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Musicologist Frank Lehman deconstructs Star Wars motifs

Musicologist Frank Lehman deconstructs Star Wars motifs

Julia Ilhardt

Frank Lehman, an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Tufts University, knows the score of the iconic music of “Star Wars” as well as anything in his life. In his lecture, part of the Musicology Colloquia Series, Lehman criticized the practice of over-interpreting “Star Wars” music for plot details, but also explained the musically complex use of motifs throughout the score.

NEWS | 03/30/2018

Trump administration considers limiting student visas from China

Natalie Nagorski and Roberto Hasbun

“There will be no benefits with this restriction,” said Yang Shao ’20, another Chinese international student. “It is unnecessary and inefficient to not allow international talents to realize their potential.”

NEWS | 03/29/2018

Alumnus Peruvian president resigns in wake of scandal

Benjamin Ball

Kuczynski announced his plans for resignation just days before he was set for his second impeachment hearing in three months. The hearing would likely have ousted him from office, as the opposition party appeared to intend to oust him from office, according to the Wall Street Journal.

NEWS | 03/29/2018

Keller Center Entrepreneur Greg Olsen discusses space journey

Hector Afonso Cruz

Imagine you were living the dream of almost every child on Earth. You’re snug inside your Kevlar suit, wearing your fishbowl helmet, and someone straps you into your chair and seals the capsule hatch. Then, all of a sudden, you feel the cabin rumble. The rocket engines underneath your capsule roaring to life. You stare out the window, watching the sky turn from light blue, to navy, to pitch black. You’ve just joined an exclusive club of humans who have left terra firma to stare back at the little rock you call home.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

U. students participate in ‘March for Our Lives’ rallies in Washington, D.C., New York City

Rose Gilbert

Saturday, several University students attended one of the major “March For Our Lives” events in Washington, D.C., and New York City to call for improved gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took place this February.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

CPS offers team of professionals for help with eating disorders

Benjamin Ball

The team includes three psychologists, a psychiatrist, the University’s nutritionist, several medical providers, an advanced practice nurse, a physician, and an athletic trainer, according to Chin.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

U. offers admission to 5.5 percent of students in most selective year yet

Mallory Williamson

Overall, the University admitted 1,941 students out of an applicant pool of 35,370, representing a 5.5 percent acceptance rate.

NEWS | 03/28/2018

One University alum and one graduate student each win Hertz Fellowships

Kris Hristov

On March 26, Dina Sharon '14, who majored in chemistry at the University, and Colin Defant, a first-year Ph.D. student studying mathematics, received the Hertz Graduate Fellowship Award. They were among the 10 Hertz fellows selected out of 700 applicants from across the United States.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

Canadian Consul General lectures on NAFTA, trade, the Canada–U.S. relationship

Natalie Nagorski

A Ford car physically crosses the border between Canada and the U.S. seven times before being sold in the U.S., according to Canadian Consul General Phyllis Yaffe, who spoke about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the value of the relationship between Canada and the United States at Princeton on Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

Wilson School MPA candidate, LGBTQ activist Zach Wahls on running for Iowa State Senate

Ivy Truong

Wilson School student and Iowa native Zach Wahls, whose political career began with a pro-LGBTQ speech to his state legislature, now has goals of being a state senator himself.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks diagnoses reasons for unhappiness, provides solutions

Hamna Khurram

In a lecture on Tuesday, Brooks shared his three reasons for unhappiness and gave four key principles for promoting happiness.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

Climate policy scholar Kopp talks sea level rise, US implications

Anna Vinitsky

Robert Kopp is not one to shy away from the problem of sea level rise. On the contrary, Kopp acknowledges that rising sea levels form a major problem for this generation to address. “We’re living in a time of extraordinary environmental change,” Kopp said in a lecture at the University on Monday.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

Honor System Review Committee discusses preliminary findings

Ivy Truong

The HSRC recommended against the adoption of two referenda that would reduce the standard penalty for Honor Code violations and allow a professor’s testimony to be grounds for dismissing a case against a student, respectively. Revised language was recommended on the third referendum, on standards for evidence.

NEWS | 03/27/2018

CPUC discusses Honor Code reform, academic calendar changes

Benjamin Ball

The Honor System Review Committee recommended against the first and third Honor Code referenda, which would decrease the standard penalty for a violation of the Honor Code and give professors total jurisdiction over whether or not an infraction occurred, respectively. President Eisgruber defended the process, distinguishing between referenda that have to do with procedures and with principles.

NEWS | 03/26/2018

A different culture: U. ROTC program presents unique challenges and conceptions of ‘service’

Sarah Sakha

ROTC cadets wake up before sunrise three days a week for physical training, meeting at Jadwin Gymnasium to begin their two-mile ruck walks. People involved in the program reflected on their definitions of service. “When we call it service sometimes, it puts us on a pedestal that maybe it doesn’t necessarily deserve,” Lieutenant Colonel Kevin McKiernan said.

NEWS | 03/26/2018

Students team up with Trenton artist on Butler mural celebrating diversity

Benjamin Ball

Trenton artist Will Kasso and members of the University community created a 40-foot mural on canvas which will be installed later this spring on the lower level of the Butler dorm complex near Studio 34. The mural attempts to express the University’s multifaceted history.

NEWS | 03/25/2018

LSD at Princeton: New book blows minds

LSD at Princeton: New book blows minds

Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Linh Nguyen

A news release from the University Office of Communications on Sept. 1, 1977, provided further details about the experimentation, including that “CIA funds totaling $4,075 were paid in 1953 and 1958 for research by two individuals who were then affiliated with the University.” The release also refutes any claims that the “University as an institution was involved in this research.”

NEWS | 03/25/2018