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U. files motion opposing anonymity in suit challenging mental health policies

U. files motion opposing anonymity in suit challenging mental health policies

Chitra Marti

The University has filed an opposition to the plaintiff’s motion to proceed anonymously in the mental health lawsuit filed last March. The plaintiff, a student who currently uses the pseudonym W.P.

NEWS | 11/04/2014

USG launches Princeton Perspective Project

USG launches Princeton Perspective Project

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Tammy Tseng

The Undergraduate Student Government recently launched the Princeton Perspective Project, an initiative that challenges the culture of “effortless perfection” on campus by sharing student stories and opening up new dialogues, according to a USG email sent to the student body.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

News & Notes: Janet Ready named president of UMCPP

Daily Princetonian Staff

Janet Ready began her role as president of the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Oct.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

News & Notes: Yale Sexual Harassment Case

Corinne Lowe

Yale has been accused of being insensitive to instances of harassment against women after facts about a sexual harassment case that has been unfolding for the past five years in the Yale School of Medicine came to light, according The New York Times. Former cardiology chief Dr. Michael Simons allegedly professed his love to a young Italian researcher, Dr. Annarita Di Lorenzo, 18 years younger than him and attempted to interfere with her relationship with another cardiologist under his supervision, Dr. Frank Giordano. The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct then found Simons guilty of sexual harassment and compromised decision-making regarding Giordano. The committee called for him to be permanently removed from his position and for a five-year ban from all high administrative positions to be implemented, but instead the provost reduced this penalty to an 18-month suspension. The New York Times interviewed 18 faculty members angered by the handling of the case and the public’s lack of awareness about the issue.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

Eisgruber ’83 discusses expansion of student body, new train station with town council

Eisgruber ’83 discusses expansion of student body, new train station with town council

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 discussed various issues, including plans to expand the undergraduate student body, the University’s recently modified sexual assault policy and the relocation of the University's Dinky station during his second annual meeting with town mayor Liz Lempert and other town council representatives on Monday night. Eisgruber said the University is currently engaged in strategic planning and campus planning processes to possibly expand the University’s undergraduate student body due to its historically low acceptance rate and natural growth imperatives, such as the increasing popularity of computer science. He added that expanding the student body would allow the University to improve opportunities for students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. “We have to be engaged in conversation as we move forward,” Eisgruber said of the expansion’s impact on the town.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

Number of faculty at all-time high; women and minorities increase slightly

Shriya Sekhsaria

The total number of faculty members climbed to an all-time high of 1,175 this year compared to 1,052 a decade ago. On Oct.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

New Dinky train station to open in two weeks

New Dinky train station to open in two weeks

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The newly constructed Dinky train station running between Princeton and Princeton Junction will begin operating 460 feet south of its original location on Nov.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

Toni Morrison papers to reside in Firestone Library

Toni Morrison papers to reside in Firestone Library

Annie Yang

The papers of Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who is also a former creative writing professor at the University, will now be housed permanently in Firestone Library. The papers, which document decades of her work, will be permanently stored in Firestone in climate-controlled units as part of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department.An exhibit of a few of Morrison’s papers will be available for public viewing in the Main Gallery of Firestone from Oct.

NEWS | 11/03/2014

FDA licenses first meningitis B vaccine

Lorenzo Quiogue

The Food and Drug Administration approved Trumenba, a vaccine against meningitis type B, for active immunization in 10- to 25-year-olds on Tuesday, according to a press release by Pfizer, the manufacturer of the vaccine. This is the first vaccine against this strand of bacterial meningitis approved in the United States.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

USG, Garden Theatre discuss earlier showings for USG-sponsored movies

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government has approached the Garden Theatre to try to schedule earlier screenings of their sponsored movie nights, according to USG movies committee chairJack Mazzulo '16. The initiative, however, has been met with some resistance on the part of the newadministration of the movie theater, which started its duties this summer.According to Mazzulo, students have told him that the regular 11:45 p.m.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

News & Notes: Christie belligerent with heckler at press conference

Daily Princetonian Staff

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received national attention for responding to a heckler at a press conference on Oct.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Helen Joynes, bus operator and honorary member of the Class of 2013, dies

Helen receives her honorary Class of 2013 degree

Helen Joynes, bus operator and honorary member of the Class of 2013, dies

Linda Song

Helen A. Joynes, a bus operator with First Transit, the service provider of the University’s TigerTransit bus system, died on Oct.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Midterm elections accompanied by vote on bail requirement

Jacqueline Gufford

In addition to casting votes for congressional candidates in the midterm elections on Tuesday, New Jersey voters will be confronted with a public question to amend the state constitution’s bail requirement. The ballot question specifically asks voters whether they approve of a measure that would allow courts to order the pre-trial detention of defendants. This addresses the implementation of a bail reform measure,an act passed by the state legislature and signed into law by New Jersey Gov.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Amid protests, Dalai Lama maintains jovial atmosphere

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Amid protests, Dalai Lama maintains jovial atmosphere

Chitra Marti

The Dalai Lama spoke about compassion, forgiveness and the oneness of humanity, and even told a few jokes at a lecture co-sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and The Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation in Jadwin Gymnasium on Tuesday morning, as protests over allegations of discrimination against small Buddhist sects took place outside. Around two hundred members of a group known as the International Shugden Community held a demonstration to the east of Jadwin.

NEWS | 10/28/2014

Tenured professorships in decline nationwide, U. defies trend

Ruby Shao

Tenure is declining in higher education across the country: while over 78.3 percent of faculty held tenure-track or tenured positions nationally in 1969, only 33.5 percent did so by 2009, according to a reportpublished by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. The University, however, is not following the national trend.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

News & Note: Rutgers School of Law report claims Hurricane Sandy voting measures illegal

Daily Princetonian Staff

A report released on Thursday by the Rutgers School of Law-Newark concluded the stop-gap measures intended to allow people to vote in the days after Hurricane Sandy violated state law, according to NJ Advance Media. Those measures included allowing people to cast ballots by email and led to mass confusion, according to the report. “Emergency measures such as Internet and fax voting not only violated New Jersey law, but also left votes vulnerable to online hacking,” the report said.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

News & Notes: In ongoing case of academic fraud, UNC Chapel Hill administrators fired

Daily Princetonian Staff

Two administrators perpetuated widespread academic fraud at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill within an academic department consisting of various athletic teams, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report details how students –many of them athletes –in the University’s African and Afro-American studies department were able to take no-show courses and earn passing grades for doing little to no work, ensuring their eligibility to compete. UNC Chapel Hill hired former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, now a partner at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, to investigate the matter. The two administrators in question, former department chairman Julius Nyang’oro and retired administrator Deborah Crowder, decided to cooperate with Wainstein to produce the most detailed examination yet after criminal charges were dropped against them earlier this year. So far, nine employees have been dismissed or disciplined in connection to the investigation, which started years ago.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Group to protest Dalai Lama talk at Princeton next week

Zaynab Zaman

More than 100 members of the International Shugden Community will be protesting at the Dalai Lama’s public speech on Oct.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Amid suit over tax status and patents, U. lobbies in D.C. over same issues

Jacob Donnelly

The University has been lobbying the federal government on intellectual property policy and tax legislation for the end of 2013 and all of 2014 so far, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed with the U.S.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Whig-Clio changes break trip name after Pace Center voices concerns

Jessica Li

The Pace Center for Civic Engagement has recently raised concerns about the use of the word “Breakout” by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

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