The Arabic Twittersphere shows deep-seeded opposition to outsiders' intervention in the Middle East, professors Amaney Jamal, Robert Keohane and Dustin Tingley and Ph.D.
When it comes to preparing course packets for their courses, professors generally have two options: ask the University library to upload electronic course reserves or prepare a hard-copy packet printed by Pequod Communications. But it is the Pequod, which is expensed to the student, which carries controversy.
Members of the Undergraduate Student Government discussed strategies for publicizing the upcoming November student government elections at its weekly Senate meetingon Sundayevening. Voter turnout for the Freshman Class Council elections was high with 719 freshmen casting votes, more than 50 percent of the Class of 2018, elections manager Amara Nnaeto ’17 said.
The Princeton Planning Board decided to forward a historic preservation ordinance to the mayor and council for further review on Thursday night.
Lauren Bush Lauren ’06 encouraged around 450 members of the Class of 2015 to become conscious consumers and maintain a fresh perspective on the world at a class dinner held on Sunday. “You all have so many fresh ideas that are untainted by the status quo and I would encourage you to go out into the world,” Lauren said.
Following the initial case of bedbugs in a room in Forbes College on Sept.
The University is currently in the process of searching to hire a Title IX administrator following pressure from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the summer. A hire is expected to be announced by the middle of November. The position will primarily revolve around managing the University’s compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Act.
Nonviolence, open dialogue and compromise are the way to freedom for the Palestinian nation, Ali Abu Awwad, a Palestinian nonviolent peace activist in the West Bank, said in a lecture Sunday. The lecture was cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Life, the Muslim Student Association, Tigers for Israel, J Street U and the Princeton Committee on Palestine. Maya Rosen ’17 and Joshua Leifer ’17 helped bring Awwad to the University through personal connections.
Freshmen Chance Fletcher, Christopher Hsu, Brandon McGhee, Jenny Zhang and Rachel Yeehave been elected to the class council for the Class of 2018, according to an emailsent by Undergraduate Student Government president Shawon Jackson ’15 to the freshman class on Friday night. USG elections manager Amara Nnaeto ’17 said that Fletcher received 289 votes,McGhee received 208 votes, Yee received 195 votes, Hsu received 190 votes andZhang received 164 votes.
The Class of 2018 has elected five members to its class council, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announced in an email to the student body on Friday night.
The doors of Robertson Hall, home of the Wilson School, will be locked two hours earlier every night due to an incident reported late Tuesday, according to an email sent to all Wilson School students. According to the email, a Wilson School graduate student entered Robertson Hall at 10:30 p.m and noticed a suspicious man in the main lobby.
The town of Princeton has been designated an “age friendly community” by the World Health Organization, according to an announcement made at the Princeton Senior Resource Center fall gala. The designation was awarded by the WHO in July, making the town the first community in New Jersey to be awarded the designation.
Alex Pimentel ’14 was hit by a car on Sept. 26 while walking in New York City. According to an email sent out on the listserv for Princeton Triangle Club, for which Alex Pimentel served as sound designer while at the University, he is badly hurt, but is stable and recovering in the hospital where he is expected to remain for no more than a few more days. He is anticipated to be on bed rest for the next few weeks. The Triangle Club reports that Pimentel is not permitted to talk on the phone, but the club is rallying to send him care packages and cards. There has also been a fund set up for him on YouCaring, a funding website.
Tensions between the University administration and some members of the graduate student body arose after the University announced a delay in the opening of the Lakeside Graduate Housing, a housing development being built near Lake Carnegie. According to John Ziegler, the director of real estate development.
The Undergraduate Student Government team coordinating the publication of the Committee on Background and Opportunity IVreports has experienced further obstacles in its work with data analysis, according to USG president Shawon Jackson ’15. The release date was set for April as of the last update, but has been postponed indefinitely until the data analysis has been corroborated with campus administrators, and a policy recommendation has been worked out by U-Councilor and COMBO IV project leader Jameil Brown ’16.
Many students at the University casually remark about how enmeshed they are in the Orange Bubble, perhaps best described as a metaphor for the preeminent role the University campus plays in their lives.
A student originally in the Class of 2014 launched Seniors and Youth, a cross-generational Korean language program and nonprofit project that pairs a University student who studies Korean with a retired senior citizen in Yongsan Senior Welfare Center in South Korea for weekly 15-minute Skype conversations.
Citizens of the 12thcongressional district of New Jersey will elect two new representatives in the upcoming midterm elections, with Democratic candidate and Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman vying against Republican candidate Dr. Alieta Eck for the congressional seat, while Democratic candidate and incumbent Senator Cory Booker and Republican candidate Jeff Bell face off for the U.S.
Decreases in the number of sexual assaults reported on campus and increases in burglaries might be attributed to changes in the way these statistics are reported, University officials said on Wednesday in response to the University's Annual Security & Fire Report, which was released Tuesday. This year, the most significant change was made to the reporting of sex offenses.
The University has been ranked fourth in finance, fourth in software developers at startups and fifth in software development by LinkedIn University Rankings, which ranks universities in various professional fields based on the level of career success attained by alumni of those universities. The University was topped in the finance rankings by the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Georgetown University, in the software developers list by Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the software developers at startups list by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University.
