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FindA aggregates student and campus information in easy-to-use app

The Daily Princetonian

FindA aggregates student and campus information in easy-to-use app

Chitra Marti

A group of students in COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques have created FindA, an app that enables University students to find, in one central location, five things:the nearest bathroom, the nearest printer, another student’s dorm room, the location and time of a class, and a professor’s office. FindA, listed in Apple’s App Store as Princeton FindA, was made by Curtis Belmonte ’16, Emily Hsu ’16, Lucas Mayer ’16 and Kyle Dhillon ’16.Students must log in through the Centralized Authentication System, the same system used to log into Blackboard or Integrated Course Engine, in order to access the app’s features. The app’s name was one of the first things they decided on, Dhillon noted. “What is our app doing?

NEWS | 09/28/2014

News & Notes: Stratospheric spacecraft project to begin orbit in December

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Stratospheric spacecraft project to begin orbit in December

Jasmine Wang

The University’s stratospheric spacecraft project, SPIDER, is set to begin its 20-day orbit 110,000 feet above ground level in December. The primary SPIDER apparatus is a 10-foot-tall multi-chambered orb, which comes complete with cameras and lenses nearly a foot long each. The spacecraft’s specific mission after launching is to search for gravitation wave patterns produced by the Big Bang that occurred billions of years ago, searching for any proof of remains or traces of the universe in its earliest stages. In mid-October, the SPIDER team of researchers intend to bring all SPIDER apparatus, which was built mostly in Jadwin Hall, to Antarctica to make preparations for the launch date in December. According to physics assistant professor William Jones, the location is particularly convenient with Antarctica’s constant sunlight as an energy source. However, Jones predicts that it is unlikely SPIDER will come back in one piece simply because of the dangerous and long nature of the journey so far up.

NEWS | 09/25/2014

Q&A: William Deresiewicz

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: William Deresiewicz

Do-Hyeong Myeong

William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial column “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League,” argues in his latest book, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” that the current higher education system is facing a crisis.

NEWS | 09/25/2014

Proposal seeks to require RCAs to disclose all reported sexual assaults to U. authorities

The Daily Princetonian

Proposal seeks to require RCAs to disclose all reported sexual assaults to U. authorities

Jacob Donnelly

Starting this academic year and awaiting final approval, residential college advisers will be considered to be students with “special responsibilities” in regard to alleged instances of sexual misconduct, under proposed changes to “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities.”The proposed changes were approved by the faculty on Sept.

NEWS | 09/25/2014

Annual Giving Campaign raises record amount

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Annual Giving Campaign raises record amount

Sarah Kim

The University’s latest Annual Giving campaign raised a record-breaking total of$58,748,900, with an also record-breaking participation rate of 61.4 percent for undergraduate alumni. The previous record was $57,246,302 from two years ago, and the previous record for participation was 61.3 percent from 2010-11. Graduate alumniparticipation was 13.7 percent. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said the combination of three factors —quality of the education provided by the University, character of and intense loyalty to the community, andlasting reminder of how much alumni owed to the people that came before them —makes the campaign successful year after year. “Annual Giving is something that affects the lives of every faculty member and everystudent on this campus,” Eisgruber explained.

NEWS | 09/25/2014
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Student group creates first intercollegiate undergraduate journal of Asian-American studies

The Daily Princetonian

Student group creates first intercollegiate undergraduate journal of Asian-American studies

Ruby Shao

The Asian American Students Association is creating the first intercollegiateundergraduate journal of Asian-American studies, “Unfound.” The publicationis sponsored by the Program in American Studies andthe Fields Center. According to the website, the journal’s title reflects its mission to explore what hasremained unfound for Asian-Americans, who are caught between two identities.AASA co-president Evan Kratzer ’16, one of the editors in chief, said that members ofAASA’s Asian American Studies Committee drew inspiration for “Unfound” from theeffectiveness of the Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies, which is supported by the East Asian Studies Program. After realizing that an analogous journal for Asian-American studies did not exist in theUnited States, Kratzer said that AASA members sought to help build a community of peoplewho are interested in Asian-American studies. “In the past, the Journal of East Asian Studies had gotten Asian-American studies-specific articles, and they thought it wasn’t relevant because it’s not East Asian Studies.That’s completely true,” he said.

NEWS | 09/25/2014

Twitter founder says consumers want transparency, social responsibility from big businesses

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Twitter founder says consumers want transparency, social responsibility from big businesses

Lorenzo Quiogue

Consumers and employees are demanding more transparency and social responsibility from big corporations, said Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Square and co-founder of Twitter, at a discussion on Wednesday. Dorsey spoke as part of a panel entitled “Be the Change: Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy.” Besides Dorsey, the panelists were Deb Dugan, CEO of (RED), and Chris Kuenne ’85, a Keller Center professor and the CEO of Rosemark Capital Group. Dorsey explained there is now a need for companies to be mindful of everything going on in the community. “We have to focus on our element of the equation, but we can’t end the sentence there,” he explained.

NEWS | 09/24/2014

Unemployment rate accuracy impacted by rotation group bias, paper says

The Daily Princetonian

Unemployment rate accuracy impacted by rotation group bias, paper says

Jacqueline Gufford

The statistical accuracy of the official unemployment rate is questionable, concludes a working paper recently published in the National Bureau of Economic Research by Alan Kreuger, Wilson School professor and former chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. He conducted the research with coauthors Alexandre Mas, professor of economics, and Xiaotong Niu,analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Methodology used by the U.S.

NEWS | 09/24/2014

Harvard endowment grows to $36.4 billion

The Daily Princetonian

Harvard endowment grows to $36.4 billion

Daily Princetonian Staff

Harvard’s endowment grew to $36.4 billion in the 2014 fiscal year with a return of 15.4 percent, the Harvard Crimson reported. This endowment is just below the institution’s peak in endowment in June 2008 before it lost nearly $11 billion in the global financial crisis. Harvard’s return for the 2014 fiscal year is higher than the return of 11.3 percent it got during the 2013 fiscal year. The 2014 fiscal year marked the fifth consecutive year in which Harvard exceeded the benchmark it created for itself.

NEWS | 09/23/2014

President of European Council advocates for coordination, solidarity in EU

The Daily Princetonian

President of European Council advocates for coordination, solidarity in EU

Paul Phillips

Europe faces the dual challenge of remaining credible while ensuring its own stability, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said at a panel discussion Tuesday. The panel, in addition to Van Rompuy, consisted of Renée Haferkamp, former director general of the European Commission; Peter Hall, a professor of European studies at Harvard; and Andrew Moravcsik, director of the European Union Program at the University. Van Rompuy advocated for more coordination and solidarity between the various constituent members of the European Union while maintaining that each country is ultimately responsible for its own well-being. When asked if the European Union countries which are better off should make fiscal transfers to weaker countries, Van Rompuysaid that they should.

NEWS | 09/23/2014

In literary endeavors, Princeton's Office of Communications plays little-known role

The Daily Princetonian

In literary endeavors, Princeton's Office of Communications plays little-known role

Sharon Deng

When David Pupa wanted to write a fictional book whose main character attends the University, he was told that he would have to gain official approval before it could be published. In order to get the approval, Pupa submitted a rough draft of his manuscript and was granted preliminary approval two weeks later.

NEWS | 09/23/2014

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