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Wednesday april 13, 2016 vol. cxl no. 46
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LaTanya Buck to oversee identity centers, develop diversity vision By Caroline Lippman staff writer
Founding Director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis LaTanya Buck will join the community as the University’s first Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in August. “I think that it is a very challenging, yet exciting, time to be at the institution. There is a lot of work to done,” Buck said, “and I believe that this new role can contribute to the many existing diversity efforts at the University.” Buck added that she is most looking forward to connecting with students and gaining perspective about their needs within the community. “Gaining first-hand perspective and personal narrative are important to me, along with data and best practices, as I work through assessing and addressing needs and expectations,” she said.
She said that in the next year, she hopes to work on a diversity and inclusion personal and professional development series, though the details of such a program will depend on the vision of Campus Life. She added that her first year will also involve learning more about the community to develop a future plan and strategy. Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun said that the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion will help the Office of Campus Life develop a vision for how to enhance its work around diversity and inclusion. Office of Campus Life is looking forward to having someone who has broad expertise on issues of inclusiveness, Calhoun said. Buck is a founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to that, she spent five years as the director of the Cross Cultural Center at Saint Louis Univer-
sity. Buck has also worked as the Assistant Director with a focus on minority student recruitment in the Office of Admissions of Maryville University and the Assistant Director of Multicultural Student Services at Missouri State University. The position was created in response to recommendations from the Council of the Princeton University Community task force on diversity, equity and inclusion, according to Calhoun. She said that the group included students, faculty and staff who discussed how to better foster diversity and inclusion across campus, and the creation of this role was among their recommendations to the President. “I think one of the things that was clear was that there were other parts of the University that had officers of diversity, and Campus Life was one that, while the staff was See DEAN page 7
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LaTanya Buck will be the inaugural Dean for Diversity and Inclusion.
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C-Store starts labeling products after long delay By Amber Park contributor
Before April 7 (left), more than 60 items in the C-Store, including all beverages, lacked price labels. The C-Store only recently started labeling prices for all items (right).
Until recently, more than 60 items sold at the C-Store lacked price labels. Before April 7, when stickers were put on the items, customers could only check the price of these items at the store’s checkout desk. Many refrigerated items, including all beverages and frozen foods, lacked stickers showing their prices. Other items, including packaged snacks, had price tags or prices printed directly on them. All school supplies and stationaries, which the C-Store purchases from the University Store in a departure from a previous noncompetition agreement, also had price labels. According to the New Jersey Consumer Rights Guide, all merchants in New Jersey who sell, attempt to sell or offer for sale any merchandise at retail
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must affix the total selling price to the merchandise. “This may be accomplished by plainly marking the item with a stamp, tag, label or sign clearly showing the total selling price may be located at the point where the merchandise is offered for sale,” the website reads. In an interview with the Daily Princetonian that took place before the store started labeling all products, University Media Relations specialist Min Pullan said the absence of appropriate labeling was due to logistic difficulties. “The C-Store carries close to two thousand items and we aim to have all those items priced and labeled. It is sometimes the case that items are missing labels for logistical reasons,” she said. Most items scanned properly at the checkout desk, Pullan said. Pullan noted that the CStore conducts regular checks
to make sure that the price labels are not absent for prolonged periods of time. “Items come in at different times and from different vendors, and we aim to have them all labeled,” Pullan said.“We work continuously to update the process for the products we offer.” However, some C-Store employees explained to The Daily Princetonian that some items in the C-Store have not had price labels for at least a year and that when they suggested to management that price labels be made for refrigerated items the suggestion was disregarded. They further noted that the labeling for beverages occurred only very recently, and they were not given prior notice that the labeling would take place. Senior Operations Manager at Campus Dining and Retail See C-STORE page 2
Fox News interviewer U. virtual campus tour attracts more asks U. students about than 6,000 visitors within first month “offensive” topics contributor
By Claire Lee staff writer
“I was on my way to my microeconomics precept, and I made the mistake of making eye contact with Jesse Watters,” Jessica Wright ’19 said of her experience being featured in a recently aired segment, “Watters’ World: Princeton University Edition.” To kick off the segment, which aired as part of “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly observed that college students have recently been expressing distress at seeing the word “Trump” written on walls and posters.
This occurrence, according to O’Reilly, is evidence that “college students these days are very sensitive individuals.” In the show, O’Reilly said that, in order to find out more about this phenomenon, “We [The O’Reilly Factor] sent Jesse Waters to Princeton University in NJ to find out what’s going on.” Watters, an interviewer at Fox News who frequently appears on “The O’Reilly Factor,” visited Princeton on April 7 with the goal of jokingly engaging with students over the kinds of words and phrases they find offensive. See FOX page 5
Within 30 days of its launch, 6,494 people visited an interactive virtual tour of the University’s campus, according to Dena Stivella, Client Relationship Manager of YouVisit, the media company that helped create the tour. According to a University press release, the Office of Admission and the Office of Communications worked together with YouVisit to create the tour. YouVisit was founded in 2009 and has created virtual reality tours for Harvard University and Yale University, which launched in October 2014 and October 2011 respectively. The University’s tour, which includes 23 sites like iconic
buildings, academic centers and student and recreational facilities, was turned live by the University on Feb. 22 and put up on its website on Feb. 25, according to Stivella. The tour is currently available in English, Korean, Mandarin and Spanish. The four languages picked for the tour were based largely upon Princeton’s applicant pool according to Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye. Besides translating a few documents and publications into Spanish, this is the first time that Princeton has had a recruitment vehicle that is in foreign languages, Rapelye said. The tour includes the athletics complex, with an imposing interior shot of Jadwin Gymnasium and a 360-degree panorama of the Shea Rowing Center;
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Columnist Zeena Mubarak questions the right of students to ask for more funds from the University, and columnist Dan Sullivan expresses optimism from President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba. PAGE 8
7 p.m.: Emily Bazelon will deliver a Donald S. Bernstein ‘75 Lecture “Criminal Justice Reform and the (Almost) Absolute Power of the American Prosecutor.” Richardson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
the East Pyne Hall courtyard and its full interior view of the octagonal Chancellor Green Rotunda; the Engineering Quadrangle, which includes a 360-degree photo of the newly-opened Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; and the Carl Icahn Laboratory and its two-story louvers that move with the sun. University students, several of whom are Orange Key tour guides on campus, are the virtual tour guides, according to Rapelye. The students picked were fluent in the languages they spoke on the tour, she added. The virtual tour experience varies slightly from typical Orange Key tours, according to Orange Key tour guide Solveig See TOUR page 4
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