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The Undergraduate Student Government discussed changes to Career Services, the Integrated Course Engine and Restaurant Week during its weekly senate meeting on Sunday night. Executive Director of Career ServicesPulin Sanghvi began the meeting by speaking to the senate about planning a major overhaul ofCareer Services. Several senate members said that Career Services should do more to invite recruiters from fields beyond finance and computer science. “Our ... focus is to start putting the infrastructure in place to proactively reach out to a much broader and more diverse range of employers and alumni,” Sanghvi said. He added that Career Services will encourage alumni to create internship and job opportunities for students within their companies. Sanghvi said that Career Services hopes to become more feedback driven, adding that the Career and Life Vision workshops have received very positive student responses. USG president Shawon Jackson '17 addressed the Princeton Perspective Project, an initiative to drive conversation about struggling at the University,in his presidential report. “The Princeton Perspective Project is obviously a top priority for me,” he said. Since its launch last week, the website has received more than 1,650 views; nearly 50 students attended the Princeton Perspective Projectopen house last Friday, Jackson said. According to the meeting's agenda, the members of thePrinceton Perspective Projectare now planning a summit in which students, alumni and staff can discuss their personal experiences. The USG also discussed the Integrated Course Engine, the popular TigerApps course planning system that will be replaced by Course Planner, a feature of the University’s new student portal, TigerHub. While the University hopes to eventually incorporate most of ICE’s features into TigerHub, academics committee chairJames Baase ’15 explained that some features, such as customized color schemes and sharing features, will not be carried over. ICE has been maintained by Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10, who built it for his COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques project; according to Baase, he has expressed a desire to retire the app. While information technology chair Clement Lee '15 said the USG is trying to convince Choi to maintain the application for spring course offerings, it is unclear at this time whether Choi will agree. Baase also discussed a recent meeting with the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study aboutpotential changes to requirements for the molecular biology concentration.
The Yale faculty voted in favor of bringing Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I, to New Haven on Thursday at the faculty meeting, according toThe Harvard Crimson. The course would be called “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” andis likely to be offered in fall 2015. The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course. Harvard CS50 Professor David J.
Four rail tunnels connecting New York to New Jersey will be taken out of service in a phased process for repairs, due to damage caused by saltwater from Hurricane Sandy, Amtrak said in a press release last month.
Approximately 5.4 percent, or 72 of 1322 eligible B.S.E.
Over 450 students and faculty have signed competing petitions in the last week about whether or not Princeton should divest from companies involved with Israel. Forty-eight faculty members urged the University last Wednesday to divest its endowment funds from all companies that "contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continued siege of Gaza." The petition, which was published in The Daily Princetonian as an advertisement, has elicited mixed responses from the University community.
Approximately 56 percent of undergraduate students at the University engage in study abroad programs between semesters and summers abroad, and 27 percent do it more than once, according to Director of Study Abroad in the Office of International Programs Mell Bolen. However, the number of students that spends a full semester abroad or more is much smaller.
African-American studies professor emeritus Cornel West GS’80discussed problems facing the present-day Black population in a lecture on Thursday, saying that Black people need to confront the injustice against them by refusing to give in or compromise early, and turning to love and justice rather than anger. Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of religion and African-American studies and chair of Center for African-American studies, and Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies, joined West for the conversation. West was recently detained by police during a scuffle at the Ferguson Police Department. West said that the truth about life as a Black person in the United States is too often hidden because Black Americans are too scared to take a risk by telling it.
A study conducted by Harvard on classroom attendance last spring by secretly photographing 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring came to light Tuesday night at a faculty meeting. During the meeting, Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol remarked that the Initiative for Learning and Teaching installed cameras to record attendance, and pictures were scanned by a computer program to count the number of empty and occupied seats. Bol said the study was not meant to identify any individual, and the lack of prior notification was intended to avoid bias, according to The Boston Globe. Bol said that the study went through the university’s review board beforehand. The students whose images were captured were not notified until this Wednesday afternoon, and some students and faculty said the research was an invasion of privacy. “You should do studies only with the consent of the people being studied,”Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis saidin an interview with the Globe. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Harvard President Drew Faust said that she will have the case reviewed by a panel that oversees the newly established electronic communication policies.
Tiger Inn is expected to remain open while its Graduate Board and the University conduct separate investigations into allegations that a TI officer distributed a picture of a female student performing oral sex on a male student within the club’s dance floor.
Journalist leaks are in the public interest and do not necessarily pose a major threat to national security, former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson argued at a lecture Thursday. Abramson, who started her career as an investigative reporter for Time Magazine, spent 17 years in senior management at The New York Times, becoming the first female managing editor in 2003 and later the first executive editor.
Princeton will have to reexamine at least 11 cases of sexual misconduct, all of them adjudicated internally by the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the past three academic years. The U.S.
The Lewis Center for the Arts has launched a series of outreach initiatives in its attempt to engage the Princeton community through the arts. The initiatives, which include campus activities and “breakout” trips in collaboration with the Pace Center of Civic Engagement, are an attempt to allow University students to utilize their creativity as a means of civic engagement, according to the Lewis Center's outreach website. “We want to bring the University students with at-risk kids in town and Trenton or Newark through the Lewis Center,” Fanny Chouinard, special outreach projects manager for the Lewis Center, said.
A debate on the case for same-sex marriage between politics professorStephen Macedo and Sherif Girgis ’08 ended on the same platform from which it started: The case for same-sex marriage has a limiting principle, one side said, while the other argued changing marriage law accordingly would strengthen the institution of marriage. The debate was moderated by religion professor Eric Gregory. A limiting principle is a principle, often unquestioned, that may limit the explanations one comes up with. Girgis, who took a class taught by Macedo in 2006, majored in philosophy at the University where his senior thesis on sex ethics was awarded the title of best thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy. Macedo, who argued for same-sex marriage, said that gay people will benefit both physically and psychologically through the realization of their marriage commitments.
Patrick Witt, a 2012 graduate of Yale, published an article in the Boston Globe Monday in which he criticized Harvard's sexual misconduct policies based on his own experiences at Yale, the Yale Daily News reported. Witt, formerly a football quarterback and Rhodes Scholar finalist, was the subject of a sexual misconduct complaint filed against him by his ex-girlfriend.
Five Harvard alumni won seats in Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, keeping the University in first place among schools with the greatest number of alumni to serve in Congress, according to data gathered from Find the Best. A ranking of schools with the largest number of alumni in Congress was originally released by Find the Best in 2012 following the election of the 113thCongress.
Harvard is hosting its third annual “Sex Week,” a week of programs promoting a holistic understanding of sex and sexuality among students, according to the event’s website. The event is coordinated by a student-run group,Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College (SHEATH),with thegoal of connecting diverse communities through “common human experiences with love, sex, sexuality and relationships.” Featured events include “Losing Your (Concept of) Virginity,” “Fifty Shades of False: Kink, Fantasy, and Fetish” and “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101,” a program that received considerable media backlash for being “downright vulgar,” according to the Huffington Post. “Saying we don’t need [the workshop] is like saying we don’t need sex education, or should have abstinence-only education or that people should feel ashamed for doing whatever it is that’s part of their sexual practice,” SHEATH co-president Kirin Gupta said in an interview with MTV News. Unlike Harvard and Yale, the University does not have a Sex Week.
Retired United States Army General Stanley McChrystal spoke about his military experience and his views on the current military situationon Wednesday in a conversation with former ‘Newsweek’ Washington bureau chief Evan Thomas. In particular, he said the United States needs to be actively involved in the Middle East and civilian and military leaders need to form tighter relationships. McChrystal, now a professor at Yale and 2014 Anna and G.
After Republicans won the Senate majority in Tuesday’s midterm elections, associate molecular biology professor Samuel Wang’s prediction that Democrats would maintain control has been proven false. Control of the Senate hinged on the results of races for 36 seats,15 of which belonged to Republicans and 21 to Democrats.
The Office of the Registrar and Office of Information Technology launched TigerHub, a new online studentportal that replaced the Student Course Online Registration Engine, on Monday. The system will continue to serve a similar purpose to its predecessor, allowing students to modify course enrollments, view grades and request copies of transcripts. The design of individual pages of SCORE has been maintained in TigerHub, but students can now more easily navigate the platform, as all of the portal’s features are listed in a single menu on the system’s homepage, University Registrar Polly Griffin said.
