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Cap most bickered and most selective club for second year in a row

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Cap most bickered and most selective club for second year in a row

Ruby Shao

Cap & Gown Club was the most selective and most bickered eating club for the second year in a row after accepting 46 percent of bickerees.Cap accepted 98 of its 213 bickerees this year, including 96 sophomores and two juniors. Around 563 students were accepted into one of the six bicker clubs this year, which is significantly higher than the 515 who were offered membership last year. In total, the bicker clubs received about 884 applications, including cross-bickerees, up from 831 applications last year. Cap president Justin Perez '14 attributed the increase in his club's bickerees to the multi-club Bicker system that was introduced by the Interclub Council last spring.With the new system, students can bicker up to two selective eating clubs and gain membership to the highest ranked club that accepts them. "People probably had the option to bicker two clubs and maybe try Cap out if they wanted to see if they thought it was a place they'd want to be," Perez said."We also had a bunch of sophomore pre-Bicker events that have seen quite a lot of people out as well." Cap has seen a steady increase in the number of bickerees for the past three years, up from 199 in the spring of 2013 and 157 in the spring of 2012. Tower, on the other hand, was the least selective club with a 76.8 percent acceptance rate.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

News & Notes: 111 elite colleges illegally instruct applicants to fill out unnecessary financial aid forms

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: 111 elite colleges illegally instruct applicants to fill out unnecessary financial aid forms

Daily Princetonian Staff

While dozens of elite colleges have recently been accused of illegally instructing potential applicants to fill out an unnecessary financial aid form, the University is the only Ivy League school not included on the list of offenders, according to The Huffington Post. According to a letter sent out by Rep.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

N&N: Study shows that Facebook users will decline by 2017

The Daily Princetonian

N&N: Study shows that Facebook users will decline by 2017

Daily Princetonian Staff

Two Princeton Ph.D. students of mechanical and aerospace engineering, John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, submitteda publicationwhose research predicts that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. Cannarella and Spechler conducted their research using an epidemiological model called SIR, which considers the number susceptible to, infected by and recovered from an infectious disease to predict the spread of that disease within a population.

NEWS | 02/06/2014
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Coen '79 talks newest film

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Coen '79 talks newest film

Paul Phillips

Film director Ethan Coen ’79 discussed various elements of his latest film as well as his experience in making movies in a dialogue with poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Thursday, following a screening of the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis." “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which opened on Jan.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

Jackson '15 outlines second term

The Daily Princetonian

Jackson '15 outlines second term

Durva Trivedi

The incoming USG administration plans to create a new campus-wide mentorship project, host a Violence Intervention and Prevention Week in collaboration with the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources & Education Peer Advisors and work with University administration to revise the grading policy, according to incoming USG president Shawon Jackson '15. Jackson, who was recently reelected for his second term, said his administrative focus will remain on service in leadership. Jackson said his Senate project priorities include creating a policy report about students who take gap years entitled theExtended Leave Report,completing the Committee on Background and OpportunityIV report, which looks at students' backgrounds in relation to their experiences at Princeton, and an ongoing mental health initiative. Jackson said his hope is to increase accountability and approachability among USG members so students understand that “we are here to serve what their needs are and not what our own personal interests are.” The new USG vice president, Molly Stoneman ’16, said she is ready to work with Jackson on these and other projects and is excited about bringing her own set of new ideas to the student government.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

From Beyoncé to Bravo: Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 balances Hollywood with 'socially minded' art

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From Beyoncé to Bravo: Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 balances Hollywood with 'socially minded' art

Angela Wang

Most students look forward to applying what they’ve learned at Princeton to their developing careers post-graduation, but by the time Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 graduated from the University, she was already in what she called "the full-fledged middle of [her] career.” She was a fashion model and photographer. Pal-Chaudhuri spent five years traveling the world as a model before enrolling at the University to study anthropology.

NEWS | 02/05/2014

Office of Religious Life sponsors trip to Cuba

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Office of Religious Life sponsors trip to Cuba

Corinne Lowe

The Office of Religious Life is sponsoring a trip this June that will present students with the opportunity to travel to Cuba in order to focus on religion, human rights and social change, said Alison Boden, who is the dean of the Office of Religious Life and of the Chapel and is responsible for organizing and leading the trip. Between 15 and 20 students will partake in the trip, Boden said,adding that she anticipates that students will be eager to take advantage of this unique opportunity for travel. One such student is Deirdre Ely ’17, who has applied to go on the trip. “It’s a cool country that, because I’m an American citizen, I wouldn’t really get the opportunity to go to,” Ely said. Ely added that she hopes that in participating in the trip she will improve her Spanish and that she will come away with an understanding of Cuban culture and Cuban politics. Getting permission to travel to Cuba was challenging in a few ways, Boden explained.

NEWS | 02/05/2014

Despite report, departments say diversity was already of importance

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Despite report, departments say diversity was already of importance

Elizabeth Paul

Though areportreleased this past September by theTrustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversityfound that white males dominated in faculty, administrator, graduate student and postgraduate populations, representatives from several departments on campus said that they had paid attention to the diversity among their populations before the report was released. The Committee’s report reviewed statistics of the racial and gender demographic trends in undergraduate, graduate, postdocs, faculty and staff populations.

NEWS | 02/05/2014

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