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USG debates 'invisible primaries' that lead to unopposed elections

USG debates 'invisible primaries' that lead to unopposed elections

The USG discussed the high number of unopposed races in the recent elections at the Senate meeting last night. Senior USG members had previously suggested that the prevalence of unopposed races indicated the USG’s failure to adequately publicize the elections.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Kuhn ’13, Pasricha ’13 win Princeton Pitch; team of three freshmen wins social entrepreneurship category

The developers of "11th Hour Tutors," an online service that would pair students in need of immediate problem set assistance with graduate students capable of helping them, won $1,000 Friday night at the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s annual Princeton Pitch event.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

News & Notes: After Harvard cheating scandal, Yale discourages take-home exams

Following the news that 125 Harvard students unfairly collaborated on a take-home exam, Yale College Dean Mary Miller '75 recommended to Yale faculty that they not distribute take-home exams during this semester’s finals period, according to the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Watching from the skies of Princeton

When Ted Price ’10 was flying back from a trip to the Hamptons to attend Reunions in June 2010, just before his graduation, he encountered a huge storm.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Internationalizing Princeton

Over fall break, University President Shirley Tilghman and four other administrators traveled to South America and formally signed a strategic partnership with the University of Sao Paulo. And by the end of this academic year, the University will have concluded three strategic partnerships — the other two with Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Tokyo — and intends to pursue at least a few more.

NEWS | 12/01/2012

Community criticizes U. plan for new art complex

The University’s plan to build a new complex of arts buildings came under fire at a meeting of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday evening as opponents of the plan spent two hours under oath criticizing the University’s plan to move the Dinky station.

NEWS | 11/29/2012

Times' Steinberg, Rapelye talk admissions reforms

Summer experience is a “wildly overrated” portion of college applications, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said at a talk Thursday night with Jacques Steinberg, editor of The New York Times blog “The Choice,” which focuses on college admission.

NEWS | 11/29/2012

Presidential transition may be stable as no top administrators plan exit

While University President Shirley Tilghman plans to step down from her post in Nassau Hall this June and eventually rejoin the faculty, none of her fellow top-level administrators are planning to step down from their posts alongside her, according to interviews with them this week.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

With Dartmouth announcement, Princeton stands alone in Ivy presidential search

Princeton is now the only Ivy League school still searching for a new university president following Dartmouth’s announcement Thursday that Philip Hanlon, a top administrator at the University of Michigan, would be the school’s 18th president. Dartmouth’s announcement is just three weeks after Yale named its current provost, Peter Salovey, as its next leader.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

News & Notes: Harvard early applications jump by 15 percent

Harvard received 4,856 applications to its single-choice early action program, a 15 percent increase over the last year, when it first reinstated an early admission option.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

Former head of World Bank encourages Wilson School students to look beyond data

Robert Zoellick, who was president of the World Bank during the global financial crisis and held that position until this past June, challenged public policy students not to simply analyze a problem but to actually solve it in a lecture hosted by the Wilson School on Thursday.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

Q-and-A: Steinberg praises Princeton financial aid

Though Jacques Steinberg said he is not an expert on the Princeton admission process, the prominent New York Times reporter who runs ‘The Choice’ blog certainly knows the field of higher education. Before his lecture Thursday afternoon at an event hosted by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Steinberg sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss trends in the college admission process.

NEWS | 11/28/2012

Search committee hears student concerns at focus groups

The presidential search committee solicited feedback from students in eight focus groups over the past two evenings, in hopes of getting direct feedback on what the student body wants from their new University president.

NEWS | 11/27/2012

News & Notes: Felten says Facebook copyright meme is “not entirely silly”

According to Ed Felten, a renowned expert on computer security and a Wilson School and computer science professor, the copyright meme circulating on Facebook walls which has been discredited by many commentators is “not entirely silly.”

NEWS | 11/27/2012

U. to charge co-ops new $50 fee per member beginning next semester

All co-op members will be charged a $50 fee paid to the University beginning next semester, a result of a recommendation made by the University’s Priorities Committee, which crafts the University’s budget, and approved by the University’s Board of Trustees in January. Administrators said the increase in fees will help pay for the services the University provides the co-ops, but co-op leaders countered that they had not been consulted before the decision was made.

NEWS | 11/27/2012

Cyclab closes as it breaks from U-Bikes, administration

The Cyclab student co-op, which repaired bicycles for free, has closed down this fall after a divorce from its former partner organization, U-Bikes. It had been operating for six years.

NEWS | 11/27/2012

How could Fisher case impact schools like Princeton? General Counsels offer answers

At a gathering of legal experts Tuesday in which panel participants discussed the recent Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, one audience member asked a question: “Is race-based affirmative action dead?”

NEWS | 11/27/2012

End in sight for Transition Task Force

At one of its last meetings before Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consolidate, the Transition Task Force discussed a forthcoming report to be produced by Wilson School graduate students on the consolidation process.

NEWS | 11/27/2012

Staff members may take paid leave to assist in Hurricane Sandy relief

The University will allow staff members to apply for up to five days of paid leave to volunteer with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University implemented a similar policy.

NEWS | 11/26/2012

News & Notes: Princeton did not offer faculty position to Petraeus GS ’87

Princeton is not one of the four universities that have offered former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87 a position on its faculty, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Tuesday. Last week, The New York Times reported that he had offers from four schools, though it did not name the schools.

NEWS | 11/26/2012

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