Today’s Briefing:
LATE MEAL ALLOWANCES INCREASED BY $1 FOR LUNCH AND DINNER: Beginning this Monday, Sept. 12, students will receive a one dollar increase on their late meal allowances, bumping the allotments from eight dollars to nine dollars. In an email to The Daily Princetonian, University Director of Retail & Catering Cristian Vasquez said that the change meant that “students can order an entrée from any station,” including a fountain beverage, and stay within the allowance. The meal allowance increase arrives after students expressed dissatisfaction with some of the price increases of food, which rendered some food options unaffordable.
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STUDENTS ROCK IN THE RAIN AT FALL 2022 LAWNPARTIES: Despite the rainy weather, students assembled in droves, brandishing umbrellas and wearing raincoats, to attend the fall Lawnparties festival on Sept. 11. Indie rock band Hippo Campus headlined the event, marking a shift in genre from that of recent headliners, including rap artists A$AP Ferg and Flo Milli.
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LAWNPARTIES Q&A: On Sept. 11, Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Social Committee hosted indie rock band Hippo Campus as the headliner for fall Lawnparties. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Zach Sutton, the group’s lead bass player, before Sunday Lawnparties to discuss the band’s history, his life as a musician, and more.
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CAMPUS COMMUNITY REACTS TO FINANCIAL AID EXPANSION: Scholars Institute Fellows Program’s (SIFP) Associate Director for Programs for Access and Inclusion Ashlee Shaw and several students offered their reactions to the recent announcement by the University that it plans to expand its financial aid program. The program will now provide full financial assistance to cover the entire cost of student expenses at Princeton for most students whose families make a combined income of $100,000 and eliminate the $3,500 student contribution that aid-receiving students are currently expected to cover through compensation from summer jobs and/or jobs worked during the academic year.
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