PRINCETON
May Concert Recognizes Seniors
Nassau Christian Center was the venue for a concert presented by the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble.
The Princeton University Gospel Ensemble celebrated another noteworthy year with an exhilarating concert in May. The student-directed group performed May 1 before a packed audience at Nassau Christian Center. The ensemble boasts a repertoire that comprises spirituals, hymns, contemporary gospel, and a cappella. The free concert also included tearful recognitions of the group’s seniors. Among them, Vance T. Stephens served as president and Jared Crooks as musical director.
Professor, Graduate Outreach Hosts Banquet
Cross Desecration No Laughing Matter
Faculty Commons, an outreach of Campus Crusade for Christ (www.facultycommons.com) to professors and graduate students, held a ministry appreciation dinner on May 13 at the Prospect House. About 50 attendees listened to a variety of testimonies during the evening.
Just days before Good Friday, the letters ROFL replaced INRI on top of a cross that was displayed on campus. Those letters are commonly used in texting or on the Internet and mean “rolling on the floor laughing.” In an op-ed column for the Yale Daily Herald, student Jordon Walker ’12 called the incident “nothing less than sacrilegious.” Additionally, Walker criticized the university for its lack of response. “We are a campus that responds aggressively to most forms of discrimination, but this kind of disrespect was ignored,” he wrote. Walker went on to contend that at the university, “the only rights worth defending belong to women and sexual and ethnic minorities. And all others are cast aside.”
Stephanie Lee, a doctorate candidate at Princeton, attended the Faculty Commons ministry appreciation dinner at Prospect House on Princeton campus this May.
“Through Faculty Commons, I was introduced to Christian professors on campus whose testimonies demonstrated to me that academia doesn’t have to be a place where data, publications, and grants are the bottom line,” said Stephanie Lee, a doctorate candidate in chemical engineering. “I have seen just how much influence a professor can have in a student’s life.” YALE
Sermon Competition Winner John Butler ’12 was the winner of Princeton University’s Chapel Sermon Competition for 2011. Butler delivered his sermon, based upon Christ’s words concerning the “eye of a needle,” during the senior recognition John Butler ’12 was the service on winner of Princeton May 8 in the University’s chapel historic sermon competition. chapel. In the passage in Matthew, Christ told his disciples that it is “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Butler received a small monetary prize for winning the annual Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Williamson Sermon Competition. The service honored the class of 2011.
Student Sex Abuse Investigation Opened The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched a Title IX investigation into allegations that Yale University inadequately responded to cases of sexual misconduct on campus. In an e-mail to the Yale community, Yale College Dean Mary Miller stated that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is “seeking information about Yale’s response to sexual harassment and sexual violence against Yale undergraduate students.” The investigation comes as a result of a Title IX complaint filed in March by 16 current undergraduates and recent graduates who allege that the university did not properly address incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
PHOTO CREDIT: Michael Marsland/Yale University
Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the Office for Civil Rights was investigating allegations that the university failed to adequately respond to cases of sexual misconduct.
Jordon Walker ’12 responded to an incident of mocking the cross during Holy Week by writing an opinion piece for the Yale Daily News.
ROTC Marches Back to Campus For the first time in four decades, Yale will allow ROTC back on campus. The university altered its policy of banning military organizations after U.S. Congress voted to allow homosexual individuals to openly serve in the military, CBN reported in May. Some prestigious universities banned ROTC programs during the 1970s in the midst of anti-war sentiment tied to the Vietnam War. The unit will be the Navy’s only ROTC unit in Connecticut. The first class of midshipmen will enter in fall 2012.
After a four-decade absence, the first naval midshipmen ROTC cadets will enter Yale in 2012. Summer 2011 | 43