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U. sees rise in international graduate students

U. sees rise in international graduate students

Nahrie Chung

Departments have seen a slow and steady rise in international — non-U.S. born and non-naturalized citizen — applicants and admissions since 2009 across doctoral, masters and non-degree graduate programs at the University, according to data made available by the University’s Graduate School. Over the years, a large portion of international students have gravitated toward programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fieldsacross the United States.There are similar trends at the national level, Rajika Bhandari, deputy vice president of research and evaluation at the Institute for International Education, said. She added that engineering and business management degrees are most popular among international students in both graduate and undergraduate programs. China, India and South Korea are predominant countries in sending students to U.S.

NEWS | 11/17/2015

Cox discusses need for spaces for healing in conversation with Dolan

Lorenzo Quiogue

The need for spaces for healing is one of the biggest needs of marginalized communities today, Laverne Cox said at a discussion on campus on Tuesday. Cox spoke as part of an event titled “Ain’t I A Woman,” an event that also included a conversation between Cox and Jill Dolan, the dean of the college at the University. Cox said she believes a large challenge that transgender women face is the point of view that people can only identify as the gender they were assigned at birth.

NEWS | 11/17/2015

U. study abroad programs in France to continue after Paris terrorist attacks

Maya Wesby

The University’s study abroad programs in France will not be canceled in reaction to the Paristerrorist attacksFriday, Director of the Office of International Programs Nancy Kanach said. In the attacks, three teams of Islamic State members killed over 130 civilians and injured over 350 others at a concert hall, a stadium, bars and restaurants. Kanach said that the University’s response in keeping students safe was a prompt and effective one and added that no University students were harmed.

NEWS | 11/17/2015

Café, restaurant to open in Arts and Transit Neighborhood next year

Claire Lee

A café and restaurant are scheduled to open in 2016 and 2017, respectively, in the Arts and Transit Neighborhood near Forbes College, University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget said. The restaurant will be opened at the same time as the construction of a new facility associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts, Appelget said. The two buildings housing the café and restaurant have been a part of the Arts and Transit Project since it were first proposed in 2013, Appelget said. The Arts and Transit Project, which is slated for completion in 2017, has also involved the relocation of the Wawa, the construction of a new Dinky stationand the construction of new facilities associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music. Appelget said that the Terra Momo Restaurant Group, which operates three restaurants in the Princeton area, was originally selected to operate the restaurant and café but that the group has decided to step aside and not move forward in the project. “We had a mutually agreeable parting of ways,” Appelget explained. As a result, the University has reached out again to decide who the new café and restaurant operator will be, Appelget said. Co-owner of the Terra Momo group Carlo Momo declined to specify the reason behind the termination of the negotiation but said that he and the University could not agree on general terms.

NEWS | 11/17/2015

SPEAR "Who Do We Kill" campaign began this week

Claire Lee

Students for Prison Education and Reform launched the newest protest campaign,“Who Do We Kill,” onMonday.The campaign is to protest the death penalty in the United States.The campaign began with a talk by Anthony Ray Hinton, an exoneree who was on death row for 30 years.“I have been through pure hell,” Hinton said, regarding his experience as a death row inmate.He noted that no one, regardless of race or gender, should ever be on death row for a crime they never committed, and urged for the end of death sentence.“We need to put an end to the death row,” he added.Steffen Seitz ’17, co-organizer of the campaign, said that Hinton’s experience is something that few people hear about and it’s important for people to understand the torture of living under death row.SPEAR co-president Clarissa Kimmey ’16 said that the first piece of the protest would be this Wednesday, when Texas inmate Raphael Holiday is scheduled to be executed.Kimmey explained that all the students participating in the protests will wear black ribbons around their wrists.SPEAR advocacyco-chair Margaret Wright ’17 said that students can get ribbons in the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.Maxwell Grear ’18, co-organizer of the campaign, said that the goal of the campaign is to start conversation about the death penalty on campus and remind people about its continuing prevalence.Grear is also a columnist for The Daily Princetonian.He explained that every time a person is scheduled to be executed in the country, SPEAR will circulate information about each person and hold a protest.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Candidates for USG elections announced

Daily Princetonian Staff

There are 22 candidates in the upcoming USG elections, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 announced in an email to the student body on Monday.Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian.Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Grant Golub ’17 and Simon Wu ’17 are running for USG president.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

News & Notes: Harvard bomb threat leads to evacuation of 4 buildings

Daily Princetonian Staff

Students evacuated Harvard’s Science Center, Sever, Emerson and Thayer Halls in response to an emailed bomb threat to the Cambridge Police Department at approximately 12:30 p.m.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Simon concedes election, Zwicker officially wins

Zaynab Zaman

New Jersey Republican Assembly member Donna Simon conceded defeat to Democratic candidate Andrew Zwicker in the 16th District of the New Jersey AssemblyMonday.Zwicker emerged on topNov.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Authors lecture on history, current state of Medicare, Medicaid programs

Samvida Venkatesh

The story of Medicare and Medicaid is one in which the public sector has helped to finance the growth and development of the private sector, Wilson school professor Keith Wailoo, co-editor of the new book “Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care,” said in a panel discussion onMonday.The panel discussed the original vision behind Medicare and Medicaid, the momentous transformation events since their initiation and how the two programs are likely to unfold in the future.Wailoo explained that Medicare was initially designed to evade criticisms that had been built up against national healthcare.“So the elderly were identified as a deserving part of the population, out of the workforce and unable to afford healthcare; benefits were defined very narrowly and linked to social security,” he said.He added that the motivation for Medicaid stemmed from the federal system becoming a limiting factor; the federal government had to negotiate state by state the benefits of the program because the rubrics for benefits were not standardized.Wailoo explained that although it was well defined what would fall under the rubric of Medicaid coverage, Medicaid ended up covering gaps that any national policy had been reluctant to cover over the decades, including HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, children’s health in the 1990s, disability and mental health.Speaking of the challenges faced by Medicare and Medicaid, sociology professor Paul Starr, a contributor to the book, said that there were many elderly who believed that Medicare was “their” program and were not open to the idea of it being expanded to everyone.Wilson school professor Uwe Reinhardt, another contributor to the book, also explained that financial profit amongst private health care providers was a strong barrier to repealing the program.Wilson school professor Julian Zelizer, co-editor of the book, added that once the policies were in place, health spending per elderly person grew less rapidlyover timecompared to health spending per young person.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

PICS expands to offer 167 paid summer internships

Andrew Brazer Drew

The Princeton Internships in Civic Service alumni initiative has managed to nearly double its number of opportunities in the past two years to offer 167 internships in the summer of 2016.PICS provided 114 internships in the summer of 2015 and 93 in the summer of 2014.“A lot of hard work went into making this expansion possible,” Chairman of the PICS Board Chuck Freyer ’69 said of the jump to 167 internships for summer 2016.

NEWS | 11/16/2015

Treuer '91 lectures on Native American experience in inaugural Speaker Series

De Vann Sago

The University's Native American inclusion and recruitment efforts have improved since 1991 but still fall short, Dr. Anton Treuer ’91 argued in the inaugural lecture for the Native Leaders Speaker Series on Friday.Treuer said that the Native American experience is usually one of marginalization and invisibility.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

U. students studying abroad in Paris recount experiences of Friday's attacks

Maya Wesby

In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, at least 10 University students have been identified as studying abroad in the city this semester, and some said they have been impacted from living in the city during the attacks.At least 129 people have died as a result of Friday’s attacks in Paris as of Sunday.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

SINSI to add separate undergraduate internship program

Gladys Teng

The Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program will be broken up into two programs, Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse said.Rouse explained that the first would be a summer internship program open to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, and the second component would be the SINSI graduate program, which is open to seniors and will involve two years of the Wilson School’s Master of Public Administration program and two years of federal service.The program is currently a six-year commitment, and accepts students in their junior year.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

USG senate discusses changes to elections handbook

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed changes to the elections handbook during the weekly meeting on Sunday.The senate voted to split the elections handbook into two separate handbooks, one governing candidacy and the other governing referenda specifically.The senate then approved voting and passing thresholds for referenda, making it necessary that at least one-third of the student body vote on a referendum for that referendum to be on the ballot and that of those students, more than 50 percent must vote in favor for the referendum to pass.Some members of the senate said that it would be desirable to have referenda only during regular USG election cycles instead of allowing students to vote on referenda at any point during the year.“I think this is a reasonable action to take,” U-councilor Ethan Marcus 18 said.

NEWS | 11/15/2015

News & Notes: New U. of Missouri interim president named following protests

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former law professor Michael Middleton was announced as the interim president of theUniversity of Missouri on Thursday after Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Four incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct reported in first 6 weeks of academic year

Maya Wesby

There have been four reported campus-related incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct during the first six weeks of the 2015-16 academic year, according to Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky. The first case was when an unidentified male grabbed the buttocks of a female student near the Friend Center on Sept.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Admission office sees 9.4 percent increase in early action applications

Jessica Li

The University received 4,164 applications for admission to the Class of 2020 under the single-choice early action program as of Nov.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Honor Committee announces changes to constitution

Samvida Venkatesh

The Undergraduate Honor Committee has made an amendment to its constitution to allow it to be more accessible to students,Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 said. The amendment was approved on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

U. aims to launch new application platform with coalition of colleges

Jessica Li

The University, joined by over 80 other colleges and universities including all members of the Ivy League, is part of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, which aims to create a new college application and portfolio platform for high school students. The new system involves the creation of a platform for high school students to create an online portfolio, allowing them to think more about the college application process at an early age and have more access to counseling from college admissions officers, University Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. Rapelye added that the participating institutions will be issuing a new application, and that the application is in the preliminary stages. The coalition is open to public institutions with affordable tuition and need-based financial aid for in-state residents and private colleges who provide sufficient financial aid for all domestic students they admit.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

Student arrested on burglary, sexual contact charges

Do-Hyeong Myeong

A student was arrested on Thursday on charges of third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Public Information Officer Casey DeBlasio said. According to DeBlasio, an investigation by the Department of Public Safety identifiedRonbo Fan ’18as a suspect in an incident that took place on campus on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2015

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