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71 tenured faculty present divestment petition to Eisgruber '83

71 tenured faculty present divestment petition to Eisgruber '83

Katherine Oh

A group of faculty members presented a petition on Wednesday to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 advocating for divestment from companies that “contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the continued siege of Gaza.” The five professors who drafted and presented the petition were Molly Greene, Michael Laffan, Gyan Prakash, Cyrus Schayegh and Max Weiss.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

News & Notes: Gunman at Florida State University injures 3

Daily Princetonian Staff

Three Florida State University students were injured as a gunman opened fire in a campus library on Thursday, according to FS View & Florida Flambeau, the university's student newspaper. The gunman, identified by authorities as Florida State alumnus Myron May, was killed by Florida State University Police Department officers after firing shots at the officers, according to CNN. Two of the victims were brought to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, one of whom remains in critical condition and the other is in good condition.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Princeton has been subject of 12 Title IX complaints since 2009

Zaynab Zaman

Twelve Title IX complaints against the University were reviewed and closed by the Department of Education'sOffice of Civil Rights between Dec.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Justice Kagan ’81 discusses legal analysis, Court's perception

Justice Kagan ’81 discusses legal analysis, Court's perception

Jacqueline Gufford

One of the most difficult aspects of being a judge is understanding the role and limits of a justice’s position, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan ’81 argued in a discussion on her experiences and judicial views moderated by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on Thursday. Kagan, nominated and appointed to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University, an M.Phil.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Students revive SpeakOut group to promote discussion on sexual assault

Durva Trivedi

A student group that had gone inactive for the past few years is being revitalized by students who feel that campus lacks a group separate from the administration to discuss and activism regarding sexual assault,SpeakOut president Eliza Mott ’16 said. SpeakOut was created in 2006 in response to some highly publicized cases ofsexual assault related to Tiger Inn but has remained inactive for a number of years.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

Wawa, ‘eternal’ Princeton fixture, gives new store a modern look

Wawa, ‘eternal’ Princeton fixture, gives new store a modern look

Shriya Sekhsaria

The new 7,500-square foot Wawa is set to open its doors on Friday at 8 a.m.. Except for the class banners that used to line the store's walls, the new locale retains most of the features of the old one, along with 14 newly hired employees and added features like modern restrooms and new equipment. The new Wawa, located near the new Princeton Station at 152 Alexander St.

NEWS | 11/20/2014

N&N: Rush Holt to serve as CEO of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Congressman and former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Rush Holt will serve as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science after his retirement from the House of Representatives, according to the AAAS’s press release on Tuesday. Holt will assume his new post in February. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

Referendum on mental health policy to be a part of USG elections

Grant Golub

A referendum to gain student support for greater transparency in mental health withdrawal and readmission policies will be on the ballot for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government elections. A referendum is a vote sent out to the student body to gauge its support for a particular USG project.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

Two of four races contested in USG committee chair elections

Jessica Li

Two of the four races for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government committee chairs election are contested. There are two candidates for Social Committee chair, two for University Student Life Committee chair and one candidate for Academics Committee chair.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

News & Notes: Marijuana smoke sets off 2 a.m. fire alarm in Forbes

Daily Princetonian Staff

A fire alarm went off in Forbes College on Wednesday morning at 1:50 a.m. triggered by marijuana smoke, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

Princeton exempt from N.J. bill that seeks to ban compulsory meal plans in colleges

Charles Kyungchan Min

The University was the only school exempt from a state legislative bill that seeks to ban all public and private New Jersey colleges and universities from forcing students to purchase meal plans. Assembly Bill No.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

Students to vote on re-establishment of campus pub

Katherine Oh

In addition to voting for senators and executive positions in the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government election, students will also be able to vote on a referendum question regarding the re-establishment of a campus pub. A referendum is a vote sent out to the student body to gauge their support for a particular policy or project.

NEWS | 11/19/2014

Tiger Inn graduate board chair condemns club culture in email to membership

Tiger Inn graduate board chair condemns club culture in email to membership

Daily Princetonian Staff

Tiger Inn’s graduate board president Hap Cooper ’82 condemned recent events at the eating club in an email to the club’s membership on Nov.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

USG hosts debates between presidential, vice presidential candidates

Aana Bansal

The three Undergraduate Student Government presidential candidates and two vice presidential candidates debated policy, programming and waffle fries at the elections debate on Tuesday night in the Whig Hall senate chamber. Speaking to about 25 audience members, USG presidential candidates Ella Cheng '16, William Gansa '17 and Molly Stoneman '16 presented opposing opinions on the role of USG in student life and emphasized different issues they plan to address if awarded the presidency. Stoneman is the current USG vice president, while Cheng is the Student Life Committee Chair.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

News & Notes: O'Shea '16 fails to advance Jeopardy semifinals

Pooja Patel

Terry O’Shea '16 was not able to advance from thesemifinals of “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions” and closed out with a second-place finish. “It’s been a dream.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

USG begins project to bring more outdoor lighting on campus

Ruby Shao

The Undergraduate Student Government is undertaking a project to introduce more outdoor lighting on campus. According to Ella Cheng '16, the chair of the University Student Life Committee, the idea began with her predecessor Greg Smith '15, who met with the Department of Public Safety to discuss walking through dark areas on campus together last winter. After receiving feedback about certain students not feeling completely safe on campus at night, Cheng said that she decided to tackle the issue. "I thought about the best ways to address it, and then I figured that actually taking administrators on a walk through campus would be the best way to illustrate to them where the need is on campus," Cheng said.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

U. research group creates first LED 3D printer

Olivia Wicki

After more than two years and an estimated $20,000, a research group in the mechanical engineering department has created the first 3D printer capable of printing LED lights. The venture was led by researcher Yong Lin Kong and Ian Tamargo ’14, and was sponsored by the Air Force of Scientific Research and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. The research group McAlpine, led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael McAlpine,made a breakthroughmore than a year ago after it successfully printed 3D bionic ears, devices that can hear sound frequencies beyond the capacity of a human ear, out of bovine cells. According to the team's website, the 10-person group explores “interweaving biology and nanomaterials” that “could enable the creation of bionic devices, possessing unique geometric, properties and functionalities for a variety of fundamental and applied research directions”. With this new 3D printing technology, the lab has shown the capability of printing “emissive semi-conducting inorganic nanoparticles, elastomeric matrix, organic polymers as charge transport laters, solid and liquid metal leads and a UV-adhesive transparent substrate layer cube of encapsulated LEDs," according to their report. “What we have presented here is an additional method to integrate electronics that can take into consideration the three-dimensional geometry of an object," Kong explained. He added that previously only simple mechanical structures were able to be printed using 3D technology and that McAlpine has presented the first example of the printing of a fully functional electronic device.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

Princeton Battlefield Society opposes once again Institute for Advanced Study housing plan

Warren Crandall

The Institute for Advanced Study’s plan to build new faculty housing will face a legal challenge from the Princeton Battlefield Society despite the Princeton Planning Board’s recent 6-0 vote to approve the plan. The planning board’s vote of approval allows IAS to use a special type of zoning for its housing development, meaning that the development will avoid a stream corridor governed by the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

Former Princeton roommate involved in super PAC supporting Cruz '92

Jacqueline Gufford

A new super PAC called “Stand For Principle” was formed three days after the midterm elections to support a potential presidential bid by Sen.

NEWS | 11/18/2014

News & Notes: Lawsuit alleges race-based discrimination in Harvard admissions

Grant Golub

The legal group Project on Fair Representation announced a lawsuit on Monday against Harvard for “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies” in its admissions decisions, according to The Harvard Crimson. “Harvard’s undergraduate admissions policies and procedures have injured and continue to injure Plaintiff’s members by intentionally and improperly discriminating against them on the basis of their race and ethnicity in violation of Title VI,” according to a copy of the filed complaint obtained by The Crimson. The plaintiff in the case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc., is a newly formed nonprofit law group that includes groups of students and parents who wish to change the use of race in Harvard's admissions policies and proposes an injunction against policies the group says are discriminatory. In November 2006, Jian Li, a Chinese-American student, filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights against Princeton alleging he had been rejected from the University because of his race, despite scoring a perfect score on the SAT and a number of AP tests.

NEWS | 11/17/2014

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