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USG organizes 3rd annual Mental Health Week

USG organizes 3rd annual Mental Health Week

Corinne Lowe

Princeton’s third annual Mental Health Week has taken a more interactive approach this year to increase awareness of mental health issues on campus. USG offered a variety of activities that gave students the opportunity to send postcards, make inspirational posts and t-shirts, receive free massages, take mood-screening tests and attend a variety of workshops and talks related to mental health, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said. “One of the major changes has been moving away from speakers and having more engaging activities for students,” Jackson explained.

NEWS | 03/09/2014

News & Notes: 3 in 10 Republicans would not vote for Christie, poll says

Corinne Lowe

Three in every 10 Republicans say they would not back New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie if he ran for the White House, according to a recently released Washington Post-ABC News poll. Although Christie was favored by the GOP to lead the party in 2016 after winning his reelection this past fall, he now faces two investigations, one by the state legislature and the other by U.S.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

Former inspector general of CIA discusses Snowden

Jacob Donnelly

Former CIA employee and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was a product of a culture in the intelligence community that has evolved significantly since the Cold War, Frederick Hitz ’61 said in a lecture on Thursday. Hitz is a former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency and adjunct professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. “It was really run like a mom-and-pop store,” Hitz said of the CIA’s clandestine service in the Cold War.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

Princeton in the Middle East program to send postgraduate fellows abroad

Sharon Deng

The Princeton in the Middle East program will send postgraduate fellows to the Middle East and North Africa next year as part of its new independent initiative and partnership with Endeavor, a nonprofit organization that sends entrepreneurs around the world. In 2012, PriME was launched under the Princeton in Africa program tosend recent graduates to the Middle East and North Africa region to acquire real work experience.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

Career Services fields complaints about internship fairs

Lorenzo Quiogue

Several students have complained about the career fairs hosted by Career Services, saying the fairs place an undue emphasis on computer science and finance. Nicholas Porto ’15, an electrical engineering concentrator, said the internship fairs are very skewed toward computer science, while the career fairs in general, despite the occasional outlier, are more focused on finance and consulting. Adam Klosowiak ’15, also an electrical engineering concentrator, said sometimes, even when the career fairs are targeted toward the humanities, recruiters still look for people with knowledge of computer software. Career Services Executive Director Pulin Sanghvi explained that a lot of financial organizations have large budgets set aside for recruitment events, whereas for other companies, going to a recruiting fair could take a major chunk out of their budget. 49 out of 77 companies registered for February's "Summer Internship Career Fair" were in the financial or computer science industries, according to a Daily Princetonian review of the list of registered employers.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

PRINCO reallocates investments in search for more liquidity

Joseph Sheehan Joe

The Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University's endowment, has slightly adjusted its allocations to include a higher percentage of investments in comparatively more liquid assets.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

Cherskov '14 wins Gates Scholarship

Lorenzo Quiogue

Adriana Cherskov ’14 has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, making her the sixth Princeton student or alumnus to receive the award this year.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

News & Notes: Princeton ranked sixth in Times Higher Education World Rankings

Paul Phillips

Princeton University was ranked sixth in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which was released Wednesday.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Initial reactions to mobile printing highlight ease, convenience

De Vann Sago

The University's Office of Information Technology announced the introduction of mobile printing on Feb.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Ex Princeton employee to pay $22K for alleged hacking

Chitra Marti

The computer criminal activity case involving a former University employee has been resolved, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Alla Ryklin, 48, of West Windsor, was arrested last December for allegedly hacking into the University's computer system and was initially charged with two counts of computer criminal activity.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Barnard president discusses contemporary feminism

Lorenzo Quiogue

The pursuit of perfection is one of the biggest issues facing women in America today, Barnard College president Debora Spar argued at a lecture on Wednesday.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Committee on Discipline open to considering publication of total number of cases heard

Luc Cohen

The Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline may for the first time provide transparent information about the total number of disciplinary cases adjudicated each year, Dean of Undergraduate Students and Committee on Discipline Chair Kathleen Deignan told The Daily Princetonian. The Committee — together with the student-run Honor Committee, which adjudicates allegations of cheating on in-class examinations — has in the past issued annual discipline reports detailing the number of students found responsible for violations of University policy.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Student groups to request funds through Student Activities Funding Engine

Jeron Fenton

Student groups and organizations will now request funds for events and activities using the Student Activities Funding Engine website, which was launched last year to streamline summer funding requests.SAFE will now be the universal engine through which students make all their funding requests. The first phase of implementing SAFE, which began in the winter of 2013, allowed individual students to request funds for expenses, including those for senior thesis research, internships and study abroad over the summer.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

No one charged in last month's Ivy Club painting incident

No one charged in last month's Ivy Club painting incident

Chitra Marti

No one has been charged in connection with an incident involving a smashed painting at the Ivy Club last month, according to police records obtained by The Daily Princetonian. A male student allegedly punched a museum-framed painting in Ivy Club on Feb.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

News & Notes: Ben Bernanke speaks at financial conference in Abu Dhabi

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former chair of the economics department and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke reportedly made at least $250,000 for a 40-minute appearance at the financial conference of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters. In his speech, Bernanke expressed regrets about his time as chairman, especially during the financial crisis.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

Candidates for 12th district seat announced

Jacqueline Gufford

Since Rush Holt announced his retirement on Feb.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

News & Notes: Princeton Police Department investigating apparent suicide

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Princeton Police Department is currently investigating an apparent suicide. While on patrol around6:30 a.m., officers found the body of a 23-year-old male resident on Spring Street.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

Suspicious powder found in mail reported to be powdered eggs

Jacob Donnelly

Powdered eggs, first mistaken for a suspicious powder, prompted numerous emergency response agencies to the University’s Print & Mail Services facility in the Forrestal Campus on Tuesday. The suspicious substance was reported at 10:20 a.m.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

Convictions of plagiarism in computer science courses on the rise

Paul Phillips and Luc Cohen

Approximately 20 students were found responsible for plagiarism in COS 126: General Computer Science by the University's Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the 2012-13 academic year. The number represents an increase of more than twice the number of violations that occurred in any previous academic year, Fall 2013 COS 126 lead preceptor David Pritchard said. The spike coincides with massive increases in enrollment in recent years, and is consistent with a trend of increased cases of alleged plagiarism in introductory computer science courses across the country.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

Government whistleblowers discuss consequences of actions

Konadu Amoakuh

Two government whistleblowers, Cathy Harris and Thomas Tamm, discussed their experiences as whistleblowers and the consequences of their whistleblowing actions at a lecture on campus on Tuesday. Beatrice Edwards, executive director and international program director of the Government Accountability Project, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote government accountability by protecting whistleblowers and other activists,moderated the lecture.

NEWS | 03/04/2014

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