Letter to the Editor: The ‘Prince’ should seek out Katz’s defenders, too
(06/29/22 2:52pm)
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In a majority opinion penned by University alumnus Justice Samuel Alito ’72, the U.S. Supreme Court held Friday that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. As news broke, many Princeton community members joined in the chorus of reproductive rights activists protesting the ruling across the nation, while some conservative alumni and professors lauded the decision.
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Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer break. This piece is part the Dispatch summer 2022 series.
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Justin Lim ’25, a first-year in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department and compassionate son and brother died on May 17 at his home in Chicago, Ill. after battling mental illness. He was 19 years old.
A month after the University Board of Trustees voted to dismiss classics professor Joshua Katz following an internal report finding he violated University policies, questions around his dismissal still animate discourse both on campus and beyond as alumni, professors, and students in his field react to the controversial decision.
A long-awaited University report, authored by the Faculty Panel on Fossil Fuel Disassociation, has proposed criteria for identifying companies from which the University may possibly divest holdings of its $37.7 billion endowment.
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On Sept. 11, 2021, Alejandro Zaera-Polo uploaded the first installment of a seven-part video series, titled “A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority.” Over the course of nearly five hours, Zaera-Polo speaks to the camera, navigating viewers through myriad documents, screenshots, and images, all sourced from a 856-page file he authored.
The men’s lacrosse team (11–5, 3–3 Ivy League) fell 13–8 to the undefeated Maryland Terrapins (18–0, 5–0 Big 10) in the NCAA Tournament semifinal held at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. on May 28.
The building formerly known to campus as Marx Hall will now bear the name of Laura Wooten, a long-time University employee and the longest continuously serving election poll worker in the United States history, according to a University announcement on Monday, June 6.
In a First Things column published just days before it was announced that he would be fired from Princeton University, now-former Professor Joshua Katz dismissed Princeton as an institution which has completely surrendered its open academic discourse. Katz declared that Princeton — and all “elite schools” — have misguided and limited their students’ educational experience, blaming wokeness and excessive formality between professors and students. There are many fair critiques of Princeton; the student body bring them up frequently. But the allegation that Princeton is intellectually dead is not one of them.
Toward the end of the semester, the annual fight among Princeton undergraduates came to a close. Thousands of underclassmen and juniors participated, and as with any fight, the winners walked away with it all while the losers fled the scene with woe. This fight, which took place on MyHousing and had students battling to claim rooms that they will call home for the 2022-2023 school year, is one that we are all too familiar with: room draw.
Jazz Chang ’23, a junior in the computer science department and beloved brother and friend, died on May 13 in Princeton, N.J. Chang was 21.
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The University welcomed back almost 25,000 alumni and their families for Reunions from Thursday, May 19 to Sunday, May 22. The long weekend festivities marked the first Reunions since 2019 and since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On May 22, The Daily Princetonian sat down with Wendy Kopp ’89, who spoke at Baccalaureate for the Class of 2022. She is the CEO and co-founder of Teach for All. Coverage of Kopp’s speech during the event can be found here.