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Monday September 24, 2018 vol. CXLII no. 72
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STUDENT LIFE
USG creates six task forces, adds ‘efficiency’ By Jacob Gerrish Staff Writer
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Vice President Nate Lambert ’20 announced that Senate members can now propose and join task forces freely. Previously, members were assigned to a task force
retary Chitra Parikh ’21 talked about the Design Thinking Task Force to advance an innovative culture on campus. The group would also function as an advisory body for USG members. Class of 2021 Senator Kevin Zheng ’21 and Class of 2019 Senator Michael Asparrin ’19 introduced the Menstrual Product Task Force to work toward stocking academic buildings’ bathrooms with free menstrual products. Asparrin also presented on the Sexual Miscon-
STUDENT LIFE
TigerPath website helps students with long-term courseload planning By Bill Huang Contributor
TigerPath is a new website that helps students plan out courses over their four-year tenure at the University. Created by current students Daniel Leung ’20 and Adeniji Ogunlana ’19 and recent alumni Richard Chu ’18 and Barak Nehoran ’18, the website provides a clear interface on which students can lay out potential course schedules alongside a requirements checklist. “Unlike other course selection apps, TigerPath is a tool that helps students with long-term planning for what courses to take during all eight semesters here at Princeton,” Leung said. Initially a project for COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques, the idea for the website arose from inefficiencies in course planning that the creators and their friends had experienced when attempting to use methods like Excel spreadsheets.
In Opinion
The website currently tracks general requirements for AB and BSE, as well as more specific requirements for all the BSE majors and two AB majors (the Woodrow Wilson School and Computer Science). According to Leung, the team is “constantly pushing to expand to more majors.” Their current priorities are heavily influenced by student feedback, and their ultimate goal is to provide support for every major. The team is also working on adding in support for AP credits and study abroad courses. “Encoding the requirements for individual majors was, and continues to be, the most difficult part of building the app,” Leung added. “Different departments have widely differing formats for their requirements, and putting them all into a standardized format for the app to interpret is an arduous task.” The website provides a convenient course search field along with smooth drag-and-drop functionSee TIGERPATH page 2
Guest contributor Sam Garfinkle rebuts columnist Gabe Lipkowitz’s assertion that “there is no art in science.” PAGE 6
duct Task Force, planning to work with the University and student groups to ensure students’ safety. Campus and Community Affairs Chair Caleb Visser ’20 then spoke about the Vote100 initiative, which would encourage student participation in elections through the signing of a pledge to vote. “Vote100 is an initiative that ODUS is sponsoring to increase voter turnout and engage students,” Visser said.
Following a video in which ROTC challenged USG to take the pledge, the Senate members further nominated Class Government, Community House, and Whig-Clio. President Rachel Yee ’19 and Lambert then introduced the Central Task Management. This system aims to aid the Senate in navigating what each task force was working on and would serve as a record of events and projects for future Senate members. “I think that this will really
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
help to maximize our efficiency,” Yee said. Social Committee Chair Liam Glass ’19 submitted a request for additional funding to cover the $15,000 extra spent on headliner production details and food during fall Lawnparties. In total, the USG commitment to fall Lawnparties would increase to $123,000. The Senate approved the budget request. The next USG meeting will take place on Sept. 30, 2018. ON CAMPUS
First Lady of New Jersey speaks on climate action By Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor
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Venturi’s practice was responsible for the design of Frist Campus Center (2000), Schultz Lab (1993), Wu Hall (1983), and Lewis Thomas Laboratory (1986).
Widely acclaimed architect Robert Venturi dies at 93 By Allie Spensley Associate News Editor
Robert Venturi ’47 GS ’50, an acclaimed architect whose designs and writings transformed the field and sparked the postmodernist movement, died in his home on Tuesday, Sept. 18. He was 93.
Venturi called for the incorporation of historical allusions and ornamentation into buildings instead of the stark, geometric forms in vogue for most of the 20th century. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture’s highest honor, and designed a variety of See VENTURI page 3
Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
First Lady of the State of New Jersey, Tammy Snyder Murphy, was invited to deliver the keynote address for the twoday conference “Accelerating Climate Action in the United States: What Are We Doing and What More Can Be Done?”. Although Murphy said that New Jersey is leading the battle against climate change, she also recalled the setbacks that the state has experienced in the past eight years. She pointed out that New Jersey pulled out from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, cancelled the Arc Tunnel Project, and walked back economic and environmental protections. Aside from the setbacks in New Jersey itself, Murphy pointed out the challenges that politics in Washington have created. “The political forces in Washington are not only ignoring the warnings [about climate change] but are also actively denying what science is telling us,” Murphy said. “Whether it is the Trump administration’s efforts to ensure our reliance on dirty See CLIMATE page 4
WEATHER
In its first meeting of the semester on Sunday, Sept. 23, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed task force proposals, the Vote100 initiative, and the commencement of the Central Task Management system. The USG also approved a budget request to account for an extra $15,000 spent funding fall Lawnparties. Vice President Nate Lambert ’20 announced that Senate members can now propose and join task forces freely. Previously, members were assigned to a task force. Following his announcement, Lambert welcomed seven Senate members to the front of the room to speak on their respective proposals. “[Assignments to task forces] feel more like an obligation rather than an opportunity, so this year we did it as if you wanted to take the initiative in creating a proposal,” Lambert said. U-Councilor Morgan Carmen ’21 presented on a Sustainability Task Force, which would focus on fostering collaboration between the Sustainability Committee and environmental student groups. University Student Life Committee Chair Tania Bore ’20 further introduced the Eating Options Awareness Task Force focused on the creation of a comprehensive guide that would break down each meal option and distribute informative pamphlets to sophomores. U-Councilor Yousef Elzalabany ’20 discussed a Meditation Space Task Force that would seek to repurpose spaces for prayer and meditation in the Engineering Quad for those who cannot walk to MurrayDodge. Next, Executive Sec-
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