Daily Newsletter: March 24, 2021
Latest: How financial resources affects higher education during the pandemic; reimagining the History Month
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Latest: How financial resources affects higher education during the pandemic; reimagining the History Month
Latest: President Eisgruber addresses Atlanta attacks, University-sponsored travel will remain suspended, activism at Princeton
Latest: Four seniors awarded the Labouisse ’26 Prize Fellowship, USG Senate meeting, continuing advocacy after the pandemic
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past few weeks, it’s that vaccines alone do not save lives. Vaccinations do. The development of vaccines is certainly crucial when it comes to public health crises, but what is emerging as an even larger, unanticipated barrier in the COVID-19 pandemic response is assuring citizens of the safety of vaccines so that they can choose to get vaccinated.
Latest: USG Allocates Funds for Tigers in Town; University Fined for Illegal Exports
Texas' blackout highlights urgency of climate crisis, COVID-19 “death toll” rhetoric obscures causes of fatality
Latest: Senate approves Cecilia Rouse to President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors
A special ‘Prince’ newsletter commemorating Black History Month and introducing the Opinion section’s “Black Futures” project
Classics chair urges departmental review after Katz allegations, marijuana legalized in NJ, Paul McCartney visits ATL 496
University begins "pooling" samples for COVID-19 testing, protesters demand access to University's pandemic resources
University pauses testing requirement, Vladimir Gel'man dissects Putin's legacy, Donors fuel climate denial, America's foreign political culture
In October 2020, former president Barack Obama released an adapted excerpt from his memoir “A Promised Land” in The New Yorker titled “A President Looks Back On His Toughest Fight” — which delves into one of his most enduring battles to reform the severed American healthcare system through the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Facing a divided political landscape, Obama traces his political battle towards a more unified and accessible healthcare system for Americans regardless of income, class, gender, age, or race — an issue close to his personal life. After experiencing the death of his mother, Ann Durham, to ovarian cancer partly due to insurance companies refusing to pay for certain treatment options, Obama describes his personal stake in ensuring that illness in America does not equate to depletion of financial resources and inaccessible medical treatment.
Princeton's Chirik Lab Group leads the next generation of recyclable plastics
I don’t consider myself to be especially religious. I pray before eating, touch my grandparents’ feet to seek blessings every New Year, and listen to my parents describe the origin of traditions during our annual visit to the temple. Nonetheless, growing up, Diwali, or the Hindu festival of lights traditionally celebrated in India, has been (and continues to be) a holiday I wholeheartedly embrace. I love Diwali for all of the light it forges in my house, for the seven lit candles which sit perfectly aligned on my fireplace for 10 days, for the sweets that cover every square inch of my kitchen counter, for all of the shoes I trip over as guests pile into my home.
ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” a surprisingly honest anthology of eight short stories imbued with a masterly command of language, has dazzled, and continues to dazzle, audiences.
I admire doctors’ mastery of medicine — knowing the intricate folds of the intestine like a memorized puzzle and navigating the maze of masked organs tucked beneath skin. They wear white coats of purity and stethoscopes of armor. They’re highly decorated, respected, and glorified. They’re calm with their tools, commanders-in-chief of the body, and menders of ailments. They care for our bodies when we aren’t sure how to — when pain inflicts itself upon us like an uninvited guest. Our bodies are our most valuable assets — an entangled blend of psychic, emotional, and physical scars. And so, living in a vessel as dynamic and ever-changing as the human body is a gift that requires multiple levels of both self-care and professional care.
Illness can be unexpected, to say the least. It spikes our temperature — compelling us to face newfound pain and unaccustomed fragility. The bodies we travel in are suddenly forced to stop in their tracks, making us question if we were going too fast, too hastily, or if we were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
When asked about how my parents met, I’ve conditioned myself to respond with, “It’s complicated.” I keep my language elusive and face straight to shut down any further questions they may have. I say “it’s complicated” because it is messy — it’s an inexplicable entanglement of traditional Indian marriage and true love, an assemblage of being found and finding each other.