Today’s Briefing:
SPEAR 7x9 PROTEST DENOUNCES SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: SPEAR conducted its annual protest against solitary confinement with a 23-hour protest. Throughout this period, SPEAR volunteers spent hourly shifts inside a 7-by-9-foot box marked in front of Frist Campus Center. Passersby were requested to not interact with protesters to mimic the isolation within solitary confinement. Speaking about the demonstration, SPEAR volunteer Luke Caroll ’26 said, “I think it helps to orient people to the size of the cell, and if they can allow themselves for just a second to imagine that the protestor is surrounded by concrete walls and a steel door, that just makes it all the more dramatic.”
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CHRISTOPHER CAVOLI ’87 AND ROBERT KAHN GS ’64 WIN PRESTIGIOUS ALUMNI AWARDS: On Nov. 2, the University announced the recipients of its highest alumni honors. Christopher Cavoli ’87, a current four-star general and head of the U.S. European Command, will be awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award, which is given to a member of the alumni who embodies Princeton’s unofficial motto: “Princeton in the nation’s service.” Robert Kahn GS ’64, who was praised by President Eisgruber for his “scientific contributions [which] have shaped the internet, and his engagement with our Department of Computer Science,” will be awarded the coveted James Madison Medal. This medal is given to an alum of the Graduate School who has had “a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education or achieved a record of outstanding public service.”
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UNIVERSITY OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES NEW UPPERCLASSMEN DINING PROJECT: The University has launched the website for its new dining pilot project, which will be implemented this coming spring. A new dining option for upperclassmen, the dining pilot project has been presented as aiming to promote “fluidity in the dining program.” The website includes information on why the project was launched, findings from the working group, and, later, will have results from surveys on the project. Meanwhile, members of the USG continue to criticize the “lack of student input in developing the program.”
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