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Students compete in E-Club’s HackPrinceton

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Students compete in E-Club’s HackPrinceton

An anti-procrastination application and a robot that can be controlled by an Xbox Kinect won first-place prizes in the software and hardware categories of HackPrinceton?s Spring 2013 Hackathon on Sunday evening. ?We combined two of our favorite things in the world ? Tamagotchi and trying to make ourselves a little more productive on the web,? Tamagetitdone team member Michael Toth said, referring to the Japanese handheld digital pet. The application is a Google Chrome extension in which a Tamagotchi sits on the bottom-right hand corner of the web browser and sends alerts when the user spends too much time on one of the websites on its ?unproductive list.? The Tamagotchi then goes around the screen and begins eating the links, pictures and video files on the website.

NEWS | 03/31/2013

OIT launches Princeton Mobile

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OIT launches Princeton Mobile

Princeton Mobile, a new mobile website containing interactive information about the University for students, faculty, staff and visitors, will replace the current iPrinceton mobile app, the Office of Information Technology announced. Princeton Mobile contains 16 interactive menus, including a library catalogue and information on residential and retail dining.

NEWS | 03/31/2013
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Community Walks fosters student involvement in local community

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Community Walks fosters student involvement in local community

The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Pace Center have cosponsored Community Walks, a new initiative designed to foster student involvement in the local community by introducing students, alumni and their families to various organizations in the town of Princeton through student-led walking tours. The concept originated in the spring of 2012 after four students formed a Pace Center working group to research projects sponsored by the civic engagement centers at peer universities, according to Shirley Gao ?13, one of the four members of the group and a member of the Community Walks Executive Board. ?I had noticed this gap in Princeton University programming; I noticed that we didn?t really have anything to push people beyond Nassau Street and explore the local town,? Gao explained. The team of students and administrative advisers developing the initiative hopes to familiarize students with the town and encourage them to participate in the local community on the basis of the awareness gained from the walk, according to Associate Dean Maria Flores-Mills, the ODUS member affiliated with the project. ?I think it?s very much in concert with the University?s unofficial service motto,? Flores-Mills added.

NEWS | 03/28/2013

Social psychologist Steele examines stereotype threat in higher education

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Social psychologist Steele examines stereotype threat in higher education

Elizabeth Paul

Internationally renowned social psychologist and Dean for the School of Education at Stanford Claude Steele discussed his research on stereotype threat and the challenges faced by underrepresented minorities in higher education on Tuesday evening. Steele explained how stereotype threat, the experience of anxiety that a person feels when he or she is in a position to potentially confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group, can cause people exposed to the same situation to have divergent experiences.

NEWS | 03/27/2013

Student petition for sex survey gets 1,100 signatures

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Student petition for sex survey gets 1,100 signatures

An online petition calling for the commissioning of an updated ?Sexual Experiences Survey? has amassed over 1,100 signatures since it was first circulated on March 10. The petition was authored by Shreya Murthy ?13, Siofra Robinson ?13 and Kellie Valladares ?13, with input from Kanwal Matharu ?13, earlier this month in response to the publication of a previously unpublished survey from 2008 showing that one in six female undergraduates reported non-consensual vaginal penetration. ?We were definitely shocked when the initial article had come out, but it seems that once we started asking questions it didn?t really seem like the University was necessarily trying to hide it or intentionally suppress it ? more that they had just used it internally and hadn?t necessarily thought to make it as public, as perhaps students would want it to be,? Murthy said. In response to the petition, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education Program Director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse and Women?s Center Director Amada Sandoval met with Murthy, Robinson and Valladares on Monday to discuss efforts that can be made on campus to address sexual assault. ?When we met with the students [who crafted the petition], we had a productive first discussion on how to continue to further our efforts in this area,? Director of News and Editorial Services in the Office of Communications Daniel Day said on behalf of Cherrey.

NEWS | 03/27/2013

Three seniors win $30k Labouisse Prize

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Three seniors win $30k Labouisse Prize

A joint project in Sierra Leone by Shirley Gao ?13 and Raphael Frankfurter ?13 and a project in Brazil by Courtney Crumpler ?13 were awarded this year?s Henry Richardson Labouisse ?26 Prize, which provides graduating seniors $30,000 to pursue work in the developing world. The two judges, Wilson School professor Stanley Katz and history professor Janet Chen, selected the winning projects because they best fit the award?s mission to support hands-on efforts to help the developing world that are likely to succeed, Katz said. ?The spirit of this award is that it?s for students who want to go out and work with local organizations and local individuals to improve local living conditions,? Katz said.

NEWS | 03/26/2013

Panel explores gender limitations women face in society

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Panel explores gender limitations women face in society

In an event held on Tuesday evening in recognition of Women?s History Month, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a panel on whether women are limited in society, especially in relation to Freud?s claim that ?anatomy is destiny.? The panelists included Wilson School professor Nannerl Keohane, Italian professor Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Director of Student Life for Butler College Alexis Andres and Women?s Center director Amada Sandoval. Andres began the discussion by explaining the research she conducted for her dissertation on the concept of effortless perfection for women at the University of Virginia, which was based on a survey conducted by Keohane at the Women?s Initiative Steering Committee at Duke University. She shared responses from students she interviewed who said that women felt pressure to do well in school, participate in multiple extracurricular activities and maintain a nice body but never show their exhaustion or stress. Sandoval added to this by discussing the double standard women face in terms of personalities and body issues, saying that women are constantly scrutinized on the basis of their looks and behavior.

NEWS | 03/26/2013

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