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Day four of ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ at Princeton: Your Daily 'Prince' Briefing
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Day four of ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ at Princeton: Your Daily 'Prince' Briefing
The following are guest submissions and reflect the authors’ views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here.
Over the last century, women have attained and even surpassed equal representation at U.S. colleges and universities to men — women now make up almost 60 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded. Over the last few decades, women have also made huge strides post-college education: in the early 1980s, women made up only 30 percent of doctorate degrees — they now make up 54 percent. It‘s only natural that women are now also equally represented in the top levels of University administration — they are in charge of four out of the eight Ivy League schools. But recent events, such as Claudine Gay’s departure from her position as president of Harvard University, spark an important conversation on the ways in which meritocracy, race, and gender intersect in academic leadership. This present era calls for us to reevaluate our dedication to diversity and justice at the highest levels of government, especially in light of the different challenges that women face on the path to leadership at elite universities.
After student activists began directing hard questions at President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 during meetings of the Council of the Princeton University (CPUC) in 2019, administrators pushed through a policy that curtailed freedom of attendees to ask questions. Requiring them to submit questions in advance overturned a long-standing and respected custom of holding an open question period at the end of each meeting. At the time, The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board critiqued the move as ending “open discourse” at the CPUC.
It’s often said that diamonds are born under immense pressure. This is no different for junior attacker McKenzie Blake, who scored the game-winning goal on Saturday that gave the No. 18 women’s lacrosse team (10–5 overall, 6–1 Ivy League) a crucial win over No. 25 Harvard (10–4, 4–3) in their final regular season game. Princeton’s thrilling 18–17 overtime victory clinched them the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament next weekend.
For the first time in two years, Princeton’s spring Lawnparties was not a washout. The biannual musical event hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) was held on Sunday, April 28 and marked the end of the spring semester. Throughout the day, students partied along Prospect Avenue and on Frist North Lawn, under sunny skies with temperatures that peaked at 79 degrees.
On Friday, April 26 at 12:30 p.m., the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists (AAIRIA) hosted a demonstration on Nassau Street outside of FitzRandolph Gate to call for the removal of Princeton University research fellow Seyed Hossein Mousavian due to his former involvement in Iranian government in the 1990s and early 2000s. While AAIRIA only has nine members listed on their website, about 40 people gathered to demand that Mousavian be fired.
At approximately 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, members of the University community raced to Robertson Hall 016. The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) was to assemble for a last minute special session ahead of the next day’s Lawnparties.
The live updates on day four of the sit-in have concluded. Follow live updates of day five here. See previous coverage of days one, two, and three.
The live updates on day three of the sit-in have concluded. Follow live updates of day four here. Coverage of day one and day two can be found here and here.
This story is breaking and will be updated as further information becomes available.
Images captured during the first 24 hours of “Princeton’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
More than 40 Princeton students laid on the ground in front of Firestone Library on a cold afternoon in February, during a die-in to protest Israel’s planned military offense in Rafah. Originally, the protest was supposed to happen the day before, on Feb. 13. However, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the student organization behind the protest — and one that has been at the forefront of recent pro-Palestinian action on campus — rescheduled the demonstration, deterred by forecasts of snow.
The Daily Princetonian’s Data team tracks the ‘Prince’s coverage of activism every decade since the 1870s. Looking at the frequency of articles featuring key words, from “advocacy” to “apartheid” and “divest” to “demonstration,” we uncover trends of activism at Princeton.
The live updates on day two of the sit-in have concluded. Follow live updates of day three here.
The sit-in in solidarity with Gaza on Princeton’s McCosh Courtyard has entered its second day. Student demonstrators remained on the courtyard undisturbed through Thursday night into Friday morning.
Over the past week, landmark cases of student activism have swept across America. Advocacy at Columbia has emerged at the forefront of the headlines when over 100 students were arrested at a pro-Palestinian student demonstration on charges of trespassing. Across the nation, similar encampments have also emerged at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Emerson College.
The following is a guest submission and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here.
'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' launches at Princeton, students arrested: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing
At 11:40 a.m. on April 20, 1995, a group of 17 students stormed Nassau Hall and began a sit-in to protest the lack of diversity in Princeton’s curriculum. The group decided to occupy the room adjoining the office of then-University President Harold Shapiro ’64 after realizing the main office was bolted from inside.