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(09/17/19 1:30am)
Jerome Powell ’75, the chair of the Federal Reserve, has come under an unprecedented amount of scrutiny in the past month as recession fears and trade tensions intensify in the midst of the country’s longest economic expansion. Although Powell has previously clashed with President Donald Trump, the chair has recently been subject to an avalanche of pressure and commentary that threaten to derail the Federal Reserve’s strongly held political independence.
(05/03/17 1:55am)
On April 13, the University concluded the administration of the three-year “We Speak” survey on sexual misconduct. The survey, run by the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct, was emailed out to undergraduate and graduate students March 28 and aims to gain a greater understanding of knowledge and experiences of sexual misconduct on campus as well as students’ awareness of University policies, procedures, and resources. Results will be released and publicized in the fall.
(04/14/17 2:49am)
Miranda Rosen ’18 was named one of 62 2017 Harry S. Truman Scholars on Wednesday, April 12. Rosen is a history major pursuing certificates in European Cultural Studies, Judaic Studies, and the History and Practice of Diplomacy from Henderson, Nev.
(04/01/17 3:01pm)
As part of a series for Women's History Month, The Daily
Princetonian sat down with Nancy Peretsman ’76, Managing Director at Allen
& Company LLC and trustee emeritus. The 'Prince' interviewed Peretsman
about why she was inspired to go to Princeton, women in the workforce,
and her philanthropic commitment to the University.
(03/29/17 4:04am)
Westminster Choir College, whose parent school is Rider University, will be sold to a buyer in order to keep the college open and on its campus in Princeton, Rider announced today. Westminster community members protested a potential move to Rider’s Lawrenceville campus rather than being sold to another University on Tuesday morning at a committee meeting where the decision was made.
(03/28/17 12:47am)
On Mar. 27, Princeton Advocates for Justice, an “intersectional undergraduate student coalition of 25 Princeton University student groups advocating for the advancement of basic human rights” that formed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, released a letter signed by 32 student groups and 600 members of the University community urging University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to officially oppose Trump’s newest executive order barring entry to citizens of six Middle Eastern countries and limiting refugee entrance.
(03/07/17 4:45am)
In a standing room-only lecture on March 6, author Colson Whitehead read an excerpt from his 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad,” which won the National Book Award, and discussed his path to writing.
(03/06/17 2:50am)
In its weekly meeting on Mar. 5, the Undergraduate Student Government confirmed new committee members, recapped a meeting on student health care and Mental Health Week, and deliberated future steps for the student room guide.
(02/09/17 4:36am)
On Jan. 30, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 announced that current Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice will become University Provost on July 1. Prentice — who was formerly the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology — will replace current Provost David Lee GS '99, who plans to return to full-time teaching and research. As provost, Prentice will be the University's chief academic and budget officer, responsible for long-range planning. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Prentice for an interview to discuss her expectations for the new role, her background in social psychology, and the University’s response to the Trump administration.
(02/07/17 7:10pm)
On Feb. 2, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and 47 other American college and university presidents sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to “rectify or rescind” his Jan. 27 executive order. The letter criticizing the order, which forbids entry into the United States by travelers from Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen for 90 days and from Syria indefinitely, was initially outlined by Eisgruber and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. The executive order has been criticized by Democrats, such as California Senator Kamala Harris, as a “Muslim ban,” and was announced by Trump at a speech at the Pentagon, in which he said his ulterior goal was to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the country and only admit those “who will support our country and love deeply our people.” His executive order also caps the entry of refugees into the country in 2017 at 50,000, much lower than the 110,000 refugees the Obama administration wanted to take in 2017.
(11/18/16 4:29am)
Hundreds of University community members, including students, faculty, and staff, held a demonstration to call for the University to become a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, faculty, and staff.The demonstration began in front of the Nassau Hall at 5 p.m. and was spearheaded by the Princeton DREAM Team, a immigrants' rights group. The demonstration was part of a larger national movement this week promoted by the Cosecha Movement, a pro-immigrants' rights organization. According to Cosecha, similar demonstrations labelled #SanctuaryMovement have occurred at around 80 different universities across the nation in the wake of the election of President-elect Donald Trump, whose rhetoric calling for undocumented immigrants to be deported has been heavily criticized. The purpose of these demonstrations have differed by campus, from general demands that the administration protects undocumented students to guarantees that universities will protect undocumented students from deportation.
(10/18/16 2:53pm)
On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, co-creators, co-writers, and co-directors of new TBS mystery-comedy television show ‘Search Party,’ premiering Nov. 21, visited the University for a pre-screening of the pilot. The Daily Princetonian sat down with the pair, whose previous credits include directing the feature film ‘Fort Tilden’ and writing credits on the shows ‘Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp’ and ‘Mozart In The Jungle,’ and TBS publicist Angela Char to discuss feeling lost after college and the current television landscape.The Daily Princetonian: What inspired the show ‘Search Party?’Sarah-Violet Bliss: We made a movie together called ‘Fort Tilden,’ and after that we were deciding what we wanted to do, and we knew that we had wanted to work in television and were trying to figure out what the right project would be for that. Michael Showalter was our teacher at New York University [where the pair met in graduate school], and we met with him and he said he wanted to work with us. We all started figuring out what that would be. Once we got connected with [production company] Jax Media, which Michael introduced us to because he’s worked with them a lot before, we came up with the idea of a mystery comedy, which was kind of in the same world as our movie, but had a genre element to it, which was really exciting for everyone. We wrote the pilot and Jax financed us, and then we pitched the pilot and that’s how it all came to be.DP: You’re at Princeton for the pre-screening. Are you trying to appeal to a college audience? What’s the marketing strategy?SVB: We’re definitely trying to appeal to college kids based on the release of the show. The week of Thanksgiving, two episodes will run per night for five days. The idea is that college kids will be home and binge-watch it, and then the marathon will be repeated over Christmas. All 10 episodes will also be released online on the premiere date. The demographic is 16-35.Angela Char: TBS is going through a rebrand right now, and this is definitely a show that we hope will appeal to younger audiences, which is part of the reason we’re doing a college tour.Charles Rogers: Overall, a big part of the theme of the show is about finding yourself and about feeling lost in life, and I think those are some themes that a younger audience, especially one in their 20s, can relate to. And so I think a big part of us coming to colleges is hoping that people will relate to that part of the show. It’s kind of at the forefront, as the reason the main character becomes so obsessed with the mystery [the disappearance of her college acquaintance] is to find herself.DP: Do you see yourselves in any of the characters? I know they are imperfect, and kind of crazy.CR: We really drew from ourselves, and we have a lot of the same friends, so we pulled from a lot of people. Even when we’re thinking of ideas now, we keep meeting people and saying [a character] could be just like that person. We end up drawing from what we know.DP: What was it like switching from directing a movie and working on TV shows to creating your own TV show? Was that a big adjustment?CR: It was in terms of having to do everything – in a lot of ways it felt like when we made our movie, because we are responsible for so much of it, and it’s something that we are creating. It’s different from writing on TV shows because you really only serve a specific purpose as a writer. Being in this position, the biggest thing that’s different about it is that we have the support of a few other people who are also responsible for making the show, and a lot more money behind it, so we feel a lot more supported. There’s a larger conversation you can have with more people, and all of that is really comforting.DP: So was the marathon strategy TBS’s idea, or did you have any say in it?SVB: Not really, other than that they ran it by us and we were like ‘Great, whatever you think is good!’CR: I think it’s TBS’s way of joining the binge culture that’s at large right now.DP: What do you think of the current TV landscape? Do you think ‘Search Party’ is filling any sort of void in it?SVB: I think that ‘Search Party’ has this really special tone that I haven’t seen before, the mix of two really popular things: the lost young person, and mystery. It’s got a real drive to it the whole time, which I think is what some people find lacking in the lost young person genre. And then with the mystery, it’s got this comedic element, which is not usually how mysteries are portrayed – they’re usually much more dark and sinister. And this does go there for sure, but it’s a comedy.DP: Have you always been intrigued by mysteries?SVB: We’ve both always been really interested in mystery, and we’ve both had weird things that’s happened in our families.CR: We love Woody Allen, too.SV: The idea of a mystery just sparked something in us. Yeah, Woody Allen is great, ‘Manhattan Murder Mystery’ is a good comparison to our show.CR: We were trying to think of a hook to put on a millennial satire, and it was hard to think of anything we wanted to run with, and then when the idea of a mystery came up, it was so easy to get excited about. It was an easy thing to run with, because it’s really fun to play with mysteries.DP: How would you describe your creative partnership?SVB: When we were writing our movie, we just literally sat at the computer together and wrote next to each other, and then in a writer’s room it works much differently in that it’s not just us, there are other people as well, and so there’s lots of ideas and outlining. We start in big broad strokes and get narrower and narrower. You don’t really start putting fingers to keyboard until you have all of the beats down, especially with this type of show, which is very serialized and kind of complex. Then you assign episodes and everyone writes them.DP: So did you direct each episode together?SVB: Yes, except for three, which another director directed while we were still on set. Basically, the way the structure of the production worked, it was helpful to have another director.DP: What was working with TBS like? Did they give you suggestions?SVB: They did, they’d give us notes, but they’d be really standard, good notes. It’s all a collaboration – I don’t see getting notes from other people as a bad thing. It’s more helpful so everyone is on the same page. And then if we ever have a disagreement we can just explain where each side is coming from, and it gets resolved pretty quickly.DP: What was it like working with the actors?SVB: Great, they’re all dreams. They add so much to the show.CR: They’re all comedians to some varying levels, so there’s so much improve. They give a lot of themselves to the characters. We really started to write for them once we knew them. When we made the pilot we had ideas about the characters, and then we knew where to go from there because the actors are all so distinct and have huge personalities.DP: What do you ultimately hope viewers will get from the show?SVB: It’s hard to answer without giving away plot points.CR: I think satirically, one thing that we’re really interested in is commenting on the cringier aspects of culture. I like daring people to look at the things about themselves that they might find uncomfortable or not want to admit, and that’s a big part of where the humor comes from on our show. These characters, for better or for worse, you’ll see yourself in, even if you don’t want to. They’re also very funny and lovable.DP: How were these colleges chosen?AC: A lot of it was what made sense geographically, but we were also looking for student bodies that we thought would appreciate the tone of the voice. Your [Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students]Thomas Dunne was just so enthusiastic when we talked to him about it, so when it came down to choosing, we wanted to work with someone who was really excited. We also have TBS interns who work with us, and we screen shows for the interns to get their honest feedback on what they do and don’t like, and a lot of the interns end up getting us in contact with people who program events.DP: Are you nervous and excited about the premiere?CR: Yeah for sure, we’ve been working on it for so long. We need to figure out what we’re going to wear to the premiere.
(10/18/16 12:28pm)
The campus internet network unexpectedly failed, leaving community members unable to access the network for over 12 hours on Oct. 13-14.
(10/03/16 2:50pm)
On Sept. 22, José Quiñonez GS ’98, founder and CEO of microfinance nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, became one of the four University alumni named as a MacArthur Fellow.The annually awarded fellowships, colloquially referred to as “genius grants,” entail a $625,000 cash prize paid over five years by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to between 20 and 30 Americans who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”As head of the San Francisco-based Mission Asset Fund, Quiñonez, who received a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School, seeks to solve the crisis of lack of access to financial services for low-income people, especially immigrants and minorities.According to the Mission Asset Fund’s website, many lower-class citizens are “underbanked,” or not actively engaged in the financial system. Many people in this group have no bank accounts or credit history, cannot get car or home loans from banks, and are forced to rely on predatory payday lenders. At least 64 million Americans have no credit scores, and 17 million have no access to a bank account.“When people don’t have access to the basic financial services, it’s virtually impossible for people to work themselves out of poverty. Checking accounts, saving accounts, and credit histories are basic pillars that you and I take for granted, and not having them is a huge barrier for poor families,” Quiñonez said.The Mission Asset Fund seeks to improve this status quo through a modernized version of the practice of lending circles. Seen in cultures as disparate as Mexico, Africa, and the Philippines for hundreds of years, lending circles traditionally comprise a group of people who contribute a certain amount of money to the group pool every month, which goes to a certain group member each month. Group members rotate through receiving the money, thereby receiving zero-interest loans without relying on outside sources.Mission Asset Fund brings this ancient process into the 21st century and seeks to solve the problem of lack of access to financial services by requiring lending circle members to have checking accounts and transfer funds to each other through banks. The organization manages the accounts and reports transactions to credit agencies to allow participants to build up the credit that is crucial for securing loans. Mission Asset Fund has been tremendously successful in accomplishing its goal of improving financial outcomes: according to independent audits of its programs by San Francisco State University and Yale University, the average debt reduction for participants is $1,000, and the average credit score growth is 168 points.Quiñonez attributes his success with Mission Asset Fund in part to his graduate education at the University: “I went to get an MPA because I wanted the training that the Woodrow Wilson School provides, and to become a better policy analyst, and gain a better understanding of how government works. And that’s definitely what I got from that experience.”Frederick Wherry GS ‘04, a professor of sociology at Yale University, was a participant in a sociology reading course that Quiñonez attended, and reflected positively on both Quiñonez and lending circles, a subject about which he is currently writing.Wherry also believes that lending circles are a key tool in the fight against poverty. “Lending circles force us to rethink our approach to solving problems like poverty and debt, by asking us to stop trying to fix people, and instead try to figure out what kinds of activities people are already engaged in, and then tailor services to fit current practices. We need a mix of approaches to solving poverty, and lending circles are an important tool from the informal sector,” said Wherry.Quiñonez also cited University Professor Alejandro Portes, whose sociology reading course Quiñonez took, as influential to his development the Mission Asset Fund’s core principle of lending circles.“He explained the concept of looking at informal economies as viable activity that supports a lot of people, and not as criminal or bad just because it’s outside of the regulatory structure,” said Quiñonez.Portes did not respond to requests for comment.“José [was] always very capable, but always very helpful. He would always be able to get people to roll up his or her sleeves and [accomplish a job together.] He always had a sense of humility, and a dedication to doing things right,” said Wherry.Ultimately, Quiñonez is optimistic that his MacArthur Fellowship will allow him to expand Mission Asset Fund’s work.“It’s such an honor…with this platform and media exposure, I’m able to articulate a different vision. I’ll use the award to invest in lending circles across the country, to reach more families and communities, and help low-income families develop their true economic potential,” said Quiñonez.
(09/25/16 2:24pm)
The University implemented student technology changes this fall, including a new printing system with a Google Cloud Print platform and a shift towards broader use of the eduroam service.