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(12/15/16 3:06am)
My mother, Class of 1984, told me that in her day Princeton was a largely apolitical place. I graduated with the Class of 2016, but during my four years here, I didn’t think that was true. We had the Praxis Axis protests sophomore year, the Michael Brown protests junior year, the Big Sean and Urban Congo protests junior year, and the Black Justice League sit-in senior year. There have been campus debates on racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and freedom of speech, to name a few.
(12/17/15 7:31pm)
The Undergraduate Student Government implemented reforms lastSundayto make the referendum process more organized and to allow more student discussion and dialogue.
(12/17/15 5:54pm)
Ivy Club will join the multi-club Bicker system starting in the coming spring, Ivy president Eliza Mott ’16 said.
(12/16/15 5:10pm)
Sarah Cen ’16 andOgemdi Ude ’16 have been named the recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship.
(12/15/15 9:53pm)
President Barack Obama has done an inadequate job combating the ISIS terrorist threat and if they were to be elected president, they would be much more effective, both Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey governor Chris Christie argued in a Tuesday republican debate focused on the terrorist threat.
(12/07/15 3:32pm)
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy ’77 will be the speaker for the University’s 269th Baccalaureate Ceremony, the 2016 Class Council announced in an email Monday.
(11/22/15 5:04pm)
Katherine Clifton ’15,Richard Lu ’16, Cameron Platt ’16 andEvan Soltas ’16 were selected as recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship Class of 2016, the organization announced Saturday.
(11/01/15 1:43pm)
A student reported an incident of burglary and unwanted touchingSaturdaymorning, according to an email announcement from the Department of Public Safety.
(10/29/15 2:46pm)
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey governor Chris Christie discussed government responsibility, tax reform and climate change at the Republican debate hosted by CNBC on Wednesday.
(10/25/15 4:50pm)
While literature features many stories about the meteoric rise and sudden fall of a remarkable individual, the life of University professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Nash GS ’50 is extraordinary because it also had a third act of recovery, biographer Sylvia Nasar said in a lecture Saturday.
(10/24/15 6:45pm)
A University student reported a lewdness incident at about11:45 a.m.Fridayon the towpath between Washington Road and South Harrison Street, an email announcement by the Department of Public Safety said.
(10/19/15 6:38pm)
Family class labels assigned by the Chinese Communist government in 1950 still affected levels of schooling and job status in 1996, even though the labels were abolished in 1979, Donald Treiman argued in a lecture on Monday.
(10/12/15 2:49pm)
Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Wilson School and the economics department at the University, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday.
(09/30/15 1:53pm)
There were 77 crimes reported on the University's main campus in 2014, an increase from 56 crimes reported in 2013, according to the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released Wednesday.
(09/27/15 8:36pm)
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma discussed the rise of Africa at a lecture on Sunday, saying that Africa has come a long way in terms of establishing peace and democracy.
(09/27/15 5:20pm)
Two-hundred forty-six students registered for sorority rush and about 170 students were offered membership in a sorority last week, three years afterfreshmen were banned from rushing on campus, the University’s Panhellenic Council president Caroline Snowden ’17 said.
(09/27/15 4:19pm)
A delegation of University students attended the mass conducted by Pope Francis at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday.
(09/21/15 5:08pm)
The first Whig-Cliosophic Senate Debate of the year took place on Monday, with candidates from the opposing sides debating whether the Republican presidential field will produce a better candidate than the Democratic presidential field.The Clio, or conservative, side won the debate by a vote of 15 to 13.The debate opened with arguments from Allison Berger ’18, representing Clio, and Ethan Marcus ’18, representing Whig. Berger said that the Republicans are better both on policy and politics. On the policy side, she noted that the Democratic side supports Obamacare, which will cause health insurance rates to continue to rise, and the Iran nuclear arms deal, which gives Iran support to develop nuclear weapons that could be used against Americans.“In short, the Democratic field is advocating continuation of the disastrous policies of the Obama administration’s failed progressive experiment,” she said.On the political side, she noted that the Republicans are favored to win because Democrats have faced tremendous losses in both houses of Congress and in key battleground states, and that most political parties do not win three elections in a row.Marcus said that it was ridiculous to assume that Republicans could beat even the lower-polling Democratic candidates, let alone former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or U.S. Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders, and went on to point out the flaws with specific Republican candidates. He pointed to former governor Jeb Bush’s flip-flopping on issues such as immigration and the fact that Hewlett-Packard lost over half its value while Carly Fiorina was its CEO.He also said that Democrats are more willing to reach across the aisle and compromise.The floor was then opened for discussion from the audience. Peter Russell ’19, the first speaker, said that the Republican candidates have no actual record besides yelling at people and shaking them down.“Ted Cruz, class of ’92, can stand up and talk about things,” he said, “but he’s not really a believer in America. He’s a believer in Ted Cruz.”One of the themes of the discussion was the diversity of viewpoints in both parties, with Evan Draim ’16 pointing out that the Republicans have a much wider diversity of candidates than the Democrats and that while the Republicans have already had two nationally televised debates, allowing candidates to discuss issues and hone their viewpoints, the Democrats have had none.Ryan Spaude ’16 further noted that the Democratic candidates are all white and elderly, unlike the Republicans.Closing arguments were then made by Matt Chuckran ’17 for Whig and Theodore Furchtgott ’18 for Clio.Chuckran said that the Democratic candidates are more diverse despite their being fewer in number, while the Republican candidates all say the time thing, with the exception of Trump. He described Hillary Clinton as another President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden as another President Bill Clinton but with fewer scandals, and Sanders as someone who seems extreme but whose policies are not particularly extreme.He said that what the nation needs is someone to advocate for the “silent majority,” and that this goal will be accomplished even if Sanders does not win the primary because he will still push Hillary Clinton left.Furchtgott said he agreed with Chuckran that Clinton would be another Obama, but added that he does not think another Obama is what the country needs. The Democrats, he said, are inherently regressive, noting that the Dodd-Frank Act makes it hard for young people to get mortgages and the Democrats’ support of teachers’ unions benefits wealthy parents who send their children to private schools rather than poor public school districts.The debate took place at 4:30 p.m. on the lawn by Whig Hall.
(05/29/15 6:47pm)
Four University graduates now employed in occupations related to city planning and architecture discussed the future and challenges facing the American city at a panel discussion Friday.
(05/29/15 1:56pm)
The American public system is in crisis, alumni panelists saidon Friday.