USG discussed concerns that the new Lawnparties date could create incompatibilities with schedules for undergraduate athletic teams.
This decision comes as an official response to a historical audit, commissioned in 2016, which examined the Seminary's connections to the institutions of American slavery. According to the Seminary’s official announcement, the trustees’ approval was unanimous.
James Peebles GS ’62 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8 “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.” Peebles sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his career and the next great issue he is excited to research.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Professor at the Notre Dame Law School, opened her Oct. 17 talk on campus by arguing, “The story of the United States can’t be told without the Constitution.”
Twenty undergraduates are working with the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding to engage the University’s student body in critical conversations about equity and inclusion on campus.
On Wednesday, amid a backdrop of pronounced student activism, Princeton Theological Seminary’s trustee members met to discuss the potential of establishing a reparations fund. This meeting, following years of student activism on the matter, was the first of its kind and represents a climactic moment in this ongoing saga.
On Thursday, Oct. 17, The Daily Princetonian sat down with Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin for an interview. Rubin, a Republican, is one of the foremost advocates of the Never Trump movement and has repeatedly denounced her former party in her columns and on MSNBC, where she is a frequent commentator.
Rubin pointed to the impeachment proceedings, “vigorous” press coverage, and active courts for evidence of the system’s success.
On Monday, Oct. 7, the Davis International Center bulletin board in Frist Campus Center was transformed into the Lennon Wall, an eclectic display of solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
The University said in an announcement on Wednesday that the new names “should not affect functions inside the spaces.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has found herself in trouble with Magistrate Judge and University alumna Sallie Kim ’86 of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
In the 10 years of the program, the number of volunteers has grown and the program itself has evolved. Recently, the department has decided to transition into employing a combination of paid and volunteer firefighters.
The addition joins six other computing clusters: Tiger, Dell, and Perseus, which are the largest and reserved primarily for faculty, as well as Nobel, Adroit, and Tigressdata, which are available to students.
Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda. He visited the University as part of the lecture series with the Woodrow Wilson School.
Marie Yovanovitch ’80 has served as a Foreign Service Officer for the past 33 years encompassing six presidential administrations, four being Republican and two Democrat.
The Whig-Cliosophic society hosted a talk with Anthony Diaz, Lydia Thorton, an activist with the N.J. Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement; Alexis Miller, lead organizer of the Patterson, N.J., Black Lives Matter chapter and a law student at Rutgers University; and Antonne Henshaw, Vice President of Women Who Never Give Up, Inc., in the Whig Senate Chamber at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The talk was moderated by Writing Program professor Danelle Gutarra Cordero.
On the Murray-Dodge lawn, pumpkins of varying sizes wearing painted and carved grins covered the campus ground beside their proud creators — immigrants, refugees, and University faculty and students.
The resolution also acknowledges the land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation on which the municipality was built, as well as the forced diaspora of other Native nations and indigenous peoples in the Americas at large.
According to USG President Zarnab Virk ’20, the current voting platform used by USG — known as Helios — is outdated. She therefore called for a switch to a platform more up-to-date with today’s technological advancements. The new platform used will be Election Runner.
Wax gave this defense at an event, hosted by the Whig-Cliosophic Society, entitled “Speak Freely: A Conversation,” in which she and Keith Whittington, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at the University, talked about free speech on college campuses and related topics. The event took place in East Pyne 010, in front of a little more than a dozen audience members.
