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Class Council and U-Council candidates announced

Class Council and U-Council candidates announced

Anna Mazarakis

Thirty-four students are running for class council or U-Council positions this year, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announced in an email to the undergraduate student body on Monday. Of the 15 class council positions, nine are uncontested.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

In light of changes and unrest, Princeton monitoring investment policies across the Ivy League

James Evans

The University is monitoring sustainable investment developments across the Ivy League in light of recent demonstrations and policy changes across peer institutions, although it considers it is still too early to make a decision. Harvard President Drew Faust recently announced Harvard’s commitment to the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment, aimed at tackling climate change.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Wilson School diplomat-in-residence and Directorof the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program Barbara Bodine intends to step down at the end of the academic year. The University is now searching for a director for the SINSI program, which was established in 2006. A job posting indicated the search was posted on the University website on April 7.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

News & Notes: Top 30 Thinkers Under 30

Jeron Fenton

The Pacific Standardnamed E. Glen Weyl ’07, Alisha Holland ’07, Eugene Yi GS '13, Andrew Kim GS and Nicholas Carnes GS '11 as members of the Top 30 Thinkers under 30.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

News & Notes: IP Commercialization Agreement

Konadu Amoakuh

The University signed an IP commercialization agreement with a UK-based intellectual rights commercialization company, IP Group PLC, on Wednesday. The company specializes in the commercialization of intellectual property rights developed at research universities around the world. The agreement will help develop “early stage” opportunities based on intellectual property developed at Princeton that IP Group will now have access to with this new agreement. The agreement has a pilot phase of 18 months and will cover a variety of subjects, including materials, clean technology, medical sciences, human sciences, information technology, electronics, communications and robotics. According to the IP Group website, John F.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen to return to Princeton next fall

Jacqueline Gufford

Admiral and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael G. Mullen will be returning as a guest professor to Princeton this coming fall.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

USG social chair defends donation of Lawnparties proceeds

Durva Trivedi

USG social chair Logan Roth '15 defended the committee's decision to donate proceeds from Spring Lawnparties at the Senate meeting on Sunday. Responding to an audience member’s question, Roth replied that “that specific charity was chosen by a team of people on the social committee, and we chose it because it was local, education-based, and we thought they did very good work.” He cited TEAM Charter Schools’ high matriculation rates and work in extremely impoverished areas as examples of the "good work" they provide. “I understand it’s somewhat politically controversial but I’ve said this before, I didn’t think it would be sensational, but this is a pilot year,” Roth said.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

7 faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Faculty members Mung Chiang, Emily Thompson, Serguei Oushakine, Claire Vaye Watkins, Meghan O’Rourke, Andrew Cole and Devin Fore were among the 178 winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants to receive fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships recognize accomplishments and propositions in academics, the arts or the sciences. Winners receive grants to further their work in time blocks lasting between six and 12 months.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

Tiger Admirers removed from Facebook

Ray Mennin

Tiger Admirers, a Facebook page that allowed University students to express love, affection and secret crushes for other members of the University anonymously, was recently removed from Facebook because it was found to be in violation of the website's policies. The page’s format was that of an ordinary Facebook user, and students would submit poems, YouTube links and confessions to the Tiger Admirers inbox as if they were instant messaging a friend.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

News and Notes: Flaherty ’70, former Canadian finance minister, dies at 64

Daily Princetonian Staff

Jim Flaherty ’70, who served as finance minister of Canada from 2006 through March of this year, died Thursday.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

University General Counsel Peter McDonough announces retirement

Paul Phillips

Peter McDonough, who has served as general counsel for the University since 2002 and provided legal advice to the University since 1990, intends to step down at the end of the academic year.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

Lawnparties charity has ties with USG

Durva Trivedi

The charity that will be featured at Lawnparties this year, TEAM Charter Schools, was selected because several people on the USG social committee liked the organization and had worked with it before, social committee chairLogan Roth ’15 said. He also said the social committee’s decision to contribute to a charity through Lawnparties had been floating around for several years, and he really wanted to move forward with it this year. TEAM Charter Schools, a region of schools in Newark and Camden, N.J., will benefit with proceeds from the sales of raffle tickets and merchandise, while no money originally budgeted for Lawnparties will be handed to the charity.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

Class of 2014 only allowed two guests for Reunions

Jeron Fenton

The University has reduced the number of guests that graduating seniors are allowed to bring to the 2014 Reunions in an attempt to slow down the growing Reunions attendance numbers. Graduating seniors were allowed to purchase tickets for up to five guests for Reunions in previous years.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

Shortened Preview disappoints admitted students

Jasmine Wang

Seven hundred and twentyadmitted students attended the first session of Princeton Preview on Thursday, compared to 700 admitted students in attendance at the first session of Princeton Preview last year. However, both students at the University and prospective studentshave expressed disappointment at the University’s decision to change Princeton Preview from a weekend visit to a one-day event. Cynthia Cherrey, vice president of campus life, announced in an email to the student body last week that the Princeton Preview program would be shortened in order to minimize the chances that prospective students not vaccinated for meningitis would contract the disease. Crystal Wang, 17, a prospective student and native of East Brunswick, N.J., said she was disappointed that the program had been cut short.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

News & Notes: New Jersey implements Distracted Driving Crackdown program

Chitra Marti

The state of New Jersey has implemented a Distracted Driving 2014 Statewide Crackdown program, ongoing until April 21.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

News & Notes: Lawnparties lineup called “easily the worst lineup of all Ivies”

Daily Princetonian Staff

Princeton’s Lawnparties lineup is “easily the worst lineup of all Ivies,” a Columbia Lion blog post said on Tuesday.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

Despite large Class of 2016, no shortage in upperclass housing

Sheila Sisimit

With three rooms remaining in upperclass housing for the Class of 2016 one day before the official end of junior upperclass room draw, at least 103 students had yet to draw into a room.Most of these students will have to place into the housing draw wait list. However, these numbers are not uncommon. "Every year we typically have between 100-120 juniors on the wait list,"Manager of Undergraduate Housing Angela Hodgeman wrote in an email, obtained by The Daily Princetonian, to 309 juniors who had yet to draw into a room as of 9 a.m.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

Room in Forbes burglarized

Lorenzo Quiogue

A room in Forbes College was burglarized last Friday, according to the Department of Public Safety's daily crime logs. Mike Caddell, University media specialist, said that the incident took place between 2:15 p.m.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

Administrators will not crack down on informal Princeton Preview hosting program

Sarah Kim

The University will allow student-organized plans for informal overnight hosting to continue in orderto supplement the shortened Princeton Preview for the Class of 2018,but it will not endorse these plans. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin said that while the University recognizes that the informal hosting program is well-intentioned, the formal hosting program was nevertheless cancelled for well-considered reasons.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

Obama advisor discusses White House science policy

Elizabeth Paul

The United States will suffer in the future if it does not invest in the basic research that is the foundation for applied technology, John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a lecture Wednesday. Holden explained that Obama has stood behind his pledge to restore science to the forefront of the administration's attention, including investment in multi-disciplinary and high-risk research, support for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education reform and development of an advanced information technology ecosystem.

NEWS | 04/09/2014

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