Daily Newsletter: April 28, 2023
(04/28/23 12:00pm)
The invisible and ignored struggles of Princeton's service workers
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The invisible and ignored struggles of Princeton's service workers
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“In our conversations around [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion], the same topics, understandably, often bubble up to the top,” Laura Murray, assistant director for learning programs at the McGraw Center, said to a group of 20 undergraduates, graduate students, and staff. “But there are many other identities that we need to include in those conversations, one of which is neurodiversity.”
The summer before his first year at Princeton, Samuel Kleiner ’25 bought a $75 bike from Facebook Marketplace. After a week on campus, it broke down — the back axle snapped, and the gear shifter caught in the spokes.
In 2019, Josie Ziluca, then the part-time coach at Princeton’s women’s club rugby team, was driving across the country when she received a phone call from Princeton Athletics. On the side of the road, she was informed that her team was going varsity.
Looking for a way to practice reading in Hawaiian, Travis Chai Andrade ’24 approached Firestone librarians about materials in the indigenous language. He learned that there were nearly 300 sources — books, old newspapers, artifacts — for him to explore.
Despite the commitment of daily practices and weekend competitions, varsity student-athletes, in principle, have the same academic experience as other students. Composing just under 18 percent of the undergraduate population, student-athletes receive the same advising, take the same classes, and are held to the same standards.
While searching the archives of Mudd Library, Professor of History Alison Isenberg found a “beautiful, hand-created” photo album. The work inside, captured by documentary photographer Sol Libsohn, highlights a key moment in the University’s contentious history surrounding racial integration: the 1964 Princeton Summer Studies Program (PSSP). The program invited 40 public high school students — 30 of whom were Black — to reside on campus and attend classes at the University.
Before explaining the history of Louise Nevelson’s “Atmosphere and Environment X,” molecular biology graduate student Robbie LeDesma began his tour of the University’s campus art with a question: “What do you notice?”