The Quarantine Brief: 

After 10 months off campus, many University undergraduates began the move-in and arrival quarantine process this week. Over the next week, more than 3000 students plan to arrive on campus, hoping to get a taste of normal University life — with much greater restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 If, like much of The Daily Princetonian staff, you find yourself bored during your Arrival Quarantine, use this time to catch up on our biggest stories of the past few weeks. The Daily Princetonian has compiled a “What to Read and Watch in Quarantine” list just for you, outlining our most important and most well written stories of the past year.

[Note: Tonight, The Daily Princetonian will resume production under the 145th Board, publishing four times before regular production begins on Jan. 31.]

• Prior to the violent riots on Jan. 6 at the U.S Capitol, Sen. Ted Cruz ’92 (R-Texas) put forth a motion against the certification of Arizona’s electoral votes.
• The ‘Prince’ spoke to a number of students, including Clio Party chair Matthew Wilson ’24, regarding Cruz's behavior, his legacy, and what the events of Jan. 6 mean for American politics.
• Regarding the riots, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 stated “There is no place in a democracy for what transpired today in Washington,” in a blog post.

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• FROM OPINION: َ‘Prince’ Columnist Juan José López Haddad argues that Republicans must push back against violent rhetoric and public officials must be held to a higher standard in their words and actions.
• ALUMNI: Four hundred alumni condemned Cruz’s role in inciting the insurrection and called on him to resign, writing “Senator Ted Cruz ’92 has shown the utmost disservice to our Nation and has brought shame to our University”. In a response, a spokesperson from the Senator’s office told The Daily Princetonian “To suggest that Sen. Cruz’s actions were unconstitutional is disappointing and dishonest, at a time when this country needs to come together and heal.”

• University students and faculty on campus may be eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1C of distribution, according to New Jersey’s interim COVID-19 vaccination plan, although the dates are unclear.
• Jeffrey Grosser, Health Officer at the Princeton Health Department, stated that Phase 1C vaccinations may be distributed in “early spring.”

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• SPORTS: Missing Princeton sports? Check out this timeline, tracking how COVID-19 brought University athletics programs to a halt for the past four athletic seasons.

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• SEXPERT: From the University’s Peer Health Advisers comes another edition of The Sexpert, this time addressing safe sex practices during the COVID-19 era. 

University Affairs

• Assistant politics professor Rory Truex ’07 recommended that students living in China this semester reconsider taking his course, POL 362: Chinese Politics. Truex stated that the course contains material formally banned in China and that he didn't “want anyone to feel that they were in a position where they had to access banned material” in order to take the course.
• The University, for the first time since March of last year, is allowing in person courses. Thus far, 19 undergraduate classes and 18 graduate classes will include an in person component, although all professors and classes were given the opportunity to switch from online to in-person.

At your leisure

• SPORTS: Sondre Guttormsen, a sophomore pole vaulter, set a stadium record at a competition in Gothenburg, Sweden this month, marking the highest jump ever recorded by an Ivy League pole vaulter. Guttormsen holds the Norwegian national record in pole vault, and has his sights set on the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
• FROM OPINION: Columnists Brittani Telfair and Collin Riggins respond to a column in The Princeton Tory, rebuking the idea that responsibility for racial inequality falls on the Black community. They state “the last thing Black Americans need is one more successful individual to assume a paternalistic role, pointing fingers at the Black community’s faults without addressing why they exist.”
• FROM OPINION: Guest Contributor Rushi Shah calls on the University community to support efforts to “defund the police” in light of the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol.