Urban Congo’s performances and Big Sean performing at Lawnparties, Klainerman said that combatting incendiary speech through civilized debate is an important aspect to fully grasping the freedom of expression.
Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng '16 sent an email to all undergraduates on Wednesday acknowledging that Big Sean’s lyrics “are demeaning towards women and LGBT individuals” and apologizing to students who were triggered by the selection. The email was co-authored by members of the USG social committee, as well as by Duncan Hosie ’16 and Rebecca Basaldua ’15, who started a petition earlier this month to rescind Big Sean’s contract to perform at Lawnparties. Basaldua said the email was the result of a meeting between her and Hosie with members of USG and Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne, but that the email was not going to be the final result of the USG campaign. Dunne did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Duncan and I obviously have very strong disagreements over the fact that Big Sean was chosen to come here and we vehemently disagree with Simon [Wu ’17] and Ella even as they stand by that choice — we were able to come to some common ground over his lyrics ... and communicate that to the student body,” Basaldua said. Basaldua said she thought that Lawnparties should not be canceled but that USG could still make alternative accommodations.
Indictments in the controversial closing of the George Washington Bridge in the fall of 2013 could come next week, PolitickerNJ reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources close to the investigation. Aides close to N.J.
The University recently received a $10 million donation from a currently unnamed University alumnus and his wife that will be used to finance the new music building thatis a part of the Princeton Arts and Transit Project. The Arts and Transit Project, which is expected to cost around $330 million, is expected to be completed in 2017. The new three-story, 23,000 square-foot building, which will eventually be named by the donors, will contain a 3,500-square foot performance and rehearsal room, acoustically advanced practice rooms and teaching studios, as well as a digital recording studio, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. The new building is essential to accommodate a vibrant performing arts scene on campus,Steven Mackey, chair of the Department of Music, explained. “We are bursting at the seams in our current music building primarily because performances have grown so much,” Mackey said.
Both students and local business owners approved of the return of the Princeton University Farmers’ Market, which took place for the first time since 2013 on Wednesday outside of Firestone Library. The market plans to continue to feature products from Terhune Orchards, Infini-T, Jersey City Veggie Burgers, Tassot Apiaries, Terra Learning Kitchen, Tico's Eatery and Juice Bar, Valley Shepherd Creamery and Whole Earth Center at markets on campus every Wednesday through May 13.
