Today’s Briefing: 

SPECIAL USG MEETING: At a Nov. 16 meeting, which was an extension of the regular weekly Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meetings held on Sundays, the USG passed a resolution to “condemn and combat antisemitism” and voted to add a referendum on the expansion of gender-neutral bathrooms to the upcoming winter election ballot.

On antisemitism, the resolution calls for increased antisemitism trainings including “trainings for student leaders, bias trainings for students, and annual orientation programming.”

On gender-neutral bathrooms, the referendum calls for the University to begin to investigate and offer recommendations on how a majority of bathrooms on campus can be converted to be gender neutral following the example of Yeh College and New College West, where all dormitory bathrooms are currently gender-neutral.

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STEWART Q&A: On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Dr. Uyi Stewart, Chief Data and Technology Officer at Data.org, delivered a lecture in Robertson Hall titled “Data Science: The New Frontier in Global Health and Development,” that revolved around the potential of data science to address a sprawling range of contemporary global issues, including infectious diseases, economic vulnerabilities, drug treatments, and healthcare access, among other pressing areas of importance. Stewart sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his past work and how data science can be used to address urgent global humanitarian issues.

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• University Title IX Administrator Regan Crotty ’00 to depart position

OPINION | Theater excellence can’t come at the cost of student performers’ mental health

Guest contributor Rafael Collado ’23 recounts his experience of being dropped from Princeton Triangle Club’s fall production of Campelot less than a week before the show's opening, which he attributes to a panic attack he experienced on Oct. 29. Collado claims that “the theater professionals at Triangle conveyed through their actions that they prefer to treat stressed college students participating in an extracurricular activity as full-time professional actors, pushing them to their physical and mental limits, and tossing them aside when they can no longer keep up.” Collado calls for greater inclusion and healthier treatment of performers in all theater organizations, and argues that good performances should not come at the expense of performers’ mental health.

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FEATURES | ‘Solidarity is a very beautiful thing’: SPEAR students reimagine prisons, policing

The ‘Prince’ sat down with the Students for Prison Education, Abolition and Reform (SPEAR) to talk about their ongoing advocacy and recent initiatives. Last week, the group staged their annual demonstration in front of Frist Campus Center in which members of the organization alternated sitting in a 7x9 foot square on the pavement for 23 hours.

“SPEAR is an abolitionist group that seeks to take a lot of the resources Princeton has and redistribute them to communities in New Jersey,” SPEAR co-president Amber Rahman ’24 said during their Sept. 19 meeting, the second of the semester. “We want to do a lot of advocacy work to resist carcerality.”

Rahman emphasizes the importance of solidarity in SPEAR’s work, as she says solidarity is the only means through which groups like SPEAR can ‘“build the worlds [they] want.”’ 

From Sports

• ‘A real privilege’: brothers Keller Maloney ’23 and Pierce Maloney ’24 reflect on water polo careers
• Women’s basketball nabs road win over Seton Hall

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