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.
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.
Moses traced the shifting meaning of the U.S. Constitution and gave forecasts for the future of U.S. political organizing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
Meal exchanges between eating clubs are now fully electronic, and the days of carrying around those blue meal exchange slips are officially over. Following the electronic meal exchange, the eating clubs will now be using the system for all exchanges.
The 14-year endeavor to transform Firestone Library is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018. Finishing touches on the B and C floors is anticipated to be completed by Commencement.
When Kylie Jenner named her baby Stormi in Feb. 2018, Kristen Starkowski GS was adamant that no one make fun of the baby’s name. She suggested to Allegra Martschenko ’20 that the two start a club on campus to show their support for the Kardashians.
According to Dean of the Faculty Sanjeev Kulkarni, the faculty is expected to officially vote on the proposed calendar revisions on April 23.
“Entrepreneurship is becoming more important on campus in general,” said OTL New Ventures Associate Anthony Williams. “A high proportion of University IP is now being licensed to startups.”
According to Princeton University Orchestra conductor Michael Pratt, Dudamel is “one of the most important musicians in the world.” Pratt hopes to use next year’s music outreach efforts to connect Princeton musicians with young musicians in Trenton.
