Plans to increase transparency and potentially offer funding for off-campus religious observances were discussed at the weekly Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meeting on Sunday. Additionally, Social Committee Chair Aum Dhruv ’27 gave a budget breakdown of Fall Lawnparties, revealing that the total budget of $260,000 matched last semester’s.
Dhruv opened with discussion about the Social Committee’s consideration of prior feedback when shaping Fall Lawnparties. Feedback included providing more food options, picking a different genre of music for the headliner, and the headliner doing more crowd work and showing up on time.
“This semester, we incorporated that [feedback],” Dhruv said. “We chose a headliner from a different genre, Amaarae ... did crowd work, she showed up on time which was amazing.”
Dhruv is a Reels creator for the ‘Prince.’
On the topic of student feedback, Malcom Tafadzwa Dzimiri ’28, a U-Councilor, proposed better methods for collecting student input. Currently, a link to a form for feedback is included at the bottom of USG newsletters, which Dzimiri criticized as not prominent enough.
Dzimiri proposed placing signs around campus with eye-catching questions such as “Do you hate bicker?” and a QR code linking to a feedback form to improve participation. USG members in turn suggested including more neutral and general questions.
Dzimiri also suggested targeted feedback to student queries, such as being directed to “relevant members of the administration best placed to address the feedback or question,” should USG be unable to respond.
Oscar Barrios ’27, the Chair of the Campus and Community Affairs (CCA) Committee, and Anuj Krishnan ’27, the Chair of the University Social Life Committee (USLC), also discussed funding off-campus religious activities. They will first collect data on expenses incurred by students for religious observances through the feedback form attached in the USG newsletter on Monday.
In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Krishnan said he envisioned the program funding special cases where individual students do not have their needs met on campus, noting that budget constraints might not allow them to offer broader support. He emphasized the goal of collecting data was to better understand the needs of students.
Barrios and Krishnan suggested the program might fund a student travelling to an off-campus temple or mosque.
“Our upper range of the Lyft tickets, round-trip, is $75,” Krishnan said, although he emphasized they wanted to collect data first to draw informed conclusions.
Following the meeting, Andrew Lee ’29 spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his experience organizing rides to the Princeton Korean Presbyterian Church with other Princeton students. Adult members of the church often pick up students to attend services. However, when there are more students than expected, upperclassmen or graduate students pay for Ubers to accommodate, he said.
“I have a lot of friends who are part of denominations who don’t really have access to churches near the school, so having transportation to be able to go a little bit further would be really useful,” Lee said.
Oliver Wu is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Stony Brook, N.Y. and can be reached at oliver.wu@princeton.edu.
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