Lupe Fiasco will perform at Dartmouth’s Green Key weekend, the Dartmouth Programming Board announced in a tweet on April 18.
Rebecca Basaldua ’15 and Nadia Diamond ’17 are spearheading an effort to revitalize “Equal Writes,” acampus feminist blog founded in the spring of 2008 by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 and Chloe Angyal ’09.
Nassau Hall is no longer a part of Orange Key tours. The University's oldest building was removed from the route on March 25 because handicapped visitors are not easily able to enter.
The U-Store appears to be cracking down on thefts at the store, leading to several arrests of both students and town residents in the last few months. James Sykes, President of the U-Store, said the increase in arrests is the result of new management, which took over in July.
New research produced by politics professor Martin Gilens andpolitical science professor at Northwestern University Benjamin Page shows that average citizens have little to no influence on the outcome of government policy. The data used in Page and Gilens' research consisted of 1,779 pieces of U.S.
On April 5, 1988, at 2:27 a.m., Christopher P.
One year after the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, runners will take to the starting line for the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Last year, two homemade bombs made from pressure cookers detonated near the marathon's finish line on April 15, killing three and wounding more than 260 others. Dozens of University students, faculty, staff and alumni either ran the marathon or attended the celebrations that accompanied the marathon, and were confirmed safe shortly after the bombs were detonated. There will be a higher-than-usual police presence at Monday's marathon, in addition to other security measures, Massachusetts Gov.
Guests from the Graduate Student Government and Counseling and Psychological Services spoke at Sunday night’s USG Senate meeting. Dr. Calvin Chin, the director of CPS, addressed ways that CPS and USG can collaborate to spread the message that it's important to “not be afraid to acknowledge vulnerability, and to not be afraid to reach out and get resources.” Chin said that on their end, CPS is expanding counseling services' availability hours in the fall, developing their new initiative which places a CPS wellness outpost in the EQuad for drop-ins, working on a bystander intervention program in partnership with SHARE, putting together training so that students, faculty and staff can be trained to act as allies and working on destigmatizing mental illness. Chin said he wants students to know that “it’s okay to have stress, it’s okay to feel displaced, it’s okay sometimes to feel not okay, it’s okay to feel overwhelmed.” Chin said he hopes to communicate that message through a variety of video projects, including a Princeton Speaks Up initiative of short student, faculty and staff testimonial videos.
Students will vote on a referendum to separate the Senate and Class Governments in addition to voting for Class Council and U-Council positions.
Gene Katsevich ’14 is one of 15 students nationwide to be awarded a Hertz Fellowship this year.
The Office of Information Technology sent an email to students on Friday asking them to change their passwords in response to "Heartbleed," a security flaw in software used to protect private information on the Internet. Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Jay Dominick said Heartbleed is a function of a particular version of OpenSSL, a piece of software that encrypts Internet traffic.
The traditional brick-and-mortar college experience is still valuable because of the broad array of interactions it allows students to have with faculty members, University President Christopher Eisgruber’83said Thursday in a lecture that was a part of the “Last Lecture” series. Eisgruber explained that students may be more motivated to learn when immersed in an environment that offers opportunities to engage with the people who teach and grade them.
Author and Nobel Laureate in literature GabrielGarcía Márquezdied Thursday at age 87. The exact cause of death was unspecified, but he had recently returned to his home in Mexico City after a hospitalization. Born in Colombia and widely considered one of the best Spanish-language authors of the 20th century, García Márquezpopularized magical realism, a literary genre that combines supernatural elements with the every day.
No Truman scholarships were awarded to the University this year, and no Princeton student made it to the final round of the application process for the second consecutive year, the Foundation announced. The scholarship was awarded this year to one student at Harvard and two students at Duke, but none of the scholars came from Yale.
The creators of a class art project that seeks responses to the question, "What can you not say at Princeton?” have reported two incidents against their project. Known as The Surface, the creators reported one incident of "aggressive intervention” and a second incident where the University removed part of their project due to "graphic content." Both incidents allegedly happened on April 15. The University has denied any involvement in the first incident and said the second incident was in response to a complaint it had received. The Surface is a literal white surface where people can write and express their answers to the overarching question.
The relationship between carbon emissions and climate response is much more complicated than previously thought, according to research published by scientists at the University's geosciences department andthe Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on April 1in Geophysical Research Letters. The scientists' findings imply that current methods of comparing carbon emissions with temperature change are not effective. John Krasting, a physical scientist at the GFDL, which is associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, led the study. He explained that the researchers used a physical climate model coupled with a carbon cycle model to conduct the study.
A fire was reported in the third-floor kitchen of Wendell Hall in Whitman College at around 1:50 p.m.
Former University President Shirley Tilghman, University trustee Charlie Gibson ’65 and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels ’71 were recently elected directors to the Commission on Presidential Debates. Their addition brings the total number of Princeton-affiliated directors on the commission to six. Co-chair of the commission Mike McCurry ’76 and former Senator Jack Danforth ’58 are also directors on the commission.
Three University student groups were awarded $10,000 from the Davis Projects for Peace to launch their ideas for peace this summer in Jordan, the Philippines and India, according to the University website. Wardah Bari ’16 and Farah Amjad ’16 will pursue their project “Children's Playground: Fostering Peace Between Native and Refugee Communities” in Jordan.
Princeton Mock Trial was ultimately titled the National Champion Runner Up for the 2014 competition of the American National Mock Trial Tournament, losing to University of California, Los Angeles in a 3-2 ballot decision.The team also received three individual All-American Awards for best witnesses and attorney and placed first in its division with an undefeated record, the first team to do so in the 30-year history of the national competition. This year was Princeton’s first championship round appearance.
