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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

CPUC meeting; University hosts COVID-19 pediatric clinics in Jadwin Gym

Divest Princeton Stand-in at CPUC
Angel Kuo / The Daily Princetonian
Todays Briefing: 

During this Monday’s Council of the Princeton Community (CPUC) meeting, administrators discussed the University’s plans for fossil fuel dissociation, COVID-19 updates, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.

The University has established a new faculty panel to advise and inform the fossil fuel dissociation process. On the question of whether students would be incorporated into this process, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that the University would refrain from including students because it considers the faculty advisors’ expertise sufficient on its own.

Vice President for Environmental Health and Safety Robin Izzo spoke about campus COVID-19 updates, noting that the risk status remains low and that the University has begun hosting pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Jadwin Gym.

Furthermore, Vice Provost Michele Minter led a discussion concerning the recent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report, the first of its kind that the University has released. The rest of the meeting consisted of an introduction of the new School of Public and International Affairs Dean Amaney Jamal, updates regarding Wintersession, and a Q&A period during which individuals in attendance posed questions to administrators.

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On Monday, Nov. 8, The Princeton Town Council met for its regular meeting. Items on the agenda were initial presentation plans for the Graduate Hotel to be built on top of Jammin’ Crepes, Milk and Cookies, and Small Bites, approval for a liquor license that would allow Claridge Wine & Liquor to open a location on Nassau Street, and plans for a dog park. The council approved the relocation of Claridge Wine & Liquor to Nassau Street after 90 minutes of debate, unanimously voted to preserve the largest undeveloped parcel of land in Princeton as open space, and expressed strong support for a new dog park in Princeton. 

“It really would build community,” Councilmember Mia Sacks said in support of plans presented by the Dog Park Task Force. 

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As of November 8th, University-led COVID-19 vaccination clinics began administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 to children between ages five and eleven. This follows authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the State of New Jersey. While University Health Services (UHS) recommends that children between five and eight receive the vaccine in a pediatric office setting, they will be able to receive the Pfizer vaccine at the clinics. For faculty with young children, the recent authorization brings a sense of relief. 

“This has been a particularly difficult semester for those of us with young children, who have been straddling the relative safety of the campus community and the unpredictable and unvaccinated world of the elementary schools,” wrote History Professor Kevin Kruse in an email to the Daily Princetonian. 

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Julia Berndtsson ’23, along with a group of physicists and researchers, recently discovered evidence suggesting the existence of the first potential ‘exoplanet’ transiting a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy. The ‘exoplanet’ candidate presented in the group’s paper, published in Nature Astronomy last month, is located more than 28 million light-years away in the galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also known as the ‘Whirlpool Galaxy.’

The research was conducted using data from the NASA Chandra X-Ray Laboratory, a space telescope atop the space shuttle Columbia. Berndtsson, an international student from Stockholm, Switzerland, and a junior in the physics department, first started working alongside Rosanne Di Stefano of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics during the summer of her senior year of high school. 

“I have been fortunate to work with really amazing mentors who have encouraged me to pursue any ideas I have, and who have been patient through my learning curve,” Berndtsson told the ‘Prince.’

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Opinion: Statues play a role in preserving collective memory

The statue of James Witherspoon outside of the East Pyne Building.
Angel Kuo / The Daily Princetonian

Should statues of controversial historical figures remain standing? Contributing Columnist Abigail Rabieh argues that statues representing complex historical figures — such as James McCosh, James Witherspoon, and Thomas Jefferson, among others who served as members of the University community — should remain fixtures on campus because they preserve our collective memory of our nation’s historical successes and failures. 

Addressing the recent removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the New York City Council Chamber, Rabieh writes that we should strive to compartmentalize both the positive and the negative aspects of Jefferson’s and other controversial historical figures’ actions as eliminating such statues would only serve to obfuscate the contradictory yet important roles that historical figures like Jefferson have played in our nation’s early beginnings.

“Instead of viewing statues of Jefferson as monuments to his greatness, we should view them as a testament to his life, in which he was not simply a heroic patriot and not simply an evil racist. Statues preserve memory. We should remember Jefferson for the great work he did and for the terrible things he did,” writes Rabieh.

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Opinion: The Orange Bubble is not a suburban phenomenon

Editorial Assistant Genrietta Churbanova writes that Princeton’s comparatively isolated, suburban location is often blamed for the University’s Orange Bubble. However, students at Harvard and Yale, located in more urban areas, likewise complain about the Harvard Bubble and Yale Bubble. While leaving the Orange Bubble is typically associated with physically leaving our campus, Churbanova questions whether leaving campus equates to escaping the Orange Bubble. Churbanova calls for a change in the narratives surrounding campus bubbles and encourages students to form relationships with their universities’ surrounding communities. 

“Off-campus recreation is not equivalent to genuine community engagement for students at suburban and urban universities alike,” writes Churbanova.

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This Week in Photos: November 3-9

This week, Princeton’s autumn trees sport a plethora of oranges and yellows, students enjoy pizza at Fall Fest, and the women's ice hockey team plays Union College.

At Your Leisure:

  • In the latest episode of The Highlights, graduate student Mira Nencheva discusses her work in the Department of Psychology, particularly her daily tasks involving toddlers in the Princeton Baby Lab, and elucidates how the vocal pitches of caregivers can affect infants’ early learning processes.
  • Listen to the latest episode from Daybreak, The Daily Princetonians daily news podcast!
Today’s newsletter was copy edited by Cecilia Zubler. Thank you. 
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