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News & Notes: Yale begins construction of 2 residential colleges

News & Notes: Yale begins construction of 2 residential colleges

Jacqueline Gufford

Yale has begun the construction of two residential colleges ahead of schedule, according to the Yale Daily News. Though the project is scheduled to break ground in February 2015, workers have been on site for at least the last three weeks, said a construction worker on conditions of anonymity given contractual constraints to the Yale Daily News. The project is funded by $500 million Yale received in donations, according to the Yale University website. A single alumnus, Charles B.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

News and Notes: Dartmouth students ask Rick Perry sexually explicit questions at talk

Angela Wang

Students at Dartmouth College asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry explicit questions about his stance on homosexuality when he spoke there on Sunday night, according to The Dartmouth.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

ICE course planner likely to be phased out after the spring

ICE course planner likely to be phased out after the spring

Linda Song

The Integrated Course Engine, the popular course planning TigerApp, will likely operate for one more semester before being superseded by Course Planner, the University-sanctioned course planning feature in the new student portal TigerHub. At last Sunday's weekly senate meeting, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed plans and negotiations to retain the TigerApp feature for spring course offerings. According to information technology chair Clement Lee ’17, he received confirmation that ICE will likely remain for spring 2015 before it will be officially retired by its original coder Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10. Choi built the TigerApp for a project for COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques.Choi could not be reached for comment. “We’ve contacted him with regards to any updates,” Lee said.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

No life-threatening injuries in bus crash on Route 206

No life-threatening injuries in bus crash on Route 206

Chitra Marti

A bus crash on Route 206 on Tuesday afternoon resulted in no life-threatening injuries, the Princeton Police Department said. A 2011 BMW 328i, driven by Justin Thomas of Morris Plains, N.J., struck the front bumper of a Rick Bus Co. school bus while the two were traveling directly toward each other. The bus flipped over onto its right side and sustained damage to its left front side, while the BMW spun around and sustained serious front-end damage. The crash took place at 2:48 p.m. The bus contained a student, a teacher’s aid and the bus driver. Those traveling on the bus were transported to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro for medical care, while the driver of the colliding vehicle was transported by ambulance to Capital Health Systems at Fuld for medical care. All persons involved were alert and conscious upon the arrival of emergency personnel, and no one needed to be extricated from the vehicles, police said in a press release. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Serious Collision Unit and the PPD are currently investigating the incident.No summonses have been issued yet. In addition, Route 206 was closed to traffic for several hours between Lovers Lane and Province Line Road this afternoon.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

Princeton in search for Sanskrit lecturer in response to petition

Jasmine Wang

The University is now looking to hire a three-year lecturer in Sanskrit to begin in fall 2015, according to its online employment postings. Religion Associate Professor Jonathan Gold, who will head the search committee for the new candidate, explained that the lecturer would ideally teach five courses over the course of each year, with two first-year Sanskrit courses, two second-year Sanskrit courses and an upper-level language or content course. However, Gold noted that these plans remain tentative and depend on the number of students who are qualified to take the more advanced level language courses. The University decided to make the hire after Vidushi Sharma ’17 started a petitionin late September to reintroduce Sanskrit to the University curriculum. The student body and administrative response to the petition have been encouraging, Sharma said. “I was pretty optimistic to begin with, and professors who supported the effort told me that the more students I could get, the better,” she noted. Although Gold noted that this petition was not the first attempt to establish a position for Sanskrit, he expressed appreciation for the student body’s enthusiasm. The search committee for the position, Gold explained, consists of various representatives from the classics, comparative literature and religion departments. He addedthat he was excited and optimistic for a very strong applicant pool. “We’re looking for dynamic and engaged language instructors with a deep and sophisticated research agenda in Sanskrit language, but also an interest in cutting-edge approaches to student learning,” Gold said. Funding for the position will come from the Council of the Humanities, the Program in South Asian Studies and the Dean of the Faculty, Gold said. Eric Huntington, a postdoctoral fellow in the religion department, said that the three-year length of the lectureship is a good starting point for the development of a cohort of students moving from beginner to advanced levels of Sanskrit. “This would presumably create more demand for a Sanskritist on campus.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

Counseling and Psychological Services looking for clinical services associate, psychiatric nurse

Chitra Marti

Counseling and Psychological Services will be hiring a clinical services associate and a psychiatric nurse, according to job postings on the University’s website.

NEWS | 11/11/2014

News & Notes: Temporary Dinky to be replaced by bus this week

Daily Princetonian Staff

The temporary Dinky station closed on Monday, and the new Dinky station will open on Nov. 17. A bus service will transport train riders from campus to Princeton Junction fromNov.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

Robinson draws link between climate change and human rights abuse

Jessica Li

Climate change is having an intensifying impact on human rights in developing countries,former President of the Republic of Ireland Mary Robinson said in a lecture on Tuesday. Noting the rapid deterioration of natural environments in Africa and numerous multinational conferences on combating climate change in the past two decades, Robinson said the audience, especially University students, should take immediate and personal responsibility for protecting the environment. Robinson served as the first female President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and is currently the Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Robinson said the year 2015 was critical to mitigating climate change because the United Nations will replace the current “millennium development goals” with a new set of “sustainable development goals,” which will be a blueprint that will guide every country. “There are extraordinary years of human history, and 2014 and 2015 are two years with the same magnitude in changing our lives as 1914 and 1945,” she said.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

News & Notes: Student in Forbes reports another invasion of privacy case

Daily Princetonian Staff

A student in Forbes College reported seeing someone outside the window while taking a shower in a shared bathroom on the first floor on Saturday, according to an email by Housing & Real Estate Services sent to Forbes College students on Sunday. According to the email, the person outside the bathroom might have been looking into the window while she was showering. The email said that the Department of Public Safety officers did not find a suspect and advised students to safeguard their privacy by keeping windows closed when using showers. On Sept.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

Former governor Christine Todd Whitman speaks at Whig-Clio Event

Former governor Christine Todd Whitman speaks at Whig-Clio Event

Annie Yang

Politics plays an important role in environmental policy, former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman said at a lecture on Monday. Whitman set political records when she became New Jersey’s first female governor from 1994 to 2001.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

New strategic planning website, U. endowment discussed at CPUC meeting

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A new University websiteoutlining the roles of strategic planning task forces and their preliminary reports will allow community members to stay informed about the planning process and provide input, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said during this month’s Council of the Princeton University Community meeting. Eisgruber launched the strategic planning process in January with the purpose of creating a flexible, iterative and dynamic framework for future decision-making by January 2016. The new website will be updated periodically and includes summaries of each task force and a list of its members. “There will be both formal and informal opportunities to comment on what the task forces are doing,” Eisgruber said, noting that the community can contact task force members directly or submit a comment to the website, which will be redirected to the appropriate correspondent. “You’re free to make it your homepage,” Eisgruber said, spurring laughter from the audience. The final strategic planning document will highlight the University’s priorities; identify challenges, opportunities and risks; and describe the University’s resource envelope, Eisgruber said. “[The document] is a way to evaluate choices rather than a statement of what the choices are and will be,” Eisgruber said, adding that he expects different task forces to operate on varying timelines. The task force recommendations do not automatically become part of the campus plan but are first vetted and judged against the University framework, Eisgruber explained. Task force members were chosen based on their expertise regarding the specific issue and include undergraduate and graduate students for projects such as graduate student housing, Eisgruber said. He also said the University will be paying close attention to the opportunity costs of various decisions, especially given the recent impact of the financial crisis. “We need to be thinking about what sorts of options we have and how the selection of one option or another option is going to constrain choices in the future,” Eisgruber said. He said that individual departments also engage in planning on a regular basis and that he expects additional task forces to be formed in the future as new issues arise. University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said the University is currently in a solid financial position with a market endowment value of $21 billion as of June 2014 and a very solid credit rating. “We have for quite some time had a very generous donor base,” Lee said.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

News and Notes: TigerTransit bus spills diesel fuel on Elm Drive and Chapel Drive

News and Notes: TigerTransit bus spills diesel fuel on Elm Drive and Chapel Drive

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Department of Public Safety and firefighters responded to Elm Drive and Chapel Drive after a TigerTransit bus spilled diesel fuel on Monday. Chapel Drive was closed for two hours, while the circle at the end of Chapel Drive was closed for longer, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Chapel Drive was affected by the spill in its entirety, while Elm Drive was affected in the immediate vicinity of Edwards Hall. Around 12:20 p.m., the bus was towed away while cleanup was still in progress and vehicles were passing through one lane. Dirt had been poured over the oil spill while first responders awaited the arrival of a cleanup crew. As of 4:40 p.m., a cleanup crew accompanied by DPS officers was cleaning up the scene.

NEWS | 11/10/2014

Updated: Employee who confronted Princeton over medical marijuana no longer employed by U.

Updated: Employee who confronted Princeton over medical marijuana no longer employed by U.

Grant Golub

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NEWS | 11/10/2014

Career recruiting, ICE, Restaurant Week discussed at USG senate meeting

Aana Bansal

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.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

News and Notes: Yale approves joint Harvard-Yale Computer Science Course

Daily Princetonian Staff

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.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

Serious service disruptions may face rail commuters to New York in 2015

Jacob Donnelly

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.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

B.S.E. sports low numbers for study abroad

B.S.E. sports low numbers for study abroad

Ruby Shao

Approximately 5.4 percent, or 72 of 1322 eligible B.S.E.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

Petition for Princeton to divest sparks debate

Shriya Sekhsaria

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.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

A.B. departments show marked differences in study abroad rates

Corinne Lowe

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.

NEWS | 11/09/2014

Cornel West GS ’80 discusses problems facing present-day Black population

Katherine Oh

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.

NEWS | 11/06/2014

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