Career Services launched an alternative career fair called the HireTigers Meetup onFriday.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate announced its budget and goals for the year in Sunday afternoon’s senate meeting immediately following the town hall meeting on sexual assault policy. The meeting was not held at its usual time or location and the change was not communicated to the student body, which funds the USG, nor to The Daily Princetonian.
A student at Georgetown Universitydied last week from meningitis type B. The student,Andrea Jaime, was a sophomore. The specific strain of meningitis found at Georgetown, serogroup B, was the same type found at Princeton, Drexel University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The case at Drexel also proved fatal, when Stephanie Ross died from the disease in March. An initial email sent out to the Georgetown community denied the cause of Jaime’s death as bacterial meningitis.
The University first moved to enact changes “quickly but without haste” to its sexual misconduct policy in late July when it was informed by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that it was out of compliance with Title IX, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & DiversityMichele Minter said at an Undergraduate Student Government town hall meeting on Sunday. The changes — enacted unanimouslyon Sept.
Cannon Dial Elm Club took nine of 17 bickerees this fall for an acceptance rate of 52.9 percent, according to sources within the club. This figure is comparable to last year’s, when 18 of 32 students, or 56.3 percent, were accepted. Cannon was the only club to hold fall Bicker last weekend.
Three years sincefreshmen were banned from rushing, 283 students participated in sorority rush activities last week, and about 170 students ended up joining a sorority. This year's recruitment process had the highest number of participants in recent years. Before the rush ban, an average of around 200 students had been rushing the sororities, with 206 students rushing in 2011, and 210 students rushing in 2010.
Although the year 1964 and the revival of religious fundamentalism in the 1970s and 1980s were important for the melding of religion and politics in Kansas and Texas, one must not ignore underlying factors and events that took place before then, sociology professor Robert Wuthnow, known for his work on the sociology of religion, argued in a lecture on Thursday. Wuthnow began his lecture by explaining why he was focusing on those two states in particular, saying that although both states are now known as religious and Republican, and both voted for Romney in 2012, Kansas is much smaller and has a history of voting Republican, while Texas began as a slave state and formerly voted Democrat. Wuthnow noted that despite the complex interrelationship between church and state in the politics of Kansas and Texas, both states have a strong tradition of freedom of religion, as well as of separation between church and state.
The percentage of Pell Grant recipients on campus is steadily rising, according to Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Robin Moscato.
Plans for the construction of a campus pub are on hiatus due to difficulties in finding an appropriate location, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 said. The campus pub had been located in the Chancellor Green Cafe until 1982, and the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life recommended the reinstatement of the campus pub in May 2011.
After seeing a significant increase in the use of study halls for classes such as economics, math, chemistry and physics, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning has designed a new tutoring system in order to meet the capacity of students who want help, and plans to implement these changes within the next two weeks, Director of the McGraw Center and Associate Dean of the College Lisa Herschbach explained. The McGraw Center will hold peer tutoring from7 p.m.
Expected revisions to the Medical College Admission Test have caused some premedical students to take the test at a different time and may have effects on the preparatory courses and classes premedical students choose to enroll in. The MCAT is the standard examination for prospective medical students in Canada and the United States.
Wesley Gugliuzza, 28, was arrested Thursday for the robbery that occurred on Monday at a Princeton branch of TD Bank. Gugliuzza was captured and arrested by the Princeton Police Department in Old Bridge, according to a press release.
Attorney Cordaro Rodriguez ’08 finished in fourth place on the ninth season of America’s Got Talent on Wednesday with his musical ensemble, “Sons of Serendip,” featuring three other musicians whom he met “serendipitously” while pursuing a graduate degree at Boston University. The group made it to the final six of 48 competing acts and was chosen from thousands of applications to join the show on live television.
Approximately 70 percent of students change their course of study during their time at the University, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in a recent interview, citing an internal study she had seen. Associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri said she was unable to confirm the accuracy of this number but confirmed she was aware that this study had been conducted.
The White House announced changes in July to the Clery Act under the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 that would require colleges and universities to comply with new campus safety and security requirements designed to curb sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. These changes include requiring colleges to compile statistics for incidents of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, in addition to existing statistics. Colleges will also be required to adopt the FBI’s revised and more inclusive definition of rape, which dispenses with the distinction between the forcible and non-forcible sex offense categories,as well as add gender identity and national origin as categories of bias for hate crimes.
Wesley Gugliuzza, 28, was arrested Thursday for the robbery that occurred on Monday at a Princeton branch of TD Bank. Gugliuzza was captured and arrested by the Princeton Police Department in Old Bridge, according to a press release.
The lack of awareness surrounding the state of nuclear weapons is the biggest nuclear-related threat in the world today, journalist Eric Schlosser ’81 said at a lecture on Wednesday.
Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert broke a tie at last Monday’s council meeting to raise her own and other governing officials’ salaries. The tie was between the faction voting to increase their salaries, consisting of Council President Bernie Miller, Councilwoman Heather Howard and Councilman Lance Liverman on one side, and Councilwomen Jenny Crumiller and Jo Butler and Councilman Patrick Simon on the other. Lempert’s salary increased from $15,000 to $17,500 while Miller’s increased from $7,500 to $12,500, and the rest of the council’s will increase from $7,500 to $10,00. While Crumiller and Simon proposed to put the decision to a public vote and to make the raises effective only to successive councils respectively, both proposals were overridden. Lempert attributed her decision to a desire to end the long debate over salaries and proceed to other issues. Middlesex and Mercer counties have made comparable salary increases according to a memo submitted to the council the following Wednesday.
The TD Bank in Princeton was robbed at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, Planet Princeton reported. An unidentified white male allegedly walked into the bank at the intersection of Cherry Valley Road and Route 206, walked up to a bank teller and silently passed him a note requesting cash and informing the teller that he was armed. After the teller handed him an envelope filled with cash, the robber left on foot.
The significance of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
