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In Opinion
By Annie Yang
The Editorial Board suggests improvements to campus dining and Julia CaseLevine discusses the benefits and harms of complaining.
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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Panelists will speak on the origins of superhero stories and the proliferation of this genre beyond comic books in Dodds Auditorium.
The Archives
March 27, 2000 A fire burned on the roof of Frist Campus Center. which was under construction at the time, for more than 35 minutes but left the roof undamaged.
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Students collaborate with faculty in the dance department to choreograph pieces.
Construction on the planned apartment community in the town of Princeton by housing developer AvalonBay Communities is likely to start in mid-April. AvalonBay needs to obtain building permits from the state before it can begin construction work, according to Mayor Liz Lempert, adding that these permits have not yet been granted. The construction plans are still under review, Director of Communications for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Tammori Petty said. She said she could not comment further. AvalonBay expects the project to be completed in late 2017, with the first apartments finished in 2016, according to its website. Representatives of AvalonBay did not respond to a request for comment, nor did AvalonBay Vice President of Development Jon Vogel or attorney for AvalonBay Robert Kasuba. Princeton land use engineer Jack West said the proj-
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
PRINCETON By the Numbers
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The number of women in some of the University’s prominent leadership positions (USG president, editor-in-chief, chair of Honor Committee, etc.) in the 2000s.
News & Notes Dartmouth fraternity investigated for branding pledges
Dartmouth is currently investigating the Alpha Delta fraternity chapter, which inspired the 1978 film “Animal House,” for allegedly branding pledges’ skin, TIME Magazine reported. A group of pledges asserted that they voluntarily agreed to be branded as a form of self-expression. A lawyer for the chapter, George Ostler, said that the brands are a form of self-expression, similar to tattoos. “The facts are that no hazing occurred,” he said. ”No one has been injured by this activity.” In the last two years, Alpha Delta has apologized for hosting a ‘Crips and Blood’ party and for urinating on a woman from the balcony of the fraternity house, and it has been fined for serving alcohol to minors. In response to these and similar incidents, president of Dartmouth Philip Hanlon banned hard liquor in January. The Interfraternity Council at Dartmouth also prohibited pledging in any form due to abuse. The students were branded before these decisions were announced.
Krueger paper published on Uber receives criticism By Grant Golub staff writer
After economics professor Alan Krueger published a paper he co-authored on Jan. 22 analyzing the ride-sharing service Uber, some have taken issue with his conclusions, which mostly favor the controversial company. Uber contacted Krueger in December about conducting “independent analysis” of data they had collected through a survey of their drivers and of other data sets they collect, he said. “I think they were looking for an economist that understood labor economics,”
Krueger said. “I think they were aware of research I had done in the past with occupational licensing.” Uber did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Krueger co-authored the paper with Jonathan Hall, the head of policy research at Uber. Hall did not respond to requests for comment. “This is actually the first time I’ve co-authored a paper with the son of someone I’ve co-authored a paper with,” he said. “His father is an economics professor at Stanford. It was a very productive partnership.”
STUDENT LIFE
SPEAR relaunches campaign regarding U. admissions process By Katherine Oh staff writer
Students for Prison Education and Reform has relaunched a campaign to persuade the University and the Common Application to eliminate questions about applicants’ criminal history. Known as the Admissions Opportunity Campaign, copresident Daniel Teehan ’17 said the project aims to eliminate some of the more common obstacles that bar such students from pursuing a college degree. He added that it was inspired by the national Ban the Box campaign, which calls for removing the box on application forms that applicants must check if they have been previ-
ously imprisoned. The campaign was first started last year after a winter break trip to New York during which the students met with people doing advocacy work in criminal justice, Teehan said. “We were looking to craft campaigns to respond to issues that are pressing,” he said. “They encouraged us to pursue the same kind of movement for admissions to universities. We have previously worked on the Opportunity to Compete Act, which is Ban the Box for New Jersey, which just passed recently. We decided that would be a great way to focus on something that Princeton itself is involved in.” Teehan explained that the See SPEAR page 2
Krueger said he thinks this report is the first comprehensive analysis of a company in the new sharing economy. The company employs over 165,000 drivers, which is double the number it employed six months ago, he said. “It appears the drivers are drawn to Uber because the hours are very f lexible,” he said. “They get to choose their own hours, their earnings are at least as high as what traditional taxi-cab drivers earn and the entry barriers are pretty low.” Krueger and his co-author See RESEARCH page 3
ect will be constructed on Witherspoon Street, where the former Princeton Medical Center hospital was located before demolition. He added that preliminary site work, which includes moving earth, started on Monday. “As far as starting to put pipe in the ground and do footings, [that will happen] probably sometime in midApril,” he said. There will be five residential buildings built in total, West added, including two main apartment buildings and three townhouse buildings that will face Franklin Street. In total, the buildings will hold around 280 units, 56 of which are designated as “affordable housing.” The construction process will take about two years to complete, he added. The two main apartment buildings will be built at the same time, with the smaller front building completed before the larger one. There is still a possibility that housing will open in stages depending on when construction is completed for a building. The former Princeton See CONSTRUCTION page 3
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Women’s History Month: Campus Organizations By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer
Since the beginning of coeducation at the University, women have risen in visibility and prominence on the Street and in student organizations in general. Some women experienced pushback at the beginning, though, as they sought to carve out places for themselves in campus life. The Street Margery Hite ’74 said that during Houseparties she was treated like a visitor, with male students turning to her and asking her about which school she went to. “The presumption was
that if you were a woman, you didn’t go to Princeton,” she said. Lynn Nagasako ’70 said she was a member of Campus Club and often enjoyed afternoons playing bridge there. “Those guys were really nice. It was kind of like a home away from home,” she said. Sally Frank ’80 said that, in her first year, the only way one could get an appointment at Cottage Club, Ivy Club or Tiger Inn was to mark gender as male on the Bicker form. Frank went on to file a lawsuit against Cottage, Ivy and TI, claiming that the See WOMEN page 2
THE KENNAN DIARIES
YICHENG SUN :: PHOTO EDITOR
The diplomatic historian Frank Costigliola gives a lecture alongside the University archivist on the diaries of the George F. Kennan, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.