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U. yield reaches 68.5 percent for Class of 2020

U. yield reaches 68.5 percent for Class of 2020

Caroline Lippman

With 1,323 students having committed to the University, the Class of 2020 yield rate currently stands at 68.5 percent, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelyesaid. The 1,323 students include 40 students who deferred admission from previous years and 14 students who were admitted this year and have already deferred to the Class of 2021, Rapelye explained. She noted that this number is subject to slight change as students notify the Admission Office of their intent to take a gap year. Although the numbers are not final, Rapelye noted that she can safely say that the 68.5 percent yield is the highest the University has had in many years. “We’re in a very good spot,” Rapelye said of the current number of incoming students for the Class of 2020.

NEWS | 05/16/2016

Communications around parking policy change started in February, according to administration

Jessica Li and Amber Park

Since hitting multiple listserv threads last Tuesday, a petition against the decision to limit undergraduate parking by the Department of Transportation and Public Services has gathered more than 1,200 signatures, spurred upwards of fifty concerned emails addressed to the Undergraduate Student Government, and fueled social media uproar about the lack of transparency.Under the new parking policy scheduled to go in effect next academic year, undergraduates will not be permitted to park on campus unless they receive an exemption for “compelling need.”According to University Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day, discussions around limiting undergraduate parking emerged in the last two years during the course of campus and strategic planning conversations.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Alumni claim U. misrepresented sprint football injury rate

Kevin Agostinelli and Rachel Glenn

Former and current members of Princeton’s sprint football team have joined together in an effort to oppose President Christopher L.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Class of 2019 declares B.S.E. concentrations

Catherine Wang

The Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science continues its reign as the department with the highest number of concentrators, as 103 B.S.E.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

USG Senate discusses referenda and sexual misconduct policies

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government Senate approved new appointments to the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline and discussed referenda and sexual misconduct policies during its last meeting of the semester on Sunday.The Spring 2016 USG elections saw a relativelylow turnout of only 28.5 percent of the student body, according to chief elections manager Sung Won Chang ’18.“There has been a constant downward trend [in turnout] since the Will Gansa campaign,” Chang said, adding that the seniors did not have the motivation to vote.While neither referendum met the third-of-the-student-body threshold, Chang said that the SPEAR referendum came close.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

News & Notes: Unarmed robbery at Forbes

Daily Princetonian Staff

A female undergraduate student was punched twice in the face and robbed by the traffic light in front of the Annex of Forbes College, along Alexander Street, on Sunday at 1:41 a.m., according to a University Department of Public Safety campus safety alert. The male was reported to be wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a white drawstring.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Cannon and Cottage eating clubs temporarily close following graffiti incidents

Maya Wesby

Following recent cases of graffiti markings, Cannon Club and Cottage Club have closed and are off-tap to non-members, but will reconsider re-opening in time for Dean’s Date, according to sources within the club. An unknown person or persons graffitied the cannon located on the front lawn of Cannon with the letters “UCC,” allegedly standing for “University Cottage Club.” The graffiti was easily cleaned off of the cannon with spray paint within a day of it being discovered. Keelan Smithers ’17, president of Cannon, did not respond to requests for comment.Robert Casey ’67, Graduate Board chair of Cannon,was unavailable for comment. On Thursday, graffiti also appeared on the columns of Cottage’s pillars with the letters “CDE,” allegedly standing for Cannon’s formal name, “Cannon Dial Elm.” The damage done to the columns will be difficult to repair, as they are made of aged marble that is difficult to wash.

NEWS | 05/08/2016

Women's track prepares for outdoor Heptagonal Championships

Claire Coughlin

This weekend, Princeton will host the 2016 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships for women’s track and field at Weaver Stadium.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Anti-Semitic graffiti appears on Holocaust Remembrance Day

William Liu

Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a restroom in the Friend Center on Wednesday, the first evening of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.According to Elan Sykes ’18, who authored a Facebook post about the incident, the graffiti was found in a bathroom by another student.Sykes said that the graffiti was written in a toilet paper dispenser inside a bathroom stall.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Women's lacrosse prepares for title defense against Cornell

Helen Zhang

The Princeton Tigers (11-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) look to become back-to-back Ivy League Tournament champions this Friday, as they take on a spirited Cornell lineup in the Ivy League women’s lacrosse semifinals.The match comes after the Tigers clinched their third Ivy League Title in consecutive years, with an impressive 8-3 win over Brown last week.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

CV of failures sparks conversation on academic successes

Rachel Glenn

SinceAssistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Johannes Haushofer released a “CV of Failures”on his Twitter in late April, the document has sparked a discussion on success on University campus.On April 23, Haushofer tweeted a link to a document in which he listed his failures, including six degree programs he did not get into, three academic positions and fellowships he did not get, nine awards and scholarships he did not receive, six paper rejections from academic journals and eight opportunities for research funding he did not attain.Haushofer said that he aims to continue to shed light on the invisibility of failures.“I’m hoping that [my CV of Failures] will be a source of perspective at times when things aren’t going well, especially for students and my fellow young researchers,” he said.According to Haushofer, he first wrote a CV of failures in 2011, shortly after a friend and colleague, Melanie Stefan, a lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, proposed the idea in an article in the academic journal Nature.“A friend had had a professional setback and I wanted to show support, and this seemed like a good way of doing it.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Study finds eating less beef crucial to more sustainable future

Ruby Shao

Eating less beef is essential to ensuring a sustainable food supply in the coming decades, according to an April 20 working paper whose co-authors include University affiliates Timothy Searchinger and Xin Zhang."When you count the land use implications of meat diets, and above all beef, the greenhouse gas emissions are much, much, much higher than vegetarian or more vegetable-oriented diets," said Searchinger, a research scholar in the Wilson School.Searchinger serves as a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, the global research organization that released the report.The paper probably offers today's most detailed and accurate global analysis of actual diets and their greenhouse gas emissions and land use requirements, Searchinger said.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Princeton Open Campus Coalition to consider registering as ODUS student group

Claire Lee

Six months after its creation, the Princeton Open Campus Coalition is now considering recognition from the University as an officially registered student group, according to Thomas Dunne, deputy dean of Undergraduate Students. According to Dunne, a campus student-run organization that uses “Princeton” in its group name needs to register with the University and be affiliated with the University.

NEWS | 05/05/2016

Ted Cruz '92 drops out of presidential race

Jessica Li

After three weeks of setbacks that culminated in a decisive defeat in the Indiana primaries, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 announced the end of his presidential bid Tuesday evening. “From the beginning, I have said that I will continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory,” he told supporters at an event in Indiana, “Tonight, I am sorry to say, it appears that path has been closed.” Cruz’s withdrawal positions businessman Donald Trump as the possible Republican nominee.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

Students to present their independent work during Princeton Research Day

Kristin Qian

The first annual Princeton Research Day, a campus-wide celebration of student research, will be held on Thursday and features over 160 presenters who have been selected to give talks and show their independent creative and artistic works.This event differs from other type of undergraduate or graduate research poster session because the event aims to give students the opportunity to explain their research in everyday language, rather than in specialist, technical terms.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

Aronson '16, Fouquet '16 selected as Class Day student speakers

William Liu

Anna Aronson ’16 and Martina Fouquet ’16 have been chosen as the student speakers for Class Day 2016.This is the first time in the University history in which all three class day speakers are women.The speakers were chosen by a panel consisting of students, administrators and the undergraduate Class of 2016 Student Government.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

CPUC discusses updates on cybersecurity, FSI

Maya Wesby

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 opened Monday’s Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting with an agenda to provide developments on works from the CPUC Resource Committee, updates on stronger University cybersecurity and from the Freshman Scholars Institute with the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.A brief Q&A session started the meeting, where U-Councilor Pooja Patel ’18 raised the question on why University fraternities and sororities do not have official access to resources from Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education, noting that 15-20 percent of University students are involved in Greek life.Patel is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.Vice President for Campus Life W.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

New parking policy to ban U. students from having vehicles during school year

Amber Park

Undergraduate students will not be permitted to have a vehicle on campus during the academic year, including on holidays and weekends, according to a new Undergraduate Student Parking Policy announced by Transportation & Parking Services.This new policy will be effective starting September 2016.Kim Jackson, director of Transportation & Parking Services, deferred comment to Daniel Day, assistant vice president of the Office of Communications.“The decision on student parking was made in the larger context of the University’s campus planning initiative to study and plan how best to use University space over the next decade.

NEWS | 05/03/2016

U. Responds to Concerns About Lead in Campus Water

Jessica Li and Myrial Holbrook

The University has not yet found elevated levels of lead concentration in drinking water on campus, according to University Media Specialist Min Pullan.Concerns about lead concentration in campus drinking water surfaced in April whenreportsemerged that elementary schools in the area had water supplies that contained higher concentrations of lead.Princeton Health Officer Jeffrey Grosser explained that Johnson Park elementary school, in particular, had drinking water that tested above the EPA maximum contaminant level for copper.

NEWS | 05/01/2016

Undercover Officer continues to arrest U. students for underage drinking

Amber Park

Undercover Princeton police detective Adam Basatemur continues to make arrests of underage alcohol buyers outside Varsity Liquors this year, according to police reports. In early March of last year,the Daily Princeton reportedthat Basatemur operated outside of Varsity Liquors and has made over 100 related arrests over the past two years.Basatemur has arrested at least 20 students and has been repeatedly reported to observe students walking into the store and follow them as they leave, according topolice and court records. The Princeton Police Department declined requests for comment. Varsity Liquors owner Arun Goel did not respond to a request for comment. The Daily Princetonian spoke anonymously to a student who was recently arrested near the Varsity Liquor store. According to the student, a few weeks ago, hehad gone to Varsity Liquors with a friend who was 21 years old, the legal drinking age. While his friend was inside purchasing alcohol, he had opted to wait outside and, on the way back, his friend asked him to carry two six-packs of beer that he had bought, the student said.He added that he didn't notice the detective, who had beenfollowing the student and his friend across the street as they were walking. As soon as the friend put the alcohol in the student's hands, the detective crossed the streets and asked to see their identification cards. The student and his friend were then charged with underage possession of alcohol and serving alcohol to minors, respectively.

NEWS | 05/01/2016

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