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(10/19/20 7:29pm)
“In light of what we have learned from our experience and data from other colleges and universities, we are preparing for the possibility that we will be able to welcome back significantly more undergraduate students in the spring,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote in a mid-semester update to the campus community today.
(10/16/20 7:28am)
On Sept. 29, the University announced seven recipients of four annual undergraduate awards: Aleksa Milojevic ’23 and Karena Yan ’23 for the Freshman First Honor Prize; Anthony Hein ’22 and Claire Wayner ’22 for the George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize; Noah Kim ’21 and Alexandra Rice ’21 for the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize; and Taishi Nakase ’21 for the Class of 1939 Scholar Prize.
(10/14/20 4:02am)
After being put on hold due to the pandemic, the Black Student Experience Committee — chaired by Tennille Haynes, the director of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding — has reconvened this semester.
(10/06/20 10:54pm)
On Thursday, Oct. 1, the Asian American Students Association (AASA) celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, adapting the conventionally in-person celebration to a virtual medium.
(10/05/20 2:46am)
Mariana Bravo ’24, Aisha Chebbi ’24, Elliott Hyon ’24, Sydney Johnson ’24, and Ive Jones ’24 will be the Class of 2024’s representatives on the Undergraduate Student Government Class Council. These five candidates received the most votes out of the 28 first-years who ran, according to an email sent on Friday, Oct. 2, with the results of the class-wide election.
(10/01/20 11:06pm)
In lieu of in-person meetings, a variety of University clubs and student organizations have turned to Discord for communication and community building.
(10/01/20 11:15pm)
In its first month, the Entryways program — a virtual experience designed to help first-year students acclimate to the college experience — has seen mixed results.
(10/01/20 11:29pm)
Vote100 — a student-run initiative at the University founded with the aim of increasing campus civic engagement — is collaborating with organizations from the seven other Ivy League schools to compete in a variety of student voter engagement challenges leading up to the U.S. presidential election in November. These challenges, which are run through the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, are centered around two main goals: building the most innovative voting program and raising voter turnout by the highest possible margin.
(09/30/20 12:04am)
The Princeton Footnotes, an all-male a cappella group founded in 1959, was recently selected as a top 32 collegiate a cappella group from over 160 video entries in the first-ever UpStaged National Collegiate Performing Arts (NCPA) A Capella competition. The Footnotes now have the chance to compete against other qualifying college a cappella groups, including groups from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. The winning group will receive over $10,000 in social justice charity donations and the 2020 NCPA A Capella Champion title.
(09/24/20 10:24pm)
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, University organizations and mentor groups are exploring how best to adjust annual programming and resources to fit the nature of the virtual environment. For this year’s online Safer Sexpo, Peer Health Advisers (PHAs) presented a COVID-adjusted curriculum that navigated personal desire in a socially distant context, with a new “emphasis on solo sex,” according to PHA and Safer Sexpo coordinator Maricar Almeda ’22.
(09/19/20 3:36pm)
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued evacuation orders this morning after a bomb threat was received for Firestone Library, the University Art Museum, the University Chapel, and Nassau Hall.
(09/18/20 12:41am)
Although the position of Peer Academic Advisor (PAA) has been historically unpaid, the Office of the Dean of the College (ODOC) originally offered a $360 stipend at the beginning of the semester to offset an unexpected increase in workload due to the online semester. In light of concerns about PAAs being unfairly overworked, the stipend has increased to $960 for the entirety of the fall semester.
(09/18/20 3:03am)
This fall, many of Princeton’s a cappella, dance, and other campus performing arts groups will not have auditions or accept new members.
(09/13/20 9:54pm)
On Monday, Sept. 14, Dillon Gymnasium, the primary fitness and recreation facility on campus, will re-open for student use for the first time since its mid-March closure. Access to the gym will be by reservation only and restricted to undergraduate and graduate students approved to reside on campus, according to a Campus Rec announcement.
(09/13/20 10:41pm)
Following the announcement early last week that the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) will spend $80,000 on a virtual Lawnparties to be held on Oct. 30, students took to social media to voice frustrations about how the University is spending money during an economic recession and global pandemic.
(09/13/20 10:36pm)
Of the 4,107 COVID-19 tests University Health Services (UHS) administered in its second week of asymptomatic testing on campus, one graduate student tested positive. This result marks the first reported positive case for a student on campus since March 31.
(09/07/20 9:01pm)
The University’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) allocated $80,000 — 42 percent of USG’s fall budget — to the first-ever virtual Lawnparties.
(09/03/20 11:09pm)
(09/03/20 10:50pm)
On a typical Friday night in the dead of New Jersey winter, strolling through a narrow street off University Place and just short of Nassau, one might find an unusual scene: as many as 100 students celebrating Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest, by dining outdoors in a tent adjacent to a small house. Shabbat is marked traditionally by refraining from work and partaking in communal meals.
(09/03/20 11:15pm)
Four University employees have tested positive for COVID-19 this week, out of 4,477 tests administered by University Health Services (UHS).