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SURGE to petition for divestment

SURGE to petition for divestment

Students United for a Responsible Global Environment plans to petition the University to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies, according to the group?s vice president of policy. The initiative follows similar campaigns at other Ivy League institutions, including Penn, Harvard and Brown. Isaac Lederman ?15, SURGE?s co-president, said his group found investment in fossil fuel-producing companies incompatible with the University?s values. ?It is immoral for the University to invest in [fossil fuel] companies, especially because the University is supposed to look after the planet that we, the students, are going to inherit,? explained Lederman.

NEWS | 02/26/2013

News & Notes: Local resident charged with drug possession at Frist

An 18-year-old princeton resident was arrested and charged with drug possession and criminal trespass at Frist Campus Center on Tuesday morning. Kairi Nadre-Dimitri Aeriel was allegedly seen asleep inside Frist in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prompting a call to the University?s Department of Public Safety.

NEWS | 02/26/2013

Alumnus pushes for Greek advocacy

A University alumnus and member of Beta Theta Pi is seeking to generate interest for an advocacy group on behalf of Greek organizations on campus.

NEWS | 02/26/2013

U. considers covering gender reassignment in health plan

The University is ?actively exploring the possibility of offering benefits for gender reassignment surgery in both plans for students and employees,? though no decisions have yet been made, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Although Princeton was ranked in the ?Top 10 Trans-Friendly Colleges and Universities? by the Advocate this past August, the University differs from Brown, Stanford and 34 other institutions in that it does not currently offer coverage to students for gender reassignment surgery under its student health care plan. Princeton health care plans for both students and employees currently provide coverage for prescriptions including hormone therapy and mental health counseling. LGBT Center Director Debra Bazarsky said that the Center and University Health Services have partnered in examining the surgery and arrangements for its coverage under the student and employee health care plans. ?There are transgender students on campus, some of whom are seeking surgery, some who have no intention of ever having surgery and some who?ve already had surgery,? Bazarsky said.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

AASA pushes for Asian American Studies certificate

Members of the Asian-American Students Association and several faculty members have renewed a decades-old push for the administration to establish an Asian-American studies program at the University.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

Sanger discusses Obama’s drone policy, Operation Olympic Games

The United States has yet to determine a coherent policy on the use of war tactics such as drone strikes and cyber weapons, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times David Sanger said in a lecture in Robertson Bowl on Monday. Sanger said that the American public was essentially engaged in a debate over how drone strikes and cyber weapons should be used in warfare and that it was crucial that this debate soon result in a coherent policy. Sanger cited domestic policy debates on the use of tactics like nuclear weapons and landmines as historical lessons to understand how public debate can help resolve present-day challenges.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

PUO and Glee Club receive anonymous $5 million

The Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton University Glee Club have been left $5 million, to be equally divided between the groups, in the will of an anonymous, deceased alumnus. Music lecturer and Glee Club director and conductor Gabriel Crouch announced to club members a week and a half ago that someone had left the two music groups $5 million, according to Glee Club president Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa ?14. PUO director Michael Pratt announced the donation to the orchestra on Feb.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

Microsoft funds many USG events

Microsoft?s continued support of Undergraduate Student Government events, including Lawnparties, the Silent Disco and the recent Idea Farm, is part of a student engagement model the company is piloting at Princeton for future education programs at U.S.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

U. College Republicans doesn’t endorse Ivy League gay marriage support statement

Princeton College Republicans has decided not to endorse a statement of support for marriage equality circulated by the presidents of numerous Ivy League Democrats and Republicans chapters.

NEWS | 02/25/2013

U. hosts talk on ethical investing

In response to increased interest on campus in issues of socially responsible investing, the Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community has invited the chair of Yale?s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility and law professor Jonathan Macey to give a talk on Mar.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

USG discusses results of the recent “What I Be” project

The USG discussed the success of the ?What I Be? project at its meeting on Sunday night.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Second Mental Health Week begins

The second USG-sponsored Mental Health Week, consisting of several speakers, group fitness classes, movie screenings and mental health-related study breaks, will run from Feb.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Alumni Day honors Daniels ’71

Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels ?71 was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor given to an undergraduate alumnus, on Saturday during the University?s 2013 Alumni Day in Richardson Auditorium.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Fraga GS ’85 awarded James Madison Medal

Arminio Fraga GS ?85, an investor and the former president of the Central Bank of Brazil, was awarded the James Madison Medal, the University?s highest honor conferred on an alumnus of the Graduate School, during Saturday?s Alumni Day proceedings.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Tilghman, Slaughter ’80 discuss women and leadership

Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80 and University President Shirley Tilghman spoke Friday evening as part of the Alumni Association?s ?Conversation on Women & Leadership.? The pair discussed a wide range of topics, from the label of feminism to the role of government in actually implementing gender-based reform.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Starlings only aware of immediate neighbors, U. research finds

Scientists have long puzzled over how flocks of several thousand starlings flying without a leader and without a destination manage to remain one cohesive unit, but University researchers have now determined the cause of this flock unity.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Cap changes Bicker decision

As eating clubs were conducting pickups the Saturday after Bicker week, a student who had previously been informed that he had been hosed learned that he had actually been accepted.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Clowning around: Gelsone ’96 makes living in comedy

While all of her roommates became doctors and many of her friends entered finance after graduating from Princeton, Christina Gelsone ?96 headed to clown school.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Ivy League admit numbers stabilize

This academic year?s round of Ivy League admissions saw less change in application numbers for the incoming freshman class.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Shawon Jackson ’15: Spotlight on Service

USG president Shawon Jackson ?15 said he plans to promote accessibility, approachability and accountability for the USG this year, signaling that he would keep his campaign promises during his term. ?The theme for this year is ?to lead is to serve,? and that?s a quote from Elie Wiesel,? Jackson said.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

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