A panel of female alumni discussed the question "Should women do it all?” at a Reunions discussion on Friday moderated by politics professor Tali Mendelberg.
Brian Reilly ’14 won the Young Alumni Trustee election and will begin a four-year term as a University trustee on July 1, the University announced on Friday.
While the media and public often take a short-term view of the benefits of a college education, the University is a long-term enterprise, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 told an alumni audience on Thursday at the Class of 1959 Reunion Seminar.
Flo Rida, a hip-hop artist, is currently performing at the 25th reunion tent. The concert is expected to last no longer than an hour and a half.
The annual Daily Princetonian Reunions issue compiles the biggest stories of the year on Princeton’s campus.
Following a lawsuit and an outpour of op-eds in The Daily Princetonian, University mental health policy has been at the forefront of campus conversation, prompting administrators to hold dialogues to hear students’ concerns and, in some, cases consider reform. In March, a student filed a lawsuit in federal court against the University alleging that it had engaged in discrimination when handling a case of attempted suicide. In April, a student published an anonymous op-ed in The Daily Princetonian criticizing the administration’s practice of demanding detailed medical records from students who have taken time off for mental health reasons. “If I ever want to return to Princeton as a student, I will have to ‘voluntarily’ waive my right to doctor-patient confidentiality by signing … two forms,” the student wrote.
Tiger Inn elected four new officers on March 31 after all but two officers resigned earlier that month following a party, deemed unauthorized, of the heavy-drinking group called the 21 Club. The elections came after what was officially called a “security breach” at the club on March 9, according to an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian that was sent to members by the club’s graduate board president Robert “Hap” Cooper ’82. Former president Ryan Cash ’15, house manager Dror Liebenthal ’15, treasurer Will Siroky ’15 and safety czar Victoria Majchrzak ’15 offered their resignations to the club’s graduate board of governors after the incident. Oliver Bennett ’15, the vice president prior to the incident, was elected president.
Amid a backdrop of intense activism, a male Columbia student is retaliating in federal court against an internal disciplinary conviction of sexual assault. The student, who is only identified as John Doe in the suit filed Monday, alleges that Columbia administrators sought to make an example out of his case, that his rights under Title IX were violated and that administrators succumbed to external pressures from student activists in determining his guilt.
Forbes College Director of Studies Patrick Caddeau will become the next dean of Forbes, Forbes College Master Michael Hecht announced in an email to Forbes students on Wednesday.Caddeau will replace retiring dean John Hodgson, who has worked within Forbes since 1994.
Officers from the Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department responded to a call about a student holding what appeared to be a toy gun in Butler College shortly after 9 p.m.
Music professor Paul Lansky will retire this month. Lansky was one of the first composers to choose a machine as his main instrument, having specialized in computer music since 1973, NJ.com reported.Initially a French horn player and guitarist, he began digitally composing on an IBM mainframe with one megabyte of memory in the 1960s.
While approving members of the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline, the Senate debated some of these groups’ practices in its final meeting of the year on Sunday night. Under current protocol, members of the Honor Committee contact students to meet with the committee but do not inform students of whether they are being called in because they are suspects or witnesses. U-Council chair Elan Kugelmass ’14 raised the idea that students should be informed of their position as soon as possible in order to ensure their rights are protected. “When we’re trying to build a system on trust … it doesn’t make sense that we would treat all students with some kind of impression that they’re not going to tell us the truth if we don’t give them the time to think of what to say,” he said. Honor Committee chair Luchi Mmegwa ’14 responded to Kugelmass’ claim saying when a student is called in, the student is able to call in a representative at any point during the meeting and, in some situations, the committee members themselves do not know if the student called forth is a suspect or a witness. U-Councilor Zhan Okuda-Lim '15 noted that when this is the case, it creates a gray area for students who neither fit the description of a witness or a suspect. Although some members of the senate described this “gray area” as troubling with regard to ensuring the student's right to representation, Mmegwa said, “With regards to gray area, what I was meaning to say was that we never have a situation where we are calling someone who may be a suspect, but not treating them with their rights.” He added that when students are called into the office, the student is able to decide which course of action to take before proceeding with the investigation and case. “Students who come before the Honor Committee, even in investigatory phase, should be informed of status and rights and should not be left wondering if there were charges brought against them,”Kugelmass said. According to Kugelmass, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Victoria Jueds, who serves as secretary of the Committee on Discipline, said that she didn’t think it was necessary for students to have representation during the first meeting. Kugelmass asked the six nominees for the Honor Committee whether they “support all efforts to quickly inform all students whether they are suspects or witnesses.” He proceeded to ask the same question to the five nominees for the Committee on Discipline. All nominees agreed and were approved for their positions. The Senate also elected two new Council of the Princeton University Community executive committee representatives — U-Councilors Danny Johnson ’15 and Okuda-Lim.
Following an announcement Thursday, the University has revised its official yield rate for the Class of 2018, increasing it to 69.2 percent, which actually marks a slight increase from last year's yield of 68.7 percent. Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained in an interview Friday that the number provided to The Daily Princetonian on Thursday -- a yield of 67.4 percent — did not include Bridge Year students.
Colleen McCullough ’12 was contacted this March by University officials who told her that Princeton in the Middle East, the post-graduate fellowship program she had founded along with other University alumni, would have to remove the “Princeton in” construction from its name because it suggested that the independently established organization had an affiliation to the University and thus created confusion. PriME is one of many outside organizations that have fallen into the gray area as to whether or not they should be allowed to use the word Princeton in their name.
Counseling and Psychological Services does not maintain a “watch list” of students of concern that it shares with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, CPS director Calvin Chin and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin said at a dialogue about mental health evaluations between students and administrators Friday afternoon. The dialogue followed an initial dialogue that took place on Tuesday.
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University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 discussed government cuts to higher education and the need for business leaders to press for more funding to state schools during a speech at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Princeton Marriott on Thursday, The Princeton Packet reported. The speech was Eisgruber’s first to the local business community, and he urged business leaders to make their voices heard in support of higher education. Eisgruber cited evidence that opposes the idea that students are graduating from college with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, countering newspaper articles which he said cast doubt upon whether higher education is worth the cost.
Rich Vyas ’14, a concentrator in the Wilson School, has been chosen as a winner of the United Nations “Many Languages, One World Essay” contest in the Spanish language.
Ten students in GSS 397: Feminist Media Studies presented Thursday on topics they chose at the beginning of the semester in a symposium titled “More than MAD WOMEN: Examining Gender in Public Discourse.” Each student used examples from the media and popular culture, historical events and personal experiences to present the importance of their topic in relation to public discourse on it, as well as ideas moving forward for how to change or rethink the discourse. The class, taught by professor Melissa Deem, a lecturer in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, focuses on the representation of women and feminism in various forms of media. Kayla Bose ’16 said Deem proposed the idea of a symposium in order to present the culmination of their research.
Editor's note: this article has been retracted due to incorrect information provided to The Daily Princetonian by the University.
