Student Life

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

Benjamin ’14 to bike across U.S. after graduation

Sharon Deng

Mark Benjamin ’14 will bike from Portsmouth, N.H. to Vancouver, British Columbiaover the course of 10 weeks this summer as a Bike & Build rider. Bike & Build is a nonprofit organization based inPhiladelphia, Pa.

NEWS | 04/08/2014

Updated: GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne to headline Lawnparties

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Updated: GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne to headline Lawnparties

Durva Trivedi

Electronic music artist GRiZ and soul musician Mayer Hawthorne will perform at spring Lawnparties, the USG announced with a video presentation in Frist Campus Center’s gallery Monday night. GRiZ is a Detroit-area musician and producer of electronic music.

NEWS | 04/07/2014

USG discusses improvements to Career Services

Durva Trivedi

The USG heard a presentation from Career Services Director Pulin Sanghvi at the Sunday night Senate meeting, during which the Senate moved into a brief executive committee session to speak privately with Sanghvi. During the public session, Sanghvi spoke about his vision for change within Career Services. “There is a strong alignment to drive change quickly within our organization,” he said. By deemphasizing career fairs in favor of smaller, more targeted and meaningful programming, Sanghvi said he hopes Career Services can evolve to be more responsive to students.

NEWS | 03/30/2014

HackPrinceton attracts over 600 participants

Jasmine Wang

The winners of this weekend's HackPrinceton were Derrick Dominic '15 in the software category and Chen Ye, a student at Brown University, in the hardware category. Hansen Qian '16, who helped organize the event, said that EchoCast, the culmination of Dominic's work, is an application which allows individuals to send information wirelessly over high-frequency sound waves. Ye's hardware, AirBike, involves a wireless electronic lock and an iPhone application to allow individuals to rent and borrow bikes from each other.

NEWS | 03/30/2014

In response to shorter Princeton Preview, students organize overnight hosting system

Do-Hyeong Myeong

In response tothe University’s decision to shorten the Princeton Preview program, a group of students is trying to organize an informal hosting system for admitted students. The students created a Facebook groupcalled Informal Hosting for Prospective Princeton Studentson Thursdayevening, shortly after the University announced that the program for prospective students would be shortened to one day. As of2:30 p.m.

NEWS | 03/30/2014

Hardy ’14 awarded Rangel Fellowship

Sheila Sisimit

Brittany Hardy ’14, a religion concentrator, has been awarded a Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. The fellowship, which is funded by the U.S.

NEWS | 03/26/2014

U. mentoring program to undergo restructuring

Konadu Amoakuh

The Princeton University Mentoring Program, a program aimed at supporting ethnic minorities, is in the process of transitioning from three branches of mentorship programs to one inclusive program for students who identify as students of color. PUMP was originally split into the Latinos Unidos for Networking and Advising, the Black Student Union’s Leadership and Mentoring Program and the Asian American Mentoring Program. While the mentors and mentees were paired within ethnic groups under the previous construction, director of the Fields Center Tennille Haynessaid that under the new system freshmen can be paired with mentors of a different race if they wish.

NEWS | 03/25/2014

Outdoor Action short of leaders for the fall

Jacob Donnelly

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.

NEWS | 03/13/2014

Tiger Inn president and three officers resign following unauthorized party

Lorenzo Quiogue

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.

NEWS | 03/12/2014

COMBO IV sees delays, expects to publish in April

Durva Trivedi

After significant delays,the USG project team working on the Committee on Background and Opportunity IV report is set to publish its findings by early April, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.

NEWS | 03/11/2014

Group aims to remove justice system questions from Princeton application

Sheila Sisimit

Students for Prison Education and Reform launched their Admissions Opportunity Campaign with an online petition last week.

NEWS | 03/09/2014

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

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

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

U. administrators to present data on peer academic advising system

Ruby Shao

University administrators will soon present data on the peer academic advising system that was implemented across all residential colleges in the 2012-2013 academic year. The peer advising program had been extremely limited before the 2011-2012 school year, Dean of Wilson College Anne Caswell-Klein said.

NEWS | 03/03/2014

USG Senate approves Jackson '15's revised Ivy Policy Conference funding proposal

Durva Trivedi

A revised $4,000 funding request for the Ivy Policy Conference to be held on campus March 28-30 was approved at Sunday's USG Senate meeting with 19 votes in favor and three opposed to the proposal. The annual conference brings together representatives from all Ivy League universities to examine existing administrative policies and discuss improvements.

NEWS | 03/02/2014

Students participate in volunteer firefighting program

Do-Hyeong Myeong

When the old Dinky station collapsed last September, Charles Jacobson ’16 was on his way to an interview with the Student Volunteer Council. Upon learning that the Dinky station had collapsed, he instantly ran to Dillon Gymnasium, where the fire squad car was parked, and went to the station to gear up and get into the truck.

NEWS | 02/27/2014

News & Notes: 65 students contract gastroenteritis

Ruby Shao

Sixty five students have come down with gastroenteritis this month, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

NEWS | 02/27/2014

Following Greening Princeton study, U. to streamline recycling process

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Students at residential colleges will no longer have to sort their recyclable trash. The rest of campus is expected to follow suit by the end of 2014. Unlike the University’s current recycling system, which requires waste to be separated into paper, cans and bottles and “remaining trash,” single-stream recycling only distinguishes between contaminated and non-contaminated materials, Greening Princeton co-president Misha Semenov ’15 said.

NEWS | 02/27/2014

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