USG concert and social funds budget itemIn lieu of a USG sponsored concert at the 2009 fall lawn parties, the USG
Facebook use correlates to lower GPAs in college students, according to the results of a recent study conducted by researchers at Ohio State University and Ohio Dominican University.
The USG recently launched an initiative to increase awareness of the University’s grading policies among employers and educational institutions, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced earlier this week.
As a freshman in high school, Yujhan Claros ’10, the son of Salvadorian immigrants who never attended high school, placed a voice recording expressing his desire one day to attend Princeton into a time capsule. Four years later, Claros’ hopes came true.
Current Class of 2010 president Aditya Panda and secretary Phoebe Jin will compete in next week’s election for the position of next year’s senior class president.
Cottage Club is launching an ad campaign to search for a bronze eagle that was stolen from its courtyard last month. “The eagle disappeared about a month ago and it was noticed as missing by our house manager,” Cottage president Ben Bologna ’10 said in an e-mail. “We have contacted the proper Borough and University authorities about our stolen item and are also running ads in local newspapers.”
Ninety-one percent of graduate students who applied for University housing were assigned rooms in last week’s draw for the upcoming academic year, up from 85 percent last year.
Borough Police arrested two men in connection with separate alleged incidents of criminal sexual contact on campus last weekend. Neither suspect has been charged in connection with the instances of lewdness on campus reported early Saturday morning.
Just one day after the USG Senate voted unanimously to support a referendum that would contribute the USG social budget to Annual Giving, several students voiced opposition, saying it would only minimally help the the $56 million goal. But other students and administrators said the referendum would show students are willing to do their part.
Princeton poets bemoaning the loss of the Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival, which has taken place in even-numbered years since 1986 in New Jersey’s Waterloo Village, may find solace in the University’s own Poetry Festival, which will take place for the first time next Monday, April 27, and Tuesday, April 28. The festival will be held at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Lisa Jackson GS ’86, has classified several greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, as dangerous to public health for the first time in its 39-year history. The agency’s announcement on Friday was met with criticism from both business lobbying groups and anti-global warming advocates.
About a week before their theses were due, a group of seniors working feverishly in the basement of Dod Hall suddenly reached what Sarah Outhwaite ’09 called a “collective mental epiphany.” They copied the text of their theses — each between 80 and 100 pages in length — and pasted the text into wordle.net.
Five faculty members have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the organization announced on Monday. History professors James McPherson and William Jordan GS ’73, sociology professor Paul DiMaggio, architecture professor Guy Nordenson and politics professor Philip Pettit were among the 210 fellows elected for their leadership in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs and the non-profit sector.
The trial of Charter Club on charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance began in Princeton Borough Municipal Court on Monday. No ruling has yet been reached, and the trial is scheduled to continue on April 30.
Borough Police arrested a man this afternoon in connection with a report of criminal sexual contact that occurred at roughly 3:20 a.m. at Alexander Beach last Sunday. A female University student reported that she had been assaulted by a man who physically restrained her and “reached under her clothes to touch her,” according to a campus-wide safety alert e-mail sent on Sunday morning.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the urgent need for multilateral approaches to solving global issues in a lecture at a packed McCarter Theatre last Friday. Calling 2009 a “make or break” year, Ban explained that in this age of globalization it is more important than ever for countries to come together to solve international problems.
The USG Senate voted unanimously on Sunday night to ask the student body to cancel the USG fall Lawnparties concert and contribute the USG’s social budget to the University’s Annual Giving campaign.
Fifty years ago today, when Edward Shaw ’58 met Fidel Castro at Princeton, the Cuban leader seemed like a “good friend of the American way.” With rumpled fatigues, a warm handshake and a thick cigar clamped between his teeth, the man who would go on to become a notorious dictator actually made Shaw believe there might be hope for what was then a politically ravaged Cuba.
One case of sexual assault and two cases of harassment were reported by three female students to the Department of Public Safety last weekend.
University Health Services has notified the student body of four confirmed on-campus cases of pertussis, the highly contagious infection also known as whooping cough. “In the past two weeks, four students have been identified with symptoms of pertussis, which is a respiratory illness that starts like a cold and develops into a severe cough within one to two weeks,” UHS associate director Janet Finnie ’84 said in an e-mail.
