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Bezos Residential College fails to help independent students

Bezos Residential College fails to help independent students

Claire Thornton

One year after the opening of Bezos Residential College, an investigation conducted by The Daily Princetonian found independent residents suffer from diabetes, paper cuts. First-year students in Bezos said their transition to campus was negatively impacted because they never left their dorm rooms.

NEWS | 01/08/2019

Third week of University border security shutdown begins

Third week of University border security shutdown begins

Zachary Shevin

The University is heading into the third week of its shutdown, caused by a debate over campus border security.

NEWS | 01/08/2019

Student starts most exclusive eating club yet

Student starts most exclusive eating club yet

Benjamin Ball

Jim Olaf ’19 was never a fan of the Bicker process. He found the process overall morally disingenuous, vaguely illiberal, and almost entirely lacking in empathy. But Olaf had a vision: a process that, instead, would be morally reprehensible, completely illiberal, and entirely lacking empathy.

NEWS | 01/08/2019

Q&A with Justin Ripley, president of Princeton Citizen Scientists

Rebecca Han

On Dec. 5 and 6, 18 graduate students and members of the Princeton Citizen Scientists, a student organization formed in 2016 seeking to promote scientific engagement and affect scientific policy, traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for issues relating to climate change, science education, and healthcare. On Saturday, the Citizen Scientists’ president, Justin Ripley, spoke with the Daily Princetonian about the trip and the other work of the Citizen Scientists.

NEWS | 01/06/2019

'Ty Ger' on increase, changes in Tiger Confessions activity

'Ty Ger' on increase, changes in Tiger Confessions activity

Paige Allen

Ty Ger, the sole administrator of the Tiger Confessions Facebook page, started the page on Oct. 30 because they wanted to compliment someone anonymously. Since then, the culture of the page has changed significantly. Anonymous compliments about fellow Princetonians morphed into more serious confessions on topics such as eating disorders, mental health, and family problems.

NEWS | 01/06/2019

Virk ’20 wins USG presidency after 30 percent turnout

Virk ’20 wins USG presidency after 30 percent turnout

Zachary Shevin

After only 30 percent of undergraduates participated in last week’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) runoff elections, Zarnab Virk ’20 was elected president, and Heavyn Jennings ’20 was elected social chairperson.

NEWS | 12/21/2018

Sprinkler leak affects hundreds of books in Firestone Library

Hannah Baynesan

Several hundred books on Firestone Library’s basement A floor suffered a watery fate Monday afternoon after a sprinkler flooded the library’s ground level Trustee Reading Room.

NEWS | 12/18/2018

U. researchers in Kenya see land drama firsthand

U. researchers in Kenya see land drama firsthand

Sarah Warman Hirschfield, Rebecca Han, and Asad Hussein

The Mpala Research Centre is a world of its own. Great research comes out of the center — its reserves boast a wealth of environmental, scientific, and human resources which researchers draw upon. The subjects of the study — livestock and land, mainly — are contentious political issues in Kenya, as well.

NEWS | 12/14/2018

Marshall Scholar Herzog-Arbeitman ’19 discusses interplay between improv, physics

Marshall Scholar Herzog-Arbeitman ’19 discusses interplay between improv, physics

Josephine de La Bruyere

Herzog-Arbeitman may have won his Marshall Scholarship because his reviewers liked the fact that he can perform skits about the cosmos. On campus, Herzog-Arbeitman is known for his study of physics and his involvement in the improv comedy troupe Quipfire!. On Thursday, Herzog-Arbeitman gave a talk about his research passions.

NEWS | 12/14/2018

The Daily Princetonian elects Jean-Jacques ’20 as next business manager

Benjamin Ball

On Wednesday, Taylor Jean-Jacques ’20 was elected business manager of The Daily Princetonian for the 143rd Managing Board. A psychology major from Greenwich, Conn., she will begin her tenure in February.

NEWS | 12/13/2018

Activist Angela Davis discusses race, capitalism

Activist Angela Davis discusses race, capitalism

Oliver Effron

In a fiery lecture hosted by the Whig-Cliosophic Society, Davis — two-time Communist Party USA Vice-Presidential candidate and former FBI 10 Most Wanted fugitive — spoke about her activism around social equality and her experience in the California criminal justice system.

NEWS | 12/13/2018

Marshall Scholars Gocmen ’17, Herzog-Arbeitman ’19, Holbrook '19 talk interests, passions

Marshall Scholars Gocmen ’17, Herzog-Arbeitman ’19, Holbrook '19 talk interests, passions

Hannah Wang, Oliver Effron, and Yael Marans

Two University seniors, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman ’19 and Myrial Holbrook ’19, as well as Ararat Gocmen, a 2017 Princeton alumnus, have been named 2019 Marshall Scholars.

NEWS | 12/13/2018

U. startup summer internship program: new Shanghai location

Kris Hristov

University Ph.D. alumnus Yi Wang ‘11 created an English language-teaching company, Liulishuo, which now has 50 million users. Wang has since used his entrepreneurship expertise to collaborate with another Princeton Ph.D. recipient, Arvid Wang GS ’11, and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education to create a third location for the Princeton Startup Immersion Program (PSIP): Shanghai.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Conservative org. Anscombe Society claims not to be religious

Conservative org. Anscombe Society claims not to be religious

Benjamin Ball

Supporting pro-life positions on abortion, chastity, and traditional family values, the Anscombe Society has all the hallmarks of a traditional conservative religious organization, save one: the religion.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

U. admits 13.9 percent of early applicants to Class of 2023

U. admits 13.9 percent of early applicants to Class of 2023

Mallory Williamson

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, 743 students will become the first individuals admitted to the University’s Class of 2023. They were selected from a Single Choice Early Action (SCEA) pool of 5,335 applicants, making for a 13.9 percent acceptance rate in the early round — representing the most competitive SCEA application process in the history of the University.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Bicker week gets a makeover

Bicker week gets a makeover

Zachary Shevin

Bicker week may be a thing of the past. The Interclub Council (ICC) is calling this winter’s new process Street week, hoping to “shift the language away from ‘bicker’ and towards a Street-wide admissions process,” according to ICC chair and Cloister Inn president Hannah Paynter ’19.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Department of Education proposes changes to Title IX

Julia Ilhardt

A few weeks ago, the Department of Education released a long-anticipated proposal for changing the regulations laid out in Title IX.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Maria Ressa ’86 named 2018 Person of the Year

Allan Shen

On Tuesday, Dec. 11, Time Magazine named University alumni Maria Ressa ’86 and other journalists as 2018 Person of the Year.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Students behind WellPower startup talk social entrepreneurship, obstacles

Shira Moolten

Last October, a group of four students entered the University’s first ever iteration of the Hult Prize competition, an international startup challenge with a focus on solving pressing social issues, an hour before the deadline, because the competition simply needed another team. They ended up doing so well that this year they will fly to Kenya to implement their plan.

NEWS | 12/12/2018

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed discusses authenticity, representation in political institutions

Claire Silberman

The 34-year-old politically progressive activist wove together anecdotes about his patients and family members as he recalled his career trajectory from medical residency to academia to public service. Earlier this year, El-Sayed sought the Democratic nomination to become the first Muslim governor of Michigan.

NEWS | 12/10/2018

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