Despite approving gender neutral housing options for seniors in 2010 and extending the option to juniors last February, Yale University will not offer gender neutral housing to sophomores or freshmen in the fall, the Yale Daily News reported. According to a survey conducted by the Yale College Council, which has advocated for the extension of gender neutral housing, 130 of 403 current sophomores surveyed said that they were considering living in gender neutral housing as juniors. While the Yale College Council will continue to petition the administration for a change in housing policy, council vice president and Yale sophomore Danny Avraham said that it may take a long time to be approved.
Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University's provost and a member of Princeton's class of 1983, was selected to be Princeton's next president on Sunday, The Daily Princetonian reported. The decision marks the end of a eight-month search, which began when Princeton President Shirley Tilghman announceed she would leave her post after 12 years. Although Eisgruber said in a November email to The Princetonian that he was not considering the position and planned to go back to teaching after retiring from being provost, in a press conference yesterday he said that he would become president in "a very important time for the university." The Princetonian previously reported that the former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Anne-Marie Slaughter would be chosen for the position, but the New America Foundation announced on April 3 that Slaughter would become the Foundation's next president.
In light of the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon, Inside Higher Education reported that a number of college campuses have undergone lockdowns following threats of gunmen on campus throughout the month of April. In addition to the gunfire at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that was connected to two men suspected of placing the bombs at the marathon finish line, North Carolina Central University, Carroll University, Tarrant County College, Elizabeth City State University, the University of Rhode Island and California's College of the Redwoods all recently were locked down as a result of actual or suspected gunmen on campus. As a direct result of the Boston bombings, Harvard University was forced to cancel its Visitas weekend for prospective students, The Harvard Crimson reported. Harvard officials urged all prospective students to remain at home and organized a meeting place for prospective students at Boston Logan International Airport for those who could not return home.
