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(10/17/13 2:18pm)
Heritage Foundation fellowRyan T. Anderson ’04 argued for a traditional conception of marriage as a union between one man and one woman in an event sponsored by the Anscombe Society and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Thursday evening. About 30 students assembled outside of McCosh 50 before the talk in support of same-sex marriage.
(10/17/13 2:17pm)
The New Jersey Superior Court ruled to overturn the ban on gay marriage late last month, arguing that the civil union system violates both the 14th Amendment and the New Jersey Constitution. Hayley Gorenberg ’87 acted as lead counsel for the case for two years, representing Lambda Legal, a national organization committed to achieving civil rights for LGBT individuals and people living with HIV.
(10/16/13 9:05pm)
The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education appointed Stephen Cochrane ’81 superintendent of Princeton Public Schools earlier this month. He is a current assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction at the Upper Freehold Regional District.
(10/16/13 8:08pm)
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng called for the worldwide recognition of universal human rights and proposed measures to end to the Chinese government’s repression of its people in a lecture delivered at the University Wednesday night.
(10/16/13 7:43pm)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker defeated former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan in the race to fill the seat vacated by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
(10/13/13 10:08pm)
Barton Gellman ’82 has always been a secret breaker.
(10/13/13 8:23pm)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan will face off for a U.S. Senate seat in a special election on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
(10/10/13 7:36pm)
Before his lecture at the Wilson School on Thursday afternoon, former Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss the challenges facing the Egyptian government and the likelihood of a transition to a legitimate constitutional democracy in the wake of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s removal from power in June.
(10/10/13 1:45pm)
As a result of the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, the confirmation process for Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel ’77, who was nominated by President Obama on Sept. 17 to become the next U.S. Department of State’s Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, has been put on hold.
(10/09/13 3:18pm)
After reports of gunshots at Nassau Hall prompted attendees of Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein’s lecture to evacuate to the Whig-Clio Senate Chamber, Klein spoke to The Daily Princetonian in the crowded basement about his passion for blogging, views of American politics and obsession with charts.
(10/09/13 8:38am)
“It's not species that makes a difference,” bioethics professor Peter Singer said in a three-person panel on animal rights on Tuesday afternoon. Singer compared what he called “speciesism” to racism and sexism, describing it as prejudice against a biological fact that makes humans feel superior to animals “irrespective of what, in fact, they are like.”
(10/08/13 8:37pm)
Award-winning Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein spoke on increasing polarization in Congress and ways to fix systemic problems within the government in a lecture titled “Why Washington is Horrible (In Charts)” Tuesday night.
(10/08/13 8:24pm)
Latin America is improving and undergoing transformative democratization, Mario Vargas Llosa, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said in a conversation Tuesday with visiting lecturer in the Program in Latin American Studies Enrique Krauze Kleinbort. The two discussed the wide scope of culture and politics within Latin America.Vargas Llosa, who is also a visiting lecturer in the Lewis Center for the Arts, explained that comparing the Latin America of today with that of 20 or 30 years ago offers signs of these momentous changes within Latin American history.“Latin America is improving. We have more democracy; we have large consensus on what kind of economic policies we need to develop and become modern and successfully fight poverty,” Vargas Llosa said, adding that the transformation of most Latin American nations in recent years has been formidable. “Poverty has diminished; in statistical terms, the poverty level is still large, but the way which the middle classes have been grown in the country is fantastic.”Vargas Llosa cited Uruguay’s economic success as a model for the rest of Latin America. He said that the country has seen very liberal social reforms, including gay marriage and gay rights. “Not liberal in the American sense,” he added to the audience’s laughter.Despite the promising improvements in the last few years, both Vargas Llosa and Krauze acknowledged one of the largest obstacles to Latin America’s full democratization is corruption.“The tradition has a way of misunderstanding natural laws as ‘do whatever you wish,’ ” Vargas Llosa said.He added that Latin American intellectuals have had a substantial impact on the vulnerability of governments on the continent. This is because the general population relied on intellectuals to adopt governmental policies that best suited their interest, but when these policies failed the government was opened to corruption, he said.“Common people were trying to discover in their own way what would be the best way to bring about democratization … Intellectuals were influential, but they promoted the wrong [policies],” Vargas Llosa explained. Even critical thinkers, he said, could “fail miserably” in their fight.Krauze, however, downplayed the influence of intellectuals on the common people, saying that very few intellectuals spoke in favor of what the common people wanted.Vargas Llosa also pointed to Latin American attitudes toward the law as an obstacle in the development of the region. “We [Latin Americans] don’t feel the need or the moral obligation to respect the laws,” he explained. “We just follow the laws because of its mandate. It’s a tradition that is strong in Latin America.”The lecture, titled “Politics and Culture in Latin America,” was part of the Spencer Trask Lecture Series, which brings distinguished scholars to deliver public lectures at the University and was co-sponsored with the Program in Latin American Studies.
(10/08/13 7:49pm)
Before his lecture at the Wilson School, titled “Twenty Years After Oslo: Lessons Learned and Future Options?”, Maen Rashid Areikat, the chief representative of the delegation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his work and the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Palestine facilitated by the United States.
(10/07/13 7:13pm)
While Palestine continues to engage Israel in negotiations for an independent state, the nation cannot make any more territorial concessions, Maen Rashid Areikat, chief representative of the delegation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, said in a Monday evening lecture titled, “Twenty Years After Oslo: Lessons Learned and Future Options?”
(10/03/13 7:49pm)
The federal government remained shut down on Thursday, and University faculty and students reliant on federal funding began to feel the pinch of the budget standoff in Washington.
(10/03/13 7:14am)
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(10/02/13 1:13pm)
While the federal government remained shut down Wednesdayafter Congress failed to agree on the terms of a continuing resolution, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Health Exchanges are just opening for business and leaving their marks within the Orange Bubble. The University sent out an email to all its student employees providing information about the New Jersey Health Insurance Marketplace on Sept. 27.
(10/02/13 9:00am)
After the federal government shut down at midnight on Tuesday, The Daily Princetonian spoke to U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) about the implications of the shutdown for the country as a whole and for the Princeton area.
(10/01/13 9:25pm)
After congressional gridlock resulted in a government shutdown at midnight on Tuesday, The Daily Princetonian spoke by phone with Joyce Rechtschaffen '75, director of the University's D.C.-based Office of Government Affairs, who serves as the primary liaison between the University and lawmakers in Washington. Although she characterized the shutdown as a negative development, Rechtschaffen explained that much of the office’s work on longer-term initiatives—such as lobbying for increasing federal funding for scientific research in the face of the sequester—would continue anyway.