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(03/01/17 9:07pm)
From interpretive dances to think pieces to social experiments, the annual on-campus performances of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues has always generated plentiful feedback from University students. The episodic play, which consists of an unfixed number of monologues performed by an unfixed number of women, was first performed in 1996 at the HERE Arts Center in New York City. It made its way to the the University in 2001.
(02/24/17 9:51pm)
Basketball forward Stephen Cook ’17 has always looked up to college basketball players. Now that he is filling such a role himself, he is working to give back.
(02/17/17 4:30am)
On Feb. 16, Solveig Gold ’17 and Marisa Salazar ’17 were named co-winners of the 2017 Moses Tyler Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general honor awarded to undergraduates by the University.
(12/15/16 3:43am)
In a 1959 letter sent from the Mudd Manuscript Library, the University’s chapter of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society invited Fidel Castro to speak at the University during his upcoming visit to the United States.
(12/02/16 5:15am)
The University Student Life Committee unanimously passed a proposal on Wednesday to expand gender-neutral housing on campus.
(11/30/16 4:31am)
At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29 more than 40 students gathered outside Frist Campus Center to support the gender-neutral housing proposal that the University Student Life Committee will vote on tomorrow.
(11/29/16 5:38am)
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.
(11/07/16 7:25pm)
Throughout the 2016 presidential election, many University students of every political creed have worked to further their ideals, whether alone, as a part of an on-campus organization, or on social media.
(10/19/16 6:49pm)
On Oct. 18, University graduate students gathered in McCosh 62 and voted to affiliate the emergent Princeton Graduate Student Union with the American Federation of Teachers, a national union specializing in education. AFT received 77.1 percent of the vote, winning by a significant margin over the PGSU’s other option, the Service Employees International Union, a more generalized national union that emphasizes political solidarity and currently represents service workers at the University.162 graduate students voted, which accounts for about six percent of the graduate student body population.According to AFT’s proposal to the PGSU, the American Federation of Teachers has the advantage of focusing on education and having a significant presence in New Jersey: they have successfully organized a union at Rutgers University, consisted of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate students.AFT also generally grants local affiliated chapters more autonomy than SEIU does and it is less inclined to have official political stances, which many students at the town hall meeting on Oct. 11 worried would alienate students with differing political beliefs from participating in PGSU.David Walsh, a leading member in the unionization effort and a third-year student in the history department, said that ultimately the vote wasn’t strictly necessary, but was about making the unionization movement as democratic as possible.“This is an internal decision made by the Princeton Graduate Student Union; it’s not the same thing as a union election. Nevertheless, we wanted to be as inclusive as possible when it came to making this necessary decision,” he said. “Actually having six percent of the student body is actually a very encouraging sign. That means we’re already almost a fifth of a way to the thirty-eight percent marker, which, under federal labor law, is the number of card-carrying union members necessary to call a union election for the entire bargaining unit.”Walsh called the affiliation votes a “very significant step forward,” and said that affiliating with AFT will give PGSU access to resources like paid full- and part-time staff, office space, and legal representation. Specifically, AFT has pledged to provide a paid campaign director, three to five full-time paid staff, an office in Princeton, and legal support.“This outcome means that we now have a framework in place to bring in AFT to back our organizing efforts,” Walsh added, “That means that the national union will have our backs as union organizers.”Multiple graduates within PGSU deferred their comments to Walsh.Moving forward, AFT will work with and support PGSU to develop a campaign to negotiate a contract with the University, the terms of of which would determine what kind of presence and influence a graduate student union would have on campus.This campaign will allow PGSU to assess and prioritize their members’ concerns and goals including stipend size, child care, and teaching and research assistant duties. They will also have to decide whether or not to be a closed-shop union. The contract will formally define PGSU’s role on campus, including if and where their members can strike.Many graduate students not involved with the PGSU declined to comment.The Graduate Student Government is currently conducting research on questions graduate students might have about the possibility of unionizing through their Unionization Fact Finding Committee.
(10/17/16 8:27pm)
The Graduate School announced a sixth-year funding program called the Dean’s Completion Fellowship on Oct. 13. The fund would cover tuition, fees, and a full stipend for forty graduate students pursuing degrees in the humanities and social sciences.The program is intended to incentivize degree completion by allowing selected sixth-year students to focus more on their dissertation.According to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan, the program was created after the University's strategic planning process increased funding pressures on Ph.D. students in all disciplines.Pullan said that students would be chosen for the program by department faculty and the Graduate School and explained that the new initiative will use funds set aside for “strategic priorities” in the University’s framework plan.Many graduate students expressed concerns about the small number of graduate students who would be selected for additional funding through the new program.“Forty spots is really not crazy much, especially in economics. We have a trend that more and more people are doing a six-year Ph.D. We would need almost half those spots, so forty is not crazy much,” said Simon Schmickler GS, a second-year graduate student in the economics department.He added that he thought the program would be a great help to those selected for it. “Even if it’s not crazy much, it’s still super helpful because right now we have to do an enormous amount of teaching in sixth year. So there are quite a few people who worry about this,” he said.He added that he thinks the fund is also generally helpful for University graduate students as it allows them to finish their dissertations more efficiently. In turn, this increases the students’ competitiveness in the job market.Similarly, Vivian Chang GS, a second-year graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School, said she thought the program was a good idea, but was concerned that it wouldn’t have a significant impact because of how few students would be selected for it.“I think it shouldn’t just be a flat number, I think it should be based on how many students need this, how many students are continuing into their sixth year and still finishing up their Ph.D.s.”According to Chang, the graduate school’s task force recently released a report that showed that University graduate students generally do have a longer program completion time.“You don’t want to be struggling while finishing your Ph.D., especially at a really great institution at Princeton. If we want people to be able to really succeed academically and professionally we should give them more funding,” she said.When asked how this new initiative would affect graduate students’ recent unionization efforts, David Walsh GS, a third-year graduate student in the history department, said that while competitive sixth-year funding was “a step in the right direction, … it does not go far enough.”Like other graduate students, Walsh explained that there was only a small number of students who would benefit from the program. He added that many of the University’s peer institutions have created more generous programs, particularly Yale’s sixth-year funding initiative, which provides increased funding to all sixth-year students in good standing.“That is a much broader commitment than Princeton, and is in no small part due to the activist work done by Local 33–UNITE HERE, the graduate student union at Yale,” he said.
(10/13/16 7:52pm)
More than sixty University graduate students gathered to discuss whether they should unionize, and if so which organization to affiliate with, in a town hall meetingOct. 13.
(10/10/16 4:31pm)
On Oct. 10 at noon, nearly 20 students gathered outside Stanhope Hall in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe movement currently working to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
(10/05/16 2:43pm)
A new University committee is hosting a series of focus groups to generate student input on meal plans and dining options on campus in an effort to recommend more efficient and more flexible options that best suit the University’s diverse student body.
(09/27/16 6:43pm)
After the Aug. 23 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board allowing graduate students to form unions on private university campuses, the Graduate Student Government organized a Unionization Fact Finding Committee to provide answers to questions graduate students might have about the possibility of unionizing.