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GirlCode app removed from iTunes Store

GirlCode app removed from iTunes Store

Linda Song

GirlCode app developers Victor Zhou ’18 and twin sisters Amanda and Monica Shi ’18 said this week that they will be taking down the app due to “pressure from the administration.” They recently launched the app on the iTunes Store that makes the codes for women’s bathrooms in University residential spaces accessible to anyone who downloaded the app. The app had been taken down as of Sunday. The creators said that the decision to shut down the app was made during a private meeting on Wednesday with three representatives from the Department of Public Safety, Housing and Real Estate Services and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 01/15/2015

VP for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey to leave U. in August

Olivia Wicki

Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey will be leaving the University in August to head the International Leadership Association as president and chief executive officer.

NEWS | 01/15/2015

U. community gathers to remember Dantzlerward '16

Jacob Donnelly

Students, faculty, staff and community members circled around a table supporting a single lit candle in the lobby of Murray-Dodge Hall on Monday night as they remembered the life of Audrey Dantzlerward '16, who was found dead in her room in Edwards Hall today.

NEWS | 01/12/2015

Updated: Dantzlerward ’16 remembered as proud feminist, aspiring children's author

Jacob Donnelly

Audrey Dantzlerward ’16, a resident of Edwards Hall, was found dead in her room on Monday morning.

NEWS | 01/12/2015

USG passes referendum calling for extended winter break

Jessica Li

An Undergraduate Student Government referendum calling on the faculty to provide for a three-week winter recess in the next calendar year was passed.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

News & Notes: Former Hun School teacher avoids prison in plea deal

Daily Princetonian Staff

Nolan Johnson, a former technical theater teacher at the Hun School of Princeton, admitted as part of a plea deal that he had sex with a female student last year, the Princeton Packet reportedon Thursday. Johnson pleaded guilty to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child at Mercer County Superior Court in Trenton. As part of the agreement, Johnson will receive a five-year suspended prison sentence, register as a sex offender and be on parole for the rest of his life.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

U. receives second highest number of applications in history for Class of 2019

Corinne Lowe

The Office of Admission has received and processed 26,976 applications for the Class of 2019 as of Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

Journalist wounded in Charlie Hebdo attack planned to teach at Princeton next year

Journalist wounded in Charlie Hebdo attack planned to teach at Princeton next year

Grant Golub

Philippe Lançon, an incoming visiting fellow in the Program in Latin American Studies for the 2015-16 school year, was critically injured in Wednesday’s attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

3 U. students launch app providing codes to women's bathrooms

3 U. students launch app providing codes to women's bathrooms

Linda Song

Victor Zhou ’18 and twin sisters Monica and Amanda Shi ’18 launched an app on the iTunes store called "GirlCode" after Winter Break.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

U. declines to join AAU sexual assault survey, will design survey of its own

Jacob Donnelly

The University will design its own sexual assault survey to comply with Title IX as opposed to using a survey designed by the Association of American Universities. The decision was made by University President Christopher Eisgruber "83 following the unanimous recommendation of the new Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct. As part of its resolution agreement with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the University is required to provide a“description of tools used for conducting a climate check” by Jan.

NEWS | 01/11/2015

Harvard Law found in violation of Title IX for similar reasons to U.

Aana Bansal

Harvard Law School was found in noncompliance with Title IX for violating the same broad criteria as the University, according to aDec.

NEWS | 01/10/2015

Reporting of Princeton resident's arrest met with indifference*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Daily Princetonian's recent reporting of the arrest of John Smith, 54, a resident of Princeton, N.J., who did not attend the University, sparked no outrage on campus, according to a review of online comments posted on the paper's website. The reaction comes after waves of online commenters have publicly and pseudonymously decried the publication for running stories that single out University students by name as having been the unfortunate victims of an arrest. Smith was arrested by the University's Department of Public Safety earlier this week.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

U. to implement grade hyperinflation to compete with Harvard, Yale*

Nancy Malkiel

The University will soon begin the implementation of a hyperinflation policy in order to make up for ground lost during the "infamous" deflation decade, the University announced this week. “We eliminated grade deflation in October,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Gansa ’17 plans new campaign, partners with Monsanto to ensure riper fruit*

Johnny Appleseed

Will Gansa ’17 is already planning his campaign for the winter 2015 election. His supporters noted that he has modified and enlarged his platform from last December but said his campaign aims are simple: to represent the students and make his best efforts to address their needs —all of their needs. “Any way you want it, just the way you need it,” Gansa said in a video posted on his website. Gansa maintained his devotion to ripe fruit, waffle fries and bike reform, noting that the fruit in the dining halls is in an especially disgraceful state. “If Satan had offered Eve an apple and told her that it was from Wu dining hall, she would have shaken her head in disgust and we’d still be in the Garden of Eden,” he said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Eisgruber ’83, Mighty Max Movers move Dinky back to original location*

Eisgruber ’83, Mighty Max Movers move Dinky back to original location*

Newark Penn

The Dinky was moved back to its original location after the U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Creator of Christian wonder-drug Thrive+ sets out to cure the munchies next*

Nancy Spiderman

Brooks Powell ’16 has announced that in addition to Thrive+, he will now be marketing “Satiation+,” which will help eliminate the phenomenon of insatiable hunger known as the “munchies,” experienced by students who are drunk or on other substances. “People talk about the munchies sometimes,” Powell said.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Streakers at Ivy Club ask for Grey Poupon*

Reginald C. Rockefeller VIII

Five males of approximately 20 years of age allegedly appeared naked during an Ivy Club dinner on Tuesday.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Tiger Inn to reopen as fratty bed and breakfast*

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Tiger Inn to reopen as fratty bed and breakfast*

Princeton Gossip

Tiger Inn will reopen next semester as a "fratty bed and breakfast" operated by Marriott International, which hopes to promote the club as the frattiest locale in the greater Trenton area. "U.S.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Mulvey charged with stealing Cheng's USG campaign posters*

Mulvey charged with stealing Cheng's USG campaign posters*

Ella Cheng

Operations Research and Financial Engineering Department professor John Mulvey was allegedly recorded on video stealing posters for USG presidential candidate Ella Cheng ’16 last month in what appears to be a show of support for former joke candidate Will Gansa ’17. If found guilty, Mulvey could face a sentence of up to five years of hard labor as Cheng's personal assistant, assisting her in whatever endeavors, USG or otherwise, she should choose to pursue. Mulvey told University officials that the signs "were distracting to look at, and he didn’t feel that the USG had permission” to flout its uselessness in front of the entire student body, a police report reads.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

Theft ring, 'Bling Ring of Princeton,' steals from U-Store*

Robin Hood

A gang of young thieves, who call themselves “The Bling Ring of Princeton,” has allegedly been taking petty items from the Princeton University Store, the Princeton Police Department reported in a press release.

NEWS | 01/08/2015

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