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Lawsuit alleges privacy rights violation by U. email service provider

Lawsuit alleges privacy rights violation by U. email service provider

Abhiram Karuppur

Four students at the University of California, Berkeley, filed complaints against Google Inc. for privacy violations relating to Google’s Apps for Education program,which provides Gmail and other Google products to educational institutions, on Jan.

NEWS | 02/01/2016

Office of Disability Services works to support, foster awareness on students with disabilities

Gladys Teng

The number of students who are permanently registered with the University's Office of Disability Services has increased by 80 percent between 2011 and 2015, a growth that mirrors a national trend, according to Associate Director of the Office of Disability Services Elizabeth Erickson.Particularly, in the 2013-14 academic year, the ODS registered and accommodated the largest number of students with sensory, mobility and diagnosed psychological disabilities, she added.Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter noted when she first arrived at the University in 2011 that most of the accommodations provided by the ODS tended to be focused on students with learning disabilities.“Since then, we have seen an increase in the number of students requesting accommodations related to psychological disabilities, and we are very glad that those students are finding their way to the office so that they can be accommodated,” she said.Subsequently, Minter explained that the primary challenges of the ODS since its establishment in the fall of 2006 have come with the expansion and the transforming nature of accommodation requests.Providing Academic and Recreational SupportMinter noted that when requesting an accommodation, students go through an “interactive process” in which they submit documentation related to their disability and then work with staff and outside clinicians to review and determine appropriate options.Sofia Gallo ’17, who is visually impaired, said that the office asks students what accommodations they have had in the past.

NEWS | 02/01/2016

Third Wintersession offers many classes to students

Maya Wesby

631 students were enrolled in the 58 courses offered for the third annual Wintersession which took place from Jan.

NEWS | 01/31/2016

First round sign-in ends, ICC not releasing numbers

Hannah Waxman

The first round of sign-ins for Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Terrace Club, and Quadrangle Club ended Saturday, Jan.

NEWS | 01/31/2016

Cruz '92, Christie Discuss Terrorism, Planned Parenthood in Republican Debate

Jessica Li

The next president must be someone who rejects Washingtonian politicking like themselves, both Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expressed in Thursday night’s Republican debate three days before the Iowa caucus. Christie argued that voters must send someone from “outside of Washington to Washington.” “I need a Washington-English dictionary converter,” he said, describing the political jargon that surfaced during crossfires in the debate.

NEWS | 01/29/2016

Updated: Campus events, transportation services suspended due to snowstorm

Shriya Sekhsaria

Due to heavy snow and hazardous travel conditions, all campus events scheduled forSaturdaywere either moved up toFriday, delayed or cancelled, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day. The Office of Communications issued anannouncementaround6 a.m.Saturdaymorning saying that the University was closed for non-essential personnel.

NEWS | 01/23/2016

Student in mental health case against U. can retain anonymity, federal judge rules

Jessica Li

A federal court judge has determined that a University student who filed a lawsuit against the University for mishandling his suicide attempt in 2012 may remain anonymous during the discovery phase of the trial. This decision reverses a decision issued by a magistrate judge last summer that dictated that the student, currently identified by the initials W.P., should disclose his name in full. U.S.

NEWS | 01/16/2016

2 undergraduates, 3 alumni selected as Schwarzman Scholars

Andie Ayala

Two University undergraduates, Ella Cheng ’16 and Tyler Rudolph ’16, as well as three alumni, Lucas Briger ’12, Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic ’14 and Yung Yung (Rosy) Yang ’13 have received the Schwarzman Scholarship in its inaugural year. The scholarship, funded by the co-founder and chairman of the investment firm Blackstone Group Stephen A.

NEWS | 01/14/2016

Princeton Historical Society opens Farmstead museum building

Claire Lee

The Historical Society of Princeton, an organization founded in 1938 dedicated to interpret the town’s history, reopened its museum on Jan.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

Temporary affinity rooms assigned at Fields Center

Samvida Venkatesh

The University has assigned temporary affinity rooms in the Fields Center to the black, African-American, Latinx, Asian, Asian-American, Arab and Middle-Eastern student communities, Vice President for Campus Life W.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

Princeton town to make Bicycle Master Plan with U. input

Betty Liu

The township of Princeton is in the process of creating a comprehensive Bicycle Master Plan to create a connected network of bike facilities throughout the town, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said. This plan is being funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the town will be working with the consulting firm WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoffto develop the plan. Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment. WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff program manager for the Bicycle Master Plan Peter Kremer explained that as part of the plan, the firm is currently conducting a survey to gather community input regarding the Bicycle Master Plan.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

USG to initiate bike share program, work on transparency in Lawnparties acts

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government is working to set up a bike share program on campus, U-Councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 said at the last senate meeting of the semester on Jan.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

U. professors launch Microeconomic Insights in collaboration with professors from other universities

Caroline Lippman

Microeconomic Insights, a websitedeveloped by University professors and professors from other institutions worldwide, including Harvard University and the London School of Economics, was launched last week. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a London-based organization, will be hosting the website.

NEWS | 01/10/2016

Career Services hires psychics, encourages changes to LinkedIn profiles*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University’s Office of Career Services has revolutionized its program with an emphasis on unconventionality, including hiring psychics to consult with students about where they should end up. Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi explained that Career Services made the decision to hire psychics because they did not have enough time to process all the students who were sent in to see them and because they thought psychics would do a better job in providing guidance.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

U. introduces strict new political correctness guidelines*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University is instituting a campaign to purge itself of all documents, statements and expressions that do not meet University standards of political correctness. P.C.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

USG candidates debate undocumented emigration from Forbes*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The undocumented migration of students from Forbes College to campus has become a highly prevalent topic in this year’s Undergraduate Student Government elections.Around 60 percent of the students housed in Forbes have abandoned their rooms there and brought sleeping bags to the sidewalk of University Place.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Economics and ORFE independent work advisers found not to exist*

Daily Princetonian Staff

On paper, Jacob Ruijskman was a decorated University professor: a graduate of MIT’s economics program, who had co-authored papers on the Great Depression and the financial crisis and made contributions to applied game theory.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Patton '77 partners with U. dropout to found matrimony app*

Daily Princetonian Staff

“Princeton Mom” Susan Patton ’77 will be partnering with former computer science majors from the University to create Yente, an app to partner college students together in matrimonial bliss.Patton explained that participants in the app will fill out profiles including intended post-graduate job, major, extracurricular activities including fraternities or eating clubs and physical characteristics.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

Republican debate to take place on tropical island*

Daily Princetonian Staff

The next Republican debate will feature a new format, that of a survival-of-the-fittest contest, CNBC moderator John Harwood said. Harwood explained that the candidates will be put on a deserted tropical island with provisions, but no weapons.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

U. selects squirrel as its new mascot*

Daily Princetonian Staff

Fifteen hundred students were spotted walking around in squirrel onesies as part of a new protest to make squirrels the new mascot of the University.Callme Nutty ’18, the leader of the Squirrel Movement, said that the movement began in response to some papers found in the Mudd Manuscript Library.The papers claimed that squirrels were supposed to be the mascot for the University, according to proposals drafted by Bruce Wayne ’39.Wayne was unavailable for comment as he was allegedly at war with Catwoman.“Squirrels should be the mascots of this great institution because they’re so cute,” the papers claimed, according to Nutty, “and cats like lions or tigers are too violent.”According to Nutty, the paper went on to detail reasons for choosing squirrels as the mascot, which focused on their preparedness for the future in collecting their food before every winter and forgetting to take out buried nuts, which grew into trees.The original squirrel papers could not be traced as tigers allegedly ate them 50 years ago.Nutty said that the squirrel has always been the University’s official mascot in secret.

NEWS | 01/07/2016

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