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News & Notes: Cornell student charged with murder of father

News & Notes: Cornell student charged with murder of father

Chitra Marti

Cornell University sophomore Charles Tan was arrested Monday on charges of second-degree murder after allegedly shooting his father, Ling "Jim" Tan, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Police responded to a domestic incident at Tan's home in Pittsford, N.Y., and found Charles Tan and his mother standing in the driveway with his father dead in the house with gunshots in his upper body. Investigators conducted a search warrant of the house early Tuesday morning and found a shotgun.

NEWS | 02/10/2015

News & Notes: Town to buy property and expand park

Chitra Marti

The town of Princeton will be purchasing a property at 3133 Lytle St. in order to expand the neighboring Mary Moss Park, the Times of Trenton reported. The town will spend about $600,000 to purchase and destroy the property, which will then be incorporated into the park.

NEWS | 02/10/2015

U. Art Museum joins American Art Collaborative

Shriya Sekhsaria

The University Art Museum is one of 14 museums in the newly created American Art Collaborative, the Smithsonian American Art Museum announced on Feb.

NEWS | 02/10/2015

Panelists discuss experiences with mental health issues

Linda Song

Love and encouragement play critical roles in facilitating family relationships between parents and children with physical, mental and social disabilities, Andrew Solomon said in a lecture on Tuesday.Solomon is the founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT studies at Yale and a professor of Clinical Studies at Columbia University.Solomon, who was awarded the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, discussed his latest work, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity," recounting his work with families over the course of 11 years in regard to schizophrenia, deafness, autism and sexual identity.Solomon shared many narratives, one of which involved an individual named Clinton Brown, born with diastrophic dysplasia or “dwarfism." Brown’s parents were told by doctors that he likely would not survive and he was given a dire prognosis.However, his family took him home, and since then he has undergone 30 major surgeries and became the first person in his family to go to college.“The language we use around these experiences can determine in many ways the outcome," Solomon said.Solomon also discussed his own journey in coming out as an LGBT person.“When I was perhaps six years old, I went with my mother and brother to a shoe store," Solomon said.

NEWS | 02/10/2015

USG begins planning upcoming events following retreat

Katherine Oh

While Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng ’16 made only one specific campaign promise — a Chipotle study break — she said the Undergraduate Student Government will see significant change this year.“The plan was first that we restructure USG, secondly explore and execute projects, both new and old, and then getting the word out better,” Cheng said.Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.At the USG senate retreat this past weekend, USG members discussed the results from the recent “What Matters” campaign and brainstormed projects based on that information.“In all my experience with the USG, it’s surprising to me, we’ve never actually reached out to students before going to retreats and figuring out what to do for the year," she said.USG members will publicly announce a more detailed agenda for the year within the next week, including a list of priorities.Cheng said the goal of her campaign was to present a broader plan for how USG might carry out tasks this year, including incorporating the ideas of students before actually starting to take action.“It’s a multi-step process, and often I think we get stuck at different parts of it,” Cheng said.

NEWS | 02/10/2015

Diversity task force begins to address campus issues

Zaynab Zaman

The Council of the Princeton University Community Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was created on Dec.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

CPUC talks plans at first meeting of the semester

Jessica Li

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

News & Notes: Second Providence College student diagnosed with meningitis B

Daily Princetonian Staff

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

Q&A: Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp '89

Charles Kyungchan Min

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

Jacobus Fellowship awarded to 4 graduate students

Pooja Patel

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

Kopp '89 delivers lecture on inequity in education

Charles Kyungchan Min

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

Jackson '15 looks back on second year in office

Jessica Li

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

News & Notes: DPS transports 7 over weekend

Daily Princetonian Staff

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.

NEWS | 02/09/2015

News & Notes: Harvard receives record-breaking number of applications for Class of 2019

Daily Princetonian Staff

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

Nobel laureate in physics, U. Professor Emeritus Fitch dies

Pooja Patel

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

Terrace remains most popular sign-in club for third year

Annie Yang

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

Cap, Cannon most bickered eating clubs this spring

Annie Yang

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

Peltz ’15, O'Neil ’15 receive ReachOut fellowships

Paul Phillips

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

USG holds first Senate meeting with new officers

Katherine Oh

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.

NEWS | 02/08/2015

News & Notes: Harvard professors banned from sexual relationships with undergraduates

Jasmine Wang

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.

NEWS | 02/05/2015

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