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News & Notes: Harvard faculty approve College's Honor Code

News & Notes: Harvard faculty approve College's Honor Code

Daily Princetonian Staff

Harvard faculty have approved the college’s first Honor Code,theHarvard Crimson reported. With the new honor code, which will likely be put in place in the fall of 2015, students will be required to make a “regular affirmation of integrity.” The nature and frequency of the affirmation of the honor code have not yet been determined. However, exams will still be proctored, a key difference from the Princeton Honor Code. According to the Crimson, the code will lay out “formal expectations for academic integrity” and create a new student-faculty/administrator judicial “Honor Board” to hear violations of these expectations. Discussions about creating an honor code began nearly two years ago in the wake of the Harvard cheating scandal in fall of 2012, in which over 100 students were investigated for cheating. “The impact will probably be small, but I think over time it will help to create that culture shift where people really value academic integrity and personal integrity,” Harvard Undergraduate Council Vice President Sietse K.

NEWS | 05/06/2014

At CPUC meeting, Princeton revises sexual violence definitions

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Revisions to sexual violence and personal safety clauses under the University's RRR policies were passed on a 12 to six vote on Monday during the last Council of Princeton University Community meeting of the academic year. The revisions were drafted over the course of a year and originated from the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which required institutions to prohibit acts relating to dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, University Provost David Lee GS '99 said in his presentation. To ensure adequate prohibitions relating to these three issues, a sexual misconduct working group comprised of faculty and administrators has worked on developing comprehensive definitions of such acts. There is a new definition for "Intimate Relationship" and "Intimate Relationship Violence," which includes domestic violence and stalking.Additionally, subsections were added to "Personal Safety" stating that serious offenses include "violence directed at a person cohabiting in the same space as the perpetrator" and stalking. Lee said the committee expects to introduce further revisions, as the legislation and policies regarding such acts are constantly evolving.

NEWS | 05/06/2014

Title IX complaint against U. likely to be resolved this month

Ruby Shao

The Department of Education will likely resolve the ongoing complaint against the University for alleged violations of Title IX within two weeks, according to New England School of Law adjunct professor Wendy Murphy, who was responsible for filing the complaint. Murphy opened cases against the University and Harvard Law School under Title IX — the law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational institutions that receive federal funding — for sexual violence complaints in fall 2010. The Department of Education included these institutions on a list of higher education institutions under federal investigation released last Thursday. In sending the cases to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, Murphy said she wanted the agency's headquarters to issue global guidelines so that all schools could improve their sexual assault and Title IX policies, as the problems at the University and Harvard Law School were allegedly systemic in higher education.OCR responded by releasing a Dear Colleague Letter in April 2011 that explained "schools’ responsibility to take immediate and effective steps to end sexual harassment and sexual violence" under Title IX regulations. However, a few weeks after the letter's publication, legislators filed a new federal law called the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, referred to as SaVE, that reduced the standards for helping sexual assault victims, according to Murphy. "It in effect gives Harvard and Princeton and all schools federal authority to mistreat sexual assault victims on campus," she explained.

NEWS | 05/06/2014

Despite new building, Neuroscience courses on the decline

De Vann Sago

While a new $180 million neuroscience building was completed in the fall of 2013, the program will only be offering three elective courses for the neuroscience certificate in the fall of 2014, compared with seven this semester and nine in the fall of 2013. In order to get the neuroscience certificate, students need to take two core courses and three electives. According to the Registrar’s website, the neuroscience electives offered next fall are NEU 408: Cellular and Systems Neuroscience, NEU 501A/501B: From Molecules to Systems and NEU 336: The Diversity of Brains.

NEWS | 05/06/2014

Program in Creative Writing transitions to online sign-ups

Sharon Deng

Students no longer have to line up early in the morning by New South Building to register for workshops in the Program in Creative Writing. Registration for fall 2014-15 will now take place electronically through SCORE, the University's student course online registration engine. The Program in Creative Writing offers small workshops that focus on poetry, fiction, literary translation and screenwriting.

NEWS | 05/06/2014

Potential construction costs did not come up during discussions over U. contributions

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Potential new costs for the town, incurred through the University’s construction projects, did not play a role in increasing its voluntary contribution to the municipal government, according to a University official. The new agreement, which was approved during a public meeting last week, provides the town with $2.75 million in 2014, an increase of over 10 percent from last year’s contribution.

NEWS | 05/04/2014

News and Notes: Michelle Obama ’85 wears Princeton shirt, speaks about experience at U.

Daily Princetonian Staff

First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 wore a T-shirt on Thursday bearing the University's name, according to an Instagram picture shared on Obama's account. Obama wore the shirt for a College Signing Day event in San Antonio on May 1 as part of her Reach Higher Initiative to encourage young adults to finish their education. Obama, who has rebuffed invitations from the University in the past and rarely mentions her connection to the University, also discussed her experience at the University in her speech at the event. "I focused my entire high school career not just on getting a high school diploma, but on getting into Princeton," Obama said. "I thought I had done everything I could to prepare myself for Princeton, but when I got there, I was totally overwhelmed.

NEWS | 05/04/2014

Forbes dean to be replaced by a current Director of Studies

Jacob Donnelly

The position of dean of Forbes College, which was recently left vacant, is open to only six eligible candidates.The positioncan only be filled by someone who is currently a director of studies in a residential college at the University,according to an online job posting. A posting for a new director of studies is also advertised, although the residential college is not named, and is not restricted to internal candidates. Filling the post of dean with a director of studies is standard hiring procedure, Senior Associate Dean of the College ClaireFowler said in an interview.

NEWS | 05/04/2014

USG implements ‘Conversations’ project to engage students in dialogue

Charles Kyungchan Min

Conversations, the first summit of a new dialogue series,took place Thursday at Frist Campus Center’s food gallery during late meal. This new initiative, sponsored by USG and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, intends to bring students from different backgrounds together and engage them in dialogues on different topics. “I was initially hoping that there would be a couple of 15-minute dialogues in five tables,” U-CouncilorSol Taubin ’16, the lead project coordinator for Conversations, said.

NEWS | 05/03/2014

News and Notes: Gilens appears on 'The Daily Show'

Daily Princetonian Staff

University politics professor Martin Gilens appeared on an episode of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Wednesdayalongside Northwestern University political science professor Benjamin Page. Gilens and Page published a study in April that used regression analysis to analyze the differences in influence that affluent individuals, interest groups and average citizens have on government policy outcomes. Gilens told Stewart that they analyzed over a thousand policy changes over the past few decades and found that elite groups and individuals had a disproportionate share of influence over policy. Page also addressed University economics and Wilson School professor Paul Krugman's view that the study raises good points but discourages people.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

News and Notes: U. cancels early morning classes following intense rain

Sheila Sisimit

The University delayed opening until 10 a.m. on Thursday due to many roads being closed and traffic being slowed by flooding, according to an email sent out by the University telephone and emergency notification system. Classes continued as scheduled. Only employees in critical roles needed to report for their shifts before 10 a.m. Dining halls, Frist Campus Center and all campus libraries except Mudd Library remained open as scheduled. The University also postponed the start of the working day several times earlier this year due to intense winter storms.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

U. included in list of ongoing Title IX investigations

Angela Wang

The Department of Education named Princeton as one of 55 colleges and universities currently under federal investigation for sexual violence complaints on Thursday.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

Student group organizes sit-in protest

Durva Trivedi

Wearing white face masks and black clothing, sitting cross-legged in a semicircle on the ground outside Frist Campus Center, about a dozen student members of Praxis Axis sat quietly in protest on Thursday at noon. The students played a recording of raised voices against classism, racism, sexism, heteronormativism and administrative response to sexual assault and mental health issues played on repeat. On its publicized “Day of Disruption,” the group published the Praxis Axis Press, a four-page newsletter, in which they relayed their manifesto, claiming to speak as a “collective of queer people, trans people, people of color and people of faith coming together for a simple purpose: to disrupt.” The group displaced Daily Princetonian newspapers in at least two distribution boxes, replacing them with the Praxis Axis Press.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

Art, psychology Class of 2016 majors overwhelmingly female

Ruby Shao

While bachelor's degree concentration declarations for the Class of 2016 were predominantly male in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, the gender distribution was roughly even in the social sciences and the humanities. Female A.B.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

Krueger lectures on post-recession economy, income inequality

Krueger lectures on post-recession economy, income inequality

Daniel Johnson

Alan Krueger spoke to seniors on Thursday about the difficulty of managing the economy during the recession and the importance that rising inequality could play in the future of the United States. Kruger is a professor of economics and public affairs and former Chairman of U.S.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

Habermas talks international law, European politics

Jacob Donnelly

The principle of state equality is an important goal of international law and a point of contention in European politics, Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and professor emeritus at the Goethe University Frankfurt, said in a lecture on Thursday. Habermas explained that in international law, the principle of state equality guarantees an equal standing to all states and governments. In contrast to Americans, the people of Europe do not want a large federal state, Habermas said.

NEWS | 05/01/2014

News & Notes: Obama, Biden, celebrities call for action against sexual assault

Daily Princetonian Staff

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden appeared on Tuesday alongside celebrities such as Steve Carell and Daniel Craig in a 60-second video focusing on sexual assault. The video is a rousing call for action against sexual assault, which the all-male cast describes as “happening to our sisters, and our daughters, our wives and our friends.” It is the second public service announcement of the “1 is 2 Many”campaign the White House has been launching since 2012.

NEWS | 04/30/2014

News & Notes: Student accepted to all ivies chooses Yale

Daily Princetonian Staff

High school senior Kwasi Enin has decided to attend Yale this coming fall after being accepted by all eight Ivy League schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale, CNN reported. He announced his decision to accept Yale’s offer at a news conference in the gymnasium of his school, William Floyd High School. Enin said that his visit to Yale’s campus in New Haven, Conn.

NEWS | 04/30/2014

Falleti discusses contradictory research on participatory democracy in Latin America

Jacqueline Gufford

Participatory democracy is a work in progress, Tulia Falleti, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, saidin a lecture Wednesday on the introduction, spread and evolution of local participatory democracy in Latin America. Falleti is a fellow with the University’s quarterly political science journal, World Politics.

NEWS | 04/30/2014

Politics professor emeritus Paul Sigmund dies

Politics professor emeritus Paul Sigmund dies

Sarah Kim

Paul Sigmund, professor emeritus in the politics department, died at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Sunday from pneumonia, his family confirmed.

NEWS | 04/30/2014

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