Buck named as new dean for diversity
The University has appointed LaTanya Buck, founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis, as dean for diversity and inclusion.Buck’s term begins this August.
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The University has appointed LaTanya Buck, founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis, as dean for diversity and inclusion.Buck’s term begins this August.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., recognizedformer editor-in-chief Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 with a first-place award in the student category, small circulation division, for his May 2015 article “Charities funneled millions to eating clubs to pay for social facilities” in The Daily Princetonian.
1. Bind your thesis.
U. admits 6.46 percent of applicants for Class of 2020, still isn't less than 5 percent p-value
Emily Carter, founding director of the University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, will serve as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton, effective July 1.
The University's wirelessnetworks were down for about two hours on Sundayafternoon around 1:50 p.m. and were restored around4:05 p.m., according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day.
Interviewed by Contributor Taylor Kang '19.Maybe you've been to The Frick Collection, maybe you've been to The Phillips Collection, but you've definitely yet to attend "The Collection," that is, eXpressions Dance Company's Spring 2016 show, "The Collection." Street sat down with Esin Yunusoglu '19, the assistant artistic director of eXpressions to learn more about this upcoming art-themed dance performance. “The Collection,” will run Friday, April 1 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 2 at 6 and 9 p.m. Tickets are available at Frist and online.The Daily Princetonian: For those who don’t know, what is eXpressions?Esin Yunusoglu ’19: eXpressions is an all girls dance company, and it’s actually the first dance company at Princeton. It was founded in 1979, and we mostly do contemporary but we’re very open to new styles and some other styles just like hip-hop fusion. We have two shows per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and we also have two auditions per year. We rehearse during the week, during the night, and the weekend.DP: What can Princeton students expect from this upcoming eXpressions show?EY: So we’re actually really excited, particularly about the theme of the show. It’s called “The Collection,” and basically the theme is about getting inspired by a variety of images for each piece that we’re doing. Some of them are really famous artworks, like Persistence of Memory or some Jackson Pollock, and some of them are very iconic photographs, some sculptures. But this time we actually tried to stick to the theme, and we’re trying to explore how those images are affecting our imagination. In some ways, very literally, and in some other pieces, they’re affected more abstractly. So we’re exploring some different themes with different artworks, different images. We’re excited about everyone’s interpretation, every choreographer's take is very different towards each artwork or each image. I think it’ll be interesting to see the overlap between some different artworks for the audience because it’s interesting to explore how dance is a dynamic art form and can get inspired by a very still image or a very still art form and transform it into movement, so I’m very excited to show that to our audience.DP: How did the Company decide on the theme, “The Collection”?EY: We just realized that we have a lot of art history nerds in the company, and it was just one of the first themes we thought of, and it started as a joke, like, ‘Oh, let’s do the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, and we’ll call it Ecstasy — eXpressions presents Ecstasy!’ But then when we thought about it seriously — it just sounded like a good idea because it’s interesting to see the overlap of the art forms because I feel like a lot of the dancers are not only just interested in dance but they are people who are interested in a lot of forms of art, so why not just incorporate them? When the new officer board was elected, we really wanted the theme to actually be a part of the show and not just a name, so this was something that we could actually use because the previous theme — we had a lot of fun with it, but when you call the show APEX it’s actually hard to implement it in some of the pieces because it’s maybe too abstract, we wanted [it] to be more concrete.DP: Could you describe the upcoming show in more detail?EY: I can talk about my piece that I’m choreographing as an example, which is Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí. I’m trying to interpret it more abstractly, but I was also more inspired by the visuality of the piece. So you know it’s a melting clock — so at first I started off with the idea of movements that look like melting or look like you can’t control your body, but then I worked with some contrasts, how you can actually try to control it, and then I’m even just inspired by the name of the piece and the sense of time in movement, so in the piece I think you’ll be able to see similar moves done in different timings, so I was just using the concept of time that got me inspired from the artwork, but I know for some other pieces, someone’s using, you know the iconic image of the V-J Day image with the sailor [V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt]. And she’s inspired by the whole concept of war, but you know how the girl is leaning back, she’s just inspired by that pose and exploring that throughout the piece. And someone’s using Gustav Klimt’s gold paintings — she’s using the piece Nothing Can Stay Gold and using it more at a costume level, so it’s a different way of getting inspired by the pieces.Editor’s note: eXpressions President Claire Egan '17 was also contacted for an interview, but deferred comment to Yunusoglu due to scheduling conflicts.
Dear Sexpert,
1. This is the end
U. to revise course evaluation system, but rest assured: Polly Griffin will still email you about them
Dear Sexpert,
1. Midterms are next week.
U. professors work on NASA spaceship to send Matthew McConaughey to an interstellar, fourth-dimensional bookshelf
The University filed an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday against graduate student unionization along with eight other private universities.The brief was filed in a Columbia University case before the NLRB regarding unionization of graduate students at the school.The brief argues that relationship between graduate students and private universities should be defined as strictly academic, and urges the NLRB not to reverse the 2004 Brown University ruling that graduate teaching assistants should primarily be considered as students, not employees."Amici believe that reversal or modification of Brown would significantly damage private sector graduate education in this country and will represent an inappropriate intrusion into long protected areas of academic freedom and autonomy," the brief reads.The brief explains that the institutions who signed the brief do not measure teaching and research in commercial or economic terms, adding that the institutions consider teaching experience as a crucial component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers.The brief further adds that the market value of teaching services provided by doctoral candidates is not taken into consideration when determining stipends provided to graduate student who teach. "Because the graduate student/university relationship at institutions like amici is not driven by economics, the rough and tumble of collective bargaining cannot be imposed on that relationship without doing irreparable damage," the brief reads.Collective bargaining will result in "disputes, litigation, and perhaps strikes such as those which have frequently occurred at public universities," compromising academic freedom at the institutions, the brief notes."Not a single graduate student in any of the amici institutions has ever been required to join a union as a condition of receiving his or her education, nor have the academic or financial arrangements of any of the amici graduate programs ever been subject to collective bargaining," the brief reads.In 1989, graduate students of the University formed the Graduate Student Union, the predecessor of the current Graduate Student Government, to call for better conditions and support for the graduate student population."How can we feel welcome at this University if we are not provided for out of our stipend with even the basic necessities of living?" said then-GSU chair Alan Middleton GS ’90 in a Nov. 30, 1989 rally in front of the Nassau Hall to protest the budget cuts to services provided to graduate students.University General Counsel Ramona Romero signed the brief on behalf of the University.The nine schools who jointly filed the brief are Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the University.More to come…
Forbes College is experiencing flooding following a major storm Wednesday night in to Thursday morning, according to an email distributed to the Forbes listserv.
Reclaim Harvard Law, a group of student activists at Harvard Law School, occupied part of the school's Caspersen Student Center on Monday and plan to remain there indefinitely until their demands are met, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Event: This is Princeton: 2016
Dear Sexpert,
1. Eat all the chocolate your mom sent you.
Potential NJ Transit strike to interfere with Spring Break travel, not the first time NJ Transit has let us down