PHILADELPHIA—The Democratic Party conducted a roll call vote to formally nominate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the party’s candidate for president of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA—Many of thespeeches on the first night of the Democratic National Conventiontouched on a theme of unity—often alluding to presumptive DemocraticnomineeHillary Clinton’s campaign slogan,“Stronger Together.” In addition to Michelle Obama ’85, primetime speakers from the first night included former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Warren said the presidential election is about remaining united. “When we turn against each other, we can’t fight back against a rigged system,” she said.
PHILADELPHIA — First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 spoke about the ways that the presidency can affect the lives of American children on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. “Our time in the White House would form the foundation for who [Malia and Sasha] would become,” she said.
PHILADELPHIA—Chants of “Bernie!
CLEVELAND – After four nights of speeches, the 2016 Republican National Convention was gaveled to a close.
CLEVELAND—During a prime-time slot of the Republican National Convention’s third night, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 addressedthe delegates and conventioneers, framing his speech around freedom and adhering to the Constitution.
Pedro-PabloKuczynski GS '61 will succeed current Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on July 28. Kuczynski was officially confirmed as the president-elect of Peru in a ceremonyon June 5at the Municipal Theater of Lima, Peru, Kuczynski ran on the Peruvians for Change party, and won the presidential election over his rival, Keiko Fujimori, in early June with 50.1% of the popular vote. Kuczynski, who is better known as PPK, previously served as the Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006, and the Minister of Economy and Finance from 2001 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2005.
Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ruled on July 6 that the University must disclose a statement of responsibilities between the University’s Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department to Planet Princeton under the Open Public Records Act. However, Jacobson also ruled that the University has the right to withhold a jurisdictional response map, which details emergency response protocols between the Princeton Police Department and the University’s Department of Public Safety. The case was filed against the University by Krystal Knapp, the founder of the local news organization Planet Princeton, after she sought to access copies of the operating agreements between the Princeton Police Department and the University’s Department of Public Safety.
The Supreme Court’s decision inFisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which upheld affirmative action policies, will not affect any University practices, according to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Eisgruber had issued a statement the day of the decision expressing support for the ruling. "The goal of creating a diverse, inclusive and equal society is fundamentally important to Princeton University, this country and the world.
The University has announced seven new alumni trustees, who will begin their term on the Board of Trustees effectiveJuly 1. The University appointed Henri Ford '80 and Philip Hammarskjold '87, who were elected by the Board to serve as charter trustees with an eight-year term.
Thenew buildingfor international programs at 20Washington Road will be named the Simpson International Building after a $20million donation from Louis Simpson GS '60 and hiswife KimberlyQuerrey.According to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, starting this fall, theSimpson International Building will be home to the Davis International Center, the Princeton Institute forInternational andRegional Studies, the Office of International Programs, theBridge Year Program and the Council for International Teaching and Research, amongother initiatives.The building, located between Robertson Hall and Green Hall,was previously home to the Frick Chemistry Laboratory.
Logan Powell, current University director of admission, will serve as the dean of admission at Brown beginning on July 1, 2016. Powell will assume the office of current Brown Dean of Admission James Miller, who will retire this year. In addition to overseeing admissions, in his new capacity Powell will represent Brown at a number of professional conferences and committees, including the Consortium on Financing Higher Education Admissions Deans’ Committee, The College Board and the Ivy League Deans of Admission. In an interview with the Office of Communications at Brown, Powell noted that he will work with the Brown community to “represent a great depth of intellectual curiosity and diversity of thought” among its enrolled students. University Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said that she and her office are proud of Logan’s appointment at Brown. “His professionalism, wisdom and talents were evident in all he accomplished at Princeton as our director of admission.
A female attending Reunions was sexually assaulted by a male in Spelman Hall this past Sunday, May 29, according to an email from Public Safety Director of Operations Stefanie Karp. The victim is in her early 20s and the suspect is someone who was known to her, according to Casey DeBlasio, spokesperson for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.According to DeBlasio, the victim is not a University student or alumnus. According to the victim, the suspect is a black male with a height of approximately5'8-5'9 and weighs approximately 170 pounds.
Humanistic imagination is crucial in forging a public culture that enables respectful discourse to bridge the increasingly polarized society, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said at the University’s 269th Commencement on Tuesday. Noting how the American society has become more and more polarizing over the past years, Eisgruber said that the University’s residential liberal arts education can forge discussions about ideas that can bind people together and allow students to connect with one another as fellow human beings despite their difference. Referring to the recent campus dialogues on diversity and inclusion, Eisgruber noted that for the University community to collectively decide about its future, it is crucial to understand each other.“Understanding one another requires, among other things, finding new ways to comprehend the history that has affected, and continues to affect, different groups and individuals in different ways,” he said. He noted how the musical “Hamilton” provides inspirational narrative of America that transcends the political line, explaining that imagination and creative construction can allow us to claim our pasts in new ways. “The world that awaits you will sometimes be frustrating and difficult, but it is a world that needs your talents, your citizenship and your engagement,” he added. Valedictorian Cameron Platt ’16, an English major, reflected on the importance of speech and conversation. Noting that she is less interested in the freedom of speech than in what people decide to do with that freedom, Platt praised her classmates who have “stood up, spoken out and declared that no one should have to suffer under the silence that is so often the burden of a marginalized identity” throughout the year. Platt noted how speech can heal the “aches of the silences” through the story of her grandfather who died of AIDS before she was born and whose story was silenced until recently.
On July 10, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Beth Cobert '80 to serve as the Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Becoming ambassadors of higher education and searching for solutions to issues confronting academia today are important missions for University graduates, said legal scholar Randall Kennedy ’77 at the 269th Baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday.
“When somebody tells you no, you have two choices. You can stop in your tracks, or you can push forward,” said author Jodi Picoult ’87, the Class of 2016 Class Day speaker. Picoult discussed her time at Princeton, from a challenging yet transformative creative writing class to her experience as a manager on the men’s crew team.
America as a nation still has miles to go before solving the energy crisis, said Norman Augustine ’57 *59, former president and CEO of Lockheed Martin. Augustine has served as Under Secretary of the Army and later Acting Secretary of the Army.
University professor Alejandro Zaera-Polo, former dean of the school of architecture, has filed a complaint alleging breach of contract, trade libel and defamation by members of the University earlier this week. The complaint lists the University Board of Trustees, Dean of Faculty Deborah Prentice, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, and twenty other anonymous faculties and students as defendants. According to the complaint, in August 2014 an anonymous posting on “Architect,” an online discussion forum, alleged that Zaera-Polo had been subjected to suspicions of plagiarism by members of the School of Architecture and listed Wikipedia as one of the sources he had plagiarized.
Joe Kennedy '81 was the president and CEO of Pandora, an Internet music site that suggests songs that users might enjoy based on a complex algorithm.
