The Class of 2018 has elected five members to its class council, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announced in an email to the student body on Friday night.
The doors of Robertson Hall, home of the Wilson School, will be locked two hours earlier every night due to an incident reported late Tuesday, according to an email sent to all Wilson School students. According to the email, a Wilson School graduate student entered Robertson Hall at 10:30 p.m and noticed a suspicious man in the main lobby.
The town of Princeton has been designated an “age friendly community” by the World Health Organization, according to an announcement made at the Princeton Senior Resource Center fall gala. The designation was awarded by the WHO in July, making the town the first community in New Jersey to be awarded the designation.
Alex Pimentel ’14 was hit by a car on Sept. 26 while walking in New York City. According to an email sent out on the listserv for Princeton Triangle Club, for which Alex Pimentel served as sound designer while at the University, he is badly hurt, but is stable and recovering in the hospital where he is expected to remain for no more than a few more days. He is anticipated to be on bed rest for the next few weeks. The Triangle Club reports that Pimentel is not permitted to talk on the phone, but the club is rallying to send him care packages and cards. There has also been a fund set up for him on YouCaring, a funding website.
Tensions between the University administration and some members of the graduate student body arose after the University announced a delay in the opening of the Lakeside Graduate Housing, a housing development being built near Lake Carnegie. According to John Ziegler, the director of real estate development.
The Undergraduate Student Government team coordinating the publication of the Committee on Background and Opportunity IVreports has experienced further obstacles in its work with data analysis, according to USG president Shawon Jackson ’15. The release date was set for April as of the last update, but has been postponed indefinitely until the data analysis has been corroborated with campus administrators, and a policy recommendation has been worked out by U-Councilor and COMBO IV project leader Jameil Brown ’16.
Many students at the University casually remark about how enmeshed they are in the Orange Bubble, perhaps best described as a metaphor for the preeminent role the University campus plays in their lives.
A student originally in the Class of 2014 launched Seniors and Youth, a cross-generational Korean language program and nonprofit project that pairs a University student who studies Korean with a retired senior citizen in Yongsan Senior Welfare Center in South Korea for weekly 15-minute Skype conversations.
Citizens of the 12thcongressional district of New Jersey will elect two new representatives in the upcoming midterm elections, with Democratic candidate and Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman vying against Republican candidate Dr. Alieta Eck for the congressional seat, while Democratic candidate and incumbent Senator Cory Booker and Republican candidate Jeff Bell face off for the U.S.
Decreases in the number of sexual assaults reported on campus and increases in burglaries might be attributed to changes in the way these statistics are reported, University officials said on Wednesday in response to the University's Annual Security & Fire Report, which was released Tuesday. This year, the most significant change was made to the reporting of sex offenses.
The University has been ranked fourth in finance, fourth in software developers at startups and fifth in software development by LinkedIn University Rankings, which ranks universities in various professional fields based on the level of career success attained by alumni of those universities. The University was topped in the finance rankings by the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Georgetown University, in the software developers list by Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the software developers at startups list by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University.
Susan Patton ’77, who in 2013 wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian encouraging women to find a male partner during their time at the University, co-wrote a letter on Friday to the Baltimore Sun criticizing the perception that rape is common on college campuses. Using the FBI statistic for the rate of “forcible rapes” in 2012, she and Jonathan David Farley, a mathematician, calculated the probability of a woman not being raped in college at 99.8 percent.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing in cleaner energy alternatives. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a $860 million philanthropic organization that provides grants to promote democratic practices, peace building and sustainable development.
A summer burglary in 20 Washington Road resulted in an arrest last week for third-degree burglary and for trespassing. Andru Brown, 21, of Lawrenceville, N.J., allegedly entered Frick Laboratory on Aug.
Dean of the Architecture School Alejandro Zaera-Polo has resigned from his position effective immediately, the University announced on Wednesday morning. According to an email sent by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to the graduate students of the Architecture School, Zaera-Polo’s resignation “will allow him to devote greater attention to his research and other professional activities.”He will remain a professor at the Architecture School. In the same announcement, Eisgruber explained that the school’s former dean and professor Stanley T.
A student was charged with invasion of privacy and burglary in the third degree on Monday after allegedly holding a cell phone camera over a shower door without the knowledge or consent of a female student who was showering at the time. David Chesley, originally a member of the Class of 2016, was charged on Monday after an investigation by theDepartment of Public Safety.
A case of bedbugs was reported in a room in Forbes College on September 26,marking the first bedbug case of the 2014-15 academic year, said University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. After the case was reported and an inspection of the room confirmed the presence of bedbugs, the two residents of the room were relocated to other campus housing to make room for heat treatment, Mbugua said.
Senior theses for the Classes of 2013 and 2014 are now available online, with a few changes to accessibility. Mudd Library and the Office of the Dean of the College made Class of 2013 theses available digitally via an online database called DataSpace in October of last year.
Marc Dashield has been appointed the town’s next municipal administrator by a unanimous vote by Mayor Liz Lempert and the town council. Dashield is currently the township manager of Montclair Township where he has served since 2009.
The overall number of crimes reported on campus in 2013 increased to 56, compared to 48 in 2012, an increase due largely to a spike in the number of burglaries reported, according to the University’s latest Annual Security and Fire Report. There were 30 and 27 burglaries respectively in 2011 and 2012.
