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U. students are swiping right for Cardi B

U. students are swiping right for Cardi B

Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Linh Nguyen

Don’t be surprised when you see students swiping away at their phones this week. They are swiping right — a “yes” signal — on the dating app Tinder in order to win a concert featuring stripper-turned-rapper Cardi B. But, according to the contest rules, only 200 students from the winning school can attend a performance given by the artist.

NEWS | 04/10/2018

Geoscience professor Gabriel Vecchi clarifies future hurricane predictions

Geoscience professor Gabriel Vecchi clarifies future hurricane predictions

Jasper Lee

On Monday, April 9, geosciences professor Gabriel Vecchi gave a talk concerning the potential future trends of hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean.

NEWS | 04/10/2018

Pride Alliance posters ripped, torn down

Flyers advertising a Pride Alliance event were torn down. Photo courtesy of Arlene Cuervo.

Pride Alliance posters ripped, torn down

Roberto Hasbun

On Friday, the Princeton Pride Alliance hung up 50 posters around campus to advertise an ice cream social for prospective Class of 2022 students visiting for Preview. Over the course of the weekend, however, the majority of the posters were torn or went missing.

NEWS | 04/10/2018

Panel discusses military approaches in the information age

Panelists discussed how countries utilize technology in foreign relations.

Panel discusses military approaches in the information age

Isabel Ting

The forum, entitled “Defending Democracy: Civil and Military Responses to Weaponized Information,” was held on Saturday, April 7 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Friend Center.

NEWS | 04/09/2018

New video footage shows fatally shot Panera gunman was armed with BB pistol

New video footage shows fatally shot Panera gunman was armed with BB pistol

Claire Thornton

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released surveillance videos showing that the late Scott Mielentz, who was killed by state police officers at the Nassau Street Panera on March 20, was armed with a black Crosman PFM BB Pistol.

NEWS | 04/09/2018

NJ European Heritage Association flyer posted near FitzRandolph Gate

A poster advertising a white supremacist organization was found near campus.

NJ European Heritage Association flyer posted near FitzRandolph Gate

Audrey Spensley

A poster referring to “The White Race” as “Earth’s Most Endangered Species,” followed by contact information for a white supremacist organization called the New Jersey European Heritage Association, was found on a lamppost outside FitzRandolph Gate on Monday, April 9.

NEWS | 04/09/2018

Public Safety to investigate reported violation of privacy in Firestone bathrooms

Firestone Library, courtesy of Princeton University

Public Safety to investigate reported violation of privacy in Firestone bathrooms

Claire Thornton

On Sunday, April 8, there were two reported incidents of an individual using a cell phone to take pictures of male students while they were in bathroom stalls in Firestone Library.

NEWS | 04/09/2018

U. students mobilize against proposal to build fracked gas compressor station in Franklin Township

Members of PSCI tabling in Frist Campus Center.

U. students mobilize against proposal to build fracked gas compressor station in Franklin Township

Katie Tam

A coalition of student groups headed by the Princeton Student Climate Initiative is mobilizing against the planned construction of a natural gas compressor station four and a half miles from the University.

NEWS | 04/09/2018

SNCC activist Bob Moses on political organizing, the U.S. Constitution

Bob Moses speaking in McCormick 101 on April 8.

SNCC activist Bob Moses on political organizing, the U.S. Constitution

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

Moses traced the shifting meaning of the U.S. Constitution and gave forecasts for the future of U.S. political organizing.

NEWS | 04/08/2018

U. students to participate in TigerLaunch finals

U. students to participate in TigerLaunch finals

Benjamin Ball

An elite team of computer science majors from the University are taking their project to the finals of TigerLaunch, the nation’s largest student-run entrepreneurship competition. The co-founders of the BlockX team are Felix Madutsa ’18, Avthar Sewrathan ’18, and Richard Adjei ’18. Their company’s mission is to help people reclaim their privacy and data on the internet.

NEWS | 04/08/2018

USG discusses Yard Parties, movie co-sponsorship by clubs

USG discusses Yard Parties, movie co-sponsorship by clubs

Jacob Gerrish

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed Post-Thesis Life pictures, “Yard Parties” funding, and student co-sponsorship of Garden Theater movies during its weekly meeting on Apr. 8.

NEWS | 04/08/2018

Town ordered to build more affordable housing

Nick Shashkini

On March 8, the town of Princeton was ordered by Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson to build 753 new affordable houses. According to Jacobson’s ruling, these units must be constructed by 2025.

NEWS | 04/06/2018

Jhumpa Lahiri talks art, linguistic boundaries

Anne Marie Wright

On Thursday, Pulitzer Prize winner and University professor of creative writing Jhumpa Lahiri gave a lecture about her personal experience with boundaries and borders through an analysis of avant garde and surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington’s paintings and short stories.

NEWS | 04/06/2018

Michael Wolovick explains potential solution to glacial melting

Neha Chauhan

Sea level rise is a much discussed symptom of climate change. While some ideas for curbing glacial melting have been proposed, few geoengineering solutions have been implemented. However, current research by University postdoctoral research associate Michael Wolovick indicates that there exists a practical solution for glacial melting. Wolovick is investigating glacial sills, or walls made of rock and silt, as a way to block glaciers from exposure to warm water and keep them from melting.

NEWS | 04/06/2018

Princeton Public Schools, Charter School negotiate settlement

Ivy Truong

A few weeks after a Princeton Public Schools board member offered an “olive branch” to the Princeton Charter School, a settlement negotiation process between the two parties is now underway. The negotiation process seeks to resolve the lawsuit initiated by PPS, which asserted that PCS had violated New Jersey’s Open Public Meeting Act during a meeting about expansion.

NEWS | 04/05/2018

Former NIH director Harold Varmus speaks about how to improve worldwide health

Former NIH director Harold Varmus speaks about how to improve worldwide health

Albert Jiang

On Wednesday, former NIH director Harold Varmus talked about research in developing countries and federal programs supporting international science. “Medicine is a public good that is not distributed fairly,” Varmus said to a packed room.

NEWS | 04/05/2018

U. professor Stephen Macedo discusses possible tradeoffs between immigration and social justice

Jonathan Lam

Saying all of us benefit from immigration does not cut it, according to University politics professor Stephen Macedo. He presented the political theories behind why policy makers and social scientists should think more in distributive terms rather than in aggregate terms in his lecture titled “Immigration, Globalization, and Social Justice: Is There a Tradeoff?”

NEWS | 04/04/2018

Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N. talks Crimean crisis

Ukraine map showing provinces in Crimean peninsula

Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N. talks Crimean crisis

Kris Hristov

On Wednesday, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N. Volodymyr Yelchenko spoke about Russia's annexation of Crimea and Russia’s unique war tactics. “All human life is precious. One death is a tragedy,” Yelchenko said.

NEWS | 04/04/2018

U. students not allowed to look at their admissions files

Morrison Hall, home of the U. undergraduate admissions office

U. students not allowed to look at their admissions files

Roberto Hasbun

Though the University admissions office keeps records of all admissions files, students are not allowed to look at them. However, this was not always the case.

NEWS | 04/04/2018

A wealth of theater opportunities on campus

Hannah Wang

Theater at the University is a sprawling institution that presents students with a multitude of unique opportunities to experiment and engage with the dramatic arts throughout the academic year.

NEWS | 04/03/2018

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