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News & Notes: SFER chosen as finalist for White House competition

News & Notes: SFER chosen as finalist for White House competition

Students for Education Reform, an advocacy group which aims to close the achievement gap in American public schools founded by Catharine Bellinger ’12 and Alexis Morin ’12, was named a finalist in the White House’s Campus Champions of Change Challenge, which aims to give student-led organizations the opportunity to demonstrate how their project has helped improve their campus communities and American society.

NEWS | 03/01/2012

U. assesses impacts of new UMCP

The upcoming move of the University Medical Center of Princeton to its new Plainsboro location is presenting logistical challenges to University officials, especially regarding referrals from University Health Services and the administration of rape kits.The new hospital will be located right across the border of Mercer County in Middlesex County, which is under the jurisdiction of a different police department and prosecutor’s office. The University is currently holding discussions with health and law enforcement officials over allowing students to travel to the new hospital location for sexual assault forensic investigations, known as rape kits, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said in an email.

NEWS | 03/01/2012

Virus cases highest at U.

The number of confirmed cases of gastroenteritis on campus over the past month is significantly higher than that at a number of other colleges and universities in the northeast that are also seeing major outbreaks.

NEWS | 03/01/2012

Consolidation task force progresses

Less than nine months before the Borough and Township will formally consolidate, local government officials are clashing over potential staffing reductions and how open transition discussions should be. Meanwhile, the governments have agreed to spend more than $100,000 on consultants to guide the transition.A Transition Task Force of 12 members was created in January, comprised of five voting members and one alternate from each municipality. All 12 members are members of the Democratic Party. Mark Freda, the former director of the Borough’s emergency services, chairs the task force. The TTF’s preliminary review is due April 10.

NEWS | 03/01/2012

Dean of Wilson School named new president of Brown

Brown University announced Friday morning that it had selected Wilson School Dean Christina Paxson as its 19th president. Paxson will take over from current president Ruth Simmons, who announced she would step down as president in September.

NEWS | 03/01/2012

News & Notes: Dean of the Faculty Dobkin celebrates Sweet 16

After celebrating his 16th birthday on Wednesday, Feb. 29, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin can no longer get the youth discount at movie theaters, museums and sporting events.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

Departments discuss staffing changes

The Princeton Transition Task Force considered how the impending consolidation of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township will affect department staffing at its meeting Wednesday night.The merger of the municipalities, approved by Borough voters this past November, will take place at the beginning of next year. Much of the cost savings from consolidation are predicted to come from the merger of the two police departments.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

Math and games

If John Nash GS ’50 is the phantom of Fine Hall, then his colleague John Horton Conway is the building’s resident surrealist.If students were to pass by the windows on the third floor of Fine Hall, they’d find Conway, who spends most of his day in the iconic mathematics building, playing children’s games on a blackboard. Conway has pioneered a field known as recreational mathematics, a specialty that Conway said he believes is misnamed.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

University to stop HEI investments

The University will stop investing in the embattled hospitality firm HEI, ending more than three years of controversy on campus about the company’s alleged workers’ rights violations, Princeton University Investment Company president Andrew Golden confirmed in a statement to The Daily Princetonian late Wednesday night. The decision followed the actions of Yale, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania, which have all declined to reinvest.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

Study finds N.Y. vulnerable to storms

While the Northeast may have been spared from the worst devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Big Apple could soon find itself under water. A study by a team of researchers from the University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that climate change may cause devastating storms and storm-related disasters — notably surges and floods — to hit low-elevation areas like New York City much more frequently. The team published its findings in the journal Nature Climate Change on Feb. 14.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

Lajeunesse continues project

Josue Lajeunesse, a custodian in Whitman College who was featured in two recent documentaries, is implementing several new projects centered on developing his hometown of La Source, Haiti.

NEWS | 02/29/2012

News & Notes: Unknown white male exposes self to female undergraduate

Members of the University received a Campus Safety Alert on Tuesday night about a reported incident of lewdness that occurred near the University around 6:15 p.m.

NEWS | 02/28/2012

U. to side with UT-Austin in affirmative action case

As the Supreme Court plans to hear a major affirmative action case this spring, the University will continue to express support for the consideration of race in the admission process, officials said.The Court decided last Tuesday to review the case of Fisher v. Texas, in which Abigail Fisher, a white student, claimed to be denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because of her race. Fisher filed a lawsuit for alleged racial discrimination. This is the third time the nation’s highest court has decided to hear a case on affirmative action. The court last evaluated the use of race in admissions in 2003.

NEWS | 02/28/2012

Tilghman: No plans to retire

University President Shirley Tilghman may hold her corner office in Nassau Hall even longer than she planned. Tilghman told The Daily Princetonian in 2009 that she had informed the University’s Board of Trustees that she planned to retire from the presidency in June 2013 following the expected completion of the five-year $1.75 billion Aspire capital campaign this June. On Monday, though, Tilghman told the ‘Prince’ that she has no plans to leave office next year.“At the time, I thought that was a realistic plan. Nothing was set in stone,” she said. “I certainly think that there are many projects that I would like to see completed.”

NEWS | 02/28/2012

Interest in Wilson School holds steady

Despite a number of major changes to the Wilson School admission system and curriculum over the past 12 months, the number of applicants to the program this year did not deviate from the usual number of applicants over the past decade.

NEWS | 02/28/2012

Borough Council debates hospital location

The Borough Council discussed on Tuesday night zoning issues associated with the proposed development of the 9.8-acre site of the University Medical Center at Princeton, which is slated to move to its new Plainsboro campus in May.

NEWS | 02/28/2012

At work while at play: precept on the Street

Rather than spending most of the day taking classes and another part of the day on the Street, some students can do both at the same time.Tower Club currently holds 14 history precepts in its Woodbridge Precept Room, and Charter Club is considering beginning hosting precepts this fall. Promotional materials sent by Tower to preceptors at the beginning of the spring semester laud the comfortable chairs, availability of coffee and convenience as the central benefits of the precepts held in the non-academic buildings.

NEWS | 02/28/2012

For one semester, ahead of the class

For most Princeton students, an undergraduate education entails learning primarily on and around campus through both coursework and extracurricular activities. But a small group of students find themselves far from the University, pursuing other types of learning experiences through the advanced standing option.

NEWS | 02/27/2012

PCDO endorses Nemeh

The Princeton Community Democratic Organization endorsed deputy mayor of Princeton Township Sue Nemeth for the Democratic nomination for the local State Assembly seat at its monthly meeting Sunday evening. Among those in attendance were U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and U.S. Representative Rush Holt, as well as Jackie Cornell-Bechelli, the New Jersey state director for President Obama’s reelection campaign.

NEWS | 02/27/2012

News & Notes: MCAT to undergo first revision since 1991

The gatekeeper of medical school, the MCAT, is scheduled to undergo its first substantial revision since 1991, according to a report by Inside Higher Ed. In 2015 two new sections will be added to the exam, one in the social sciences and one in critical thinking. While the writing section will be dropped, total exam time will increase from 5.5 to 7 hours. The changes will be some of the largest the exam has seen since its introduction in 1928.

NEWS | 02/27/2012

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