Sandalwood incense sticks and holy books line shelves along the wall.
The UMatter initiative, a University-wide health communication campaign aimed at enhancing bystander intervention, was launched at Campus Club on Friday.The program aims to address three tenets of health and safety on campus: high-risk drinking, mental health distress and interpersonal violence and abuse, according to its website.The four key themes of the campaign are ‘Action Matters,’ ‘Respect Matters,’ ‘Connecting Matters’ and ‘Limit Matters,’ UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 explained.“We were looking for an umbrella framework that could encompass some key higher risk areas and cultivate specific programming for each,” executive director of University Health Services John Kolligian said.The campaign is directly partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Promotion and Prevention Service and Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education office.UMatter Project Manager and Director of the SHARE Office Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said the planning for the initiative began when she arrived at the University in 2011 and began to collaborate with Kathy Wagner, Health Educator at University Health Services, to conceive a new bystander intervention system.Bystander intervention is a multi-step process that includes stages of identifying problematic situations, recognizing personal responsibility and taking action to intervene and therefore tasks individuals to prevent situations from escalating into dangerous behavior, Deitch-Stackhouse explained.While other projects, such as the annual freshman orientation play that addresses sexual consent, were in place when she arrived, they sought to create a project that would pull these initiatives together to create a cohesive campus-wide campaign, she said.“Not only is [UMatter] giving us, as UHS, a brand for all the different outreach and education, but it's also being honest about how connected everything is,” Cellon said, regarding UMatter's significance in making visible the connections between different health-related initiatives on campus.One of the challenges was deciding whether to teach individuals just intervention skills or to teach individuals intervention skills in conjunction with the issues these skills could address, Deitch-Stackhouse added.
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma discussed the rise of Africa at a lecture on Sunday, saying that Africa has come a long way in terms of establishing peace and democracy. Zuma noted that while there were only eight democracies in the continent of Africa in 1991, two-thirds of the countries in Africa are now democracies.
Two-hundred forty-six students registered for sorority rush and about 170 students were offered membership in a sorority last week, three years afterfreshmen were banned from rushing on campus, the University’s Panhellenic Council president Caroline Snowden ’17 said.Around 60 students were offered bids for Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta and around 50 were offered bids for Kappa Kappa Gamma, Snowden said.Pi Phi president Cameron Ruffa ’16 said that 58 students ended up pledging, or accepting bids, with Pi Phi while sources within the other two sororities said that 58 students pledged with Theta and 32 students pledged membership with Kappa.Around 100 of the initial rush registrants did not join any of the three Panhellenic societies.This year’s recruitment process had a lower number of students registering for rush thanlast year, when 283 sophomores, juniors and seniors registered.
A delegation of University students attended the mass conducted by Pope Francis at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday.The mass was expected to draw as many as one million participants, according to USA Today.Francis told attendees that holiness, similar to happiness, is always contained in little gestures.
The Class of 2016 has raised $2,300 for the FEED Foundation through online credit card and cash donations at its Senior Dinner on Friday.All donations from the night will be used to provide meals through FEED to fight food insecurity, both domestically and abroad, class treasurer Richard Lu ’16said.According to Lu, the event was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the 2016 Class Government.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed their fall budget and their goals for the semester during their first meeting of the year on Sunday.USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that she is pursuing a joint town hall with Dean of the College Jill Dolan and Vice President for Campus Life W.
The Princeton High School main office respondedto a bomb threaton Friday, according to a press release from the Princeton Police Department.
The University ranks the first in return on investment among the top 20 private universities in the United States, according to a new report released by Lexington Law, a law firm specializing in credit repair services. According to the report, thelifetime earnings estimate for University graduates is $4,935,817, compared to the University's four-year cost of $223,328. The University’s return on investment is 2,110 percent, slightly higher than MIT’s 2,004 percent. Lexington Law researched the top 20 public and private universities using data from the most recent U.S.
Students no longer need to apply to enroll in journalism courses starting this semester.The Ferris McGraw Seminars in Journalism, administered by the University’s Council of the Humanities, are taught by distinguished professional writers and journalists and cover topics ranging from magazine writing to investigative reporting.
The Office of Sustainability, Building Services and Campus Dining have partnered so that food scraps from the dining hall are now handled by a local company, AgriArk, which will process them into fertilizer at a local facility. Director of the Office of Sustainability Shana Weber explained that, for a long period of time, local options for composting food scraps were unavailable, with the closest facility located in Wilmington, Del.
While members of the first class of concentrators in the new neuroscience program appreciate the concentration’s tutorial-based system and the chance to pursue their passion, some students expressed concern about heavy requirements and the lack of information regarding independent work.Alice Tao ’17, a neuroscience major, said that she was initially planning to major in chemistry but was more interested in the required courses listed on the website for the neuroscience concentration.“I just like the classes and I was thinking of about doing research at [the Princeton Neuroscience Institute] anyway and so it was just a better fit,” Tao said.Dominique Fahmy ’17 said she came in already interested in neuroscience and the introduction of the program was an opportune moment to pursue the concentration.“It was like a godsend because it was right when I was like ‘What am I going to do with myself?’ ” Fahmy said.Nicole Katchur ’17, who started in chemical and biological engineering before switching to molecular biology, said she knew she wanted to concentrate in neuroscience when she was around pediatric neurologists after her older sister had a traumatic brain injury.However, students have also expressed concern about the major’s heavy requirements and prerequisites.Neuroscience departmental representative and professor of psychology Asif Ghazanfar and co-director of the PNI Jonathan Cohen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.According to the neuroscience concentration’s website, the concentration lists a minimum of 16 courses required for the course of study.
Thirty-one percent of Harvard’s female undergraduate students in their senior year reported experiencing some form of sexual assault over their college career, theHarvard Crimsonreported. The results come from a sexual climate survey conducted by the Association of American Universities in spring 2015. Among the institutions surveyed in the 27 AAU schools, Harvard had the highest response rate, and the number of respondents who said they experienced “nonconsensual penetration and sexual touching” was above the average.
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights found that the University did not discriminate against Asians in its admission process, following two complaints filed by applicants. The finding was announced in a report that came in the form of a letter addressed to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. “OCR initiated this review under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” the report reads.
The computer science departmentis now themost popular major with135 students in the Class of 2017 declaring the concentration, according to department chair Jennifer Rexford ’91. The departmenthas displaced the Wilson School, which has in recent years been the most popular concentration on campus. Rexford attributed the rising interest in computer science to recent changes in the job market. “The growth in computer science as a major reflects a national trend, and we are no exception,” Rexford said.
Thomas Gilbert, Jr., ’09 has been found by two court-appointed psychiatrists to be mentally unfit to stand trial, but a judge on Sept.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art named the University's Cotsen Children's Library a 2015 Carle Honors Award recipient, according to a press release from the library. There will be a ceremony this Thursday in New York City at which representatives for the Cotsen Children's Library will accept the "Angel Award." The award commends individuals and organizations who have worked to improve literacy among children.
One week after competing at the Penn Invitational, the men’s tennis team returned to Princeton at the Lenz Tennis Center to compete in the Ivy Plus Tournament as it hosted 21 other tennis teams in the three-day tournament.
Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, was named Dean of the College this June.
U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have support from six percent and three percent of the party, respectively, according to a recent CNN national poll. These ratings keep both Cruz and Christie ranked in the top 10 Republican presidential hopefuls, although they trail behind several other candidates. Donald Trump is the party’s front-runner with 24 percent, followed by Carly Fiorina with 15 percent and Ben Carson with 14 percent. Both Cruz and Christie have significant ties to the University.
