Ban on tackling to have little effect on U. football team
Ivy League football coaches' proposed ban on tackling during in-season practices will not markedly affect Princeton's football team, according to Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux.
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Ivy League football coaches' proposed ban on tackling during in-season practices will not markedly affect Princeton's football team, according to Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux.
The Muslim Advocates for Social Justice & Individual Dignity started an online a petition Wednesday night calling for the University Board of Trustees to denounce New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
New Jersey Governor and ex officio University trustee Chris Christie endorsed Republican businessman Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last Friday, Feb. 26.
Emily de La Bruyère ’16 was awarded the 2016 Michel David-Weill Scholarship. The scholarship is used for a master’s degree in international security at Sciences Po, in Paris, according to theSciences Po website.
Despite the tensions, wars and frustrations that dominate the global stage, Fareed Zakaria expressed Monday in a lecture titled “Global Trends and Hotspots: The Next Security Crisis" that he remains optimistic in his view of how conflicts, mainly those in the Middle East, should be addressed.
The University allegedly responded insufficiently to multiple allegations of sexual assault by fertility doctor Roger Ian Hardy ’81 while he was a student, according to the Boston Globe.
Actions of inciting hatred has been destroying the diversity of the Middle East, George Deek, a diplomat working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the International Law department, said in a lecture on Monday.
John Van Epp said that trust, physical intimacy, reliance, knowing a person well and commitment are all categories that can ultimately determine the success of a relationship in a talk on Thursday.
James Agolia '16 and Andrew Nelson '16 were named the recipients of the 2016 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize on Wednesday afternoon.
In an effort to make the club more accessible,Charter Club announced early Tuesday that the club’s sophomore spring semester dues have dropped from $785 to $300, while the Quadrangle Club seeks to help students in finding financial assistance to cover club costs after it’s sophomore dues have risen to $800 instead of an earlier announced amount of $500 over the weekend.
Changes have been implemented in the Forbes College Dining Hall to reduce the food waste following last December’s Food Waste Awareness Week.
631 students were enrolled in the 58 courses offered for the third annual Wintersession which took place from Jan. 25 to 30 this year, according to Undergraduate Student Government Wintersession Committee Head Jacob Cannon ’ 17.Wintersession is a week-long program thatruns during Intersession each year.Last year, there were 1,936 registrations for 67 courses, compared to this year's approximately 1,600 registrations, Cannon said. He explained that since the committee didn’t calculate the number of unique participants last year, comparing the participation for the two years would be inappropriate, and added that the numbers for this year comes exclusively from Wintersession courses, while in the past the committee included numbers from courses for other campus centers.Cannon said the the committee expected this year's program to follow past years’ patterns of success, as more student groups and outside companies expressed interest in offering classes this year.He noted that this year’s program included a committee to run study breaks and giveaways, a revamped website with a new logo, and a more effective structure to compensate instructors for class materials.Classes this year included "ASL for Dummies," "Top Gun Bartending," and "Beauty in Color," according to the program website.Benjamin Dobkin ’16, who led a class titled “Hype 101: Don’t let your memes be dreams; Taking the ridiculous to the mundane,” said he got the idea for the class idea after joking with friends. He added that originally he thought that his idea wouldn’t be accepted.“It was interesting. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into,” Dobkin said, describing the course, but added that it was a positive experience, noting that the class was fully enrolled.However, he added that future Wintersession courses should enforce a penalty for students who do not show up to classes, since a course that’s fully enrolled locks out other students who may have wanted to participate, noting that only seven students came to his classes although 19 registered.For future programs, Cannon noted that he hopes to see more student groups and University centers sign up to teach a course, and added that more faculty should take part in offering lessons that wouldn’t normally appear on their syllabus.Katherine Clifton ’15, who created the program with two other U-Councilors, said she drew inspiration for Princeton’s Intersession from similar mid-year programs offered by Williams College, MIT, and Dartmouth.“We expected there to be maybe a hundred or two hundred people interested for the first year. But then we were surprised–and delighted–that more than a thousand people were involved. That reaffirmed the need for this sort of thing,” Clifton said.She noted that last year’s program saw a growth of involvement from the graduate student body in both teaching and participating in classes.“We thought that was a way to encourage dialogue between undergrads and grads,” she said.Deputy Dean of the Office of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne said that although some doubted the program’s success at first, the program has had very high student interest for the past few years.“Since its inception, we’ve really just been scrambling to meet student demand. Interest is really high, there’s a lot of enthusiasm of the program, the diversity of courses offered is broader than when [it started],” he added.He noted that the University’s student body has a wide range of experiences and that Wintersession provides an opportunity for students to share those experiences with others.Clifton said that the Wintersession could potentially be expanded to a two or three-week long program if final exams were held before winter break, an expansion she noted would be interesting to explore in years future.“[Wintersession]would be a really special time to be on campus and to increase the sense of community across classes while fostering individual initiative. If given more time [the program] could really grow into that,” she said.
The University’s Task Force on General Education held three discussions with students last week about concerns regarding distribution requirements.
The permit for the demolition of Butler Apartments will be granted to the University by the Municipality of Princeton this week, allowing construction to begin, Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget said.
The famous phrase that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” meaning that Americans abandon partisan domestic conflicts when confronting international issues, is not really true, Wilson School professorHelen Milner said in a lecture on Tuesday.
Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and founder of the Moral Mondays Movement, visited the University for a lecture at the University Chapel. He also spoke with students of the Black Justice League during a protest in Nassau Hall. After his lecture, Barber sat with The Daily Princetonian and discussed his involvement in social justice and his opinion on on-campus activism.Daily Princetonian: What inspired you to fight for social justice?Reverend Barber: Well, my parents — my father — made a decision in 1966 to come back to the South from Indiana. They went back to specifically being involved in the desegregation of schools and entered me into a segregated school — even though they didn’t have to — so I could be a part of the desegregation movement. Plus, my faith. I don’t know how to be a person of conscience, a person of faith, and not be concerned about injustices in all of its forms — racism, classism, homophobia, fighting against immigrant status — they all are contrary to the deepest moral conditions of my faith.DP: What more needs to be done to protect underrepresented groups like people of color, the LGBT community and those in poverty?RB: Well, what I talked about tonight is we need what I call a Third Reconstruction. A revolution of values that understands the intersectionality between all issues, whether it be educational equality, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, health care — they all intersect. And we need a recovery of a debate in this country that’s not about left and right, but about what’s right. That says, you know, our Constitution only mandates a democracy that establishes justice. So if marginalized communities are not experiencing justice, that’s un-American. So anything that claims to be faith but then stands on the side of that which is against poor people that are marginalized is hypocrisy. I’m saying, in North Carolina and across the South, we have to have a fresh moral movement. Just like the Reconstruction of the 1800s, the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement: we see a reconstruction movement born today.DP: I understand you took part in the Black Justice League sit-in earlier today — why? And what are your thoughts on on-campus activism?RB: I was invited. They heard I was in town. I went over to not be in the cameras but to simply, first of all, thank them for standing up for what they believe, challenging institutional disparity and racism on this campus. It was powerful to see such a diverse room. I went to say to them that they are part of a larger movement in the country where people are beginning to speak up and wake up. I asked them to hold their space and, you know, everybody can’t do everything — but do what you can do. And then I went in, as an elder, to say we’re with you, we support you, stand strong. Stand with integrity. And they did. I called back to the people in North Carolina to say, look — we’re standing with these students today, we were standing with Walmart workers that were fasting in front of the Walmart corporate headquarters yesterday or standing with a community this past Saturday where they’ve had a hospital close. We all stand together.DP: What would you say to young people today who want to be activists but aren’t sure how to get started?RB: Well, there are so many ways. There’s Raise Up For $15, the Moral Mondays Movement, the fight for voting rights, what’s happening on campuses — I say if you want to be an activist, be an activist. Get involved. Find a place to expend your energy. And particularly on college campuses, you know, activism is as much of a part of your education as going to class. Because any education that does not teach you to have a conscience and a concern and an ability to stand up for what’s right is actually a mis-education. But I also say to students — don’t dismiss your studies. Because even your studies prepare you for conscientious activism. You don’t have to choose academics over activism — in fact, we need academic activists. We need activists informed on academics. Because I often say, the worst thing you want to be is loud and wrong. So even what the students are doing in [Nassau Hall], they studied. They know the history of Woodrow Wilson, they’ve looked at the statistics, they’ve done their homework, so they’re not being frivolous. And they have a clear agenda of what they want. So get involved, make it a lifelong commitment, engage with other people, build allies, find a place in your deepest moral center that motivates you to do what you do, and never stop caring for other people.
The University’s study abroad programs in France will not be canceled in reaction to the Paristerrorist attacksFriday, Director of the Office of International Programs Nancy Kanach said.
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, at least 10 University students have been identified as studying abroad in the city this semester, and some said they have been impacted from living in the city during the attacks.
There have been four reported campus-related incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct during the first six weeks of the 2015-16 academic year, according to Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky.
More rainfall on the African savanna could lead to fewer trees, according to a recent study conducted by University researchers published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.