Marcos Vigil ’97 is the Deputy Mayor of Jersey City. He spoke to The Daily Princetonian about meeting his wife, ‘going beyond the walls of the University’ and deciding to go into politics. Daily Princetonian: What was your favorite memory at Princeton? Marcos Vigil: Only one would be difficult to come up with.
Peter Hegseth ’03 is was the CEO of Concerned Veterans for America from 2012 to 2015 and is a correspondent and guest co-host on the weekend show “Fox and Friends” on Fox News. Hegseth spoke to The Daily Princetonian about his time at the University and the Tory and the future of journalism.
Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81 is the editor and publisher of the political magazine, “The Nation.” She spoke to The Daily Princetonian about her time at the University, the Nassau Weekly and the future of journalism.The Daily Princetonian: What was your favorite memory at Princeton?Katrina vanden Heuvel: It’s less a memory than what I left Princeton with, that has long been a part of my life, and Princeton played a role in it.
Whig-Clio’s trajectory has been marked within the past few years by its decreasing centralization and its increasing support, as an overarching political organization for different political groups on campus, Whig-Clio president Cydney Kim ’17 said.“When Whig-Clio first started 250 years ago, or even in the late 20th century, it was actually one of the few political organizations on campus; there weren’t as many political groups as we see today,” Kim explained.The 250th anniversary of Whig-Clio was celebrated with a gala in Washington, D.C.
UMatter, a university-wide health communication initiative on bystander intervention, is partnering with Tiger Transit, the university bus services, to provide a nightly bus service for students from Prospect Avenueto their dorms on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 said.Director of Transportation and Parking Services for the University Kim Jackson did not respond to a request for comment.Cellon explained that the bus will run from 12:30 to 3 a.m.
Andrea Campbell ’04, a first-time candidate running for Boston City Council, is leading in the preliminary polls against incumbent Charles C.
The UMatter initiative, a University-wide health communication campaign aimed at enhancing bystander intervention, was launched at Campus Club on Friday.The program aims to address three tenets of health and safety on campus: high-risk drinking, mental health distress and interpersonal violence and abuse, according to its website.The four key themes of the campaign are ‘Action Matters,’ ‘Respect Matters,’ ‘Connecting Matters’ and ‘Limit Matters,’ UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 explained.“We were looking for an umbrella framework that could encompass some key higher risk areas and cultivate specific programming for each,” executive director of University Health Services John Kolligian said.The campaign is directly partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Promotion and Prevention Service and Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education office.UMatter Project Manager and Director of the SHARE Office Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said the planning for the initiative began when she arrived at the University in 2011 and began to collaborate with Kathy Wagner, Health Educator at University Health Services, to conceive a new bystander intervention system.Bystander intervention is a multi-step process that includes stages of identifying problematic situations, recognizing personal responsibility and taking action to intervene and therefore tasks individuals to prevent situations from escalating into dangerous behavior, Deitch-Stackhouse explained.While other projects, such as the annual freshman orientation play that addresses sexual consent, were in place when she arrived, they sought to create a project that would pull these initiatives together to create a cohesive campus-wide campaign, she said.“Not only is [UMatter] giving us, as UHS, a brand for all the different outreach and education, but it's also being honest about how connected everything is,” Cellon said, regarding UMatter's significance in making visible the connections between different health-related initiatives on campus.One of the challenges was deciding whether to teach individuals just intervention skills or to teach individuals intervention skills in conjunction with the issues these skills could address, Deitch-Stackhouse added.
The university will be installing Eruvin boundaries across campus and the local municipality and should be completed in the next three weeks,Dean of Religious Life Alison Boden said. The boundaries will extend as far as Elm Road to North Harrison Street, according to the official map released by the Center for Jewish Life website in late August. Eruvin boundaries, composed of poles or telephone wires, enable Jewish individuals that observe the Sabbath to perform normally prohibited activities, such as carrying personal items froma private space, such as a dorm room, into the public domain. Boden noted there are 50 students with this level of observance at the University, but that its impact will also extend to faculty and local residents.
Municipality authorities are looking into replacing current individual parking meters with newer multi-space parking meters in the downtown area, the Princeton Packet reported. Potential plans include new parking meter implementation near University Place around McCarter Theatre. Currently, the central business district has single meters for each parking spot and each one uses coins or "smart cards," that can be loaded up with money to pay, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said. The newer parking meter model would employ individual pay stations for multiple parking spots and would also allow individuals to pay using credit cards or their smartphones. “Having something that interacts with smartphones is really appealing,” Lempert explained. As of September, the municipality has been conducting a trial run with the newer parking meters in the Dinky Station parking lot, Lempert said. Municipality evaluations of the technology have been positive, but some obstacles, including cooperation with American Express, still need to be addressed before municipality-wide implementation of the technology can be achieved, Lempert noted. Lempert added that a number of towns, such as DuBois in Pennslyvania, that have similar downtown geographies to Princeton have implemented the newer parking meter technologies. Currently, there are approximately 1,100 parking meters in Princeton.
The student band Valley Academy, which features David Lind ’18, Yaw Owusu-Boahen ’17 and Ben Falter ’17,won the inaugural Battle of the Bands event on Friday. The event, hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government’s social committee, was organized to decide the opener for the main act at Lawnparties. The Battle of the Bands line up included student bands St.
