Princeton Dreams
By Paul Chin ’06
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By Paul Chin ’06
The University prides itself on being a leader in sustainability and environmental responsibility. From conducting groundbreaking green energy research to cutting waste in dining halls, the University has taken laudable steps toward a sustainable future. Despite these efforts, the University has failed to address a looming elephant in the room: our $21 billion endowment and the companies and practices that it funds. While the University does not disclose details about the composition of its investments, analysis of comparable endowments suggests that the University has around 4 percent of its investments in fossil fuels, not including companies responsible for other drivers of irreparable environmental harm. That is, the University provides an estimated one billion dollars in support of practices that counteract Princeton’s advances toward local and global sustainability.
We are alumni of the Princeton University and Tiger Inn classes of 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, which were among the first cohorts that included women. We are writing to express our dismay and disgust over the behavior of club leaders and members over the past year, including theincident in the spring that resulted in damage to the clubhouse, as well as themore recent and disturbing incidents in which club officers engaged in misogyny, sexual harassment or worse.
ByAlexandra Scheeler ’11
By W. Barksdale Maynard '88
On August 9, 2014, an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown was shot at 12 times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Six of those shotshit their mark. Brown’s dead body remained on the ground forfour and a half hoursbefore it was collected. In the four months since his killing, protesters in the city of Ferguson, Mo., have taken to thestreets to demand an indictment. They have been repressed, brutalized and denied their basic human rights. Their voices have been censored; their bodiesattackedwith excessive violence and chemicals unsanctioned in acts of warfare. Protesters suffered the same violence after Ferguson’s grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson at 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.
By Martin Cox
byVolker Schröder
By Zachary Foster
By Yesenia Arroyo
By The Board of J Street U Princeton
We, the undersigned, are Jewish students on this campus whowere troubled, most recently, by Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life Rabbi Julie Roth’s letter, emailed to all students affiliated with the CJL, that laid out the CJL’s institutional response to a faculty petition calling for the University to “divest from all companies that contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank until the State of Israel complies with UN Resolution 242, ends its military occupation of the West Bank and lifts its siege of Gaza.” The letter states that the CJL is “taking the best, positive strategic approach to defeat this action,” including a direct link to a counter-petition open to all members of the University community—as though taking such action is a foregone conclusion for our community.
I write to solicit nominations for the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded during Alumni Day, on Feb. 21.
To the Editor:
By Sam Major
Last Tuesday, 48 tenured Princeton professors published anopen lettercalling on the University to divest from companies that profit from or contribute to the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and siege on Gaza. The purpose of this piece is to open apetitionsupporting this call to the wider University community and to clarify the facts surrounding divestment.
By Doug Lennox’09
To the Editor:
By Lily Gellman
Last week the Daily Princetonian published an op-ed by members of the Latino Graduate Student Association, Graduate Women of Color Caucus, and Black Graduate Caucus on the Graduate School’s recent decision to restructure the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversityand, effectively, deprioritize issues of diversity at the graduate level.While some may disagree with the tone of the article, its central premise remains: Recent changes in the organizational structure of the Graduate School significantly damage underrepresented students’ faith in the current administration's ability to increase minority representation and improve campus climate.