Beyond the Bubble

Relationship between Bush and Cheney rocky and nuanced, Baker argues in lecture

Relationship between Bush and Cheney rocky and nuanced, Baker argues in lecture

Jacob Donnelly

The relationship between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney was much more contentious than is commonly believed, Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times, told a nearly filled Dodds Auditorium in a Tuesday evening lecture.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

Sports betting club allegedly attributed promotional statements to deceased U. professor

Chitra Marti

The Sports Trading Club, an English-based sports betting and investment organization, is being challenged over its alleged misattribution of promotional statements to former University economics professor Peter B.

NEWS | 11/07/2013

Data department targets voters, helped communicate Obama's 2012 campaign message

Durva Trivedi

Data processing played a pivotal role in the Obama campaign’s ability to target and persuade potential voters in the 2012 election, former campaign data director Ethan Roeder argued in a lecture on Thursday evening. Roeder, who served as data director for both the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns, explained that his department pioneered the use of vast data collection operations to aggregate open-source information about voters’ preferences so that they could be approached and persuaded by volunteers. Using polling data, consumer data and open voter files the data department created models to predict how likely voters were to vote for Obama or be persuaded to support or volunteer for the campaign. “It’s stunning to me how relatively simple data can give us such an edge in predicting where people are at in terms of voting,” he said. Open voter files in the United States contain simple information like voters’ names, addresses, ages, genders, voting histories, party affiliations, and racial backgrounds.

NEWS | 11/07/2013

Challenges of globalization require greater international cooperation, says former World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Harnessing the volatile effects of globalization will demand collaborative changes to the bureaucratic system that currently governs international diplomacy, former head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy argued in a lecture on Wednesday evening. Lamy outlined the various effects of globalization before describing possible avenues — Westphalian, neo-, post- and a-Westphalian — that could be taken to improve the international cooperation system, which he said is “weak” at addressing modern global issues. The lecture included ideas discussed in "Now for the Long Term,"a report released by the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, to which Lamy recently contributed. Although increased globalization improves market efficiency and therefore carries great potential for growth and welfare, the benefits of a more integrated global market are “intrinsically connected” to its deficits, including increased inequality, resource depletion and contagion, Lamy explained. “It works because it’s painful, and it’s painful because it works,” he said of globalization, a tradeoff that characterizes the need for global governance. “The international system at the moment is not up to addressing the challenge,” he added. Lamy began by describing the Westphalian approach to international order, which is exemplified by the United Nations, where countries act as sovereign individuals and attempt to construct a common set of international laws. Lamy described the approach as “slow, painful” and “subject to formative diversity,” as sovereign nations inevitably disagree on establishing universal laws due to differences in “ideological, spiritual and cultural approaches to problems.” Lamy then described the neo-Westphalian approach, which does not focus as much on binding nations together through the rules of law and is therefore sometimes more efficient.

NEWS | 11/06/2013

Christie wins second term as governor

Christie wins second term as governor

Hannah Schoen

In a race that ended as lopsided as it started, Republican incumbent Chris Christie defeated his Democratic challenger, New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono, by a margin of 60.5 percent to 38 percent with 98 percent of precincts reportingin the Nov.

NEWS | 11/05/2013

From uncertain student to Asian American Studies pioneer: Franklin Odo ’61 GS ’75

From uncertain student to Asian American Studies pioneer: Franklin Odo ’61 GS ’75

Regina Wang and Elliott Eglash

When Franklin Odo ’61 GS ’75 bickered the Ivy Club, he alluded to the beaches in his native Hawaii and hinted that he had surfed its waves.He got into Ivy but had never really surfed.

NEWS | 11/04/2013

In governor’s race, University community gives overwhelmingly to underdog Buono

Hannah Schoen

Faculty, administrators, staff and researchers affiliated with the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory gave largely to New Jersey State Sen.

NEWS | 11/04/2013

Sotomayor ’76 wins Woodrow Wilson Award, Rawlings GS ’70 wins James Madison Medal

Jasmine Wang

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University's top alumni honors at Alumni Day onFeb.

NEWS | 11/04/2013

Educational reform movement misguided, argues Diane Ravitch

Educational reform movement misguided, argues Diane Ravitch

Sheila Sisimit

The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S.

NEWS | 11/04/2013

Breaking: Sotomayor ’76, Rawlings GS ’70 to receive top alumni medals

Daily Princetonian Staff

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University's top alumni honors at Alumni Day onFeb.

NEWS | 11/04/2013

Dining hall manager DeZarn runs for N.J. State Senate on platform of legalizing medical marijuana

Corinne Lowe and Michael Granovetter

Senior Operations Manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services Donald DeZarn’s bid for state senator will come to a close tomorrow when voters of the 14th Legislative District head to the polls.

NEWS | 11/03/2013

Christie and Buono to face off for governor on Nov. 5

Hannah Schoen

In a race that has remained largely non-competitive, Republican incumbent Chris Christie will face off against Democratic New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono on Tuesday to become the state’s next governor. Christie currently leads Buono by 19 points, according to a poll taken between Oct.

NEWS | 11/03/2013

Queer Nation protests event at Princeton Club of New York

Anna Mazarakis

Members of Queer Nation disrupted a panel discussion led by Russian officials promoting investment in Moscowat the Princeton Club of New Yorkon Mondaymorning. The New York-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group protested Russia’s history of laws discriminating against gays and lesbians, according to Queer Nation member Andrew Miller. The University and the Princeton Club of New York are separate entities, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua clarified.

NEWS | 10/29/2013

Breaking: Queer Nation protests Moscow investment event at Princeton Club of New York

Anna Mazarakis

Members of Queer Nation disrupted a panel discussion led by Russian officials promoting investment in Moscowat the Princeton Club of New Yorkon Mondaymorning. The New York-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group protested Russia’s history of laws that target and discriminate against gays and lesbians, according to Queer Nation member Andrew Miller.The Kremlin has been criticized by domestic and international advocacy groups in recent months fora law signed by President Vladimir Putin in Junethat bans the distribution of “propaganda on nontraditional sexual relationships” to minors, which has been interpreted as a legislative attempt to dampen the country’s emerging gay rights movement. Three protesters who attended the forum spoke up and were escorted out of the room by security guards while a fourth videotaped the scene, Queer Nation protester Duncan Osborne said.

NEWS | 10/28/2013

News & Notes: Former U. Executive Vice President Burstein installed as Lawrence U. president

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former University Executive Vice President Mark Burstein was formally installed as Lawrence University’s 16thpresidentSaturdayafternoon at the Lawrence University Memorial Chapel in Appleton, Wis. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 participated inFriday’sinauguration panel discussions while former University President Shirley Tilghman delivered congratulatory remarks during the ceremony.According to a press release by Lawrence University, delegates from over 60 colleges including Princeton, MIT, Stanford and Yale were present at the ceremony. The inauguration ceremonies beganFridayafternoon with panel discussions on incivility in public discourse and the role of a liberal arts education and continued through the night with performances by Lawrence University musicians, before concludingSaturdaywith the formal installation ceremony.Jill Dolan,director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University and a member of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees, moderated one of the panel discussions. Burstein graduated from Vassar College in 1984 and was appointed executive vice president of the University in August 2004, a position that he held for almost nine years.

NEWS | 10/27/2013

A hero in Texas, Cruz ’92 evokes mixed reactions at alma mater

Jasmine Wang and Joseph Sheehan Joe

Senator Ted Cruz ’92, a national debate champion as a Princeton undergraduate, recently put his award-winning speaking skills into practice on the Senate floor, delivering the fourth-longest speech in Senate history.Cruz vowed to speak "until he was no longer able to stand" to oppose a spending bill proposed by the House of Representatives oneweek prior to the government shutdown.He railed against the Affordable Care Act for 21 hours and 19 minutes with a speech that spanned two days.

NEWS | 10/24/2013

Bernanke’s plans for life after Federal Reserve chairmanship unclear

Bernanke’s plans for life after Federal Reserve chairmanship unclear

Charles Kyungchan Min

With the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve slated to expire in January, former professor and chair of the economics department Ben Bernanke’s plans for life after government are still unclear. “I prefer not to talk about my plans at this point,” Bernanke told reporters at a Sept.

NEWS | 10/22/2013

Q&A: Christine Pelosi on political family, income inequality and "Women on the Run"

Ruby Shao

After delivering a lecture called “Campaign Bootcamp: Leadership Lessons from Candidates on the Trail and Women on the Run” Friday night, author and activist Christine Pelosi —daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — spoke to The Daily Princetonian about her childhood growing up in a political family, the goals driving her work and a new book coming out next year.The Daily Princetonian: What first made you interested in grassroots politics?Christine Pelosi: I started being interested in grassroots politics when I was walking in precincts as a young child, and I’ve been doing it ever since.DP: What were you like in college?CP: Well, I was very active in a student cooperative called Vital Vittles at Georgetown.

NEWS | 10/21/2013

News & Notes: Christie drops challenge to court ruling, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage in NJ

Daily Princetonian Staff

Governor Chris Christie announcedMondaymorning that he will drop his challenge to a state Supreme Court decision permitting same-sex marriage, effectively making New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. Christie noted that he disagreed with the decision made by the Court but acknowledged that it "left no ambiguity,"The New York Times reported. Christie had sought a stay to prevent the marriages from taking place, but his petition was denied and his administration has announced it will not continue to challenge the ruling. The ruling went into effect just aftermidnight on Monday, when same-sex couples across the state held weddings at promptly12:01 a.m.,The New York Times reported. In the town of Princeton, Mayor Liz Lempertannounced on her Facebook pagethat she would be authorized to officiate same-sex marriages startingMonday.

NEWS | 10/21/2013

In return to Princeton, Petraeus GS ’87 defends fracking

Teddy Schleifer

David Petraeus GS ’87 said on campus Saturday that fracking could be a solution to U.S. energy challenges for the next 100 years, according to attendees. The final speaking event at the University’s weekend conference for graduate alumni was closed to press but held in the University’s largest auditorium and could be attended by any of the 1,000 graduate alumni who registered for the conference.

NEWS | 10/20/2013

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