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(04/20/17 4:00am)
The fall of the Roman Empire ushered in a dark age, replete with decay and barely worth studying. Or so scholars thought until history professor emeritus Peter Brown invented the field of late antiquity, which spans 250–800 A.D.
(04/07/17 3:39am)
Espionage defends liberty by promoting national security, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden argued in a lecture on Thursday.
(02/21/17 3:26am)
Japanese internment camps existed because of prejudice, hysteria, and failures in leadership, former World War II detainee Sam Mihara argued at a lecture on Monday.
(02/07/17 7:10pm)
Stereotypes associating brilliance with men more than women emerge in girls by age six, according to a paper coauthored by a University professor published in the journal Science on Jan. 27.
(01/28/17 8:42pm)
Seven nationally recognized playwrights will create plays about the history of slavery at the University, which will premiere with the launch of the Princeton and Slavery Project on Nov. 18, 2017.
(01/23/17 4:28am)
Democracy around the world is being distorted by external forces and corroded from within by officials who fail to conform to its processes and values, according to politics professor and University Center for Human Values director Melissa Lane, who presented the argument at a panel on Friday, Jan. 20.
(01/19/17 4:48am)
Reed Cordish ’96 will join the Trump administration as assistant to the President for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, the presidential transition team announced Tuesday.
(12/12/16 3:05am)
People in relationships form the heart of social movements, Hali Lee '89 said at a Saturday panel in the first Asian in America conference hosted by the University.
(12/02/16 3:12am)
Trust seems like the only grounds on which non-scientists can accept scientific findings, internationally acclaimed Harvard Professor in the history of science Naomi Oreskes said at a Thursday lecture.
(11/26/16 9:24pm)
Leila Clark '18 started gathering petition signatures on Nov. 21 for a referendum to publicize the demographics of eating club members and bickerees.
(10/24/16 11:56pm)
The University’s Office of Sustainability celebrated its tenth anniversary with a party at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment on Friday, Oct. 21.
(10/06/16 6:21pm)
Trash bags are awaiting collection outside rather than in dumpsters, starting this academic year. The dumpsters were removed to improve the aesthetics and walkability of campus, according to University sources.
(10/05/16 7:47pm)
Travis LeBlanc '99 has advised President Obama’s administration as a Department of Justice attorney, and currently serves as Chief of the Bureau of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission. He sat down with The Daily Princetonian before his Wednesday lecture to discuss his education, prevention of crimes, and regulation in the Digital Age.The Daily Princetonian: You crafted an independent concentration of philosophy, politics, and economics at the University. How have your studies here influenced your career?Travis LeBlanc '99: I wanted to create an independent concentration in philosophy, politics, and economics because I thought those three disciplines were the basis for how to analyze a public policy issue. The three questions that you almost have to ask for any public policy are "What should we do?", which is the philosophical question; "Do we have the authority to do it – what's our power?", that's the politics question; and "How much does it cost?", that's the economics question. For me, the independent concentration was very much intertwined with a career… I knew I wanted to be both a lawyer and someone working on public policy issues… It wasn't necessarily a desire to prepare for a career exclusively in government, but it was definitely a desire to have a role in public policy and in public discourse.DP: What inspired that desire to affect public policy and public discourse?TL: I would probably say that there is a part of me that is inherently empathetic, and wants to help. I feel blessed, truly, to have had the education, the familial support, and the ability to get where I am today — even then, to get where I was then. There was a part of me that wanted to give back, and wanted to leave my community a better place than I found it.DP: How has your extensive academic background, with an A.B. from Princeton, an M.P.A. from Harvard, a J.D. from Yale, and an LL.M. from Cambridge, affected your decision-making in your current position?TL: Everything that I've done really does play a role in my job today. I'm in government service, running the largest bureau at the FCC. In addition to headquarters, we have 24 field offices around the country. As the manager of a public organization, I'm able to take advantage of my graduate studies in public policy. …As a lawyer, I'm inherently involved in legal proceedings, when doing enforcement, and so my legal education helps. Because we are a federal government agency, we have counterparts that are around the world. My training in international law helps me there as I'm working with colleagues across the world, particularly on the kinds of technology issues we work on, which are very largely borderless. Email doesn't really know borders. You just put in the address you want to send it to and it goes. So having that background in international law has helped there. And then a foundational background in philosophy, politics and economics — and really what I learned at Princeton not only in the classroom, but outside the classroom. I was very active in various organizations around campus, including on the service side as well, and I think that has set a framework for me to continue that I took with me throughout my education all the way to where I am. But I don't want to say that my education solely prepared me for this. You can't really prepare. You can't expect these kinds of jobs, and you can't prepare for these kinds of jobs. There's definitely a lot of on-the-job learning, and there's also a lot of learning that you do in working in other organizations. You learn how to work with people. You learn how your agency or organization operates. Those are skills that you can't necessarily learn in a classroom, but that you learn by doing. While it's certainly great to have a strong academic background, it's also equally important to have a strong experiential background as well.DP: You have said that you differ from your predecessors in emphasizing not only enforcement, but also prevention. How has this focus emerged in the programs you have overseen?TL: Typically, in the past, the Chief of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission was a communications lawyer. I am the first Bureau Chief who has come with a law enforcement background. That background taught me that it's better for everyone if you're able to prevent a violation of the law rather than having to respond after the fact. Almost inherently after the fact, when there's been a violation, there's been a victim. If you can prevent someone from being victimized, that's a much better world, even than just holding accountable the person who broke the law. I approach my job borrowing really from the public health model about an ounce of prevention, and recognizing that before we take an enforcement action, we should work to educate the industry on what we believe is lawful and unlawful. Where we see a widespread problem, we raise an alert to the public, including the industry, to let them know that we have those concerns. When we settle a matter, we make sure to include provisions in our settlement agreement that would help ensure that in the future, the target of our investigation would not engage in the same kinds of misconduct… Overall, I think it's a lot more efficient than an agency trying to wait and be reactive … and find every single violator … If we at the FCC can put out an enforcement advisory and 50% or 70% of the people or companies that were engaging in this activity stop, we've succeeded. I mean, imagine trying to go after 70% of an industry. Government agencies don't have those kinds of resources. One of the best examples of work that I did in a prior life that really shows the success you could have is, when I was in the California Attorney General's office … we negotiated a global agreement with the leading mobile apps platforms really in the world at that time … Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft … to ensure that mobile apps had privacy policies. …We could have thought, ‘All right, every app developer out there who's violating California law by not having a privacy policy, we should go out and we should try to bring them all to justice.’ But you can imagine the number of app developers that there are, even at that time? And the fact that even someone in France could put an app into the App Store that people in California could get. The idea that we're going to go around the world finding everyone who somehow developed or sold or marketed or distributed an app in California, the largest state in the country, wasn't possible. Instead, we brought the platforms together, because they are the gatekeepers for everyone to get their app … and we got them to agree, to begin to ask developers for privacy policies, to make sure they were aware of California law and their requirements. … Working with companies can be equally beneficial, if not more, I would say, than just going after them after the fact, and that's why I say prevention is important. You have to work with the industry to prevent. It's very much like community policing, where you work with the community to help protect the community.DP: How should society approach regulation in an age when technology is evolving so fast?TL: The technology that we all have available to us today is iterating so quickly that it is difficult for regulators to keep up with the pace. … The first iPhone came out in 2007, so nine years ago now … In the state of California … there was not one law in 2013 or so that referred to the Cloud in a non-atmospheric sense. It didn't exist. Yet imagine how many of us rely upon the Cloud for everything. … The way our regulatory system was designed was to some degree … to ensure that creating a law was a fairly cumbersome process, and that once you got to the end of it, that law would have a shelf life of years … After the president signs it, many times, particularly if it's around technology, there's some time period before it goes into effect – six months, a year. Maybe there's not much of a time period and it goes over to a regulatory agency, which then has to promulgate regulations. It starts a process of putting out a proposal, and then it gets comments back, then it has to finalize a proposal, then it has to publish it, then it has some time period to go into effect. And not only until it goes into effect can anyone really do enforcement. If you go on day two once it's gone into effect, you're really not being fair, so you have to give some amount of time for the world to get together. Then you finally investigate a case and then you bring the enforcement action, and then there are appeals. … That process from the idea of a legislature until finally getting conclusion in the Supreme Court is probably four, five years. Imagine how quickly the technology world has changed in those four, five years. … I analogize it to … the government taking enforcement actions against MySpace.… We have to avoid the temptation of being overly prescriptive. It's probably better to focus on principles and standards so that we don't have a regulatory regime that is designed about regulating a particular technology. What we've seen now is that with convergence in industries, with the disruption that we've seen in the tech sector, a phone company may also be a cable company … an Internet service provider … a provide-your-home-security system … a data analytics company … a search engine … It has so many different facets to it that it's hard to just regulate one industry because many of them are now getting connected together.
(10/04/16 7:34pm)
Sonya Satinsky began serving as the director of health promotion and prevention services for University Health Services on Sept. 26. She sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her personal perspective on health, sexuality, and gender issues, and a holistic approach to wellness.
(08/02/16 7:29am)
PHILADELPHIA—U.S. Congressional Representative Jared Polis '96 is the first openly gay man elected to Congress as well as one of its wealthiest members. He created successful businesses,founded charter schools andchaired the Colorado Board of Education. Polis talked with the 'Prince' during the Democratic National Convention about the University's influence on his career, Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.
(07/28/16 8:06pm)
PHILADELPHIA —The United States is a great, strong country that depends on Americans achieving together, President Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention in his closing remarks on Wednesday night.Upon Obama’s entrance into the arena, many audience members rose from their seats. Minutes later, they chanted his slogan “Yes, we can!” as he prepared to speak.“I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together —black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women; folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag, to this big, bold country that we love,” he said. Cheers drowned out his final words.Obama noted that since his first speech at the DNC in 2008, this “generous, big-hearted, hopeful” nation had grown even more successful. He listed victories like bringing troops home, delivering justice to Osama bin Laden, diplomatically negotiating the shutdown of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, legalizing same-sex marriage and extending healthcare to 20 million more people.Acknowledging that too many challenges remain to address in even one lifetime, Obama nevertheless expressed optimism about America’s future.“Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope!” he said. “The Audacity of Hope” was the title of his 2006 autobiography.Obama noted that after his eight years in office, he is ready to move back to private life. He added that electing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will show that America rejects cynicism and fear, and that Clinton will be able to work across the aisle.Obama attributed dysfunction in the U.S. government to Americans demonizing one another.“Democracy works, America, but we gotta want it —not just during an election year, but all the days in between,” he said.He called on people to vote not just for the President, but also for mayors, sheriffs and other public servants who will reform processes.Once Obama mentioned Hillary Clinton, introducing her as the next President of the United States, the crowd chanted “Hillary” over and over.He noted that she worked so hard because she cared about everyone who needed her help, and praised her tenure as his Secretary of State. “For four years, I had a front-row seat to her intelligence, her judgment and her discipline.”He praised Clinton’s work ethic, noting that she didn’t want praise or attention for her service, and highlighted her work with the Children’s Defense Fund. He added that Clinton has never forgotten who she is fighting for, and never backs down from a challenge.“No matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits,” Obama said to applause and whistles.Obama then compared Clinton’s campaign and record to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.He characterized Trump’s campaign as full of resentment, blame, hate and anger, aspects all inconsistent with the real state of America.The Republican Party is backing a dishonest, fearmongering businessman who has never shown concern for working people, Obama said.The President added that, if elected, Trump would jeopardize the safety of Americans. Trump describes the military as being weak, admires Vladmir Putin and Saddam Hussein, and supports abandoning commitments to countries that cannot pay the United States for aid, such as certain NATO allies, Obama noted.America’s values remain cherished by people of every party, faith and race, he said, noting that what is inside is what counts for making someone American.In a veiled jab at Trump, the President said any homegrown demagogues will fail in the United States. “Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.”Obama noted that the current presidential race is not just between parties or policies.“This is a more fundamental choice about who we are as a people and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government,” he explained.Obama described Hillary as the most qualified person to ever run for the highest office in America.“I’m asking you to join me —to reject cynicism and reject fear, and to summon what is best in us, to elect Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States, and show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation.”Obama took the floor just before 11 p.m. At the end of his speech, Hillary, who was scheduled to arrive the next day, unexpectedly appeared. The two remained in close contact as they walked back and forth onstage.U.S. Representative for Colorado Jared Polis ’96, a DNC attendee, said nobody knew she would enter the arena on Wednesday.“That was amazing,” he said. “It was great to see her and President Obama embrace, and it was just such a surprise. I think most of us were expecting maybe Michelle to come out, but it was amazing to see Hillary.”
(07/28/16 5:43pm)
PHILADELPHIA – Virginia Senator Tim Kaine accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for vice presidenton Wednesdaynight at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
(07/27/16 10:02pm)
PHILADELPHIA – When former Secretary of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta addressed the DNC crowd before 9 P.M. on Wednesday, parts of the arena floor erupted with discontent. Several sections of the audience protested against Panetta’s praise of American military power with signs and chants. Panetta had to pause his speech. The ‘Prince’ documented this exchange.
(05/05/16 3:35pm)
Eating less beef is essential to ensuring a sustainable food supply in the coming decades, according to an April 20 working paper whose co-authors include University affiliates Timothy Searchinger and Xin Zhang.
(12/07/15 3:32pm)
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy ’77 will be the speaker for the University’s 269th Baccalaureate Ceremony, the 2016 Class Council announced in an email Monday.