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Beyond the Bubble

Marzouki encourages patience in assessing Tunisian revolution’s success

The Daily Princetonian

Marzouki encourages patience in assessing Tunisian revolution’s success

Angela Wang

Post-revolution turmoil in the Middle East is a natural effect of creating new democracies, not a sign that the Arab Spring was unsuccessful, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki argued in a lecture about the challenges facing his country’s new democracy on Thursday afternoon. Observers of the Arab World should be patient before drawing conclusions about the success of the Arab Spring because revolutions take time to effect change, he noted. “Democracy is a process; it’s continuous experimentation,” Marzouki said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian before the lecture.

NEWS | 09/26/2013

Q&A: Jon Steinberg ’99, COO and president of BuzzFeed

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: Jon Steinberg ’99, COO and president of BuzzFeed

Monica Chon

Before speaking on campus Tuesday, BuzzFeed COO and president Jon Steinberg ’99 sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his memories from Princeton, his position at the helm of one of the Internet’s most popular media companies and advice for current Princetonians. The Daily Princetonian: When you wrote for the Opinion section of the ‘Prince,’ did you know that you would end up working at an online media company?

NEWS | 09/24/2013

Collins discusses major issues in women's rights, a vision that "changed overnight"

Gail Collins in a lecture at the Wilson School

Collins discusses major issues in women's rights, a vision that "changed overnight"

Carla Javier

The birth control pill, the economy of the 1970s and the civil rights movement were the three factors that made the boom of women’s rights between 1964 and 1972 possible, New York Times columnist and former editor of the Times’ editorial page Gail Collins said in a lecture on Tuesday.Discussing her 2009 book “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present,” Collins shared anecdotes from various women who were part of the women’s rights movement.“A vision about the way things should be that had existed for millennia, ever since the beginning of Western civilization, with women in the home taking care of kids while men were outside running the public world —that vision changed overnight,” Collins said.In 1960, women faced social pressure if they weren’t engaged by their junior year of college, Collins said, adding she believes this expectation existed because effective birth control was not available.Once the birth control pill became available to women, female applications to law and medical school soared, according to Collins.

NEWS | 09/24/2013
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Town council develops resolution to clarify local police non-involvement in federal immigration enforcement

The Daily Princetonian

Town council develops resolution to clarify local police non-involvement in federal immigration enforcement

Warren Crandall

A Princeton town council subcommittee is in the process of developing a plan that would clarify local law enforcement’s role — or lack thereof — in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Heather Howard, the Princeton Council’s liaison to the subcommittee developing the resolution, said it would clearly differentiate the role of local police from that of federal immigration officials.

NEWS | 09/18/2013

Gellman ’82 discusses interactions with Edward Snowden, NSA disclosures

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Gellman ’82 discusses interactions with Edward Snowden, NSA disclosures

Angela Wang

The government has the ability to easily keep track of every citizen’s online activity, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman ’82 said in a lecture at the Wilson School Tuesday.The discussion focused on Gellman’s role in the blockbuster series of stories relating to the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance programs that begun appearing in the Washington Post and in the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper this summer.“There has never been a disclosure of so much information of such high sensitivity,” Gellman said in reference to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked the documents.Gellman is also a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian.Gellman described the backstory of how he became one of three journalists, together with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald and independent documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, with whom Edward Snowden shared highly classified government documents.Gellman said he was first contacted by Poitras, who had begun corresponding anonymously with a source who later revealed himself as Snowden.

NEWS | 09/17/2013

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