This Week in Photos: January 18–24
(01/26/22 4:20am)
This week, students returned from winter break to reunite and start the spring semester.
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This week, students returned from winter break to reunite and start the spring semester.
The following article is purely satirical and entirely fictional.
Eisgruber defends Dean Jamal amid POCC criticism
Princeton seniors Nathnael Mengistie ’22 and Sydney Hughes ’22, as well as University of Oxford graduate student Elise Doumergue, have been named recipients of the prestigious Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship.
Responding to complaints by members of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 defended a memo sent by Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Amaney Jamal.
The Association of Black Seminarians (ABS) at the Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) held a demonstration on Tuesday, Jan. 18 outside the Miller Chapel, calling on administrators to rename the chapel. The chapel’s namesake — Samuel Miller, PTS’s second professor who taught at the school in the early 19th century — employed slave labor throughout his life.
I love when my accomplishments make other people happy: like when I did well on the midterm exam I studied hard for last semester and my professor praised my performance, or when one of my friends told me I should ask for a promotion and I received it. These are things I ostensibly did for myself, but I cared more about how the people around me reacted to what I did than about actually doing those things.
Olivia Gatwood is my favorite slam poet — and probably the only one I can name who doesn’t attend Princeton. My favorite poem of hers is “Alternate Universe in Which I Am Unfazed by the Men Who Do Not Love Me.” In the last line, Gatwood sums up her experience in this alternate universe: “I have so much beautiful time.”
After seven Princetonians competed in Tokyo in the Summer Olympics last year, Princeton is sending seven more to the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
MBB vs. Brown, Penn
Following on the heels of an exhausting, two-years-and-counting pandemic, the pop music landscape of the day is dominated by soft-spoken harmonies and acoustic backings, the kinds of things that lend themselves naturally to rumination on days gone by — Taylor Swift’s “Red (Taylor’s Version)” and Kacey Musgraves’ “star-crossed” come to mind. There’s a nostalgia inherent to these albums, as if they’re looking back on a time that was, for lack of a more encompassing word, different.
The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit an article to the Opinion Section, click here.
The following piece is an excerpt from Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s keynote address at Duke University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Commemoration on Jan. 16, 2022. The piece reflects the author’s views alone. It has been lightly edited for clarity. The full event can be found here.
Restrictions on domestic travel outside of Mercer County and Plainsboro Township have been lifted for undergraduate students, and students in compliance with University vaccination policies are now permitted to travel anywhere in the United States, effective immediately.
Isolation policies under the COVID-19 testing protocol were updated in an email to all undergraduate and graduate students in the testing protocol from University Health Services (UHS) on Thursday morning. The announcement comes as students begin to move into campus tomorrow.
At a Wednesday, Jan. 12 town hall about COVID-19 policies for graduate students, University administrators explained plans for the start of the semester. During the virtual event, several graduate students expressed concerns about how the University plans to handle a predicted increase in COVID-19 cases.
Due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases on campus amid the national omicron surge, Princeton dining halls began a staggered reopening on Jan. 9, accompanied by new changes in dining policies. Most notably, the changes include the closure of eating spaces within dining halls and all food distributed in a grab-and-go format, resembling the dining policies of the Spring 2021 semester.
On Monday, Jan. 10, in its first meeting of 2022, the Princeton Town Council announced it was reimplementing a mask mandate in all public indoor spaces. The mandate will go into effect at 5 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 13. The mandate will stay in place until 12:00 a.m. on Jan. 31, though it can be extended.
Another Tiger is going pro. On Tuesday evening, Princeton men’s soccer captain Kevin O’Toole ’22 was selected 34th overall by New York City Football Club (NYCFC) in the Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft. O’Toole’s selection follows the recent drafting of Bella Alarie ’20 and Michael Sowers ’20 into the Women’s National Basketball Association and Premier Lacrosse League, respectively.
For the week ending on Jan. 7, the University reported 446 positive COVID-19 cases on campus and a 5.65 percent positivity rate across undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff.