Dean of the Graduate School William Russel announced Wednesday he will step down at the end of this academic year.
Whites are overrepresented among the University’s graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and senior administrators, according to 2012 data published Thursday by the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity formed in January of 2012.The report states the committee found that progress in the University’s efforts to increase diversity since 1980 has been “uneven,” and, in the case of black and Hispanic populations, “disturbingly slow.”Data also shows that men are greatly overrepresented among faculty and graduate student populations.The report recommends that academic departments take steps to increase diversity.“We analyzed a whole lot of data and basically found that the University’s progress on issues of diversity has been very uneven,” Deborah Prentice, co-chair of the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and a professor of psychology and public affairs, said.
University students who go by a first name other than their legal one will now have the option to change their name in the student directory, University Registrar Polly Griffin announced in an email sent to the student body last week. Under this new “preferred name policy,” the email explained, students may designate their “preferred” name in the directory through SCORE. “As long as the use of this preferred name is not for the purposes of misrepresentation, the University acknowledges that a ‘preferred name’ can and should be used where possible in the course of University business and education,” Griffin stated in the email, adding, “We know that this feature is important to many students, and we are pleased to be able to offer this option.” Griffin deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who explained that the administration had been discussing this policy change over the past several months after receiving numerous requests from students who prefer a name other than their formal one.
State senator Barbara Buono, who represents New Jersey's 18th Legislative District, is the Democratic candidate for governor.
Those who arrived on campus by train in recent weeks were dropped off at the new temporary Dinky station, located 1,200 feet south of the old station’s location and over 700 feet south of its future location. The station’s relocation is currently being challenged by six different pending lawsuits, each of which takes issue with different aspects of the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood construction project that prompted the station’s relocation, as well as with different aspects of the project’s current execution. The construction currently revamping the Alexander corridor is part of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, a $330 million development that will include several rehearsal and performance spaces dedicated to arts education on campus.
The Student Health Advisory Board has started a new initiative to combat bacterial meningitis by distributing reusable drinking cups to the student body in order to help avoid the spread of germs. The red cups say “Mine.
The original manuscript of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, “This Side of Paradise,” has been digitized and made publicly accessible online, the Princeton University Library announced today.
Members of the Class of 2017 were unable to log in to the Mac operating system on computer clusters across campus on Wednesday due to a configuration change in the University’s Mac operating system.The University’s Office of Information Technology became aware of the issue on Tuesday night shortly after 9:30 p.m., according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.
Carl Icahn '57 announced Thursday that he will not take further action to prevent an impeding buyout of technological giant Dell, of which he is a shareholder, The Wall Street Journal reported. In a letter directed to the company's shareholders, Icahn wrote that it would be“almost impossible to win the battle” after the group promoting the buyout, which includes Dell CEO Michael Dell, upped its offer for the company to $24.8 billion. However, the revised offer will mean that Icahn will receive about $70 million from the sale, according to the newspaper. "No one will deny that shareholders would have gotten a lot less if I hadn’t shown up and done what the board should have been doing," Icahn said.
Students returning to Nassau Street this fall were greeted by a few new eateries and another old favorite in disguise. Newcomers to Nassau include small-plates restaurant Mistral, from Elements chef Scott Anderson, which opened across from the Princeton Public Library, as well as the tapas restaurant Despana, which opened on Nassau Street in June in the space formerly occupied by Palace of India. A Princeton outpost of downtown NYC'sMamoun’s Falafel will open at 20 Witherspoon Street in the fall.In a reversal of the New-York-to-Princeton expansion, the Manhattan location of House of Cupcakes closed this summer, after just two months in operation. In late July, the owners of Twist Yogurt changed the name of their business to “Sketch," a move intended to distinguish the branch from others that shared its former title. Despana general manager Michael Dokovna said the restaurant has seen a large University clientele, including students as well as faculty and staff. House of Cupcakes owner Ron Bzdewka said that the East Village location was a temporary deal, a test run to see how House of Cupcakes could do in New York. “It was just a very touristy area that didn’t really fit our model that we’re expanding to now,” Bzdewka said.
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An enrolled undergraduate student was arrested Sunday night by the University’s own Department of Public Safety after he was allegedly found in possession of illegal drugs in a room in Holder Hall.Public Safety has rarely arrested students for drug possession or any other offense, instead issuing what the University calls a judicial referral.Joseph Gauvreau ’17 was charged with drug possession after Public Safety received “information about possible drugs in a room,” according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.Mbugua explained that Gauvreau consented to the search of his room.“The officers found a plastic bag containing a drug,” Mbugua said, although he noted he could not specify the type of drug allegedly found at the moment because it has not yet been tested.
Eliot Spitzer ’81, who left the New York governor’s mansion in disgrace after a prostitution scandal, lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Comptroller of New York City in a tight race against current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
New Jersey and California together contributed to over 27 percent of the total Class of 2017, while four states — Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Iowa — contributed no students.
The American Atheists, a nonprofit atheist advocacy organization, has threatened to sue the town of Princeton if a proposal to erect a memorial featuring a steel beam with a carved cross salvaged from the World Trade Center comes to fruition. Princeton Fire Department Deputy Chief Roy James said he conceived the idea to construct a 9/11 monument in Princeton three years ago after acquiring a piece of wreckage from the attacks.
Prolific filmmaker Woody Allen will be speaking on campus on Oct. 27 in an event hosted by Friends of Princeton University Library.
Princeton topped Harvard on the U.S.
In his first speech as University President, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 briefly acknowledged that dangerous hazing rituals occur on campus while addressing the Class of 2017 at Opening Exercises. Wearing the special black, gold-trimmed gown that the University President wears – this year with 20 bands of gold lacing on its sleeves to signify that he is the 20thUniversity President – Eisgruber’s comment on hazing amidst the pomp and circumstance of Opening Exercises was part of broader remarks on the notion of honor in society. This summer, Eisgruber assigned incoming freshmen to read philosophy professor Kwame Appiah's book, "The Honor Code." Entering students, Eisgruber said, should think closely about the concept of honor and how it relates to their own lives and studies at Princeton. Eisgruber used hazing as the example of an activity that shows how a quest for honor can be destructive.
Hip hop artists T-Pain and Chiddy Bang will perform at this fall's Lawnparties onSept. 15, USG president Shawon Jackson '15 and social committee chair Carla Javier '15 announced in an emailFridaynightto the student body. Javier is also a senior writer for The Daily Princetonian. T-Pain is known for songs "Buy U a Drank," "Bartender" and "Low." He won Grammy Awards in 2008 and 2010 in collaboration with Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, respectively. Chiddy Bang is known for songs "Opposite of Adults," "Mind Your Manners" and "Bad Day."Chiddy Bang was formerly a duo consisting of Noah Beresin and Chidera Anamege, but the former left the group in early 2013. As the main acts of fall Lawnparties, Chiddy Bang and T-Pain will perform at Quadrangle Club.
Robert S. Mueller III ’66 stepped down from his position as FBI director today, leaving the position to former Justice Department official James B.
