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U. faculty dominated by whites, males, committee finds

U. faculty dominated by whites, males, committee finds

More than four in five faculty members are white and 75 percent are male, despite concerted efforts by the University administration to increase diversity within the faculty. These data, based on 2010 statistics, were compiled by the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity. Formed in January, the committee was charged with identifying ways to enhance the diversity of the graduate student body, faculty and senior administration.

NEWS | 10/09/2012

Perlstein's responsive website heralds ‘active online presence’ for scientists

When Associate Research Scholar Ethan Perlstein set out to create a personal lab website earlier this year, he sought to create a platform that could do a lot more than just display his publications and research. By the time he began working at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics this fall, he had a unique web platform that he said he hopes other scientists would soon replicate.

NEWS | 10/09/2012

News & Notes: Rosen reacts to Obama campaign comments

Economics professor Harvey Rosen was brought into the fray of election-year presidential politics this week, when he told the Weekly Standard that he thought president Barack Obama’s campaign had mischaracterized his research.

NEWS | 10/09/2012

Locals criticize U. at public forum debating land use bill

Local community leaders criticized a state bill supported by the University that would give the University the right to develop its own land as it sees fit. The discussion took place at a public forum Tuesday night at Borough Hall.The bill would allow private colleges like Princeton to pursue development projects without the approval of local zoning boards. The bill was approved by the State Senate in June and is currently awaiting a hearing before the State Assembly’s Higher Education Committee.

NEWS | 10/09/2012

With student support at its back, group pushes U. to invest endowment responsibly

Following a USG referendum last spring encouraging the University to invest its endowment in “socially responsible ways,” the Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility is requesting that the University form a committee to monitor its $17.1 billion endowment.

NEWS | 10/09/2012

Furniture lost in summer storage

Merik Mulcahy ’13 used the Moving and Storage Agency this summer to store his couch, which he estimated was worth about $300. But a week after he returned to campus, the couch still had not been delivered. He called the agency to ask when it would arrive, but he was told by the agency that all the couches it stored had already been delivered.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

Discipline Report shows small drop in total infractions, but uptick in fraud

The number of student disciplinary infractions decreased by about 10 percent last school year, according to the latest Discipline Report released by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students on Friday. The report recorded all student infractions from July 2011 to July 2012.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

News & Notes: Malcolm Warnock '25, University's oldest alumnus, dies at 107

The University’s oldest living alumnus, Malcolm Warnock ’25, died on Tuesday at the age of 107, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly. On eight separate occasions, Warnock led the P-Rade avt Reunions and carried the Class of 1923 cane, which is bestowed on the most senior returning graduate.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

Projects Board may have violated USG constitution with unapproved expenditures

The USG’s student group funding branch may have violated the USG constitution by approving funding for two projects without receiving appropriate approval from the student government.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

Current town-gown tension harkens back to Civil War, Mudd exhibit shows

Former president of the University John Maclean received a letter from a concerned parent in September 1861. Joseph Casey’s son, Isaac, had just been expelled from the University — then known as the College of New Jersey — for dousing a southern student under a pump on campus.“You can no more keep loyal and disloyal students together in the College of New Jersey, without producing collision and disturbance, than you can bring fire and powder together without producing ignition and explosion,” Casey’s letter to Maclean read.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

News & Notes: Sororities give out more than 50 bids in the first year with rush ban

Out of 74 female students who registered for sorority rush, more than 50 were offered bids to Princeton’s three Panhellenic sororities.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

The Princeton education of a prime minister

Coming from a Korean family that was not financially well-off, former Korean prime minister Un-Chan Chung GS ’78 managed to attend — and eventually lead — the number-one ranked Korean university. Later, he received a Ph.D. from one of America’s best as well: Princeton.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

Leong ’13 and Choi ’14 write book about graduate alumnus

Elaine Leong ’13 and Edward Choi ’14 have published a book telling the personal story of an economics Ph.D. candidate that they met three years ago in the basement of Fisher Hall. The book has elicited favorable reviews from prominent members of the University community, including University president Shirley Tilghman.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

New tactic seen in USG campaign, involving auctioning Facebook cover photo, ruled inappropriate

The 32 candidates running for Freshman Class Council received a unique email the night of Oct. 1 from Baxter Ingram ’16, the administrator of the Class of 2016 Facebook page. “Lock in your candidacy with this opportunity!” Ingram’s email read.

NEWS | 10/08/2012

SFER founders resume studies after year off

In the midst of taking a year off from the University, Catharine Bellinger ’13 and Alexis Morin ’13 were honored by Time magazine as two of the nation’s top education activists. Now, in addition to trying to build and sustain a national movement, they’re working toward completing their undergraduate degrees.

NEWS | 10/07/2012

U. sued by 2 employees for discrimination

One current and one former University employee have separately sued the University in U.S. District Court alleging employment discrimination, but both cases may face dismissal, according to federal court records.

NEWS | 10/07/2012

News & Notes: Scheduled Ai Weiwei talk postponed to spring

The University has postponed a lecture by Chinese artist and government dissident Ai Weiwei, who designed the sculptures currently on display outside Robertson Hall. The lecture was scheduled for Oct. 10, but Ai will be unable to travel outside China due to the government’s continued hold on his passport, the artist explained in interviews with The New York Times and The Daily Princetonian last month.

NEWS | 10/07/2012

Rethinking shopping period

With the add/drop period concluded and class rosters settled, students can do little beyond reflect on whether they chose the right courses during the first two weeks of school — unless they want to pay the $45 fee to drop a course.But at other schools with formal shopping periods, the add/drop period is significantly longer and provides students with an opportunity to sample classes more freely. Based on student survey results, the USG is recommending that Princeton take steps to move in that direction.

NEWS | 10/07/2012

Study: In group settings, women are reluctant to speak

Women speak less in groups when outnumbered, according to a new study by politics professor Tali Mendelberg published in the American Political Science Review.

NEWS | 10/06/2012

Scientist-president Tilghman promoted U.’s arts program, supporters sayj.

Throughout her tenure as University president, Shirley Tilghman has frequently planned campus-wide projects that span the course of many years. One of her most ambitious long-term projects — the development and expansion of the University’s arts programs — took quite a while and still isn’t finished.Tilghman, set to retire this June after 12 years, has spent the last eight expanding the University’s commitment to the arts by building the Lewis Center for the Arts and pushing through the controversial Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

NEWS | 10/04/2012

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