Student Life

Jemison '18 elected as USG president, Eating Club Referendum passes

USG Presidential Candidate Myesha Jemison

Jemison '18 elected as USG president, Eating Club Referendum passes

Audrey Spensley

Class of 2018 Undergraduate Student Government Senator Myesha Jemison '18 won the 2016 USG presidential election, securing 51.6 percent of 2,410 votes, according to USG Chief Elections Manager Sung Won Chang '18.

NEWS | 12/09/2016

Public safety responds to noise complaint, arrives at party thrown in their honor

Samuel Garfinkle

Most partygoers wouldn’t think to call Department of Public Safety and file a noise complaint for the party they are currently attending. For a group of University students at the 2 Dickinson St. Co-op, however, that was exactly the right idea.

NEWS | 12/06/2016

USG discusses eating club referendum at town hall

USG discusses eating club referendum at town hall

Samuel Oh

“I think there are myths about the clubs that I think are almost as harmful to the school, that we can stereotype clubs whether we know they are true or not,” Clark said.

NEWS | 12/05/2016

USG discusses undocumented students, Winter Social

Jason Fu

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed and the upcoming Winter Social in their meeting this Sunday.

NEWS | 12/05/2016

USG presidential candidates debate platforms, vision

Samuel Oh

USG Presidential Candidates Myesha Jamison ’18 and Rachel Yee ’19 debated their platforms and visions for the University student community in the Whig Senate chamber on Sunday.

NEWS | 12/05/2016

USLC unanimously passes proposal in favor of gender-neutral housing

Rose Gilbert

The University Student Life Committee unanimously passed a proposal on Wednesday to expand gender-neutral housing on campus. Previously only dorms with at least one more room than the number of inhabitants were gender-neutral, making only ten percent of undergraduate housing gender neutral.

NEWS | 12/02/2016

Teach-in supports gender-neutral housing proposal

Rose Gilbert

At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, more than forty students gathered outside Frist Campus center to support the gender neutral housing proposal that the University Student Life Committee will vote on tomorrow.

NEWS | 11/29/2016

Proposal to increase gender-neutral housing receives support, voting to occur Wednesday

Rose Gilbert

On Nov. 30, the University Student Life Committee will vote on a new policy proposal submitted by the Gender-Inclusive Housing Working Group that would increase the availability of gender-neutral housing. The proposal is especially intended to help transgender and nonbinary students find housing where they feel safe and comfortable.

NEWS | 11/29/2016

USG candidates discuss respective platforms

Katie Petersen

Undergraduate Student Government announced the candidates for next year's offices last Sunday. Dan Qian ’19 is running for vice president of the student body. As vice president, Qian hopes to make USG projects more transparent by surveying student opinion on Senate projects before priorities are set and relaying results of weekly administrator meetings to the student body. With experience on the Senate, Executive Committee, and Core Committee, he has worked with the Vice President, President, and the rest of the Senate.

NEWS | 11/29/2016

Jemison '18, Yee '19 vie for USG president

USG Presidential Candidates Rachel Yee and Myesha Jemison

Jemison '18, Yee '19 vie for USG president

Jason Fu

Class of 2018 Senator Myesha Jemison ’18 and former Class of 2018 vice president Rachel Yee ’19 have entered the race for USG president.

NEWS | 11/27/2016

Referendum calls for public demographic numbers of eating clubs, meets objections from club officers

Ruby Shao

Leila Clark '18 started gathering petition signatures on Nov. 21 for a referendum to publicize the demographics of eating club members and bickerees.

NEWS | 11/26/2016

HackPrinceton attracts over 600 developers, designers

Katherine Wang

Over six hundred developers and designers from across the nation pooled their mental stamina at HackPrinceton for a straight 36 hour period to create software and hardware projects. The event, taking place on November 11 to 13, brought together students and seasoned mentors to engage the University’s on-campus and off-campus communities with both new and familiar technologies.

NEWS | 11/21/2016

CSICC's Trick-or-Feed raises over $6,000

Emily Spalding

The Community Service Interclub Council collected over $5,000 in monetary donations and $1,000 worth of non-perishable items for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen in the Council’s second annual Trick-or-Feed during Princetoween.

NEWS | 11/21/2016

USG discusses gender-neutral housing, building names in CPUC meeting

Jason Fu

petition meeting

NEWS | 11/20/2016

U. students read declaration denouncing South Korean president

Jisu Jeong

A group of University students held a demonstration addressing the recent, ongoing political scandal concerning the South Korean president in front of Nassau Hall at 2 p.m. The demonstration was conceived by four Korean students concerned with the current situation in Korea: Sejin Park ’18, Wonshik Shin ’19, Rachel Lim ’18, and Sally Hahn ’19.

NEWS | 11/18/2016

U. community members protest to call for U. action protecting undocumented immigrants

U. community members protest to call for U. action protecting undocumented immigrants

Catherine Benedict

Hundred of University students, faculty, staff, and community members held a demonstration to call for the University to become a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, faculty, and staff.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

Art Museum Student Advisory Board opens new permanent coin collection

Charles Kyungchan Min

Members of the Princeton University Art Museum Student Advisory Board opened a permanent collection of ancient and medieval coins at the museum.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

U. Students issue petition in call to action to protect undocumented students

Marcia Brown

The DREAM Team, an immigrant rights advocacy group on campus, issued an online petition on Monday in support of undocumented students on campus. The “Call to Action to Protect Undocumented Students at Princeton” asks signatories for their name – either individual or organization – class year, and if that individual is a student, a faculty member, or a staff member.

NEWS | 11/15/2016

'Asian girls everywhere' poster campaign breaks silence about sexual racialization

Jessica Li

“Ni Hao pretty,” “you’re pretty for an Asian,” and “you’re the whitest Asian ever” are among the verbatim comments received by female Asian-American students in the University that will be displayed around campus later this week as a part of a poster campaign. According to Alis Yoo ’19, facilitator of the “Asian girls everywhere” poster campaign sponsored by the Asian American Students Association, the sixteen different samples of posters to be displayed around campus in the next few days represent the authentic experiences of University students in and outside of the classroom.

NEWS | 11/13/2016

U. community members protest election of Donald Trump

Maya Wesby

Over 70 members of the University community, including students, faculty and staff, gathered on Friday morning to protest the election of Donald Trump. Julian Perez ’17, co-president of the Princeton University Latinx Perspectives Organization, said the demonstrators were there to stand against the values that Trump and his supporters prescribe to. He acknowledged that hateful sentiments and hostile actions are not new for marginalized groups, but that the protest was organized to show that these groups are united and will not back down given Trump’s presidential victory. “It’s another reminder that we have a lot of work to do, and that we have to fight.

NEWS | 11/11/2016

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