Three candidates vie to be next USG president
Elections for Undergraduate Student Government begin today, and all three USG presidential candidates encourage University students to vote.
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Elections for Undergraduate Student Government begin today, and all three USG presidential candidates encourage University students to vote.
The University’s first-year orientation programs are touted to prospective students as a way to “allow students to form strong bonds among first-years across residential colleges and with their student trip leaders across class years.” The degree to which students actually enjoy this prototypical experience, though, varies based on the program they’re assigned to.
During the summer, members of the Class of 2021 filled out orientation surveys designed to place them in one of three programs: Outdoor Action, Community Action, or Dialogue and Difference in Action. Some incoming students answered the survey questions in a way that would allow them to match with the program of their choice, thereby "playing the system."
Most first-year students are aware of the three most common options for orientation experiences — Outdoor Action, Community Action, and on-campus programming for in-season athletes. This year, however, a little-known fourth option was added.
“We can be upset about what’s going on in Washington and have disagreements with what’s happening, but we have to maintain a tremendous sense of hope,” Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy said during her lecture, “The Future of EPA and Our Planet,” on Wednesday.
Rainer Weiss, who was a postdoctoral researcher at the University, and Kip Thorne GS '65 received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. They received the award “for decisive contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector and the observation of gravitational waves” according to a press release by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.