Reflecting on 2022: A message from the outgoing Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editors
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In The Daily Princetonian newsroom, there’s a common, if jocular, refrain: “It’s just newspaper club.” It’s meant to serve as an affirmation: a reminder to keep things in perspective during challenging moments and to remember that we are first and foremost a community of college students.
I recently sat down with Robert Durkee ’69, a former top editor at The Daily Princetonian who went on to serve as an administrator in Nassau Hall for 47 years. As the Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Prince’ in 1968, he was working on a bit of a different show than I currently am — and the community that the paper served was a bit different as well.
As Princeton’s paper of record, The Daily Princetonian plays an important role in the creation and maintenance of the queer archive on campus. Unfortunately, given a history of violence toward and attempted erasure of the LGBTQ+ community, the archive of queer existence on this campus and beyond is often remarkably thin and marred by a lack of empathy for its subjects.
On Oct. 18, 1933, The Daily Princetonian reported on the arrival of a new guest to campus: Albert Einstein. Six years before the outbreak of World War II, Einstein and his wife fled persecution in Nazi Germany, arriving to Princeton in secret on the night of Oct. 17. Einstein went on to become one of the inaugural faculty members at the Institute for Advanced Study.
In thinking about the role The Daily Princetonian ought to play on Princeton’s campus, I’ve been considering what it means to build trust — on the level of an individual, a group, and an entire community.
On Tuesday, Dec. 14, with finals scheduled to begin the next day, Princeton announced that it will move all exams beginning on Dec. 16 online and mandate COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for all students, faculty, and staff ahead of the spring semester.
On Nov. 15, the University announced the creation of the Effron Center for the Study of America — a massive expansion of the Program in American Studies. The Center comes as a result of a major donation to the University from Blair Effron ’84 and Cheryl Cohen Effron.
As the University marked its highest single-day COVID-19 positive case count since the beginning of the semester, hundreds of students and community members stood in line for hours to receive vaccine booster shots at a University-sponsored clinic.
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Princeton University Library announced plans for an exhibition honoring the life and work of Toni Morrison that is set to unveil in spring 2023.
A week after The New York Times first reported that the University of Florida (UF) had barred faculty members from testifying in a case against the state government, the school announced a reversal. UF said on Friday that it will permit professors to assist in a lawsuit that aims to overturn a new Florida law that restricts voting rights.
Princeton anticipates that an expansion project for Dillon Gymnasium will begin in the summer of 2022 and be completed by the spring of 2025, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss told The Daily Princetonian.
Private information about students, faculty, staff, and other University affiliates was inadvertently released by email to undergraduates on Thursday.
For the first time since the undergraduate student body returned to campus for a full residential experience this fall, the University’s COVID-19 dashboard has classified campus risk status for the virus as “Low.”
A lawsuit filed by classics professor Joshua Katz that alleged “viewpoint discrimination” against him by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) was dismissed in court on Oct. 5.
Former Ferris Professor of Journalism Maria Ressa ’86, a champion of the free press in the Philippines and around the world, was jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 8.
Content warning: This story contains mentions of rape and physical violence.
Six months after New Jersey officially legalized marijuana, a new student initiative on campus aims to spread awareness about criminal record expungement for formerly incarcerated people statewide.
Four weeks after the start of fall classes, the University has adjudicated a total of one disciplinary case related to COVID-19 safety protocols, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss told The Daily Princetonian.