Today’s Briefing:
After a recent surge of COVID-19 cases on campus, on Nov. 30 Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun sent out a University-wide email providing additional information about COVID-19 guidelines that students are expected to follow. The new policies arrive on the heels of a Nov. 27 University announcement about changes to campus-wide policies related to COVID-19.
The newly instituted COVID-19 guidelines affect social gatherings, eating clubs, and international travel. With the exception of classroom instruction and other events convened for academic purposes and overseen by an instructor, the University has prohibited “large-scale indoor undergraduate student social gatherings on or off campus that anticipate more than 75 people.” Any indoor undergraduate student organization gatherings anticipating between 20–75 members in attendance and outdoor gatherings of up to 100 people must pre-register online to acquire permission to convene.
Eating clubs have likewise adopted different approaches to ensuring student compliance with COVID-19 guidelines in light of the fact that many of the recent COVID-19 cases on campus could be traced to eating club social gatherings. All eating clubs have indefinitely postponed winter formal gatherings and nights out. Similarly, meals will now be exclusively members-only.
“We understand your disappointment about these changes, especially when you’re looking forward to end-of-semester gatherings and celebrations. The University’s goal is to keep our campus healthy until this surge abates. At the same time, we want to support opportunities for students to gather safely,” wrote Calhoun in an email to the University community.
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According to a letter released by the Office of Communications on November 29th, Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Microsoft President and University Trustee Brad Smith ’81 have filed a comment in support of the federal government’s latest proposal to preserve and strengthen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. In the letter, they encourage the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use its authority to establish “fair” rules that uphold lasting protections for DREAMers. They also encourage Congress to establish a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), who were brought to the United States as children.
The comment arrives in light of the University’s successful Supreme Court case to preserve DACA. The case was filed jointly in November of 2017 by the University, Microsoft, and Maria Perales Sanchez ’18, in which they argued that DACA’s termination violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act.
“Legislative action is the only way to ensure the long-term protection that DREAMers deserve and require; enacting it would be just, humane, and beneficial to the national interest,” Eisgruber and Smith wrote.
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