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"Disabled is not a bad word"
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"Disabled is not a bad word"
“I immediately started crying because I never thought that I could achieve this,” Morgan Gagnon ’27 wrote to The Daily Princetonian about her admission to Princeton on Mar. 30. “It was a crazy moment emotionally.”
After proving himself against the nation's top collegiate talent during the Tigers’ Cinderella run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, men’s basketball standout Tosan Evbuomwan has officially declared for the 2023 NBA draft.
Not all graduate students are feeling positive about the recent unionization push led by the Princeton Graduate Students Union (PGSU), which reached a majority of the University’s 3,000 graduate students that had signed union cards a week after graduate students rallied for fair wages and affordable housing.
Who governs Princeton? The Board of Trustees, examined
How do students get accommodations on campus? The Daily Princetonian spoke to administrators who supervise the accommodation process and students who have experienced the process themselves to understand the Office of Disability Services’ (ODS) ability to meet students’ needs.
After the University announced in September 2022 that it would be divesting its endowment from publicly-traded fossil fuel stocks and dissociating from 90 fossil fuel companies, one of the University’s two major research partnerships with fossil fuel companies came to an end. Between 2010 and 2020, Princeton received over 36 million dollars from fossil fuel companies, almost all of which was from ExxonMobil or British Petroleum (BP). Princeton cut ties with ExxonMobil, yet the partnership with BP continues.
“Needless to say, democracy: in Hebrew, we say ‘democratia,’” history professor Yair Mintzker said in his speech to protestors gathered in front of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) on Monday, March 27. Over 70 protestors were present, voicing their opposition to a talk at the CJL given by Ronen Shoval, a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program, that evening.
“There was a deep poise about her,” Rabbi Gil Steinlauf ’91 said of Judy Heumann. “She had a deep sense of mission and purpose, grounded in her own experience for justice.”
USG taking stock of Tigers in Town
With several members referencing rampant disruptions caused by campus construction, USG members brainstormed how to encourage students to congregate outside. USG President Stephen Daniels ’24 suggested that USG could finance a tent for students to use. Other suggestions included more chairs, the introduction of hammocks, greater utilization of Poe Field, and more outside tables near dining halls including at RoMa and Whitman.
This week, the Princeton men’s basketball team returns from a historic March Madness run, losing to Creighton in their first Sweet 16 appearance since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
In a video highlighting the trailblazing nature of her time at Princeton, the Class of 2023 Class Day chairs announced that U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell ’86, a University trustee, would be the 2023 Class Day speaker.
After leading the men’s basketball team on a historic run to the Sweet 16, senior forward Tosan Evbuomwan was named to the NCAA Tournament’s South Regional All-Tournament Team on Sunday.
Rep. Terri Sewell ’86 (D-Ala.) addressed University community members at an event co-hosted by Whig-Clio and Princeton College Democrats on March 25. During the talk, Sewell discussed how in spite of her “overwhelming” adjustment to Princeton, she was able to persevere. She explained how the values she formed in Alabama and at Princeton allowed her to achieve great success, as she is now the congresswoman representing Alabama’s Black Belt — a region of Alabama known for its dark, rich soils, which contains roughly between 12 and 21 counties and is home to many cities crucial to the Civil Rights Movement.
Across campus and throughout the town of Princeton, normal activities paused as watch parties boomed in anticipation of Friday’s historic Sweet 16 match-up between the Princeton Tigers and the Creighton Bluejays.
“The best decision I’ve made:” students, faculty reflect on the first full cycle of ASL classes
Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) sequence. The sequence, which starts with ASL 101 and finishes with ASL 107, allows students to learn ASL while being exposed to Deaf culture and studies.
As the end of the spring semester nears, Director of Campus Accessibility Michael Barnes’ first year of working at Princeton is coming to a conclusion — as is the first year of the position’s existence, which was introduced by the University this fall. Barnes’ role is intended to serve as the “leading authority on physical accessibility on campus,” according to a listing posted to DiverseJobs in September 2022. Barnes identifies as a person with a non-physical disability.
On Tuesday, March 21, the football team hosted its first Pro Day since 2019. The Pro Day featured dozens of scouts with 28 of the 32 NFL teams being represented.