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Liechtenstein Institute roundtable discusses Catalan independence

Liechtenstein Institute roundtable discusses Catalan independence

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Layla Malamut

Self-determination may shatter states since national movements for independence often culminate in tensions and conflicts among subgroups, Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, the founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at the University, argued at a Thursday roundtable discussion on the question of Catalan independence. Catalonia has been part of Spain since it was established in the 15th century.

NEWS | 03/12/2015

New ethnography certificate program proposed

Christina Vosbikian

A proposal for an ethnography certificate program has been submitted to the Office of the Dean of the College.All of the members of the faculty in theanthropology department either did not respond to requests for comment or declined to comment on the potential certificate program until it is formally voted on and accepted or rejected.Deputy Dean of the College Clayton Marsh ’85 declined to comment, as did University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who noted that review of the proposal is ongoing.Anthropology majors supported the potential institution of a certificate program inethnography, which is the study of human cultures and races.Divya Farias ’15 said she thought the certificate would be relevant to students outside anthropology who could apply lessons from ethnography in other ways.“I think it’s a great idea,” Farias said, adding the certificate program could be helpful to students pursuing independent work.

NEWS | 03/12/2015

New Graduate Student Government elected, plans for increased engagement

Catherine Offord

Akshay Mehra GS, a graduate student in the geosciences department, was elected president of the Graduate Student Government, GSG announced at its Wednesday meeting.He joins newly elected secretary Katie Wolf GS, treasurer Mike Hepler GS, special events officer Liz Davison GS and returning vice president Mircea Davidescu.The meeting marked the end of a challenging year for the previous GSG officer corps, which was burdened with repeated delays in the construction of Lakeside Housing Project, the new graduate housing site.High on the agenda this year will be plans to strengthen ties among graduate students across the University to create what Mehra said should be “a sense of a large community beyond individual departments.”One proposal, also discussed by last year’s committee, is the introduction of a new on-campus graduate center.

NEWS | 03/12/2015

U. defines essential personnel, describes closing procedures

Doug Wallack

When a delayed opening or a campus closing is announced due to severe weather, essential personnel are often the only group of employees required to come to work.The Office of Human Resources defines essential services employees generally as those who “perform jobs that are necessary and required to maintain basic University operations during scheduled closures or unscheduled suspension of normal operations due to emergencies, events, or other situations.”The designation is not based on an employee’s department but generally includes workers in Building Services, Dining Services and a limited number of Frist Campus Center and University Library employees.In the event of severe weather, the University might send an email by approximately 6 a.m.delaying opening for non-essential personnel or advising them to stay home for the day.

NEWS | 03/12/2015

Undercover cop at Varsity Liquors makes over 100 arrests in two years

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Undercover cop at Varsity Liquors makes over 100 arrests in two years

Chitra Marti

A Princeton police detective on a plainclothes detail operating outside of Varsity Liquors has made at least 20 arrests of University students and over 100 arrests in total over the past two years, police and court records show.In just the last two weeks, at least five more students were arrested, as noted in weekly Princeton Police Department press releases.

NEWS | 03/10/2015

Department of Justice preparing charges against N.J. Senator

Department of Justice preparing charges against N.J. Senator

Jacob Donnelly

The Department of Justice is preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against New Jersey Sen.

NEWS | 03/10/2015

Wilson College names new Director of Student Life

Wilson College names new Director of Student Life

Zoe Toledo

Wilson College announced Aaron King as its new Director of Student Life in an email to students last Monday.The Director of Student Life is responsible for the non-academic aspects of undergraduate life within a residential college.Former Wilson College DSL Regan Crotty ’00 is now the Title IX Administrator for the University.Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin, who took part in the hiring process of Aaron King, said King’s experience in residential education and attention to diversity and inclusion was a strength that made him stand out.“He brings experience in areas supporting students, in both long-term and crisis situations and in supporting community standards,” Olin said.King was previously a program manager at Stanford’s Office of Residential Education who oversaw the Row, the upperclass housing system at Stanford.King said that being a DSL appealed to him due to both the ability to support students broadly by working with the residential college advisers and meeting with students one-on-one.“At the individual level I hope to raise awareness [of issues] that are invisible to others,” he said, explaining that he hopes to connect to students using his own experience as a first-generation college graduate.Crotty said the best part of her previous job was working with RCAs and interacting with students.Wilson College RCA Jack Jenkins ’15 said the RCAs’ relationship with Crotty as DSL had been marked by her availability and interest in individuals.“We basically all joked that Regan was the RCA of the RCAs in addition to being our boss,” Jenkins said.Diversity-related programming for the RCA training week and encouraging RCAs to hold diversity-related events were notable elements of programming while Crotty was DSL, Jenkins said.King recently met with RCAs to plan a week-long series of dinners featuring different aspects of diversity, Jenkins added.

NEWS | 03/10/2015

News & Notes: Graduate student workers reach agreement with NYU, end strike

Daily Princetonian Staff

Graduate student workers at New York Universityaffiliated with the United Auto Workers Local 2110 union averted a strike after signing a deal with the administration, according to an email sent from NYU President John Sexton to students.

NEWS | 03/10/2015

Director of National Security Agency discusses accountability, privacy concerns

Grant Golub

The National Security Agency must acknowledge its mistakes, be accountable to citizens, not cut corners and follow the law in the course of its duties, Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S.

NEWS | 03/10/2015

Graduate student careers, Princeton Perspective Project discussed at CPUC meeting

Christina Vosbikian

The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed graduate student career paths, the Princeton Perspective Project and the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at its meetingon Monday. “Graduate student placement and professional development is an area that’s been increasing in importance,” Dean of the Graduate School Sanjeev Kulkarni said. The Graduate School has a number of programs for professional development that work in cooperation with the Office of Career Services, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and specific academic departments, he said. “Since 2008, our appointments for graduate students and walk-in students has increased 63 percent,”Associate Director for Graduate Student Career Services Amy Pszczolkowski said.“They come to see us for both academic and non-academic career situations.” Roughly 30 specific professional development skill programs are currently offered for graduate students,Pszczolkowski noted,adding that Career Services’ Graduate Student Advisory Board wants to further explore ways in which it can be of assistance. Students pursuing non-academic jobs still receivedisproportionately low support, philosophy professor Sarah-Jane Leslie said. “When we actually look at the numbers, though, at most we place about 50 percent of our students into academic jobs,” she said.

NEWS | 03/09/2015

News & Notes: Penn men’s basketball head coach resigns following game against Tigers on Tuesday

Jasmine Wang

The University of Pennsylvania’s men’s basketball head coach Jerome Allen has announced his resignation, which will go into effecton Tuesdaynight after Penn plays Princeton in its last game of the season, according to Ivy League Sports. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Penn athletic director Grace Calhounhad informed Allenlast Monday that he would befired at the end of the year.

NEWS | 03/08/2015

USG senate discusses Leadership Education and Diversity Summit, bathroom locks

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed the 2015 Princeton Leadership Education and Diversity Summitand held an open forum on the University’s bathroom lock policy during its weekly meeting on Sunday. Last weekend, the Diversity and Equity Committee sponsored the LEAD Summit at the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania.

NEWS | 03/08/2015

Former Israeli ambassador to United States discusses upcoming Israeli legislative elections

Kristin Qian

Israeli elections occur too often, Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said about the upcoming Israeli legislative elections which will take place on March 17, in a lecture on Sunday. Although proportional representation makes the Israeli government more democratic,elections occur approximately every two years, he said.Elections happen all the time because to form a government, a prime minister only needs a simple majority, there is only one house, and the entire country represents one district. Moreover, anyone can run, and for that reason, there can be close to 50 parties involved in a single election, he said.

NEWS | 03/08/2015

“Say Hey” campaign aims to end awkward campus encounters

Cassidy Tucker

A new student-run campaign hopes to create awareness about awkward social dynamics on campus by encouraging students to acknowledge other people.Founder Joe Benun ’15said the idea came to him when he realized that familiarity was dictating whether students would greet each other in passing, which he said he believes leads to awkward encounters on campus.“In order to flip the social dynamic, one individual cannot do it all, which is precisely why I thought to start this campaign,” he said.The campaign launched on March 1 and has its first event this week.Say Hey is organizing “Reclaim Midterms Week,” in which students are encouraged to wear a nametag on campus through the entire week of midterms.

NEWS | 03/08/2015

U. Provost Lee GS ’99 denies anonymous discrimination reporting system in response to ‘Prince’ coverage

Jacob Donnelly

University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said the University is not creating a new anonymous discrimination reporting system, according toan email sentto the entireUniversity faculty on Wednesdayin response to a March 1 article in The Daily Princetonian.According to the article, the University might create a system for students to anonymously report discriminatory comments by professors.

NEWS | 03/08/2015

News & Notes: Dozens protest against UChicago over trauma care center

Ruby Shao

Dozens of protesters chained themselves together on Thursday to pressure the University of Chicago to open a trauma care center, NBC Chicago reported. The demonstration occurred on Michigan Avenue and Pearson Street near a University of Chicago alumni fundraising event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, according to the Chicago Tribune. A spokesperson for the group said that the activists intended to rally and picket outside the hotel to call on alumni donors not to support the University of Chicago until it commits to opening a trauma center. Protesters released a statement saying they were willing to risk arrest to send the message that “business as usual cannot continue while black lives are being lost due to a lack of adult trauma care on the South Side and the University of Chicago’s refusal to expand trauma care." The University of Chicago does not offertraumacare for patients 16 or older.Traumacenters offer more extensive care than do typical emergency rooms. The protesters gathered outside the hotel around 5:30 p.m.

NEWS | 03/05/2015

Journalism professor discusses human trafficking issues

Paul Phillips

Human trafficking is not merely about forced prostitution and sex slavery, but instead encompasses a much wider variety of issues related to coerced labor, independent journalist and visiting professor Noy Thrupkaew argued at a talk Thursday.Thrupkaew will deliver the same presentation as a Technology, Entertainment, Design talk at the TED national conference in March.The talk began with Thrupkaew’s account of her discovery that until the age of three she had been raised not by her parents but by her “auntie.” Her "auntie" was stripped and beaten for offenses as minor as being late to pick her up and eventually ran away.

NEWS | 03/05/2015

Martinez '15, Miller '15 receive Labouisse Prize

Zaynab Zaman

Yessica Martinez ’15 and Damaris Miller ’15 were awarded this year’s Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize, a $30,000 grant to support a year-long international civic engagement project.The prize was formed in 1984 by Labouisse’s daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Martin Peretz.Martinez intends to work with a community organization in Medellín, Colombia, which has been creating theater programs for almost 25 years.

NEWS | 03/05/2015

2 U. faculty awarded Dan David Prize

Jessica Li

Two Princeton faculty members were named recipients of the 2015 Dan David Prize last month.Both history professor emeritus Peter Brown and sociology lecturer Alessandro Portelli were awarded in the “Retrieving the Past” category of the prize.They will be honored at a May 17 ceremony at Tel Aviv University in Israel.According to its website, the Dan David Prize is an international enterprise that awards grants in three categories for outstanding interdisciplinary research in the sciences and humanities.

NEWS | 03/05/2015

News & Notes: Five people injured in explosion, fire near Columbia, Barnard

Daily Princetonian Staff

An explosion and subsequent fire in a restaurant near Columbia and Barnard College injured five people and forced the evacuation of two Barnard dorms on Tuesday night, the New York Daily News reported. The explosion was reported at 11:30 p.m.

NEWS | 03/04/2015

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