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(05/08/17 3:30am)
An Inside Higher Ed article published March 30, 2017, sparked some anxiety about students’ privacy on Handshake, the partnering recruitment platform for University Career Services and one of the fastest-growing talent-recruitment startups in the country.
(03/30/17 5:11am)
Every tutor searches for that “magic moment” — the opportunity to witness a student suddenly see the light through a murky question or concept and grow a deeper understanding and a greater enthusiasm for learning right before the tutor’s eyes.
(03/09/17 4:27am)
“My RCA was one of the most amazing human beings I have ever met,” said Fares Marayati ’19, “She always made herself available even in the middle of her busy schedule and we all felt like we always had someone to go to when we just needed to talk.”
(02/23/17 5:07am)
After stepping into the Scully kitchen to prepare their dinner, only to find yet another mess of unwashed counter tops and remnants of food left by non-independent students, Arlene Gamio ’18 was fed up.
(01/19/17 5:07am)
Arnoldo Agreda-Rodriguez, a former kitchen employee of Ivy Club, was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early August 2016 following his fourth criminal arrest and a series of criminal offenses dating back to 2005.
(09/25/16 4:24pm)
The University appointed Frederick Barton and Kathryn Lunney as co-directors of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, effective September 1.
(05/08/16 7:27pm)
Former and current members of Princeton’s sprint football team have joined together in an effort to oppose President Christopher L. Eisgruber '83’s decision to discontinue the sprint football program on the grounds that the verdict was not representative of the report provided by the evaluation committee.According to the University’s press release, the committee – consisting of University administrators, athletic staff, athletic medical directors and sprint football alumni – concluded, after a six-month-long review, to end the program. The release cited “unacceptably high risk of injury" as a main reason behind the decision.However, Joseph Salerno ’84 — a former sprint football player and an executive board member on the Friends of Princeton Sprint Football who participated in the committee — said that the press release is not an accurate reflection of the committee’s findings, particularly on the point of injury risks.Referring to Eisgruber’s explanation that he is canceling the program on grounds of “substantial risk of very serious injuries,” Salerno called the data, which the administration decided against releasing publicly, “misleading.”According to Salerno, who described the injury data as “troubling and inconsistent,” the report includes consistent per-season injury totals for other sports, but not for sprint football. Many per-season totals for sprint football were not reported, preventing the reader from seeing sprint’s relatively modest injury totals and from assessing statistical consistency, he said.Additionally, certain injury data has “inexplicably” been excluded from the rate calculation.Consequently, injury rates for sprint football were established based on data for a fewer seasons than most of the other sports in the report.“Having seen the injury data, I can say that I don’t find it at all conclusive that the sport is unsafe to play, and I can also say that other sports had more total injuries and other sports had higher injury rates,” Salerno said. “So I can’t see how it would be fair to come to the conclusion that sprint is unsafe to play given those other facts.”To Salerno, not only do these discrepancies make the current data unreliable, but a more comprehensive analysis of the data may also lead to a different conclusion about the nature of sprint football, he said.Kees Thompson ‘13, former sprint football captain and Vice President of Events for the Friends of Princeton Sprint Football, further attributed the alarm over allegedly high injury rates for sprint football in certain years as a testament to the priority placed on safety by sprint football head coach Sean Morey.As an NFL player, Morey was a member of the Executive Committee of the NFL Players Association where, according to GoPrincetonTigers.com, he “devoted his energy towards advocating for comprehensive clinical research efforts intended to understand, quantify and treat pressing healthcare issues associated with the cumulative and compounding effect of repetitive and recurrent brain trauma.”John Wolfe '14, a former captain of the sprint football team, echoed Salerno’s sentiments by questioning the University’s decision not to release the data.“If the sport is so unsafe that these players have been in an unsafe environment for the last 18 years, then don’t the players have a right to access the injury data for their own personal health?” he asked.Sprint football alumni have thus far mutually agreed with Mollie Marcoux, director of athletics, and University administrators not to publicize either the injury data or the report, indicating their commitment to the committee to respect that confidentiality.Nonetheless, Eisgruber noted in an emailed statement that “the injury statistics for sprint football are deeply disturbing.”But statistics alone tell only part of the story, he said.“I received expert medical advice attesting to the risk of serious injury to our players, and the team's coaching staff has more than once forfeited games when it would be unsafe to play. No other Princeton team is in a comparable position,” he said.Though the press release stated that the decision was made in part by the committee, Mollie Marcoux '91, director of athletics, acknowledged that the committee itself was not charged with making a specific recommendation.Rather, the committee was set up to provide information on the state of sprint football and offer up different options to support the program to University Executive Vice President Treby Williams '84, who would in turn make a recommendation to Eisgruber, she said.Thompson stated that the committee was originally convened by Williams.Thompson mentioned that though Williams attended several meetings, Eisgruber was not present at any of the committee sessions.Williams declined to comment.The evaluation committee was just one portion of the overall review, Marcoux said.“The President also had more conversations and asked more questions and did his own homework from there,” Marcoux said.Chad Cowden '17, current captain and starting quarterback of the team, added that after the report was submitted to Eisgruber to make his final suggestion, the team received an email from Marcoux in January stating that in the current state it was in, the team could not continue. The sport needed either help from the administration or it would be terminated.Cowden said that he and a few other players subsequently discussed with Marcoux what they thought about the program, what the program needed, and their perspectives on the issue.However, Cowden did admit besides the email and conversation with Marcoux, his and the team’s knowledge of the committee’s review was very limited. Furthermore, he did not know that the team’s termination was a realistic probability.Salerno said that Sprint football alumni were also baffled by Eisgruber’s refusal to add more recruiting spots for the sprint football team as an alternative to shutting down the program entirely. The decision leads to greater questions about the University’s attitude towards athletics as a whole, Salerno said.Thompson said that the University differs from other Ivy League schools in that it self-caps at a lower number of recruited athletes than the Ivy League maximum.Arthur Chew '95, former captain of sprint football,member of Friends of Princeton Sprint Football for 15 years and the President of Save Princeton Sprint Football, a newly founded organization dedicated to fight the decision, said that the University’s internal policy of limiting recruiting spots plays a huge role in the demise of the sport.According to Chew, former director of athletics Gary Walters '67 decided in the late 1990s to gradually remove all recruiting spots from sprint football.In 1996, six recruiting spots were allocated to sprint football. The number of recruits was decreased to two spots from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, recruitment was entirely eliminated.Walters did not respond to request for comment.Thompson argued that this lack of recruiting spots is a primary reason for the team’s struggles in the past two decades.Princeton sprint football’s 106-game losing streak dates back to 1999.According to Cowden, the majority of their recruitment effort rests in attempting to persuade students present at the Activities Fair to play football. He added that the team is “full of a lot of guys who are new to football.”Sprint football is the only varsity sport with a table present at the Activities Fair.“If the Athletic Department went back to the drawing board on all of its spots for all of its teams, I think it would be hard to argue that sprint – or any varsity team – deserves zero, while other sports deserve dozens,” Thompson said.At an all-alumni gathering in Baltimore, Md., last Thursday, Chew spoke with Eisgruber about his decision to discontinue sprint football during a question and answer session.According to Chew, Eisgruber defended his refusal to add more recruiting spots for athletes despite the University’s decision to expand the undergraduate student body by 125 students per class. Eisgruber also emphasized the need for more space for students who are very qualified academically, Chew said.“I took this comment as offensive, as did others in the crowd, that the recruited athletes did not belong at Princeton and we were taking spots away from qualified students,” Chew explained.To Salerno, Eisgruber’s decision demonstrates that the crux of the matter should not be about debating injury data, or a lack of competitiveness.Instead, he believes that “the real issue is how we value athletes versus non-athletes on campus.”Salerno and his fellow alumni are hoping that their efforts have resonated with all Princeton varsity athletic alumni, who can identify with the merits and value of the 82-year old sprint tradition.Chew added that Save Princeton Sprint Football will be a large presence at upcoming Reunions and will work to garner further support from alumni, especially varsity athletic alumni.“We thought [the administration] was going to help us as much as they could,” Cowden said. “I thought the ending [of sprint football] would be a last resort sort of thing like, ‘Oh, really nothing worked out, sorry.’ We didn’t really think [the discontinuation] was going to be the result of the report.”The Friends of Princeton Sprint Football and the Save Princeton Sprint Football group have started a petition on Change.org addressed to Eisgruber and Marcoux to request that Eisgruber reconsider his decision.The fact that the University waited 20 years before saying there are too few experienced players to play sprint football speaks for itself, Salerno said.
(04/26/16 5:54pm)
“I do not see any other solution to the Palestine-Israeli conflict other than an independent, sovereign, viable, contiguous Palestinian state – and when I say sovereign I mean a state that will enjoy all attributes of sovereignty,” Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, chief representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, said in a lecture on Tuesday.During the lecture, Areikat gave an overarching view of his position as a major Palestinian diplomat, offering a variety of reasons as to why a two-state solution is not just the best answer for Israel and Palestine – it is the only one.Areikat referenced the existing state of affairs with the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which has grown even tighter as a result of what he refers to as “the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel.”According to Areikat, the growing number of legal Israeli settlements within Palestine is an indication that pulling out of Palestine is not on the Israeli government's agenda."You can see it with your own eyes,” Areikat said.The ambassador described in greater detail what the terms of the proposed two-state solution would be in order for Palestine to be able to obtain its own legitimate autonomy.“The reason in the past that our people had refused Israeli offers was because Israel wanted to continue to control the Palestinian people even after they [the Palestinians] established their own Palestinian state,” Areikat explained, “That’s why all the negotiations have failed – because Israel did not want the Palestinians to have sovereignty of the Palestinian state.Areikat listed some of the terms of a two-state solution including no presence of the Israeli military in the future Palestinian state, no control of air space or international checking points and no control of local or natural resources.He explained that the question now is not so much whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will support the Palestinian state – rather, it is what kind of Palestinian state Netanyahu would potentially approve of that is at odds with Palestinians' own wishes.“Imagine the occupiers turning into peacekeepers after nearly 50 years," Areikat added. "They [the Israelis] want the Palestinians to accept the presence of the Israeli military occupation as peacekeeping forces to protect the security of Israel,” he said.Areikat admitted that this dilemma has convinced some Palestinians to abandon the notion of their own state and instead to promote a binational state between Israelis and Palestinians. To him, however, the historical and current troubles facing those Palestinians living in Israel strongly persuade him that he is fighting for the right decision. He explained that Palestinians who remain in Israel are, even in modern times, struggling to secure social justice. These Palestinians, he explained, are not treated as equal to Israelis.“If we want to create on binational state, we would only turn the conflict from a political one into a struggle for equality and social justice," he explained. "That would completely shift the paradigm and could make many countries around the world lose interest in this conflict to end an occupation.”Areikat further noted that a binational state is an unreasonable solution because of what he claimed is Israel’s desire to limit the population of Palestinians in the country and especially to prevent the roughly four million Palestinians from becoming Israeli citizens.During the lecture, Areikat also attempted to clarify an incident in 2011 in which his calls for separation between Israel and Palestine came under critical attack and harsh scrutiny.Areikat explained that in 2011 that he was accused by both Palestinians and Israelis for supporting “population transfer” between the Jews in Palestine or the Palestinians in Israel. He noted that some activist groups and media outlets went so far as to condemn him for tacitly supporting ethnic cleansing in Israel.He explained that he had only wanted to convey how important it was to have two autonomous states between Israel and Palestine. According to Areikat, the Israeli military occupation must end to allow the Palestinian people to establish their own state.“We [Palestinians] believe that we have better chances now as an occupied people fighting occupation and oppression to obtain freedom and independence by creating our own state,” he said.Areikat’s lecture titled “One State or Two States?” was open to the public and took place in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. The talk, as a part of the “Conversations About Peace” lecture series, was co-sponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Wilson School.
(04/24/16 5:25pm)
Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly, former captains of the U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) and members of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, saluted the spirit of teamwork and discussed the recent surge in the popularity of the USWNT in a panel on Thursday.
(04/20/16 4:31pm)
The Declaration Day, which was held in McCosh Courtyard on Tuesday, did not contain a banner for African American Studies.
(04/14/16 6:14pm)
Andrew Christie ’16 has joined the growing coalition of New Jersey Republican delegates supporting businessman Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential Nomination.
(04/13/16 6:21pm)
The increasingly political nature of prosecutors has transformed the country’s legal practices, journalist Emily Bazelon said in a lecture Wednesday.Bazelon is a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School and a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine.Bazelon noted how, after the general expansion of government administration capacity in the 1930s, the elected position of prosecutor began to evolve into a stepping-stone for a higher political office, citing Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani as examples.Bazelon said that when crime rates shot up in the 1960s and 1970s, the public backlash towards what she called a “very lenient” criminal justice system transformed the role of the prosecutor into one who is expected to be tough on crime.This new political expectation of the prosecutor, Bazelon said, set the stage for the increasing incarceration rates that have now become a major source of debate in this year’s election.20 years ago, Bazelon said, prosecutors brought felony charges against one out of three people who were arrested. By 2008, that figure rose to two out of every three people arrested.“This is a huge jump and it accounts in the last 10 to 15 years for most of the rise in mass incarceration,” Bazelon said. “It’s not actually that people are spending more time in prison; it’s that more people are going to prison in the first place.”Bazelon also said that the sharp decrease in trials in the past half-century can be attributed to the unmitigated growth in power of prosecutors. Citing a report, she noted a report that while one in twelve people facing felony charges went to trial in the 1970s, that rate has shrunk to just one in forty today. More than 95 percent of criminal cases are now resolved outside the courtroom through plea bargains, Bazelon said.Commenting on these large-scale transformations, Bazelon voiced concerns about prosecutors’ power.Bazelon shared the story of Joseph Buffey as a real-life example behind another statistic: that 10 percent of the roughly 1,800 exonerations that have occurred since 1989 have involved innocent people who had falsely plead guilty to a felony.In 2001, Buffey falsely pleaded guilty to the rape and robbery of an elderly woman after heeding the advice of his lawyer — who had assumed he was guilty — that bringing the case to trial would result in an even harsher sentence. According to Bazelon, the DNA testing actually identified a different criminal than Buffey prior to his sentencing, but the prosecution prevented that information from reaching the side of the defense.After that DNA testing was revealed 14 years later, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that Buffey's constitutional rights were violated by the state's failure to turn over favorable DNA evidence and has since allowed him to withdraw his guilty plea.Although the 1963 United States Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland declared that the prosecution’s withholding of evidence violated due process of law, Bazelon said the case of Joseph Buffey demonstrated several holes in the Supreme Court ruling.“Brady is an honor system in which essentially the prosecutors have all the cards,” Bazelon said.While acknowledging that most prosecutors are very honorable and turn over as much information as possible to the defense, Bazelon said that this system still provides an incentive for prosecutors to cheat.“If we live in a society in which we want prosecutors to solve crimes, in which we care about things like our conviction rates, in which we elect them based on the promises they make to be tough on crime, then the incentive to win is going to be really high,” Bazelon added.She said that voters play a very important role in electing these prosecutors. Referring to recent shifts in Chicago, with Kim Foxx beating Anita Alvarez out for the state attorney position in March, Bazelon pushed for voters to judge prosecutors not on how “tough on crime” they are but on how their track record appears.Bazelon finished her lecture with a comment on the disproportionate demographics of United States prosecutors, of which 79 percent are white men, 16 percent are white women, four percent are men of color and just one percent are women of color.“If we don’t have progressive people as prosecutors then we’re really not going to change all that much in our criminal justice standard,” Bazelon said.The lecture, titled “Criminal Justice Reform and the (Almost) Absolute Power of the American Prosecutor,” was sponsored by the University Program in Law and Public Affairs and took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m.
(04/07/16 4:01pm)
Avigail Gilad '19 and Maria Chiara Ficarelli ’19 recently co-founded the Princeton Clay Project, a fundraising and awareness initiative dedicated to sending Syrian refugee youth to Al Albayt University in Jordan through the Amal Scholarship Fund.
(04/04/16 9:41pm)
Democrat Lindy Li ’12 has withdrawn from Pennsylvania’s sixth District Congressional race, following a verdict from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania last Friday.
(04/03/16 4:46pm)
HackPrinceton, the University’s biannual hackathon hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, drew around 500 student programmers and entrepreneurs from more than 100 universities this past weekend.Participants faced the challenge of creating functioning software or hardware projects from scratch in 36 hours, with the best teams earning prizes such as printing pens and Bluetooth keyboards at the closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon.“HackPrinceton provides students with the unique opportunity to learn new technical skills and take advantage of mentorship and hardware resources, all while being surrounded by hundreds of like-minded students,” Zachary Liu '18, a co-director of HackPrinceton and computer science major at the University, said.Liu, who organized his fourth HackPrinceton this semester, said that he is motivated to continue improving the already successful hackathon."My personal goals for HackPrinceton are trying to focus even more on the attendee experience and providing the best possible outlet for hackers to not only to learn more, but also to simply connect with other people at the hackathon," he said.Monica Shi '18, another HackPrinceton co-director, did not respond to requests for comment.After the 36 hour deadline passed, ten teams were selected as finalists and presented their projects in front of a large crowd to a panel of judges from various business and technological backgrounds.The following projects reached this final stage: Windsong, Cliqur, Lucy, Moralit.ai, Chrono | Emergency, SafeWalk, EIR, StockTalk, EyePhone and Spin to Win. These projects involve the design of a 3-D scanner, a software to augment the emergency response model and other interesting concepts.Later, a total of 25 accolades were given out to teams, with 21 being sponsor prizes, along with four major awards: Best Overall, Most Technically Challenging, Best Design and Most Creative. While the winners of the sponsor prizes were selected by the business sponsors themselves, the four major awards were chosen by the panel of judges.University students Rohan Doshi '18, Andrew Ng '18 and Avinash Nayak '18 won the Best Overall prize, as well as the Thiel Foundation’s sponsor prize for the “Best Hack to Continue” by creating a program called Lucy. This software would enable tens of millions of people with physical disabilities to use the Internet with just their voice, without having to rely on a keyboard or mouse.“In the past, speech recognition has been used for transcribing text and basic operating system commands, but there hasn't been any significant progress into developing a true solution that integrates speech with web navigation,” Doshi, Ng and Nayak explained. “We solved this problem with Lucy.”Purdue University students Suyash Gupta, Pranjal Daga, David Liu and Benjamin Wu also reeled in a series of prizes with their invention of a mobile app called EyePhone. This app aims at early detection of cataracts so that quick remedial measures can be taken to avoid unprecedented blindness. The team was awarded the Most Launchable prize sponsored by the Dorm Room Fund, the PrincetonPy/PICSciE Prize for Every Day Data for Tomorrow, the Best Mobile App prize and the Best Use of Data Visualization prize.University of Texas, Dallas students Cyrus Roshan and Akhilesh Yarabarla was also recognized for their invention of a cheap 3-D scanner called “Spin to Win.” The scanner can take relatively small objects and scan them into a 3-D file. Roshan and Yarabarla received the Best Moonshot prize from Google, as well as the Most Technically Challenging Prize from the judges.“Using an 10c reflective IR LED pair, Spin to Win scans a 3-D object from the side by continuously rotating it and changing the scan height,” they said. “Then we map out these points to a 3-D map using WolframAlpha and generate a file that you could use to 3-D print an object of your own.”HackPrinceton also featured a variety of activities, workshops and speakers over the course of the weekend.The event's keynote speaker was Mike Caprio, an innovation consultant at the American Museum of Natural History and the lead organizer of the Space Apps NYC group, a local chapter of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. Caprio discussed his own experience in space hacking and encouraged the packed crowd in Friend Center foom 101 to register for the 2016 Space Apps Challenge that would take place between Apr. 22-24.Caprio estimated that this year’s Space Apps Challenge would have around 20,000 participants, with all involved given a unique opportunity to work with NASA on very relevant issues.“Essentially, NASA provides these challenges and says, ‘Hey these are things we don’t have the time or resources to work on; will you please help us solve these problems?’” Caprio explained.HackPrinceton began on Friday and ended on Sunday. The event was co-sponsored by companies D. E. Shaw and Co., Linode, Capital One, Schlumberger, the Thiel Foundation and Wolfram.The event was also sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
(03/31/16 8:51pm)
Political activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis said that violence is an indication of the impossibility of imagining livable futures in a lecture Thursday.
(03/21/16 7:15pm)
University’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George has publicly endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 for the Republican presidential nomination.
(03/10/16 6:02pm)
Six University faculty and alumni, along with twenty-six conservative Catholic leaders across the country, released a statement earlier this week in the National Review decrying the presidential candidacy of businessman Donald Trump.
(03/06/16 6:49pm)
Among the many questions raised concerning intersectionality and human rights in Egypt and Lebanon, none revolved around where to draw the line with sexual and gender oppression. That line has already been crossed, and with great detriment to the victims, multiple panelists noted at a lecture series this past weekend.