Today's Briefing:
At a recent USG Senate meeting, the priorities for the upcoming year were placed into categories, which included: “mental health, academics, student life, and USG and University resources.” Support was given for allowing students to pursue mixed concentrations, and two task forces were approved: the Menstrual Products Task Force and the Class of 2024 Task Force.
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George P. Shultz ’42 has died at the age of 100 this past Saturday in his California home. Shultz graduated from the University having studied economics and public and international affairs. A proud Princetonian, Shultz reportedly had a tiger tattooed to his bottom while he was a student at the University, and when asked why he wasn’t running for president in 1987, replied that “as far as I’m concerned, I’m afraid the country is not ready for a president who might have a tiger tattooed on his rear end.”
After serving in the Marines and teaching at MIT, Shultz served on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council of Economics and held three cabinet-level positions within the Nixon administration. Shultz most-famously served as Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan where he helped bring an end to the Cold War.
“Shultz was indispensable to President Ronald Reagan’s success in bringing about a mostly peaceful end to the Cold War in Europe,” said Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs and a specialist in Soviet history and the Cold War. “Shultz’s record as secretary [of] state – across the full range of issues – stands above that of any other.”
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In Opinion, guest contributor Chioma Ugwonali reflects on the amount of waste that has been generated since students returned to campus, arguing that the prodigal habits of the University community constitute a microcosm of America's consumerist culture.
Ugwonali exhorts the Princeton community to preserve items that would otherwise be recklessly disposed of and urges the University to adopt structural changes aimed at creating a reduced zero-waste campus in order to fulfill its stated commitment to act “in service of humanity.”
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