The Muslim Advocates for Social Justice & Individual Dignity started an online a petition Wednesday night calling for the University Board of Trustees to denounce New Jersey Gov.
Six University faculty and alumni, along with twenty-six conservative Catholic leaders across the country, released a statement earlier this week in the National Review decrying the presidential candidacy of businessman Donald Trump. University's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George and George Weigel, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, are at the forefront of the movement. George was unavailable for comment. Trump’s campaign office did not respond to requests for comment. “There is nothing in [Trump’s] campaign or his previous record that gives us grounds for confidence that he genuinely shares our commitments to the right to life, to religious freedom and the rights of conscience, to rebuilding the marriage culture or to subsidiarity and the principle of limited constitutional government,” the statement reads. In the statement, the signatories also noted that Donald Trump is unqualified for the presidency on the basis of his vulgar political discourse, his strong advocacy of torture of terrorist suspects and their families and the signatories’ belief that “his appeals to racial and ethnic fears and prejudice are offensive to any genuinely Catholic sensibility.” Stephen Barr GS ’78, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, said that as Catholic morality is rooted in human good, many of Donald Trump’s proposals and character — from his record of being pro-choice on abortion to his solution of mass deportation — lie in contrast to Catholic doctrine and are “inhuman.” Barr added that Trump has demonstrated “a tendency to engage in ad hominem attacks, including mocking people's physical handicaps and physical appearance, which shows a lack of basic decency.” The signatories of the letter acknowledged that Trump does present an attractive option for those who are frustrated and disillusioned with the current state of affairs with the federal government.
The Princeton Councilintroduced an ordinance to designate a historic district in the Witherspoon-Jackson community this past Thursday during a Council meeting. Many former and current employees of the University have lived in this neighborhood, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said. The proposed historic district encompasses neighborhoods on both sides of Witherspoon Street, stretching from its intersection with Wiggins Street to a little past Birch Avenue.
Save Princeton, a coalition of nine national advocacy groups, sent a letter to Charles Simonyi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Advanced Studyimploring for a meeting with IAS to explore alternatives to construction on Maxwell’s Fieldlast Wednesday. “Our organizations respectfully and formally request that the Institute for Advanced Study cease its development plans and pursue alternate building locations for the faculty housing project slated for Maxwell’s Field,” the letter reads. According to Jim Campi, communications director for the Civil War Trust, a signatory organization on the letter, the coalition formed this past Friday.
Dickinson College Professor of philosophy Cripsin Sartwell recently accused University professor Alexander Nehamas GS ’71 of plagiarism and libel. DickinsonCollege has placed Sartwell on temporary leave shortly after the allegation. Sartwell did not respond to requests for comment. Nehamas deferred comment to a statement. In a statement sent to the 'Prince', Nehamas denied Sartwell’s allegations of intellectual dishonesty. “True, Sartwell’s ‘Six Names of Beauty’ came out in 2004 but most of the material in my book had already been published by then,” Nehamas wrote.
In a recent report published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the University wasgiven a red light rating— the lowest in the evaluation scheme — for protecting free speech. Samantha Harris ’99, the director of policy research at FIRE, said the ratings are based solely on the explicitly written policies of the institution. A red light rating denotes that the institution has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech, Harris said.
Professor of chemistry emeritus Edward Taylor has established funds to the chemistry department to provide a full fellowship for all third-year graduate students in chemistry.Taylor said that the funds for his donation come from his invention of the anti-cancer drug Alimta, which is used to treat lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Among the many questions raised concerning intersectionality and human rights in Egypt and Lebanon, none revolved around where to draw the line with sexual and gender oppression.
The Undergraduate Student Government released a Committee on Background and Opportunity V Survey on the last week of February to examine current campus climate and improve student life, according to USG president Aleksandra Czulak ’17. “COMBO is basically a way to gauge how students’ backgrounds and identities impact their experiences on campus, the opportunities that they have here, and their perceived access to resources on campus,” said Natasha Madorsky ’17, project leader for COMBO and member of the USG Diversity and Equity Committee. COMBO V surveys a large range of experiences, she said.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed mental health programming and the calendar survey during their weekly meeting on Mar.
Kimberley Strassel ’94 became a household name on Feb. 13, 2016, when she appeared with CBS anchors John Dickerson and Major Garrett to host the CBS Republican Debate in Greenville, S.C.Strassel explained that when the camera turned to her so she could ask the first question, she realized the gravity of what she was doing. “There was a moment when my brain was screaming, ‘Oh my god, there are 13 million people watching,’” she said.“For about five seconds I struggled to remember what I was supposed to be asking Donald Trump." According to Strassel, CBS contacted her couple of months prior to the Republican Debate in February and asked if she wanted to moderate it.Strassel noted that the media outlets have been looking for outside voices to ask the questions, and she agreed to moderate. “I was very flattered to be asked,” she said.
Undergraduate and graduate studentshave written two petitionsand personal letters to university administration and department heads in protest of the non-renewal of Michael Barry’s contractto teach at the university as an experienced lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies next academic year. Barry has taught at the University for a total of 12 years.
Businessman Donald Trump is a democratic sympathizer and will be incapable of winning the general election if he wins the Republican Party's endorsement, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 argued in the Republican debate on Thursday."For 40 years, Donald has been part of the corruption in Washington that you’re angry about.
Princeton Open Campus Coalition co-founder Joshua Zuckerman ’16 and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George testified at a House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.The hearing centered on whether tax-exempt colleges and universities are using the tax code to avoid upholding their commitment to create an open marketplace of ideas on campuses.According to the committee website, the hearing was announced by Oversight Subcommittee Chair Peter Roskam (R-IL), following an incident at Georgetown University Law Center when a student was barred from distributing campaign material for a presidential candidate.In his testimony, Zuckerman said that his coalition believes that the protection of free speech is vital to the flourishing of the university.Zuckerman noted the BJL sit-ins last November when protesters called for increased faculty cultural competency training, affinity housing for students interested in black culture and mandatory courses that present the ‘struggles of minorities.’He noted that his coalition opposes these demands due to their destructive effects on the free flow of speech and thought.
When addressing social inequality, it is in the interest of people on the bottom to destabilize and those at the top to stabilize the system, Brian Lowery, the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University, said.Lowery initiated the discussion with a focused analysis of the concept of hierarchy in modern society, particularly as it relates to racial issues and the concept of white privilege.According to Lowery, problems commonly addressed in psychology involve the existence of established hierarchies and why individuals at the bottom keep the status quo, rather than rise up against the establishment.Most psychological studies, however, focus on the costs to the people at the bottom tiers of society, instead of addressing the downward pressure placed upon this class.Lowery used this lens to analyze the actions that the upper classes would take, such as granting concessions and bringing others into the system to increase the costs of rejecting the system.To explain this concept, Lowery utilized the example of when members of a lower status group are admitted into the University.“Are you less likely to protest and riot against inequality?” he asked.
In the 2020 census, the US Census Bureau plans to use new technologies to tackle challenges such as a declining response rate and economic restraints, Lisa Blumerman, associate director of the Decennial Census Programs said at a lecture on Wednesday.The Census asks ten basic questions about age, sex, race and other identifiers.
University faculty and alumni have written amicus curiae briefs for both sides of Whole Woman’s Health v.
A malfunctioning fume hood in the Engineering Quad resulted in an initial report of smoke made to the Department of Public Safety on Tuesday night at approximately 10:30 p.m. The DPS relayed the report to the Princeton Fire Department.
Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz '92 won the primary in his state, Oklahoma and Alaska on Super Tuesday, receiving a total of 69 delegates, according to the New York Times. The Super Tuesday primaries were held in 11 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. Businessman Donald Trump won the most delegates of any Republican presidential candidate in the day’s primary elections, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the highest number of delegates of any Democratic presidential candidate asof 9 p.m.
Three University researchers have recently been recruited by the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that enables anonymous communication over the internet. Tor, by rerouting messages and data through multiple layers, allows users to access the internet without revealing their identity or location, according to its website. According to an article by The Register, Tor had contracted Roya Ensafi and Philipp Winter, postdoctoral research associates in computer science, and Nick Feamster, a professor of computer science. Feamster and Ensafi did not respond to requests for comment. After the Paris terrorist attacks last year, the French government proposed to increase its security measures by banning the use of Tor, according to an article in Le Monde.
