Working Groups

USG Working Groups Overview

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Working Group A: Athletics

Mission: Increasing campus engagement for Athletics, driving increased student turnout at Men’s & Women’s Games, and helping athletes feeling supported at games & students have fun.

Chair: Siddhant Shah

Priorities:

1. Organizing events with food, merch, and giveaways for several athletic game days in varying sports (basketball, softball, track, lacrosse, tennis)

2. Campus Rec events (roller skating, pickleball)

Working Group B: Civil Liberties

Mission: The purpose of the Civil Liberties Working Group is to educate undergraduate students about the rights afforded to them, and to address undergraduate concerns, including through policy advocacy, regarding—Free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly; Privacy and surveillance; Equality before the law and due process; Fundamental fairness in disciplinary processes; and Any other topic relating to the rights and freedoms of undergraduate students.

Co-Chairs: Ila Prabhuram and Daniel Shaw

Priorities:

1. Freedom of expression

2. Privacy and surveillance

3. Due process

4. Worker rights

Working Group C: Dining

Mission: Increasing upperclassmen dining access and encouraging student engagement and inclusion in campus/community dining spaces.

Co-Chairs: Samuel Kligman and Hriday Unadkat

Priorities: 

1. Collect /document student opinion (pool of 500 minimum) on dining policies (upperclassmen 2 meal a week rollover, paw points, late meal)

2. Connect with faculty in regards to upperclassmen 2 meal a week rollover

3. Work with Dining Teams on pulling data

Working Group D: International Student Experience

Mission: Improving the Princeton experience for international undergraduate students.

Chair: Luqmaan Bamba

Priorities:

1. This semester, the International Student Experience Working Group focuses on the international student 14% international student tax issue. The goal is to get the University to grant financial assistance to student body members affected by the tax. Currently doing research and assembling an outline for a memo to the University based on Princeton students and models at peer institutions.

Working Group E: Religious Experience

Mission: Identify challenges preventing students from living out their faith or spiritual practices and develop practical policy solutions

Chair: Uma Fox

Priorities:

1. Tangibly understand the challenges facing religious life on campus

2. Develop concrete policy proposals to address items such as dining, spaces, and transportation

Working Group F: Transit

Mission: Increasing community engagement through public transit subsidies, Tiger Transit hours, and bicycles

Co-Chairs: Vivian Chang and Raghav Pradhan

Priorities:

1. Ensure compliance with new bike parking municipal order for new construction

2. Expand TigerTransit at Dawn hours for beginning/end-of-summer travel to airports

3. Creation, implementation, and promotion of a universalized student forum for ride-share requests as an alternative to the current practice of email listservs [in collaboration with TPS] 

4. Pilot a free giveaway of NJTransit tickets.