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Princeton Energy Plant responded smoothly to Sandy

Princeton Energy Plant responded smoothly to Sandy

Neha Chauhan

The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center has predicted a mild winter, contrary to the storms in past years. Last March, a severe storm dubbed Stella led the University to put in extra precautions among its staff and other University community members. The year before, another storm dubbed Jonas hit campus during intersession — hard. In addition to staff preparations, the University has other measures to mitigate the impact of a huge storm.

NEWS | 12/04/2017

Graduate students, seniors hope U. sustains tuition waivers after tax bill

Allie Spensley

The U.S. Senate passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill that would be among the largest changes to the tax code in recent memory. Under the House bill, graduate students’ yearly tax burden would go from about $3,000 a year to over $11,000, more than a third of their actual, take-home pay. This worries many graduate students, who rely on these tuition waivers to finance their education.

NEWS | 12/03/2017

Anders Sandberg envisions future of body modification at U. futurist conference

Norman Xiong

The University’s futurist club, Envision, hosted the annual Envision Conference from Dec. 1 to 3. The conference centered around the development of future technologies, such as artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and the implications of such endeavors.

NEWS | 12/03/2017

Archie Shepp captivates as featured performer at jazz concert

Emily Spalding

Through the pitch black of the cavernous Richardson Auditorium came piercing words: “In the face of injustice and adversity, certainly some gave their lives looking to change the world.” The voice of legendary jazz saxophonist, musician, singer, and composer Archie Shepp continued, saying “Unfortunately, not much has changed. Sometimes, things seem to be even worse. Perhaps we are all prisoners.”

NEWS | 12/03/2017

House education bill affects Title IX efforts

Ivy Truong

The House Republican education bill released on Friday would allow colleges to delay or suspend internal investigations related to sexual misconduct upon the request of law enforcement or prosecutors.

NEWS | 12/03/2017

Lepore discusses US history and future in Trump era

Anna Vinitsky

Writing about American history in its present state of political division is a daunting yet immensely important task, said Jill Lepore, a professor of American history at Harvard. “I don’t think we really have a good account of American history that spans the whole length of American history, but then also reaches across the political divide that is the chasm of our daily lives,” Lepore said to a full house.

NEWS | 11/30/2017

University Art Museum honors World AIDS Day in annual celebration

Linh Nguyen, Aishwarya Kalyanaraman, and Mallory Williamson

“In our efforts to remember World AIDS Day, we’ve generally focused on that first decade,” said Harris. “That first decade of diagnosis, and the first decade of the health crisis, especially on the human rights and civil rights issues that arose in this country around the AIDS crisis. You know, as all of us remember, it was much more than a health crisis for all those years.”

NEWS | 11/30/2017

High time to legalize recreational marijuana in NJ

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

Dominick “Nick” Bucci carried out over 1,000 arrests and convictions over 22 years working as an undercover detective in narcotics. Looking back, the retired New Jersey State Trooper feels that he “was doing it all wrong,” calling the War on Drugs, the U.S. campaign to end illegal drug trade, an “abject failure.”

NEWS | 11/30/2017

Minor earthquake tremors felt in U. buildings

Allie Spensley and Benjamin Ball

The University found itself taking after the typical James Bond martini order - shaken, not stirred – on Thursday at 4:47, when minor tremors were felt on campus.

NEWS | 11/30/2017

Fitzpatrick talks human nature, violence in the Russian Revolution

Isabel Ting

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick spoke to a group of University students and community members on changing scholarly approaches to the revolution, Soviet history in the last fifty years, and her accompanying work on these topics.

NEWS | 11/29/2017

Ending TPS for Haitians may affect campus workers

Rebecca Ngu

A number of University employees could potentially be affected by the end of the Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitian immigrants, announced by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke on Nov. 20. Come July 2019, these employees could be a few of the nearly 60,000 Haitians who would presumably lose their ability to legally live and work in the United States under TPS.

NEWS | 11/29/2017

Alperovitz speaks about U.S. wealth inequality

Ivy Truong

Gar Alperovitz believes that there’s a crisis in America, but it’s not a political crisis — it’s a crisis with the economic system itself.

NEWS | 11/29/2017

Rhodes Scholar Thomas ’18 emphasizes civic and interpersonal engagement

Hannah Wang

Jordan Thomas ’18 was one of 32 American students selected from a pool of over 2,500 applicants to receive a 2018 Rhodes Scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.

NEWS | 11/29/2017

Graduate Student Government rallies against Republican tax plan reform

Graduate students taxation tuition waivers

Graduate Student Government rallies against Republican tax plan reform

Rose Gilbert

The Graduate Student Government hosted a call-a-thon in Green Hall on Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. for students to contact key senators and ask them to vote against the proposed Republican tax plan.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

Dept. of Homeland Security moves to dismiss U. DACA lawsuit

Linh Nguyen and Hannah Wang

The Department of Homeland Security moved on Nov. 22 to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the University, Microsoft Corporation, and Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ‘18 against the Trump administration. The lawsuit aimed to block the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

USG passes resolution regarding Verdú sexual harassment case

Jacob Gerrish

After weeks of allegations and petitions, the Undergraduate Student Government has passed a resolution regarding the sexual harassment case against electrical engineering professor Sergio Verdú. Graduate student Yeohee Im alleged that Verdú sexually harassed her on multiple occasions over a two-month period. In response, the University required Verdú to attend an eight-hour training session. Verdú remains employed by the University. U-Councilor Pooja Patel ‘18 presented Senate Resolution 5-2017 at the Senate meeting on Nov. 19, urging the University to “elevate its disciplinary actions” against Verdú, who was found responsible for sexual harassment in a recent Title IX investigation.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

Bhatia-Gautier ‘86 announced as Baccalaureate speaker

Aviva Kohn

Bhatia-Gautier is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. As an undergraduate, Bhatia-Gautier concentrated in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He was a member of the Princeton Democratic Students Association and Student Council and participated in the student movement against apartheid in South Africa. This early political engagement carried over into a long career in American and Puerto Rican public service.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

ICE raids take place in downtown Princeton

Linh Nguyen and Hannah Wang

Planet Princeton reported in a previous article that the raid only resulted in three arrests. The raids took place on Witherspoon Street and John Street, according to Planet Princeton. Officials confirmed that they had federal criminal warrants for all the men who were arrested. A follow-up investigation from the Princeton Human Services Department has determined that the men do not have any spouses or children.

NEWS | 11/28/2017

U. professor discusses U.'s complicity in antebellum slavery

Linh Nguyen

“It’s the responsibility of everyone here to understand this history,” said Akash Kushwaha ‘21. “We are history at the end of the day.”

NEWS | 11/27/2017

Former graduate student alleges U. visiting professor discouraged Title IX reporting

Ivy Truong

In a Facebook post dated Nov. 5, Latta alleged that while she was a graduate student in Berkeley's comparative literature department, she was sexually harassed, assaulted, and raped by a visiting professor. The accused professor taught at Berkeley in 1985 and is currently professor emeritus at Stanford University. He denies any wrongdoing.

NEWS | 11/27/2017

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