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The University has announced five new environmental and energy based research projects in joint release with the Princeton E-ffiliates Program and ExxonMobil.
Seven of the University undergraduate students were recognized for their academic accomplishments in the annual Opening Exercises in the University Chapel on Sunday.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a restroom in the Friend Center on Wednesday, the first evening of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Anna Aronson ’16 and Martina Fouquet ’16 have been chosen as the student speakers for Class Day 2016.This is the first time in the University history in which all three class day speakers are women.The speakers were chosen by a panel consisting of students, administrators and the undergraduate Class of 2016 Student Government. After speeches were submitted anonymously to the Class Day Committee, 12 finalists were chosen for a live audition.Of those 12, Aronson and Fouquet were chosen as the speakers who will present their narratives on stage alongside Jodi Picoult ’87. Their speeches, along with those by finalists Kujegi Camara '16, Lovia Gyarkye '16 and Neeta Patel '16, will be published in the Class Day program distributed at the event.“We have students speak because Class Day was started as a student initiative to give students a voice within the administration-planned commencement. We are interested in hearing how speakers will move a large and diverse audience of students, families, teachers and administrators,” said Azza Cohen ’16, a member of the Class Day Committee.Cohen is a columnist for the Daily Princetonian.The "theme" of Class Day is a reflection and celebration of our Princeton experience — but this can be manifested in so many different ways, she said.This year, the speakers were chosen for their wit and humor, but also their “moments of deeper reflection” about their four year experience at the University and their post-Princeton lives in the real world, she explained.Aronson sought the opportunity to speak to continue the improv comedy group Quipfire!’s tradition of presenting Class Day speeches, following in the footsteps of former members Adam Mastroianni '14, David Drew '14 and Jake Robertson '15.“[I] was a little intimidated by the idea of imparting wisdom to thousands of people and less intimidated by the prospect of delivering jokes,” Aronson said.Aronson plans to address the historic lack of female representation on the Class Day stage, which she said she suspects may be a common talking point between all three speeches.Although her speech does not aim to address any particular issue in favor of entertaining the audience, she explained that “there are some moments of sentimentality and an underlying emphasis on the importance of making oneself vulnerable.”After graduation, Aronson plans to move to Chicago to teach at a preschool and earn a Master’s degree in early childhood education through Teach for America.Fouquet noted her speech seeks to reflect on what being at the University has meant to her and how her perception of the school has changed over the years.”“Often, we talk about effortless perfection, so I think my speech is focused on deconstructing that myth through anecdotal stories. We all know Princeton's not perfect, but we aren't always transparent in the ways in which the school and our experience is beautifully imperfect," she said.Fouquet plans to remain in the town of Princeton, N.J., after graduation, working in the city and getting an Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Rutgers University in Newark, N.J.
As of Wednesday, 325 students declared concentrations in the social sciences, a drop from last year’s 363.
Princeton Students for Prison Education and Reform has submitted a referendum calling for the Council of the Princeton University Community and the Princeton University Investment Company to divest from private prisons.
Paul Fishman ’78, U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, unveiled a sting operation in which 21 defendants were charged with enabling student visa fraud this past Tuesday.
Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 was unanimously appointed the Acting President of Cornell University by the school's Board of Trustees on Mar.24.
Trevón Gross,husband ofQwynn Gross, a ministry fellow of Christian Union at Princetonand mentor to many students, wasrecentlychargedwith accepting bribes from an illegal Bitcoin exchange platform.
When addressing social inequality, it is in the interest of people on the bottom to destabilize and those at the top to stabilize the system, Brian Lowery, the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University, said.Lowery initiated the discussion with a focused analysis of the concept of hierarchy in modern society, particularly as it relates to racial issues and the concept of white privilege.According to Lowery, problems commonly addressed in psychology involve the existence of established hierarchies and why individuals at the bottom keep the status quo, rather than rise up against the establishment.Most psychological studies, however, focus on the costs to the people at the bottom tiers of society, instead of addressing the downward pressure placed upon this class.Lowery used this lens to analyze the actions that the upper classes would take, such as granting concessions and bringing others into the system to increase the costs of rejecting the system.To explain this concept, Lowery utilized the example of when members of a lower status group are admitted into the University.“Are you less likely to protest and riot against inequality?” he asked. “Probably, since you are now part of the system and have more to lose from destabilization,” he said.Lowery explained that individuals are thereby more likely to strive to maintain the current establishment by virtue of reciprocity towards the establishment that granted them this benefit. On a greater scale, such concessions build up and decrease individuals’ personal motivations to collectively oppose the establishment.Lowery added that these concessions have great implications, such as in relation to the presidential primaries, in how the elite are more likely to preserve the status quo, while those towards the bottom of the hierarchy are more likely to vote for a destabilizing candidate who would initiate change.Eric Knowles, associate professor of psychology at New York University, explained racial privilege phenomena, such as the denial of white privilege, through the lens of individual in-groups, or groups that a particular member belongs to.“White privilege is a self-threat, as it is a truism that people want to take credit for their success and avoid blame for their failures,” he said.To acknowledge their privilege, individuals would discount their personal success and enhance the weight of their failures, he added.To highlight the ways in which individuals deal with the concept of privilege, Knowles noted statistical evidence from many psychological studies to form the “3D Model” of privilege: Deny, Distance, Dismantle.In this model, when individuals are faced with their privilege, they will attempt to either deny the existence of this privilege, disassociate themselves from their privileged identity, or choose to move forward in dismantling this hierarchical system of privilege.Both Lowery and Knowles noted the difficulty in dismantling this concept of privilege and its pervasive existence through a hierarchical society.“People as a whole tend to be egocentric creatures … it would take a huge show of altruism to give up privilege in favor of equality,” Lowery said.This discussion, titled "Zen and the Art of Privilege Maintenance", was part of the talks of the Inequality Science Series. It was held in A32 Peretsman Scully Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. All talks are live-streamed and hosted on the African American Studies Department website. The next talk in this series will take place on Apr. 20.
The issues leading to unionization are not as prevalent at the University as they are at its peer institutions, Graduate Student Government president Akshay Mehra GS noted in light of the recent amicus brief filed by the University against graduate student unionization.