Eddie I. Fennell III, a Whitman College Dining Services employee, died of double pneumonia on March 8.
Some student groups have been allocated fewer beds for Reunions than expected this year. The Alumni Association said that beds for student interim housing have been allocated to all student groups who will be participating. “It wasn’t really an issue we thought we had to worry about, so it’s pretty frustrating right now trying to work around it,” said Charlie Wu ’16, a member of the Princeton Roaring 20 a cappella group. Mibs Southerland Mara, the associate director for Reunions, said the University has to look at each group and carefully consider the allocation of beds depending on the circumstances.
Princeton and Yale do not enroll as many low-income students as Harvard does, according to a recentBloomberg View article. The article, entitled “Why Can't Yale and Princeton Be More Like Harvard?,” assessed the number of undergraduates at each institution who receive federal Pell Grants, which are provided based on financial need to an average of 41.4 percent of college students nationwide. Although about 10 percent of students at both Harvard and Yale received Pell Grantsin 2003-04, Harvard featured 20 percent of such grants by 2011-2012 compared to Yale’s 14 percent. Meanwhile, Princeton offered the grant to about 7 percent of its students in 2003-04 and about 12 percent of its students in 2011-12, Bloomberg View reported. The article also notes that Harvard started a campaign to attract more low-income students in 2004 and suggested that the initiative had a positive impact. Of those students who received the grant in 2011-2012, 75 percent had family incomes of $30,000 or less.
Former Yale President Richard C. Levin was appointed CEO of Coursera, the New York Times reported Monday.Coursera is an educational company that offers online academic courses with more than 100 partner universities worldwide, including the University.Levin has formerly promoted open online educational courses similar to Coursera’s offerings.
Actor James Franco was in town and later on campus Monday to film scenes for the upcoming film “The Sound and the Fury,” a period drama set in 1910.
A new experiment, the Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiment, is being designed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to further scientists’ understanding of magnetic reconnection, a process relevant to both astrophysical plasmas and plasmas within fusion reactions. PPPL Director Stewart Prager said the PPPL will host FLARE and operate it during its research phase as well as contribute technical staff and researchers.
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition movement, Leopoldo López, has roots in Princeton, having graduated from Princeton’s Hun School in 1989.
The Princeton Station parking lot was outfitted with a new multispace meter system last week, supplementing existing permit spaces and ending a temporary period of free parking in the new lot, Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget announced.
The Crooked Root Café, launched byClaire Stanton ’15 and Pamela Soffer ’15,is nearing its one-year anniversary next month.Because Soffer and Stanton studied abroad in London and Barcelona respectively in the fall of 2013, the café only recently reopened in 2014. The Latin American-inspiredcafé is student-run and was first officially opened in Murray-Dodge Hall on April 19 of 2013.
At approximately 6:17 p.m. on Sunday fire alarms went off in Whitman College leading to an evacuation of all the students in the residential college, according to University Media SpecialistMike Caddell. Fire alarms were reportedly triggered from the smoke of an overcooked meal from the Whitman kitchen, he explained.Timothy Lau '17 and five other students were cooking a meal celebrating the end of spring break when they decided to let the smoke out from the kitchen through the window and kitchen door, Lau said. While the kitchen fire alarms were not triggered, the hallway alarms, which Lau said are more sensitive to smoke, were triggered about 15 seconds after the door was opened.
Mark Benjamin ’14, Luchi Mmegwa ’14 and Brian Reilly ’14 have been elected finalists for the position of Young Alumni Trustee for the Class of 2014. Each graduating class elects one of their members every year to serve on the University's Board of Trustees.
Richard Falk, international law professor emeritus and United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” during a news conference onMarch 21, Reuters reported. Falk, a controversial figure in the United States,spoke last month at the Universityencouraging Palestinians to empower themselves and engage in nonviolent resistance in the ongoing conflict. Falk noted at the April talk that Israeli residency laws have forced over 11,000 Palestinians out of Jerusalem since 1996, and are reminiscent of colonialism and apartheid.
The Graduate Student Government elected a new board of representatives after presenting an overview of last year's achievements on March 12, former GSG president Friederike Funk said.
The Drexel University student who died March 10 from meningitis met a number of Princeton football players at a social mixer a week before her death, local health authorities said. Stephanie Ross reportedly had close contact with one Princeton football player, Princeton Health Officer Bob Hary reportedto the Princeton Health Commissionon March 18, according to Planet Princeton.
Former White House Cabinet Secretary Christopher Lu ’88 will speak at this year's Baccalaureate ceremony on June 1, the University announced Friday morning.
Former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey deputy executive director Bill Baroni began a new job on Monday as legal counsel for the Hill Wallack LLP law firm in Princeton, the Hamilton Observer reported. Baroni had resigned from his job at the Port Authority following his involvement in the so-called Bridgegate scandal, when the Port Authority allegedly caused traffic jams by closing two of the three access lanes connecting the George Washington Bridge to Fort Lee, N.J.
Sudan and South Sudan are unlikely to go to war again, but the situation in South Sudan has significantly worsened in recent months due to the onset of civil war, Princeton Lyman said in a lecture Thursday evening.
The use of the construction “Princeton in” in a recently launched postgraduate fellowship started by a group of University alumni is being questioned by University officials.
The Outdoor Action Frosh Trip program is currently short of 30 students to lead freshman orientation trips come next fall. The current shortfall in leaders might be prompted by fewer members of the Class of 2017 having gone on an OA trip than in the preceding year, program director Richard Curtis ’79 said.
All but two undergraduate officers of Tiger Inn resigned from their positionsMondaymorning following an incident early Sunday. 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. Only social chair Brendan Byrne ’15 and vice president Oliver Bennett ’15 did not resign. The incident was officially called a “serious security breach,” according to an email sent to members by the club’s Board of Governors president Robert “Hap” Cooper ’82on Mondaymorning that was obtained by The Daily Princetonian. Cooper wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince’ that the incident was in fact a party, although he did not provide further details about the events. “EarlySundaymorning, a private party took place in Tiger Inn without the necessary security precautions in place,” Cooper wrote.
