Mark Benjamin ’14 will bike from Portsmouth, N.H. to Vancouver, British Columbiaover the course of 10 weeks this summer as a Bike & Build rider. Bike & Build is a nonprofit organization based inPhiladelphia, Pa.
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 chose Susan Wolf’s book “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” for the Class of 2018 Pre-Read. Members of the Class of 2018 will receive a free copy of the assigned book fortheir first college assignmentin the mail this summer. During freshman week, Wolf will participate in a panel discussion about her book with other faculty members.
The 2014 Class Council postponed its Pub Night scheduled for Monday evening due to rain on Ivy Inn’s facilities. In an email addressed to the members of the senior class, Luchi Mmegwa ’14, the president of the 2014 Class Council, announced the rescheduling of the event, which allows seniors of legal drinking age to consume alcohol together at a bar that the Class Council reserves. A previous Pub Night this year was held at the Triumph Brewery on Nassau Street. An Ivy Inn representative explained that the Inn has an outdoor patio at the back, which the Class of 2014 had originally intended to use for the event.
Electronic music artist GRiZ and soul musician Mayer Hawthorne will perform at spring Lawnparties, the USG announced with a video presentation in Frist Campus Center’s gallery Monday night. GRiZ is a Detroit-area musician and producer of electronic music.
The Alumni Association will not be introducing new precautions in light of the meningitis outbreak at this year’s Reunions, a decision made following a meeting of University administrators in early April.In 2013, the Alumni Association posted a note of caution online, warning alumni not to share drinks.However, at the time, only four cases of meningitis had been reported.
Princeton Police Captain Nick Sutter was voted to be sworn in as the new chief of police of the department at a town council meeting on Monday. Sutter has led the department for the past year as acting chief, following theretirement of David Dudeck, and has seen the department through the consolidation of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough. Sutter will earn a salary of $161,366, with a longevity payment of $6,455, the Princeton Packet reported. Each of the council members had the chance to speak to Sutter and ask him questions during the course of the meeting.Two council members, Lance Liverman and Patrick Simon, chose not to ask questions, and instead praised Sutter’s performance in leading the department over the last year. “I have very rarely seen a police department as together as this department is today,” Liverman said. Councilwoman Heather Howard asked Sutter about his plans for the future of the department, in particular the Safe Neighborhoods Bureau. “I think that the job that unit has done speaks for itself,” Sutter said, adding that the unit accomplished a lot in the past year and that it “want[s] to build on that momentum going forward.” Councilwoman Jenny Crumiller asked Sutter how he plans to maintain communication with both the community and with the council. “Communication is pivotal to the department, internally and externally,” Sutter said.
The Princeton Theological Seminary has received a $1.1 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to fund The Confirmation Project, Christian Youth: Learning and Living the Faith.
Passes for Late Meal — a website that connects students with Late Meal swipes with students with eating club passes in order to trade them — was taken down by its creators on Monday evening following discussions with the University administration about its permissibility under current dining regulations. They will not be subject to disciplinary sanctions, one of the creators said. Mike Caddell, a media specialist at the University's Office of Communications, declined to comment on the specific case, but said that exchanging Late Meals is against the meal contract students sign with Dining Services. The University's dining hall contract, which all students on residential meal plans are required to sign, does not discuss whether students are allowed to exchange their meal swipes, according to a review of the contract by The Daily Princetonian. In addition, the "Meal Plan Terms and Policies" section of the Dining Services website also does not discuss the subject of exchanging meal swipes, but it does say that "Misuse of the late meal program will result in a guest meal charge to the student's account." It remains unclear whether students who exchange their Late Meals through Passes for Late Meal will be charged extra meal charges. [scribd id=216936399 key=key-1tunmi2vrbznq7ndz35h mode=scroll] Utsarga Sikder ’15, Nihar Madhavan ’15 and Junya Takahashi ’15, the creators of the website, said they participated in talks with the University before deciding to take it down. The University, they weren't okay with the site in the current form that it was, and they didn't expressly tell us to take it down, but the changes they did require, we felt would [alter] the site so much, and we weren't willing to compromise and do that," Sikder said. The University wanted them to remove all mentions of partying from the site, Sikder said. The site was widely visited across campus, Sikder noted.
About 25 Dartmouth students staged a two-day sit-in at the school president's office over campus diversity issues from April 1 to April 3, the Huffington Post reported. The protest began Tuesday afternoon and demanded the president’s response to issues raised in the “Freedom Budget,” a document written by students that listed over 70 different actions for the administration to take to eradicate oppression on campus, the students alleged. The listed items addressed issues on oppression related to racism, sexism, ableism and heterosexism.
The string of University class banners donning the upper walls of the Wawa convenience store were recently removed to allow for remodeling, according to a Wawa manager. Once the minor renovation was completed, employees were instructed not to repost the banners since the convenience store will be moving in a few months, the manager explained. As part of the University's $330 million Arts and Transit Project, the Wawa will be relocatedsouth of the Forbes College Addition on the west side of Alexander Road by the late summer of 2014, according to the project website. The website also says that the current Wawa building will be demolished to make room for the new arts facilities once the relocated locale opens for business. It remains unclear whether the class banners will be placed on the walls of the new Wawa building once it is completed.
A delegation of University officials and professors, including University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, will travel to Paris for the second annual Princeton-Fung Global Forum from April 9 to 11, where university leaders and policy makers will convene to discuss the future of higher education. Created last year with a $10 million donation by University trustee William Fung ’70, managing director of Li & Fung Group, the forum was designed to provide a venue for educators from different backgrounds around the world to discuss their views on important global issues. “We look for important things in world affairs that matter.
The USG will make "a very important announcement" about Lawnpartieson Monday at8:30 p.m. in Frist Campus Center, according to Social Chair Logan Roth '15."I just want everyone to get super, super excited because this is at the very least going to be the best Lawnparties that I've been to," Roth said at Sunday's Senate meeting.In other topics discussed at the meeting, the USG aims to launch the Princeton 2018 website for newly admitted students by Thursday, USG president Shawon Jackson '15 said. "What we have right now is a completely redesigned framework," IT Committee Chair Clement Lee '17 said.
The top winners at the Entrepreneurship Club's TigerLaunch Competition were FireStop, a mobile application for firefighters, and SignSchool, an online learning platform for American Sign Language.The final two rounds of the month-long competition took place this weekend. The annual competition began with 80 teams that belonged to either the Entrepreneurship track, which includes for-profit proposals, or the Social Entrepreneurship track for mostly nonprofit proposals. In the first round of competition, teams submitted a proposal for their startup idea.
The University’s first national marketing and advertising conference, held this weekend, invited guest speakers from different marketing backgrounds to teach students about how to change marketing strategies to target contemporary consumers.
The Princeton Garden Theatre, a movie theater that is owned by the University, will be renovated under new management in June, ending its over 20-year lease agreement with Garden Theatre Inc. The administration has decided to lease the establishment to non-profit company Renew Theaters. Garden Theatre Inc. did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Executive Director of Renew Theaters John Toner explained that his company operates three other theaters in Pennsylvania and traditionally manages downtown establishments built during the classic Hollywood period between 1927 and 1963. “I think it’s a really good fit,” Toner said of the upcoming agreement, which will take effect on June 1.
Susan Patton ’77 allegedly pursued her first husband — Steve Jaffe, an advertising executive at an agency she worked at — while he was still married, the Daily Mail reports. Patton has previously declined to comment on her marital history besides stating that she is divorced with two sons.
Harvard University president Drew Faust announced the creation of a sexual assault task force in an email to the Harvard student body and faculty on Thursday afternoon. Former Harvard Provost Steven Hyman, who oversaw the creation of Harvard's Office of Sexual Assault and Response, will chair the task force, Harvard's independent newspaper The Crimson reports. Last year, Harvard formed a working group to evaluate if its sexual assault policies were in accordance with federal Title IX regulations.
A group of seven students traveled to Urubamba, Peru over spring break as part of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement’s pilot international service trip. The team, which brought solar power to the rural 16-home village of Corpani Peñas, also teamed up with Bridge Year Program students in the area to build cleaner brick-burning stoves in homes in Huycho and cement patios for homes in Tambococha.
Novartis — the manufacturer of Bexsero, the meningitis B vaccine used tovaccinate University students this spring—announced that it is currently filing an application for FDA review of its vaccine, in the hopes of obtaining licensure. The use of Bexsero at the University and at the University of California at Santa Barbara has given Novartis safety data from 14,000 people, almost twice the number — 8,000 — that helped Novartis gain approval for Bexsero in Australia, Canada and the European Union, FierceVaccines reported.
The state of world affairs will continue to be challenging for the United States to deal with, but the United States shouldn’t shy away from active participation, said Christopher Hill, former ambassador to Iraq and assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Hill explained that although the United States and its allies have largely succeeded in incorporating Russia into the framework of international affairs over the 23 years since the Soviet Union’s collapse, that participation is a double-edged sword in the case of the West’s reliance on Russian oil and gas. He added that Russia’s invasion of Crimea is broader than the aspirations of the Ukrainian people, which the American media commonly portrays as reason for concern, but instead extends to the question of Russia’s future role in the international community. Sanctions may not be the best approach to resolving the crisis, he said. “I remember we used to put [smart sanctions] on Milosevic, denying him a visa to go visit Disneyland and somehow change future of Kosovo,” Hill said jokingly. Hill then turned his attention to Syria, saying that the crisis in Syria is one of the most pernicious crises the world faces. Secretary of State John Kerry should not get hung up on the issue of removing Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria, Hill said.
