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(03/05/15 8:20pm)
Human trafficking is not merely about forced prostitution and sex slavery, but instead encompasses a much wider variety of issues related to coerced labor, independent journalist and visiting professor Noy Thrupkaew argued at a talk Thursday.
(02/08/15 4:15pm)
Bina Peltz ’15 and Cody O’Neil ’15 were awarded the 2015 fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, which each includes a $30,000 stipend funded by alumni that supports year-long public service projects after graduation.
(12/11/14 7:30pm)
William Beacom ’15 and Brett Diehl ’15 have been named Sachs Scholars, the University announced Thursday.
(12/10/14 9:51pm)
Students at Harvard Law School have written a letter requesting that final exams be postponed for those who protested the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and New York City, the Boston Globe reported.
(11/05/14 8:52pm)
Patrick Witt, a 2012 graduate of Yale, published an article in the Boston Globe Monday in which he criticized Harvard's sexual misconduct policies based on his own experiences at Yale, the Yale Daily News reported.
(10/08/14 4:42pm)
Laws relating to the prosecution or enforcement of human trafficking are developing and spreading much more than laws relating to the prevention or the protection of victims, Harvard professor Beth Simmons argued at a lecture on Wednesday.
(09/24/14 8:16pm)
U.S. Senator Cory Booker visited Tigerlabs, a venture capital firm on Nassau Street, on Wednesday afternoon, according to Planet Princeton.
(09/23/14 8:05pm)
Europe faces the dual challenge of remaining credible while ensuring its own stability, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said at a panel discussion Tuesday.
(09/18/14 4:38pm)
Although the year 1964 and the revival of religious fundamentalism in the 1970s and 1980s were important for the melding of religion and politics in Kansas and Texas, one must not ignore underlying factors and events that took place before then, sociology professor Robert Wuthnow, known for his work on the sociology of religion, argued in a lecture on Thursday.
(09/15/14 4:43pm)
John Marshall, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, was both an ardent advocate of judicial constructionism and supporter of central government, Gary McDowell said at a lecture on Monday.
(06/04/14 10:43am)
Deborah Prentice, professor of psychology and psychology department chair for the past twelve years, has been appointed dean of the faculty, the University announced on Wednesday. She will assume her new position on July 1.
(06/02/14 7:24pm)
An open house held on Saturday was one of the last opportunities to see Butler Apartments -- a graduate housing complex built shortly after World War II that was intended to last for only a decade -- before it is torn down this summer having exceeded its projected life-span by almost sixty years.
(06/01/14 7:53pm)
Although there is obviously political gridlock in the government right now, it can be remedied, alumni panelists said in a discussion moderated by associate politics professor Paul Frymer. Participants in the discussion were former congressman James Leach ’64, former Republican majority leader Bill Frist ’74, U.S. representative from Maryland John Sarbanes ’84, assistant managing editor for TIME Tom Weber ’89, Special Assistant to the President Joshua Pollack ’99 and Michael Shapiro ’09, former senior policy adviser at the White House National Economic Council. Leach noted several causes for the current political gridlock, among them historical events such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the recession. He said that negativism has become the norm in politics, as politicians think increasingly about “me” rather than “we.” Finally, he said that the Supreme Court’s recent rulings that have given more rights to corporations have caused the country to move toward oligarchy in politics. “In the history of this country, the Supreme Court has played a great balancing role as an institution,” he said, adding that in recent years “it has made a series of the single worst decisions since the Dred Scott hearing.” Sarbanes noted the importance of campaign financing in creating gridlock, and that a current congressional campaign costs around $1.6 million, with most candidates spending 30 to 70 percent of their campaign time on fundraising. This emphasis on funding, he said, takes time away from candidates’ ability to study the issues they are dealing with and to get to know their colleagues. “That makes it much more difficult to reach compromise and have conversations,” Sarbanes said. Cynicism in the American people is another cause of gridlock, Sarbanes said. As people grow increasingly disillusioned with politics, they leave the “political town square,” allowing those with extremist agendas to rush in.Description: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif
(05/08/14 7:16pm)
Rich Vyas ’14, a concentrator in the Wilson School, has been chosen as a winner of the United Nations “Many Languages, One World Essay” contest in the Spanish language. Vyas started studying Spanish when she enrolled in SPA 101: Beginner’s Spanish I as a freshman at the University.
(04/24/14 3:55pm)
Two hundred sixty-nine members of the Class of 2016 declared concentrations in the humanities by the end of the sophomore major declaration period on Tuesday.The same number of students declared a humanities concentration in the Class of 2015, whereas 286 did in the Class of 2016.The humanities majors with the largest number of concentrators remain history, with 90, and English, with 48. History is also the humanities major with the largest increase from last year, as 78 members of the Class of 2015 declared a history concentration.History department representative Jack Tannous said that this year’s increase in history majors was unexpected, adding that the number of students who sign in every year is hard to predict. Tannous noted that many of the new concentrators he spoke to said they decided to concentrate in history because history courses had been those that they had liked best. He also attributed the increase in student enrollment to the department’s flexibility.“You can work in government; you can go to a professional school; you can go work in finance if you want to,” he said. “You can do a huge number of things. I think people recognized the huge amount of flexibility that a history major offers them.”Humanities majors with the lowest enrollments are the language departments, including Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian, Slavic languages and literatures andGerman.While each of these departments had six concentrators last year, Slavic languages and literatures received one sign-in from the Class of 2016, Spanish and Portuguese received two, French and Italian received four and German received five. The German and Slavic department numbers are unofficial numbers from College Facebook.Spanish and Portuguese department representative Germán Labrador Méndez and French and Italian department representative André Benhaim also said that the change in number of concentrators in their departments was unexpected, noting that there are frequent fluctuations. Benhaim noted that Spanish concentrators can vary from two to eight with a mean of four, while French and Italian concentrators have varied from four to 15.Mendez explained that language enrollment numbers can be misleading because students frequently choose to take language classes or pursue the certificate instead of declaring a major. He noted that the number of students graduating with a Spanish certificate each year varies between 20 and 30.Benhaim said thathe could not be sure why enrollments in his department fell, but added that a possible reason could be that freshmen and sophomores believe that concentrators study only language and literature, while many in fact pursue interdisciplinary tracks.“I would really like for students to make their concentrations knowing all the facts,” Benhaim said. “A lot of the students don’t know how flexible and rich the opportunities are in the Department of French and Italian.”There are numerous benefits to concentrating in a small department, Benheim noted, explaining that faculty memberswill get to know their students better and are in an easier position to write letters of recommendation.Dinara Gabdrakhmanova ’16, one of the two sophomores to declare a concentration in Spanish and Portuguese, explained that majoring in Spanish and Portuguese will allow her to study abroad, which is normally difficult to do as a premed student. She said that, sinceshe will be pursuing medicine later on, now is the time to study something else and expand her horizons.“Being culturally aware will help me become a better doctor, help me relate to patients who may only speak Spanish,” Gabdrakhmanova said.Overall, many humanities departments showed slight decreases in enrollment from last year.Classics had 11 Class of 2016 concentrators, compared with 16 last year, and comparative literature had 16 majors, compared with 22 last year and 25 the year before. Religion also showed a decrease from 15 to 11 concentrators. Near Eastern studies had 10 sign-ins compared to 12 last year, and East Asian studies dropped by one from 12 concentrators last year to 11 this year.Unofficial numbers from College Facebook show that art and archaeology had 13 sophomores declare this year and 14 last year. The music department had eight sophomores this year compared to 10 last year. However, philosophy concentrators increased by five, from 22 to 27 sophomore sign-ins.Tannous pointed to a trend of decreasing humanities concentrators across the country, citing the recession as a possible cause. He noted that the history department had over 100 concentrators per year before the recession and dropped to 90 in 2007-2008, reaching a low of 64 in 2012-2013.Benhaim explained that many students think a concentration in the humanities is too specific and will not lend itself to a variety of jobs, but added that this is not the case and that very few of the concentrators in his department continue on to graduate school.“I really hope the humanities this year go up,” Tannous said, “because I love the humanities. What I’m concerned about are humanities numbers in general.”
(04/18/14 5:20pm)
The Office of Information Technology sent an email to students on Friday asking them to change their passwords in response to "Heartbleed," a security flaw in software used to protect private information on the Internet.
(04/10/14 2:58pm)
Peter McDonough, who has served as general counsel for the University since 2002 and provided legal advice to the University since 1990, intends to step down at the end of the academic year. He will be on sabbatical during the 2014-15 academic year, during which he will be available to assist his successor.
(04/02/14 7:35pm)
The Princeton Police Department is working with other police departments nearby to combat a recent "rash" of burglaries, Town Topics reported.
(04/02/14 5:38pm)
The University of Pennsylvania is conducting an investigation after members of its women’s lacrosse team allegedly damaged Fado Irish Pub during a party Saturday night, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported.
(03/31/14 8:28pm)
Following the University's decision to cancel overnight stays for Princeton Preview, theAlumni Association is scheduled to meet later this week for a "key meeting" that will discuss whether changes should be made to Reunions this year in light of the meningitis outbreak, according to Associate Director for Reunions Mibs Mara.