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YikYak, Tiger Admirers attract attention as medium for expressing mental health issues

YikYak, Tiger Admirers attract attention as medium for expressing mental health issues

Durva Trivedi

YikYak, a mobile app that lets users anonymously write and view posts called “Yaks” within a five-mile radius, has attracted some notice from the University and other schools as a medium for students struggling with mental health issues.Students battling mental health-related issues were among those at the University who posted Yaks since it became popular on campus last year.

NEWS | 09/17/2015

State arts council grants $11M to art organizations in Princeton area

Katherine Oh

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded approximately $11 million total in grants to arts organizations in the Princeton community on July 21.The McCarter Theatre Center, the University Art Museum and the Arts Council of Princeton were among local organizations to receive the NJSCA grant.The NJSCA is financed in part by the National Endowment for Arts.

NEWS | 09/17/2015

Cruz ’92, Christie face off in CNN Republican debate

Ruby Shao

The Iran nuclear deal is the biggest issue of 2016, Republican presidential candidate and U.S.

NEWS | 09/16/2015

News & Notes: U. ranked 26th most innovative university in the world

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University was ranked 26th onReuters’ list of the world’s top 100 most innovative universities. Stanford, whose alumni have founded Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo and Google, was ranked first, Harvard was ranked third, and Yale was ranked 44th. The most innovative university in Europe, Imperial College London, was ranked 11th in the world, with Cambridge ranked 25th and Oxford ranked 40th. Reuters ranked the University using 10 different metrics, focusing on both academic papers and patent filings.

NEWS | 09/16/2015

News & Notes: Harvard final club becomes first to extend invitations to women

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Spee Club, a previously all-male final club at Harvard, decided to send its first invitations to female members Friday, the New York Times reported.Matthew Lee, president of the Spee Club, told the Times in an email that the club had voted to admit all genders as it began recruiting members for the 2015-16 academic year.

NEWS | 09/16/2015

U. announces changes to freshman orientation program, beginning 2016

Nahrie Chung

The University will implement a more integrative orientation program for incoming freshmen starting with the Class of 2020, according to the Offices of the Dean of the College and Campus Life. While Outdoor Action and Community Action were previously considered “pre-Orientation” and optional for incoming freshmen, all new students will now participate in either activity in 2016. To ensure full participation in OA and CA, the University will no longer charge program fees for students to attend.

NEWS | 09/16/2015

Career Services partners with Handshake to revamp HireTigers

Durva Trivedi

The University’s Office of Career Services has transitioned to a new version of the HireTigers online career management system. The new site, which ispowered by a different vendor and offers high-tech and high-touch resources for undergraduate and graduate students,went live on Sept.

NEWS | 09/15/2015

News and Notes: Tourism spending increases in the Princeton region

Daily Princetonian Staff

Tourism spending in the Princeton region in 2014 increased 5.2 percent from 2013 to a record-breaking $2 billion, the Princeton Packet reported.

NEWS | 09/15/2015

Students hospitalized after Community Action van accident

Shriya Sekhsaria

Five members of the Class of 2019 and their Community Action leader Divya Seshadri ’16 were involved in a car accidenton Sept.

NEWS | 09/15/2015

Class of 2019 predominantly from three states, includes 177 international students

Annie Yang

The Class of 2019 consists of 1,319 students from 46 states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam, with a plurality coming from California, New Jersey and New York.Nearly 37.6 percent of students came from these three states, a slight decrease from last year’s 38.7 percent.

NEWS | 09/15/2015

Eisgruber '83 welcomes the Class of 2019 during Opening Exercises

Charles Kyungchan Min

Members of the Class of 2019 took the first steps into their academic career during Opening Exerciseson Sunday, when University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 welcomed the incoming students by sharing encouragements and blessings for the start of their adventure on campus. “You will encounter people with views, backgrounds, values and assumptions different from your own,” Eisgruber said.

NEWS | 09/13/2015

Ruess, former lead vocalist of Fun., Holychild to perform at Lawnparties

Jessica Li

Nate Ruess, lead vocalist of former Grammy-winning indie rock band Fun., will headline the 2015 fall Lawnparties, Undergraduate Student Government social chair Simon Wu ’17 announced in an email Thursday.Indie pop duo Holychild will stage the opening act, Wu said. Ruess, along with Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, formed Fun.

NEWS | 09/10/2015

Updated: National Humanities Medals awarded to creative writing professor, renowned philosopher

Jessica Li

Creative writing professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, as well as novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein GS ’77, have been named recipients of the 2014 National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama, joined by first lady Michelle Obama '85, presented medals to the recipients on Thursday, Sept.

NEWS | 09/03/2015

U. alumnus removed from director position at American Psychological Association following US government torture scandal

Jessica Li

A University alumnus was removed from his position as ethics director of the American Psychological Association last month after an independent review alleged that he collaborated with the Department of Defense to enable torture. Stephen Behnke '82 was removed from the position in which he had served since 2000.

NEWS | 08/09/2015

2 U. students relocated from Cairo after security concerns

Christina Vosbikian

A terrorist attack spurred the University to relocate Tyler Lawrence ’16 and Tori Rinker ’16 from their internships in Cairo, Egypt, in mid-July. "Out of an abundance of caution in the wake of an incident in Cairo, the students were relocated to Casablanca, Morocco, to continue their internship with the same organization.

NEWS | 07/29/2015

U. Annual Giving campaign raises record $61M

Jessica Li

The Princeton Annual Giving campaign set a new record this year with $61,490,178 raised from nearly 45,000 gifts, William Hardt '63, Assistant Vice President of Development for Annual Giving, said. The undergraduate alumni participation rate was 60.3 percent. The Annual Giving fundraising total was significantly higher than last year's previously record-breaking amount of$58,748,900, although the undergraduate alumni participation rate was down from 61.4 percent last year. According to University President Christopher Eisgruber '83, continued positive results from Annual Giving and year-round gifts made to the University could make expanding the undergraduate student body a foreseeable possibility.He added that the 60.3 percent undergraduate alumni participation rate achieved in this year’s campaign surpasses that of Princeton’s peer institutions by a significant margin. “Our participation rate shows the deep appreciation Princetonians feel for the experience they have here," Eisgruber said.

NEWS | 07/17/2015

U. prohibits smoking within 25 feet of public areas

Jacob Donnelly

The University has updated the "Smoking" section of "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" in the past week to prohibit smoking within 25 feet of all workplaces and buildings of public access. Section 1.5.3 had previously only prohibited smoking within workplaces and buildings of public access.

NEWS | 07/08/2015

Terrace bans smoking indoors

Jessica Li

Terrace Club enacted a complete prohibition against smoking and the use of vapor-emitting substances indoors at the behest of the Princeton Health Department, Terrace graduate board chair Sandy Harrison ’74 said.According to Harrison, a week after The Daily Princetonian published an article on November 24 identifying Terrace as a non-smoke-free building, the Princeton Health Department approached club leadership saying that its smoking policy was not in compliance with New Jersey state law.Jeffrey Grosser, town health officer, explained that although the investigator did not observe any violations or receive any complaints from the University, the “policy of the club didn’t reflect the [New Jersey] Smoke-Free [Air] Act.”Although gray areas exist in the law's implications, the act prohibits smoking in indoor work places and facilities open to public activities.“There have been miscommunications in the past, and some eating clubs believed they were exempt [from the law],” Grosser said, “but we made it clear that even if [Terrace] is private, it still has to comply.”The club's graduate board subsequently consulted the law and in March installed a new ventilation system in a single room dedicated to smoking, according to a March 23 article in the 'Prince.'However, the new policy did not satisfy the Health Department.

NEWS | 07/01/2015

Christie announces presidential candidacy

Jacob Donnelly

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced his presidential candidacyTuesdaymorning at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J. Christie, who has been struggling in New Jersey polls recently, is also an ex officio trustee of the University. He is the 14th Republican to have declared a presidential run. NJTV News reported there were around 1,000 protesters outside the high school protesting, among other issues, Christie's actions on pension reform. With supporters in the background holding "Christie 2016: Telling It Like It Is" signs, Sheila Goldklang, a friend and colleague on the Livingston Board of Education of Chris Christie's late mother, Sandy Christie, first introduced Christie.

NEWS | 06/30/2015

U. revokes hire offer after allegations of publishing falsified data

Katherine Oh

The University has revoked its offer to hire Michael LaCour, who allegedly altered data sets in an academic study, as an assistant professor in the Wilson School after a review of the allegations, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. LaCour coauthored a December 2014studyas a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, which received nationalmedia attentionfor purportedly showing that opponents of same-sex marriage could be reliably persuaded to change their minds after just one conversation with a gay person. The prominent journal Science issued aretractionof the study onMay 28.

NEWS | 06/29/2015

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